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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel by Laurie Frankel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281433 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281433] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is How It Always Is: A Novel Author: Laurie Frankel Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 210 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 59 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick *Named one of the top 10 books of 2017 by People Magazine* “It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.” —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change…and then change the world. This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever. 'The audiobook will undoubtedly steal hearts' - AudioFile

Moon Over Tangier by Janice Law

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280248 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280248] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moon Over Tangier Series: #3 of Francis Bacon Author: Janice Law Narrator: Paul Ansdell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: For artist Francis Bacon, life with David grows more dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis's paintings and threatening to gut the painter, too. When David leaves London for Morocco, Francis cannot help but follow this man whom he loves but can no longer trust. In Tangier, they find a thriving community of expats who guzzle champagne while revolutionaries gather in the desert. But in Morocco's International Zone, death does not wait for rebellion. After Francis identifies a friend's Picasso as a fake, the police ask him to investigate the forger's demise. Between the bustling city and the empty desert, Francis finds that in Morocco, even the fakes can be worth killing for.

Nights In Berlin by Janice Law

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280119 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280119] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights In Berlin Series: #4 of Francis Bacon Author: Janice Law Narrator: Paul Ansdell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Francis Bacon never cared much for country living, so he is overjoyed when his father sends him to Berlin as punishment for his not-so-innocent flirtations with the other boys at school. With afternoons at the cinema, dinner at the Hotel Adlon, and nights at the most outrageous cabarets in Germany-and in his Uncle Lastings' bed-he'll fit right in. As tensions rise, Francis finds his Uncle Lastings busy welcoming countless men into his hotel room-some invited for pleasure, others to be recruited for the fight against Bolshevism. But when the Nazis send Lastings fleeing for his life, Francis is left alone, penniless, and hunted, with only his keen sense of hedonism to distract him from a city that gets more menacing every night.

In My Father’s House by E. Lynn Harris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280877 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280877] to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Father’s House Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Phil John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: December 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach.Only the world’s most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn’t immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can’t refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an “A” list party—to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don’t have to do anything they don’t want to, but… His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his protégé Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married—and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley’s fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?

After Disasters by Viet Dinh

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272712 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272712] to listen full audiobooks. Title: After Disasters Series: #1 of The Changing Earth Author: Viet Dinh Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Beautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict; Andy, a young firefighter eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground racing against time and dwindling resources. Through time and place, hope and tragedy, love and lust, these four men put their lives at risk in a country where danger lurks everywhere. O. Henry Prize–winning author Viet Dinh takes us on a moving and evocative journey through an India set with smoky funeral pyres, winding rivers that hold prayers and the deceased, and the rubble of Gujarat, a crumbling place wavering between life and death. As the four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city, where looting and threats of violence become more severe, they realize the first lives they save might be their own.