Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not Like Them Author: Chanté Mccormick, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza Narrator: Shayna Small, Marin Ireland, Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVEL YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR ‘Harrowing and heartening in equal measure, this book is a breathtaking tale of racial fissures, fury and friendship’ David Lammy, MP and author of Tribes ‘A powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice – and the stunning ways they intersect…Empathetic, riveting, and authentic’ Laura Dave, bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me ‘A painfully amazing read teaching us that sometimes, when it comes to race, the real enemy is ignorance’ Rhys Stephenson, actor and TV presenter ‘Provides a starting point for conversations which are crucial, at times uncomfortable, but long overdue’ Ruth Hogan, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things * * * Not every story is black and white. Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is black and Jen is white. And then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager and everything changes in an instant. This one act could destroy more than just Riley and Jen's friendship. As their community takes sides, so must Jen and Riley, and for the first time in their lives the lifelong friends find themselves on opposing sides. But can anyone win a fight like this? We Are Not Like Them is about friendship and love. It's about prejudice and betrayal. It's about standing up for what you believe in, no matter the cost. * * * ‘Powerful and timely… explores every aspect of systemic racism, from micro aggressions to intergenerational trauma’ Guardian ‘Timely and important, I read it in one sitting but am still thinking about it weeks later’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘One of the most eagerly anticipated books of the year […] A brilliant novel from Christine Pride and Jo Piazza capturing today’s complex issues of race and class’ HELLO! ‘An absolute must read for your book clubs for debate and discussion’ Nina Pottell, Prima

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: Roslyn Hill, Sam Dale, Kelly Burke, Maggie Steed, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Richard Schiff, Full Cast, Colin Stinton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 24, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel 'one of the three great books of my generation.' This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to 'one last Christmas' together near the turn of the millennium. A family saga, that sits against the backdrop of this century's changing face of America. The novel was published 10 days before 9/11 but is widely considered an observation of what happened to the American psyche after 9/11. It traces American societies, changing attitudes and standing on the world stage through the eyes of the Lambert's three children: Gary, a banker in Philadelphia who's greed is determined to make his parents sell their Midwest property; Chip, a struggling professor who leaves his life to pursue being a writer in New York City; and Denise, who has escaped a disastrous marriage and had an equally disastrous affair. In the finale; the final Christmas together, can they settle their differences, bridge gaps and make the changes they need to survive? The novel won the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, The Corrections was included in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Adapted by Marcy Kahan for BBC Radio 4, directed by Emma Harding and starring Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Maggie Steed (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Colin Stinton (Rush, The Bourne Ultimatum) and Julian Rhind-Tutt (Lucy, Rush, Notting Hill). Full Cast List: Narrator - Richard Schiff Enid Lambert - Maggie Steed Alfred Lambert - Colin Stinton Gary Lambert - Richard Laing Chip Lambert - Julian Rhind-Tutt Denise Lambert - Rosyln Hill Julia Vrais - Kelly Burke Eden Procuro - Elaine Claxton Gitanas Misevicius - Sam Dale Melissa Paquette - Bettrys Jones Caroline Lambert - Jane Slavin Caleb Lambert - Adam Thomas Wright Jonah Lambert - Sean McCrystal First Aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 10th and 11th January 2015 ©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Shining Life: A Novel Author: Harriet Kline Narrator: Simon Hedger, Steve Fortune, Sam Newton, Ella Lynch, Nano Nagle, Mary Jane Wells, Jenny Sterlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A boy struggling to process an unexpected loss believes he has been given a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all—the meaning of life—in this deeply felt debut novel. “An exquisitely beautiful and compelling novel about love, loss, and life.”—Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle Meet Ollie. He’s eleven years old. He hasn’t yet met a Killer Sudoku he can’t solve, but he finds the world around him difficult. People don’t say what they mean, and he hates being wrong. And now, a sudden tragedy teaches him there is no easy answer to the problem of grief.  