Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Somebody Else Author: Miranda Pountney Narrator: Florence Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is an uncoming of age in New York City Spring 2015, New York. On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined (what had she imagined?). When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she's never met, she does not tell her friends, her parents back in England, or Matt, her boyfriend, living on the West Coast. Job-free, rent-free, she'll make good on her book, herself, other things too, she's thinking, when her neighbour Kate shows up and invites her to a party. There she meets Gabe, who happens to be married to Kate but insists, 'it's not a thing'. The affair that follows consumes her and she begins to consider what is fixed and what is variable. Can a person be both? Is Gabe the thing he seems? Is she? As spring turns to summer, her experiments in living test loyalties and boundaries until an unexpected encounter between the two couples forces her to confront her future. ©2024 Miranda Pountney (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweet Hereafter Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky, Dawn Harvey, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''Rich in imagery and the detail of small-town life and haunting in its portrayal of ordinary men and women struggling to understand loss. Under Mr. Banks's restrained craftsmanship, what begins as the story of senseless tragedy is transformed into an aspiring testament to hope and human resilience.'' — Atlanta Constitution In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame? Here is a stunning novel of ''compelling moral suspense'' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) from one of America's greatest storytellers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passing: Penguin Classics Author: Nella Larsen Narrator: Amaka Okafor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Amaka Okafor, an acclaimed stage actress and composer who performs all over the country at venues such as The National Theatre, The Old Vic and National Theatre Scotland. A classic, brilliant and layered novel that has been at the heart of racial identity discourse in America for almost a century. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others - and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. © Nella Larsen 1929 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Northernmost: A novel Author: Peter Geye Narrator: Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love. 'A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel.”—Nathan Hill, author of The Nix In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who traveled to America two years earlier but has yet to send even a single letter back to them in Hammerfest, their small Norwegian town at the top of the earth. More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to herself that her marriage is over. Desperately unhappy and unfulfilled, she makes the decision to follow her husband from their home in Minnesota to Oslo, where he has traveled for work, to end it once and for all. But on impulse, she diverts her travels to Hammerfest: the town of her ancestors, the town where her great-great-grandmother Thea was born—and for some reason never returned to. Braiding together two remarkable stories of love and survival, Northernmost wades into the darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates the remarkable ability of humans to endure nearly unimaginable trials.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El pequeño Bahabee y el gran Dios Author: Manuel Eyene Narrator: Carlos Quintero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 35 minutes Release date: June 22, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: -Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Desde hace años el gran rey tiene dominado y sometido en la miseria al pueblo de Fura. Con su poderoso ejército se ha apoderado de todos los bienes naturales que los dioses han otorgado al pueblo, y ahora los considera suyos. Ha metido en la cárcel a cualquier hombre, mujer o niño que se le opusiera. La única esperanza que el pueblo de Fura tiene es el pequeño Bahabee, el niño sabio de la leyenda, que se supone que vendrá a liberarles del terror del gran rey. - Manuel Eyene Ondo Chambo es un joven luchador y motivador que cree en el éxito y que ha venido peleando con los múltiples obstáculos de la vida para poder lograr sus metas. Hijo primogénito de Domingo Ondo y de Concepción Chambo, nació en Tomasi, Evinayon, Guinea Ecuatorial. Pasó la mayoría de su infancia viajando con sus padres en busca de oportunidades para una vida mejor. Su pasión por la escritura fue siempre una de sus prioridades, desde que escribía canciones de rap en sus grupos de hip hop durante su juventud, mientras terminaba su bachillerato. Más adelante fue admitido en la universidad de La Roche College, en Pittbusgh (Pensilvania, Estados Unidos) para estudiar inglés. Después de graduarse en el programa de ESL, decidió transferir sus créditos a la Universidad Comunitaria de Houston, donde se graduó en Administración Empresarial. Actualmente vive en Houston, donde trabaja en su segundo libro, titulado El sendero hacia el éxito.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven's My Destination: A Novel Author: Thornton Wilder Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “If John Steinbeck’s mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heaven’s My Destination is its comic masterpiece. —J.D. McClatchy A hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven’s My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois—and into the soul of Depression-era America itself. This special edition includes an afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the author and book. Copyright (c) 1934 by the Wilder Family L.L.C. Foreword copyright (c) 2003 by J. D. McClatchy. Afterword copyright (c) 2003 by Tappan Wilder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman of Andros Author: Thornton Wilder Narrator: Jane Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “From the earliest pages of his first novels and plays, Wilder examined the universal quandaries encapsulated in the questions the young man Pamphilus asks in The Woman of Andros: “How does one live? What does one do first?” — Penelope Niven Thornton Wilder’s celebrated novel The Woman of Andros, set before the birth of Christ on an obscure Greek island, tells the story of the enigmatic Chrysis, a courtesan (and an outcast) of haunting beauty and intelligence. In her gatherings with the young men of the island, Chrysis probes what is precious about life, and how we live, love, and die in a harsh world, themes that Wilder revisited eight years later in his play, Our Town. Pamphilus, the only son of a prominent villager, fathers a baby out of wedlock with Chrysis’s sister, whom he wants to marry. The questions faced by Pamphilus, his family and the other “respectable” citizens of the island also explore themes of social class and status.