Byron Williams has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Mastering Life after Athletics.
The Radical Declaration
Summary
The Radical Declaration offers a timely series of thought-provoking essays that challenges the nation to look beyond contemporary political orthodoxies in order to recapture the ideals of the nation’s founding creed. Rev. Williams is one of the leading public theologians in the nation. He is a columnist, author, and the former pastor of the Resurrection Community Church in Berkeley, CA. His weekly column appears in the popular Huffington Post along with selected publications in North Carolina and California. He is host of the NPR-affiliated broadcast The Public Morality and serves as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
©2020 Byron Williams (P)2020 Byron Williams
Umbilical
Summary
A son learns that his estranged mother is dying from stage four cancer and reluctantly moves her into his home after a past of aggressive nurturing. They attempt to salvage the time she has left while he tries to repair his struggling marriage and cultivate his three teenage sons. Witness this young Black man maneuver his way through their creative and edgy relationship. His father walks with him through this chaotic door and continues to build his character as a son and a man. But will it prepare him for what lies ahead with his mother? This audiobook will have you waiting to exhale as you travel from the umbilical to the realities of life. Be prepared for tears, laughter, judgment, and memories of your relationship with your own mother. Strap yourself in tight! Destination, emotional roller coaster!
©2016 Byron Bernard Williams (P)2020 Byron Bernard Williams
Solitaire: Magda Goebbels
Summary
Solitaire is the ambitious, seductive, and macabre story of the "unofficial" First Lady of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels. On May 1, 1945, after Adolf Hitler commits suicide, Magda murders 6 of her 7 children and sits down to play solitaire in the Fuhrerbunker, as she waits for her husband, Josef, to return so they can execute themselves in the Reich Chancellery gardens.
Magda goes on a retrospective quest for redemption, examining her loving relationship with her Jewish stepfather, Richard Friedlander and her first love, Chaim Arlosoroff, a Zionist leader. She is forced to confront her indefinable desire for "more"...which inevitably leads to the woman she had become - a banality of ambition and evil. Her obsession with her public image as the paragon of German womanhood has blinded her to the humanity of others, including her own. It was a life that ran a parallel course with the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.
©2018 Byron Williams (P)2019 Byron Wiliams
Mastering Life after Athletics
Summary
A wonderful how to book that focuses on motivation of a young man in American basketball: Everyone has had a failure, or two or even three.... We often equate failures with negative connotations that the person is lazy, they didn't try hard enough, they aren't educated and so on.... Motivation is not usually the outcome in this situation. Could you imagine a young man that has made fatherhood a priority, released as an author from a lucrative publishing contract prior to the release date, traveled the world as a professional bodyguard for Eminem, rubbed elbows with the elite (Trump Enterprises, former presidential elect John Kerry), played collegiate and pro basketball, self published his own books, and lastly escaped a life of teenage crime. He has not only mastered life but helps others to succeed. This phenomenal book will transform, shape, and inspire youth, athletes, and entrepreneurs in 10 simple tips based on true-life events through pure honesty.
©2011 Byron Williams (P)2012 Byton Wil'liams