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Key City on the River by Greta Gorsuch

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518906 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518906] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Key City on the River Author: Greta Gorsuch Narrator: Greta Gorsuch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Release date: November 22, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: On a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons cross the dark Mississippi River into the Iowa Territory on a tiny ferryboat. Its passengers are full of questions. Aunt Sunday just wants to know if they’re going to drown. Jonathan and Ella Butterman wonder if they will find success in their new home. And Penny Cooper and Nate Tilden are eager to learn if they will be able to live as free people. They survive the crossing and settle in Key City. There isn’t much to the town aside from a few log cabins and small buildings in a forest clearing. There are also very rough, very tough residents, including some who hate people with dark skin. Aunt Sunday, Penny, and Nate were slaves in Kentucky not a year before. What will the Iowa Territory decide on the question of owning human beings? No one yet knows. Based on the history of a real place, Key City on the River explores what it means to start a new life in a new land full of new opportunities.

Victoria's War: A Novel by Catherine A. Hamilton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518372 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518372] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria's War: A Novel Author: Catherine A. Hamilton Narrator: Emily Behr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In VICTORIA'S WAR, Hamilton gives voice to the courageous Polish Catholic women who were kidnapped into the real-life Nazi slave labor operation during WWII. Inspired by true stories, this lost chapter of history won't soon be forgotten. POLAND, 1939: Nineteen-year-old Victoria Darski is eager to move away to college: her bags are packed and her train ticket is in hand. But instead of boarding a train to the University of Warsaw, she finds her world turned upside down when World War II breaks out. Victoria's father is sent to a raging battlefront, and the Darski women face the cruelty of the invaders alone. After the unthinkable happens, Victoria is ordered to work in a Nazi sewing factory. When she decides to go to a resistance meeting with her best friend, Sylvia, they are captured by human traffickers targeting Polish teenagers. Sylvia is singled out and sent to work in the brothels, and Victoria is transported in a cattle car to Berlin, where she is auctioned off as a slave. GERMANY, 1941: Twenty-year-old Etta Tod is at Mercy Hospital, where she's about to undergo involuntary sterilization because of the Fuhrer's mandate to eliminate hereditary deafness. Etta, an artist, silently critiques the propaganda poster on the waiting room wall while her mother tries to convince her she should be glad to get rid of her monthlies. Etta is the daughter of the German shopkeepers who buy Victoria at auction in Berlin. The stories of Victoria and Etta intertwine in the bakery's attic where Victoria is held—the same place where Etta has hidden her anti-Nazi paintings. The two women form a quick and enduring bond. But when they're caught stealing bread from the bakery and smuggling it to a nearby work camp, everything changes.

The Three Sisters of Victory Walk by Annie Groves

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519925 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519925] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Sisters of Victory Walk Series: #1 of Three Sisters Author: Annie Groves Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. A brand new series from the bestselling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk Rose, Clover and Daisy are the pretty blond sisters of the Harrison family, living with their parents and two brothers, and working in East London and the outbreak of WWII. Rose the eldest is a nurse working in Homerton Hospital, she despairs of her younger siblings and their occasional less sensible attitudes to life. Clover is the handful of the family and whenever there’s trouble she isn’t far away. At the first chance she gets, she volunteers for the Auxiliary Service, but things go far from smoothly. Daisy is the baby of the family, but she doesn’t want to be treated like a child anymore and is determined to grow up, whether her family like it or not. When she gets a chance to sign up to do her bit, she seizes her chance. As rationing, blackouts and bombs start to bite, life will change forever for the three sisters.

The Schoolmistress by Maggie Sullivan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518050 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518050] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Schoolmistress Series: #2 of Our Street at War Author: Maggie Sullivan Narrator: Chloe Massey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Heartwarming and nostalgic new Saga series from the author of Mother’s Day on Coronation Street. It’s 1940 and for the Lancashire town of Greenhill, everything is about to change… Local schoolteacher Violet Pegg is surprised to get a letter out of the blue. Her Canadian pen-friend, Daniel, will soon be joining the RAF and be stationed close by. Violet hopes their long-distant friendship is about to become something more. Vicky Buckley, the town postmistress, has recently married the local doctor, but she is shocked when an unexpected visitor turns up on her doorstep. Claire Gold works with her aunt, Sylvia, in the haberdashery shop. When Violet asks her for a favour, it sets off a chain of events that will threaten their friendship. With the dark clouds of conflict looming, will it be love, and not war, that Greenhill must contend with? Praise for Maggie Sullivan: ‘A lovely, nostalgic choice read’ Choice Magazine ‘Perfect’ Woman

No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature by Harold Sonny Ladoo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506582 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506582] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature Author: Harold Sonny Ladoo Narrator: Damian Salandy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. With an introduction by Monique Roffey - this is her favourite book by a Trinidadian novelist. Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of courage. 'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York Times © Harold Sonny Ladoo 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022