Please visit 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

Please visit 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).

Please visit 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.

Please visit 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.

Please visit 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Odyssey: A Thriller Series: #15 of Sigma Force Author: James Rollins Narrator: Christian Baskous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action. For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad—was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer’s twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles—The Iliad and The Odyssey—could also be true and awaiting discovery? In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship’s hold contains a collection of even older artifacts—tools of war—dating back to the Bronze Age. Inside the captain’s cabin is a magnificent treasure that is as priceless as it is miraculous: a clockwork gold map imbedded with an intricate silver astrolabe. The mechanism was crafted by a group of Muslim inventors—the Banu Musa brothers—considered by many to be the Da Vincis of the Arab world—brilliant scientists who inspired Leonardo’s own work. Once activated, the moving map traces the path of Odysseus’s famous ship as it sailed away from Troy. But the route detours as the map opens to reveal a fiery river leading to a hidden realm underneath the Mediterranean Sea. It is the subterranean world of Tartarus, the Greek name for Hell. In mythology, Tartarus was where the wicked were punished and the monstrous Titans of old, imprisoned. When word of Tartarus spreads—and of the cache of miraculous weapons said to be hidden there—tensions explode in this volatile region where Turks battle Kurds, terrorists wage war, and civilians suffer untold horrors. The phantasmagoric horrors found in Homer’s tales are all too real—and could be unleashed upon the world. Whoever possesses them can use their awesome power to control the future of humanity. Now, Sigma Force must go where humans fear to tread. To prevent a tyrant from igniting a global war, they must cross the very gates of Hell.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Author: Zora Neale Hurston Narrator: Aunjanue Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni Morrison) – the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon – a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage ‘Genius’ Alice Walker ‘Rigorous, convincing, dazzling’ Zadie Smith on Their Eyes Were Watching God In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston – the sole black student at Barnard College, New York – was living in the city, ‘desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.’ During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s ‘lost’ Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humour, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Author: Ken Liu Narrator: Ramón De Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Includes stories featured in Pantheon—now an animated series on AMC+ “I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author “Captivating.” —BuzzFeed “Extraordinary.” —The Washington Post “Brilliant.” —The Chicago Tribune With the release of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu’s short fiction has resonated with a generation of readers. From stories about time-traveling assassins, to Black Mirror-esque tales of cryptocurrency and internet trolling, to heartbreaking narratives of parent-child relationships, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is a far-reaching work that explores topical themes from the present and a visionary look at humanity’s future. This collection includes a selection of Liu’s speculative fiction stories over the past five years—seventeen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition, it also features an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, the third book in Liu’s epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty. Stories include: Ghost Days; Maxwell's Demon; The Reborn; Thoughts and Prayers; Byzantine Empathy; The Gods Will Not Be Chained; Staying Behind; Real Artists; The Gods Will Not Be Slain; Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer; The Gods Have Not Died in Vain; Memories of My Mother; Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts; Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard; A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty); The Hidden Girl; Seven Birthdays; The Message; Cutting

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories Author: Yiyun Li Narrator: Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. “Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. “After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations. These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories Author: Peter Kispert Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 11, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: AN ELLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE MUST-READ LGBTQ BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ELECTRIC LIT BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR A GRINDR QUEER BOOK OF THE YEAR A THE ADVOCATE LGBT+ Book You Absolutely Need to Read 'Riveting… Every lie reveals itself so exquisitely that the parallels become an added pleasure, as soon as we uncover the ways they diverge.' —New York Times Book Review 'Dazzling. Here is a confident, psychologically astute new writer with a bold new vision.' —Garrard Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased Throughout this striking debut collection we meet characters who have lied, who have sometimes created elaborate falsehoods, and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships. In the title story, the narrator, desperate to save a love affair on the rocks, hires an actor to play a friend he invented in order to seem less lonely, after his boyfriend catches on to his compulsion for lying and demands to know this friend is real; in 'Aim for the Heart,' a man's lies about a hunting habit leave him with an unexpected deer carcass and the need to parse unsettling high school memories; in 'Rorschach,' a theater producer runs a show in which death row inmates are crucified in an on-stage rendering of the New Testament, while being haunted daily by an unrequited love and nightly by ghosts of his own creation. In I Know You Know Who I Am, Kispert deftly explores deception and performance, the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, and creates a sympathetic, often darkly humorous, portrait of characters searching for paths to intimacy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El reloj de arena - dramatizado Author: Alexander Copperwhite Narrator: Pablo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 7, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: -Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. El famoso nudo gordiano ha resistido todos los intentos por deshacerlo y quizás es porque dotado de vida propia, el nudo quiere conservar en su interior un poder místico y desconocido. Alejandro Magno no se va a entretener en deshacer el nudo, sino que con su famosa espada le da un tajo y lo parte por medio, desatando una serie de fuerzas que se van a manifestar con todo su poder en pleno siglo XXI. - Alexander Copperwhite es un escritor español que escribe novelas de terror, suspense y misterios

