Adelita by Tomie dePaola

Adelita by Tomie dePaola

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774883 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774883] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adelita Author: Tomie dePaola Narrator: Annette Amelia Oliveira Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 21, 2025 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Hace mucho tiempo—a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identity: a beautiful rebozo—shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. This is a Cinderella story like no other. Please note that the majority of the audiobook is in English, with Spanish vocabulary throughout.

The ABCs of Women's History by Rio Cortez

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789134 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789134] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The ABCs of Women's History Series: Part of The ABCs of History Author: Rio Cortez Narrator: Florentino Azores Hanna-Sta. Ana, Sybil Chanin, Sabine Galbis-Kuffner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling creative team behind The ABCs of Black History comes a statement-making follow-up that celebrates women, their history, and their future by centering the diversity of the disruptors who blazed a path forward for everyone. In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, National Book Award nominee Rio Cortez and illustrator Lauren Semmer celebrate all the joys, challenges, and historic forward movement of women’s history in the United States, with a special focus on the Black women, brown women, transwomen, and others who make change happen. This is a book about Artists, Activists and Allies, about Civil Rights and Choice, about Freedom Fighters, Headliners, Labor -- and Librarians! It’s about historic moments—Kamala Harris being sworn in as the first African-American and first Asian-American Vice President of the United States; Title IX passing through Congress; Seneca Falls, where the first women’s rights convention was held; the Riot Grrrls movement; and so much more.  The ABCs of Women’s History is a story of persistence. It’s a story of pride. And it’s a story of progress. This book celebrates the disruptors, the dreamers, the determined, and the do-it-yourself-ers who continue to inspire the next generation of women to build a brighter, better tomorrow.

The French Winemaker’s Daughter: A Novel by Loretta Ellsworth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764835 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764835] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The French Winemaker’s Daughter: A Novel Author: Loretta Ellsworth Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis. 1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides in an armoire when the Nazis come to take her father away. Pinned to her dress is a note with her aunt’s address in Paris, and in her arms, a bottle of wine she has been instructed to look after if something happened to her papa. When they are finally gone, the terrified young girl drops the bottle and runs to a neighbor, who puts her on a train to Paris. But when Martine arrives in the city, her aunt is nowhere to be found. Without a place to go, the girl wanders the streets and eventually falls asleep on the doorstep of Hotel Drouot, where Sister Ada finds her and takes her to the abbey, and watches over her. 1990. Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot, now the oldest auction house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during the Second World War, Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the box. Cleaning the label, Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine, a quest that will take her back fifty years into the past. . . . A powerful tale of love, war, and family, The French Winemaker’s Daughter is an emotionally resonant tale of two women whose fates are intertwined across time. Loretta Ellsworth’s evocative and poignant page-turner will linger in the heart, and make you think about luck, connection, and the meaning of loyalty.

K for Kara 6-10. Playdates and Promises by Line Kyed Knudsen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835465 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835465] to listen full audiobooks. Title: K for Kara 6-10. Playdates and Promises Author: Line Kyed Knudsen Narrator: Jennifer Wagstaffe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 14, 2024 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: In this collection of five riveting stories, follow Kara as she navigates the challenges of school, friendships, and birthdays! From playdates and broken promises to unexpected family challenges and thrilling school trips, ´K for Kara 6-10´ effortlessly weaves together the ups and downs of childhood. A heartfelt series, ´K for Kara 6-10´ is ideal for young readers seeking relatable characters as well as exciting stories about navigating youth. Line Kyed Knudsen (b. 1971) debuted as an author of children's and YA books in 2003. Since then, she has become one of the most popular authors for the age group in Denmark.

Shy Creatures: A Novel by Clare Chambers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757029 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757029] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shy Creatures: A Novel Author: Clare Chambers Narrator: Lucy Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: ''A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences, filled with moments that are somehow restrained and astute and gorgeously written all at the same time.''—Holly Gramazio, bestselling author of The Husbands “Infinitely moving, quirky, acutely observed and beautifully written...Confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers.''--The Guardian An alluring literary mystery full of secrets and lies, when an art teacher at a psychiatric hospital in 1960s England finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious patient who has spent decades living in complete isolation with his elderly aunts in a decrepit Victorian house. Perfect for fans of Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, and Tessa Hadley. In all failed relationships there is a tipping point. It goes unnoticed at the time but can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park… The London suburb of Croydon,1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle-class parents, she’s an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a rebellious love affair with her colleague Gil, a dashing but married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance at a derelict, vine-covered Victorian house a few miles up the road. There the police find a mute, thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, his hair and beard down to his waist. It appears he lives in the old house with his elderly, frail aunt, who expires as soon as she’s admitted to the hospital. No one knows why William has been shut away for decades, unseen by neighbors, with only his two now-deceased aunts for company. Westbury Park becomes his refuge. When it emerges that William is not only sane but a talented artist, Helen comes to see him as something of a personal project. But as she tries to solve the puzzle of the Hidden Man’s past, Helen’s own carefully constructed life of secrets begins to unravel... A gorgeously written and life-affirming novel about life’s delicate layers of experience and connection, Shy Creatures reveals all the different ways we can be confined...and liberated.