What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

My Documents: Stories by Alejandro Zambra

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649330 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649330] to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Documents: Stories Author: Alejandro Zambra Narrator: Gisela Chípe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, now featuring five additional stories and an introduction by his longtime collaborator, Megan McDowell An early desktop computer becomes the third partner in a doomed relationship; an older brother figure whose father lives in exile imparts hilarious life lessons to his young protégé. A man attempts to quit smoking despite the fact that he’s very good at it; another masquerades as the family man he'll never be. Throughout, Pinochet’s dictatorship casts a long shadow, and men in relationships exhibit their profound capacity for both love and harm. In these unforgettable stories—which span religion, romance, technology, soccer, solitude, and more—Alejandro Zambra unfolds a radical literary reflection on life, relationships, and the tender and brutal dimensions of masculinity in Chile from the 1980s to the present. Intimate and playful, provocative and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award winning translator Megan McDowell, My Documents a testament to the necessity of literature even—and especially—in times of political and personal crisis.

The Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654123 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654123] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Side of the River Author: Jeanette Winterson Narrator: Vicky Licorish, Jeanette Winterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us. To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be. ©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649826 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649826] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Paterson Joseph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.  A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.

Holler, Child: Stories by Latoya Watkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649138 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649138] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holler, Child: Stories Author: Latoya Watkins Narrator: De'onna Prince, Kacie Rogers, Aaron Goodson, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Jd Jackson, Lisa Renee Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction An extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler, Child’s eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope, reconciliation, freedom.    In “Cutting Horse,” the appearance of a horse in a man’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In “Holler, Child,” a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side. And “Time After” shows us the unshakable bonds of family as a sister journeys to find her estranged brother—the one who saved her many times over.     Throughout Holler, Child, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned to hope. This collection peers deeply into lives of women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings—exploring how race, power, and inequality map on the individual, and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life.

What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644141 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644141] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What You Are Looking for is in the Library Author: Michiko Aoyama Narrator: Shiro Kawai, Kenichiro Thomson, Winson Ting, Susan Momoko-Hingley, Hanako Footman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The heartwarming Japanese bestseller for fans of Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman and THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS 'Library. What a nice-sounding word. So comforting. I feel like I'm a student again. Library ... Am I allowed to borrow books?' 'What are you looking for?' asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door. Sensing exactly what they're looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. Every borrower in her library is at a different crossroads, from the restless retail assistant - can she ever get out of a dead-end job? - to the juggling new mother who dreams of becoming a magazine editor, and the meticulous accountant who yearns to own an antique store. The surprise book Komachi lends to each will have transformative consequences. Magical and uplifting, What You Are Looking for is in the Library is about the wondrousness of libraries and the power of books for change. Highlighting all the tiny comforts of being alive, it is a story that no reader will ever forget. ©2023 Michiko Aoyama (P)2023 Penguin Audio