Your Favorite Stories, Now in Your Ears - Full Audiobook

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 343774

Title: How to Make Friends with the Dark

Author: Kathleen Glasgow

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Kathleen Glasgow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:43:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-19

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Kids, Romance, Health & Family

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness.

'A rare and powerful novel.' --Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret

Tiger's life changed with a simple phone call. Her mother has died. That's when darkness descended on her otherwise average life.

Tiger's mother never talked about her father, and with no grandparents or aunts or uncles, her world is packed into a suitcase and moved to a foster home. And another. And another. Until hope surfaces in the shape of . . . a sister?

Sometimes family comes in forms you don't recognize. But can Tiger learn to make friends with the darkness before it swallows her whole?

'Stunning and beautifully written.'-HelloGiggles

'Breathtaking and heartbreaking.' --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 381850

Title: First Tuesday: Any price a winner...even murder!

Author: Richard Harrison

Narrator: Richard Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:14:56

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

It's a Race Against Time

With the fate of the Melbourne Cup hanging in the balance, former jockey-turned-police inspector Frank Dennis must solve the mysterious hit-and-run murder of champion jockey Alan Da Silva before the race.

With the pressure of the looming Melbourne Cup and the ruthless casino boss Albert Maressmo behind the crime, Dennis must unravel the mystery and reveal the truth in time.

Experience the thrilling suspense as Dennis races against the clock to solve the crime in First Tuesday.

If you enjoyed the fast-paced action of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, you're sure to love First Tuesday.

Buy your copy now before the price changes!

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 374961

Title: Horizon

Author: Barry Lopez

Narrator: James Naughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, History

Summary:

From the National Book Award-winning writer, humanitarian, environmentalist and author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams: a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped his extraordinary life. Poignantly, powerfully, it also asks 'How do we move forward?'

Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth--Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as 'one of our finest writers,' gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves through decades of his life as it describes his travels to six regions of the world: from the Oregon coast where he lives to the northernmost reaches of Canada; to the Galapagos; to the Kenyan desert; to Botany Bay in Australia; and in the resounding last section of this magisterial book, unforgettably to the ice shelves of Antarctica.

     As he revisits his growing up and these myriad travels, Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada; the colonialists who plundered Central Africa; an Enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific and a Native American emissary who arrived in Japan before it opened to the West. He confronts today's ecotourism in the tropics and visits the haunting remnants of a French colonial prison on Île du Diable in French Guiana. Through these journeys, and friendships forged along the way with scientists, archeologists, artists and local residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

     With tenderness and intimacy, Horizon evokes the stillness and the silence of the hottest, the coldest and the most desolate places on the globe. It speaks with beauty and urgency to the invisible ties that unite us; voices concern and frustration alongside humanity and hope; and looks forward to our shared future as much as it looks back at a single life. Revelatory, powerful, profound, this is an epic work of nonfiction that makes you see the world differently: a crowning achievement by one of our most humane voices--one needed now more than ever.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 380144

Title: Francesco and Francesca

Author: Bettina Ehrlich

Narrator: Barbie Robinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:31:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Historical

Summary:

Francesco is a poor little Italian boy who has no shoes. One day, while gazing into to the window of the smartest shoe shop in town, he sees a beautiful young girl smiling back at him. This is Francesca and he cannot forget her.

Winter comes and with it, the Grand Carnival in Milan. Francesco dresses as a brigand with hand me down shoes that are too big for him. But in a bid to impress Francesca, he swaps costumes with a red velvet prince with matching red leather shoes.

Mayhem follows and it seems Francesco will miss the Carnival fun altogether. Will he also lose his beloved Francesca?

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 344144

Title: Here, Now: Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overconnected World

Author: Kate Merrick

Narrator: Jill Blackwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:30:07

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Kate Merrick takes readers on a journey to drop the distractions and check back into their actual lives, discovering the good, true, and beautiful things God offers when they choose to be present right here, right now.

For too many women, life just passes by. They feel a lack, a deep dissatisfaction with their circumstances, so they busy themselves in an effort to distract from their less-than-hoped-for lives, constantly looking for what better season may be coming next. In the process, they miss the everyday glorious moments God wants to use and speak through today.

In Here, Now, Kate Merrick invites women to stop running away from their actual lives and instead to walk in the peace and fullness God offers when they quiet their souls, listen to what he's saying, and live with brave intentionality. With more than a little personal confession, humor, and honest contemplation, Kate brings readers into her journey to look deep inside her heart, identify and remove the obstacles that prevent her from being truly present, and intentionally receive the gifts of God found in all of life's moments--the painful ones, the big and beautiful ones, and also the ordinary ones.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 367998

Title: Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood

Author: Bill Gaston

Narrator: Bill Gaston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:49:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize

Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

From Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won't say to each other

Sons clash with fathers, sons find reasons to rebel. And, fairly or unfairly, sons judge fathers when they take to drinking.

