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Lorna Mott Comes Home: A Novel by Diane Johnson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449835 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449835] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lorna Mott Comes Home: A Novel Author: Diane Johnson Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco and to the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren. “Delightful”--Claire Messud (Harper’s Magazine); “Razor-sharp prose and astute observations … a treat”--Publishers Weekly (starred review). Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman--lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a delightful house and an independent career as an admired art lecturer involving travel and public appearances, expensive clothes. She's a woman with an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life. But in an impulsive and planned decision, Lorna has decided to leave her husband, a notorious tombeur (seducer), and his small ancestral village in France, and return to America, much more suited to her temperament than the rectitude of formal starchy France. For Lorna, a beautiful idyll is over, finished, done . . . In Lorna Mott Comes Home, Diane Johnson brings us into the dreamy, anxiety-filled American world of Lorna Mott Dumas, where much has changed and where she struggles to create a new life to support herself. Into the mix--her ex-husband, and the father of her three grown children (all supportive), and grandchildren with their own troubles (money, divorce, real estate, living on the fringe; a thriving software enterprise; a missing child in the far east; grandchildren--new hostages to fortune; and, one, 15 years old, a golden girl yet always different, diagnosed at a young age with diabetes, and now pregnant and determined to have the child) . . . In the midst of a large cast, the precarious balance of comedy and tragedy, happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, generosity and greed, love and sex, Diane Johnson, our Edith Wharton of expat life, comes home to America to deftly, irresistibly portray, with the lightest of touch, the way we live now.

[Arabic] - خرائط التيه by بثينة العيسى

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445101 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445101] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - خرائط التيه Author: بثينة العيسى Narrator: رهام حمدي زيدان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 20, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: نبيع كل شيء، ولا مال لدينا لنشتري أنفسنا. ماذا لو كانت قيمة الإنسان ميتًا أعلى منه حيًّا؟ مضيق هرمز. خليج فارس، أو الخليج العربي. بئر برقان. بئر زمزم. الهلال الخصيب. فلسطين المحتلة. دلتا سيناء. البحر الأحمر. مضيق باب المندب. من مضيقٍ إلى مضيق.. نبحثُ عن معنى. إذا لم يكن هناك ما يقال.. فلتَقُل ما لا يُقال.

Are You Enjoying?: Stories by Mira Sethi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449839 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449839] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Enjoying?: Stories Author: Mira Sethi Narrator: Mira Sethi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor, compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student's preparations for his sister's wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited, confident, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.

The Social Graces by Renée Rosen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449830 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449830] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Social Graces Author: Renée Rosen Narrator: Hillary Huber, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The USA Today Bestseller! Named one of 2021’s Most Anticipated Historical Novels by Oprah Daily ∙ SheReads ∙ Frolic ∙ BookReporter ∙ and more... The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Alva Vanderbilt and the Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age. 1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence—what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor—the Mrs. Astor. But times are changing. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is dizzying wealth when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything. Sweeping three decades and based on true events, this is the mesmerizing story of two fascinating, complicated women going head to head, behaving badly, and discovering what’s truly at stake.

Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447320 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447320] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Willful Creatures: Stories Author: Aimee Bender Narrator: Alex Mckenna, Jorjeana Marie, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.