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets: A novel Author: Patricio Pron Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Peter Berkrot, Peter Bradbury, Mark Bramhall, Richmond Hoxie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or maybe a terrorist—interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Bold and incisive, Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a gripping examination of art-as-politics and politics-as-crime.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel Author: Thornton Wilder Narrator: Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.'' —Russell Banks ''There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind.'' —The Independent (London) The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history ''On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.'' This immortal sentence opens The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragic event. Deeply moved, he embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention, not chance, that led to the deaths of the five people crossing the bridge that day. Ultimately, his search leads to a timeless investigation into the nature of fate and love, and the meaning of the human condition. Copyright (c) 1927 by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc. Copyright renewed (c) 1955 by Thornton Wilder. Copyright 2002 by the Wilder Family L.L.C. Foreword copyright (c) 2003 by Russell Banks. Afterword copyright (c) 2003, 2014 by Tappan Wilder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sea, The Sea Author: Iris Murdoch Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 2, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. ‘I saw a monster rising from the waves.' Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs. But then he meets his childhood sweetheart Hartley, and memories of her lovely, younger self crowd in – along with more recent lovers and friends – to disrupt his self-imposed exile. So instead of 'learning to be good', Charles proceeds to demonstrate how very bad he can be. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1978. © Iris Murdoch 1978 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) Author: Iris Murdoch Narrator: Juliet Aubrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 2, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. ‘It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.’ When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence? (C) Iris Murdoch 1957 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hex: A Novel Author: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Narrator: Jenny Slate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 31, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far) A Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020 'As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing.' --Vogue 'A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a welcome dose of witchery). Knight's writing feels a little wild and charged, as if you're constantly on the edge of discovering something new with her.' --Goop 'Hex is some dark and joyous witchery.' --Lauren Groff, author of Florida 'A beautiful, spooky spell.' --Jenny Slate, actress and author of Little Weirds A breathtaking and hypnotic novel about poison, antidotes, and obsessive love Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, is the hero of Nell's heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself, mesmerized by Joan's elegance, success, and spiritual force. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and Joan's buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition, and as they collide on the university campus, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. Meanwhile, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Estrella del Bosque Author: Roberto Mendaza Narrator: Pablo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Salir del fuego para caer en las brasas. En mitad de un panorama violento y desolador, Elisa se ve obligada a abandonar su Navarra natal en un intento desesperado para evitar sufrir los desmanes del bando vencedor del conflicto bélico. Sin embargo, en su huída es poco a poco arrinconada por el caos de y el horror de la segunda guerra mundial y de los campos de concentración alemanes. Despojada de sí misma y abrumada por el dolor y la añoranza de la vida que ha dejado atrás, Elisa se ve obligada a madurar prematuramente y a despedirse de la niña que un dia fue. Lo que aún no sabe es que el dolor y la pérdida, incluso en las situaciones más hostiles, traerán a su vida la resiliencia, las ganas de seguir adelante y, sin previo aviso, también el amor. - Nacido en Logroño (España) en 1971, Roberto Mendaza compagina su profesión en el Hospital de San Pedro con su pasión por la escritura. Lector apasionado y consagrado, su interés se centra particularmente en la novela histórica de las épocas de Roma y de la segunda guerra mundial, las cuales son una gran fuente de inspiración en su corta pero prometedora obra.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance Author: Zora Neale Hurston Narrator: Aunjanue Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Newsweek’s Most Anticipated Books Forbes.com’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 E!’s Top 2020 Books to Read Glamour’s Best Books  In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Rainbow: A Novel Author: Celia Laskey Narrator: Will Damon, Dani Martineck, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Crouch, Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, Abigail Revasch, Brittany Pressley, Kaleo Griffith, Jonathan Todd Ross, Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize “Delivered with such conviction and grace … fresh … essential.” —The New York Times Book Review When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town’s attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed. Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone—or so they think. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the U.S.” and sends in a queer task force to live and work there for two years, no one is prepared for what will ensue.  