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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quiet Desperation Author: Alfred C. Martino Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 5, 2016 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Imagine for a moment, you're Marcus Cooper. A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without you realizing it, he's learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night's end, he makes you a million-dollar proposition to cause a drunk-driving accident. Sounds crazy to you? Maybe, maybe not. You're out of work. Bills are piling up. You owe your bookie six grand. But mostly, you're twenty years removed from being the high school football hero you once were, doubting how much longer life is worth living. Do you take the chance?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion in the Lei Shop Author: Kaye Starbird Narrator: Nancy Pearl, Kate Rudd, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Marty Langsmith is only five years old when a strange thunder rolls across the Hawaiian sky and life as she knows it explodes into flames. With her mother, April, and hundreds of other women and children, Marty is evacuated from the ruins of Pearl Harbor and sent into a brave new world overshadowed by uncertainty and grief. Feeling abandoned by her deployed Army officer father in the wake of the attack, Marty is haunted by nightmares of the lion in the lei shop, a creature that’s said to devour happy children. But as the years , mother and daughter slowly begin to embrace their new life and make peace with the pain of the past. Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history. Originally published in 1970 and reissued for a new generation of readers as part of renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries series, this lyrical novel gives a rarely heard voice to the women and children of Pearl Harbor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edward Adrift Author: Craig Lancaster Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: It’s been a year of upheaval for Edward Stanton, a forty-two-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s lost his job. His trusted therapist has retired. His best friends have moved away. And even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has been disrupted. All of this change has left Edward, who lives his life on a rigid schedule, completely flummoxed. But when his friend Donna calls with news that her son Kyle is in trouble, Edward leaves his comfort zone in Billings, Montana, and drives to visit them in Boise, where he discovers Kyle has morphed from a sweet kid into a sullen adolescent. Inspired by dreams of the past, Edward goes against his routine and decides to drive to a small town in Colorado where he once spent a summer with his father—bringing Kyle along as his road trip companion. The two argue about football and music along the way, and amid their misadventures, they meet an eccentric motel owner who just might be the love of Edward’s sheltered life—if only he can let her. Endearing and laugh-out-loud funny, Edward Adrift is author Craig Lancaster’s sequel to 600 Hours of Edward.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Smart One Author: Jennifer Close Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing messier than friendship: family. Weezy Coffey’s parents had always told her she was the smart one, while her sister was the pretty one. “Maureen will marry well,” their mother said, but instead it was Weezy who married well, to a kind man and good father. Weezy often wonders if she did this on purpose—thwarting expectations just to prove her parents wrong. But now that Weezy’s own children are adults, they haven’t exactly been meeting her expectations either. Her oldest child, Martha, is thirty and living in her childhood bedroom after a spectacular career flameout. Martha now works at J.Crew, folding pants with whales embroidered on them and complaining bitterly about it. Weezy’s middle child, Claire, has broken up with her fiancé, canceled her wedding, and locked herself in her New York apartment—leaving Weezy to deal with the caterer and florist. And her youngest, Max, is dating a college classmate named Cleo, a girl so beautiful and confident she wears her swimsuit to family dinner, leaving other of the Coffey household blushing and stammering into their plates. As the Coffey children’s various missteps drive them back to their childhood home, Weezy suddenly finds her empty nest crowded and her children in full-scale regression. Martha is moping like a teenager, Claire is stumbling home drunk in the wee hours, and Max and Cleo are skulking around the basement, guarding a secret of their own. With radiant style and a generous spirit, The Smart One is a story about the ways in which we never really grow up, and the place where we return when things go drastically awry: home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burgess Boys: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Strout Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for humanizing characters.” Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature.   Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.   With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, The Burgess Boys is Elizabeth Strout’s newest and perhaps most astonishing work of literary art.   Praise for Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge   “Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout’s unforgettable novel in stories.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Fiction lovers, this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her. . . . [Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff.”—USA Today   “Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Deeply human . . . Though loneliness and loss haunt these pages, Strout also supplies gentle humor and a nourishing dose of hope.”—Booklist (starred review)   “Olive Kitteridge still lingers in memory like a treasured photograph.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Book World • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Seattle Post-Intelligencer • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Plain Dealer • The Atlantic • Rocky Mountain News • Library Journal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paradise Guest House: A Novel Author: Ellen Sussman Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home—perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach.   