Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121477 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Flowers of War

Author: Geling Yan

Narrator: Samantha Quan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2012

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012.   This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city, slaughtering not only soldiers but raping and murdering the civilian population as well. It tells the story of an American missionary who, for a few terrifying days, finds himself sheltering a group of schoolgirls, prostitutes and wounded Chinese soldiers in the compound of his church.   American priest Father Engelmann is one of the small group of Westerners who have remained in Nanjing, despite the approach of the Japanese. America is not yet in the war and so his church compound is supposedly neutral territory. However, his confidence in his ability to look after the Chinese schoolgirls left in his care is shaken when thirteen prostitutes from the floating brothel on the nearby Yangtze River climb over the compound wall and demand to be hidden. The situation becomes even more intense when some wounded Chinese soldiers appear. Meanwhile Engelmann is becoming increasingly aware of the barbaric behaviour of the Japanese outside the compound walls. It is only a matter of time before they knock on the door and find the people he is protecting.   Like Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, this poignant audiobook looks at the effect upon individuals of large-scale war and tragedy. The characters are beautifully observed. From the naive schoolgirls, the brazen prostitutes and the frightened soldiers to the slightly priggish priest and his resentful Chinese entourage. As the Japanese circle ever closer, the barriers of hatred and prejudice that separate the characters dissolve, and they perform unexpected and moving acts of heroism. Geling Yan, an important Chinese writer, reveals herself to be a master of detail and emotion in this novel. She recreates history as if it is unfolding before our eyes, and writes characters that are so engaging and so rich that we believe in them entirely. This is a novel full of humanity -- at its worst and at its best -- and a fascinating insight into 1930s China.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120525 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Rustlers of West Fork: A Novel

Series: #1 of Hopalong Cassidy

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this first of four classic frontier novels, Louis L'Amour adds his own special brand to the life and adventures of one of America's favorite fictional cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy. In The Rustlers of West Fork, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan. When he arrives at the Circle J, he discovers that the rancher and his daughter, Pam, are being held prisoner by a desperate band of outlaws led by the ruthless Avery Sparr and his partner Arnold Soper. Even if Hopalong Cassidy can free Jordan and Pam, he will have to lead them across rough and untamed Apache country, stalked by the outlaws who have vowed to gun him down. But Hopalong is no stranger to trouble, and before his guns or his temper cool, he's determines to round up Sparr and his gang and bring the outlaws to justice ... dead or alive! This classic tale of pursuit and survival is vintage L'Amour and adds new life and luster to the legend of Hopalong Cassidy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120524 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Mountain Valley War: A Novel

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his past behind him. Then King Bill Hale began laying claim to all the land around Cedar Bluff. When Hale’s son kills one of Trent’s neighbors, Trent quickly steps forward to lead the fight. Their property had been legally filed on, but Bill Hale has the men, money, and political power to steal it from them. What Hale doesn’t realize is that Trent also has connections. With evidence that can ruin Hale’s scheme, Trent must find a way past Hale’s gang of thugs to the men who can help him. However, if Trent succeeds, his violent past will be revealed; if he fails, the others may forfeit their land. But Trent could forfeit his life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119702 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

Author: Eva Stachniak

Narrator: Beata Poźniak

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Release date: January 10, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne. Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the world’s most eminent court. Under the tutelage of Count Bestuzhev, Chancellor and spymaster, Varvara will be educated in skills from lock picking to lovemaking, learning above all else to listen—and to wait for opportunity. That opportunity arrives in a slender young princess from Zerbst named Sophie, a playful teenager destined to become the indomitable Catherine the Great. Sophie’s destiny at court is to marry the Empress’s nephew, but she has other, loftier, more dangerous ambitions, and she proves to be more guileful than she first appears. What Sophie needs is an insider at court, a loyal pair of eyes and ears who knows the traps, the conspiracies, and the treacheries that surround her. Varvara will become Sophie’s confidante—and together the two young women will rise to the pinnacle of absolute power. With dazzling details and intense drama, Eva Stachniak depicts Varvara’s secret alliance with Catherine as the princess grows into a legend—through an enforced marriage, illicit seductions, and, at last, the shocking coup to assume the throne of all of Russia. Impeccably researched and magnificently written, The Winter Palace is an irresistible peek through the keyhole of one of history’s grandest tales. Praise for The Winter Palace   “A majestic and splendidly written tale of pride, passion, intrigue, and deceit that is brought alive from the first page to the last.”—Rosalind Laker   “At the same time baroque and intimate, worldly and domestic, wildly strange and soulfully familiar, The Winter Palace offers a flickering glimpse of history through the gauze of deft entertainment.”—The Washington Post   “A thrilling point of view . . . Readers are treated to a firsthand account of the young princess’s slow ascent to the throne, a path deliciously strewn with discarded lovers and sanguine court intrigues.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune   “[A] brilliant, bold historical novel . . . This superb biographical epic proves the Tudors don’t have a monopoly on marital scandal, royal intrigue, or feminine triumph.”—Booklist (starred review)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118375 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: American Dervish: A Novel

Author: Ayad Akhtar

Narrator: Ayad Akhtar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 9, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118376 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Agent 6

Series: #3 of The Child 44 Trilogy

Author: Tom Rob Smith

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Deftly capturing the claustrophobic intensity of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, it's at once a heart-pounding thriller and a richly atmospheric novel of extraordinary depth.... AGENT 6 Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a 'Peace Tour' to New York City, he is immediately suspicious. Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy. In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family. His request is summarily denied. Crippled by grief and haunted by the need to find out exactly what happened on that night in New York, Leo takes matters into his own hands. It is a quest that will span decades, and take Leo around the world--from Moscow, to the mountains of Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, to the backstreets of New York--in pursuit of the one man who knows the truth: Agent 6.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132146 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Return of a Soldier

Author: Rebecca West

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past-or will they help him recover his memory so that he can return to the front? The answer is revealed through a heart-wrenching, unexpected sacrifice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123037 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: These Scars Are Sacred: A Novel To Heal And Inform

Author: Elliott Storm

Narrator: Guy Ortoleva

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2011

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Mission: To finally bring Vietnam veterans a universal symbol of recognition and honor for the supreme sacrifice given in service of their country and to restore the dignity stolen by a nation that forgot. This symbol is one that only those who held their mud in the Nam will understand. The Veterans' Administration gave it a label, 'P.T.S.D.' We understand what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder really is—IT IS OUR SCARS THAT ARE SACRED.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127685 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Mortal Coils

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2011

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, 'The Giaconda Smile,' is a short murder story. 'Permutations among the Nightingales' is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. 'The Tillotson Banquet' tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. 'Green Tunnels' is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. 'Nuns at Luncheon' is a story being told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer's process, a concept Huxley used in his 'Crome Yellow.' Each story is read by the talented narrator, Simon Vance.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124869 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The House of Seven Gables

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: Mark Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In the House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement in a New England family and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, is haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead and wracked by the fear of its frightened living. The story was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by those of Hawthorne's ancestors who played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Written as a follow-up to The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables is truly a masterful blending of the actual and the imaginary.