Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/406920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stepping Off Place Author: Cameron Kelly Rosenblum Narrator: Hope Newhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend’s death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It’s the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High’s in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school. But summer is when Hattie goes to her family’s Maine island home. Instead of sitting inside for eight weeks, waiting for her to return, Reid and their friend, Sam, enter into a pact—to live it up, one party at a time. But days before Hattie is due home, Reid finds out the shocking news that Hattie has died by suicide. Driven by a desperate need to understand what went wrong, Reid searches for answers. In doing so, she uncovers painful secrets about the person she thought she knew better than herself. And the truth will force Reid to reexamine everything.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is What I Know About Art Author: Kimberly Drew Narrator: Kimberly Drew Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Release date: June 2, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: 'Drew's experience teaches us to embrace what we are afraid of and be true to ourselves. She uses her passion to change the art world and invites us to join her.'--Janelle Monáe, award-winning singer, actress, and producer 'Powerful and compelling, this book gives us the courage to discover our own journeys into art.'--Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in Kensington Gardens, and co-editor of the Cahiers d'Art review 'This deeply personal and boldly political offering inspires and ignites.'-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review In this powerful and hopeful account, arts writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew reminds us that the art world has space not just for the elite, but for everyone. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, arts writer and co-editor of Black Futures Kimberly Drew shows us that art and protest are inextricably linked. Drawing on her personal experience through art toward activism, Drew challenges us to create space for the change that we want to see in the world. Because there really is so much more space than we think.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Author: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Narrator: Jason Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 119 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 22 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller! A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crash Author: Jerry Spinelli Narrator: Robbie Daymond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Take a look behind the bully in this modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli that packs a punch. And don't miss the highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday. Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside. And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb, the dweeby, vegetarian Quaker kid who lives down the block. Through the eyes of Crash, readers get a rare glimpse into the life of a bully in this unforgettable and beloved story about stereotypes and the surprises life can bring. 'Readers will devour this humorous glimpse of what jocks are made of.' --School Library Journal, starred review

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make Lemonade Series: #1 of Make Lemonade Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff Narrator: Heather Alicia Simms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 4, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Jolly is seventeen. She can’t really spell. She doesn’t have much of a job. And she has two little kids from two different, absent fathers. Jolly knows she can’t cope with Jilly and Jeremy all by herself. So she posts a notice on the school ­bulletin board: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No one replies but Verna LaVaughn, who’s only fourteen. How much help can she be? For a while, Jolly, Jilly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn are an extraordinary family. Then LaVaughn takes the first steps toward building her own future, and Jolly begins the long, slow process of turning the lemons of her life into lemonade. “Powerfully moving.” –Kirkus Reviews, pointer “Radiant with hope.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Written in the Stars Author: Aisha Saeed Narrator: Aisha Saeed, Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 3, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: 'A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you’ve read before. Saeed has given a novel that is both entertaining and important.”—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author This heart-wrenching novel explores what it is like to be thrust into an unwanted marriage. Has Naila’s fate been written in the stars? Or can she still make her own destiny?   Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up—but they will choose her husband. Following their cultural tradition, they will plan an arranged marriage for her. And until then, dating—even friendship with a boy—is forbidden. When Naila breaks their rule by falling in love with Saif, her parents are livid. Convinced she has forgotten who she truly is, they travel to Pakistan to visit relatives and explore their roots. But Naila’s vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changed—her parents have found her a husband and they want her to marry him, now! Despite her greatest efforts, Naila is aghast to find herself cut off from everything and everyone she once knew. Her only hope of escape is Saif . . . if he can find her before it’s too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Escape of Light Author: Fred Venturini Narrator: Ryan Kennard Burke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 22, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement. He finds an outlet tapping into his one-dimensional basketball talent as a shutdown defender and courts his cheerleader dream girl, only to endure heartbreak and setbacks that drive him to have a tissue-expander operation to rid himself of his scar tissue for good, but at what price? The operation costs him his basketball career and puts a wedge between him and his best friend, his mother, and his classmates. The only girl who understands him is Lane Makansi, an ostracized and bullied cutter who sees the truth of Wilder's self-loathing. Their unlikely friendship begins to salve their deep internal wounds until tragedy strikes—and Lane is the culprit. In the aftermath, Wilder discovers a capacity to forgive and empathize that he has never once applied to himself, leading to a dramatic decision that will change his life, and Lane's life, forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last True Poets of the Sea Author: Julia Drake Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. The Larkin family isn’t just lucky—they persevere. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snowflake, AZ Author: Marcus Sedgwick Narrator: M.W. Cartozian Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 17, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From Printz medalist Marcus Sedgwick, a gripping novel about health?our own and our planet's?and the stigma of illness. Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn't any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans have pushed the environment too far, except no one seems to be taking their warnings seriously. The healthy 'normies' of Snowflake have written them off as a bunch of eccentrics, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor's response is 'It's all in your mind.' Snowflake, AZ contemplates illness and health?both our own and our planet's. As Ash lives through a cycle of illness and recovery and loss, the world beyond is succumbing to its own affliction: a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This provocative novel by one of our most admired storytellers explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: For this striking, stripped-down account of youth immigration, Villalobos interviewed teens at various stages of the immigration process to illustrate their stories—the physical and emotional difficulties of their travels. He then changed certain elements of these stories in order to protect the children's identities. Each chapter brings forth the voice of one young immigrant's experience, from crossing the Mexican desert to gang violence to the freezers at ICE detention centers. Together, these teen voices paint a vivid and thought-provoking picture of United States-Central American immigration and the American refugee crisis, which will resonate with young listeners, educators, and fans of Villalobos’s adult fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Match Made in Mehendi Author: Nandini Bajpai Narrator: Priya Ayyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: For fans of Brandy Colbert and Jenny Han comes a lighthearted novel about tradition, high school social hierarchy, matchmaking, and swiping right (or left!) Fifteen-year-old Simran 'Simi' Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole -- matchmakers -- with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer, her family is thrilled that she has the 'gift.' But Simi is an artist, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with relationships, helicopter parents, and family drama. That is, until she realizes this might be just the thing to improve her and her best friend Noah's social status. Armed with her family's ancient guide to finding love, Simi starts a matchmaking service -- via an app. But when she helps connect a wallflower of a girl with the star of the boys' soccer team, she turns the high school hierarchy topsy-turvy, soon making herself public enemy number one.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Revolution of Birdie Randolph Author: Brandy Colbert Narrator: Andrea Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 20, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page. Dove 'Birdie' Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she's on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past . . . whom she knows her parents will never approve of. When her estranged aunt Carlene returns to Chicago and moves into the family's apartment above their hair salon, Birdie notices the tension building at home. Carlene is sweet, friendly, and open-minded -- she's also spent decades in and out of treatment facilities for addiction. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings. But when long-buried secrets rise to the surface, everything she's known to be true is turned upside down.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heartwood Crown Series: #2 of The Sunlit Lands Author: Matt Mikalatos Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 6, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: After destroying the Crescent Stone, Madeline returns home, bringing Shula and Yenil with her. As her health continues to deteriorate, Madeline feels the Sunlit Lands calling her back. Meanwhile, Jason, Darius, and the rest of the inhabitants of the Sunlit Lands fight for survival and freedom. The magic that fuels the land is failing, threatening to destroy them all. Will Madeline’s return save the land and its people? Matt’s signature humor and epic storytelling are once again on full display in The Heartwood Crown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work Author: Victoria Ortiz Narrator: Lisa Larsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 4, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Dramatically narrated case histories from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's stellar career are interwoven with an account of her life—including her childhood, family, beliefs, many faceted personality, education, marriage, children, legal and judicial career, and other achievements. The cases described, many involving young people, demonstrate her passionate concern for gender equality, fairness, and our constitutional rights.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guy's Guide to Four Battles Every Young Man Must Face: A Manual to Overcoming Life’s Common Distractions Author: Jonathan Mckee Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: 'Why wait for something when I can enjoy it now?' 'The images don't really affect me . . . do they?' 'And how could smoking a little weed really be bad when it's becoming legalized everywhere?' 'I'd like to tell you I don't care what others think, but honestly, I want to be liked.' Maybe you're thinking, 'I've had one . . . maybe even a few, of these thoughts, and I don't know how to even begin to deal with them.' The good news? You're not alone. And there is a way to fight these battles head-on, overcoming the past, pressing forward, and becoming the person God designed you to be. So what's a guy to do? Join youth culture expert and author of the popular Guy's Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in Your Pocket, Jonathan McKee, as he gets real about the four common battles every young man will encounter in his life: sexual temptation, screens, controlled substances, and self-esteem. With humor and honesty, McKee once again offers up practical, spiritual advice filled with real-world applications to help you face today's distractions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Biggie Author: Derek E. Sullivan Narrator: Matt Godfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 29, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would be happy getting two hits in five trips to the plate. "Forty percent, that's an F in any class," he would say. As Biggie's junior year begins, the girl of his dreams, Annabelle Rivers, starts to flirt with him and suggests he should play baseball. Hundreds of people before his dream girl have told him to follow in his dad's footsteps and play ball, but Annabelle might be the one to actually convince him to try. What happens when a boy who has spent his entire life trying to remain invisible is suddenly thrust into the harsh glare of the high school spotlight?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/406641 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die ZEIT-Edition 'Große Oper für kleine Hörer' - Parsifal Author: Richard Wagner Narrator: Antje Hamer, Lola Höller, Michael Seeboth, Jana Rahma, Andrea Zum Felde, Natalja Joselewitsch, Luca Zamperoni, Christian Bergmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 14 minutes Release date: March 11, 2019 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Die Oper 'Parsifal' ist das letzte Werk des deutschen Komponist Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Die Handlung basiert auf dem Versroman 'Parzifal' des mittelhochdeutschen Dichters Wolfram von Eschenbach. Der Gralsburgritter Gurnemanz trifft den verletzten König Amfortas. Der Zauberer Klingsor schlug ihm eine nichtheilende Wunde, die nur ein junger Erlöser heilen könne. Verzweifelt beschwören die Ritter den Heiligen Gral und suchen nach ihm. Der junge Fremde irrt derweil durch Klingsors Reich und begegnet der geheimnisvollen Kundry, die seinen richtigen Namen kennt: Parsifal. Als Kundry Parsifal küsst, spürt dieser Amfortas' Wunde und begreift seine Mission. Doch es vergehen noch Jahre, bis Parsifal zur Gralsburg findet.