Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

A Hero of France by Alan Furst

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263500 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263500] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hero of France Series: #14 of Night Soldiers Author: Alan Furst Narrator: Daniel Gerroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The latest war novel from the New York Times bestselling author and “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) Alan Furst. Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when Britain was losing the war. Many of the characters are resistance fighters who run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain, they include men and women, old and young, all strong, an aristocrat, a Jewish teacher, and the hero is a hero, has a gun and uses it. Some of Furst's former characters including S. Kolb the spy, and Max de Lyon, former arms dealer, now a nightclub owner, return. A Hero of France is sure to please existing Furst fans and attract new ones.

Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263350 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263350] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duke of Sin Series: #10 of Maiden Lane Author: Elizabeth Hoyt Narrator: Ashford McNab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A MAN OF SIN Devastatingly handsome. Vain. Unscrupulous. Valentine Napier, the Duke of Montgomery, is the man London whispers about in boudoirs and back alleys. A notorious rake and blackmailer, Montgomery has returned from exile, intent on seeking revenge on those who have wronged him. But what he finds in his own bedroom may lay waste to all his plans. A WOMAN OF HONOR Born a bastard, housekeeper Bridget Crumb is clever, bold, and fiercely loyal. When her aristocratic mother becomes the target of extortion, Bridget joins the Duke of Montgomery's household to search for the incriminating evidence-and uncovers something far more dangerous. A SECRET THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY THEM BOTH Astonished by the deceptively prim-and surprisingly witty-domestic spy in his chambers, Montgomery is intrigued. And try as she might, Bridget can't resist the slyly charming duke. Now as the two begin their treacherous game of cat and mouse, they soon realize that they both have secrets-and neither may be as nefarious-or as innocent-as they appear . . .

Prayers the Devil Answers: A Novel by Sharyn McCrumb

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262124 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262124] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prayers the Devil Answers: A Novel Author: Sharyn McCrumb Narrator: Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In Depression-era Appalachia, a desperate sheriff’s widow takes on her late husband’s job and discovers that a prayer the devil answers comes at a terrible price. The year is 1936 and society provides no safety net for newly widowed Ellie Robbins, a woman in a small mountain town who suddenly has to support her family on her own. She’s not trained to be a teacher or a nurse, the only respectable careers for a woman. So in order to care for her children, Ellie takes the only job available: that of her late husband, the sheriff. Ellie has long proven that she can handle herself, and her role as sheriff is largely symbolic. Yet the wariness of her male subordinates and the townspeople is palpable. Soon, as dark secrets come to light, Ellie is forced to grapple with the tenuous ties she shares with a convicted killer and the small-town superstitions that have plagued her for years. When a condemned killer is sentenced to death for his crime, her opportunity to do so presents itself in a way she never expected. There’s one task that only a sheriff can carry out: the execution of a convicted prisoner. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Prayers the Devil Answers is rich with the same masterful attention to historical detail and captivating folklore that you cherished in McCrumb’s renowned Ballad novels. Her luscious writing brings her unforgettable characters to life with the “pure poetry” (The New York Times Book Review) that defines her astounding novels. Prayers the Devil Answers is a mesmerizing depiction of one woman’s tenacity and strength in even the most harrowing of circumstances.

Heat and Light: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262599 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262599] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heat and Light: A Novel Author: Jennifer Haigh Narrator: Michael Rahhal, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263231 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263231] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone Brave is Forgiven Author: Chris Cleave Narrator: Luke Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave—the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told “with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion…a powerful portrait of war’s effects on those who fight and those left behind” (People, Book of the Week). London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war—until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she’d be a marvelous spy. When she is—bewilderingly—made a teacher, she finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship, and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams. The three are drawn into a tragic love triangle and—as war escalates and bombs begin falling—further into a grim world of survival and desperation. Set in London during the years of 1939–1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave’s grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.