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Much Ado About Margaret: A Novel by Madeleine Roux

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649343 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649343] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Much Ado About Margaret: A Novel Author: Madeleine Roux Narrator: Suzie Rai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Madeleine Roux’s next season in Regency England follows a rebellious writer and the man who risks everything to publish her. Margaret Arden yearns to live like the passionate and daring women in her novel. The idyllic life at Mosely Cottage with her two younger sisters and mother is fine, but Margaret wants more than the demure and dainty existence she’s known. After a particularly brutal rejection from an annoyingly attractive publisher, Margaret fears being forced into marriage to protect her family if their financial situation doesn’t improve—until her cousin’s glamorous wedding masquerade brings her onto a collision course with scandal, notoriety, and even love.  Captain Bridger Darrow is starting over after fighting for his country. Now home, he is struggling to save his family from destitution and succeed in a new venture of passion: book publishing. It’s all going rather poorly, until he stumbles upon loose pages of an astonishing novel while in attendance at his dearest friend’s wedding. Bridger knows he must publish it. But upon meeting the author, Bridger is stunned to discover that he—she—is a woman, and he has already told her off in grand fashion. While Bridger is keen to gain her trust and rescind the initial rejection, Margaret can’t help but be skeptical of his intentions. Sparks fly between the two, just as the wedding of the season starts to descend into chaos when a masked dance leads to a case of mistaken identities.

The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650297 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650297] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unicorn Woman Author: Gayl Jones Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'One of our greatest living authors.'—Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he’s a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he is a true self-educated intellectual and a classic seeker: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love. As he moves around the south, from his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, primarily, to his second home of Memphis, Tennessee, he recalls his love affairs in post-war France and encounters with a variety of colorful characters and mythical prototypes: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists, and bigots. The lead among these characters is, of course, The Unicorn Woman, who exists, but mostly lives in Bud’s private mythology. Jones offers a rich, intriguing exploration of Black (and Indigenous) people in a time and place of frustration, disappointment, and spiritual hope.

The Wild Lavender Bookshop by Jodi Thomas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660833 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660833] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Lavender Bookshop Author: Jodi Thomas Narrator: Jeanine Bartel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Return to the unforgettable world of Someday Valley, Texas, in this tender, uplifting novel of hearts in search of second chances.The trees that circle Someday Valley near Honey Creek are dressed in their fall finest, providing a pretty backdrop for the local businesses—including the little bookshop loved by schoolteacher Cora Lee Buchanan. There, under the watchful eye of owner Noah O’Brien, Cora Lee and her sister, Katherine, meet each Wednesday. Their talk mostly revolves around one subject: their father, known to everyone in town as Bear. Both Cora Lee and Katherine worry about Bear Buchanan. They’ve no idea Bear has a secret life of his own. As for the sisters, Katherine, beautiful and selfabsorbed, is in search of her third husband, while Cora Lee is in love for the first time. On warm nights, she climbs up to her building’s roof to chat with Noah and listen to the melody of the water below. Yet there is more intrigue afoot in Honey Creek …Andi Delane has arrived in town to hear the last wishes of the father she never met. She was shocked to get a letter from lawyer Jackson Landry, and she has few expectations—of this mysterious will, or of Deputy Danny Davis who’s been assigned to protect her. But fall always brings changes, and this year there will be enough to alter not just the lives of those who call Honey Creek home, but the future of Someday Valley itself …

The Diamond and the Duke by Christi Caldwell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653494 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653494] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diamond and the Duke Series: #3 of All the Duke's Sins Author: Christi Caldwell Narrator: Mary Jane Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When a wounded soldier and self-proclaimed 'beast' finds unlikely friendship with a headstrong and unconventional beauty, they quickly find themselves weaving a tale as old as time…   Despite a hero’s return to England from the Napoleonic Wars, Wesley Audley isolates from the ton. Deep wounds from the horrors of combat—and the despair of a broken heart—left him scarred. As he struggles to cope and resume his place in Polite Society, Wesley is quick to cut himself off from everyone…except for Ellie Balfour.    Independent and strong-willed, Ellie has dreams of captaining her own husband-free life and a penchant for meddling in other’s business. She knows befriending Wesley is a risk but Ellie can’t bear to see his heartache. Nor can she seem to silence all the temptingly intimate thoughts his nearness provokes.    But Ellie is yet to face a battle she can’t win—and Wesley’s heart is worth the fight. If only her campaigns ever went to plan…

The Happiest Ever After: THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Milly Johnson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653546 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653546] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Happiest Ever After: THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Author: Milly Johnson Narrator: Colleen Prendergast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Life can be an adventure story, if you write it yourself! ‘Milly Johnson always delivers an absolutely cracking read’ Katie Fforde The new romantic, heartwarming, feelgood novel from the much-loved Sunday Times bestselling author, Milly Johnson. 'Gloriously funny, witty, wise and wonderful, this book is a total joy!’ Alexandra Potter ‘A delicious warm hug of a book’ Jill Mansell ‘Guaranteed to put a spring in your step – I loved it’ Jo Thomas 'Gorgeous, heartwarming and moving, The Happiest Ever After is so original and brilliantly written in the typically funny and clever Johnson style' Lucy Vine 'An escapist, uplifting read full of heart' Libby Page ‘Funny and brilliant and gorgeously warm, Milly Johnson always, always delivers’ Paige Toon 'Takes you on a classic transformative journey in the most wonderful and original way. What a joy!' Julietta Henderson Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the ­fictional Sabrina Anderson. But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of? After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have. But what if this new life could belong to her after all? ‘Reading a Milly Johnson book is like spending time with a best friend – you always end up feeling better about the world. Written with genuine warmth and heart, they’re an absolute treat’ Lucy Diamond ‘One of those novels that draws you in to its world and makes you wish you could be friends with Shay. A tantalising juicy tale full of twists and turns that kept me gripped. Warm, funny and moving. One to curl up with and devour’ Ruth Jones ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie Johnson