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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555280 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - Diario pinchadoAuthor: Mercedes HalfonNarrator: Mara BrennerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 58 minutesRelease date: October 26, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: Diario pinchado es una novela corta con formato de diario que narra la estancia en Berlín de una mujer que se siente extranjera en la ciudad: se orienta mal, no comprende el idioma y, además, el encuentro con su novio, un poeta becado que es la razón de su viaje, no sale como ella esperaba. Este dietario de desencuentros y de un amor que se desinfla, sobre el extrañamiento y el arte de perderse, también encierra una reflexión sobre la poesía y la literatura que queda en la sombra. Y es que, a pesar de entroncar con toda una tradición de diaristas que han dejado constancia de su paso por la capital alemana, Halfon elige en este libro un punto de vista aparentemente secundario: el de la compañera del escritor, y desde ese lugar, como una observadora irónica e inteligente, nos descubre un mundo lleno de grietas por el que, a pesar de todo, se filtra la luz. 'Una de las voces más interesantes de la literatura actual.'—Pedro Mairal 'Con la sensibilidad de una observadora oportuna, Halfon habla de sí cuando habla del mundo y viceversa.'—Alan Pauls 'Diario pinchado tiene la tristeza suave de lo que se intuye y se confirma.'—Martín Kohan
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558597 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Everything the Light TouchesAuthor: Chris Nayak, Janice PariatNarrator: Maya Saroya, Camilla Rockley, Matt AddisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 15 minutesRelease date: October 13, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: ‘A novel like none other’ AMITAV GHOSH ‘A masterpiece’ AVNI DOSHI ‘Wise, funny, touching’ ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila Devi 2023 Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best Fiction Winner, AutHer Award 2023 for Fiction Finalist, Tata Live Award for Fiction 2023 Longlisted, 2023 JCB Prize for Literature Shortlisted, Valley of Words Awards 2023 for English Fiction A Best Book of 2022 in The New Yorker Four lives, uniquely linked, in a story that journeys across continents and centuries… For Shai, lost and drifting, a visit to her hometown in India’s Northeast offers the possibility of new ways of living. For Evelyn, a Cambridge student, scientific inspiration guides her to the forests of the lower Himalayas and a world she has only read about. For Johann, a German writer, travelling through Italy inspires him to develop ground-breaking ideas that will cement his place in history. And for a young Swede, an unwavering curiosity for Earth’s natural wonders takes him on an expedition that will forever alter the way we understand the world around us. A multi-layered literary saga bringing together people and places that seem, at first, far removed, Everything the Light Touches is a marvellous exploration of our ways of seeing, told through the eyes of four unexpectedly intertwined people.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552902 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Night Ship: A NovelAuthor: Jess KiddNarrator: Fleur De Wit, Adam FitzgeraldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 14 minutesRelease date: October 4, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. 1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where his late mother once resided. There, on the tiny reef-shrouded island, he discovers the story of an infamous shipwreck… With her trademark “thrilling, mysterious, twisted, but more than anything, beautifully written” (Graham Norton, New York Times bestselling author) storytelling, Jess Kidd weaves “a true work of magic” (V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) about friendship, sacrifice, brutality, and forgiveness.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555288 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - Estado del malestarAuthor: Nina Lykke, Ana Flecha Marco (translator)Narrator: Sara Gómez AlonsoFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 32 minutesRelease date: September 28, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: Galardonada con el Premio Brage, el más importante galardón literario de Noruega, y la novela más vendida en su país en 2019, Estado del malestar ha supuesto la consagración de Nina Lykke como una de las grandes escritoras de su país gracias a la ironía con la que critica el aparente paraíso de los países nórdicos. Estado del malestar es una sátira de la insoportable levedad de la clase media surgida al calor del Estado del bienestar, vista por una mujer privilegiada que vive en uno de los países más ricos del mundo y, sin embargo, se halla siempre al borde de un ataque de nervios. Elin es una doctora muy profesional y competente, pero está cansada de ser buena, de ser una esposa y madre ejemplar, de atender a pacientes que se autodiagnostican en Google y buscan curas a males imaginarios. Bebe casi una botella al día del vino más caro y ve series de televisión, mientras su marido Axel se inscribe en una carrera de esquí tras otra. Hasta que un día, por error, Elin envía una solicitud de amistad a Bjørn, su novio de juventud, poniéndolo todo patas arriba. Acorralada por sus dilemas, Elin abandona su casa y se instala a vivir en su consulta. Sabe que en algún momento tendrá que salir de su madriguera y afrontar la realidad, pero permanece allí en una especie de estado catatónico. Desde una esquina la interpela el esqueleto de plástico Tore, una voz en off mordaz y socarrona que le señala las verdades que no se atreve a reconocer. 'Considerar a Elin como un mero estereotipo de la sociedad de bienestar noruega sería empequeñecer a este personaje rico en matices de cuyo fino humor gozará cualquier lector. Sus reacciones y conflictos resultarán familiares a muchos lectores; sin ir más lejos, su hábito de encadenar capítulos de series con una copa de vino siempre llena en la mano. ¿Será entonces que la Europa del Norte no es tan diferente de la del sur?'—Mercedes Cebrián, El País 'La ingeniosa misantropía de Lykke y su desprecio hacia la época actual son tan corrosivos que me veo empujado a la indignación moral, pero no puedo, me hacen disfrutar demasiado.'—Inger Bentzrud, Dagbladet 'Estado del malestar levanta la alfombra de los siempre perfectos países nórdicos y cuestiona si esa exigencia de ser felices no nos convierte en seres profundamente tristes.'—Eva Cosculluela, Heraldo de Aragón
