Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Season of Crimson Blossoms Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Narrator: Hassana Maina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From one of Nigeria’s most exciting and distinctive new storytellers comes a debut novel that is already making waves across the African continent.An illicit affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer and political thug Hassan 'Reza' was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. Brought together in startling circumstances, Binta and Reza discover a need that only each can satisfy in the other. Binta, a grandmother of five, yearns for intimacy after the sexual repression of her marriage, the pain of losing her first son and the privations of widowhood. Meanwhile, Reza seeks to lessen the pain of estrangement from his mother, and the increasingly remote link to his father, by seeking solace in an unconventional emotional and physical relationship. Through Binta, we follow the intimate daily life of a Muslim Hausa family—where life revolves around domestic disputes and divorces, friendship and whispers, and religious instruction at the madrasa. By contrast, Reza is the selfpronounced Lord of San Siro, an urban cesspit that is home to a gang of misfits, outcasts and thugs. The situation comes to a head when these two worlds collide, with disastrous consequences. This story of love and longing—set against undercurrents of political violence—unfurls gently, revealing layers of emotion that defy age, class and religion.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika Narrator: Sarah Ladipo Manyika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Dr. Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she has a zest for life and makes the most of it through road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and reminiscing about characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance encounters to help keep her sanity. As Morayo recounts her story, moving seamlessly between past and present, we meet Dawud, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper, Sage, a feisty, homeless Grateful Dead devotee, and Antonio, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. A subtle story about ageing, friendship and loss, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seeing Place Author: Aziza Eden Walker Narrator: Alice Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 6, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Hot-shot producer Thuli Poni is holding auditions for her latest play in Cape Town. Andile Sebe is an up-andcoming star, just waiting for his big break. Thuli casts Andile and challenges him to link his painful past with the rolehe is portraying, leading him to open up to her. The two fall for each other and a passionate romance ensues. But whenauditions open for Sins of the Fathers, the most-watched TV show in South Africa, Thuli turns cold. Will she play apart in Andile’s rise to fame, or will she hinder it? This is a story about how love can triumph against the odds if westay humble, take risks, and are willing to learn. The Seeing Place offers a very different kind of romance—between apowerful woman and a man who wants something only she can offer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breasts and Eggs Author: Mieko Kawakami Narrator: Jeena Yi, Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsu's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Ten years later, we meet Natsu again. She is now a writer and finds herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future. In Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami paints a radical and intimate portrait of contemporary working class womanhood in Japan, recounting the heartbreaking journeys of three women in a society where the odds are stacked against them. This is an unforgettable full length English language debut from a major new international talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Our Summers Series: #9 of Yorktide, Maine Author: Holly Chamberlin Narrator: Christina Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlincreates a heartfelt story of family bonds and new beginnings …It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New YorkCity. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriageand motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol’s teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both theirgirls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she’ll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenthcentury family home on the rocky Maine coast.But forty-five years after leaving Yorktide, Carol suddenly announces that she’s moving back—into Ferndean.Bonnie is indignant. She’s the one who kept the homestead in order and tended to their dying mother. Now Carolexpects to simply buy her out? As far as Bonnie is concerned, Ferndean is part of their heritage—not just another ofCarol’s improvement projects, to be torn apart and remade according to her whim.The entire Ascher family is in flux, uncovering secrets that upend their relationships. Carol’s longing to be welcomedhome is fueled by a painful truth she’s carried for years. It will take an extraordinary summer—in a remarkable place—to lead these women back to each other, buoyed by the tides of friendship and forgiveness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex and Vanity: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel Author: Kevin Kwan Narrator: Lydia Look Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.72 of Total 47 Ratings of Narrator: 3.13 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A Good Morning America Book Club Pick 'Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet.' --Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with. On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. 'Your mother is Chinese so it's no surprise you'd be attracted to someone like him,' Charlotte teases. