Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Trust: A Novel Author: Kathy Wang Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.81 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Some of us are more equal than others.... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he’s worth a small fortune. But the time is now coming when the details of his estate will finally be revealed, and Stanley’s family is nervous. For his son Fred, the inheritance Stanley has long alluded to would soothe the pain caused by years of professional disappointment. By now, the Harvard Business School graduate had expected to be a financial tech god – not a minor investor at a middling corporate firm, where he isn’t even allowed to fly business class. Stanley’s daughter, Kate, is a middle manager with one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious tech companies. She manages the capricious demands of her world-famous boss and the needs of her two young children all while supporting her would-be entrepreneur husband (just until his startup gets off the ground, which will surely be soon). But lately, Kate has been sensing something amiss; just because you say you have it all, it doesn’t mean that you actually do.    Stanley’s second wife, Mary Zhu, twenty-eight years his junior, has devoted herself to making her husband comfortable in every way—rubbing his feet, cooking his favorite dishes, massaging his ego.  But lately, her commitment has waned; caring for a dying old man is far more difficult than she expected. Linda Liang, Stanley’s first wife, knows her ex better than anyone. She worked hard for decades to ensure their financial security, and is determined to see her children get their due. Single for nearly a decade, she might finally be ready for some romantic companionship. But where does a seventy-two year old Chinese woman in California go to find an appropriate boyfriend? As Stanley’s death approaches, the Huangs are faced with unexpected challenges that upend them and eventually lead them to discover what they most value. A compelling tale of cultural expectations, career ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best, Family Trust skewers the ambition and desires that drive Silicon Valley and draws a sharply loving portrait of modern American family life. This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Kathy Wang about Family Trust.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Duke Buys a Bride: The Rogue Files Series: #3 of The Rogue Files Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Carmen Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 24, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A bride wasn’t in his plans . . . The last thing Marcus, the Duke of Autenberry, expects to see after sleeping off a night’s drunken shenanigans is a woman being auctioned in the village square. Before he can think about the ramifications, he buys her, thinking he’s winning the girl her freedom. Instead, he discovers he’s bought a wife. A duke wasn’t in hers . . . Alyse Bell is almost rid of the shackles that bound her in a name-only marriage, but the day her friend promised to purchase her in a wife auction, he vanishes, leaving her to face a mob of unsavory bachelors intent on owning her body and soul. But the appearance of a wicked, wealthy stranger changes her path forever. The road to ruin . . . Marcus doesn’t know what to do with the impertinent chit who clearly isn’t duchess material! Insisting their marriage isn’t legitimate, they leave for his estate in Scotland, hoping to devise a plan to get rid of each other. However, on a journey fraught with misadventure, their attraction grows and Marcus realizes he’ll do anything to keep this fiery woman for his own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340065 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lido Author: Libby Page Narrator: Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** “In many ways, this meditation on community and swimming follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove… Both are charming and heartwarming.”—Kirkus Reviews WE'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS—OR TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life but everything is changing. The library where she used to work has closed. The family grocery store has become a trendy bar. And now the lido, an outdoor pool where she's swum daily since its opening, is threatened with closure by a local housing developer. It was at the lido that Rosemary escaped the devastation of World War II; here she fell in love with her husband, George; here she found community during her marriage and since George’s death. Twentysomething Kate Matthews has moved to Brixton and feels desperately alone. A once promising writer, she now covers forgettable stories for her local paper. That is, until she’s assigned to write about the lido’s closing. Soon Kate’s portrait of the pool focuses on a singular woman: Rosemary. And as Rosemary slowly opens up to Kate, both women are nourished and transformed in ways they never thought possible. In the tradition of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove, The Lido is a charming, feel-good novel that captures the heart and spirit of a community across generations—an irresistible tale of love, loss, aging, and friendship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remind Me Again What Happened Author: Joanna Luloff Narrator: Shaun Grindell, Amy Landon, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie, and her best friend, Rachel, and by combing through boxes of letters and casual jottings. But she senses a mystery at the center of all these fragments of her past, a feeling that something is not complete. Is Charlie still her husband? Is Rachel still her friend? Told from alternating points of view that pull the reader into the minds of the three characters, the story unfolds as the smudge that covers Claire’s memory is gradually, steadily wiped away, until finally she can understand the why and the how of her life. And then maybe she and Charlie and Rachel can move forward, but with their lives forever changed. In Remind Me Again What Happened, debut novelist Joanna Luloff has written a moving and beautifully nuanced story of transience, the ebb and flow of time, and how relationships shift and are reconfigured by each day, hour, and minute.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/337054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell the Machine Goodnight: A Novel Author: Katie Williams Narrator: Alex Mckenna, Jorjeana Marie, Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne, Cassandra Morris, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Imaginative, engaging, emotionally resonant...this novel is itself a receipe for contentment.' —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Smart and inventive, an emotional page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness.  Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?  Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of 'pursuit of happiness.' As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either.  Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about relationships and the ways that they can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes and technology. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.   Read by Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne, and Alex McKenna, with Jorjeana Marie, Arthur Morey, and Cassandra Morris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Journey Through Pines Author: Jimmy Andrews Narrator: Jimmy Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: *This book was adapted for the screen and is now available on major video-on-demand platforms. It's the story of Jack Taylor and his life-long journey to find one woman who would love him unconditionally. This is an epic journey along the road less traveled and littered by the bones of other hopeless romantics who also failed to find unconditional love. Jack discovers it is not what you find at the end of the journey but the journey itself. The story of Jack Taylor begins in his childhood as he sets off on a life-long journey to find a lover who will accept him for all that he is and is not. Jack does not realize he has been on such a journey until his mother dies. She dies only hours after he has made plans to move home and take care of her. Following her death, Jack is forced to revisit his childhood bitterness for manipulating women. By accident, the power of a youthful first love resurfaces and begins to soften his heart. Jack becomes entangled in the doomed relationship. In retreat, Jack almost misses the love affair he longed for, only to have it stolen from him by unchangeable circumstances. Deciding to abandon his convictions to find unconditional love, Jack settles for a larger endeavor - trying to instill the impenitent search for inner peace in his young daughter. A Journey Through Pines is a pilgrimage all humans pursue, yet one that leaves them unsure of what they have found until faced with losing it along the way. Jack Taylor was a risk taker unafraid of falling from grace in the name of leaving behind an ancestral message of love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bitter Sun Author: Beth Lewis Narrator: Christopher Ragland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 14, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: It all started when we found the body. Then nothing was ever the same. The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions. Larson is a town reeling in the wake of the Vietnam draft, where the unrelenting heat ruins the harvest, and the people teeter on the edge of ruin. As tension and paranoia run rife, rumours become fact, violence becomes reflex. The unrest allows the dark elements of the close-knit farming community to rise and take control. And John, Jenny, Gloria and Rudy are about to discover that sometimes secrets are best left uncovered…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334465 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman in the Woods: A Charlie Parker Thriller Series: #17 of Charlie Parker Author: John Connolly Narrator: Jeff Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 12, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.62 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 3.44 of Total 9 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “With its singular characters, eerie subject matter, and socko style” (The New York Times), this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Connolly follows Private Investigator Charlie Parker as he is hired to track down the identity of a dead woman—who apparently died in childbirth—and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only one searching. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman. With breathless pacing and shivery twists and turns, “this is Connolly’s masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: OK, Mr. Field Author: Katharine Kilalea Narrator: John Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 7, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a tunnel. On a whim, he uses his compensation pay-out to buy a house he has seen only once in a newspaper photograph. Together with his wife, Mim, Mr. Field sets out in the hope that the house will make him happier, or at least less unhappy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nine-Chambered Heart Author: Janice Pariat Narrator: Lara Sawalha, William Hope Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 31, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Literature 2015 ‘Explores with sharp beauty the mystery at the centre of loving anyone’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure How does the world see you? Nine characters illuminate an unknowable woman. From the school art teacher who sees a spark of talent in her, to the man whose fleeting passion with her could change his life, to the female student whose friendship turns into love. Deeply affecting and luminous, this kaleidoscopic novella explores the nature of intimacy and how each connection you make forms who you are.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gods of Howl Mountain Author: Taylor Brown Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood—a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted ’40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner. In the mill town at the foot of the mountains—a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car racing—Rory is bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake-handling preacher. His grandmother, Maybelline “Granny May” Docherty, opposes this match for her own reasons, believing that “some things are best left buried.” A folk healer whose powers are rumored to rival those of a wood witch, she concocts potions and cures for the people of the mountains while harboring an explosive secret about Rory’s mother—the truth behind her long confinement in a mental hospital, during which time she has not spoken one word. When Rory’s life is threatened, Granny must decide whether to reveal what she knows … or protect her only grandson from the past. With gritty and atmospheric prose, Taylor Brown brings to life a perilous mountain and the family who rules it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Absent-Minded Coterie Author: Robert Barr Narrator: Charles Hammond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: May 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The Absent-Minded Coterie, a short story published in 1906, tells of a cunning scam devised by crooked counterfeiters. But, of course, French detective Eugene Valmont eventually discovers the truth. The Absent-Minded Coterie is widely recognized as one of the best crime short stories of the time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nandia's Children Author: Ned Wolf Narrator: Ned Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 28, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this, the final tale of