Slippage by Harlan Ellison

The This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525550 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525550] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The This Strange Eventful History Author: Claire Messud Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history, Claire Messud animates her characters’ rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. As profoundly intimate as it is expansive, This Strange Eventful History is “a tour de force … one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters” (Yiyun Li).“A choral mural of sweep and scope that knows just when to render the historical personal, Claire Messud’s epic is above all a wise, wary, yet love-struck chronicle of how the selves we strive to make become ‘colonized’ by family.”—Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Netanyahus

The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams, Emily Stride

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533053 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533053] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Twilight Garden Author: Sara Nisha Adams, Emily Stride Narrator: Mikhail Sen, Shaheen Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The spellbinding new novel from the acclaimed author of The Reading List Welcome to The Twilight Garden – the neighbourhood's best-kept secret… ‘It was a complete joy’ Sally Page, bestselling author of The Keeper of Stories For too long, Winston has lived a quiet life. But when a mystery parcel drops on his doormat – a curious collection of photographs showing a community garden, his garden, bursting with life years ago – it sparks a bigger change than he could ever imagine. Who is the secret gardener? And what are they trying to tell him? All Winston knows is The Twilight Garden holds an extraordinary story; humming with memories just waiting to be unearthed. And the garden can work its magic on the community again – if only he finds the courage to invite people in… Readers love Sara Nisha Adams’ storytelling: ‘I laughed, smiled, cried, and didn't want it to end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘So beautifully written and I loved every single character! This is so much hope and love in every page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Thoroughly uplifting and at times poignant. Wonderful book!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘One of the most heartwarming and inspiring books I've ever read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘If you need a book that gives you hope, this is it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Slippage by Harlan Ellison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525379 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525379] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slippage Author: Harlan Ellison Narrator: Cindy Kay, Luis Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: With this, his bestselling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called 'electrifying … Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever.'

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533067 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533067] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Measure Author: Nikki Erlick Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘GRIPPING AND POIGNANT’ RUTH HOGAN, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things ‘CLEVER AND ENTERTAINING’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ’ PRIMA Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like just another morning. Around the world, people wake up, check the news, open the front door. On every doorstep is a box. Inside that box is the exact number of years that person has left to live. Whether they open it or hide it under their bed, each person must learn to live in this new world: a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush their life together, a doctor who cannot save himself from his own fate, best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything… Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is a sweeping, ambitious and invigorating story about family, friendship, hope and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest. ‘EXAMINES THE BIG LIFE AND DEATH QUESTIONS IN A CLEVER AND, DARE WE SAY IT, ENTERTAINING WAY’ WOMAN & HOME ‘INTRIGUING’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY ‘LIFE-AFFIRMING’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, bestselling author of Vox ‘DESPITE ITS CHILLING PREMISE, ERLICK’S NOVEL IS AN ESCAPE FROM — RATHER THAN A WINDOW INTO — OUR OWN TERRIFYING REALITY’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING’ Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding 'A SHARP LENS FOR REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS' DAILY MAIL ‘A HEARTFELT PARABLE FOR OUR OWN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES’ Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of One Two Three ‘BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED AND HUGELY IMAGINATIVE’ Claire North ‘BRILLIANT – I COULDN’T STOP READING’ Christina Sweeney-Baird ‘UTTERLY ORIGINAL AND WONDERFULLY MYSTERIOUS’ Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane ‘HUGELY COMPELLING’ Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library ‘AN IRRESISTIBLE HOOK AND A STRONG EMOTIONAL HEART’ Luke Allnutt, author of We Own the Sky

Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528421 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528421] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tomorrow I Become a Woman Author: Aiwanose Odafen Narrator: Nneka Okoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then again, who was I to speak of such things   When Gozie and Obianuju meet in August 1978, it is nothing short of fate. He is the perfect man: charismatic, handsome, Christian, and – most importantly – Igbo. He reminds her of her beloved Uncle Ikenna, her mother’s brother who disappeared fighting in the Civil War that devastated Nigeria less than a decade before. It is why, when Gozie asks her to marry him within months of meeting, she says yes, despite her lingering and uncertain feelings for Akin – a man her mother would never accept, as his tribe fought on the other side of the war. Akin makes her feel heard, understood, intelligent; Gozie makes her heart flutter. For Uju, the daughter her mother never wanted, marriage would mean the attainment of that long elusive state of womanhood, and something else she has desired all her life – her mother’s approval. All will be well; he is the perfect match, the country will soon be democratic again and the economy is growing, or so she thinks … Loosely based on the real stories of real women known to the author, Tomorrow I Become a Woman follows a complex relationship between mother and daughter as they grapple to come to terms with tremendous loss. This powerful debut by Aiwanose Odafen is a sensitive exploration of a woman’s struggle to meet societal and cultural expectations within the confines of a difficult marriage, a tribute to female friendship and a love story that spans two decades and continents against a backdrop of political turmoil and a fast-changing world.