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The Watcher by Kate Medina

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348783 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348783] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Watcher Author: Kate Medina Narrator: Stephanie Racine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: If you see him it’s already too late… ‘A brilliant and believable female lead’ Good Housekeeping Some secrets can’t be hidden. The Fullers are the picture-perfect family, a wealthy couple with a grand home in the middle of remote woodland. But even they have something to hide – and it will prove fatal. Some crimes can’t be forgotten. Psychologist Dr Jessie Flynn and DI Marilyn Simmons arrive at the Fuller’s home to find a suburban nightmare. A crime scene more disturbing than anything they have ever encountered. Some killers can’t be stopped. Jessie knows that this is no random act of violence. And if she can’t unlock the motivation behind the crime and shine a light into this killer’s mind, the Fullers won’t be the only family to die…

Keeping Lucy: A Novel by T. Greenwood

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347806 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347806] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keeping Lucy: A Novel Author: T. Greenwood Narrator: Thérèse Plummer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 6, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019 Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019 Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter. Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for the “feeble-minded.' Ab tried to convince Ginny it was for the best. That they should grieve for their daughter as though she were dead. That they should try to move on. But two years later, when Ginny's best friend, Marsha, shows her a series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth--its squalid hallways filled with neglected children--she knows she can't leave her daughter there. With Ginny's six-year-old son in tow, Ginny and Marsha drive to the school to see Lucy for themselves. What they find sets their course on a heart-racing journey across state lines—turning Ginny into a fugitive. For the first time, Ginny must test her own strength and face the world head-on as she fights Ab and his domineering father for the right to keep Lucy. Racing from Massachusetts to the beaches of Atlantic City, through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to a roadside mermaid show in Florida, Keeping Lucy is a searing portrait of just how far a mother’s love can take her. 'A heartfelt tale of true friendship, a mother’s unstoppable love, and the immeasurable fortitude of women.' - Booklist

The Blue Period: A Novel by Luke Jerod Kummer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347896 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347896] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blue Period: A Novel Author: Luke Jerod Kummer Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 1, 2019 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A riveting novel about the tragic romance that nearly destroyed a young Pablo Picasso—while granting him his first flight of creative genius. From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows of bohemian life alongside his rebellious poet friend with a shadowy past, Carles Casagemas. Fleeing family misfortune and their parents’ expectations, the two young artists seek their creative outlet while chasing inspiration in drugs, decadence, and the liberated women of Montmartre—creatures far different from the veiled ones back home. The new life feels like bliss, and nothing can come between them…until a dark-haired, enigmatic muse enters the picture. The two artists’ passion for Germaine will lead to a devastating turn. Amid soul-searching and despair, however, Picasso discovers a color palette in which to render his demons and paint himself into lasting history. Bringing the exuberance of the era vividly to life, this richly imagined portrait of Picasso’s coming of age intertwines the love, death, lust, and friendships that inspired the immortal works of a defiant master.

Cygnet: A Novel by Season Butler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345432 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345432] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cygnet: A Novel Author: Season Butler Narrator: Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 25, 2019 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth—and, in its quiet way, the end of the world.”— China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station An utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering charisma, about a young woman resisting the savagery of adulthood in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth. “It’s too hot for most of the clothes I packed to come here, when I thought this would only be for a week or two. My mother kissed me with those purple-brown lips of hers and said, we’ll be back, hold tight.” Seventeen-year-old Kid doesn’t know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly, promising to return soon. That was months ago. Now, Lolly is dead and Kid is alone, stranded ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire on tiny Swan Island. Unable to reach her parents, and with no other relatives to turn to, Kid works for a neighbor, airbrushing the past—digitally retouching family photos and movies—to earn enough money to survive. Surrounded by the vast ocean, Kid’s temporary home is no ordinary vacation retreat. The island is populated by an idiosyncratic group of elderly separatists who left behind the youth-obsessed mainland—”the Bad Place”—to create their own alternative community. These residents call themselves the Swans. Kid calls them the Wrinklies. Even as Kid tries to be good and quiet and patient, the adolescent’s presence unnerves the Swans, turning some downright hostile. They don’t care if she has nowhere to go, they just want her gone. She is a reminder of all they’ve left behind and are determined to forget. But Kid isn’t the only problem threatening the insular community. Swan Island is eroding into the rising sea, threatening the Swans’ very existence there. To find a way forward, the Kid must come to terms with the realities of her life and an unknown future that is hers alone to embrace. Season Butler makes her literary debut with an ambitious work of bold imagination. Tough and tender, compassionate and ferocious, intelligent and provocative, Cygnet is a meditation on death and life, past and future, aging and youth, memory and forgetting, that explores what it means to find acceptance—of things past and those to come.

The Lesson: A Novel by Cadwell Turnbull

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347419 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347419] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lesson: A Novel Author: Cadwell Turnbull Narrator: Janina Edwards, Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 18, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.