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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Village in the Dark Author: Iris Yamashita Narrator: Aspen Vincent, Sophie Oda, Blaire Chandler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder--and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof. On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice. Aaron and Dylan disappeared on a hike a year ago, their bones eventually found and buried. But shocking clues have emerged that foul play was involved, potentially connecting them to a string of other deaths and disappearances.    Somehow tied to the mystery is Mia Upash, who grew up in an isolated village called Unity, a community of women and children in hiding from abusive men. Mia never imagined the trouble she would find herself in when she left home to live in Man’s World. Although she remains haunted by the tragedy of what happened to the man and the boy in the woods, she has her own reasons for keeping quiet.   Aided by police officer Joe Barkowski and other residents of Point Mettier, Cara’s investigation will lead them on a dangerous path that puts their lives and the lives of everyone around them in mortal jeopardy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Disaster Loves You Author: Richard Roper Narrator: Christian Coulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of Something to Live For, a poignant and funny story about a man whose wife disappeared seven years ago and his journey to find her or find out what happened, interwoven with the story of their relationship, revealing how sometimes the biggest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. Twenty years of love. Seven years of absence. One journey to find out what happened. Brian’s wife, Lily, disappeared from his life without a trace six years, eleven months, one week, and two days ago, but Brian never lost hope. Since her disappearance their once beloved English pub—and Brian’s livelihood—has been crumbling piece by piece. As the anniversary of her absence approaches, Brian desperately needs a sign. One doom-scroll on his business’s reviews later, he finds it: an active TripAdvisor account for PinkMoonLily1972 that he knows in his heart is his Lily. Interspliced with Brian’s journey to find Lily is the story of their love—how it started, and the twists and turns that brought them to this moment. As Brian jumps from one destination to the next to find Lily, and the truth behind their story comes into focus, Brian comes back to life with the help of Tess, a sarcastic, kind, and surprising traveling companion. But in order to move forward he’ll need to decide—stay in the past or take a chance on something unexpected.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel Author: Maura Cheeks Narrator: Jade Wheeler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Diane Marie Brown, author of Black Candle Women How much of their lineage is one family willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation’s first federal reparations program? Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country’s first female president will pass the Forgiveness Act. The bill would allow Black families to claim up to $175,000 if they can prove they are the descendants of slaves, and for ambitious single mother Willie Revel the bill could be a long-awaited form of redemption. A decade ago, Willie gave up her burgeoning journalism career to help run her father’s struggling construction company in Philadelphia and she has reluctantly put family first, without being able to forget who she might have become. Now she’s back living with her parents and her young daughter while trying to keep her family from going into bankruptcy. Could the Forgiveness Act uncover her forgotten roots while also helping save their beloved home and her father’s life’s work? In order to qualify, she must first prove that the Revels are descended from slaves, but the rest of the family isn’t as eager to dig up the past. Her mother is adopted, her father doesn’t trust the government and believes working with a morally corrupt employer is the better way to save their business, and her daughter is just trying to make it through the fifth grade at her elite private school without attracting unwanted attention. It’s up to Willie to verify their ancestry and save her family—but as she delves into their history, Willie begins to learn just how complicated family and forgiveness can be. With powerful insight and moving prose, Acts of Forgiveness asks how history shapes who we become and considers the weight of success when it is achieved despite incredible odds—and ultimately what leaving behind a legacy truly means.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jaded Author: Ela Lee Narrator: Rosa Escoda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 8, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name. Jade has done all the right things. She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice. She's with a man who loves her, but isn't always herself around him. She's made her Omma and Baba proud, but resents that they can't properly understand her. Jade is perfectly in control of her life. Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world, leaving her wondering who she truly is. JADED is a refreshing and bitingly honest debut novel about how one shocking event can upend everything... and asks, what would you have done in her situation? ©2024 Ela Lee (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road from Belhaven: A novel Author: Margot Livesey Narrator: Ell Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland “Bewitching and seductive.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You • “A treasure: a writer who understands the magic and mysteries of the human soul.' —Chris Bohjalian, author of Hour of the Witch • “This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake.' —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance. Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays “the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world . . . and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world.” —The Boston Globe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Significant Others: A Novel Author: Zoë Eisenberg Narrator: Jennifer Robideau, Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "I've been searching for a book with female friendships at the heart of it that doesn't feel flippant or melodramatic and I've found it!"  —Jennette McCurdy Two women test how much weight their friendship can hold in this poignant and tender novel. Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and teaching dance classes at the same run-down gym for well over a decade. After a one-night stand with a tourist leads to pregnancy, Ren realizes motherhood may be the change she’s been waiting for, and the friends make a plan to raise the child together. Ren is excitedly pushing toward her due date when the baby’s father resurfaces, forcing Jess to face the foreboding notion that for the first time in eighteen years, they may not want the same thing. In this stunning debut spanning nine pivotal months in the lives of two very different women, Zoë Eisenberg examines female friendship with emotional precision and offers an intimate look at who we belong to—and why.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alphabetical Diaries Author: Sheila Heti Narrator: Kate Berlant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Murder After the Night Before Author: Katy Brent Narrator: Victoria Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A whip-smart whodunnit, this will keep you guessing' Red 'A fast-paced thriller with clever twists' Bella Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she was murdered. I’ve woken up with the hangover from hell, a stranger in my bed, and I’ve gone viral for the worst reasons. There’s only one thing stopping me from dying of shame. I need to find a killer. But after last night, I can’t remember a thing… From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It, don’t miss this wickedly witty and utterly addictive novel, perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Dawn O’Porter and Killing Eve. Praise for The Murder After the Night Before: ‘What a ride! Unflinchingly realistic and raw but somehow also brilliantly funny at times, Brent's novel is a must-read’ Jesse Sutanto, author of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers ‘The horrors of going viral on social media twinned with a twisty murder mystery – contemporary fiction at its best, I loved it!' Jackie Kabler, author of The Perfect Couple ‘Brent delivers a compelling and incredibly important novel’ My Weekly ‘A fast-paced and satisfying read’ Charlotte Bigland, author of It’s Not Me It’s You ‘The Hangover meets Fleabag in this ribald, twisted mystery’ PJ Ellis, author of Love & Other Scams ‘A fast-paced thriller. With clever twists, it’s totally gripping' Closer Magazine ‘Once again, Katy Brent has shown her immense talent at writing dark humour with a thought-provoking core’ Sarah Clarke, author of A Mother Never Lies ‘A flawlessly plotted murder mystery. Devilishly brilliant. I loved it!’ Sarah Bonner, author of Her Perfect Twin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame: A Novel Author: Olivia Ford Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever. With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster? * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains recipes from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Boston Man Series: #21 of Americana Author: Janet Dailey Narrator: Shaina Summerville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this sexy romance, the legendary New York Times bestselling author introduces a feminist beauty who challenges a Boston bachelor's ideals—and heart. After her uncensored comments about a certain Boston playboy make headlines, reporter Lexie Templeton knows there will be hell to pay. Rome Lockwood—even more irresistible in the flesh—shows up at her office to accuse her of starting a smear campaign. Appalled by her powerful attraction to the magnetic businessman, no one is more surprised than Lexie when she throws down the gauntlet. She challenges Rome to prove he isn't the macho, double standard-dealing male she believes he is by going on a date with her. To Lexie's shock and dismay, Rome gladly accepts the challenge. He's determined to prove he isn't the man she thinks he is. Much to the contrary—he's the perfect man for her.