Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer Author: Garth Nix Narrator: David Linski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: ''I loved making the acquaintance of SirHereward and Mister Fitz. If you haven't met them yet, you are in for a treat. They are the best partnership in the world of fantasy since Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.” — George R.R. Martin, co-editor “A Cargo of Ivories” New York Times bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all eight stories—plus a never-before-published story—featuring Sir Hereward and his sorcerous puppet companion Mister Fitz, gathered in one magical volume for the first time ever! Sir Hereward: the only male child of an ancient society of witches. Knight, artillerist, swordsman. Mercenary for hire. Ill-starred lover. Mister Fitz: puppet, sorcerer, loremaster. Practitioner of arcane arts and wielder of sorcerous needles. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: godslayers. Agents of the Council of the Treaty for the Safety of the World, charged with the location and removal of listed extra-dimensional entities, more commonly known as gods. Together, they are relentless travelers in a treacherous world of magic, gunpowder, and adventure. Compiled for the first time ever, these eight magical stories—plus an all-new tale, “The Field of Fallen Foe”—featuring fabulous, quintessential Garth Nix protagonists Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz comprise a must-have adult fantasy collection for fans and those about to discover the witch knight and his puppet sorcerer for the first time. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero-Sum Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Amy Jensen, Olivia Rose Baressi, Max Meyers, Karissa Vacker, Linda Jones, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: ‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN 'A master storyteller' THE TIMES 'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. ‘Alluringly dark and spiky’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE ‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’ DAILY MAIL ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ INDEPENDENT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Funeral Author: Tessa Hadley Narrator: Abigail Thaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognize each other. Janie's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. A vital addition to Tessa Hadley's celebrated body of work, After the Funeral bears out Claire Messud's observation that 'Like Alice Munro, to whom she has more than once been compared, Hadley has the gift of making small canvases inexhaustibly new.... Compassionate and luminous, Hadley sees them all - or should I say, she sees us all: our travails, our fantasies and our small joys.' ©2023 Tessa Hadley (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories Author: Agustina Bazterrica Narrator: André Santana, Andy Garcia-Ruse, Aida Reluzco, Christian Barillas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: An NPR Best Book of 2023 A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica’s vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways—often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In “Roberto,” a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman’s neighbor jumps to his death in “A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound,” and in “Candy Pink,” a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica’s signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drawn up from Deep Places Author: Gemma Files Narrator: Matthew Davies, Krystal Hammond, Cindy Kay, Emily Lawrence, Neil Hellegers, Paul Woodson, Tim Campbell, Marisa Calin, Hannah Curtis, Antony Ferguson, Andrew Fallaize, Robert Fass, Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: If you go down deep enough, you find all sorts of things … In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants, voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers, ghosts and vampires, and the most famous murderer of all time. But however strange the things found in these deep places, what draws them up, and calls them back, are forces the human heart knows all too well: grief and vengeance, rage and loss … and, most terrible of all, love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: David Suchet, Joan Hickson, Hugh Fraser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Agatha Christie’s most famous characters—including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery. Summertime—as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to the French Riviera, whether against a background of Delphic temples or English country houses, Agatha Christie’s most famous characters solve complicated puzzles as the stakes heat up. Pull up a deckchair and enjoy plot twists and red herrings galore from the bestselling fiction writer of all time. Includes the stories: The Blood-Stained Pavement The Double Clue A Death on the Nile Harlequin’s Lane The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman Jane in Search of a Job The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Idol House of Astarte The Rajah’s Emerald The Oracle at Delphi The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger The Incredible Theft

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories Author: Fiona Sze-Lorrain Narrator: Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York. Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination signifies “a smooth life,” Dear Chrysanthemums is a novel about the scourge of inhumanity, survival, and past trauma that never leaves. The women in these stories are cooks, musicians, dancers, protestors, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, all inexplicably connected in one way or another. “Cooking for Madame Chiang,” 1946: Two cooks work for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and prepare a foreign dish craved by their mistress, which becomes a political weapon and leads to their tragic end. “Death at the Wukang Mansion,” 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair, a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins. “The White Piano,” 1966: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris and is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore. “The Invisible Window,” 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre, three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship and reunite in their grief and faith. With devastating precision, a