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The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344162 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344162] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Printed Letter Bookshop Author: Katherine Reay Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Books. Love. Friendship. Second chances. All can be found at the Printed Letter Bookshop in the small, charming town of Winsome. One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened Madeline’s heart toward her once-treasured aunt—and the now struggling bookshop left in her care. While Madeline intends to sell the shop as quickly as possible, the Printed Letter’s two employees have other ideas. Reeling from a recent divorce, Janet finds sanctuary within the books and the decadent window displays she creates. Claire, though quieter than her outspoken colleague, feels equally drawn to the daily rhythms of the shop and has found a renewed sense of purpose within its walls. When Madeline’s professional life falls apart, and a handsome gardener upends her life, she questions her plans and her future. Has she been too quick to dismiss her aunt’s beloved shop? And even if she has, the women’s best efforts to save it may be too little, too late. - Sweet contemporary romance for book lovers - Stand-alone novel - Book length: 98,000 words

Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343603 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343603] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sabrina & Corina: Stories Author: Kali Fajardo-Anstine Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.  Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home. Audiobook Table of Contents: Sugar Babies read by Almarie Guerra Sabrina & Corina read by Roxana Ortega Sisters read by Alma Cuervo Remedies read by Ana Isabel Julian Plaza read by Kyla Garcia Galapago read by Marisol Ramirez Cheesman Park read by Roxana Ortega Tomi read by Kyla Garcia Any Further West read by Marisol Ramirez All Her Names read by Alma Cuervo Ghost Sickness read by Roxana Ortega Advance praise for Sabrina & Corina “Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart, believable in everything they said and did. How tragic that American letters hasn’t met these women of the West before, women who were here before America was America. And how tragic that these working-class women haven’t seen themselves in the pages of American lit before. Thank you for honoring their lives, Kali. I welcome them and you.'—Sandra Cisneros “Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s collection of stories, Sabrina & Corina, isn’t just good, it’s masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. . . . Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth. Comparisons came to mind: the Alice Munro of the high plains, the Toni Morrison of indigenous Latinas—but why compare her to anybody? She is her own unique voice, and her work will easily find a place, not just in Latinx literature but in American literature and beyond.”—Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

The Memory House by Rachel Hauck

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344123 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344123] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memory House Author: Rachel Hauck Narrator: Lisa Larsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The inspirational story of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house. When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Eighteen years later, she’s a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. When a mysterious letter arrives informing Beck that she’s inherited a house along Florida’s northern coast, she discovers something there that will change her life forever. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a sports agent who has never forgotten their connection as teenagers. But Beck can't even remember him. Decades earlier, widow Everleigh Applegate lives a steady, uneventful life with her widowed mother after a tornado ripped through Waco, Texas, and destroyed her new, young married life. When she runs into her former high school friend Don Callahan, she begins to yearn for change. Yet no matter how much she longs to love again, she is hindered by a secret she can never share. New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck brings us a sweet romance where the power of love and the miracle of faith promise hope and healing in a beautiful Victorian home known affectionately as The Memory House. - A split-time (contemporary and historical) standalone romance - Book length: approximately 100,000 words - Also by Rachel Hauck: The Wedding Dress, Once Upon a Prince, and The Writing Desk

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel by Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343597 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343597] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bicycle hit-and-run—but so much more than the sum of his parts. In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes but his life’s work. He’s just narrowly missed the Nobel Prize (again), and even though he knows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has other ideas. All this work. All this success. All this stress. It’s killing him. He needs to take a break, start enjoying himself. In short, says his doctor, he should follow his bliss. Professor Chandra doesn’t know it yet, but he’s about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. Praise for Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss “Professor Chandra is a wonderful character—stodgy, flawed, contentious, contemptuous—yet vulnerable, insecure, lonely, repentant, and ridiculous enough to win our sympathy. . . . In the end, Balasubramanyam’s novel is a sort of Christmas Carol for a new age.”—NPR “Impressively, Balasubramanyam . . . balances satire and self-enlightenment [in] a surprisingly soulful family tale that echoes Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections in its witty exploration of three children trying to free themselves from the influence of their parents.”—The Guardian  “Funny from start to finish . . . Spending time with Professor Chandra feels like you’ve been in therapy, in a good way.”—Irish Times  “Funny, affecting . . . Chandra is a delightful creation: peevish, intolerant, intellectually exacting, unwittingly eccentric, nerdy, needy yet lovable. The book, like its picaresque hero, is a one-off.”—The Sunday Times

Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories by Polly Rosenwaike

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343586 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343586] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories Author: Polly Rosenwaike Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A beautifully written and beautifully conceived series of stories about, well, conception...Among the thousands of books for prospective and new parents, I doubt any will make you feel more understood and less alone than this one.'--ANTHONY DOERR, author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A candid, ultimately buoyant debut story collection about the realities of the 'baby years,' whether you're having one or not The women in Polly Rosenwaike's Look How Happy I'm Making You want to be mothers, or aren't sure they want to be mothers, or--having recently given birth--are overwhelmed by what they've wrought. Sharp and unsettling, wry and moving in its depiction of love, friendship, and family, this collection expands the conversation about what having a baby looks like. One woman struggling with infertility deals with the news that her sister is pregnant. Another woman nervous about her biological clock 'forgets' to take her birth control while dating a younger man and must confront the possibility of becoming a single parent. Four motherless women who meet in a bar every Mother's Day contend with their losses and what it would mean to have a child. Witty, empathetic, and precisely observed, Look How Happy I'm Making You offers the rare, honest portrayal of pregnancy and new motherhood in a culture obsessed with women's most intimate choices. Stories: “Grow Your Eyelashes,” read by Rebecca Lowman “Field Notes,” read by Julia Whelan “Period, Ellipsis, Full Stop,” read by Karissa Vacker “White Carnations,” read by Julia Whelan “Tanglewood,” read by Amanda Carlin “June,” read by Tara Sands “The Dissembler’s Guide to Pregnancy,” read by Karissa Vacker “Ten Warning Signs of Postpartum Depression,” read by Rebecca Lowman “Welcome to Your Family,” read by Cassandra Campbell “A Lady Who Takes Jokes,” read by Tara Sands “Love Bug, Sweetie Dear, Pumpkin Pie, Etc.,” read by Amanda Carlin “Parental Fade,” read by Cassandra Campbell Cover art: © 2019 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY