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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: Historical 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 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: Historical 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.

The Other Side of the Sun: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313085 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313085] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of the Sun: A Novel Author: Madeleine L'Engle Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A young British bride is caught up in her new family’s complicated history in this atmospheric novel set in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she’s joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Reniers’ rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family. As she tries to settle into her new life, Stella quickly discovers that the Reniers are not what they seem. Trapped in a world unlike anything she’s ever known, vulnerable Stella attempts to uncover her new family’s dangerous secrets—and stirs up a darkness that was meant to stay buried. From the beloved, National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, The Other Side of the Sun showcases Madeleine L’Engle’s talent for involving and suspenseful storytelling.

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: Historical 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

Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felsen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311552 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311552] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Green: A Novel Author: Sam Graham-Felsen Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 2, 2018 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.   “A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”—The Boston Globe Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city’s best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn’t likely—he’ll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody’s more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar’s a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave’s own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave’s assumptions about black culture: He’s nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar’s coming over to Dave’s house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar’s. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he’s been given—and that Mar has not. Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut is a wildly original take on the American dream. Praise for Green “Prickly and compelling . . . Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A coming-of-age tale of uncommon sweetness and feeling.”—The New Yorker “A fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk “A heartfelt and unassumingly ambitious book.”—Slate