It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the island’s lush jungles and pristine white sand beaches. Yet three days after her arrival, she is caught in Bali’s infamous nightclub bombings, which irreparably change her life and leave her with many unanswered questions.   One year later, haunted by memories, Jamie returns to Bali seeking a sense of closure. Most of all, she hopes to find Gabe, the man who saved her from the attacks. She hasn’t been able to forget his kindness—or the spark between them as he helped her heal. Checking into a cozy guest house for her stay, Jamie meets the kindly owner, who is coping with a painful past of his own, and a young boy who improbably becomes crucial to her search. Jamie has never shied away from a challenge, but a second chance with Gabe presents her with the biggest dilemma of all: whether she’s ready to open her heart.   Look for special features inside. the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Paradise Guest House   “Two survivors of Bali’s terrorist bombing find love and spiritual rebirth on an island whose inhabitants believe in reincarnation in Sussman’s touching panorama of paradise. . . . Throughout, Sussman celebrates lovers, quiet healing, and the sweetness of the island and its people.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A story of healing and redemption, of finding love in the most unexpected places, and of the importance of moving forward . . . Sussman has drawn a vivid, well-balanced portrait of a woman and a country working to recover from an unimaginable event and a very personal look at a global tragedy.”—Booklist   “Echoing Bali’s difficult recovery from [the 2002 terrorist bombing], the characters tread the difficult terrain of post-traumatic attachment. . . . A respectful and earnest . . . treatment of devastation’s aftermath.”—Kirkus Reviews   “[A] moving story about making sense of life after a tragedy . . . This touching tale will cause contemplation about what closure truly means.”—RT Book Reviews

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magic Circle: A Novel Author: Jenny Davidson Narrator: Emily Beresford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Three smart young women—the scholarly Ruth, her poet roommate Lucy, and their exotic, provocative neighbor Anna—are obsessed with games of all kinds. They’ve devoted themselves to both the academic study of play and the design of games based on the secret history of the neighborhood around Columbia University, from Grant’s Tomb to the former insane asylum that once stood where the campus is now. When Anna’s mysterious brother Anders gets involved and introduces live-action role-playing based on classic Greek tragedy, theory goes into practice and the stakes are raised. Told in a variety of formats—including Gchat and blog posts—that bring the fraught drama of Euripides screaming into the 21st century, The Magic Circle is an intellectual thriller like no other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat Author: Edward Kelsey Moore Narrator: Pamella D'pella, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STREAMING ON HULU •  A warmhearted, 'complex, believable, and always intriguing story” (The New York Journal of Books) that celebrates female friendship and second chances This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed 'The Supremes' by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they’ve weathered life’s storms for over four decades and counseled one another through marriage and children, happiness and the blues Now, however, they’re about to face their most challenging year yet. Proud, talented Clarice is struggling to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband’s humiliating infidelities; beautiful Barbara Jean is rocked by the tragic reverberations of a youthful love affair; and fearless Odette is about to embark on the most terrifying battle of her life. With wit, style and sublime talent, Edward Kelsey Moore brings together three devoted allies in a warmhearted novel that celebrates female friendship and second chances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo Author: Ronald De Feo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This is a dark yet often funny novel told from the point of view of a man who for the past two months has been a patient at a New York City mental ward. Having suffered a breakdown—due to his shattered marriage and an irrational fear of fading away as a human—he now finds himself caught between two worlds, neither of which is a place of comfort or fulfillment: the world of the ward, where abnormality and an odd sort of freedom reign, and the outside world, where convention and restrictive behavior rule. Finally on his way to becoming reasonably 'normal' again, he requests and is granted a 'solo ,' which allows him to leave the locked ward for several hours and visit the city, with the promise that he will return to the hospital by evening. As he prepares for his excursion, we get a picture of the ward he will temporarily leave behind—the staff and the patients, notably Mandy Reed, a schizophrenic and nymphomaniac who has become his closest friend there. Solo is an unsettling satire that depicts, with inverted logic, the difficulties of madness and normalcy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accursed Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man–a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up. When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the university and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain–all plagued by "accursed" visions. An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer. Narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Mozhan Marno, Edoardo Ballerini, Jennifer Ikeda, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 532 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 157 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benediction Author: Kent Haruf Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town’s newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times.  Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the comion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wanting Author: Michael LaVigne Narrator: Neil Shah, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel of an Israeli father and daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. In the captivating opening of this novel, the celebrated Russian-born modern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing; his life and perceptions become heightened and disturbed, leading him on an ill-advised journey into the desert and Palestinian territory. Roman's odyssey alternates with the vivacious, bittersweet diary of his thirteen-year-old daughter Anyusha—on her own perilous path, of which Roman is ignorant—and the startlingly alive observations of Amir, the young Palestinian who pushed the button and is now damned to watch the havoc he has wrought from a shaky beyond. Enriched also by flashbacks to the alluring, sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, this novel becomes a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which all such love is wrought.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Barbara Caruso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 22, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and she finds herself snubbed by her own class. Ellen and Newland fall in love and must choose between ion and conventions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Minus One Author: Ruth Doan Macdougall Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The year is 1969, a time of turmoil for the United States—and for thirty-year-old Emily Bean, who, following her devastating divorce, leaves her home in the New Hampshire mountains to work as a teacher in the state’s coastal region. Still in love with her ex-husband, David, Emily struggles to adjust to single life. Women’s liberation and the freewheeling sixties had only been on the perimeter of her married life, so even walking into a restaurant alone makes insecure Emily self-conscious. The men in town are quick to notice an available and attractive young woman with legs made for miniskirts. Emily falls into relationships with two men, one of whom could be her way back to the safe life that she lost. But in this portrait of a woman on the brink of self-realization, Emily must learn whether or not she can truly recapture the past.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories Author: Ron Rash Narrator: Phoebe Strole, Prentice Onayemi, Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Christian Baskous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day.  The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form. Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s “The Trusty,” which first appeared in The New Yorker.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories Author: Karen Russell Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best. In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In 'The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979,' a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. 'Proving Up' and 'The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis'--stories of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments--find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the line into full-scale horror. In 'The New Veterans,' a massage therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the images on his body. In all, these wondrous new pieces display a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers.  List of Stories and Readers: Vampires in the Lemon Grove read by Arthur Morey Reeling for the Empire read by Joy Osmanski  The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979 read by Kaleo Griffith  Proving Up read by Jesse Bernstein The Barn at the End of Our Term read  by Mark Bramhall Dougbert Shackleton's Rules of Antarctic Tailgating read by Michael Bybee  The New Veterans read by Romy Rosemont  The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis read by Robbie Daymond

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghostman Author: Roger Hobbs Narrator: Jake Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he’s still alive, he’s in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminal’s criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with. But within hours a private jet is flying this exceptionally experienced fixer and cleaner-upper from Seattle to New Jersey and right into a spectacular mess: one heister dead in the parking lot, another winged but on the run, the shooter a complete mystery, the $1.2 million in freshly printed bills god knows where and the FBI already waiting for Jack at the airport, to be ed shortly by other extremely interested and elusive parties. He has only forty-eight hours until the twice-stolen cash literally explodes, taking with it the wider, byzantine ambitions behind the theft. To contend with all this will require every gram of his skill, ingenuity and self-protective instincts, especially when offense and defense soon become meaningless . And as he maneuvers these exceedingly slippery slopes, he relives the botched bank robbery in Kuala Lumpur five years earlier that has now landed him this unwanted new assignment. From its riveting opening pages, Ghostman effortlessly pulls the reader into Jack’s refined and peculiar world—and the sophisticated shadowboxing grows ever more intense as he moves, hour by hour, toward a  constantly reimprovised solution. With a quicksilver plot, gripping prose and masterly expertise, Roger Hobbs has given us a novel that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Live in Water: Stories Author: Jess Walter Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a “ridiculously talented writer” (New York Times), “one of the freshest voices in American literature” (Dallas Morning News).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Girl: A Novel Author: Tara Conklin Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research, she learns about Lu Anne Bell, a renowned prewar artist whose famous works might have actually been painted by her slave, Josephine. Featuring two remarkable, unforgettable heroines, Tara Conklin's The House Girl is riveting and powerful, literary fiction at its very best.