Discover the Best Audio Stories in Fiction, LGBTQ+

Far from the Madding Crowd (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Thomas Hardy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230330 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230330] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Far from the Madding Crowd (Movie Tie-in Edition) Author: Thomas Hardy Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene—and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor—move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life.

At the Water's Edge: A Novel by Sara Gruen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229938 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229938] to listen full audiobooks. Title: At the Water's Edge: A Novel Author: Sara Gruen Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 3.44 of Total 9 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII” (Harper’s Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants “Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced.”—The Boston Globe In January 1945, when Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a retired army colonel who is ashamed of his son’s inability to serve, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed—by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster. Leaving her sheltered world behind, Maddie reluctantly follows Ellis and his best friend, Hank, to a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. Gradually, the friendships Maddie forms with the townspeople open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears, and as she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, she becomes aware not only of darker forces around her but of life’s surprising possibilities.

The World Before Us: A Novel by Aislinn Hunter

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229939 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229939] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Before Us: A Novel Author: Aislinn Hunter Narrator: Fiona Hardingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a hauntingly poignant novel about madness, loss, and the ties that bind our past to our present   Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare.  She was babysitting a sweet young girl named Lily, and in one fleeting moment, lost her. The little girl was never found, leaving her family and Jane devastated. Twenty years later, Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As a final research project--an endeavor inspired in part by her painful past--Jane surveys the archives for information related to another missing person: a woman who disappeared over one hundred years ago in the same woods where Lily was lost. As Jane pieces moments in history together, a portrait of a fascinating group of people starts to unfurl. Inexplicably tied to the mysterious disappearance of long ago, Jane finds tender details of their lives at the country estate and in the asylum that are linked to her own heartbroken world, and their story from all those years ago may now help Jane find a way to move on. In riveting, beautiful prose, The World Before Us explores the powerful notion that history is a closely connected part of us--kept alive by the resonance of our daily choices--reminding us of the possibility that we are less alone than we might think.

The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228698 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228698] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifth Heart Author: Dan Simmons Narrator: David Pittu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus -- his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character. This leads to serious complications for James -- for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?

A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229856 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229856] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Series: #11 of Maisie Dobbs Author: Jacqueline Winspear Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . .   In Jacqueline Winspear‘s  powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability—and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, “You will be alone in a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie’s arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on “the Rock”—arguably Britain’s most important strategic territory—and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.