Spoils by Brian Van Reet

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307729] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.

Spoils by Brian Van Reet

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290351 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290351] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spoils Author: Brian Van Reet Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella, Andrew Eiden, Armando Duran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the new wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a 'victimless' crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat. 'The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American'-Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year 'An electrifying debut' (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.

[Spanish] - El diario de Adán y Eva by Mark Twain

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290394 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290394] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El diario de Adán y Eva Series: Part of [Spanish Edition] Flashback Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Natalia Helo, Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date: April 13, 2017 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Un relato en el que Mark Twain pone de manifiesto sus hilarantes y poco ortodoxas opiniones sobre la religión, ahora para escuchar. «Me gusta una buena historia bien contada. Por esta razón, a veces me veo obligado a contarlas yo mismo». Con estas palabras Mark Twain, según Hemingway, el padre indiscutible de la literatura estadounidense, defendía sus cuentos, hábilmente tramados, de inventivainagotable y personajes inolvidables. El diario de Adán y Eva (1893-1905), una divertidísima y por tanto poco ortodoxa reconstrucción de la vida en el Jardín del Edén, es una excelente muestra. Los mejores relatos para escuchar.

[Spanish] - El hombre bicentenario by Isaac Asimov

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290392 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290392] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hombre bicentenario Series: Part of [Spanish Edition] Flashback Author: Isaac Asimov Narrator: Raúl Lloréns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 39 minutes Release date: April 13, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Un clásico entre los clásicos de la ciencia ficción, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro. «Esta historia, que apareció por primera vez en 1976, fue mi exposición más clarividente del desarrollo de los robots. Trataba del deseo de un robot de convertirse en hombre y la forma en que realizaba este deseo, paso a paso. No tenía intención de escribir esta historia cuando la empecé, se escribió sola, y se trazó y entrelazó en la máquina de escribir. Acabó siendo la tercera de mis historias favoritas, entre todas las escritas.» Isaac Asimov El hombre bicentenario, merecedora de los prestigiosos premios Hugo y Nebula, fue escrita originalmente por encargo para una antología de relatos conmemorativa del bicentenario de la independencia de Estados Unidos que nunca se publicó. Poco más que añadira las palabras que Asimov dedica a este relato en la introducción que escribió en 1990 para la antología Visiones de Robot: disfruten escuchando.

[Spanish] - La última pregunta by Isaac Asimov

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290393 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290393] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La última pregunta Series: Part of [Spanish Edition] Flashback Author: Isaac Asimov Narrator: Raúl Lloréns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 13, 2017 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: La última pregunta, una obra maestra de la ciencia ficción, es, tal y como afirmó su autor en repetidas ocasiones, «por encima de toda duda, mi favorita entre todas las historias que he escrito en mi carrera». ¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo XXI, hasta generaciones y generaciones posteriores en el tiempo, hacen los humanos a los ordenadores. Escucha este relato aparentemente sencillo sobre un asunto sobrecogedor, el fin de los días. Asimov demuestra, una vez más, una mente preclara y una mano maestra para sobrecogernos y dejarnos en vilo, incluso después de haber acabado de escuchar. La mejor ciencia ficción disponible en formato audiolibro.