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Those Fatal Flowers: A Novel by Shannon Ives

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752231 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752231] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Those Fatal Flowers: A Novel Author: Shannon Ives Narrator: E A Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 21, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage—a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes. Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the handmaidens charged with protecting Proserpina when she was kidnapped, Thelia and her sisters are banished to the island of Scopuli and cursed to live as sirens—winged half-woman, half-bird creatures. In luring sailors to their deaths with an irresistible song, the sisters hope to gain favor from the gods who could free them. But then ships stop coming, and Thelia fears a fate worse than the Underworld. Just as time begins to run out, a voice emerges, Proserpina’s voice, and what she asks of Thelia will spark a dangerous quest for their freedom. Now, Roanoke. Thelia can’t bear to reflect on her last moments in Scopuli. After weeks drifting at sea alone, Thelia’s renewed human body—a result of her last devastating sacrifice on Scopuli—is close to death. Luckily, an unfamiliar island appears on the horizon: Roanoke. Posing as a princess arriving on a sailboat filled with riches, Thelia infiltrates the small English colony. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that this place is dangerous, especially for women. As she grows closer to a beautiful settler who mysteriously resembles her former love, Thelia formulates a plan to save her sisters and enact revenge on the violent men she’s come to despise. But is she willing to go back to Scopuli and face the consequences of her past decisions? And will Proserpina forgive her for all that she’s done? Told in alternating timelines, Those Fatal Flowers is a powerful, passionate, and wildly cathartic love letter to femininity and the monstrous power within us all.

The Last Fashion House in Paris by Renee Ryan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758914 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758914] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Fashion House in Paris Author: Renee Ryan Narrator: Gilli Messer, Hope Newhouse, Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 24, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In the heart of occupied WWII Paris, an elegant fashion house is the unlikely headquarters of a daring resistance network. Behind closed doors, courageous women vie to save loved ones and strangers alike from the Nazis in this powerful story of survival, friendship and second chances. France, 1942 Once, Paulette Leblanc spent her days flirting, shopping and drawing elegant dresses in her sketch pad. Then German tanks rolled into France, and a reckless romance turned into deep betrayal. Blaming herself for her mother’s arrest by the Gestapo, Paulette is sent away to begin a new life in Paris, working as apprentice to fashion designer Sabine Ballard. But Maison de Ballard is no ordinary fashion house. While seamstresses create the perfect couture gowns, clandestine deals and secrets take place out of sight. Mademoiselle Ballard is head of a vast network of resistance fighters—including Paulette’s coworker and friend Nicolle Cadieux—who help escort downed military men and Jewish families to safety. Soon Paulette is recruited as a spy. Working as a seamstress by day, gathering information at glamorous parties by night, Paulette at last has a chance to earn the redemption she craves. But as the SS closes in, and Nicolle goes missing, Paulette must make life-and-death decisions about who to trust, who to love and who to leave behind…

The French Winemaker’s Daughter: A Novel by Loretta Ellsworth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764835 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764835] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The French Winemaker’s Daughter: A Novel Author: Loretta Ellsworth Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis. 1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides in an armoire when the Nazis come to take her father away. Pinned to her dress is a note with her aunt’s address in Paris, and in her arms, a bottle of wine she has been instructed to look after if something happened to her papa. When they are finally gone, the terrified young girl drops the bottle and runs to a neighbor, who puts her on a train to Paris. But when Martine arrives in the city, her aunt is nowhere to be found. Without a place to go, the girl wanders the streets and eventually falls asleep on the doorstep of Hotel Drouot, where Sister Ada finds her and takes her to the abbey, and watches over her. 1990. Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot, now the oldest auction house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during the Second World War, Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the box. Cleaning the label, Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine, a quest that will take her back fifty years into the past. . . . A powerful tale of love, war, and family, The French Winemaker’s Daughter is an emotionally resonant tale of two women whose fates are intertwined across time. Loretta Ellsworth’s evocative and poignant page-turner will linger in the heart, and make you think about luck, connection, and the meaning of loyalty.

Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752191 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752191] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clay Walls Author: Kim Ronyoung Narrator: Ami Park, Greg Chun, Sue Jean Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown A Penguin Classic Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S. racism, generational trauma, and the early decades of Los Angeles’s Koreatown from a Korean American woman’s point of view. Through three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father, and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage, and motherhood. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains select Suggestions for Further Exploration from the book.

Blood Bounty of the Mountain Man by J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756224 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756224] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Bounty of the Mountain Man Series: #52 of Mountain Man Author: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone Narrator: J. Rodney Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone present Book 52 in the Mountain Man series.