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558603 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Book of GooseAuthor: Yiyun LiNarrator: Caroline HewittFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 2 minutesRelease date: September 20, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: 'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout – I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson ‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times ‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss. A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie. ‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail ‘Brilliant … A novel of deceptions and cruelty’ Spectator ‘For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry…resonant with echoes of… My Brilliant Friend, as well Elizabeth Strout… electrifying’ Observer
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552926 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Has Anyone Seen My Toes?Author: Christopher BuckleyNarrator: Gibson FrazierFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 34 minutesRelease date: September 6, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man’s “lively and funny” (New York Journal of Books) journey through lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He’s been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work—on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He’s told Peaches so often about the origins of the word mayonnaise that she’s developed an aversion to using the condiment. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia! But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to do to distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He’s. been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier. And he’s discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner’s face. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County. Could it be the local military base? Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is a “laugh-out-loud” (Publishers Weekly) romp through a time that has been anything but funny.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557768 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Benevolence: A NovelAuthor: Julie JansonNarrator: Tamala Shelton, Katherine LittrellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 26 minutesRelease date: August 16, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: “How good it is to hear a Darug voice speaking of Darug history.”—Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Prize Blending the mythical power of Téa Obreht and the epic scope of Min Jin Lee, a searing historical novel that tells a story of colonization, survival, and resistance in a way never done before—a beautiful, brilliant, and brutal reimagining of the first contact between Indigenous people and white British settlers and the far-reaching consequences for one Aboriginal girl coming of age in an unsteady and dangerous world. For all known time, Muraging’s people, the Darug, have lived on this land between the river and the sea. But change comes swiftly in the early years of the nineteenth century when White settlers begin to arrive, laying claim to the continent, long inhabited by Aboriginal tribes like Muraging’s, for the British empire. At ten years old, Muraging is given over to the Parramatta Native School by her father, where the missionaries call her Mary James, force her to abandon her culture and language, and teach her subjects they believe will save her soul: English, Christianity, and housework. Six years later, seeking a brighter future, Muraging flees the school, embarking on a journey of discovery and a search for a safe place in an unfamiliar and unsteady new world—an odyssey far more winding and treacherous than she ever dreamed. Spanning two decades, from 1816-1835, and set around the Hawkesbury River area, the home of the Darug people in Parramatta and Sydney, Benevolence sheds light on the heartbreaking violence and erasure of colonization, as well as remarkable survival and resistance—a vivid and compelling portrait of the Aboriginal Australians whose way of life is forever altered. Award-winning Australian writer Julie Janson’s draws on historical events to recreate this pivotal time—things that may have happened to her own ancestors—giving voice to an Aboriginal experience of early-settlement in Australia.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557765 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Touch: A NovelAuthor: Olaf OlafssonNarrator: Peter NobleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 10 minutesRelease date: August 16, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: The inspiration for a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson. ''Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving.'' — Vogue A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man’s search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades before When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue—a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he’d known in the sixties when they were students in London—both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends his world, Kristofer finds himself pulled toward an answer to the mystery of Miko’s sudden departure decades before, compelling him to travel to London and Japan as the virus threatens to shut everything down. A heart-wrenching love story and an absorbing mystery, Touch delves into the secrets of the past to explore the hidden lives that we all possess, the pain and beauty of our past loves and friendships that continue to leave their mark on us. Searching and lyrically rendered by acclaimed author Olaf Olafsson, Touch is a stunning tribute to the weight of history and the complexities of the human heart.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557644 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Last White Man: The New York Times Bestseller 2022Author: Mohsin HamidNarrator: Mohsin HamidFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 5 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew. Praise for Exit West 'Hamid's enticing strategy is to foreground the humanity. . . . [He] exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' - O, the Oprah Magazine 'Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith '[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian © Mohsin Hamid 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557904 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Mount Chicago: A NovelAuthor: Adam LevinNarrator: Dennis BoutsikarisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 17 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. 'Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest.' –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss. *Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557895 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Map for the Missing: A NovelAuthor: Belinda Huijuan TangNarrator: Austin KuFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 20 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize! “Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind can ever be retrieved, and whether it is possible to forgive the wounds we inevitably inflict on each other.