Jill Ramsower has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is A Time to Selah.
A Time to Selah
Summary
When life goes crazy, the Lord has a prophetic word for you: “Come away with me! It’s time for “selah". The word “selah” means to pause and reflect. When life goes crazy, it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and crisis. We start to live based on what news headlines, doctors reports, and circumstances tell us. But in the middle of the storm, God is calling for his people to come away with him, for it’s in the place of selah that he is speaking powerfully. In a time of “selah”, where you feel “shut in” with the Lord, he will bring you into new realms of intimacy with him and speak next-season strategies for your life! Prophetic Lana Vawser delivers a fresh, timely, and prophetic word, calling believers to a time of selah. It’s not in activity; far from it. It’s a time of deep communion with God and prophetic strategy released from heaven. Discover how selah will: Lead you back to the garden: the place of intimacy with God Usher us into a “new normal” - God’s supernatural normal Release keys for how to operate victoriously in the “New Era” God is releasing into the Earth Bring you into new surrender, which means fresh fire from Heaven Raise up a people filled with divine strategy You can turn any crisis around. Simply seize it as a “divine selah” moment, go back to the garden of intimacy with God, and receive his prophetic solutions and strategies!
©2020 Lana Vawser (P)2020 Destiny Image Audio
Forever Lies
Summary
Luca was heartache waiting to happen. On the surface, he appears well-dressed and professional, but behind those impassive black irises, I can sense something dark and ruthless. He’s unlike any man I’ve come across in my life. With my wealthy upbringing, I’ve been around any number of affluent, powerful men, but Luca is different. Enigmatic. Overwhelming. He wears an air of secrecy like the latest fashion trend. I’m not one of those girls who seeks out the bad boy - I have enough issues to deal with in my life without adding his brand of trouble. Problem is, a chance elevator malfunction put me straight in his crosshairs, and now, he won’t let me walk away. The most disturbing part - no matter how dangerous he may be, there’s a mutinous side of me that doesn’t want to run. As if I ever had a choice.... Warning: There is a scene involving attempted sexual assault that may not be suitable for listeners sensitive to such topics.
©2019 Jill Ramsower (P)2019 Jill Ramsower
Never Truth (A Mafia Romance)
Summary
Nico They say you don’t know what you’ve lost until it’s gone, but that wasn’t true. I knew exactly how devastating it would be to lose Sofia, and I did it anyway. She doesn’t think I have the right to walk back into her life. Too bad. I’m not the same playground protector she grew up with. I’ve grown into a hardened, selfish man, and her tears won’t deter me. Now that I’ve had a taste of her, I can’t get enough. I want to burry myself inside her - cage her in my arms and never let her go. Sofia slipped through my fingers once before, and I won’t let it happen again. Sofia Nico was the solid ground that kept my life from falling into chaos...until that ground slipped out from beneath me. He didn’t just break my heart, he destroyed it. That was seven years ago. Seven long, life-altering years. Now, he’s come back trying to pick up where we left off, acting as if nothing has changed. He’s in for a surprise because I’m not that same little girl he left behind. He thinks he can bully his way back into my life, but he doesn’t have any clue what he’s up against. Once Nico was gone, this little ladybug sprouted wings and grew teeth - she cast webs and made new friends while she hid in the shadows, nursing her heartache. Angelic Sofia became exactly what she was meant to be - a Genovese. In the Genovese family, our spines are tempered steel, and secrets run through our veins like blood. The big bad wolf can huff and puff all he wants, but he’ll never get inside these walls.
©2019 Jill Ramsower (P)2020 Jill Ramsower
Impossible Odds
Summary
"This book was full of twists and turns and I loved the hell out of it!” (Abstract Books) He was a vision of power and privilege. Ruthless arrogance personified. A total stranger and an irresistible challenge. I approached him in a busy casino and felt the sting of his brutal rejection. Then, I did something incredibly brazen. Impulsive. Reckless. I stole from him. The object was inconsequential, only worth a handful of dollars. I didn’t do it for the money; it was about making a statement. I went back home thousands of miles away without giving him a second thought, until I spotted those quicksilver eyes glaring at me across a busy nightclub. It was too impossible to be a coincidence. Yet, there he was, seething with a violent promise of retribution. He thought he’d intimidate me. Hunt me down and make me pay. What he didn’t realize was I don’t scare easily. My name is Giada Genovese, and I’m a goddamn mafia princess. Impossible Odds is the fourth book in the Five Families series but can be listened to as a stand-alone novel. This book is a mafia romance containing adult themes and may not be suitable for sensitive listeners.
©2020 Jill Ramsower (P)2020 Jill Ramsower
Blood Always
Summary
It was supposed to be business. Two families, one wedding, zero emotion. My father’s mafia outfit had saved my life. I owed them everything. An arranged marriage was hardly a sacrifice when I would have already been long-dead, had it not been for them. I would give up my independence for the Lucciano family. I would bind myself to the man whose family tore my life to pieces. Matteo De Luca was vicious claws sheathed in refinement and class. He saw my untamed independence as a challenge. I saw his alluring authority as a threat. There was a ruthless storm that raged in his oceanic gaze. A majestic tidal wave of temper and domination looking to break on my rocky shores. He would annihilate me. Rip open my layers until all my pretty secrets were scattered at his feet. The worst part? I wanted to experience whatever it was Matteo had to offer, and I hated myself for it. I wanted to launch myself at him. To kiss him. To kill him. To end the debilitating torture of the unknown. The moment our paths collided, our lives were altered irrevocably. Taking us from enemies allied by a strategic marriage to something dark and consuming. Something that tasted like obsession. Blood Always is book three in The Five Families series but can be listened to as a stand-alone. Warning: There is a very small trigger warning on this one. If you are a highly sensitive listener, this one might not be for you.
©2020 Jill Ramsower (P)2020 Jill Ramsower
On the Courthouse Lawn
Summary
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over 40 years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for black Americans, are equally pernicious. On the Courthouse Lawn investigates how the lynchings implicated average white citizens, some of whom actively participated in the violence while many others witnessed the lynchings but did nothing to stop them. Ifill observes that this history of complicity has become embedded in the social and cultural fabric of local communities, who either supported, condoned, or ignored the violence. She traces the lingering effects of two lynchings in Maryland to illustrate how ubiquitous this history is and issues a clarion call for American communities with histories of racial violence to be proactive in facing this legacy today. Inspired by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as by techniques of restorative justice, Ifill provides concrete ideas to help communities heal, including placing gravestones on the unmarked burial sites of lynching victims, issuing public apologies, establishing mandatory school programs on the local history of lynching, financially compensating those whose family homes or businesses were destroyed in the aftermath of lynching, and creating commemorative public spaces. Because the contemporary effects of racial violence are experienced most intensely in local communities, Ifill argues that reconciliation and reparation efforts must also be locally based in order to bring both black and white Americans together in an efficacious dialogue. A landmark book, On the Courthouse Lawn is a much-needed and urgent road map for communities finally confronting lynching's long shadow by embracing pragmatic reconciliation and reparation efforts.
©2018 Sherrilyn Ifill and Bryan Stevenson (P)2018 Beacon Press