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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Orchard: A novel Author: Eliza Minot Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single day. At night, Maisie Moore dreams that her life is perfect: the looming mortgages and credit card debt have magically vanished, and she can raise her four children, including newborn Esme, on an undulating current of maternal bliss, by turns oceanic and overwhelming, but awash in awe and wonder. Then she jolts awake and, after checking that her husband and baby are asleep beside her, remembers the real-world money problems to be resolved amid the long days of grocery shopping, gymnastics practices, and soccer games. From this moment, Eliza Minot draws readers into the psyche of the perceptive and warmhearted Maisie, who yearns to understand the world around her and overflows with fierce love for her growing family.  Unfolding over the course of a single day in which Maisie and her husband take their children to pick apples, In the Orchard is luminous, masterfully crafted, revelatory—a shining exploration of motherhood, childhood, and love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Newport Sunrise Series: #3 of Newport Beach Author: Cindy Nichols Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Faith's life has been turned upside down, and she's not at all sure that's a good thing . . . With Jen and Carrie at the beach full time, it's gotten harder by the week for Faith to return to her job inland as a new life has been unfolding for her at the beach on the weekends. Her part time job at the boutique has taken more and more of her time as the owner becomes increasingly scarce. Her daughter, Maggy, has been visiting more frequently, with all the ups and downs that brings. Jen's son, Max, has been spending time in Newport as well, and Faith still holds out hope that Maggy and Max might end up together. Jen wants the same, and the three friends do their best to throw the two together—not always with welcome results. Carrie's new relationship with Bethany requires a bit more from all three friends than they'd anticipated, but they're up for the challenge. A road trip is in order, and by the time they return home, everything has changed. Visit Newport Beach and sit on the deck for a while, watch the sunrise and enjoy one of Nana's muffins.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Upon a Buggy Series: #2 of Amish of Apple Creek Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: May Schott would do anything to change the tragic moment when she stepped too close to the fire that left her best friend, Carl Hilty, devastatingly burned. After Carl left Apple Creek for extensive surgeries, May patiently prayed for one chance to ask his forgiveness. Now, six years later, Carl Hilty is coming home. The reunion goes nothing like May anticipated. Overwhelmed with emotion at seeing Carl again, she is speechless, unable to look away. And Carl's own stone-cold silence leaves her certain that whatever attraction they once shared has been replaced by his hatred of her. After hiding in the shadows of the big city, Carl has returned to connect with his family and to see if May can overlook his scars and accept his tender love—but her reaction makes it clear that she wants nothing to do with him. He grudgingly agrees to stay with his family for a time before retreating to anonymity once again. But in Apple Creek, it's easy to miss what everyone around you sees plain as day. For two people who belong together, it will take a few helping hands to heal the hurts of the past and make a miraculous new beginning.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Is Full of Champions Author: Julie Sullivan Narrator: Michelle Cole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The World Is Full of Champions spans more than thirty years from the ’60s to the late ’90s in race-torn Philadelphia as two proud Black families—one wealthy, the other not—confront major change when tragedy strikes and the daughter of the working-class Smythe family falls in love with the son of the affluent Whitman family.Georgia Smythe and her mother live on the rough side of town. As a young girl, she loses her father in a tragic mining accident, but overcomes her loss to become a thoughtful and attractive young woman. She falls in love with Lawrence, the handsome son of the Whitman family for whom her mother works as a maid. The Whitmans, recovering from the death of Lawrence’s brother in a hit-and-run car accident, have other ideas about whom their remaining son should marry and are concerned about how such a liaison will affect their social position.How will the two families deal with Georgia and Lawrence’s relationship and the unintended divulging of a closely guarded secret?