The Refugee's Daughter by Carolyn Newton

Midnight on the Scottish Shore: A Novel of World War II by Sarah Sundin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/866302 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/866302] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midnight on the Scottish Shore: A Novel of World War II Author: Sarah Sundin Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: February 4, 2025 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The only way Cilla van der Zee can survive the German occupation of the Netherlands is to do the unthinkable—become a spy for the Nazis in Britain. She soothes her conscience with a plan to abandon her mission and instead aid the Allies. Her scheme is thwarted when naval officer Lt. Lachlan Mackenzie finds her along the Scottish shore and turns her in to be executed. But perhaps she is more useful alive than dead. British intelligence sends her to Scotland to radio misleading messages to Germany, messages about the naval base at Scapa Flow to be crafted by Lachlan. At the station in the lighthouse at Dunnet Head, Lachlan and Cilla must work together if the war is to be won. But how can he trust a woman who arrived on his shores as a tool of the enemy—a woman certain to betray both him and the Allied cause? Master of World War II fiction Sarah Sundin takes you to the wild Scottish seaside, where danger lurks under the surface of the water—and in the depths of the human heart—for a WWII tale you won't soon forget.

The Refugee's Daughter by Carolyn Newton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/819708 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/819708] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Refugee's Daughter Author: Carolyn Newton Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky, Nancy Peterson, Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: What is the price of freedom? Winter 1945. The Soviet army is sweeping into East Prussia, with their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis' reign of terror. Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother, the farm is set ablaze. The children, along with their severely wounded mother, are loaded into a crowded train bound for the Soviet Union. Tragically, their mother dies on the train, leaving the two children orphaned and terrified, thrust into a dark world. Giti is determined to escape, but her plan goes horribly wrong. She manages to jump from the train, but Otto is trapped and carried far away, separating him from his sister. Wandering into the forest, scared and alone, a traumatized and mute Giti is rescued by a disabled veteran hiding in the woods. The two strike up an unlikely bond and manage to survive—until Russian soldiers arrive… As Giti fights for her life, she is determined to be reunited with her brother. But how long will she have to wait, and will the reunion be as happy as she envisaged?

The Dreamers by Ryan Elizabeth Penske

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829265 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829265] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dreamers Author: Ryan Elizabeth Penske Narrator: Laura Knight Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: Romance Publisher's Summary: Teenage Stella Grey has always felt an intense recurring sense of déjà vu … often plagued by strong dreams that feel more real than her waking moments. One ill-fated morning, her dream from the night before actually comes to life as she awakens and finds her house ransacked and her mother unconscious near their broken-in front door. Her next moments are scary, shocking, and earth-shattering as she is kidnapped and delivered to a Gothic mansion, the Manor de Rêves.Over the next few days, Stella grapples with where she is and why she was taken. She is trapped by a cast of chilling characters forcing Stella and the other captured, unwilling “recruits,” the “Dreamers,” to endlessly sleep while the Manor staff forcibly extract their dreams. Dreams that amazingly foretell the future.Along the way, Stella befriends two other Dreamers: Nina, a fiery girl who often refuses orders, and her smart yet sheepish companion, Caleb. Stella even comes face to face with one of her own recurring dreams in Charlie, a boy whose blue eyes she has seen before and cannot help but be drawn to.These four must navigate the eerie experiments the Manor forces upon them while concocting an escape. Their morality and grit are challenged as each of the foursome comes face to face with bizarre dreams that are painting terrifying pictures of the future.

Taken by the Alien Rogue by Krista Luna

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/833069 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/833069] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taken by the Alien Rogue Series: #2 of Fated Mates of the Zaarn Author: Krista Luna Narrator: Elle Sonali, Tor Thom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: The charming blue alien says I'm his. It's got to be some kind of line. But how can I resist him . . . or his wicked tail? HAZEL: I get lucky when horned blue aliens rescue me straight from cryo. So when I get the chance to use my communications skills to help save other human women, I jump on it. It's perfect. Except for him. Of all the handsome devils, why did I get stuck alone on a mission with a heartbreaker? Especially one who keeps losing his shirt and carrying me everywhere. Kirel is all smooth talk and easy charm. He claims I'm his fated mate. But I refuse to be fooled by a handsome face again, no matter how tempting his whole . . . package. KIREL: I never met a computer system I couldn't hack or a female I couldn't tempt for a fling. But without a fated mate, all of it was flimsy and fleeting. Until her. My soul's breath. The one destined to be mine forever. Hay-Zul is the puzzle I can't figure out and the one I'm the most desperate to solve. I ache for her and her lush curves. When we go undercover to find more Hyoo-mon females, we pretend to be fated mates. But it's not fake, and I'll prove it to her. Then I'll take her as mine. Contains mature themes.

I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755089 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755089] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir Author: Youngmi Mayer Narrator: Youngmi Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings (Michelle Zauner). “Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole.” It was a constant truism Youngmi Mayer’s mother would say threateningly after she would make her daughter laugh while crying. Her mother used it to cheer her up in moments when she could tell Youngmi was overtaken with grief. The humorous saying would never fail to lighten the mood, causing both daughter and mother to laugh and cry at the same time. Her mother had learned this trick from her mother, and her mother had learned this from her mother before her: it had also helped an endless string of her family laugh through suffering. In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea, while reflecting how years later, their wounds affect her in New York City as a single mom, all the while interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality. Youngmi jokes through these stories in hopes of passing onto the reader what her family passed down to her: The gift of laughing while crying. The gift of a hairy butthole. Because throughout it all, the one thing she learned was one cannot exist without the other. And like a yin and yang, this duality is reflected in this whip-smart, heart-wrenching, and disarmingly funny memoir told by a bright new voice with so much heart and wisdom.