What Love Looks Like by Laura Obuobi

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788088 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788088] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harlem Rhapsody Author: Victoria Christopher Murray Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 4, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: “A gripping narrative, don't miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”—People Magazine “A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our generational wealth.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club Pick) She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian. In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, is not only Jessie’s boss, he’s her lover. And neither his wife, nor their fourteen-year-age difference can keep the two apart. Amidst rumors of their tumultuous affair, Jessie is determined to prove herself. She attacks the challenge of discovering young writers with fervor, finding sixteen-year-old Countee Cullen, seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen, who becomes one of her best friends. Under Jessie’s leadership, The Crisis thrives…every African American writer in the country wants their work published there. When her first novel is released to great acclaim, it’s clear that Jessie is at the heart of a renaissance in Black music, theater, and the arts. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, she’ll discover the high cost of her unparalleled success.

What Love Looks Like by Laura Obuobi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821682 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821682] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Love Looks Like Author: Laura Obuobi Narrator: Chanté McCormick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: From Laura Obuobi, author of Black Gold and NAACP Image Award nominee, comes a whimsical bedtime story about the love between a Black father and his daughter. This tender tale with pure Black joy captures love’s vastness, showing us its greatest form is often the one between parent and child. One question must be answered before Afia can slip into a peaceful sleep: What does love look like? With the companionship of her loving papa, Afia journeys to find love and learns that it is the warmth of the sun’s hugs, the brook’s soothing song, and other mesmerizing gifts of nature. But Afia’s quest also teaches her that she may not have to go too far to see the emotion at the heart of the world’s wonders.

The Scent of Oranges by Kathy George

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/850807 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/850807] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scent of Oranges Author: Kathy George Narrator: Gemma Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 4, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of Fagin's child pickpockets and now on the arm of violent and mercurial Bill Sikes. Nancy does what she must to get by. She's attuned to the harsh realities of life, but also knows how to find moments of beauty amid the grime, even if it is only the scent and taste of an orange - its miraculous colour and form. When she embarks on a relationship with enigmatic gentleman Mr Rufus, it awakens emotions she's never felt before, and makes a better life feel possible for the first time. But when she takes cherubic orphan Oliver Twist under her wing, something even more elusive and appealing seems to be within reach: redemption.

Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human by Guy Leschziner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703269 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703269] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human Author: Guy Leschziner Narrator: Guy Leschziner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 21, 2024 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: 'Has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett 'The heir to Oliver Sacks' David Baddiel A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are the seven deadly sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in the world. Or so some believe. But do these sins really represent moral failings, or are they simply human functions that aid us? Are they just the result of how our bodies, psyches, and brains in particular, are wired? This new book by Dr Guy Leschziner, a professor of neurology and sleep medicine, explores the underlying nature of the seven deadly sins, their neuroscientific and psychological basis, their origin in our genes and crucially how certain medical disorders give rise to them. Drawing on his clinical practice, we meet individuals whose physical and psychological conditions have given rise to these sins, where brain injury or other experiences have sparked ‘immoral’ actions. He explores how illness can simply expose what lies within us and investigates how the origins of these traits lie in evolutionary imperatives to preserve the wellbeing of the tribe. Perhaps, he suggests, these character traits are less of a moral question and more biological, which raises fundamental issues of responsibility and blame in the face of ‘sin’. Combining cutting-edge science placed in the context of real-life experience with patients, the book reexamines where the boundaries between normal human nature, pathology and sin are drawn. And, most importantly, whether these hard-wired traits truly represent sin, or simply the intensity of our intrinsic desire to survive and thrive.

The Half King by Melissa Landers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660611 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660611] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half King Series: #1 of Half King Author: Melissa Landers Narrator: Piper Goodeve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: A KING BY DAY.SHADOW BY NIGHT …The Great Betrayal changed everything for the Allied Realm. Long ago, the kingdom’s noble houses rose up against the goddess … and for their treachery, the firstborn of each noble family was cursed.One with perilous beauty.One with destructive knowledge.One with insatiable bloodlust.But the royal house Mortara received the worst affliction of all. For while the king exists during the day, he fades into nothingness at night … until his twenty-first birthday, when he will be lost to the shadows forever.Now an acolyte has arrived at court. Like all the second-born children of the Allied Realm, she’s destined to serve the goddess and become a Seer … only Cerise Solon has no gift of foretelling. In fact, she has no magical gift at all.Instead, she’s surrounded by courtiers and priests—smiling sycophants whose hearts are filled with secrets and lies. And at the center of it all sits His Majesty Kian Hannibal Mortara, with his haunting eyes, sharp tongue, and an unerring ability to send her pulse skittering at the worst possible moments.Falling for him is unthinkable. Because the king is the last of his line, and as the specter of his twenty-first birthday—and the full force of his curse—approaches, the kingdom holds its breath.But there’s only one way to save a dying king … and it lies with the one person who’s hiding the biggest secret of all. Cerise.