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world--and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight of the Heart Author: Susana Aikin Narrator: Maria Liatis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Set in contemporary Spain, Susana Aikin’s latest novel is a colorful, beautifully written examination ofmemory, romance, and the intricacies of family duty.On a sweltering August day in Madrid, Anna, Julia, and Marion return to their childhood home. The once grandmansion, furnished with exotic objects and art that reflected the cultures of their English father and Spanish mother,once bustled with visitors. But since their father’s death, all three sisters have been reluctant to go back, still feelingthe weight of his domineering influence. Julia believes that before the house can sell, it needs to be cleared of negativeenergy, and she has planned a limpieza, or cleaning ritual.Marion, the oldest, fears what the ceremony might unleash. Anna, the youngest and most capable and ambitiousof the trio, is skeptical of the Cuban santera hired by Julia. Still, she is wary of antagonizing her siblings, or of stirringup old resentment.But as the ceremony progresses, guilt and recrimination become impossible to ignore. And if there’s a chance ofbringing their house and their lives out of the shadows, it rests in the sisterhood, strength, and indomitable love thatremains when the ghosts of the past surrender at last.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love and the Game 2 Author: Johnni Sherri Narrator: Tamara Thompson, Sable Lyn, Ace Bentley, Ian Eugene Ryan, Kentra Lynn, Shari Peele, Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Things are finally coming together for Perri as she continues on her journey to womanhood. While she ultimatelydecides to let Derrick sweep her off her feet, Plus’ feelings for her never seem to waver. However, when Derrick getsdrafted into the NBA and has to relocate hundreds of miles away, Perri is faced with the decision to either stay inMaryland or leave with her fiancé for good. Now that Plus has completely stepped up as a father, the mere mentionof Perri taking Camille away leaves him emotionally shattered. But after everything he’s put Perri through is this nowhis karma?In addition to this love triangle, Tez and Myesha’s relationship goes through its own struggle of sorts. Both oftheir pasts come back to haunt them, leaving a huge question mark over the survival of their union. While Jorell andNika make such a cute couple, him with his “bama” ways and her with her quick-witted nature, will the secrets he hasburied tear them apart? Find out what happens when people really do love hard but aren’t fair when playing the game.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seashell Season Author: Holly Chamberlin Narrator: Libby Mcknight, Laura Knight Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A picturesque Maine beach town is the setting for Holly Chamberlin’s touching and thought-provoking newnovel, as a mother struggles to reconnect with her long lost daughter …Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into abottle and launches it into the waves. It’s a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn’t seen in sixteen years—not since her baby’s father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping,sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call maychange everything …Verity learns that Alan is now in jail on abduction charges—and Marni Armstrong, born Gemma Peterson-Burns,is coming to live with Verity in Yorktide, Maine. But this isn’t the joyful reunion Verity imagined. Gemma has beenraised to believe Verity was an unfit mother who left Alan no choice but to take her out of harm’s way. Over the courseof one summer, Verity tries to reach a tough, wary young woman who’s more stranger than daughter. And Gemmamust reexamine everything she thought about her parents—and decide whether to trust in a relationship that, thoughdelicate as a seashell on the surface, could prove to be just as beautiful and resilient

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La isla de las mujeres del mar Author: Lisa See Narrator: Irene Montalà Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Una inmersión fascinante en una cultura en vías de desaparición. Tras seducir a lectores y críticos de todo el mundo con El abanico de seda y Dos chicas de Shanghai, Lisa See vuelve a cautivarnos con La isla de las mujeres del mar, una bella e introspectiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes hanenyeo -mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju, cuya forma de vida ha sido reconocida por la Unesco como patrimonio de la humanidad- y las poderosas fuerzas, tanto naturales como históricas, que las rodean. Kim Young-sook y Han Mi-ja empiezan su preparación como haenyeo. A pesar de sus diferentes entornos familiares, pronto se hacen íntimas, aprenden la técnica del buceo y se enfrentan juntas a las exigencias físicas y los fracasos emocionales de su trabajo. Durante medio siglo, las dos jóvenes forjarán una sólida relación al tiempo que su vida se verá envuelta en acontecimientos tan trágicos y extraordinarios como la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Guerra de Corea y sus secuelas, y tan inevitables como la irrupción de los teléfonos móviles y la llegada de nuevas políticas e ideas a la isla. Sin embargo, tras sobrevivir a cientos de inmersiones y desarrollar el más estrecho de los vínculos, algo que escapa a su control acabará rompiendo su amistad. Narrada por la entrañable voz de Young-sook, La isla de las mujeres del mar es no sólo una magnífica saga familiar con extraordinarias ramificaciones, sino también un vívido retrato del mundo singular y poco conocido de la isla de Jeju y de las atrocidades sufridas por sus moradores bajo la ocupación japonesa. La crítica ha dicho... «Una oda a un singular grupo de mujeres, que no esconde la hondura de la crueldad y la resistencia humanas.» Publisher's Weekly «Una exhaustiva investigación que nos habla no sólo de las tradiciones haenyeo, sino también de los asesinatos masivos en la isla de Jeju a principios de 1948, ocultados durante décadas por el gobierno surcoreano. [...] Imprescindible.» Kirkus Reviews «Una asombrosa historia sobre dos mujeres cuyas decisiones acaban uniéndolas inextricablemente.» Jodi Picoult «Brillante, [...] reflexiva y empática. [...] Necesaria.» The New York Times Book Review «Una novela que celebra la fuerza de las mujeres y la fortaleza de su amistad.» O, The Oprah Magazine