When Ollie’s happy-go-lucky father, Rich, dies of brain cancer, his mother, Ruth, has no idea how to keep living, and the entire family is thrown into disarray. The only thing that makes sense to Ollie is the puzzle he’s convinced his father left behind: one gift for each member of the family. If Ollie can find the connection between a pink vase and an old pair of binoculars, then somehow he’ll discover the secret he believes Rich wanted to share with them all: what it means to be alive. Interweaving the voices of each character in turn, this deeply felt novel paints a portrait of a family learning to come together through the darkest times. This Shining Life is a poignant yet ultimately uplifting meditation on grief, healing, and love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Together Now: A Novel Author: Matthew Norman Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A dying man brings his oldest friends together for one last beach blowout in this witty, heartfelt novel from the author of Last Couple Standing. “A delightful novel about the meaning of friendship and how we dream of being remembered by those closest to us . . . a fabulous vacation of a book!”—Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters At just thirty-five, reclusive billionaire Robbie Malcolm is a renowned financial prognosticator, a celebrated philanthropist, and a mathematical genius. Also, he’s dying, which is a fact he’s carefully concealing from the world. As he takes stock, Robbie realizes that his wealth means nothing if he can’t help the people who matter most. So he invites his oldest friends—Blair, Cat, and Wade—to their beloved Fenwick Island on the coast of Delaware to share his secret and to reveal plans for each of them that he believes will change their lives forever. However, Robbie isn’t the only one with secrets. The bonds the friends formed as teenagers still exist, but adulthood has brought a whole new set of complications, like unrequited loves, marriages on the brink, and so much unfulfilled potential. Robbie’s plans may look good on paper, but are they any match for the utter disaster that is real life? As everything comes to light over a wild weekend full of surprises, Robbie learns there are still some things money can’t buy, and a group of friends who thought their best years were behind them realize just how much they have to look forward to.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Two Three: A Novel Author: Laurie Frankel Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky, Emma Galvin, Rebecca Soler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy.' -- Booklist (starred review) This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed—tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-grab-a-tissue novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it’s our daughters who will save us all. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snowflake: Winner of Newcomer of the Year Author: Louise Nealon Narrator: Louisa Harland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'Wonderful' Roddy Doyle 'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times 'Sharp, clever and affecting' The Independent 'Beautifully written . . . emotionally intelligent and thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'GAS and beautiful and truthful and touching' Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups 'A novel for anyone who's ever felt lost in the world' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies 'Astonishing' Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of herself, her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the White family is never in doubt, and Debbie discovers that even the oddest of families are places of safety. A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Margreete's Harbor: A Novel Author: Eleanor Morse Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. Eleanor Morse's Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home, and begin a new life. Margreete’s Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her; Harry’s critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher; Bernie and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults; and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them. This beautiful novel—attuned to the seasons of nature, the internal dynamics of a family, and a nation torn by its contradicting ideals—reveals the largest meanings in the smallest and most secret moments of life. Listeners of Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro, and Anne Tyler will find themselves at home in Margreete’s Harbor. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'Full of love, triumph and a boatload of heartbreak, Margreete’s Harbor is a celebration of life’s inevitable messiness. As after any good visit with family or dear friends, you will leave feeling satisfied while yearning for more.' -- BookPage, starred review

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dictionary of Lost Words Author: Pip Williams Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid flutter to the floor unclaimed. Esme seizes the word and hides it in an old wooden trunk that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. Set when the women's suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It's a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape our experience of the world. © Pip Williams 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill Series: #3 of One Thousand White Women Series Author: Jim Fergus Narrator: Erik Steele, Laura Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, 'recruited' by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres of the tribes begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States, which has stolen from the Native Americans their lands, their way of life, their culture and their history. This ghost tribe of rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American West, Fergus paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raft of Stars: A Novel Author: Andrew J. Graff Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard Russo An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late? It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish” Branson and Dale “Bread” Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them. Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish’s mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who’s having doubts about a life in law enforcement. The adults track the boys toward the novel’s heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half Life: A Novel Author: Jillian Cantor Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different choice. In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Entwining Marie Curie’s real story with Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian Cantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved—as well as the world at large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - حارسة الظلال Author: واسيني الأعرج Narrator: عدنان الزروق Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 20, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: حول الكتاب: سنة 1997 اختيرت هذه الرواية ضمن أفضل خمس روايات صدرت بفرنسا ، وهي رواية سياسية اجتماعية ، تنقد الوضع الجزائري من الداخل وتعري الأمراض الحكومية بالدرجة الأولى ، ومن ثم العاهات الثقافية المسّيسة . في العمق : يستخدم المؤلف شخصية حسيسن ، المستشار الثقافي بوزارة الثقافة بطلا لروايته ، فالرواية تمر كلها بصوت الراوي حسيسن المنكسر ، حسيسن الذي سقط من منصب مستشار ثقافي إلى طريد بتروا لسانه وذكره ، بعد اتهامه ظلما بتخريب الثقافة الوطنية والعمالة للغرب .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - جارتي الشيعية Author: ريم البريك Narrator: رهام حمدي زيدان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 20, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: تتناول الرواية علاقة فتاة سُنية تزوجت رجل متشدد وتعيش في أمريكا، وسكنت بجوارها أسرة شيعية فنشأت علاقة صداقة بين الجارتين إلا أن الزوج المتشدد كان يرفض تلك الصداقة، وظهرت مشكلات كثيرة بين الزوجين لهذا السبب. في الرواية مجموعة من المشاعر المختلطة التى تعبر عنها الكاتبة، فتتناول الحيرة والقلق والاغتراب عن البلد والذات، خاصة ان المشكلات تتفاقم تتدريجيًا.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Dark Yet: A DCI Banks Novel Series: #27 of Inspector Banks Novels Author: Peter Robinson Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail.”—Michael Connelly One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with the 27th novel featuring the legendary detective Alan Banks in the mystery series Stephen King calls “the best now on the market.”  When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they’ll find answers—and the culprit—among the video recordings.   Instead of discovering Connor’s murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape. If they can discover the woman’s identity, it could lead to more than justice for the victim; it could change everything the police think they know about Connor and why anyone would want him dead. Meanwhile, tensions are rising between Banks and his friend, Zelda. A super recognizer—able to recognize faces significantly better than most people—Zelda is determined to bring the men who abused her to justice. But stirring up the murky waters of the past will put her in far greater danger than ever before, and Banks worries that he won’t be able to stop her from plunging too deep before it’s too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three O'Clock in the Morning: A Novel Author: Gianrico Carofiglio Narrator: Gary Furlong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.'' - F. Scott Fitzgerald A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that helps them come to truly know each other. Antonio is eighteen years old and on the cusp of adulthood. His father, a brilliant mathematician, hasn’t played a large part in his life since divorcing Antonio’s mother but when Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy, they travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment. It is there, in a foreign city, under strained circumstances, that they will get to know each other and connect for the first time. A beautiful, gritty, and charming port city where French old-world charm meets modern bohemia, father and son stroll the streets sharing strained small talk. But as the hours pass and day gives way to night, the two find themselves caught in a series of caffeine-imbued adventures involving unexpected people (and unforeseen trysts) that connect father and son for the first time. As the two discuss poetry, family, sex, math, death, and dreams, their experience becomes a mesmerizing 48-hour microcosm of a lifetime relationship. Both learn much about illusions and regret, about talent and redemption, and, most of all, about love.  Elegant, warm, and tender, set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Marseille and its beautiful calanques—a series of cliffs and bays on the city’s outskirts—Three O’Clock in the Morning is a bewitching coming-of-age story imbued with nostalgia and a revelatory exploration of time and fate, youth and adulthood.  Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كومبارس Author: هيفاء البيطار Narrator: نور علام Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: مجموعة قصصية أرجوك اسمحي لي بأن أفحص بكارتك، أريد أن أتأكد من أنك لم تقومي بعملية ترقيع البكارة المنتشرة بكثافة هذه الأيام. للوهلة الأولى شكت في ما سمعت، بل أحسّت أنها بالتأكيد تعاني من ارتباك كبير بسبب التعب والتوتر، لم تصدق طلبه، لكن منظر المصباح الكهربائي في يده، والنظرة الغريبة في عينيه ثبتاها في الحقيقة. إنه يرغب فعلاً في فحص بكارتها، ويريد التأكد من أنها بكارة سليمة غير مغشوشة! بذلت جهوداً جبارة كي لا تنهار من الصدمة... وتعلق نظرها بالمصباح الكهربائي الذي أحسته مصوّباً نحوها كخنجر... لم تعرف كيف ستتصرف، كانت مرتبكة بشوقها الكبير للالتحام به... شعرت أن أبخرة داكنة تغشو دماغها، وتشله عن التفكير، لم تستطع التفوّه بكلمة، وصار الصمت بينهما غير محتمل ويجب خرقه بأية كلمة، قال لها: أرجوك، الأمر بسيط، لقد رأيت مئات الفتيات يجرين هذه العملية ويخدعن زوج المستقبل وأنا لا أريد أن أخدع... أنا أحتقر هذه العملية فهي تدل على النفاق والكذب وانعدام الأخلاق... نظر إليها بعتب ثم تابع كلامه: أرجوك لا تنظري إليّ بهذه الطريقة... سألته: كيف أنظر إليك؟ رد: كالمفجوعة

