Our House in the Last World: A Novel by Oscar Hijuelos

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700562 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700562] to listen full audiobooks. Title: An American Tragedy Author: Theodore Dreiser Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 38 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: This story follows a true crime murder case from New York in 1906. Clyde Griffiths is the impoverished young man from a family of street preachers who dreams of bettering his station in life. However, his dream ends in murder and he is subsequently arrested and put on trial—putting the media in a frenzy.

Our House in the Last World: A Novel by Oscar Hijuelos

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701001 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701001] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our House in the Last World: A Novel Author: Oscar Hijuelos Narrator: Jason Canela, Junot Díaz, Gustavo Rex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut––and most autobiographical––novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize Hector Santinio is the younger son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life’s realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family’s adoptive land. When Mercedes takes Hector and his brother to visit Cuba, to better know her culture, Hector contracts a serious illness that leads to a terrifying period of hospitalization back in the United States where, isolated from his family, he loses much of his ability to speak Spanish. And it is this fracturing that sparks a lifelong quest to not only reconcile his Cuban identity with his American one, but to also understand his parents’ ambitions and anxieties within the country at large. In this profoundly moving account of immigrant life, Oscar Hijuelos displays, once again, his mastery over both character and language—and sets readers on an unforgettable journey of hope, longing, and self-discovery. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700720 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700720] to listen full audiobooks. Title: South by Java Head Author: Alistair MacLean Narrator: Jonathan Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 30, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The 50th anniversary edition of this classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia. February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army. The last boat escapes out of the harbour into the South China Sea, and on board are a desperate group of strangers, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Dawn sees them far out to sea but with the first murderous dive bombers already aimed at their ship. Thus begins a nightmare succession of disasters wrought by the hell-bent Japanese, the unrelenting tropical sun and, ultimately, by the survivors themselves, as they head south by Java Head.

Bear Island by Alistair MacLean

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700718 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700718] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bear Island Author: Alistair MacLean Narrator: Jonathan Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be. Marlowe's efforts to unravel the plot become even more complicated once the movie crew is deposited ashore on Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either, discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second World War.

Medea: A Novel by Eilish Quin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695225 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695225] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medea: A Novel Author: Eilish Quin Narrator: Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this “haunting, deeply moving” (Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author) debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind. Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, Medea has carved out a singularly infamous niche in our histories. But what if that isn’t the full story? The daughter of a sea nymph and the granddaughter of a Titan, Medea is a paradox. She is at once rendered compelling by virtue of the divinity that flows through her bloodline and made powerless by the fact of her being a woman. As a child, she intuitively submerges herself in witchcraft and sorcery but soon finds her skills may not be a match for the prophecies that hang over her entire family like a shroud. As Medea comes into her own as a woman and a witch, she also faces the arrival of the hero Jason, preordained by the gods to be not only her husband but also her lifeline to escape her isolated existence. Medea travels the treacherous seas with the Argonauts, battles demons she has never imagined, and falls in love with the man who may ultimately be her downfall in this fresh and propulsive “must-have” (Library Journal, starred review) read in which you will finally hear Medea’s side of the story through a fresh and feminist lens.