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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: MunichSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Robert HarrisNarrator: David RintoulFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 38 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Random House AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 57 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy - a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office - and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Rikard travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance - here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier-at the heart of an electrifying novel.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Red ClocksSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Leni ZumasNarrator: Erin Bennett, Karissa VackerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 5 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Hachette AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A Popsugar most anticipated book of fallA Ploughshares most anticipated book of fallOne of Publishers Weekly's most anticipated titles of fall 2017Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own while also writing a biography of Eivr, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or "mender", who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.Red Clocks is at once a riveting drama whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy and a shattering novel of ideas. In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid's Tale for a new millennium. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous - even frightening - times.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The ImmortalistsAuthor: Chloe BenjaminNarrator: Maggie HoffmanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 hrs and 29 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Penguin AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 179 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent".If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children - four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness - sneak out to hear their fortunes.Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: WinterAuthor: Ali SmithNarrator: Melody GroveFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Recorded BooksRatings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:From the Man Booker-short-listed and Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both, the highly anticipated second novel in the acclaimed Seasonal series, which both continues the arc of the series and is also an extraordinary stand-alone listen.In Winter, life force matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to Ali Smith's sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory, and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: This Could HurtSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Jillian MedoffNarrator: Sean Crisden, Nick Podehl, Madeleine Maby, Andrea Gallo, Saskia Maarleveld, George NewbernFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 52 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives - a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend them.Rosa Guerrero beat the odds as she rose to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age, the longtime chief of human resources at Ellery Consumer Research is still a formidable presence, even if her most vital days are behind her. A leader who wields power with grace and discretion, she has earned the devotion and loyalty of her staff. No one admires Rosa more than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a benefits vice president whose whole world is Ellery.While Rosa is consumed with trying to address the needs of her staff within the ever-constricting limits of the company's bottom line, her associate director, Rob Hirsch, a middle-aged, happily married father of two, finds himself drawing closer to his "work wife", Lucy Bender, an enterprising single woman searching for something - a romance, a promotion - to fill the vacuum in her personal life. For Kenny Verville, a senior manager with an MBA, Ellery is a temporary stepping-stone to bigger and better places - that is, if his high-powered wife has her way.Compelling, flawed, and heartbreakingly human, these men and women scheme, fall in and out of love, and nurture dreams big and small. As their individual circumstances shift, one thing remains constant - Rosa, the sun around whom they all orbit. When her world begins to crumble, the implications for everyone are profound, and Leo, Rob, Lucy, and Kenny find themselves changed in ways beyond their reckoning.Jillian Medoff explores the inner workings of an American company in all its brilliant, insane, comforting, and terrifying glory. Authentic, razor-sharp, and achingly funny, This Could Hurt is a novel about work, loneliness, love, and loyalty; about sudden reversals and unexpected windfalls; a novel about life.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Music ShopSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Rachel JoyceNarrator: Steven HartleyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-02-18Publisher: Random House AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 133 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the best-selling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon, the shop attracts the lonely, the sleepless, and the adrift; Frank, the shop's owner, has a way of connecting his customers with just the piece of music they need. Then, one day, into his shop comes a beautiful young woman, Ilse Brauchmann, who asks Frank to teach her about music. Terrified of real closeness, Frank feels compelled to turn and run, yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems, and Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen, as well as a past it seems he will never leave behind. Can a man who is so in tune with other people's needs be so incapable of connecting with the one person who might save him? The journey that these two quirky, wonderful characters make in order to overcome their emotional baggage speaks to the healing power of music - and love - in this poignant, ultimately joyful work of fiction.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: SeptemberAuthor: Rosamunde PilcherNarrator: Jilly BondFormat: UnabridgedLength: 20 hrs and 15 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-12-17Publisher: Macmillan AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:Seasons change, September comes and goes, but Rosamunde Pilcher's singular narrative voice is eternal. Listeners will be transported to another time and place with this enchanting audiobook from a beloved British author.A place you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky.A time you will never forgetSeptember...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance.An audiobook you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher's September...a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love. From the author of the classic multimillion-copy best seller The Shell Seekers.A main selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Wake UpAuthor: Catherine Ryan HydeNarrator: Nick PodehlFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 2 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-05-17Publisher: Brilliance AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 120 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a hauntingly emotional novel of how one man's life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others.Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in a rush during a hunting trip, when he's suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own. But the newfound sensitivity of Aiden's "wake up" has its price. He can no longer sleepwalk through life, holding everyone at arm's length. As he struggles to cope with a trait he's buried since childhood, Aiden falls in love with Gwen, a single mother whose young son bears a burden of his own.Sullen and broken from his experiences with an abusive father, Milo has turned to acting out in violent and rebellious ways. Aiden can feel the boy's pain, as well as that of his victims. Now he and Milo must sift through their pasts to find empathy with the innocent as well as the guilty, to come to terms with their deepest fears, and to finally discover the compassionate heart of a family.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Ruined HouseSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Ruby NamdarNarrator: Paul BoehmerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 21 hrs and 4 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-07-17Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:Winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel's highest literary awardPicking up the mantle of legendary authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, an exquisite literary talent makes his debut with a nuanced and provocative tale of materialism, tradition, faith, and the search for meaning in contemporary American life.Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes and published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion - the crowning achievement of an enviable career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half his age, offers lively companionship. A man of elevated taste, education, and culture, he is a model of urbanity and success.But the manicured surface of his world begins to crack when he is visited by a series of strange and inexplicable visions involving an ancient religious ritual that will upend his comfortable life.Beautiful, mesmerizing, and unsettling, The Ruined House unfolds over the course of one year, as Andrew's world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs. Ruby Namdar's brilliant novel embraces the themes of the American Jewish literary canon as it captures the privilege and pedantry of New York intellectual life in the opening years of the 21st century.Critic Reviews:"In The Ruined House a 'small harmless modicum of vanity' turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making, and the human fragility that emerges in the mix." (Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The PowerAuthor: Naomi AldermanNarrator: Adjoa AndohFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 5 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-10-17Publisher: Hachette AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 691 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:Winner of the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionWhat would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power?In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Hate U Give (Danish Edition)Author: Angie ThomasNarrator: Laura DrasbkFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 30 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-10-17Publisher: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/SRatings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:16-rige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og drbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret mellem det sorte lokalmilj, hvor hun bor, og den finere privatskole i forstaden, som hun gr p. Men da nedskydningen af Khalil bliver forsidestof over hele landet, er hun ndt til at beslutte, om og hvordan hun vil rbe op, srligt da nogle af hendes venner p skolen antyder, at Khalil selv var ude om det.©2017 Gyldendal. Translated by Betty Frank Simonsen (P)2017 Gyldendal
