Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370302 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370302] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance Author: Richard Powers Narrator: John Skelley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments ofinnocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The youngnarrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it.The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.

Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369340 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369340] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mutant Message Down Under Author: Marlo Morgan Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''A powerful message for all of us. I was hypnotized by the simple truths and spiritual lessons. Read it and tell everyone you know to do the same.'' —Wayne Dyer This incredible adventure story—and New York Times bestseller—offers us an opportunity to discover the wisdom of an ancient culture and to hear its powerful message. An American woman is summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals who call themselves the “Real People” to accompany them on a four-month-long walkabout through the Outback. While traveling barefoot with them through 1,400 miles of rugged desert terrain, she learns a new way of life, including their methods of healing, based on the wisdom of their 50,000-year-old culture. Ultimately, she experiences a dramatic personal transformation. Mutant Message Down Under recounts a unique, timely, and powerful life-enhancing message for all humankind: It is not too late to save our world from destruction if we realize that all living things—be they plants, animals, or human beings—are part of the same universal oneness. If we heed the message, our lives, like the lives of the Real People, can be filled with this great sense of purpose.

The Shape of Family: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369333 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369333] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shape of Family: A Novel Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda Narrator: Shiromi Arserio, Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Deeply involving....Rings so true.' -- Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy. “The Shape of Family is a novel about race and culture, parents and siblings, marriage and love, but most of all, it's about finding hope after darkness. Shilpi Somaya Gowda is a compassionate and wise storyteller who keeps us riveted from beginning to end.” -- Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation The Olander family embodies the modern American Dream in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem, the light of their home. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family’s foundation cracks as each member struggles to seek a way forward. Jaya finds solace in spirituality. Keith wagers on his high-powered career. Karina focuses relentlessly on her future and independence. And Prem watches helplessly as his once close-knit family drifts apart. When Karina heads off to college for a fresh start, her search for identity and belonging leads her down a dark path, forcing her and her family to reckon with the past, the secrets they’ve held and the weight of their choices. The Shape of Family is an intimate portrayal of four individuals as they grapple with what it means to be a family and how to move from a painful past into a hopeful future. It is a profoundly moving exploration of the ways we all seek belonging—in our families, our communities and ultimately, within ourselves.

Greenwood: A Novel by Michael Christie

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367194 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367194] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greenwood: A Novel Author: Michael Christie Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.”—The New York Times Book Review It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests. It’s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It’s 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father’s once vast and violent timber empire. It’s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie’s effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

Mountain Road, Late at Night by Alan Rossi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374086 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374086] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mountain Road, Late at Night Author: Alan Rossi Narrator: Davis Brooks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 6, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Through sharply drawn characters, Rossi achieves a clear-eyed and poignant view of a family in crisis' - Sydney Morning Herald A fatal car crash. A young boy orphaned. Who should now become his parents? Nicholas and April are driving home from a party when their car crashes on an empty road high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As they lay on the roadside slowly dying, their four-year-old son, Jack, waits for them at home. In the days after their deaths, their grieving relatives begin to descend on the family home. There, they are forced to decide who will care for the child Nicholas and April left behind. Nicholas’s brother Nathaniel and his wife Stefanie aren’t ready to be parents, but Nicholas’s mother and father have issues of their own. And April’s mother Tammy is driving across the country to claim her grandson. Spanning a few traumatic days in the minds of each family member, Mountain Road, Late at Night, is a masterly portrait of grief, the pain of sudden loss and a family in utter crisis. Gripping, affecting and extremely accomplished, Alan Rossi's unforgettable debut asks one crucial question: what do you do when the worst happens?