What's Left of Me Is Yours: A Novel by Stephanie Scott

Death in Her Hands: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391261 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391261] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in Her Hands: A Novel Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: '[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art.' -Kevin Power, The New Yorker From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. 'Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.' But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.

What's Left of Me Is Yours: A Novel by Stephanie Scott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390196 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390196] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's Left of Me Is Yours: A Novel Author: Stephanie Scott Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion.' --New York Times Book Review A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What's Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life--and her murder. In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the 'wakaresaseya' (literally 'breaker-upper'), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Satō has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitarō's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitarō fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter's life. Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina's daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother's story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession.

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384465 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384465] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.: A Novel Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Cheryl Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers. Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

[Spanish] - Mi sombría Vanessa (SPA ed) by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387245 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387245] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi sombría Vanessa (SPA ed) Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell Narrator: Ximena Restrepo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: En medio de la creciente ola de acusaciones de agresión sexual contra hombres poderosos en 2017, Vanessa Wye, de treinta y dos años, se entera de una que la involucra íntimamente: su profesor de inglés de secundaria Jacob Strane ha sido acusado de abuso sexual por otra exalumna. El escándalo le trae recuerdos de su pasado y del campus idílico del exclusivo internado al que asistió en Maine. Fue estudiante becada, seria, solitaria y que anhelaba madurar antes de su tiempo. Vanessa se sintió desconcertada de sus compañeros y cautivada cuando el profesor Strane comenzó a distinguirla. Aquí había un hombre que tenía tres veces su edad, que la reconocía y elogiaba su intelecto, su talento para escribir y su belleza, y, a los quince años, cayó en una relación ardiente con él que le cambió la vida.  Ahora, casi dos décadas más tarde, otra mujer ha centrado su atención en Strane, y de repente, Vanessa se enfrenta a una elección imposible: permanecer en silencio, creyendo firmemente su “yo” adolescente se involucró voluntariamente en la relación con Strane o que por lo contrario fue su víctima. Pero ¿cómo puede Vanessa rechazar su primer amor, el hombre que la transformó fundamentalmente y ha sido una presencia persistente en su vida? ¿Cómo puede aceptar que el hombre que amaba cuando era adolescente, y que profesaba adorarla había seducido y abusado a otras chicas? Alternando entre el presente de Vanessa y el momento de la aventura y sus consecuencias, Mi sombría Vanessa yuxtapone la memoria y el trauma con la emoción sin aliento de una adolescente que descubre el poder que su propio cuerpo puede ejercer. Una representación magistral de los problemas de la adolescencia y los efectos de largo alcance del abuso sexual.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel by Thornton Wilder

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385581 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385581] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel Author: Thornton Wilder Narrator: Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: ''As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.'' —Russell Banks ''There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind.'' —The Independent (London) The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history ''On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.'' This immortal sentence opens The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragic event. Deeply moved, he embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention, not chance, that led to the deaths of the five people crossing the bridge that day. Ultimately, his search leads to a timeless investigation into the nature of fate and love, and the meaning of the human condition. Copyright (c) 1927 by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc. Copyright renewed (c) 1955 by Thornton Wilder. Copyright 2002 by the Wilder Family L.L.C. Foreword copyright (c) 2003 by Russell Banks. Afterword copyright (c) 2003, 2014 by Tappan Wilder.