Thirteen Hundred Rats by T.C. Boyle

A Cowboy's Journey by Alfred C. Martino

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201668 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201668] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cowboy's Journey Author: Alfred C. Martino Narrator: Alfred C. Martino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 27, 2016 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy deals with the passage of time, while recalling a life-defining moment with a woman of his youth.

Durable Goods: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Durable Goods: A Novel Series: #1 of Katie Nash Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Radiant...startling and delicate.” —The Boston Globe On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friend’s house—until Katie’s admiration for her strong-willed sister leads her on an adventure that transforms her life. Written with an unerring ability to capture the sadness of growth, the pain of change, the nearly visible vibrations that connect people, this beautiful novel by the bestselling author of Open House reminds us how wonderful—and wounding—a deeper understanding of life can be. “Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.' —Andre Dubus “This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there.' —Christopher Tilghman

Someone Else's Love Story: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200920 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200920] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Else's Love Story: A Novel Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem—or what we hope they will be. Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

Ash Monday by T.C. Boyle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201674 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201674] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ash Monday Author: T.C. Boyle Narrator: T.C. Boyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 15, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker. Thirteen-year-old Dill has a tendency to get in trouble, to act out, and perhaps it is due to his mother's latest boyfriend, Grady, leaving them behind. Meanwhile Sanjuro Ichyguro and his wife have moved from Japan to the United States and are having trouble adjusting. Between the cultural divide, the swelling emotions of their respective losses, and budding pyromania, Dill and Sanjuro are waging a silent war between their neighboring houses.

Thirteen Hundred Rats by T.C. Boyle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201673 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201673] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirteen Hundred Rats Author: T.C. Boyle Narrator: T.C. Boyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 15, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker. When Gerald Loomis loses his wife, friends and neighbors try to rally him with food and suggestions for pets to keep him company. But Gerald has already picked a pet, a Burmese Python he's named Siddhartha. During a cold snap, Gerald ventures out to the pet store to pick up a rat to feed Siddhartha but finds he can't follow through with letting the rat die.