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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zugvögel (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Charlotte Mcconaghy Narrator: Eva Meckbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 26, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Auf der Suche nach Erlösung folgt sie den letzten Vögeln in die Antarktis Franny hat ihr ganzes Leben am Meer verbracht, die wilden Strömungen und gefiederten Gefährten den Menschen vorgezogen. Als die Vögel zu verschwinden beginnen, beschließt die Ornithologin den letzten Küstenseeschwalben zu folgen. Inmitten der exzentrischen Crew eines Fischerboots macht sie sich auf den Weg in die Antarktis, allein die Vögel sind ihr Kompass. Doch wohin die Tiere sie auch führen, vor ihrer Vergangenheit kann Franny nicht fliehen. Ihr folgt das Geheimnis eines Verbrechens, die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Liebe. Und schon bald entwickelt sich die Reise zu einem lebensbedrohlichen Abenteuer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fishing for Birds Author: Linda Quennec Narrator: Nina Richmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 24, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a woman who through their conversations transports her to the intoxicating world of 1926 Cuba. Within the context of their friendship, Ivy's past begins to unravel from a long-held silence, just as Kate finds herself confronting her relationship with the colourful community she's known all her life, along with an unexpected visitor who threatens to remove all peace from her chosen refuge. Told from the perspectives of three narrators: Ivy, Kate, and Kate's mother Nora, Fishing for Birds is a novel that juxtaposes the expectations we cling to so fiercely and the unexpected and sometimes unconventional things that turn up. The novel challenges traditional constructs of time, ethnicity, and relationship. Set against the tropical beauty of 1920s Cuba and the Northwest Coast of contemporary time, both the landscape and unique character of island life underscore the experiences of three very different women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448198 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Charm Author: Ella Allbright Narrator: Sarah Lambie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 21, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A gorgeously romantic love story full of heart and poignancy' Alex Brown ‘A wonderful, totally absorbing coming of age love story…I couldn’t have put it down if I tried’ Jules Wake A moving and heartwarming love story perfect for fans of This Time Next Year, In Five Years and One Day in December. ‘Beautifully written, cunningly constructed and emotionally deep. Ella Allbright is an exciting voice in fiction!’ Sue Moorcroft, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Let it Snow Leila’s charm bracelet tells a story of love, a story of loss, a story of hope. This is the story of her… and the story of Jake. When Leila Jones loses her precious charm bracelet and a stranger finds it, she has to tell the story of how she got the charms to prove she’s the owner. Each and every one is a precious memory of her life with Jake. So Leila starts at the beginning, recounting the charms and experiences that have led her to the present. A present she never could have expected when she met Jake nearly twenty years ago… Readers are LOVING The Last Charm: ‘A wonderful escape into a heartwarming & poignant love story’ Holly Martin, bestselling author of Sunrise Over Sapphire Bay ‘A charming, tender love story & one-sitting read that was just lovely’ Carmel Harrington, bestselling author of My Pear-Shaped Life ‘Honest, raw and achingly romantic – a beautifully told story of loss, love and life,’ Sandy Barker, author of A Sunset in Sydney ‘I loved this beautifully written story of love, loss and hope… The characters will capture your heart and have you rooting for them every step of the way.’ Leah Mercer, RNA award-nominated author of The Puzzle of You ‘A beautifully told, heartwarming yet heartwrenching epic love story that took me on a rollercoaster of emotions! I’m in love with Jake as much as Leila is, if not a little more!’ Kim Nash, author of Amazing Grace ‘Bound to charm you…a tale bookmarking the moments that make us all fall in love’ Catherine Miller, author of 99 Days With You

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Must I Go Author: Yiyun Li Narrator: Alex Mckenna, Jane Alexander, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have 'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.' Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed by this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Roland's charming but arrogant voice with an incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of 27. Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel, a gleefully one-way correspondence between the very-much-alive Lilia and the long-departed Roland. Though mortality is ever-present, this is ultimately a novel about life, in all its messy glory. Life lived, for the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With exquisite subtlety and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart. © Yiyun Li 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glass Kingdom Author: Lawrence Osborne Narrator: Sura Siu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight - and run by conveniently discreet staff. In Bangkok's shocking heat Sarah meets the beguiling Mali, a half-Thai tenant who's strangely determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell. An invitation to Mali's poker nights soon follows, where - fuelled by shots of yadong, gossip of shady dealings in the city and the hit of marijuana - Sarah is drawn into the orbit of the Kingdom's glamorous ex-pat women. But when an attempted military coup wracks the streets below and Sarah witnesses something unspeakable through one of the Kingdom's windows, only to be followed by a series of strange disappearances, Sarah's safe haven begins to feel like a trap. From a master of atmosphere and suspense, The Glass Kingdom is a brilliantly unsettling story of cruelty and psychological unrest, and an enthralling glimpse into the shadowy crossroads of karma and human greed. 