masterly ear for language, and a profound understanding of both human cruelty and compassion, Fiona Sze-Lorrain weaves Dear Chrysanthemums, an evocative and disturbing portrait of diasporic life, the shared story of uprooting, resilience, artistic expression, and enduring love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories Author: Julianna Baggott Narrator: Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Em Grosland, Kelli Tager, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Rachel Jacobs, Emily Lawrence, Natasha Soudek, Lisa Flanagan, Andi Arndt, Erin Bennett, January LaVoy, Xe Sands, Emily Woo Zeller, Tavia Gilbert, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others! In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out. In “Portals,” a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In “How They Got In,” a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos. This fantastical collection from a unique voice contains a myriad of stories of the weird and wonderful. Julianna Baggott is a talented and clever guide, and I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You will take the reader on a journey unlike anything they’ve experienced.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battling the Bluestocking Series: #3 of The Donovans Series Author: Martha Keyes Narrator: Ella Lynch, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Phineas Donovan is possessed of a sharp intellect. Fresh from Cambridge, he obtains a generous live-in position as tutor for the son of the wealthy Lord Bettencourt. If he can prove his value, he has hopes of being given the patronage of his employer, allowing him to take up a position as vicar. There, he can pursue his intellectual endeavors in peace and relative financial comfort. In her humble but informed opinion, Lady Sarah Danneville is possessed of an even sharper intellect. If anyone should be tutoring her younger brother, it is she, not the reserved, bespectacled gentleman her father has employed to do the job. He is not fit to instruct a Danneville of Bettencourt. But as Sarah works to undermine him, Mr. Donovan shows more pluck than she expects, not to mention that he harbors a secret hobby that would be laughable if it weren’t so dreadfully unsophisticated. If she can use this secret against him, she can finally persuade her father she is more than bait to lure a prosperous match. Now, if only she can avoid being drawn into the dearth of sophistication—and Mr. Donovan’s eyes—herself. Battling the Bluestocking is the third in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Babes in the Wood Author: Margaret Atwood Narrator: Linda Lavin, Dawn Harvey, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Lowman, Bahni Turpin, Kimberly Farr, Allan Corduner, Margaret Atwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate. ©2023 Margaret Atwood (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Westbound Series: #1 of The Battling Harrigans Series Author: Matthew Mayo, Dusty Richards Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From the Spur Award–winning author, the first in a captivating new multigenerational saga chronicling the adventures of the pioneering Harrigan family as they brave crossing the American West, fighting to survive in the dangerous wilderness—and against even deadlier people—to forge a better life for themselves. Mackworth “Mack” Harrigan’s family legacy burned to the ground in the spring of 1849. The Ohio mill that brought them prosperity was now cinder and ash, and his ruthless father perished in the flames along with their fortune. If the Harrigans have a future, it lies out west in open country where they can build whatever lives they choose. Mack knows his wife Ell, and their children Kane, Meghan, and Fitch are more than capable of overcoming the challenges of their journey. For the untamed frontier is full of seriously deadly battles. From a rough river voyage to wagon train travel across desert lands plagued by dust storms, the Harrigans encounter desperados and merciless killers who view them as little more than prey. And as Mack and his family adapt to their merciless surroundings, they realize they must enforce their own laws and dispense their own justice …

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Confirmed Rake Series: #2 of The Donovans Series Author: Martha Keyes Narrator: Ella Lynch, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: When Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders and courting embarrassment, help comes from an unexpected source: the brooding, irritable brother of her chaperone. Valentine Donovan is a rake, mountains of gaming debt and all. With his only hope for financial relief tied up in the Admiralty Court, he must temporarily rely on his father’s charity—and all the strings attached to it. His father demands Valentine show evidence that he is changing his ways, so when the engaging but naïve young woman living with his sister presents a plan, he can’t refuse the opportunity to fulfill some of his father’s requirements, albeit reluctantly. But Valentine is unprepared for Rebecca’s guileless optimism and how impossible he finds it to say no to her increasingly onerous requests—requests that put both their hearts and reputations in danger. A Confirmed Rake is the second in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tempt Me Series: #2 of The Donovans Author: Samantha Chase Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Six months ago, Liam Donovan met the world's cheeriest, most upbeat woman at a wedding. It was the longest two days of his life. Now she’s his next door neighbor—talk about awkward. Tessa Sullivan believes in always looking at the bright side. Unfortunately, her new neighbor is the most negative man on the planet, and he seems to have made it his mission to ruin her good mood on a daily basis. She loves to sing, she loves to smile, but more than anything, she loves to decorate for the holidays. The fact that this seems to bug her new neighbor is simply a perk. After twelve years in the Marines, Liam is more than ready to come home and start the next phase of his life. He’s starting a business, reconnecting with his mildly overbearing family, and loving the fact that he’s finally got a place of his own. If only his neighbor’s decorations would stay on her side of the property. There isn’t one thing about Tessa that tempts him…until there is. Now she’s all he can think about. Being friends makes sense. Becoming lovers was inevitable. But having Tessa be his forever is more than tempting.