The Love Letters: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle

The Birdwoman's Palate by Laksmi Pamuntjak

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/310079 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/310079] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Birdwoman's Palate Author: Laksmi Pamuntjak Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 1, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman’s road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies. Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu cases reported across Indonesia. While it’s put a crimp in her aunt’s West Java farm, and made her own confit de canard highly questionable, the investigation does provide an irresistible opportunity. It’s the perfect excuse to get away from corrupt and corrosive Jakarta and explore the spices of the far-flung regions of the islands with her three friends: a celebrity chef, a globe-trotting “foodist,” and her coworker Farish. From Medan to Surabaya, Palembang to Pontianak, Aruna and her friends have their fill of local cuisine. With every delicious dish, she discovers there’s so much more to food, politics, and friendship. Now, this liberating new perspective on her country—and on her life—will push her to pursue the things she’s only dreamed of doing.

As Good as True by Cheryl Reid

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313088 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313088] to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Good as True Author: Cheryl Reid Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A powerful and haunting novel of a woman’s broken past and the painful choices she must make to keep her family and her home. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daughter of Syrian immigrants living in segregated Alabama in the 1950s, Anna has never belonged, and now her world is about to erupt. Days before, Anna set in motion an explosive chain of events by allowing the first black postman to deliver the mail to her house. But it’s her impulsive act of inviting him inside for a glass of water that raises doubts about Anna’s role in her husband’s death. As threats and suspicions arise in the angry community, Anna must confront her secrets in the face of devastating turmoil and reconcile her anguished relationship with her daughter. Will she discover the strength to fight for those she loves most, even if it means losing all she’s ever known?

The Love Letters: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312936 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312936] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Letters: A Novel Author: Madeleine L'Engle Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 23, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun. Charlotte and Mariana’s stories may be different in origin, but they share the same inner turmoil. As she reads the letters, Mariana’s spiritual journey sheds light on Charlotte’s own crisis. Finding inspiration in the nun’s struggles with sin, temptation, and faith, Charlotte gains perspective on her own mind—and sets out to accept the demanding, challenging nature of love.

The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311805 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311805] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Promise Between Us Author: Barbara Claypole White Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “This is an eye-opening and realistic exploration of mental illness—a topic that greatly deserves to be front and center.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things Metal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear that she would harm Maisie, her newborn daughter. Over time she’s come to grips with the mental illness that nearly destroyed her, and now funnels her pain into her art. Despite longing for Maisie, Katie honors an agreement with the husband she left behind—to change her name and never return. But when she and Maisie accidentally reunite, Katie can’t ignore the familiarity of her child’s compulsive behavior. Worse, Maisie worries obsessively about bad things happening to her pregnant stepmom. Katie has the power to help, but can she reconnect with the family she abandoned? To protect Maisie, Katie must face the fears that drove her from home, accept the possibility of love, and risk exposing her heart-wrenching secret.

The Maze at Windermere: A Novel by GREGORY BLAKE SMITH

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312769 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312769] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maze at Windermere: A Novel Author: GREGORY BLAKE SMITH Narrator: Raphael Corkhill, Michael Crouch, Richard Topol, Edoardo Ballerini, Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “A dazzling high-wire act. I turned every page with a sense of wonder and excitement.” —RICHARD RUSSO A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island   A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest—the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress’s diamond necklace—launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young writer soon to make his mark turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport’s earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited.   In The Maze at Windermere Gregory Blake Smith weaves these intersecting worlds into a brilliant tapestry, charting a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart. Read by Richard Topol, Edoardo Ballerini, Raphael Corkhill, Michael Crouch, and Caitlin Davies