The Women of Troy: A Novel by Pat Barker

Christmas in Painted Pony Creek by Linda Lael Miller

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455401 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455401] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas in Painted Pony Creek Series: #4 of Painted Pony Creek Author: Linda Lael Miller Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Christmas Romance Get cozy with this heartwarming holiday story! Can a Christmas miracle mend her broken heart? Tessa Stafford will do anything for her daughter, Isabel…even stay on the run to protect Isabel from her narcissistic grandmother. But when her car breaks down in Painted Pony Creek, Tessa gets caught up in the warm embrace of the town and feels safe enough to build a home—and a life—for them both. Love is the last thing on her mind until rugged cowboy and lawyer Jesse McKettrick’s sexy smile and easy way tempt her into imagining more. But can she trust this handsome stranger with her heart? When Tessa and her adorable daughter blow into town, Jesse McKettrick is smitten—by both the little girl and her beautiful mother. He’s always wanted a family of his own. Maybe this Christmas, his wish will finally come true. But the walls around Tessa are impenetrable, and when Tessa’s past threatens their newfound future—and the family he’s come to love—Jesse won’t let them go without a fight.

Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455394 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455394] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empty Theatre Author: Jac Jemc Narrator: Jefferson Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc. History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness and 'unmanly' interests, falls hard for the operas of Richard Wagner and neglects his state duties in the pursuit of art. Sisi, married at the age of sixteen to her beloved Franzl, bristles at the restrictions of her elevated position, the value placed on her beauty, and the simultaneous expectation that she ravage her body again and again in childbirth. Both absurdly vain, both traumatized by the demands of their roles, Sisi and Ludwig struggle against the ideals they are expected to embody, and resist through extravagance, petulance, performance, and frivolity. A tragicomic tour de force, Empty Theatre immerses readers in Ludwig and Sisi’s rarefied, ridiculous, restrictive world—where the aesthetics of excess belie the isolation of its inhabitants. With wit, pathos, and imagination, Jac Jemc takes us on an unforgettable journey through two extraordinary parallel lives and the complex, tenuous friendship that linked them.

The Vanished Days: 'An engrossing and deeply romantic novel' RACHEL HORE by Susanna Kearsley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452673 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452673] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vanished Days: 'An engrossing and deeply romantic novel' RACHEL HORE Author: Susanna Kearsley Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: ‘Fascinating and immersive… I love a novel that deals with the many ways in which people keep their secrets’ DIANA GABALDON A sweeping love story set against the Jacobite revolution from much-loved, million copy bestselling author Susanna Kearsley Autumn, 1707. Old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are protesting the new Union with England. As the French prepare an invasion to bring the exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, the streets of Edinburgh are filled with discontent. To calm the situation, Queen Anne’s commissioners are settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots involved in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier. When Lily, widow of a Darien sailor, comes forward to collect his wages, her claim is challenged. One of the men assigned to her case has only days to decide if she’s honest. Are his own feelings making him blind to the truth? Or could he be a pawn in an even more treacherous game? A story of intrigue, adventure, endurance, romance…and the courage to hope. ‘A hugely engrossing book and a complete world created’ IAN RANKIN ‘The Vanished Days is an absolute tour de force of historical storytelling, tender and dramatic, gripping and authentic. Kearsley manages effortlessly to balance the epic sweep of the drama with telling moments of gentle characterization, all delivered in pitch-perfect style. I thoroughly enjoyed it: a perfect escape in these dark days’ JANE JOHNSON, author of The Salt Road and The Tenth Gift   ‘An engrossing and deeply romantic novel of Scotland’s Jacobite rebellion’ RACHEL HORE ‘This novel tells of a tender love story set amid the Jacobite rebellion. For readers unfamiliar with the twists and turns of this period of Scottish history, author Kearsley provides a helpful map, along with rich details of the protagonists. Courage in this era lies not in acts of heroic daring, but in steadfast pursuit of truth and justice. Perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander’ WOMAN & HOME

[German] - Der Turm aus Licht by Astrid Fritz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453012 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453012] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Turm aus Licht Author: Astrid Fritz Narrator: Svenja Pages Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 1270: Erwartungsvoll reist Baumeister Gerhard in die aufstrebende Handelsstadt Freiburg, um mit kaum dreißig Jahren die Verantwortung für den bedeutenden Kirchenbau zu übernehmen. Ist er der Aufgabe gewachsen? Ist es der junge Bildhauer Josef, als der Turm immer höher in den Himmel strebt? Wird die Bäckerstochter Thea ihr Glück erringen, das untrennbar mit dem herrischen Grafen Egino und der Bauhütte verbunden ist? Episch und bewegend erzählt Astrid Fritz, wie die Menschen von Freiburg – Herrscher, Kaufleute, Kirchenleute, Baumeister, ihre Familien und die einfachen Leute – im Schatten des Baus lebten und kämpften, bis sich schließlich nach sechzig Jahren vollendet, woran viele nicht mehr geglaubt hatten: das Meisterwerk. Der schönste Turm auf Erden.-

The Women of Troy: A Novel by Pat Barker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459338 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459338] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Women of Troy: A Novel Author: Pat Barker Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers' (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.