Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterpains Author: Anna Julia Stainsby Narrator: Dianne Aguilar, Diana Pou, Hailey Gillis, Rebecca Auerbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD “Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators. Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that she's lost. Desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have—her husband, Desmond, and her eighteen-year-old son, Eddie—she's determined to lay her grief to rest by the twentieth anniversary of her daughter’s death. At the same time, Isaura dreads what may be coming for her teenage daughter, Mivi. For centuries in her homeland of Honduras, the young women in Isaura's family have been subjected to a curse of teenage motherhood and the untimely death of the men they loved. But even after moving thousands of miles away from Pespire to Toronto, Isaura fears that her daughter will not be spared. Soon, Rosy and Isaura, essentially strangers, become connected in a way neither of them could predict. As they try to look to their future and their children’s, they struggle to put the past behind them—all while Eddie and Mivi contend with the weight of their mothers’ pain and guilt. Tender and compassionate, The Afterpains is a moving debut novel on motherhood, grief, identity, and belonging.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide World: A Novel Author: Pierre Lemaitre Narrator: Philip Bird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 41 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge follows the sweeping saga of one prominent French family in postwar Paris, Beirut, and Saigon. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly runs the company into the ground, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there's another reason Jean must leave—he has committed a terrible crime... Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune in Saigon. Soon, he begins investigating a covert scheme to channel smuggled goods and cash to the Viet Minh. But the evidence he amasses presents a real threat to his own life. François, the middle brother, arrives in Paris and tries his hand at journalism. His career begins to take off when he starts covering the brutal murder of an actress that seems part of a pattern of killings. But the killer he’s chasing is closer to him than he realizes. Epic in scope, and a vivid depiction of French life in the booming postwar years, TheGreatWorld is a riveting saga at once gripping and classic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Author: Molly Mcghee Narrator: Macleod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN ‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST A work place novel. A love story. A dream you can’t wake from… Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life? As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away… Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before. ‘Surrealist … A scathing critique of capitalism’ TIME 'Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs' NEW YORK TIMES 'An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success' HOLLY PESTER ‘A revelation’ HILARY LEICHTER ‘An original mind brimming over with invention’ BEN MARCUS ‘An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut … very funny’ JEFF VANDERMEER ‘The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier’ LITERARY HUB

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Site Works Author: Robert Davidson Narrator: Kenny Blyth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site. The Ness and Struie Drainage Project will dominate their lives for the next few months when they will toil through the daylight hours and into the night, endure hardship and conflict, survive or, perhaps, not survive. Within the compound and wayleaves a new, temporary world will form, bounded by sea, mountains and sky. Site Works is the story of the men and their work, transients creating something permanent and greater than they know.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desertion: A Novel Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Narrator: Damian Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence. Early one morning in 1899, in a small, dilapidated town along the coast of Mombassa, a Muslim man, Hassanali, sets out for a mosque but doesn’t get there. Out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at Hassanali’s feet: Martin Pearce—writer, traveler, something of an Orientalist. Hassanali cares for Pearce until the Englishman is taken to the home of colonial officer Frederick Turner to recuperate. When Pearce returns to thank his Good Samaritan, he meets and is enraptured by Rehana, Hassanali’s sister—by her gorgeous eyes and tragic aura. And so begins the passionate, illicit love affair—two lives and cultures colliding—that informs the rich, finely woven tapestry of Desertion. Gurnah, who has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, deftly and dramatically evokes the personal and political scandals of empire, the weight of tradition—of religion and culture—in everyday lives, the role of women in Muslim society, the vicissitudes of love, the complexities of filial relationships, the inexorability of miscegenation, and the power of fiction to charm and to harm. Desertion is a highly achieved, riveting work of imagination, brimming with controlled figural inventiveness, psychological acuity, and moral complexity. Cover art by Lubaina Himid/ Hollybush Gardens

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terrace Story: A Novel Author: Hilary Leichter Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller’s dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world. Terrace Story follows the characters who suffer these repercussions and reverberations: the little family of three, their future now deeply uncertain, and those who orbit their fragile universe. The distance and love between these characters expands limitlessly, across generations. How far can the mind travel when it’s looking for something that is gone? Where do we put our loneliness, longing, and desire? What do we do with the emotions that seem to stretch beyond the body, beyond the boundaries of life and death? Based on the National Magazine Award–winning story, Hilary Leichter’s profound second novel asks how we nurture love when death looms over every moment. From one of our most innovative and daring writers, Terrace Story is an astounding meditation on loss, a reverie about extinction, and a map for where to go next.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prophet Author: Sin Blaché, Helen MacDonald Narrator: Ryan Forde Iosco, Charlotte Davey, Jake Fairbrother Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute Release date: August 24, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. And the deaths quickly follow. Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other. But nobody knows who created it, or why. Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear. For Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future. ©2023 Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The English Experience: A Novel Series: #3 of The Dear Committee Trilogy Author: Julie Schumacher Narrator: Julie Schumacher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap “Wise and hilarious and heartbreaking.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor available to chaperone Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of winter term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believes he is headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before. Through a sea of troubles—personal, institutional, and international—the gimlet-eyed, acid-tongued Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes surprising places in which it is found.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But the Girl Author: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Narrator: Nikita Waldron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me Girl is spending the spring at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knight Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity but learning to understand the people who shaped you? ©2023 Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What You Are Looking for is in the Library Author: Michiko Aoyama Narrator: Shiro Kawai, Kenichiro Thomson, Winson Ting, Susan Momoko-Hingley, Hanako Footman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The heartwarming Japanese bestseller for fans of Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman and THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS 'Library. What a nice-sounding word. So comforting. I feel like I'm a student again. Library ... Am I allowed to borrow books?' 'What are you looking for?' asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door. Sensing exactly what they're looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. Every borrower in her library is at a different crossroads, from the restless retail assistant - can she ever get out of a dead-end job? - to the juggling new mother who dreams of becoming a magazine editor, and the meticulous accountant who yearns to own an antique store. The surprise book Komachi lends to each will have transformative consequences. Magical and uplifting, What You Are Looking for is in the Library is about the wondrousness of libraries and the power of books for change. Highlighting all the tiny comforts of being alive, it is a story that no reader will ever forget. ©2023 Michiko Aoyama (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tomb Sweeping: Stories Author: Alexandra Chang Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of Days of Distraction Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants. A woman known only to her neighbors as “the Asian recycling lady” collects bottles from the streets she calls home. A young college grad ponders the void left from a broken friendship. An unfulfilled housewife in Shanghai finds a secret outlet for her ambitions in an undercover gambling den. Two strangers become something more through the bond of mistaken identity. These characters, adeptly attuned to the mystery of living, invite us to consider whether it is possible for anyone to entirely do right by another. Tomb Sweeping brims with remarkable skill and talent in every story, keeping a definitive pulse on loss, community, and what it means to feel fully alive. With her debut story collection, Chang further establishes herself as “a writer to watch” (New York Times Book Review).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Council of Dolls: A Novel Author: Mona Susan Power Narrator: Isabella Star Lablanc Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried…. Sissy, born 1961: Sissy’s relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present, a doll called Ethel. Ethel whispers advice and kindness in Sissy’s ear, and in one especially terrifying moment, maybe even saves Sissy’s life. Lillian, born 1925: Born in her ancestral lands in a time of terrible change, Lillian clings to her sister, Blanche, and her doll, Mae. When the sisters are forced to attend an “Indian school” far from their home, Blanche refuses to be cowed by the school’s abusive nuns. But when tragedy strikes the sisters, the doll Mae finds her way to defend the girls.   Cora, born 1888: Though she was born into the brutal legacy of the “Indian Wars,” Cora isn’t afraid of the white men who remove her to a school across the country to be “civilized.” When teachers burn her beloved buckskin and beaded doll Winona, Cora discovers that the spirit of Winona may not be entirely lost… A modern masterpiece, A Council of Dolls is gorgeous, quietly devastating, and ultimately hopeful, shining a light on the echoing damage wrought by Indian boarding schools, and the historical massacres of Indigenous people. With stunning prose, Mona Susan Power weaves a spell of love and healing that comes alive on the page.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughter Author: Laure Van Rensburg Narrator: Christopher Thompson, Ina Marie Smith, Kate Handford, Carl Prekopp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'A stark, stunning and deeply affecting thriller. The Good Daughter takes a tender, chilling look at family and fear, the illusion of safety and the power of inner-resolve. I loved it' CHRIS WHITAKER Abigail is a proud member of the New America Baptist Church. Living miles away from the nearest town in South Carolina, she is safe from the depraved modern world. She is a good daughter. A valued member of the community. So when she is the sole survivor of a fire that burns her family's home to the ground, it seems like a tragic accident. Until a surprising discovery is made: before the fire, Abigail let a stranger in. Who was the stranger? What started the fire? And was the outside world always the threat - or did danger lurk within the community's walls? PRAISE FOR LAURE VAN RENSBURG 'Reads like a glossy 90s thriller . . . OBSESSED' JUNO DAWSON 'Not to be missed' EVENING STANDARD 'Fresh & sharp. It grips like a vice' WILL DEAN 'Brutal, tense, utterly compelling, Laure Van Rensburg is an electrifying new voice' LOUISE O'NEILL ©2023 Laure Van Rensburg (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Greet the Sun Again Author: Khashayar J. Khabushani Narrator: Sean Rohani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium. Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes. 