The Humphrey Audio Collection, Books 4-7: Surprises According to Humphrey; Adventure According to Humphrey; Summer According to Humphrey; and School Days According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Mothers and Sons: A Novel by Adam Haslett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782252 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782252] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothers and Sons: A Novel Author: Adam Haslett Narrator: Andrew Gibson, Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 7, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it. In his spellbinding new novel, Adam Haslett demonstrates yet again his mastery of “a rich assortment of literary gifts” (New York Times).

Lies on the Serpent's Tongue by Kate Pearsall

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742143 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742143] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lies on the Serpent's Tongue Author: Kate Pearsall Narrator: Julie Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 7, 2025 Genres: Mystery & Thriller Publisher's Summary: In this haunting companion to Bittersweet in the Hollow, a girl who can smell the lies of others uncovers the incendiary mysteries of her small Appalachian town. Everybody lies. And in knowing their lies, I become the keeper of their secrets. As Caball Hollow slowly recovers from a tumultuous summer, the James family must also come to terms with their own newly revealed secrets. 18-year-old Rowan James has spent her whole life harboring unpleasant truths—that’s what happens when you can smell lies on the teller’s breath—and building walls around herself to block them out. Like her younger sister, Linden, who can taste the feelings of others, Rowan has long struggled with her gift, which has taught her that everyone distorts the truth, and no one is who they seem to be. So when her old rival Hadrian Fitch shows up on her front porch—bloodied and bruised and asking for the kind of help only she can provide—her first instinct is distrust. Except Hadrian’s attack isn’t the only strange occurrence. Now small items are disappearing, but rather than report the losses the owners act as if their missing things never existed. Rumors of a new monster prowling the Hollow begin to swirl. But how can Rowan smoke out the culprit in a town full of secrets? And worse, how can Rowan trust beautiful, solemn Hadrian when every other word he speaks has the distinct burnt smell of a lie?

The Humphrey Audio Collection, Books 4-7: Surprises According to Humphrey; Adventure According to Humphrey; Summer According to Humphrey; and School Days According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813702 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813702] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Humphrey Audio Collection, Books 4-7: Surprises According to Humphrey; Adventure According to Humphrey; Summer According to Humphrey; and School Days According to Humphrey Series: Part of Humphrey Author: Betty G. Birney Narrator: Hal Hollings, William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: Humor Publisher's Summary: Humphrey, everyone’s favorite classroom pet, is the star of chapter books perfect for younger readers. Each adventure is full of hamster-iffic humor, friendship and fun. Kids will be thrilled to get their paws on books 4-7! Join Humphrey as he navigates the wilds of school with the students of Room 26. This audiobook collection includes books 4-7 (Surprises According to Humphrey, Adventure According to Humphrey, Summer According to Humphrey and School Days According to Humphrey). Each audiobook features adventures in school as well as at home with different students on the weekends where Humphrey learns about all kinds of friendship and family dynamics and helps kids solve their problems. With a fresh voice and an engaging hamster’s-eye view of school, families, and treats to hide in a cheek pouch, Betty G. Birney’s Humphrey will elicit laughter and a new appreciation for classroom hamsters everywhere.

Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis by Jon Waterman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768819 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768819] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis Series: Part of Patagonia Author: Jon Waterman Narrator: Jon Waterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change. Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the strange landscape, and its otherworldly light—how the “frequent rain showers glow like lemonade poured out of the sky.” Taken with a new sense of wonder, he began to explore the North on several trips in the 1980s.  After a 30-year absence from the Noatak, he returned with his son in 2021. Amid a now-flooded river missing the once-plentiful caribou, he was shocked and heartbroken by the changes. The following year, in 2022, he took one final journey “into the thaw” to document—for this lushly illustrated and scholarly book—the environmental and cultural changes wrought by the climate crisis.  A widely published author and photographer, Waterman’s narrative alternates between adventure and wilderness memoir and plainly stated natural history of the area. Chased by bears, sometimes alone for weeks on end amid hordes of mosquitoes, he notes the extraordinary changes from 1983 until the present day: brush grown over the tundra in a phenomenon called Greening of the Arctic, tear-drop-shaped landslide thaw slumps—a.k.a. thermokarsts—caused by thawing permafrost, and an increasing loss of sea ice as he travels along the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. The author also spends time with the kindhearted, welcoming Inuit or Inupiat most affected by the Arctic crisis, who share how their age-old culture has attempted to cope with “the thaw.” Stricken by the change, Waterman paints an intimate portrait of both the villages and the little-visited landscape, because “it’s high time that we truly understand the Arctic.” He writes, “Lest we forget what it once was.” Through his quest for wonder—in prose illuminated by humility and humor—Waterman shows how the Arctic can confer grace on those who pass through. Despite the unfolding crisis, as a narrative of hope, at the book’s end he suggests actions we can all take to slow the thaw and preserve what is left of this remarkable, vast frontier. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains stunning photographs from the book.

The Great Library of Tomorrow by Rosalia Aguilar Solace

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763097 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763097] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Library of Tomorrow Series: #1 of Tomorrowland Author: Rosalia Aguilar Solace Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Epic Fantasy Publisher's Summary: AFTERWORD BY DJ STEVE AOKI Fueled by the same collaborative heart and boundless imagination that dazzle millions of devoted Tomorrowland followers and festivalgoers every year, The Great Library of Tomorrow is a stunningly original epic fantasy about a band of heroes who must defeat a malevolent enemy bent on destroying the openness, love, and creativity that sustain their many realms. Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical portals controlled by the Book of Wisdom. But even her hope is tested when she and her partner, Xavier, the Sage of Truth, are attacked while visiting the famous Rose Garden in the realm of Silvyra. Wounded and in shock amid a storm of fire, they are confronted by a deadly figure known to them as the Ash Man. With the Garden destroyed and its dragon protector missing, Xavier sacrifices his life so that Helia can return home to warn the other Sages. But there she finds the Book of Wisdom—always a guide to the Sages—eerily silent. With the Ash Man gaining strength, Helia soon finds herself in a race against time, searching for clues to the origins of their foe—and any possible way to defeat him.