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widow's Secret Series: #4 of The Goswell Quartet Author: Kate Hewitt Narrator: Danielle Cohen, Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: England, 1766: Abigail is happily married to James, a tobacco trader turned sea captain, and is looking forward to starting a family and settling down in Whitehaven, deep in the Lake District. But after a series of devastating losses, she finds herself in turmoil, with her future suddenly seeming unknown… When James announces that he will captain a ship to Africa and then the Americas for a year, it sparks a series of surprising and heartbreaking events—involving some of the darkest evils in humanity’s history and a tiny, terrified slave girl who’s brought back to England. This helpless child forces Abigail to reconsider everything she thought she knew—and will change her life forever… Now: When a shipwreck is discovered off the coast of Cumbria, local expert Rachel is brought in to investigate. Her first thought is that this will be a perfect distraction from her troubled marriage and the memories of her past that she is desperate not to think about. But then it becomes clear the wreck is a slaving ship from the 1700s—one that was recorded as sinking in the Caribbean—and Rachel begins to wonder if there’s more to this terrible mystery than meets the eye. Faced with uncertainty about both the past and present, can Rachel learn from Abigail’s extraordinary story and take the first step towards a brighter future of her own?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wilsons Save the World: Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 comedy Author: Marcus Brigstocke And Sarah Morgan Narrator: Jasmine Sakyiama, Aine Mcnamara, Mia Jenkins, India Brown, Kerry Godliman, Caitlin Moran, Full Cast, Marcus Brigstocke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The complete Series 1-3 of the full-cast BBC comedy about trying to live ethically and do the right thing Michael (Marcus Brigstocke) and Maxine (Kerry Godliman) Wilson and their teenage daughters, Lola and Cat, (plus their bearded dragon Chomsky, and about 150,000 bees) have resolved to live a cleaner, greener, serener life. They are attempting to live ethically... whatever that means. The Wilsons conscientiously tackle tricky situations and dilemmas; from balancing the need of hot sun on holiday to a carbon-neutral campsite, explaining the pitfalls of online relationships to their daughter by drawing parallels to Brexit or protesting library closures when, according to Cat, everything can be found online anyway. The family, good folk that they are, are trying about 20% harder and learning to live with about 19% more failure in trying to save the world. They are not giving up. Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan Produced by Julia McKenzie and Suzy Grant A BBC Studios Production Cast Mike - Marcus Brigstocke Max - Kerry Godliman Lola - India Brown/Jasmine Sakyiama Cat - Mia Jenkins/Aine McNamara BMW Paul/Postman/Marlin - Mike Wozniak Phillip - Rupert Vansittart Jennifer - Vicki Pepperdine Pauline - Liza Tarbuck Till/Frankie/TV Presenter - Shannon Murray Herself - Caitlin Moran Shopkeeper - George Fouracres Mrs Denton/Cosmos/DC Hunter - Nimisha Odedra Various - Kiell Smith-Bynoe First broadcast in November 2017 (Series 1), February-March 2019 (Series 2), November 2020 (Series 3) ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise Over Mercy Court Author: Fiona Mccallum Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: There's life in these old dogs yet ... and they're about to discover it. A heartwarming and humorous story about rediscovering the small pleasures that make life worthwhile, from Australia's master storyteller. Howard and Elsie Manning were born on the same day, met at kindergarten, and have been married for 59 years. They have lived sensible, productive lives, and raised two self-sufficient daughters. Now, at 78, they are bored with the predictability of life, fed up with contemporary society, have aching joints and dwindling finances, and - funeral by funeral - their circle of friends is shrinking. Worst of all, they are grieving for their beloved, recently deceased dog Maisie. Together Howard and Elsie consider bringing their lives to a peaceful end, but it turns out leaving this world is not easy, especially if they want to avoid pain or mess. Even the apparently simple methods have much room for error, as they discover. Then a knock at the door changes everything ... Praise for Fiona McCallum 'Fiona McCallum is one of Australia's favourite authors, and Her Time to Shine is another inspiring tale about finding strength and overcoming obstacles.' -CANBERRA WEEKLY

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman's Work Author: Victoria Purman Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. It's 1956, and while Melbourne is in a frenzy gearing up for the Olympics, the women of Australia are cooking up a storm for their chance to win the equivalent of a year's salary in the extraordinary Australian Women's Weekly cookery contest. For two women, in particular, the prize could be life-changing. For war widow and single mum Ivy Quinn, a win would mean more time to spend with her twelve-year-old son, Raymond. Mother of five Kathleen O'Grady has no time for cooking competitions, but the prize could offer her a different kind of life for herself and her children, and the chance to control her own future. As winter turns to spring both women begin to question their lives. For Kathleen, the grinding domesticity of her work as a wife and mother no longer seems enough, while Ivy begins to realise she has the courage to make a difference for other women and tell the truth about the ghosts from her past. But is it the competition prize that would give them a new way of seeing the world - a chance to free themselves from society's expectation and change their own futures - or is it the creativity and confidence it brings? Praise for Victoria Purman 'Heart-achingly raw yet filled with the beauty of the human spirit, [The Nurses' War] is a triumph that will linger in the heart and psyche.' Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath 'A richly crafted novel ... [The Women's Pages] graphically depicts life during those harrowing years. A touching tale and an enthralling read.' Reader's Digest

