The Motive: Quick Reads 2021 by Khurrum Rahman

The Favored Son: A Cultivation Short Story by Tao Wong

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466797 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466797] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Favored Son: A Cultivation Short Story Series: #1 of A Thousand Li Short Stories Author: Tao Wong Narrator: Travis Baldree Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Winter is a time of reflection and cultivation for the Verdant Green Waters Sect. For Wu Ying, this peaceful interlude is interrupted by a new assignment that pits him against the mortal world’s conventions of class and privilege. A short story in the world of A Thousand Li by Tao Wong.

[German] - Die Wichtelmänner by The Brothers Grimm

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437653 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437653] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Wichtelmänner Author: The Brothers Grimm Narrator: Christian Rode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Wer kennt sie nicht, die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm? Altmeister Christian Rode liest 'Die Wichtelmänner', das Märchen über die hilfreichen kleinen Männchen. Ein armer Schuster vergisst eines Abends sein letztes Leder wegzuräumen. Am nächsten Morgen findet er ein perfektes Paar Schuhe. Er kann es zu einem guten Preis verkaufen. So geht es in den nächsten Nächten immer weiter. Schließlich ist der Schuster ein reicher Mann. Eines Tages entdecken seine Frau und er die geheimnisvollen Helfer – und fassen einen Beschluss …

Objects of Desire: Stories by Clare Sestanovich

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463000 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463000] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Objects of Desire: Stories Author: Clare Sestanovich Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: “A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel.' —Entertainment Weekly Fresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a family’s reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision.   In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. Tender, lucid, and piercingly funny, Objects of Desire is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition each more startling than the last—a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.

Shoko's Smile: Stories by Choi Eunyoung

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466843 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466843] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shoko's Smile: Stories Author: Choi Eunyoung Narrator: Greta Jung, Jackie Chung, Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In 'A Song from Afar,' a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In 'Secret,' the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother. In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson--writers from different cultures who all take an unvarnished look at human relationships and the female experience--Choi Eunyoung is a writer to watch.

The Motive: Quick Reads 2021 by Khurrum Rahman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453020 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453020] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Motive: Quick Reads 2021 Author: Khurrum Rahman Narrator: Waleed Akhtar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021 Business has been slow for Hounslow’s small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But desperate times lead him there – and Jay finds himself in the middle of a crime scene. Idris Zaidi, a Police Constable and Jay’s best friend, is having a quiet night when he gets a call out following a noise complaint at a house party. Fed up with the lack of excitement in his job, he visits the scene and quickly realises that people are in danger after a stabbing. Someone will stop at nothing to get revenge . . .