The Nandia Trilogy, the Galactic Grand Council confirms that Nandia has gone missing. Bernard struggles within himself to gather enough information to even begin a search. He does learn that Praesepe, Nandia's home planet, has come under siege. The Council summons Elli, immortal former queen of Aesir, and Dunstan, the magical troubadour of Geasa, to join Bernard on a mission to unravel the mystery. They learn that an unknown disease on the planet Erylia has laid waste the health of its adolescent youth. The planet, mired in despair over the end to its future generations, has undertaken a program to replace their ailing youth with healthy breeding stock from Praesepe. Nandia's home is now under siege, as an entire generation of young Praesepians is being kidnapped. Nandia's grandchild Grace is one of the many incarcerated on Praesepe, marked for deportation to give birth to future Erylian generations. Not only are Erylians shielding telepathic communications, they are hunting Nandia. With the help of new allies, Bernard, Elli and Dunstan must use all their resources to infiltrate the Erylian command structure and find a way to restore the fate of two societies on the verge of decimation - one desperate to recover its future as it steals the tomorrows of another.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hummingbirds: A Novel Author: Ross McMeekin Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 24, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: EZRA works as a live-in groundskeeper on a celebrity couple's enormous rental property in Los Angeles. When the magnetic Sybil sets her sights on Ezra and gradually lures him in, he is as conflicted as he is tempted. Then Grant, her husband, approaches Ezra with a different proposal-to monitor Sybil to see if she is having an affair-and he is faced with the formidable challenge in refusing one or the other. And so begins this sexy, mesmerizing novel about Sybil, an actress desperately hoping for the important role that will resurrect her faltering career; Grant, a cunning, self-made movie producer infamous for subterfuge and secrets; and Ezra, the beautiful, troubled young man they employ-a man haunted by the memory and teachings of his mother, the leader of a new-age cult that deifies birds. Over one life-altering week, Sybil casts Ezra as the center of her universe. Together, they fantasize about the new life for both of them, where Sybil directs and stars in a controversial film about the Middle East, and Ezra can finally realize his dream of traveling to photograph exotic birds, a craft he has cultivated in the hummingbird-filled gardens of the property. But when Sybil's husband Grant discovers their passionate affair, the three are set on a collision course that can only end in violence. In The Hummingbirds, Ross McMeekin captures people yearning for deep connections in a shallow world defined by the twin obsessions of power and beauty. It is a story of love and redemption, of murder and betrayal, and of the darkness that lurks in the heart of Hollywood.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332641 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Mutants Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 5, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy, read by Kristen Atherton. Levy's surreal and artful first novel, Beautiful Mutants, introduces Lapinski -- the manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a number of urban pilgrims in a shimmering contemporary allegory about broken dreams and desires . . . 'A stunningly original writer' Kirsty Gunn 'It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries' Observer 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitsune Author: Aaron Sapiro Narrator: Aaron Sapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 18, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This book is about a man who encounters a magical fox. It describes how his life changed because of the fox.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Poisonwood Bible Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: Dean Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 132 Ratings of Narrator: 4.34 of Total 32 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Hour Author: Marcia Muller Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A personal threat blindsides detective Sharon McCone—and tests her nerves, smarts, and iron-strong resolve…. Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she’s riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only “problem” a marriage proposal from her lover, Hy Ripinsky, that’s kicking up her longtime fears of commitment. The next minute, in the time it takes for a single phone call to bring bad news, she stands to lose everything. McCone is stunned to learn that a favorite employee, streetwise and savvy Julia Rafael, has been charged with credit-card fraud. She thinks there must be a mistake—until she finds the goods charged to the stolen credit card in the firm’s mailroom. As she starts to dig into the facts of the case, McCone realizes that someone is out to ruin her business, blacken her reputation, and harm those close to her…. Reaching back into her past to look for answers, she must come to grips with the violent twists and turns of her career, the choices she’s faced, and the enemies she’s made. How does the formerly trustworthy Julia fit into the big picture? And how does this new crisis tie into the recent murder of a popular Mission District fund-raiser? But when someone breaks into her car, invades her home, and upsets every aspect of her life, McCone knows one thing for sure: Now it’s her turn to prove how tough she really is, and how far she’ll go to get justice…and some payback of her own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is How You Fall Author: Keith Dixon Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Jacob Cameron Asprey, Jr., is the charming son of a charming crook who’s currently residing in the state pen. Strangled by family ties, Jake is barely scraping by, working as a lifeguard at the tony country club on the other side of town. He’s marking time, treading water, haunted by Sally Godstreet, the woman he’s loved all his life—the woman he should have made a life with, now orbiting just out his reach. When a local crime boss offers him a deal he’d be a fool to take and a chump to pass up, Jake sees a way out of his troubles—until his options begin to close down, and he finds himself at the heart of a dark plot that will place those he loves in harm’s way. This is How You Fall is a story of old flames, old debts, and a new twist on an old con. Part-heist, part-love story, and part-literary noir thriller, it’s a moody rumination on identity and loyalty, with dazzing plot twists that lead to an inevitable, destructive conclusion.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bel Ami Author: Guy De Maupassant Narrator: John Mcdonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 24, 2011 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.