But Bill Gaston and his father could always fish together. When they were shoulder-to-shoulder, joined in rapt fascination with the world under their hull, they had what all fathers and sons wish for. Even if it was temporary, even if much of it would be forgotten along with the empties.

Returning to the past in his old fishing boat, revisiting the remote marina where they lived on board and learned to mooch for salmon, Bill unravels his father's relationship with his father, it too a story marked by heavy drinking, though one that took a much darker turn.

Learning family secrets his father took to the grave, Gaston comes to understand his own story anew, realizing that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact someone both nobler and more vulnerable than he had guessed.

Warm, insightful, and often funny, Just Let Me Look at You captures every father's inexpressible tenderness, and the ways in which the words for love often come too late for all of us.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 385300

Title: Grace in the Shadows

Author: Christine Dillon

Narrator: Christine Dillon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:49:49

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Two women. One collision course with truth.

Physiotherapist Esther has survived cancer, but wounds within her family remain unhealed. Is her revived faith the reason for the rift or could a simmering secret be the root cause?

Cosmetics consultant Rachel buried her past - and her fathers God - but the past refuses to stay buried. Will she continue to run or is confronting her pain the way to freedom?

Can Gods grace shine even in the darkest of shadows?

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 364742

Title: Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport

Author: Johanna Schneller, Kristen Worley

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:59:46

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-19

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Sports, Social Science

Summary:

A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.

In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports--running, waterskiing and especially cycling--helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his twenties, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen.

     Chris had been a world-class cyclist, and now Kristen wanted to compete for her country and herself in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's gender verification process, the Stockholm Consensus. An all-male jury determined she fit their biological criteria--but the IOC ultimately objected to her use of testosterone supplements. They, and other sports bodies, regard them as performance enhancing, when in fact all transitioned female athletes need the hormone to stay healthy and to compete. So Kristen filed a complaint against the sports bodies standing in her way with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. And she won.

     Woman Enough is the account of a human rights battle with global repercussions for the world of sport; it's a challenge to rethink fixed ideas about gender; and it's the extraordinary story of a boy who was rejected for who he wasn't, and who fought back until she found out who she is.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 369212

Title: Power of Cute

Author: Simon May

Narrator: Anthony Head

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-19

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed British actor Anthony Head explores cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions

Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.all reflect its gathering power. But what does cute mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going onin a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.

We usually see the cute as merely diminutive, harmless, and helpless. May challenges this prevailing perspective, investigating everything from Mickey Mouse to Kim Jong-il to argue that cuteness is not restricted to such sweet qualities but also beguiles us by transforming or distorting them into something of playfully indeterminate power, gender, age, morality, and even species. May grapples with cutenesss dark and unpindownable sideunnerving, artful, knowing, apprehensiveelements that have fascinated since ancient times through mythical figures, especially hybrids like the hermaphrodite and the sphinx. He argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to todays pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere. Instead, it frivolously expresses the uncertainty that these norms deny: the ineliminable uncertainty of who we are; of how much we can control and know; of who, in our relations with others, really has power; indeed, of the very value and purpose of power.

The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 369765

Title: Bolder: How to Age Better and Feel Better about Ageing

Author: Carl Honore

Narrator: Carl Honore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:08:43

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-19

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Instructional & How To, Aging & Longevity, Psychology

Summary:

Carl Honoré captured the zeitgeist with his international bestseller, In Praise of Slow. Now he tackles another rising global movement: our revolutionary new approach to a human inevitability--ageing.

A revolution in how we age is on its way. Yes, ageing is inevitable: one year from now we will all be a year older; that will never change. What can and will change is how we age--and how we can all take a much bolder approach to doing it with vigour and joy.

     The time has come to cast off prejudices and to blur the lines of what is possible and permissible at every stage of life. In other words: we need to learn to re-imagine our approach to later life. Emboldening ourselves in older age demands big structural changes. For a start, we will have to tear up the old script that locks us into devoting the early part of our life to education, the middle chunk to working and raising kids, and whatever is left over at the end to leisure. In an age-inappropriate world, these silos will dissolve. We'll embrace the idea that we can carry on learning from start to finish; that we can work less and devote more time to family, leisure, and giving back to our communities in our middle years; and that we can remain active and engaged in our later years.

     Carl Honoré has travelled the globe speaking to influential figures who are bucking preconceived notions of age, whether at work or in their personal lives. He looks at the cultural, medical, and technological developments that are opening new possibilities for us all. Bolder is a radical re-think of our approach to everything from education, healthcare and work, to design, relationships and politics. An essential and inspiring read for everyone interested in our collective future.

Contact: [email protected]