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “An engrossing saga of a young mathematician caught between two countries, two cultures, two eras, and two loves. Set against the violent turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this powerful debut explores the wrenching impact of political ideologies on individual lives in a way that is resonant and timely.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time Being An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind Tang Yitian has been living in America, estranged from his family, for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. When Yitian returns home and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider. So he seeks out a childhood friend: Tian Hanwen, who as a teenager was “sent down” from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of China’s rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university together. But after a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind. Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on a search for Yitian’s father, all the while grappling with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, A Map for the Missing is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557023 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Moth: A NovelAuthor: Melody RazakNarrator: Soneela NankaniFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 19 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: “Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak’s debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to them.”—The Independent (UK) A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2022 • An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novel of 2022 • A Betches Summer Pick Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family’s trials through the tumultuous partition—the 1947 split of Pakistan from India—exploring its impact on women, what it means to be “othered” in one’s own society, and the redemptive power of family. Delhi, 1946. Fourteen-year-old Alma is soon to be married despite her parents’ fear that she is far too young. But times are perilous in India, where the country’s long-awaited independence from the British empire heralds a new era of hope—and danger. In its wake, political unrest ripples across the subcontinent, marked by violent confrontations between Hindus and Muslims. The conflict threatens to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi—a city where different cultures, religions, and traditions have co-existed for centuries. The solution is partition, which will create a new, wholly Muslim, sovereign nation—Pakistan—carved from India’s northwestern shoulder. Given the uncertain times, Alma’s parents, intellectuals who teach at the local university, pray that marriage will provide Alma with stability and safety. Alma is precocious and headstrong, and her excitement over the wedding rivals only her joy in spinning wild stories about evil spirits for her younger sister Roop. But when Alma’s grandmother—a woman determined to protect the family’s honor no matter the cost—interferes with the engagement, her meddling sets off a chain of events that will wrench the family apart, forcing its members to find new and increasingly desperate ways to survive in the wake of partition. Set during the most tumultuous years in modern Indian history, Melody Razak recreates the painful turmoil of a rupturing nation and its reverberations across the fates of a single family. Powerfully evocative and atmospheric, Moth is a testament to survival and a celebration of the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555236 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Awoken: A NovelAuthor: Katelyn Monroe HowesNarrator: Sarah NaughtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 44 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: 'The Awoken is a phenomenal story—filled with action, romance, plot twists, and a few big juicy reveals!' —Issa Rae A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of her death and wakes up a century later in a world where her very life is a crime. When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics. A century later, scientists have indeed discovered how to bring the dead back from preservation, but humanity has been locked in a philosophical battle over the ethics of this new Godlike power, a battle that has turned violent: Those who are resurrected, the Awoken, have been declared illegal and are to be shot on sight. This is the world Alabine is brought into by the Resurrectionists, an underground militia fighting for the rights of the Awoken. Finding herself in a completely unfamiliar world, and one where she is an outsider for the first time in her life, Alabine must figure out how to survive and determine her place in this new society, all while being haunted by lucid memories of her previous life and the man she loved. The Awoken is a gripping, action-packed story full of plot twists and high emotion. It's a look at prejudice, complicity, the fears that tear us apart, and the hope that can bring us together.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556152 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A NovelAuthor: Jana CasaleNarrator: Imani Jade Powers, Julia Knippen, Sophie Amoss, Karissa Vacker, Kristen SiehFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 55 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: “Three relatable thirty somethings drive this ode to womanhood. Learning the hard way to love themselves, the women teach invaluable lessons.”—People “Everyone who loves Sally Rooney should be reading Jana Casale!”—Julie Buntin, author of Marlena Three women confront the compromises they’ve made to appease the men they love. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling ever deeper into an emotional hellscape of her own making. She is too obsessed to realize that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from pain. Haunted by an event from her past, Celine can’t escape her shame and finds herself in an endless cycle of self-sabotage. Annie is baffled by Joy’s senseless devotion to Theo, but she’s consumed by her own obsessions: she can’t stop parsing her commitment-phobic boyfriend’s texts in an exhausting mission to maintain his approval. At work, where she fully embraces her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. But when an anonymous letter lands on her desk accusing her esteemed and supportive boss of sexual misconduct, she is forced to decide who and what she’s willing to stand up for. Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly examines women’s many relationships—with one another, their mothers, their work, men, and themselves—to reveal their underlying power and complexity. It asks, why do so many smart, compassionate, otherwise empowered women tolerate egregious behavior from the men they love? And what will it take for them to reclaim control?