Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup

A Cup of Silver Linings by Karen Hawkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403875 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403875] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Silver Linings Series: #2 of Dove Pond Series Author: Karen Hawkins Narrator: Angel Pean, Nancy Linari, Amanda Ronconi, Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Discover the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leaves—from New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins. Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas—is frantic. Just as her new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone haywire. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter’s ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life. But Kristen has other plans. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, she sets off on a quest she’s avoided her whole life—to find her absent father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows. Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family in a “cozy, big-hearted read” (Booklist) that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.

Gudrun: Series 5-7: A Viking Epic inspired by the Icelandic Sagas by Lucy Catherine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394527 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394527] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gudrun: Series 5-7: A Viking Epic inspired by the Icelandic Sagas Author: Lucy Catherine Narrator: Hollie Burgess, Rosie Boore, Kate Phillips, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 8, 2021 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Series 5-7 of the Viking epic of love, revenge and faith set in 11th-century Iceland Born into a world of otherworldly beauty yet unforgiving harshness, Icelandic heroine Gudrun must fight to forge an independent path and live according to her own rules. A tenacious survivor, she has endured much pain in her young life, from widowhood to the death of her lover, the burning of her family home, separation from her beloved daughter, Sigrid, and being cut adrift from her homeland. Now, after many years away, Gudrun sails once more into Icelandic waters, with a plan to rescue her daughter who is being brought up in the new Christian faith. But her return to the Sacred Land is not the homecoming she had hoped for, and she soon finds herself exiled again and heading for the New World, with all its new possibilities and new dangers. Meanwhile, Sigrid arrives in England to marry a man she has never met. Struggling to understand this strange new land of Saxons and Danes, she must keep her darkest secret well-hidden if she is to survive... Written by Lucy Catherine and inspired by the famous Icelandic Laxdæla saga, this epic tale of love, revenge and faith stars Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders, War and Peace) as Gudrun, with Rosie Boore and Hollie Burgess as Sigrid. Written by Lucy Catherine Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko and Jessica Dromgoole Cast Gudrun - Kate Phillips Freija - Samantha Dakin Dag - Cameron Percival/Joseph Ayres Sylvia - Carolyn Pickles/Susan Jameson Volva - Carolyn Pickles Aoife - Lucy Doyle Hakon/Guard 2/Priest/King Sweyn - Michael Bertenshaw Bolli/Guard 1 - Lewis Bray Aslak - Tony Turner Sigrid - Rosie Boore/Hollie Burgess Leif - Don Gilet/Chris Pavlo Warrior - Don Gilet Frederick - Simon Scardifield Heidr - Jeannette Percival/Helen Clapp Kjartan - Luke MacGregor/Ian Dunnett Jnr The Virgin - Marilyn Nnadebe Sailors - Chris Harper and Joseph Ayre Gorm - David Hounslow Canute - Aaron Gelkoff Gunnar - Chris Pavlo Panuk - Kenny Blyth Saxon - Joseph Ayre Vali/Dane - Chris Harper Tofa - Debbie Korley Jesus - Paul Hilton Truda - Charlotte East Monk/Servant - Ian Dunnett Jnr Tobias - Hasan Dixon Abbot Bettega/John Crescentius/Pope - Roger Ringrose Nun - Emma Handy Woman/Garvinicus - Jane Whittenshaw Soldiers - Ian Dunnett Jnr and Hasan Dixon Jesson at 7 - Harry Clarke First broadcast BBC Radio 4: 3-14 December 2018 (Series 5), 20-31 May 2019 (Series 6), 1-12 March 2021 (Series 7)

Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393930 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393930] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop Author: Roselle Lim Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris.   Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves.   Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.   After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can't truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to California and bonjour to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts and realizes one thing to be true: knowing one's destiny isn't a curse, but being unable to change it is.

Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393514 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393514] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Latitudes of Longing: A Novel Author: Shubhangi Swarup Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India “A marvel of magical realism.”—O: The Oprah Magazine A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself.  A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, Latitudes of Longing offers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love one another, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature. Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature • Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature • Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • Winner of the Sushila Devi Literature Award for the Best Book of Fiction Written by a Woman • Winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction

My Mother's House: A novel by Francesca Momplaisir

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393948 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393948] to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mother's House: A novel Author: Francesca Momplaisir Narrator: Janina Edwards, Karen Chilton, Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture • This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality • “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City’s South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mother’s house”—and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn’t, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. What he can’t begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien’s ultimate evil.