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crushing Author: Genevieve Novak Narrator: Liz Blackmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Getting over someone is not that difficult. All you have to do is focus on every negative thing about them for the rest of your life until you forget to stop actively hoping for their slow and painful death, then get a haircut ... Serial monogamist Marnie is running late to her own identity crisis. After a decade of twisting herself into different versions of the ideal girlfriend, she's swearing off relationships for good. Forever. Done. No more, no thank you. Pretty inconvenient time to meet Isaac: certified dreamboat and the only man who has ever truly got her. It's cool, though, they're just friends, he's got someone else, and she has more important things to worry about. Like who she is, what she wants, and what the hell she ever saw in the love(s) of her life in the first place. Flanked by overwhelmed new mum Nicola, terminally single Claud, and eternal pessimist Kit, Marnie reckons with the question: who are we when we're on our own? 'Crushing stings with truth and aches with hope. I loved it.' Jessica Dettmann 'A sharp, funny and biting exploration of a classic millennial existential crisis ... with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments' Books+Publishing 'A sexy, complex, bittersweet dark chocolate souffle of a book: airily paced, tartly funny, and with a romantic centre that's just gooey enough' Clare Fletcher 'Bingeable, sharply written, and hilarious, Crushing had me hooked from the first page. This book is filled with love, rage, and wisdom, and reading it felt like having a wine with a best friend.' Victoria Brookman, author of Burnt Out Praise for No Hard Feelings: 'Funny, biting, vulnerable and unflinching, Novak's novel is like an ocean dip: a bit salty, very refreshing' Lauren Sams 'No Hard Feelings is clever, funny and surprisingly sweet, and Penny captured my heart' Toni Jordan 'Wry and witty' Saturday Age

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baggage: The Complete Series 1-4: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Author: Hilary Lyon Narrator: Adie Allen, June Watson, Hilary Lyon, Stuart Mcquarrie, Robin Cameron, Phyllis Logan, Peter Capaldi, Full Cast, David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All four series of the comedy drama set in Edinburgh, following the lives of three fortysomething best friends 'Warmth, realism, humour... a continuing pleasure' The Guardian Caroline, Fiona and Ruth are lifelong friends, who've grown up together, laughed and cried together, and stood by each other through thick and thin. They may not always see eye to eye, and they might drive each other crazy, but they can't do without each other. But life's got a lot more complicated since they were 22, when the only things they carried around were handbags. Now, in midlife, they've got more baggage than the average airport carousel. Caroline's been dumped by her politician husband of 10 years, Alistair; single mother Ruth is struggling with her monosyllabic teenage son; and Fiona's walked out on her husband Roddy - and moved in with Caroline, in her poky top-floor Marchmont flat. Over the course of several manic Midsummers, crisis-ridden Christmases and hopeful Hogmanays, they grapple with ex-husbands and new lovers; broodiness and babies; divorce, dementia and alcoholism - only to find themselves climbing their biggest mountain yet. Aided by Roddy, Fiona's elderly mum Gladys, and Caroline's larger-than-life dad Hector, they set about forging their own new, strangely shaped, thoroughly 21st Century family... Written by Hilary Lyon, who also stars as Caroline, this funny, poignant sitcom is a love letter to female friendship - and to one of Europe's loveliest capital cities, Edinburgh. Phyllis Logan and Adie Allen co-star as Fiona and Ruth, with Peter Capaldi and Stuart McQuarrie as Alistair, Robin Cameron as Roddy, June Watson as Gladys and David Rintoul as Hector. Production credits Written by Hilary Lyon Produced by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy Directed by Marilyn Imrie Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling Sound Engineer: Phil Horne Studio Manager: Alison McKenzie Theme song by Nusa An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Caroline - Hilary Lyon Fiona - Phyllis Logan Ruth - Adie Allen Roddy - Robin Cameron Caitlin - Holly Wagner Mike/Simeon - Stuart McQuarrie Rev Nicholas/Tax man - Moray Hunter Alistair - Peter Capaldi/Stuart McQuarrie Kir - Peter Capaldi Caitlin - Holly Wagner Gladys - June Watson Fats/Waiter - Gordon Kennedy Janie - Hilary MacLean Gillian - Carolyn Bonnyman Trampy little nurse/Miriam/Polly/Wifie - Nicola Grier Malcolm/Peter - Jack Docherty Preston - Roger May Hector - David Rintoul First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 April-11 May 2005 (Series 1), 4 August-1 September 2006 (Series 2), 5 December 2007-9 January 2008 (Series 3), 8 July-12 August 2009 (Series 4) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd