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Discover the Best Audio Stories in Literature, Literary Fiction
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Discover the Best Audio Stories in Literature, Literary Fiction
Creative Types: and Other Stories by Tom Bissell
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creative Types: and Other Stories Author: Tom Bissell Narrator: Kasey Mahaffy, Trisha Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and “one of America's best and most interesting writers' (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark—unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making.   In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises—writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.
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3 years ago
6 hours 15 minutes

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The Cave Dwellers by Christina Mcdowell
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cave Dwellers Author: Christina Mcdowell Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This “delicious take on the one percent in our nation’s capital” (Town & Country) and clever combination of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Nest explores what Washington, DC’s high society members do behind the closed doors of their stately homes. They are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book—a discriminative diary created by the niece of Edith Roosevelt’s social secretary. Their aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington—generation after generation. Their old money and manner lurk through the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, Kalorama, and Capitol Hill. They only socialize within their inner circle, turning a blind eye to those who come and go on the political merry-go-round. These parents and their children live in gilded existences of power and privilege. But what they have failed to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question in this unputdownable novel that “combines social satire with moral outrage to offer a masterfully crafted, absorbing read that can simply entertain on one level and provoke reasoned discourse on another” (Booklist, starred review).
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4 years ago
10 hours 16 minutes

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Myth-ing Persons by Robert Asprin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Myth-ing Persons Series: #5 of Myth Adventures Author: Robert Asprin Narrator: Noah Michael Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Myth-ing Persons shares the humorous adventures of the Great Skeeve, a powerful magician, Aahz, his demon partner, and Gleep the dragon in Deva, the crossroads of dimensions.
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4 years ago
4 hours 45 minutes

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Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Myth Conceptions Series: #2 of Myth Adventures Author: Robert Asprin Narrator: Noah Michael Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: After mistakenly being appointed court magician by a regent who should have known better, apprentice mage Skeeve must defend a kingdom from the mightiest invading army in the world.
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4 years ago
5 hours 32 minutes

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Myth Directions by Robert Asprin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Myth Directions Series: #3 of Myth Adventures Author: Robert Asprin Narrator: Noah Michael Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The beautiful Tanda wants the Trophy—and it's up to Skeeve to get it for her. The problem is, getting it will take more than luck. It will take all Skeeve's unproven magical talents, a scaly but clever Pervect, and a charming demon not above a little interdimensional thievery.
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4 years ago
5 hours 29 minutes

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We Are Not in the World: ‘compelling and profoundly moving’ Irish Times by Conor O'callaghan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not in the World: ‘compelling and profoundly moving’ Irish Times Author: Conor O'callaghan Narrator: Sam O'mahoney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 18, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart.' Kamila Shamsie Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man takes a job driving a haulage lorry through France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together, man and girl must attempt to restore themselves and each other, and to repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred. As the pair journey down the motorways and through the service stations of France, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations. PRAISE FOR WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD: 'Wonderful, wrenching . . . full of enormous feelings very precisely rendered' Sara Baume 'A whirlpool of memories, regrets and hopes' Tim Pears 'An uncanny ability to turn the seemingly insignificant into something monumental' Jan Carson 'Unusual, utterly original and mysterious . . . definitely a 2020 must read' Elaine Feeney © Conor O'Callaghan 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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4 years ago
6 hours 44 minutes

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The Bad Muslim Discount: A Novel by Syed M. Masood
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bad Muslim Discount: A Novel Author: Syed M. Masood Narrator: Hend Ayoub, Pej Vahdat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. “Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East lingers in individual lives, the way gossip travels in a close-knit immigrant community.” —The New York Times Book Review It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. Ironically, Anvar's deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America, while his fun-loving father can't find anyone he relates to. For his part, Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim. At the same time, thousands of miles away, Safwa, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa's worlds collide as two remarkable, strong-willed adults, their contradictory, intertwined fates will rock their community, and families, to their core. The Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent, poignant, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight, warmth, and an irreverent sense of humor, Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity, faith (or lack thereof), and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans.
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4 years ago
12 hours 23 minutes