'I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright, warm longing. You can feel the sunshine of LA and Iran, the rhythm of Khashayar J Khabushani's voice. This is a novel to return to again and again.' Caleb Azumah Nelson, award-winning, bestselling author of OPEN WATER ©2023 Khashayar J. Khabushani (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Ranger: A novel Series: Part of Vintage Contemporaries Author: Peter Heller Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and act swiftly to discover the truth and stay alive. “A good story that’s intertwined like leaves afloat in a river with the current of Heller’s descriptive powers… Filled with Heller’s lush writing… Powerful.” –Denver Post Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving clueless tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp through the park with cameras, and the residents of hardscrabble Cooke City who want to carve out a meaningful living. When Ren, hiking through the backcountry on his day off, encounters a tall man with a dog and a gun chasing a small black bear up a hill, his hackles are raised. But what begins as an investigation into the background of a local poacher soon opens into something far murkier: A shattered windshield, a series of red ribbons tied to traps, the discovery of a frightening conspiracy, and a story of heroism gone awry. Populated by a cast of extraordinary characters—famous scientists, tattooed bartenders, wildlife guides in slick Airstreams—and bursting with unexpected humor and grace, Peter Heller masterfully unveils a portrait of the American west where our very human impulses—for greed, love, family, and community—play out amidst the stunning beauty of the natural world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tap Dancer Author: Andrew Barrow Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told… His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half Moon Author: Mary Beth Keane Narrator: Norbert Leo Butz, Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. There are two sides to every story - and every marriage in crisis . . . Malcolm, bartender at The Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar, and when his boss finally retires, he seizes his chance. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in The Half Moon and hopes to make it a bigger success. His wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career, but after years of trying for a baby, she's struggling to accept the idea that motherhood might not be in her future. She finds herself slipping away from both her career and her marriage. The bar is Malcolm's dream, and as she feels her youth start to fade, she wonders how to reshape her own life. When a blizzard hits their upstate New York town on the same day that Malcolm learns some shocking news about Jess, and a regular at the bar goes missing, everyone is frozen in place for a single, pivotal week. In The Half Moon, award-winning author Mary Beth Keane carefully explores a marriage in crisis, what it takes to make a life with another person, and the true meaning of family. One tumultuous week. One marriage in crisis. One chance to begin again... 'Mary Beth Keane writes to the heart of the human heart . . . I could not put this book down' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'Prepare to lose yourself in this book' SARA COLLINS 'Allows us to look around our own lives with respect and kindness, and is therefore a great gift' ANN NAPOLITANO ©2023 Mary Beth Keane (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inside the Wolf Author: Amy Rowland Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A haunting, "exquisitely written" novel that explores the true costs of tradition, gun ownership, masculinity, and Southern mythmaking through the lens of an accidental shooting that reverberates across generations (Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest).​ Rachel Ruskin never intended to return to her family’s tobacco farm in Shiloh, North Carolina. But when her academic career studying Southern folklore in New York City flames out, she has no choice. Back in her hometown in the wake of family loss, she is alone, haunted by memories, by ghosts, and by Shiloh’s buried history of racism and violence. When another child is accidentally shot and killed, however, Rachel can no longer avoid confronting her own past wrongs; nor can she continue to hold herself apart from her community. How can the people of Shiloh reconcile their love of hunting and their belief in tradition with the loss of more children? How can she find a way back to those she grew up loving? Drawn into the rhythms of Shiloh and in search of a place to be-long, Rachel must question everything she grew up believing and at the same time find a way to accept those around her. Haunting, fierce, and urgently topical, Inside the Wolf is a page-turning and redemptive novel about masculinity, guns, violence—and the American past.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Monsters Author: Adrienne Brodeur Narrator: Matt Pittenger, Sura Siu, Joy Osmanski, Allyson Ryan, Cassandra Campbell, Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.31 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A National Bestseller! “Juicy…simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable.” —Vogue * “An absolutely captivating read.” —Elin Hilderbrand From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a “smart, page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Bookshop Author: Evie Woods Narrator: Nick Biadon, Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 20 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: **Evie Woods' stunning new novel The Story Collector is available now** The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. ‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’ On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems. Readers have fallen in love with The Lost Bookshop: ‘Beautifully written and captures the wonder and awe that a story can bring to its reader…a delightful story for any book lover…an ode to storytelling and the connections that books can make!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wowwww!! It’s been awhile since I read something so fascinating, captivating and special all in one…It takes you on a journey like most books do, but this one, I just want to inscribe on my back and hope that it becomes a part of me so that I can carry it with me always’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A must read for readers that love books’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A beautiful story that begs to be read in one sitting…a magical story filled with beautiful prose and many surprises that readers will not soon forget’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This spellbinding book hooked me from the very beginning and I couldn't put it down til the end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A love story, one with books and booklovers at its heart. A warm, wonderful novel that sweeps up the reader into an absorbing, magical tale’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘If you enjoy books by the Brontë sisters … then I would fully recommend you read this book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This novel has it all: wit, a dash of magic, and a large heart. A fantastic read’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hailed as one of the best releases of 2023, this contemporary romance weaves a tale of realism across multiple timelines, cementing its place as a top pick in women's general fiction. Its great acclaim has quickly spread, poised to be the latest and last book you'll need to complete your must-read list for the year. For fans of Sally Page (The Book of Beginnings), Fiona Valpy (The Cypress Maze), Eve Chase (The Glass House) and Barbara Davis (The Echo of Old Books) and Jill Mansell (The One You Really Want).