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A World To Win by Upton Sinclair

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597222 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597222] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A World To Win Series: #7 of The Lanny Budd Novels Author: Upton Sinclair Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Presidential Agent 103 is targeted by allies and enemies alike as the Nazis roll across Europe in this novel in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series. Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president’s personal request, Lanny Budd gained the confidence of the Nazi high command and began transmitting valuable information back to the White House. Espionage is a dangerous game, however, and Presidential Agent 103 soon finds himself a target of the French Resistance fighters he is attempting to assist. On a trip to London, Lanny avoids death during a Luftwaffe bombing raid and takes part in the capture of Rudolf Hess. He gets stranded in Asia and is forced to make his way across war-torn China after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor finally brings the United States into the global melee. But Lanny’s most important mission still lies before him: he must enter the lion’s den alone and unprotected once more to unearth the Nazi Party’s most deeply buried secret—the progress of Hitler’s scientists in the race to build the atom bomb. A World to Win is the electrifying seventh chapter of the Pulitzer Prize–winning series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to vivid life. An astonishing mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of Upton Sinclair’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.

Menewood: A Novel by Nicola Griffith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586532 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586532] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Menewood: A Novel Series: #2 of THe Hild Sequence Author: Nicola Griffith Narrator: Pearl Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Vox and Autostraddle Making a much-anticipated return to the world of Hild, Nicola Griffith’s Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change. Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking’s court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood. But old alliances are fraying. Younger rivals are snapping at Edwin’s heels. War is brewing—bitter war, winter war. Not knowing whom to trust, Edwin becomes volatile and recalls his young advisor to court. There Hild begins to understand the true extent of the chaos ahead—and realizes she must find a way to navigate the turbulence and fight to protect both the kingdom and her own people. She will face the losses and devastation of total war, and then must summon the determination to forge a radically different path for herself and her people. In the valley, her last redoubt, Hild draws strength from the fierce joy she finds in the natural world, as, slowly, her community takes root. She trains herself and her unexpected allies in new ways of thinking, learning what it means to gather and wield true power. And she prepares for one last wager: risking all on a single throw for a better future. In the last decade, Hild has become a beloved classic of epic storytelling. Menewood exceeds it in every way.

Wait for Me: The captivating new novel from the Sunday Times bestseller by Santa Montefiore

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584108 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584108] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait for Me: The captivating new novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Author: Santa Montefiore Narrator: Joe Eyre, Georgina Sutton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn comes a captivating new novel of enduring love and devastating secrets, based on a true story. 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES Rupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait. Cornwall, 1944 When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead during the Battle of Arnhem, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She can’t accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called ‘Wait for Me’ hidden in an old book, she believes it’s a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her. London, 1988 Since childhood Max has suffered from a recurring nightmare. Surrounded by the horrific chaos of World War Two, he has an urgent mission he knows he must complete. But time after time, the dream ends with him awaking in terror, his heart pounding from the horror of the battlefield. Desperate to understand why he is haunted by such terrible visions, Max embarks on a journey that leads him to Cornwall and a man named Rupert Dash. Australia, 1995 Florence receives a letter from someone she has never met, who lives on the other side of the world. This stranger says he remembers a life that belonged to another before him. Could this be the one person Florence has waited over fifty years to meet again? 'Based on a true story this gorgeous sweeping romance crossing time and continents is completely captivating as Florence epitomises the enduring power of love' My Weekly

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. Mcgill

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591681 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591681] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Hideous Progeny Author: C. E. Mcgill Narrator: Florence Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 4, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'It is not the monster you have to fear, but the monster it makes of men.' Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn't know why or how. She and her husband are trying to make a name for themselves as paleontologists but, in 1850s' London, scientific success requires wealth and connections - neither of which they possess. But then Mary discovers some old family papers that allude to the truth behind her great-uncle's past, of his attempts to create a living being and the creature that ultimately killed him. Perhaps this idea will prove to be their salvation... Our Hideous Progeny is a sumptuous tale of ambition and obsession, of forbidden love and sabotage; a novel that blends classic, immersive storytelling with contemporary themes. ©2023 C. E. McGill (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587551 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587551] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Wherever We Go Author: Tracey Rose Peyton Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023 ‘A hugely impressive debut’ SARAH WATERS ‘[A] haunting and moving story’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to be missed’ NATHAN HARRIS ’A haunting, powerful and utterly unforgettable read’ RACHEL HENG An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of female friendship in the darkest of circumstances. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now, each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up and send the stockman away. But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe. Visceral and illuminating, Night Wherever We Go marks the arrival of a bold, lyrical and powerful new voice in fiction.