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Paradise by Toni Morrison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.

The Whaler by Ines Thorn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292324 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292324] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whaler Series: #1 of The Island of Sylt Author: Ines Thorn Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In the opening epic novel of The Island of Sylt trilogy by bestselling author Ines Thorn, a young woman must choose between love and poverty, or thrilling adventure and tormented passion. The Island of Sylt, 1764 Life in the windswept village of Rantum in the North Sea is fraught with peril and hardship. Most families must rely on arranged marriage just to survive. But free-spirited Maren Luersen doesn’t care for riches—her heart belongs to handsome but poor Thies Heinen. He may not have prospects or fortune to offer, but Maren knows their intense love can overcome any obstacle, and she is determined to be his bride. The wealthy and mysterious Captain Rune Boyse has other plans. He shocks Maren with a startling marriage proposal, and even though he can give her family a better life, her love for Thies is too powerful to deny. But when tragedy strikes, she finds herself in debt to the captain and must set sail with him on a dangerous whale hunt—with no promise of a safe return. If Maren survives, will life be the same back on shore? Or will her heart change course somewhere over the icy swells of the Arctic Sea?

The Uncertain Season by Ann Howard Creel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293658 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293658] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Uncertain Season Author: Ann Howard Creel Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The Hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston Island, but a storm of betrayal is still brewing. Nineteen-year-old Grace’s golden age is just beginning. She and her mother live a privileged life. Beautiful and talented, Grace is looking forward to a pleasant summer celebrating her engagement to a wealthy young gentleman. But when her lovely, charming, and disgraced cousin Etta arrives, Grace finds her place in society—and in her mother’s heart—threatened. Etta enchants everyone as she maneuvers to secure a station in Galveston’s upper echelons. Grace, in a reckless moment, reveals Etta’s scandalous past, and as punishment, she’s sent to work in Galveston’s back alleys, helping the poor. There, a silent waif known only as Miss Girl opens Grace’s eyes to new love and purpose. She’s determined to save this girl who lost her entire family in the hurricane and now slips along the shadows of the unfinished seawall with a mysterious resolve. Soon, the lives of the three young women will converge as betrayal, mistaken identity, and a family secret sweep them toward a future that defies all expectations.

The Man Who Could Be King: A Novel by John Ripin Miller

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294939 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294939] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Could Be King: A Novel Author: John Ripin Miller Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 15, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: When young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de-camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for the reality of America’s bloody fight for independence. The Continental Army is starving, underpaid, and dangerously close to mutiny, and Washington fights not just to defeat the British but to maintain order and morale among his own men. As anonymous letters by officers calling for revolt circulate through camp in Newburgh, New York, Washington must make a choice: preserve the young republic by keeping civilian control of the military, or reshape the new government by standing in solidarity with his troops and assuming greater power for himself. During one fateful week in American history, Josiah will watch a conflicted general become a legend and will discover for himself that the greatest struggles of war are those within the hearts and minds of fallible men.

The Warrior Princess by K. M. Ashman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294968 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294968] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Warrior Princess Author: K. M. Ashman Narrator: Napoleon Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 1135 AD. Wales is a broken land. Many of its true-born rulers are in hiding, or married into noble English families. But, though low and dim, a flame of vengeance still burns… In the southern kingdom of Deheubarth, Gerald of Windsor governs. Firm but fair, he commands the respect of those he reigns over, and the love of Nesta, his wife. But then treachery strikes from the heart of the English ranks and peace and stability are quickly forgotten. Nesta, daughter of a long-dead prince, is more than what she seems. And when her family is threatened, she takes drastic action to protect it… In the mountainous rebel heartland of Cantref Mawr, the Welsh resistance has found a new figurehead: a fearless warrior, born with a sword in her hand, and with vengeance in her heart. The Warrior Princess is coming. And the English will know fear.