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Soul Tourists: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soul Tourists: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Author: Bernardine Evaristo Narrator: Kayi Ushe, Vivienne Acheampong, Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 31, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature. © Bernardine Evaristo 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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4 years ago
6 hours 35 minutes

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England Made Me by Graham Greene
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: England Made Me Author: Graham Greene Narrator: Sam Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 10, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers. Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through one job after another in the Far East. When his adoring sister Kate sets him up with a role in Stockholm as bodyguard to her boss and lover, megalomaniac financier Krogh, Anthony seems set on a path to redemption. But when he receives orders from Krogh that offend his own sense of decency, he begins to leak information to a down-at-heel journalist: a decision that will cost Anthony much more than just his job. First published in 1935, England Made Me is an early Greene novel and helped to cement his reputation as an important and exciting new writing talent. © Graham Greene 1935 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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4 years ago
8 hours 32 minutes

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In Search of a Name: A Novel by Marjolijn Van Heemstra
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of a Name: A Novel Author: Marjolijn Van Heemstra Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle’s supposed heroism during World War II. D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my mind, it’s the other way around: a person grows into his name. Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle’s heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis, and later became a hero to everyone in the family. So, when Marjolijn’s grandmother bestows her with her great-uncle’s signet ring requesting that she name her future son after him, Marjolijn can’t say no. Now pregnant with her firstborn, she embarks on a quest to uncover the true story behind the myth of her late relative. Chasing leads from friends and family, and doing her own local research, Marolijn realizes that the audacious story she always heard is not as clear-cut as it was made out to be. As her belly grows, her doubts grow, too—was her uncle a hero or a criminal? Vivid, hypnotic, and profoundly moving, In Search of a Name explores war and its aftermath and how the stories we tell and the stories we are told always seem to exist somewhere between truth and fiction.
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4 years ago
4 hours 44 minutes

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The Sun Collective: A Novel by Charles Baxter
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sun Collective: A Novel Author: Charles Baxter Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: *A NEW YORK TIMES 2021 NOTABLE BOOK* A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places—churches, storefronts, benches—and stum­bles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader who will alter all of their lives. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. As the lives of these four characters intertwine, a story of guilt, anxiety, and feverish hope unfolds in the city of Minneapolis.   A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.
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4 years ago
12 hours 4 minutes

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The Orchard: A Novel by David Hopen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/421780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orchard: A Novel Author: David Hopen Narrator: Micky Shiloah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A Recommended Book From: Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature * Alma A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers’ dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life’s pleasures. When the academy’s golden boy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the school’s most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and defiant—especially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the shadow of his mother’s death. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in unconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and careening toward a perilous future—one in which the traditions of their faith are repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends. Mesmerizing and playful, heartrending and darkly romantic, The Orchard probes the conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of youth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed desires.
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4 years ago
17 hours 13 minutes

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The Arrest: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Arrest: A Novel Author: Jonathan Lethem Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car. The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working. . . .  Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A.  An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn’t hurt.  Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings’ life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear.  Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he’s up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him.  Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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5 years ago
7 hours 32 minutes

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The Searcher: The mesmerising new mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Tana French
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Searcher: The mesmerising new mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author Author: Tana French Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away. Soon Cal will discover that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren't always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door. Our greatest living mystery writer weaves a masterful tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense, asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice, and the dangers of finding what we seek. WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT TANA FRENCH 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH 'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists' OBSERVER 'This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' STEPHEN KING 'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' LUCY MANGAN, STYLIST 'This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' ERIN KELLY © Tana French 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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5 years ago
14 hours 32 minutes

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kafka on the Shore Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Oliver Le Sueur, Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece. 'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times 'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph © Haruki Marakami 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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5 years ago
19 hours 8 minutes

