Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Law of Loving Others Author: Kate Axelrod Narrator: Hallie Cooper-Novack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 8, 2015 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: “Kate Axelrod’s atmospheric, intense book captures perfectly the heady feeling of being on the edge of adulthood, when the abstract concept of ‘love’ starts to have real and sometimes terrifying meaning and consequences.” – Emily Gould, author of Friendship  “THE LAW OF LOVING OTHERS . . . Hours after Emma returns home from boarding school, she realizes that her mom is suffering from a schizophrenic break. Suddenly, Emma’s entire childhood and identity is called into question.   COULD NOT BE DISCOVERED BY REASON,  Desperate for answers, Emma turns to her boyfriend, Daniel. Will he love her even if she goes crazy too? But it’s the lonely, brooding boy Emma meets while visiting her mother at the hospital who really understands Emma. Phil encourages Emma’s reckless need for hurt and pain in the face of all this change and she is soon caught in a complicated spiral of loss and mistrust. BECAUSE IT IS UNREASONABLE.”  In the span of just one winter break, Emma’s relationships alter forever and she is forced to see the wisdom in a line from Anna Karenina: “The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”   A beautifully grounded coming-of-age novel, THE LAW OF LOVING OTHERS demands that the listener accept the main character, Emma, for who she is, while also creating deep sympathy for all that she is going through.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anything but Ordinary Author: Lara Avery Narrator: Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Bryce remembers it like it was yesterday: the scent of chlorine, the blinding crack and flash of pain, blood in the water. When she wakes up in the hospital, all Bryce can think of is her disastrous Olympic diving trial. But everything is different now. Bryce still feels seventeen, so how can her little sister be seventeen too? Life went on without her while she lay in a coma for five years: Her best friend and boyfriend have just graduated from college. Her parents barely speak. And everything she once dreamed of doing—winning a gold medal, traveling the world, falling in love—seems beyond her reach. But Bryce has changed too, in seemingly impossible ways. She knows things she shouldn't—things that happened while she was asleep, things that haven't even happened yet. During one luminous summer, as she comes to understand that her dreams have changed forever, Bryce learns to see life for what it truly is: extraordinary.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer to Die Author: Lois Lowry Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Lois Lowry's first novel, A Summer to Die is a poignant and perceptive tale of love and tragedy. Meg isn't thrilled when she gets stuck sharing a bedroom with her older sister Molly. The two of them couldn't be more different, and it's hard for Meg to hide her resentment of Molly's beauty and easy popularity. But now that the family has moved to a small house in the country, Meg has a lot to accept. Just as the sisters begin to adjust to their new home, Meg feels that Molly is starting up again by being a real nuisance. But Molly's constant grouchiness, changing appearance, and other complaints are not just part of a new mood. And the day Molly is rushed to the hospital, Meg has to accept that there is something terribly wrong with her sister. That's the day Meg's world changes forever. Is it too late for Meg to show her true feelings?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sway Author: Kat Spears Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: High school senior Jesse Alderman, or Sway as he's known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want–term papers, a date with the prom queen, fake IDs. It's all business with Jesse. He has few close friends and he never lets emotions get in the way.But when Ken, captain of the football team, leading candidate for homecoming king, and all around jerk, hires Jesse to help him win the heart of the angelic Bridget Smalley, Jesse finds himself feeling all sorts of things. While following Bridget and learning the intimate details of her life, he falls helplessly in love for the very first time. He also finds himself in an accidental friendship with Bridget's younger brother who's belligerent and self-pitying after spending a lifetime dealing with cerebral palsy. Suddenly Jesse is visiting old folks at a nursing home in order to run into Bridget, and offering his time to help the less fortunate, all the while developing a bond with this young man who idolizes him. The tinman really does have a heart after all.A Cyrano De Bergerac story with a modern twist, Sway is told from Jesse's point of view with unapologetic truth and biting humor, his observations about the world around him untempered by empathy or compassion–until Bridget's presence in his life forces him to confront his quiet devastation over a life-changing event a year earlier and maybe, just maybe, feel something, again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncaged (The Singular Menace, 1) Series: #1 of The Singular Menace Author: Michele Cook, John Sandford Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.63 of Total 8 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller! John Sandford and Michele Cook debut a high-octane thriller series about a ruthless corporation, unspeakable experiments, and a fight to expose the truth. Perfect for fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner.   Shay Remby arrives in Hollywood with $58 and a handmade knife, searching for her brother, Odin.   Odin’s a brilliant hacker but a bit of a loose cannon. He and a group of radical animal-rights activists hit a Singular Corp. research lab in Eugene, Oregon. The raid was a disaster, but Odin escaped with a set of highly encrypted flash drives and a post-surgical dog.   When Shay gets a frantic 3 a.m. phone call from Odin—talking about evidence of unspeakable experiments, and a ruthless corporation, and how he must hide—she’s concerned. When she gets a menacing visit from Singular’s security team, she knows: her brother’s a dead man walking.   What Singular doesn’t know—yet—is that 16-year-old Shay is every bit as ruthless as their security force, and she will burn Singular to the ground, if that’s what it takes to save her brother.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And We Stay Author: Jenny Hubbard Narrator: Erin Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner in the vein of This is Where It Ends “A gentle, lyrical story of incomprehensible sorrow faced with quiet courage.”—ELIZABETH WEIN, New York Times bestselling author “Hubbard treats tragedy and new beginnings with a skilled, delicate hand.”—JOHN COREY WHALEY, author of Where Things Come Back, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Senior Paul Wagoner walks into his school with a stolen gun, threatens his girlfriend, Emily Beam, and then takes his own life. Soon after, angry and guilt-ridden Emily is sent to a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where two quirky fellow students and the spirit of Emily Dickinson offer helping hands. But it is up to Emily Beam to heal her own damaged self, to find the good behind the bad, hope inside the despair, and springtime under the snow. A Boston Globe Best YA Novel of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year  A Tayshas High School Reading List Selection A North Carolina Young Adult book Award Nominee * 'As graceful as a feather drifting down, this lyrical story delivers a deep journey of healing on a tragic theme.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred * 'And We Stay is a little gem of a book. . . . there is certainly something for anyone looking for a good read with a strong, believable female lead who is working her hardest to overcome tragedy.”—School Library Journal, Starred “Hubbard’s writing is elegant and emotional.”—Publisher’s Weekly “This novel is accomplished, polished, and mixes prose and poetry to stunning effect.”—Booklist “Hubbard . . . captures perfectly the turbulence of young love, the bonds of friendship, and the push-and-pull dynamic between teens and adults.”—VOYA

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conversion Author: Katherine Howe Narrator: Khristine Hvam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible.   It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.   First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.   Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . .   Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter Narrator: Zach Villa, Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are the Goldens Author: Dana Reinhardt Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Nell worships her older sister, Layla. They're one unit, intertwined: Nellayla. As Nell and her best friend, Felix, start their freshman year in high school, on Layla's turf, there's so much Nell looks forward to: Joining Layla on the varsity soccer team. Parties. Boys. Adventures.But the year takes a very different turn.Layla is changing, withdrawing. She's hiding something, and when Nell discovers what it is, and the consequences it might have, she struggles. She wants to support Layla, to be her confidante, to be the good sister she's always been. But with so much at stake, what secrets should she keep? What lies should she tell?Award-winning young adult author Dana Reinhardt explores questions of loyalty, love, and betrayal in this provocative and intimate novel.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misbehaving Series: #6 of Sea Breeze Author: Abbi Glines Narrator: Sebastian York, Shayna Thibodeaux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: A young man feeling overlooked collides with a firecracker who men can’t look away from in this heart-wrenching and passionate Sea Breeze novel from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines. Jason is sick of living in his rock star brother’s shadow. So when he ships off to Sea Breeze, Alabama, he’s looking for a much deserved escape and a chance to blow off some envious steam. Falling for the local bad girl was definitely not the plan. Fresh from busting the windows of her cheating ex’s car, Jess easily charms wide-eyed tourist Jason into giving her a ride home from the scene of her crime. She enjoys exploring their instant chemistry but doesn’t kid herself: rich boys like him don’t end up with girls from the wrong side of the tracks like her. As the duo’s naughty fun in the Alabama sun starts to get complicated with deeper feelings than either was prepared for, Jason and Jess must decide if their fling can be transformed into their forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/207713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe One Day Author: Melissa Kantor Narrator: Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: February 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of The Fault in Our Stars, critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy of friendship, the agony of loss, and the unique experience of being a teenager in this poignant new novel about a girl grappling with her best friend's life-threatening illness. A person's whole life, she's lucky to have one or two real friends. Friends who are like family . . . for Zoe that someone is Olivia. So when Olivia is diagnosed with leukemia Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her best friend. Even when she isn't sure what to say. Even when Olivia misses months of school. Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush. The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Love Author: James Patterson, Emily Raymond Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, two high school students leave their hometown on the West Coast to go on an impulsive cross-country road trip in this moving romance about friendship and the power of love. Axi Moore is a 'good girl': She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that she wants to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson-and she's madly in love with him. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out-of-control . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Save You Author: Matt De la Pena Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña’s I Will Save You is a 'heartwarming, root-for-the-underdog novel.' [SLJ] Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there’s nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn’t belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay. Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She’s hiding something from Kidd—but could they ever be together anyway? Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a death wish. A best friend and worst enemy. He followed Kidd all the way to the beach and he’s not leaving until he teaches him a few lessons about life. And Olivia. 'A taut psychological novel...[with] intriguing, well-developed characters...[that] will stay with readers.'-Booklist 'De la Peña skillfully captures the slippery sides of a schizophrenic personality in this heartwarming, root-for-the-underdog novel.'-SLJ An Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Readers An ALA-YALSA Quick Pick A Junior Library Guild Selection

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day My Mother Left Author: James Prosek Narrator: Joel Johnstone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 13, 2007 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle on 49th Street Author: Mike Lupica Narrator: Michele Santopietro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 24, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Josh Cameron is basketball royalty–MVP of the Championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation. He’s got it all, including something he never even knew he had: a daughter. Twelve-year-old Molly Parker catches Josh off guard. Molly claims her mother, Jen, revealed his true identity before losing her battle with cancer. Of course, Josh doesn’t believe her. Still, there is something about Molly–a certain look she gets and her smart-aleck way that reminds Josh so much of Jen. Yet as Molly gets to know Josh, it’s she who has the doubts. Suddenly she understands why her mother never wanted her to know the real Josh Cameron, the one the camera never sees. Josh has room in his heart for only two things: basketball and himself. Does Molly really want this man for a father? New York Times best-selling author and ESPN personality Mike Lupica introduces this hoop story with heart just in time for the holidays. Another undeniable winner.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aleutian Sparrow Author: Karen Hesse Narrator: Sarah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: November 11, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Vera, a young Aleut girl who lives with an elderly couple on a larger island so that she can attend school, returns home for the summer of 1942 to visit her mother and friends. But when the Japanese launch an air attack on the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. government reacts by "evacuating" most of the Aleut population. Vera and her village are forced to leave their small island of Kashega and spend the rest of the war in internment camps, facing sickness, suffer, and death.