The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy

For Your Eyes Only: A James Bond Adventure by Ian Fleming

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681580 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681580] to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Your Eyes Only: A James Bond Adventure Series: #8 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Johnny Flynn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SENDS BOND TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND BEYOND  “From a View to a Kill” whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover to expose a deadly secret-intelligence plot, and in “For Your Eyes Only,” 007 is absorbed into a private vendetta of M’s, blurring the lines between the personal and professional. In “Quantum of Solace,” Bond attends a dinner party in the Bahamas and learns how passion can soon twist into cruelty, while “Risico” forces the secret agent to fight for the lesser of two evils in a smuggling war set amid the Mediterranean. Finally, “The Hildebrand Rarity” lands 007 in an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea, where even he has a secret to keep.  A collection of both classic intrigue and intrepid self-examination, For Your Eyes Only packs full, vibrant worlds into five classic tales.

Octopussy and the Living Daylights: A James Bond Adventure by Ian Fleming

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680534 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680534] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Octopussy and the Living Daylights: A James Bond Adventure Series: #14 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Ben Willbond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMIT In “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. “007 in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex-agent of her boyfriend’s secret KGB affiliation. And “The Living Daylights” sends Bond to Berlin to protect a British agent before an assassin strikes.

someone birthed them broken: Stories by Ama Asantewa Diaka

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682952 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682952] to listen full audiobooks. Title: someone birthed them broken: Stories Author: Ama Asantewa Diaka Narrator: Cole Asare, Ekua Ekumah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: “Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant... an original voice.” ––Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers • ''A compelling delight''—Booklist A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by acclaimed spoken-word artist and author of the poetry collection Woman, Eat Me Whole Ama Asantewa Diaka. In this startling collection of short fiction, Ama Asantewa Diaka creates a vibrant portrait of young Ghanaians’ today, captured in the experiences of characters whose lives bump against one other in friendship, passion, hope, and heartache. Men like Opoku Sr., not yet forty and struggling to keep his family’s cocoa business afloat after his father’s unexpected passing. Opoku strains under the burden of caring for his eight younger siblings and the child whose mother ran off. When his new girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant, he knows he has nothing left to give. Years later, that girlfriend’s son, Opoku Jr., now faces his own troubles, including his girlfriend Boatemaa, who (correctly) suspects he is sneaking around, and Amoafoa, the woman he’s seeing on the side. And there is John, who confides to his crush Baaba about a surprising encounter with a male friend over a game of FIFA; Baaba, who falls into a whirlwind romance with her professor that ends in violence; and their friend Ayeley, who is learning to accept pleasure after being raised to believe it is sinful. Diaka charts this constellation of interconnected lives in thirteen stories, exploring themes which run through the collection like a current: corruption and economic hardship, trauma and infidelity, shame, neglect, and the tribulations of the female body. In telling their stories, Diaka illuminates hope, freedom, and triumph that can be found in the everyday—the bonds between women, the joys of love and sex and art and dancing, the possibility of repair and redemption. Renowned for her spoken word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka demonstrates her lyrical brilliance in this emotionally rich work that unveils profound truths about her country, its inhabitants, and the universality of human experience.

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678878 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678878] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories Author: Louise Kennedy Narrator: Brid Brennan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her hands. An expectant mother’s worst fears about her husband’s entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are “dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime” (Guardian).

Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679323 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679323] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jewel Box: Stories Author: E. Lily Yu Narrator: Cindy Kay, Ramiz Monsef, Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from awardwinning writer E. Lily Yu.In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage.At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world. For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners, Jewel Box: Stories collects the acclaimed short fiction of E. Lily Yu, whose work has been praised in the New York Times as “devastating and perfect.”