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Paradise by Toni Morrison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.

True As Fate by Laurie Alice Eakes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283794 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283794] to listen full audiobooks. Title: True As Fate Series: #2 of The Ashford Chronicles Author: Laurie Alice Eakes Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Lady Chloe Ashford detests going to balls, loathes social pretense, and finds the very idea of hunting for a husband obscene. But she has an even more scandalous secret: she once helped an American—the enemy—escape from Dartmoor Prison. Now, nearly three years later, Ross Trenerry is back—and in trouble again. So is her traitorous heart. He doesn’t know she’s the one responsible for sending him to a second prison, and she has no intention of telling him. A former privateer, Ross has finally run out of his legendary luck. Only one woman lies between him and freedom. He desperately needs Chloe’s help to prove he hasn’t committed treason, but he’s distracted by the passion that flares between them. They set out on a cross-country adventure together to prove Ross’s innocence, but peril soon dogs their heels. As they race to reach their appointed rendezvous on time, they must fight their growing attraction and focus on discovering who is behind this deadly plot. Will they finally admit their love and put the pieces together before it’s too late?

The Lioness of Morocco by Julia Drosten

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281082 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281082] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lioness of Morocco Author: Julia Drosten Narrator: Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels trapped in nineteenth-century London, where her strong will and progressive views have rendered her unmarriageable. Still single at twenty-three, she is treated like a child and feels stifled in her controlling father's house. When Benjamin Hopkins, an ambitious employee of her father's trading company, shows an interest in her, she realizes marriage is her only chance to escape. As Benjamin's rising career whisks them both away to exotic Morocco, Sibylla is at last a citizen of the world, reveling in her newfound freedom by striking her first business deals, befriending locals…and falling in love for the first time with a charismatic and handsome Frenchman. But Benjamin's lust for money and influence draws him into dark dealings, pulling him ever further from Sibylla and their two young sons. When he's arrested on horrible charges, the fate of Sibylla's family rests on her shoulders, as she must decide whether she'll leave him to his fate or help him fight for his life.

Before the Rain Falls: A Novel by Camille Di Maio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284617 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284617] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before the Rain Falls: A Novel Author: Camille Di Maio Narrator: Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. She’s free from confinement—and ready to tell her secrets before it’s too late. She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. He crosses paths with Dr. Paloma Vega, who’s visiting Puerto Pesar with her own mission: to take care of her ailing grandmother and to rescue her rebellious younger sister before something terrible happens. Paloma and Mick have their reasons to be in the hot, parched border town whose name translates as “Port of Regret.” But they don’t anticipate how their lives will be changed forever. Moving and engrossing, this dual story alternates between Della’s dark ordeals of the 1940s and Paloma and Mick’s present-day search for answers—about roots, family, love, and what is truly important in life.

Fortune's Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehr

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285065 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285065] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune's Daughters Author: Consuelo Saah Baehr Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 9, 2017 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need—except her parents’ love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family’s manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan’s dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee’s world is one of poverty and desperation. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege. When she meets Faith, Hope has faced enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, she has built an emotional wall to survive. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. But when Faith’s father chooses Hope as his protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope fall in love with the same man, resentment and betrayal threaten their bond. Caught in the tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union fights, and changing women’s roles, these two extraordinary women find that true fortune can’t be bought or sold.