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Snow Falling on CedarsAuthor: David GutersonNarrator: George GuidallFormat: UnabridgedLength: 15 hrs and 42 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-18-17Publisher: Recorded BooksRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:As a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder on an island in Puget Sound, snow blankets the countryside. The whiteness covers the courthouse, but it cannot conceal the memories at work inside: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an unrequited love, and the ghosts of racism that still haunt the islanders. First novels rarely attract as much attention as Snow Falling on Cedars. Remaining on best seller lists for months, it has cast a spell on listeners across the country.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: My Absolute DarlingSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Gabriel TallentNarrator: Alex McKennaFormat: UnabridgedLength: 15 hrs and 47 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 08-29-17Publisher: Penguin AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 793 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming audiobook about one 14-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At 14, she roams the woods along the Northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous. Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: Her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The listener tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero - and, in the process, becomes ours as well.Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving book that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.Critic Reviews:"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." (Stephen King)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Home FireSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Kamila ShamsieNarrator: Tania RodriguesFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 54 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 08-15-17Publisher: Penguin AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 178 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences.Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed.Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Conversations with FriendsSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Sally RooneyNarrator: Aoife McMahonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 21 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-11-17Publisher: Random House AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 69 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st centuryFrances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances' friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi.Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances' intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth and the messy edges of female friendship.Critic Reviews:"Readers who enjoyed Belinda McKeon's Tender and Caitriona Lally's Eggshells will enjoy this exceptional debut." (Library Journal )"[Sally] Rooney captures the mood and voice of contemporary women and their interpersonal connections and concerns without being remotely predictable.... A clever and current book about a complicated woman and her romantic relationships." (Kirkus)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Almost SistersSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Joshilyn JacksonNarrator: Joshilyn JacksonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 39 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-11-17Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 750 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama presents a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38-year-old's life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional Southern family, her stepsister Rachel's marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved 90-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she's been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she's pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she's got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie's been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family's freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Golden HillSubtitle: A Novel of Old New YorkAuthor: Francis SpuffordNarrator: Sarah BorgesFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10 hrs and 46 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-04-17Publisher: Simon and Schuster AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 193 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: This is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him...maybe even kill him?Rich in language and historical perception yet compulsively listenable, Golden Hill is a story "taut with twists and turns" that "keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion" (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love - and find a world of trouble.Critic Reviews:Nothing short of a masterpiece. (The Guardian)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The PartySubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Robyn HardingNarrator: Cassandra CampbellFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 36 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-06-17Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 273 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet 16 birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies.One invitation. A lifetime of regrets.Sweet 16. It's an exciting coming of age, a milestone, and a rite of passage. Jeff and Kim Sanders plan on throwing a party for their daughter, Hannah - a sweet girl with good grades and nice friends. Rather than an extravagant, indulgent affair, they invite four girls over for pizza, cake, movies, and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong?But things do go wrong, horrifically so. After a tragic accident occurs, Jeff and Kim's flawless life in a wealthy San Francisco suburb suddenly begins to come apart. In the ugly aftermath, friends become enemies, dark secrets are revealed in the Sanders' marriage, and the truth about their perfect daughter, Hannah, is exposed.Harkening to Herman Koch's The Dinner, Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap, and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies, The Party takes us behind the façade of the picture-perfect family, exposing the lies, betrayals, and moral lapses that neighbors don't see - and the secrets that children and parents keep from themselves and each other.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Ministry of Utmost HappinessSubtitle: A NovelAuthor: Arundhati RoyNarrator: Arundhati RoyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 16 hrs and 26 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-06-17Publisher: Random House AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 307 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:A richly moving new novel - the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and an enduring classic.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety - in search of meaning and of love.In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met.A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation - a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears, and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in - and then mended by love. For this reason they will never surrender.How to tell a shattered story?By slowly becoming everybody.No.By slowly becoming everything.Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.Critic Reviews:"If Arundhati Roy's lyrical prose, melodic voice, and lilting accents aren't enough, the stories of Anjum, Tilottama, and a cast of society's misbegotten - interwoven with India's social and political growing pains - will keep listeners captivated.... Roy's impeccable diction makes this dense and challenging saga accessible and unforgettable." (AudioFile)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The God of Small ThingsAuthor: Arundhati RoyNarrator: Sneha MathanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 hrs and 44 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-06-17Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 273 votesGenres: Fiction, LiteraryPublisher's Summary:Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family - their lonely, lovely mother Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.
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