Still grieving the death of her son, Linda welcomes the newcomers, who know mercifully little about her past. Teenage Avery, furious at being uprooted from her life in L.A. and desperate to fit in at her new high school, fears it’s only a matter of time before her classmates discover her mom is the head of the task force. And Gabe, an avid hunter who has lived in Big Burr his whole life, suddenly feels as if he’s in the crosshairs. As tensions roil the town, cratering relationships and bringing difficult truths to light, both long time residents and new arrivals must reconsider what it means to belong. Told with warmth and wit, Under the Rainbow is a poignant, hopeful articulation of our complicated humanity and the ways we can learn to live with each other and ourselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soot: A Novel Author: Dan Vyleta Narrator: Juha Sorola, Katharine Lee Mcewan, Deepti Gupta, Nicholas Guy Smith, Fiona Hardingham, Steve West, Dominic Hoffman, Mark Bramhall, Allan Corduner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called 'Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive.' The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. They were raised to think Smoke was a sign of sin manifested, but learned its suppression was really a means of controlling society. Smoke allowed people to mingle their emotions, to truly connect, and the trio thought that freeing the Smoke would bring down the oppressive power structure and create a fair and open society. But the consequences were far greater than they had imagined, and the world has fractured. Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of what remains of the English state. Charlie and Livia live in Minetowns, an egalitarian workers' community in the north of England which lives by Smoke. Thomas Argyle is in India on a clandestine mission to find out the origins of Smoke, and why the still-powerful Company is mounting an expedition in the Himalayas. Mowgli, the native whose body was used to trigger the tempest that unleashed the Smoke, now calls himself Nils and is a chameleon-like thief living in New York. And Eleanor Renfrew, Erasmus' niece who was the subject of his cruel experiments in suppressing Smoke, is in hiding from her uncle in provincial Canada. What she endured has given her a strange power over Smoke, which she fears as much as her uncle. Believing her uncle's agents have found her, she flees to New York with a theater troupe led by Balthazar Black, an impresario with secrets of his own. There they encounter Nils and a Machiavellian Company man named Smith. All these people seek to discover the true nature of Smoke, and thereby control its power. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms, and the Smoke will either bind them together or rend the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pretty as a Picture: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Little Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and CrimeReads Best Mystery Book of 2020 'Funny, fast-paced, and a pleasure to read.' --The Wall Street Journal An egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder--the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear Daughter Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary--and legendarily demanding--director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline. Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same. She'll spend her days in the editing room, doing what she does best: turning pictures into stories. But she soon discovers that on this set, nothing is as it's supposed to be--or as it seems. There are rumors of accidents and indiscretions, of burgeoning scandals and perilous schemes. Half the crew has been fired. The other half wants to quit. Even the actors have figured out something is wrong. And no one seems to know what happened to the editor she was hired to replace. Then she meets the intrepid and incorrigible teenage girls who are determined to solve the real-life murder that is the movie's central subject, and before long, Marissa is drawn into the investigation herself. The only problem is, the killer may still be on the loose. And he might not be finished. A wickedly funny exploration of our cultural addiction to tales of murder and mayhem and a thrilling, behind-the-scenes whodunit, Pretty as a Picture is a captivating page-turner from one of the most distinctive voices in crime fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Real Life: A Novel Author: Brandon Taylor Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award    “A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community.     Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lucky Star: A Novel Author: William T. Vollmann Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories Author: Peter Kispert Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 11, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: AN ELLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE MUST-READ LGBTQ BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ELECTRIC LIT BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR A GRINDR QUEER BOOK OF THE YEAR A THE ADVOCATE LGBT+ Book You Absolutely Need to Read 'Riveting… Every lie reveals itself so exquisitely that the parallels become an added pleasure, as soon as we uncover the ways they diverge.' —New York Times Book Review 'Dazzling. Here is a confident, psychologically astute new writer with a bold new vision.' —Garrard Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased Throughout this striking debut collection we meet characters who have lied, who have sometimes created elaborate falsehoods, and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships. In the title story, the narrator, desperate to save a love affair on the rocks, hires an actor to play a friend he invented in order to seem less lonely, after his boyfriend catches on to his compulsion for lying and demands to know this friend is real; in 'Aim for the Heart,' a man's lies about a hunting habit leave him with an unexpected deer carcass and the need to parse unsettling high school memories; in 'Rorschach,' a theater producer runs a show in which death row inmates are crucified in an on-stage rendering of the New Testament, while being haunted daily by an unrequited love and nightly by ghosts of his own creation. In I Know You Know Who I Am, Kispert deftly explores deception and performance, the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, and creates a sympathetic, often darkly humorous, portrait of characters searching for paths to intimacy.