Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256035 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256035] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In Heart of Darkness, Polish-British author Joseph Conrad deploys atmosphere, ambiguity and nuance to spin a languid tale of intrigue and madness in late 19th-century Colonial Africa. The story's narrator, Marlow, tells of a trip up the Congo River to rescue a legendary ivory trader, Kurtz, from a mysterious illness. Considered Conrad's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century (it was written and serialized in 1899 but not published in book form until 1902), others have condemned the dehumanizing depictions of Africans as racist and outdated.

A Country Road, A Tree: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction by Jo Baker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256520 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256520] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Country Road, A Tree: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction Author: Jo Baker Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance... Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art. Praise for Jo Baker's LONGBOURN: 'Intoxicating' Guardian 'Engrossing' Sunday Times 'Audacious' New York Times

300 Days of Sun: A Novel by Deborah Lawrenson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259408 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259408] to listen full audiobooks. Title: 300 Days of Sun: A Novel Author: Deborah Lawrenson Narrator: Fiona Hardingham, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters’ Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past—where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes. Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company: he is determined to discover the truth involving a child’s kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic coastline over two decades ago. Joanna’s subsequent search leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she will find answers in The Alliance, a novel written by American Esta Hartford. The book recounts an American couple’s experience in Portugal during World War II, and their entanglements both personal and professional with their German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isn’t fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she begins to suspect that Esta Hartford’s story and Nathan Emberlin’s may indeed converge in Faro—where the past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very present danger.

Lazaretto: A Novel by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259413 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259413] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lazaretto: A Novel Author: Diane McKinney-Whetstone Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia’s black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of nineteenth-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary Lazaretto—America’s first quarantine hospital. Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto’s black live-in staff forge a strong social community, and when one of them receives permission to get married on the island the mood is one of celebration, particularly since the white staff—save the opium-addicted doctor—are given leave for the weekend. On the eve of the ceremony, a gunshot rings out across the river. A white man has fired at a boat carrying the couple’s friends and family to the island, and the captain is injured. His life lies in the hands of Sylvia, the Lazaretto’s head nurse, who is shocked to realize she knows the patient. Intertwined with the drama unfolding at the Lazaretto are the fates of orphan brothers. When one brother commits a crime to protect the other, he imperils both of their lives—and the consequences ultimately deliver both of them to the Lazaretto. In this masterful work of historical fiction, Diane McKinney-Whetstone seamlessly transports us to Philadelphia in the aftermath of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, beautifully evoking powerful stories of love, friendship and humanity amid the vibrant black community that flourished amid the troubled times.

Rare Objects: A Novel by Kathleen Tessaro

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259404 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259404] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rare Objects: A Novel Author: Kathleen Tessaro Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston’s North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests, she’s determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin—a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward, leading a double life. When the strain proves too much, Maeve becomes an unwilling patient in a psychiatric hospital, where she strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic young woman, who, like Maeve, is unable or unwilling to control her un-lady-like desire for freedom. Once out, Maeve faces starting over again. Armed with a bottle of bleach and a few white lies, she lands a job at an eccentric antiques shop catering to Boston’s wealthiest and most peculiar collectors. Run by an elusive English archeologist, the shop is a haven of the obscure and incredible, providing rare artifacts as well as unique access to the world of America’s social elite. While delivering a purchase to the wealthy Van der Laar family, Maeve is introduced to beautiful socialite Diana Van der Laar—only to discover she’s the young woman from the hospital. Reunited with the charming but increasingly unstable Diana and pursued by her attractive brother James, Mae becomes more and more entwined with the Van der Laar family—a connection that pulls her into a world of moral ambiguity and deceit, and ultimately betrayal. Bewitched by their wealth and desperate to leave her past behind, Maeve is forced to unearth her true values and discover how far she’ll to go to reinvent herself.