In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories by Christian McEwen

His Girl Hollywood by Maureen Lee Lenker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795708 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795708] to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Girl Hollywood Author: Maureen Lee Lenker Narrator: Patti Murin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: From Entertainment Weekly columnist Maureen Lee Lenker comes the standalone follow-up to It Happened One Fight, a rompy second-chance romance set in the glittering world of 1930s film. Arlene Morgan has always dreamed of being a movie director, like so many women in the silent era before her. But when Evets Studios finally gives her a shot, a rare thing in 1930s Hollywood, she's dismayed to discover that her leading man is none other than Don Lamont. Born Don Lazzarini, Don was Arlene's next-door-neighbor growing up, two best friends with two big dreams. He's the only man she's ever loved… except he abandoned her to pursue his dance career in New York, and she hasn't seen or heard from his since. But Don, despite his Broadway success, has been caught under the thumb of his gangster manager Frankie Martino for the last eight years, unable to come home. When he gets offered a role in a Hollywood picture, he leaps at the chance to free himself once and for all. But clashing with his director, the girl he once knew as Lena, leaves him scrambling to find his footing. As the two unpack old wounds and struggle to work together, Don starts to realize Lena might have been his dream girl all along. But she doesn't know about Frankie, and getting her involved in his contract would put her in danger, too. It's going to take quite the footwork to prove his feelings and help make Arlene's picture a success before Frankie takes drastic measures to keep his most valuable leading man.

How to Free a Leviathan by Meg Cannistra

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792604 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792604] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Free a Leviathan Author: Meg Cannistra Narrator: Lillie Ricciardi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: It’s Giada against C&C Medicinals in the fight to protect a leviathan—and all magical creatures. Do you know a fairy with a fever? Or a sasquatch with a stomach ache? Giada Bellantuono is the one to call. She’s no ordinary veterinarian. She has the power to heal all kinds of fantastic creatures! Now she and Sinistro, her black cat familiar, have left their home in New Jersey to train with magical veterinarians around the world. And a conference in Argentina has come just in time. A company called C&C Medicinals is kidnapping and hurting magical animals to make medicine for humans! Giada knows firsthand how dangerous the company can be. She saved a unicorn from one of their henchmen just last month. Once Giada gets to Argentina, she’ll spread the word. But there’s something suspicious going on at the conference, and Giada and Sinistro suspect that C&C Medicinals is at the root of it. Before they can do anything about it, Sinistro is kidnapped! With help from old friends and new ones, including a shy young leviathan, Giada will do whatever it takes to bring down C&C Medicinals and save Sinistro. This third and final installment in the Giada the Healer series, which award-winning author Laura Ruby called “perfect for fans of Rick Riordan,” perfectly blends action-packed thrills with a tender exploration of grief.

In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories by Christian McEwen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818321 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818321] to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories Author: Christian McEwen Narrator: Christian McEwen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation Publisher's Summary: In her latest book, In Praise of Listening, Christian McEwen reflects on listening (silence, music, nature, prayer) in a series of thoughtful chapters, each one focused on a different theme. When an athlete speaks of 'listening to his body,' or a gardener describes herself as 'listening to the land,' when writers and artists explain that they are 'listening' to their work-in-progress, they are using the word as she chooses to use it here—as an extended metaphor for openness and receptivity, rippling out from the self-centered human to the farthest reaches of the non-human world. In Praise of Listening is a kind of sister or first cousin to McEwen's earlier, timely, and very popular, World Enough & Time, with the same emphasis on creativity and slowing down. As McEwen says: Most of us think of listening in fairly literal fashion: human beings listening (or not listening) to one another; the pleasure of attending to a familiar piece of music. But listening can have a far broader and more capacious meaning, moving out beyond the small apparatus of the ears to the hands or belly or enveloping spirit/mind.

The Mercy Watson Collection: Books 4-6: #4: Mercy Watson: Princess In Disguise; #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig; #6: Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes by Kate DiCamillo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813665 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813665] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mercy Watson Collection: Books 4-6: #4: Mercy Watson: Princess In Disguise; #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig; #6: Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes Series: Part of Mercy Watson Author: Kate DiCamillo Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 9 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Oh, Mercy! Pig out on adventures 4-6 in the New York Times best-selling series. Pig hero. Porcine wonder. Fan of toast with a great deal of butter on it. Mercy Watson’s disarming personality and hilarious hijinks captivate early chapter-book readers. Here, for Mercy Watson’s loyal fans and new friends, comes an audiobook collection that will have listeners squealing with delight. Included are: Mercy Watson: Princess In Disguise Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes Ready for more Mercy? Saddle up for Tales from Deckawoo Drive, a spin-off series starring favorite characters from the Mercy Watson books.

The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World by Priya Parrish

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814292 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814292] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World Author: Priya Parrish Narrator: Siiri Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Accounting & Finance Publisher's Summary: In The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World, veteran investor and author Priya Parrish delivers a timely, inspiring, and practical exploration of an investing discipline that is rapidly taking center stage in contemporary finance. In the book, you'll explore how and why impact investing has become an essential strategy for retail and institutional investors around the world and how it can help you build and manage high-performing portfolios while making a positive difference in the world around you. The author explains the universe of opportunities made available by impact investing by diving deep into both the public and private markets. You'll learn how the discipline is related to modern portfolio theory, diversity considerations, issues of climate change, sustainable investing, and recent controversies about ESG investing. You'll also discover: ● Where impact investing came from, how it's shaping markets today, and where it's going in the near future ● Impact investing goals and how they relate to financial returns and risk ● The management tools utilized by leading impact investors to improve performance.