The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith

The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228744 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228744] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Alex Crow Author: Andrew Smith Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Once again blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, Grasshopper Jungle author Andrew Smith tells the story of 15-year-old Ariel, a refugee from the Middle East who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story of his summer at a boys' camp for tech detox is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century. Oh, and there’s also a depressed bionic reincarnated crow.

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228742 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228742] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Author: Teresa Toten Narrator: Johnathan Mcclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Filled with moments of deep emotion and unexpected humor, this understated and wise novel explores the complexities of living with OCD and offers the prospect of hope, happiness and healing. Perfect for readers who love Eleanor & Park and All the Bright Places.   ADAM’S GOALS: Grow immediately. Find courage. Keep courage. Get normal. Marry Robyn Plummer.   The instant Adam Spencer Ross meets Robyn Plummer in his Young Adult OCD Support Group, he is hopelessly, desperately drawn to her. Robyn has an hypnotic voice, blue eyes the shade of an angry sky, and ravishing beauty that makes Adam’s insides ache. She’s also just been released from a residential psychiatric program—the kind for the worst, most difficult-to-cure cases; the kind that Adam and his fellow support group members will do anything to avoid joining. Adam immediately knows that he has to save Robyn, must save Robyn, or die trying. But is it really Robyn who needs rescuing? And is it possible to have a normal relationship when your life is anything but?   Select praise for The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B: “. . . achingly authentic. Like Augustus Waters before him, Adam Spencer Ross will renew your faith in real-life superheroes and shatter your heart in equal measures.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “This book made me laugh, cry, think, and kept me coming back for more.” —The Guardian   “Adam is a protagonist that readers will root for.” —VOYA   “Honest, fresh, and funny . . . Toten employs information about OCD like grace notes in this deft and compelling narrative.” —Booklist   “Adam is a fresh and complex character, and far more than the sum of his symptoms.” —Publishers Weekly

Where the Road Takes Me by Jay McLean

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228372 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228372] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Road Takes Me Author: Jay McLean Narrator: Nick Podehl, Laura Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Chloe has one plan for the future, and one plan only: the road. She’s made a promise to herself: don’t let anyone in, and don’t let anyone love her. She’s learned the hard way what happens if she breaks her rules. So she’s focused on being invisible and waiting until she can set out on the road—her dream of freedom, at least for a little while. Blake Hunter is a basketball star who has it all—everything about him looks perfect to those on the other side of his protective walls. He can’t let anyone see the shattered pieces behind the flawless facade or else all his hopes and dreams will disappear. One dark night throws Chloe and Blake together, changing everything for Blake. For Chloe, nothing changes: she has the road, and she’s focused on it. But when the so-called perfect boy starts to notice the invisible girl, they discover that sometimes with love, no one knows where the road may lead.

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228589 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228589] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mosquitoland Author: David Arnold Narrator: Phoebe Strole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.   After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland.   So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.   Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228817 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228817] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Purple Heart Author: Patricia McCormick Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squad—Justin, Wolf, and Charlene—the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick has written a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone, where loyalty is valued above all, and death is terrifyingly commonplace.