Fifty-Two Stories: (1883-1898) by Anton Chekhov

REEna 5 by Ed Rosek

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359976 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359976] to listen full audiobooks. Title: REEna 5 Author: Ed Rosek Narrator: Lara K Crawford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 11, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: The year is 2046. Nikkolas Tensig is living a comfortable life. He has a great job at the Gen-Ham factory creating Droid-Pets. At the end of each day, he enjoys returning to his plush modern home, complete with two female android servants. But his idyllic existence is turned inside out as he begins experiencing alarming dreams and visions, while his newest android, REENA 5, begins to exhibit some highly strange behavior. What follows is surreal and terrifying, and will lead Nikk to question his own sanity and grip on reality, in this Sci-Fi Horror you won't soon forget. Presented in Radio Drama style with immersive modern sound effects to enhance listening enjoyment. 35 minutes Age: teen to adult

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: Short Stories 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).

Trailerpark by Russell Banks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379548 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379548] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailerpark Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: ''Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream.'' — Washington Post Book World In this series of related short stories, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing. Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them.

The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393427 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393427] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boatman and Other Stories Author: Billy O'Callaghan Narrator: Gary Furlong, Jan Cramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: “I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan.”—Robert Olen Butler The prizewinning Irish short-story writer and author of the highly praised novel, My Coney Island Baby, delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date—a poignant story collection that “grips from the opening page” (Bernard MacLaverty).  These are twelve poignant, quietly dazzling, and carefully crafted stories that explore the resiliency of the human heart and its ability to keep beating in the wake of bereavement, violence, lost love, and incomparable trauma and grief. Spanning a century and two continents, from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an airplane bound for Taipei, The Boatman and Other Stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters. Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man’s life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully within his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labor rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child; and a pair of newlyweds embark on their first adventure, living wild on the deserted Beginish Island. Ranging from the elegiac to the brutally confrontational, these densely layered tales reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Billy O’Callaghan is a master celebrant of the smallness of the human flame against the dark: its strength and its steady brightness.

Fifty-Two Stories: (1883-1898) by Anton Chekhov

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390680 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390680] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty-Two Stories: (1883-1898) Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Jim Frangione Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 14, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.   Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one single type of “Chekhov story.” They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia and all walks of life, including landowners, peasants, soldiers, farmers, teachers, students, hunters, shepherds, mistresses, wives, and children. Taken together, they demonstrate how Chekhov democratized the form.   Included in this volume are tales translated into English for the first time, including “Reading” and “An Educated Blockhead.” Early stories such as “Joy,” “Anguish,” and “A Little Joke” sit alongside such later works as “The Siren,” “Big Volodya and Little Volodya,” “In the Cart,” and “About Love.” In its range, in its narrative artistry, and in its perceptive probing of the human condition, this collection promises profound delight.