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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Main Character Energy Author: Jamie Varon Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Poppy is bright and complicated and utterly enchanting in Jamie Varon’s debut.”  —Ashley Poston, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Dead Romantics Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she’s ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece’s dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy’s beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise—a trip to her villa in the French Riviera. There, she learns her aunt intends to leave her stunning villa and secretive writer's residency to Poppy—if she can finish her novel in six months. When the writing countdown begins, Poppy realizes she has more to confront than her writer’s block. Family drama, complicated romances and self-doubt all threaten to throw her off course. In this fun and heartwarming debut, Poppy must decide if she can live up to her aunt’s—and her own—desire to be the main character in her own life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gull Island: A Novel Author: Anna Porter Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A haunting psychological suspense novel about a young woman who visits her remote family cottage seeking answers to a murky past—for fans of Catherine McKenzie and Amber Cowie. When her estranged father goes missing, Jude is persuaded by her mother to find his will. She travels to the family cottage on remote Gull Island, glad to be away from the city and to have the chance to sort through old memories, but is unsettled by what she finds there. While contending with the neglected cottage and encroaching wild animals, Jude looks not only for her father’s will, but also for photographs of herself as a baby, desperate for proof that she was loved as a child. However, loneliness and terrifying dreams soon wear on her, bringing back frightening memories. Thoughts of her distant mother and intimidating father, her jealous sister, and her mother’s mysterious friend infest Jude’s increasingly clouded mind. Then a fierce storm sweeps away her boat and severs her from the outside world. Forced to reckon with long-buried truths and filled with the terrible sense that the cottage may be haunted by more than the past, Jude begins to fear for her sanity—and her life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/665610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wren, The Wren: The Booker Prize-winning author Author: Anne Enright Narrator: Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, Anne Enright, Liza Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been. Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A generational saga that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. ©2023 Anne Enright (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: He Should Have Told the Bees Author: Amanda Cox Narrator: Stephanie Cozart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Beekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream, until her father’s untimely death sent her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family apiary—one who is looking to sell the property—and she cannot fathom why her father would put her in the position to lose everything they built together.When Callie Peterson is named in the trust of a man she’s never heard of, she’s not sure what to do. Her fledgling business has just taken wing and her mother has reentered her life asking for help, making Callie’s financial situation rather … precarious. She’s sure she has no right to someone else’s farm, but the money from the sale could solve her problems and give her the stability she’s always craved.With an entangled past behind them and an uncertain future ahead, Beckett and Callie must discover why they’ve been thrown together before all is lost.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove Series: #3 of Dove Pond Series Author: Karen Hawkins Narrator: Jackie Sanders, Amanda Ronconi, Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Three lives converge as a wildly talented baker returns to Dove Pond to face her past in this “enthralling story of losing, loving, and finding your way home again” (Woman’s World). Ella Dove is an acclaimed baker whose desserts spark vivid, cherished memories in those who taste them. A restless soul, Ella goes wherever the wind takes her—but driven by a haunting dream, she’s coming home to Dove Pond. Years ago, her mentor, Angela Stewart Harrington, falsely accused Ella of stealing her beloved family recipe book, known as the Book of Cakes. Now, Ella believes it’s time for them to reconcile. Angela has her own share of amends to make. Her daughter Jules has never forgiven her for divorcing her father, and they’ve been estranged ever since. But just as Angela begins to hope that she and Jules might mend their tattered relationship, a miscommunication turns into a lie that could destroy everything. Meanwhile, Jules’s son Gray is shocked that Ella, his first love and his first heartbreak, has returned to Dove Pond. But even though he knows Ella is a wanderer and will soon leave, he’s unable to stop himself from falling for her once again. Can Gray find a way to convince Ella to give him, and their town, a serious chance? Or is he once again on the road to a broken heart? With so much at stake, Ella, Angela, and Gray must learn to accept each other—flaws and all—and trust that love can, and will, always find a way. For fans of Alice Hoffman and Sarah Addison Allen, The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove is a “spellbinding story” (Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that will warm your heart and charm your senses.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An American Immigrant: A Novel Author: Johanna rojas  Vann Narrator: Allison Strong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she’d go—Colombia—in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories. “A beautiful homage to a mother’s bravery and to the grace and grit that is our inheritance.”—Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast International Latino Book Award Gold Winner for Best First Book—Fiction; Silver Winner for The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction • Christy Award Finalist • Tennessee State Book Award Finalist Twenty-five-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie’s life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother’s birth. She soon realizes Colombia has the potential to connect her, after all these years, to something she’s long ignored: her heritage, the love of her mother, her family, and the richest parts of herself.  Colombia offers more than a chance to make a name for herself as a writer. It is a place of untold stories. Inspired by real-life events, An American Immigrant is a story of culture and community, of abiding commitment to family, and of embracing our culture and the generations that have come before.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The President's Wife Author: Tracey Enerson Wood Narrator: Libby Mcknight Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidencySocialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over, and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she’s determined to rise to the challenges of her new marriage—from the bloodthirsty press to the shadows of the First World War.Warming to her new role, Edith is soon indispensable to her husband’s presidency. She replaces the staff that Woodrow finds distracting and discusses policy with him daily. Throughout the war, she encrypts top-secret messages and, despite lacking formal education, becomes an important adviser. When peace talks begin in Europe, she attends at Woodrow’s side. But just as the critical fight to ratify the treaty to end the war and create a League of Nations in order to prevent another is underway, Woodrow’s alwaysdelicate health takes a dramatic turn for the worse. In her determination to preserve both his progress and his reputation, Edith all but assumes the presidency herself.Now, Edith must contend with the demands of a tumultuous country, the secrets of Woodrow’s true condition, and the potentially devastating consequences of her failure. At once sweeping and intimate, The President’s Wife is an astonishing portrait of a courageous First Lady and the sacrifices she made to protect her husband and her country at all costs.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Care for a Human Girl: A Novel Author: Ashley Wurzbacher Narrator: Stefanie Kay, Nikki Massoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From “a writer at the top of her game” (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband, but the secret causes turmoil in her already shaky marriage. Back home in rural Pennsylvania, nineteen-year-old Maddy, who spends her time caring for birds at a wildlife rehabilitation center, is paid off by the man who got her pregnant to get an abortion. But an unsettling visit to a crisis pregnancy center adds to her doubts about whether to go through with it. Although Maddy still hasn’t forgiven Jada for a terrible betrayal, she goes to her for support, only to discover the cracks in the façade of her sister’s seemingly perfect life. As their past resentments boil over, the sisters must navigate the consequences of their choices and determine how best to care for themselves and each other. With luminous prose and laser-sharp psychological insight, How to Care for a Human Girl is a compassionate and unforgettable examination of the complexities of choice, the special intimacy of sisterhood, and the bizarre ways our heated political moment manifests in daily life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before You Found Me: A Novel Author: Brooke Beyfuss Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Rowan McNamara doesn't open the door to her new life—she's thrown through it. Following an argument with her abusive fiancé, Rowan runs. With no family except for her estranged sister, Celia, Rowan takes refuge in an idyllic New England town. There, she meets Gabriel, the eleven-year-old son of her neighbor, Lee. Lee is welcoming, friendly, and a little too helpful. But Gabriel is a mystery: withdrawn, often bruised, and only willing to speak to Rowan through his basement window. When she discovers that Lee has kept Gabriel imprisoned for the past three years, Rowan is desperate to save him. Fueled by outrage and empathy, she abducts Gabriel and flees to her childhood home in Oklahoma, determined to raise him as her own. Together they battle nightmares and curious stares. But when Lee begins haunting more than their dreams, Rowan and Gabriel realize they stopped pretending to be a family a long time ago. Their bond is just as strong as blood, and they're willing to do anything to protect one another. From Brooke Beyfuss comes a must-listen novel exploring trauma and healing, love and family, and the impossible lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love, even at the expense of ourselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sugar, Baby Author: Celine Saintclare Narrator: Sara Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, Sugar, Baby is an intoxicating, darkly funny debut novel about beauty and greed, desire and delusion, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Agnes Green is turning 21 and her life is heading nowhere. Still living at home with her devoutly religious mother in a lifeless suburb, she works as a cleaner by day and spends her nights secretly going to clubs and dating Toby - who loves arthouse film, getting stoned, and ignoring her texts. That is until she meets Emily, the daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model - and a sugar baby. Emily's lifestyle is the escape Agnes has been longing for: tasting menus, private flights to Paris and Miami, rich older men who shower her with compliments and designer gifts. But it comes at a cost. Agnes' new life is beyond her wildest dreams, but it comes at a cost. As she begins to stray further from her mother's holy teachings, she must decide how far she is willing to go to be adored...