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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419242 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ministry for the Future: A Novel Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Narrator: Gary Bennett, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Nikki Massoud, Inés Del Castillo, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Ramon De Ocampo, Natasha Soudek, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Raphael Corkhill, Vikas Adam, Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 6, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 73 Ratings of Narrator: 4.37 of Total 19 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.  The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein "The best science fiction-nonfiction novel I’ve ever read." —Jonathan Lethem, Vanity Fair "A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity." —Booklist (starred) "A sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet." —Publishers Weekly (starred) "The Ministry for the Future ranks among Robinson's best recent works, a collection of actions and observations that adds up to more than the sum of its eclectic and urgent parts." —Sierra Also by Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Moon New York 2140 2312 Aurora Shaman
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5 years ago
20 hours 43 minutes

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The River Within by Karen Powell
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River Within Author: Karen Powell Narrator: Helen Macfarlane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident? Lady Venetia Richmond has no time to dwell on the death. Newly widowed, she is busy trying to keep the estate together, while struggling with death duties and crippling taxation. Alexander, her son and sole heir to Richmond Hall, is of little help. Just when she most needs him, he grows elusive, his behavior becoming increasingly erratic. Lennie Fairweather, ‘child of nature' and daughter of the late Sir Angus's private secretary, has other things on her mind too. In love with Alexander, she longs to escape life with her over-protective father and domineering brother. Alexander is unpredictable though, hard to pin down. Can she be sure of his true feelings towards her? In the weeks that follow the tragic drowning, the river begins to give up its secrets. As the truth about Danny's death emerges, other stories come to the surface that threaten to destroy everyone's plans for future and, ultimately, their very way of life. The River Within will surely take its place as a classic in a tradition of English fiction that takes in Thomas Hardy, Graham Swift and Helen Dunmore.
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5 years ago
7 hours 52 minutes

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Mother for Dinner: A Novel by Shalom Auslander
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother for Dinner: A Novel Author: Shalom Auslander Narrator: Shalom Auslander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: 'Eat me.' This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal-Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group, but for Seventh, it raises some serious questions, both practical and emotional. Of practical concern, his dead mother is six-foot-two and weighs about four hundred and fifty pounds. Even divided up between Seventh and his eleven brothers, that's a lot of red meat. Plus Second keeps kosher, Ninth is vegan, First hated her, and Sixth is dead. To make matters worse, even if he can wrangle his brothers together for a feast, the Can-Am people have assimilated, and the only living Cannibal who knows how to perform the ancient ritual is their Uncle Ishmael, whose erratic understanding of their traditions leads to conflict. Seventh struggles with his mother's deathbed request. He never loved her, but the sense of guilt and responsibility he feels--to her and to his people and to his 'unique cultural heritage'--is overwhelming. His mother always taught him he was a link in a chain, thousands of people long, stretching back hundreds of years. But, as his brother First says, he's getting tired of chains. Irreverent and written with Auslander's incomparable humor, Mother for Dinner is an exploration of legacy, assimilation, the things we owe our families, and the things we owe ourselves.
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5 years ago
6 hours 54 minutes

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The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel by Peter Swanson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/417791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel Author: Peter Swanson Narrator: Kathleen Early, Karen White, Keith Szarabajka, Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.54 of Total 13 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?” From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train—now a major movie directed by Agnieszka Holland. In a tantalizing set-up reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith’s classic Strangers on a Train… On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start—he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit—a contrast that once inflamed their passion, but has now become a cliché. But their game turns a little darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda for what she’s done. Lily, without missing a beat, says calmly, “I’d like to help.” After all, some people are the kind worth killing, like a lying, stinking, cheating spouse. . . . Back in Boston, Ted and Lily’s twisted bond grows stronger as they begin to plot Miranda's demise. But there are a few things about Lily’s past that she hasn’t shared with Ted, namely her experience in the art and craft of murder, a journey that began in her very precocious youth. Suddenly these co-conspirators are embroiled in a chilling game of cat-and-mouse, one they both cannot survive . . . with a shrewd and very determined detective on their tail.
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5 years ago
10 hours 17 minutes

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What Are You Going Through: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Are You Going Through: A Novel Author: Sigrid Nunez Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR, PEOPLE, AND O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF 2020 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “As good as The Friend, if not better.” —The New York Times   “Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness.” —People   “I was dazed by the novel’s grace.” —The New Yorker The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
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5 years ago
5 hours 36 minutes

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