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How Strange a Season: Fiction by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360998 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360998] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Strange a Season: Fiction Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Richly satisfying.” —The Wall Street Journal “These are stories you want to live in…a collection perfectly suited for our moment.” —Booklist (starred review) A collection of stories “so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves” (Los Angeles Times) about women experiencing all life’s beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In this “closely observed” (The New Yorker) collection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. “Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Penguin Modern Classics by George Orwell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361465 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361465] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four: Penguin Modern Classics Author: George Orwell Narrator: Peter Capaldi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Little Disasters: A compelling and thought-provoking novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359793 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359793] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Disasters: A compelling and thought-provoking novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal Author: Sarah Vaughan Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Esther Wane, Sarah Feathers, Sophie Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 2, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal – a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us.  You think you know her… But look a little closer   She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess.    Then one moment changes everything.     Dark thoughts and carefully guarded secrets surface – and Liz is left questioning everything she thought she knew about her friend, and about herself.

The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel by Thomas Keneally

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Paul Haley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned Man has made his home alongside other members of his tribe. Complex and deeply introspective, he reveres tradition, loyalty, and respect for his ancestors. Willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, the Learned Man cannot conceive that a man millennia later could relate to him in heart and feeling. In this “meditation on last things, but still electric with life, passion and appetite” (The Australian), Thomas Keneally weaves an extraordinary dual narrative that effortlessly transports you around the world and across time, offering “a hymn to idealism and to human development” (Sydney Morning Herald).

Mama Hissa's Mice: A Novel by Saud Alsanousi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/364604 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/364604] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mama Hissa's Mice: A Novel Author: Saud Alsanousi Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 12, 2019 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction comes an apocalyptic and caustically funny novel about the power of friendship in a war-torn world that NPR calls “rich and resonant.” Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination—only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, a story-spinning font of piety, wisdom, superstition, and dire warnings, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall. Then one day, after an attack on his neighborhood leaves him injured, Katkout regains consciousness. His friends are nowhere to be found. Inundated with memories of his past, Katkout begins a search for them in a world that has become unrecognizable but not forsaken. Snaking through decades of Kuwaiti history well into a cataclysmic twenty-first century, Mama Hissa’s Mice is a harrowing, emotional, and caustic novel of rebellion. It also speaks to the universal struggle of finding one’s identity and a reason to go on, even after the sky has fallen.