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة Author: خالد خليفة Narrator: يامن عبدالنور Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: تغوص الرواية بعمق فى آليات الخوف والتفكك خلال نصف قرن، كما هى رواية عن مجتمع عاش بشكل متواز مع البطش والرغبات المقتولة، عبر سيرة عائلة اكتشفت أن كل أحلامها ماتت وتحولت إلى ركام، كما تحولت جثة الأم إلى خردة يجب التخلص منها ليستمر الآخرون فى العيش.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off the Wild Coast of Brittany Author: Juliet Blackwell Narrator: Hope Newhouse, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of Brittany Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things off with her without warning, leaving her flat broke and in the middle of renovating the guesthouse they planned to open for business. Natalie's already struggling when her sister, Alex, shows up unannounced. The sisters form an unlikely partnership to save the guesthouse, reluctantly admitting their secrets to each other as they begin to heal the scars of their shared past. But the property harbors hidden stories of its own. During World War II, every man of fighting age on the island fled to England to join the Free French forces. The women and children were left on their own...until three hundred German troops took up residence, living side-by-side with the French women on the tiny island for the next several years. When Natalie and Alex unearth an old cookbook in a hidden cupboard, they find handwritten recipes that reveal old secrets. With the help of locals, the Morgen sisters begin to unravel the relationship between Violette, a young islander whose family ran the guesthouse during WWII, and Rainier, a German military customs official with a devastating secret of his own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Recent East: A Novel Author: Thomas Grattan Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Angela Dawe is an outstanding narrator for this expansive audiobook...Dawe's voice is strong, and her pace is excellent. As a good narrator will do, she lets the story shine with patient grace and confident kindness. This audiobook is definitely worth a listen.' -- AudioFile Magazine An extraordinary family saga following a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents’ abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York, where she moved as an adult, she arrives with her two teenagers to discover a city that has become an unrecognizable ghost town. The move fractures the siblings’ close relationship, as Michael, free to be gay, takes to looting empty houses and partying with wannabe anarchists, while Adela, fascinated with the horrors of the Holocaust, buries herself in books and finds companionship in a previously unknown cousin. Over time, the town itself changes—from dismantled city to refugee haven and neo-Nazi hotbed, and eventually to a desirable seaside resort town. In the midst of that change, two episodes of devastating, fateful violence come to define the family forever. Moving seamlessly through decades and between the thoughts and lives of several unforgettable characters, Thomas Grattan’s spellbinding novel is a multigenerational epic that illuminates what it means to leave home, and what it means to return. Masterfully crafted with humor, gorgeous prose, and a powerful understanding of history and heritage, The Recent East is the profoundly affecting story of a family upended by displacement and loss, and the extraordinary debut of an empathetic and ambitious storyteller. A Macmillan Audio production from MCD

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foregone: A Novel Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Stephen Mendel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The basis for the Major Motion Picture Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader and starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, and Michael Imperioli. A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks  ''During a career stretching almost half a century, Russell Banks has published an extraordinary collection of brave, morally imperative novels. . . . In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption.'' —Washington Post At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life. The interview is filmed by his acolyte and ex–star student, Malcolm MacLeod, in the presence of Fife’s wife and alongside Malcolm’s producer, cinematographer, and sound technician, all of whom have long admired Fife but who must now absorb the meaning of his astonishing, dark confession. Imaginatively structured around Fife’s secret memories and alternating between the experiences of the characters who are filming his confession, the novel challenges our assumptions and understanding about a significant lost chapter in American history and the nature of memory itself. Russell Banks gives us a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past.