The Last Karankawas: A Novel by Kimberly Garza

[Russian] - Цивилизация статуса by роберт шекли

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536141 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536141] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Цивилизация статуса Author: роберт шекли Narrator: максим суханов Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 20, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Один из самых ярких научно-фантастических романов Роберта Шекли. Обвиненный в убийстве 27-летний Уилл Баррент попадает на планету-тюрьму Омега, где царят дикие нравы и порядки. Каждый житель обязан регулярно употреблять наркотики, посещать черные мессы, нарушать закон и самое главное — убивать. Баррент ничего не помнит о прошлом, но убежден, что его подставили и отправили на Омегу незаслуженно. Пытаясь разобраться с собственным прошлым, Баррент оказывается втянутым в невероятные перипетии, чтобы вернуться обратно на Землю. Это невероятный приключенческий роман, в котором Шекли сумел совместить сразу несколько непохожих друг на друга жанров: социальную антиутопию, фантастический боевик и даже вестерн! Роберт Шекли (1928 – 2005) — именитый американский писатель-фантаст, один из отцов - основателей мировой фантастической прозы, автор нескольких сотен рассказов и нескольких десятков романов и повестей, которые переведены на многие языки мира. Огромную популярность Шекли снискал в нашей стране, куда не раз приезжал. В одном интервью на вопрос «Откуда вы берете свои идеи?» Шекли ответил: «Если бы я знал, откуда, я бы пошел туда и взял бы их больше!» Актеру Максиму Суханову удалось мастерски сохранить и передать не только неповторимую авторскую иронию, но и глубокий философский подтекст романа.

The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538216 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538216] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Palace Series: #2 of The Daughters of War Author: Dinah Jefferies Narrator: Stephanie Racine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise… A rebellious daughter 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer’s job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before. A rift over generations Betrayals and secrets, lies and silence hang between the sisters. A faded last letter from Rosalie is Florence’s only clue, the war an immovable barrier – and time is running out… Praise for The Hidden Palace ‘Completely swept me away to another place and time. Dinah is the queen of sumptuous settings, transporting the reader effortlessly from chocolate-box Devonshire to the cabaret clubs of 1920s Paris and war-torn Malta. A marvellous, multi-layered story, populated with characters to really care for’ HAZEL GAYNOR ‘Dinah Jefferies wields her storytelling magic on the island of Malta . . . It’s engrossing and sensual, full of the heat of the Mediterranean sun’ GILL PAUL ‘Powerful, passionate and profoundly moving . . . this compelling mix of love and tragedy vibrates with warmth and pain, and captures the intense dislocation of war’ KATE FURNIVALL ‘Sweeping and sumptuous with a gorgeous described sense of place. A marvellous adventure’ TRACY REES ‘A richly atmospheric tale of grief, determination and hope’ Woman’s Own ‘True escapism’ Best Daughters of War hit #5 in the Sunday Times bestselling charts on 26th September 2021.

Bad Fruit by Ella King

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538495 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538495] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Fruit Author: Ella King Narrator: Sabrina Pui Yee Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . . ‘A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book . . . .I genuinely loved this, it will stay with me for a long time’ LISA JEWELL ‘A blistering thriller’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Impossible to put down’ CHRIS WHITAKER Seventeen-year-old Lily has a loving, normal family. So why does it suddenly feel like secrets are stirring? Like Mama is about to crack? As a storm of memories builds over one stifling summer, Lily must recast everything. What if her house isn’t a home – but a prison? What if her mother isn’t a protector – but a monster . . . Bold, beautifully told, and bound to keep you turning this pages, this is an unforgettable story about a family gone bad . . . Readers love getting a taste of BAD FRUIT: ‘Best book I have read in a long long time. Intelligently written, really well paced. I devoured this’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A powerful, hard-hitting and exquisitely written novel’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Paring-knife sharp . . . Mama is a terrifying, masterful creation’ ABIGAIL DEAN ‘I devoured this, was completely gripped. Beautiful, astounding for a debut novel’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This is a cracker’ HARRIET TYCE ‘Disturbing, poignant and memorable all at once’ OBSERVER ‘A riveting novel exploring how family ties can both make us and break us’ RED ‘Beautifully captures your imagination from start to finish’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Beautiful, disturbing, impossible to put down. Bad Fruit heralds a seriously impressive new talent in Ella King’ CHRIS WHITAKER ‘Masterful in its evocation of the complexity of mother-daughter relationships . . . a writer to watch’ HARPER’S BAZAAR

The Last Karankawas: A Novel by Kimberly Garza

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539857 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539857] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Karankawas: A Novel Author: Kimberly Garza Narrator: Reggie De Leon, André Santana, Becca Q. Co, Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Debut author Garza skillfully links brilliantly crafted episodes to create an unforgettable community in Galveston, TX...Indeed, staying well-tuned to Garza’s work earns enduring rewards.' — Booklist (starred review) 'These rich performances, a chorus of different tones and accents, create a beautiful tapestry of a complicated city and the people who call it home.' - AudioFile Magazine 'Beautiful, complex, and subversive, The Last Karankawas is an important book about Texas from a powerful new voice in American fiction. I loved it.' —Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine A blazing and kaleidoscopic debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families on the Texas coast from a voice you won't soon forget. Welcome to Galveston, Texas. Population 50,241. A popular tourist destination and major shipping port, Galveston attracts millions of visitors each year. Yet of those who come to drink by the beach, few stray from the boulevards to Fish Village, the neighborhood home to individuals who for generations have powered the island. Carly Castillo has only ever known Fish Village. Her grandmother claims that they descend from the Karankawas, an indigenous Texas people once believed to be extinct, thereby tethering them to Galveston. But as Carly ages, she begins to imagine a life elsewhere, undefined by her family’s history. Meanwhile, her boyfriend and all-star shortstop turned seaman, Jess, treasures the salty, familiar air. He’s gotten chances to leave Galveston for bigger cities with more possibilities. But he didn’t take them then, and he sure as hell won’t now. When word spreads of a storm gathering strength offshore, building into Hurricane Ike, each Galveston resident must make a difficult decision: board up the windows and hunker down or flee inland and abandon their hard-won homes. Moving through these characters’ lives and those of the extraordinary individuals who circle them, Kimberly Garza's The Last Karankawas weaves together a multitude of voices to present a lyrical, emotionally charged portrait of everyday survival. The result is an unforgettable exploration of familial inheritance, human resilience, and the histories we assign to ourselves, reminding us that the deepest bonds are forged not by blood, but by fire. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536682 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536682] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Confederacy of Dunces Author: John Kennedy Toole Narrator: Reginald D. Hunter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with... Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, now brought to life by the comedy legend, Reginald D. Hunter. 'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly 'A masterwork of comedy' The New York Times 'My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue' The New York Times © John Kennedy Toole 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021