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Verge Author: Lidia Yuknavitch Narrator: Renata Friedman, Dani Martineck, Macleod Andrews, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, Brittany Pressley, Ilyana Kadushin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 4, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins.   The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held—and told—by our own individual bodies.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stateway's Garden: Stories Author: Jasmon Drain Narrator: Sullivan Jones, Guy Lockard, Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 21, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago   “The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude.”—Sandra Cisneros NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago’s South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects—a set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the south—this collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drain’s sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as “the projects.”    Stateway’s Garden is a coming-of-age story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences.   Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fabulous: Stories Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Narrator: John Hopkins, Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 14, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she’ll ever find love. They’re ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore. The ancients invented myths to express what they didn’t understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sportsman's Notebook: Stories Author: Ivan Turgenev Narrator: Steven Marvel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 7, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Twenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlords A Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece, is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a powerful and gripping series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia. These exquisitely rendered stories, now with a stirring introduction from Daniyal Mueenuddin, were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on important members of the Tsarist bureaucracy, contributed to the major political event of mid–nineteenth–century Russia: the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Rarely has a book that offers such undiluted literary pleasure also been so strong a force for significant social change, one that continues to speak to readers centuries later.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Author: Harlan Ellison Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 24, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Vic wanders the wasteland with Blood, hisgenetically-altered telepathic dog, in a struggle for survival against violent marauders, deadlyradioactive insects, and an underground community desperate to restore the human race in theHugo Award–nominated and Nebula Award–winning novella, “A Boy and His Dog,”—thebasis of the cult classic film.An intergalactic conspiracy infects the minds of the most powerful politicians in theRepublican Party—and only one jolly old elf can save them in “Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.”And in the Hugo Award–winning title story, disparate threads of violence, conflict, andconversation weave an intricate tapestry across worlds and times in an experimental tour-deforce of the imagination.This groundbreaking collection brings together some of Harlan Ellison’s most innovativeand intriguing stories, frightening and funny visions of human nature that can only come fromthe peerless Grand Master of Science Fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path Of Light Author: Renuka Narayan Narrator: Archana Pania Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behaviour. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales show how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate kindness. Old-fashioned storytelling meets classic wit and wisdom in this collection. These unusual stories, told in the author’s sharp, humorous style, are distilled human experiences that have the unique quality of endurance. From the ordinary comes the extraordinary; from the human, the supernatural. Ancient and modern, sort-of-known and unheard of, these magical tales from the banks of the Yamuna to the Kaveri and from over the Eastern seas—across the Indic tradition—take us through the pitfalls and pleasures of existence, fusing the past with the present in a happy continuum.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his stories have been overshadowed by the author’s triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidal’s short fiction offers us a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often center on adolescence and homosexual themes. In “Three Stratagems,” a middle-aged gay man encounters a male prostitute while vacationing in Key West. In “The Zenner Trophy,” the star athlete at an elite boys school is expelled for sexual relations with a classmate. These stories were gathered along with five others into a 1956 volume, A Thirsty Evil, and for decades were thought to comprise Vidal’s complete short fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Star Over Bethlehem: Christmas Stories and Poems Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 7, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From the most popular writer of all time comes a treasured collection of short stories and poems celebrating the holiday season. The most popular detective story writer of all time turns her hand to the subject of Christmas. In a manger in Bethlehem, an angel offers Mary a vision of things to come… and a chance to change it all. A naughty little donkey learns the meaning of love as he carries a very special mother and child safely to Egypt. Mrs Hargreaves wanted to like people, but didn't really know how. Then she reached out to touch a stranger, and her eyes were opened to love. This charming reading of Agatha Christie’s stories and poems captures the true meaning of Christmas. This three-hour audio edition contains a wealth of Agatha Christie rarities – not only all the stories and poems from her children’s book Star Over Bethlehem (1965), but also her rare poetry from the two collections The Road of Dreams (1924) and Poems (1973).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/389923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Prayer For The Living Author: Ben Okri Narrator: Ben Okri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 7, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking – the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them laugh, and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, in a printer's shop in Spain. The characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a man in a cave, a man in a mirror, two little boys, a prison door, and the author himself. There are twenty-three stories in all. Each one will make you wonder if what you see in the world is all there is...