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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idol, Burning: A Novel Author: Rin Usami Narrator: Mirai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: ''Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate with readers familiar with real-life superfandoms such as One Direction’s at the height of its fame, down to details such as sought-after exclusive merch and hateful online comments sections. A short, engrossing novel that captures the essence of obsessive fandom.” -- Kirkus (starred review) ''What's impressive about this novel is the author's ability to empathize with Akari's all-consuming love for Masaki while showing just how damaging this relationship is to Akari and everyone around her. The book left me heartbroken yet hopeful, and excited for more Usami novels to come.'' -- NPR.org “Haunting and sincere, Idol, Burning subverts and astonishes. Rin Usami balances humor, obsession, heartbreak, and sacrifice in her debut, crafting a story that's both enveloping and expansive. Usami's writing is thrilling and deft, and her novel illuminates the shadows cloaking our digital lives, leaving us with honesty and grace in equal measures. Idol, Burning is a barnburner and a prayer and a testament to the lengths that we'll go to reach for our dreams.”—Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer, a twenty-first century Catcher in the Rye that brilliantly explores toxic fandom, social media, and alienated adolescence. Akari is a high school student obsessed with “oshi” Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and spends hours addictively scrolling for information about him and his life. Desperate to analyze and understand him, Akari hopes to eventually see the world through his eyes. It is a devotion that borders on the religious: Masaki is her savior, her backbone, someone she believes she cannot survive without—even though she’s never actually met him. When rumors surface that her idol assaulted a female fan, social media explodes. Akari immediately begins sifting through everything she can find about the scandal, and shares every detail to her blog—including Masaki’s denials and pleas to his fans—drawing numerous readers eager for her updates. But the organized, knowledgeable persona Akari presents online is totally different from the socially awkward, unfocused teenager she is in real life. As Masaki's situation spirals, his troubles threaten to tear apart her life too. Instead of finding a way to break free to save herself, Akari becomes even more fanatical about Masaki, still believing her idol is the only person who understands her. A blistering novel of fame, disconnection, obsession, and disillusion by a young writer not much older than the novel’s heroine, Idol, Burning shines a white-hot spotlight on fandom and “stan” culture, the money-making schemes of the pop idol industry, the seductive power of social media, and the powerful emotional void that opens when an idol falls from grace, only to become a real—and very flawed—person. Translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be a Mother Author: Emma Robinson Narrator: Shakira Shute, Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When Hannah met David, it was love at first sight. They were married quickly, but she knew it was the right choice. They're always laughing, the passion is unmatched, and they want the same things. Most of all, they both want a family. For David, it's doubly important. He tragically lost his first wife, Katherine, several years before. Hannah is, he says, the person who saved him from his grief. Although his friends worried he was moving on too fast, and Hannah sometimes still feels a strange jealousy towards his first wife, deep down she knows she's meant to be his happily-ever-after. Even so, when Hannah discovers she can’t have children, she’s worried it will fracture their relationship. Family is so important to both of them. Surely, she reasons, there must be a way. And then David tells her there is. He never told Hannah because he hoped they’d have a child of their own. But just before Katherine died, she went through fertility treatment. Her eggs—now frozen in a clinic—legally belong to David. Hannah wants nothing more than to be a mother. But even if it means she and David can have the child they’ve always dreamed of, can she really carry Katherine's baby?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wenn das Herz denkt: Mein Leben ist noch immer 'ne Soap Author: Jennifer C. Angersbach Narrator: Jennifer C. Angersbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 7, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Was nutzt einem Selbstakzeptanz, wenn man dennoch nicht geliebt wird? Die Frage stellt sich Marina (33), insbesondere bei dem Gedanken an Sebastian. Und während sie überlegt, ob es seine Bindungsangst oder sein Desinteresse ist, verachtet sie sich selbst – diesmal für ihre Ungeduld und Sehnsucht. Ganz nebenbei erfährt sie, was wahre Freundschaft bedeutet und worum es im Leben wirklich geht. Bisher hat Marina versucht, alles richtig zu machen. In einem schwindelerregenden Tempo wollte sie sich anpassen, optimieren, Fehler korrigieren und wachsen. Das Ziel? Eine langweilige, aber immerhin schöne Illusion von einem Leben mit Happy End. Doch irgendetwas ist diesmal anders, leichter, und sie erkennt die Schönheit im Scheitern.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Many Are Invited Author: Dennis Cuesta Narrator: Philip Church Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A housewarming party ends in tragedy. . . Steve Galanos, a native Midwesterner, reflects on his time in Northern California during the 1990s, a time when the two-digit year emerged as the Y2K problem, the burgeoning Internet fueled the expansion of the New Economy, the dot-com bubble created unseen prosperity and real estate frenzies. Yet it's a housewarming party, held in late 1999, that affects him the most. At the request of John Goertz, a group of technology managers and executives gather in a conference room. Listening to the presentation is Steve Galanos, who is suspicious of Goertz's approach and the dramatic way he describes the problem. Goertz tries to convince his audience that a disaster awaits them unless they immediately address the two-digit year in the company's distributed systems and compiled code. It's 1994, well before anyone has heard of the term, Y2K. A promotion to run the newly-created year 2000 compliance program earns John more skepticism and envy from Steve, yet the two have much in common and soon become good friends. A few years later, John leaves for a startup and their lives trend in different directions. By the time John cashes out from a successful IPO, gets married, and buys a house in Los Gatos, his friendship with Steve has waned. It's at John's housewarming party where latent animosity and lingering distrust finally come to a head.