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625485 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu Narrator: Brian Nishii, June Angela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: 'You should be here; he's simply magnificent.' These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. 'The Return to Monsterland' opens Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, a collection of twelve fabulist and genre-bending stories inspired by Japanese folklore, historical events, and pop culture. In 'Rokurokubi,' a man who has the demonic ability to stretch his neck to incredible lengths tries to save a marriage built on secrets. The recently dead find their footing in 'The Inn of the Dead's Orientation for Being a Japanese Ghost.' In 'Girl Zero,' a couple navigates the complexities of reviving their deceased daughter via the help of a shapeshifter. And, in the title story, a woman instigates a months-long dancing frenzy in a Tokyo where people don't die but are simply reborn without their memories. Every story in the collection turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy when we are at our most vulnerable.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evergreen: A Dryad's Tale and Other Short Stories Author: Sara Goodwin Narrator: Angie Hickman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: What if the pond in the park was a gateway to another world? What if there really were faeries in the rose garden? Within these pages are contained: a dryad mistaken for a gardener, a bit of good old-fashioned frog kissing, gnomes in love, a heroic faerie prince, hot chocolate, and an elk named Bianca. Four original fairytales, a short novella, and more—inspired by the author’s love of fairytales.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Robert Louis Stevenson: Markheim: Eine Kurzgeschichte. Ungekürzt gelesen Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 11, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Markheim ist ein Dieb. Und ein Mörder – denn er ersticht auf denkbar gewissenlose Art den alten Trödler, den er in dessen Geschäft aufgesucht hatte. Doch während seines Beutezuges im Laden erscheint plötzlich ein Besucher, der merkwürdig viele Details aus Markheims Leben zu wissen scheint. Wer ist dieser seltsame Fremde, der mit seiner jovialen, unerschrockenen Art Markheim zusehends aus der Fassung bringt? Stevensons Geschichte ist teils Krimi, teils psychologische Studie – und äußerst spannend bis zum Schluss!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dare Me Series: #1 of The Donovans Author: Samantha Chase Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: One year ago, Arianna Donovan and Will Jameson met on a dare and spent a perfect 24 hours together before going their separate ways. She thought they would stay in touch, but he disappeared without a word. Arianna thought she’d moved on. But when Will shows up at a family dinner with her older—and very protective—brother, she’s angry and confused. How could he possibly forget to mention that he was friends with her brother? No one knows about their shared past, and Arianna wants to keep things that way, no matter how tempting Will is. When he walked away a year ago, Will thought it was for the best. Staying away from Arianna is the smart thing to do, especially with how protective her older brother—his friend and fellow soldier—can be. Time and distance will work wonders when you’re trying to stay away from someone. Now that he’s seen her again, he forgets all about doing the smart thing. He’ll just have to first convince her to let go of her anger and give him another chance. Will isn’t above playing the nostalgia card, and when he challenges Arianna to a sexy game of truth or dare, she can’t resist. Neither one is ready to tell the world what they’re doing, but how long can they possibly keep things a secret when there are Donovans ready to meddle around every corner?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ship Fever: Stories Author: Andrea Barrett Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: The 1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction from 'genius-enchantress' (Karen Russell) Andrea Barrett that introduces the characters of Barrett's vividly imagined world. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In 'Ship Fever,' the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In 'The English Pupil,' Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And in 'The Littoral Zone,' two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it. In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. As they move between interior and exterior journeys, 'science is transformed from hard and known fact into malleable, strange and thrilling fictional material' (Boston Globe).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Robert Louis Stevenson: Die tollen Männer: Eine Kurzgeschichte. Ungekürzt gelesen Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 4, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Die tollen Männer – das ist eine Gesteinsformation an der Küste einer unwirtlichen schottischen Insel, die eine tödliche Gefahr für vorüberfahrende Schiffe darstellt. Eines Tages liegt ein Segelboot zerborsten am Strand – und die eher ärmliche Behausung des Onkels des Erzählers ist auf einmal vollgestopft mit allerhand wertvollen Gegenständen. Woher diese kommen, ist klar – aber wer liegt in dem frischen Grab nahe beim Wrack? Hat sich der Onkel eines kapitalen Verbrechens schuldig gemacht? Stevensons Erzählung spielt mit verschiedenen Genres; sie ist eine Abenteuergeschichte, Seemannsgeschichte – aber auch eine Schauergeschichte, garniert mit lebhaften Eindrücken der rauhen schottischen Küstenlandschaft.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seven Empty Houses Author: Samanta Schweblin Narrator: Daisy Guevara, Elena Rey, Lee Osorio, Ines Del Castillo, Victoria Villarreal, Gisela Chipe, Yareli Arizmendi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling, teeming with the energy of barely contained violence, Seven Empty Houses dismantles the neat appearance of domesticity to expose the darkness and discomfort that lies beneath. A neighbour looks on as a couple grieve the loss of their son. A young girl makes an unwelcome acquaintance in a hospital waiting room. A woman prepares for death with ruthless precision. Ominous and exhilarating, reminiscent of the best of Shirley Jackson, these chilling tales cement Samanta Schweblin's place among the finest short-story writers at work today.