The Silent Emperor by Snorri Kristjansson

An Orphan’s Story by Cathy Sharp

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710499 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710499] to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Orphan’s Story Author: Cathy Sharp Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 16, 2025 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The brand new emotional and heart-wrenching tale from the author of The Lost Evacuee and The Boy with the Suitcase In a time of war, an orphaned boy must embark on an epic journey… After the death of his beloved father, Arthur and a group of other young evacuees are sent far away to Canada for their own safety on the eve of the Second World War. Alone and afraid, with no family to protect him, Arthur faces an unknown future. But even on the other side of the world he can’t escape the war. Faced with more upheaval, Arthur begins to doubt he will ever find his forever family. With so much heartache and turmoil, can he hold on to his dream of love and happiness?

The Silent Emperor by Snorri Kristjansson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760579 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760579] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silent Emperor Series: #2 of Hidden Legion Author: Snorri Kristjansson Narrator: John Skelley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Second instalment in the bold new historical fantasy of a secret order of Roman monster-hunters.'I am shadow, and I am terror. They call me Silent Claw.'Aemilius and his new comrades in the Hidden Legion have a new mission: to infiltrate the villa of a powerful politician and foil a plot against him.Posing as a servant to their host’s “cousin” and her “children”—the Legion’s latest recruits, a pair of adorable orphans trained in murder and espionage—Aemilius must keep his cover, while helping expose a killer who always seems one step ahead of them.As his newfound magical powers slowly unfold, he begins to hear the thoughts of animals and finds unexpected new allies, including a housecat with an inflated sense of its own importance.He’ll need all the help he can get, as the Legion find themselves locked in a desperate fight for survival against a foe with even darker and more terrible powers than those they faced in Alexandria.

Mary Shelley by Liam Dale

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824575 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824575] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Shelley Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its body. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! --Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.” And thus, Frankenstein’s monster was born. Everyone seems to know the name Frankenstein, whether it is from reading a book, watching a movie, or seeing a theatrical adaptation. Doctor Victor Frankenstein is the central character in the novel of the same name, sharing billing with the eponymous Frankenstein’s Monster, a creature created from different parts of the recently deceased, patched together and brought back to life by the good, yet experimental, Doctor. Frankenstein has become a true icon of horror that will last forever, very much in the same vein, if you will pardon the pun, as that other great, classic blood-sucking horror, Dracula, from the inspired pen of Bram Stoker. But how many people know that author’s name, or for that matter the name of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s creator? And, if by some remote chance they do, how many would be able to tell you the amazing story of her life, filled with death, tragedy, love, heartache and much, much more besides. Mary Shelley’s life was as exciting and dramatic as the monster she bestowed upon the world of literature, proving that even in this case, fact truly can be, stranger than fiction.

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography by Peter Ames Carlin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760972 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760972] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography Author: Peter Ames Carlin Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation—and reasserted the power of rock and roll '[Carlin's] unique gift for capturing the sweep and tenor of a cultural moment...is here on brilliant display.' —Michael Chabon In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a few short years, they had taken over the world – with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster and Green. Raw, outrageous, and expressive, R.E.M.’s distinctive musical flair was unmatched, and a string of mega-successes solidified them as generational spokesmen. In the tumultuous transition between the wide-open 80s and the anxiety of the early 90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive sound. In this rich, intimate biography, critically acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends – Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry – who stuck together at any cost, until the end. Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic, steeped in 80s and 90s nostalgia, The Name of This Band is R.E.M. paints a cultural history of the commercial peak and near-total collapse of a great music era, and the story of the generation that came of age at the apotheosis of rock.

[Chinese] - 话说唐玄宗 by 张思云

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/841500 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/841500] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Chinese] - 话说唐玄宗 Author: 张思云 Narrator: 烟雨项恭 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 4, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 内容简介： 本小说以第一人称拟人的手法，写了我大唐朝宫廷中的一些争权夺利经历，回忆过去悲欢离合。抒发出了朕到老年的一些事过景迁后的感慨。朕就是——睿宗李旦第三子，至道大圣大明孝皇帝，历史上的一代名君——唐玄宗李隆基。 唐玄宗李隆基（685年9月8日—762年5月3日），唐高宗李治与武则天之孙，唐睿宗李旦第三子，故又称李三郎，母窦德妃。 唐朝在位最长的皇帝（712年9月8日—756年8月12日在位）。