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Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640508 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640508] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wolf at the Table Author: Adam Rapp Narrator: Paul Sparks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst, from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award finalist playwright Adam Rapp.   As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning. Through one family’s pursuit of the American dream, Wolf at the Table explores our consistent proximity to violence and its effects over time. Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp writes with gorgeous acuity, cutting to the heart of each character as he reveals the devastating reality beneath the veneer of good society.

Secrets for the Three Sisters by Annie Groves

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647898 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647898] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets for the Three Sisters Series: #2 of Three Sisters Author: Annie Groves Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The heartwarming new novel from the author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk. It’s autumn 1940 and the Blitz has cast its shadow over London. Everyone is doing their bit to help, including the three Harrison sisters of the East End’s Victory Walk. Nurse Rose is snowed under in the hospital tending to victims of the bombings. Her sister Clover is on active duty on the south coast, while the baby of the family, Daisy, is growing up quickly working on the London Underground, now that thousands of people are taking shelter down below. Even in wartime, the sisters find time for a wedding, but the bride is keeping a secret, which threatens to come to light. Can the three sisters stick together, for each other, and for King and Country?

The Phoenix Crown: A Novel by Janie Chang, Kate Quinn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649847 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649847] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Phoenix Crown: A Novel Author: Janie Chang, Kate Quinn Narrator: Katharine Chin, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles. San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.

The Reformatory: A Novel by Tananarive Due

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644809 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644809] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reformatory: A Novel Author: Tananarive Due Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: *Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King A gripping, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.

The Lost Evacuee by Cathy Sharp

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644842 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644842] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Evacuee Author: Cathy Sharp Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The brand new emotional and compelling novel from the bestselling author Will their new lives bring happiness, or heartache? As the Blitz casts a dark shadow over London, Julie Miller, a teenaged orphan, is sent far away to keep her safe. Hoping this will be a new chapter after years of sadness, Julie voyages by ship across the Atlantic, and on the long passage, forges a bond with a young child called Beth, both of them dreaming of their new families and the happy like that awaits them. Upon arrival, Julie quickly realises that reaching their destination is just the start of their journey, with many hardships for the orphans. But taking matters into her own hands, Julie is determined that she and Beth will have their happy ending…