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Passenger Author: Cormac McCarthy Narrator: Macleod Andrews, Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.54 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 12 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work.' —The New York Times Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, is available now. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.   Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A falta Author: Xico Sá Narrator: Luciano Gatte, Luiz Debs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Neste romance do jornalista e escritor brasileiro Xico Sá, a narração de um jogo de futebol, lance a lance e minuto a minuto, na perspectiva de alguém em campo – o goleiro –, mesclando-se a fragmentos de memória e inquietações desse personagem tão central em um time. Em A falta, de Xico Sá, o protagonista é o camisa 1 de um time de futebol. Grande fã do esporte, tendo trabalhado muito tempo como jornalista esportivo, Xico mergulhou fundo nesse universo. No entanto, este romance literário vai além: não se trata apenas de um belo conjunto de referências históricas e futebolísticas, mas também conduz o leitor a temas mais humanos e subjetivos, como a pressão sobre atletas (e todos os profissionais dos quais se exige alta performance), a aproximação da aposentadoria, propósito, desejos e aspirações, paternidade, os relacionamentos e as frustrações acumulados ao longo de uma vida e, enfim, o amor. "Xico Sá não é apenas o grande cronista do complexo afeto brasileiro sempre em rebuliço, é um romancista sensível e original – seu Big Jato é imenso, um dos grandes romances deste século. Neste A falta, o escritor vai além, articula, entre o sonho e a condenação do erro humano, um poderoso espelho a que todas e todos correspondemos. Um livro que, pela potência de sua simplicidade narrativa (a simplicidade narrativa que só algumas raras pessoas conseguem compor), envolve, instiga, comove." - Paulo Scott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life Room Author: Jill Bialosky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Eleanor Cahn is a professor of literature, the wife of a preeminent cardiac surgeon, and a devoted mother. But on a trip to Paris to present a paper on Anna Karenina, Eleanor re-connects with Stephen—a childhood friend with whom she has had a complicated relationship—that forces her to realize that she has suppressed her passionate self for years. As the novel unfolds, we learn of her hidden erotic past: with alluring, elusive Stephen; with ethereal William, her high school boyfriend; with married, egotistical Adam, the painter who initiated her into the intimacies of the “life room,” where the artist’s model sometimes becomes muse; and with loyal, steady Michael, her husband. On her return to New York, Eleanor and Stephen’s charged attraction takes on a life of its own and threatens to destroy everything she has. Jill Bialosky has created a fresh, piercingly real heroine who struggles with the spiritual questions and dilemmas of our time and, like Tolstoy’s immortal Anna Karenina, must choose between desire and responsibility.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of Night: A Novel Author: Adam Hamdy Narrator: Justin Avoth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For fans of Matt Haig and Anthony Horowitz, a “strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel” (John Connolly) in which the lives of a disgraced police officer, a prolific author, and an upstanding citizen are inextricably bound together by a series of mysterious deaths. The Other Side of Night begins with a man named David Asha writing about his biggest regret: his sudden separation from his son, Elliot. In his grief, David tells a story. Next, we step into the life of Harriet Kealty, a police officer trying to clear her name after a lapse of judgment. She discovers a curious inscription in a secondhand book—a plea: Help me, he’s trying to kill me. Who wrote this note? Who is “he”? This note leads Harri to David Asha, who was last seen stepping off a cliff. Police suspect he couldn’t cope after his wife’s sudden death. Still, why would this man jump and leave behind his young son? Quickly, Harri’s attention zeroes in on a person she knows all too well. Ben Elmys: once the love of her life. A surrogate father to Elliot Asha and trusted friend to the Ashas. Ben may also be a murderer. Compulsively readable and thought-provoking, “The Other Side of Night is one of those rare books that you’ll still be thinking about long after the last page” (Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Amokläufer Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Georg Elmenhorst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 10, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Anstelle einer in Schwierigkeiten geratenen jungen Dame zu helfen, fühlt sich ein Arzt von ihr provoziert und lässt sich lieber auf ein Kräftemessen ein, damit er sich ein einziges Mal gegenüber einer selbstsicheren Frau überlegen fühlen darf. Aber er unterschätzt sie und löst damit eine Katastrophe aus, aus der es kein Entkommen mehr geben kann.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Engelmacher Author: Achim Albrecht Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 10, 2022 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ein gelernter Auftragskiller, ein bedächtiger, sachlicher Mann, der keine unnötigen Risiken eingeht. Er ist in die Jahre gekommen. In die Jahre, in denen die Erfahrung beginnt, die Fähigkeiten zu übersteigen. Er hat nichts vergessen. Alles aufnotiert. Er weiß, dass seine Zeit abläuft. Seine Schutzbefohlene ist mit ihm alt geworden. Er beginnt Vorsorge zu treffen für die Zeit, in der sie alleine sein wird. Alleine ohne ihn, denn die Vergangenheit wird ihn bald einholen. Es ist unvermeidlich. Noch aber gibt es Dinge zu tun Wichtige Dinge. Dinge, die Sorgfalt und eine ruhige Hand erfordern. Und dann ist da noch das rätselhafte Auftauchen der lange verschollenen Tochter. Ein gutes Mädchen, eine Prinzessin. Sie ist ganz nach dem Vater geraten. Zeit, sich auf das Sterben vorzubereiten.