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556146 to listen full audiobooks.Title: On Java Road: A NovelAuthor: Lawrence OsborneNarrator: Michael ObioraFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 12 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protester in this “sensual, provocative, and riveting” (The Washington Post) novel from the celebrated author of The Forgiven—now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes. “Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book Review, on Beautiful Animals ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, CrimeReads After two decades as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle is ready to turn his back on the city he knew so well. But as Hong Kong erupts in violence with pro-democracy demonstrations hitting ever closer to home, could this be the final assignment Gyle was looking for? Watching from the skyrises is his old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest families. Through him Gyle uncovers an intriguing lead: the mysterious Rebecca, a student involved in the protests, and the latest of his Jimmy’s reckless dalliances. But when Rebecca goes missing and Jimmy hides, it rekindles in Gyle an old urge to investigate. Piecing together Rebecca’s final days and hours, Gyle must tread carefully through a volatile world of friendship and betrayal. Vividly capturing a city on the brink, On Java Road tells the gripping story of a man between the fault lines of old worlds and new orders in pursuit of the truth.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556126 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Last White Man: A NovelAuthor: Mohsin HamidNarrator: Mohsin HamidFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 5 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR “Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies “Searing, exhilarating … reimagines Kafka’s iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged era.” Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth--an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. In Mohsin Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556125 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Bonsai: A NovelAuthor: Alejandro ZambraNarrator: Gisela ChípeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 16 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: “Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving.” —The New York Times Book Review The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers—now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaborator When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. “It was said,” according to Chile’s newspaper of record, El Mercurio, “that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation’s letters.” Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renown, winning prizes in Chile and around the world for his funny, tender, sly fictions. Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell, is the little book that started it all: The story of Julio and Emilia, two Chilean university students who, seeking truth in great literature, find one another instead. As they fall together and drift apart over the course of young adulthood, Zambra spins an emotionally engrossing, expertly distilled, formally inventive tale of love, art, and memory.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552942 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Properties of ThirstAuthor: Marianne WigginsNarrator: Stephen Graybill, Gabra ZackmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 5 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a “big, bold book” (USA TODAY) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream. Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a “magnificent” (Colum McCann) novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552910 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Tidy Ending: A NovelAuthor: Joanna CannonNarrator: Lissa BerryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 55 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: “A darkly funny tale with a gloriously sinister twist.” —The Observer (London) The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a “compellingly creepy” (The Guardian, UK) novel filled with unexpected twists about mysterious murders in a quiet neighborhood. Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is: pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for dinner, a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy magazines coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca Finch. Linda’s husband Terry isn’t perfect—he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house, and spends most of his time in front of the TV. But that seems fairly normal—until he starts keeping odd hours at work, at around the same time young women start to go missing. If only Linda could track down and befriend Rebecca, maybe some of that enviable lifestyle would rub off on her and she wouldn’t have to worry about what Terry is up to. But in this “sublimely structured and darkly witty” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) tale, the grass isn’t always greener and you can’t change who you really are. And some secrets can’t stay buried forever…
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555312 to listen full audiobooks.Title: DenialAuthor: Jon RaymondNarrator: George NewbernFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 33 minutesRelease date: July 26, 2022Genres: Literary FictionPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE A futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce. The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet’s fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent Nuremberg-like Toronto Trials convicted the most powerful oil executives and lobbyists for crimes against the environment. Not all of them. A few executives escaped arrest and went into hiding, including pipeline mastermind Robert Cave. Now, a Pacific Northwest journalist named Jack Henry who works for a struggling media company has received a tip that Cave is living in Mexico. Hoping the story will save his job, he travels south and, using a fake identity, makes contact with the fugitive. The two men strike up an unexpected friendship, leaving Jack torn about exposing Cave—an uncertainty further compounded by the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and a new romance with an old acquaintance. Who will really benefit from the unmasking? What is the nature of justice and punishment? How does one contend with mortality when the planet itself is dying? Denial is both a page-turning speculative suspense novel and a powerful existential inquisition about the perilous moment in which we currently live.
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