'Bangkok is the star of this accomplished novel. Its denizens are aliens to themselves, glittering on the horizon of their own lives, moving - restless and rootless and afraid - though a cityscape that has more stories than they know' HILARY MANTEL © Lawrence Osborne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life Without Flowers Series: #2 of Life Without Water Author: Marci Bolden Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Twenty-four years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Carol Denman has finally made peace with Katie's father. But releasing her ex-husband from blame and facing how deeply she held herself responsible were only the first steps in Carol's journey toward peace. With the pain of her failed first marriage behind her, Carol is determined to mend her broken relationship with her mother. But she soon discovers she isn't the only one who has been hanging on to bitterness. A road trip to face the past leads Carol's mother, Judith, to unearth the seeds of past mistakes and deep resentments in ways neither of them would expect. The roots of family animosity run deep and thick. While Judith seems hesitant to start digging, Carol commits to pruning away the thorns of the past so she no longer has to live a life without flowers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart Begins Here Author: Jacqueline Dumas Narrator: Michelle C. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 17, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore and a mother who refuses to accept her daughter's lesbianism. Then, just as Wanda decides to leave Sara, Wanda's new young lover, Cindy, is murdered. The story takes place in a western Canadian city in 2001 - much of it in Sara's bookstore, Common Reader Books - in the shadow of the disturbing political climate that followed the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. This is a transitional point in the Canadian book industry: the proliferation of big box stores, the expansion of the Internet - and Sara is caught up in the concomitant changes in her community. The book explores themes of love and loss, of the lingering effects of a dysfunctional childhood, of misogyny, of personal and societal homophobia, and especially the challenge of integrating the personal with the political.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trust Exercise Author: Susan Choi Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar, Jennifer Lim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise has become a sensation for its timely insights into sex, power and the nature of abuse. Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. At their performing arts school, the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers' lives is even larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime. Trust Exercise is a brilliant, unforgettable novel about what we lose, gain and never get over as we're initiated into the mysteries of adulthood. “Will leave you shaken to your very core” (Cosmopolitan) “Tense and lovely” (New Yorker) “Tricksy and beguiling” (Books of the Year Economist) Unputdownable (Must-Read Books the Year Time Magazine) “Trust Exercise is Choi's fifth novel, and without a doubt her most ingenious yet. Sure, submitting to it is a 'trust exercise' all of its own, but the razzmatazz that awaits is well worth it.” (Lucy Scholes FT) “Powerful, addictive, smart” (Elle Magazine)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Men Want to Know: 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive' SARAH WATERS Author: Nina Bouraoui Narrator: Sara Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 13, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country. In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude, she starts to write - and finds herself writing about her mother. All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers and daughters, about shame and sexuality, about existing between two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France, this is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers. 'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle 'It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France' Monocle © Nina Bouraoui 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Allspice Bath Author: Sonia Saikaley Narrator: Norah Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It is 1970. The evergreens are thick with snow despite it being the month of April. In an Ottawa hospital, another daughter is born to the Azar family. The parents are from Kfarmichki, a village in Lebanon but their daughters were born in Canada. Four daughters, to be precise. No sons. Youssef is the domineering father. Samira is the quiescent mother. Rima, Katrina and Mona are the traditional daughters. Then there is Adele, the newest member. "You should've been born a boy," Samira whispers to Adele shortly after her entrance into the world. As she grows, Adele learns there are certain rules Lebanese girls must follow in order to be good daughters. First off, they must learn to cook, master housework, learn Arabic and follow the traditions of their culture. Above all, they must save themselves for marriage. But Adele dreams of being an artist. When she is accepted to the University of Toronto, this is her chance to have a life outside the confines of her strict upbringing. But can she defy her father? When Youssef surprises her with a family trip to her ancestral home, Adele is excited about the journey. In Lebanon, she meets Elias. He is handsome and intelligent and Adele develops feelings for him until Elias confides to her that her unexpected meeting with him was actually a well-devised plan that is both deceitful and shocking. Will this unravel the binding threads of this close-knit Lebanese family? Crisscrossing between Ottawa, Toronto and Lebanon, The Allspice Bath is a bold story about the cultural gap and the immigrant experience.