Joseph Pittman has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is A Christmas Hope.
Two More Todd Tales
Summary
Todd Gleason, the charming and dimpled con man who last appeared in Two Todd Tales, returns for the first time in more years than he’s willing to admit. The author, too. In these two novellas, cons abound and suspicion reigns. It’s crime fiction...with a laugh track. In "The Mystery of Marilyn and Her Men", Marilyn Mackenzie is an old friend who has just lost her fifth husband. Lost, as in died. And yes, her fifth. Poor Hank Dilfer got bashed over the head by a deer foot, the latest of Marilyn’s matches to meet an early end. Don’t worry about her, she’s fine, living a life higher than her Manhattan penthouse, her bank accounts filled with the spoils from her spouses. Her heart, like always, is ready to move on, and see, that’s where Todd enters the picture. He’s never one to miss an opportunity for a cool con that could fill his coffers. An unexpected financial windfall could come Todd’s way if he’s able to prove Marilyn’s innocence of Hank’s murder. Too bad he thinks she’s guilty as hell. Is Marilyn a black widow, or is something more nefarious afoot? Then, in "The Business with the Bumbling Blind Man", it’s a perfect autumn day that finds Todd Gleason strolling through Central Park when he eyes something odd - an elderly man stumbling forward into a pond. First on the scene, Todd rescues him, only to learn he is blind and had lost his footing. Or, maybe not. Soon, Bartholomew Vasgersian proposes a big payday for Todd: come to his estate and find out which of his relatives is trying to kill him before he inherits a fortune. Todd agrees, but he’s about to meet his match with an assortment of Vasgersian relatives that are loonier than the next. Turns out, one of them jumped off the turret at the estate just two weeks ago. How does that tie in with the threat Barth feels? Is Todd seeing all he thinks, or is he flying blind?
©2018 Joseph Pittman (P)2020 Linden Corners Press
Tilting at Windmills
Summary
This lyrical debut novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found and of a life renewed - in a most unexpected place... At 34, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan, who owns the windmill. The two strike a chord in Brian's heart, and soon he discovers the small-town charms of Linden Corners - and of Annie, whose elusive quality matches his own questions about life. And as their relationship deepens into passion, through the force of nature and the hand of fate, Brian will learn that love comes in unexpected ways.
©2001 Joseph Pittman (P)2016 Joseph Pittman
A Christmas Wish
Summary
Eight-year-old Janey Sullivan has had a difficult year, between losing her mother and adjusting to life with her guardian, Brian Duncan. But with the holidays approaching, her one Christmas wish is to find the perfect gift for Brian - if she can learn to trust him first. Reeling from the loss of his soul mate, Brian is determined to give her daughter, Janey, an extraordinary Christmas. But he struggles to read her irregular moods, and when he catches her in a lie, he begins to doubt the future of their new little family. Yet with the help of their friends in Linden Corners, and a bit of Christmas magic riding on the wind, they may be able to preserve Janey's mother's traditions, perhaps even start some new ones - and discover that the life they hadn't planned on can still bring the happiness they've always wished for.
©2012 Joseph Pittman (P)2016 Joseph Pittman
When the World Was Small
Summary
When dreams take you away.
George Denton never believed in the notion of love at first sight, not when his parents regaled him with the story of how they met, not when his elderly grandmother married her bridge partner, not even when the prettiest girl in all the world moved to the picturesque village of Lincoln Point. But from the moment the baby who came to be called Sky let out his first wail inside the house on Archer Avenue, George knew his life would never be the same again. Here was a child orphaned at birth, a child seemingly blessed with a remarkable gift, looking to his Uncle George to teach him the lessons of life, of the power of love, and the realization of dreams.
When destiny brings you home.
Spanning two decades, When the World Was Small is filled with the memorable moments of the Denton family, events funny and sad, poignant and powerful, tragic and thrilling. It is a tale of dreams both realized and unfulfilled, and of the special relationships that help define who we are, and who we become.
From the acclaimed author of Tilting at Windmills, you won't want to miss this powerful portrait of one family and the sacrifices they make when faced with tragedy and happiness alike.
©2003 Joseph Pittman (P)2017 Joseph Pittman
Legend's End
Summary
A sudden loss in Carson Alden's life brings with it an unexpected surprise that carries him home to Turner Junction. Though it's the town he was born to, it's also a place he barely remembers.
Upon his arrival at the historic Bolton Hotel, he is immediately faced with images of yesteryear, photographs on the walls that illustrate the town's rich history. There, he also meets an elderly woman known as the Duchess, the town's revered keeper of the legends, a woman who loved great and lost greater.
Lauren Hendricks first came to Turner Junction to care for her elderly grandfather, Edgar, a man who loves nothing more than riding along the Empire One's rusted rails. Now a local real estate agent, it is Lauren who will hand Carson the keys to his house, helping him unlock the secret of why he was taken from Turner Junction after the untimely death of his parents.
But Carson will find more find than a new home and a new life; he will unwittingly give rest to the town's one remaining legend.
©2007 Joseph Pittman (P)2018 Joseph Pittman
A Christmas Hope
Summary
From Joseph Pittman, the acclaimed author of Tilting at Windmills and A Christmas Wish, return to the land of Linden Corners and the spinning, all-knowing windmill for another heartwarming tale of holiday magic. One final Christmas wish could change their lives forever.... Nora Connors Rainer has returned to her hometown, Linden Corners, to tend to her elderly but spunky pie-baking mother - and to nurse a broken heart. To keep busy, Nora opens "A Doll's Attic", a consignment shop where locals can unload their unwanted heirlooms. And the upcoming holidays are bringing a host of interesting objects - and people - through her doors. Eighty-five-year-old Thomas Van Diver hands Nora her first challenge: track down a rare, vintage item that holds powerful childhood memories for him - memories of his father and their last Christmas together before he went off to the war and never returned. Helping them both is Brian Duncan, whose farmhouse and windmill Thomas once called home. Together with his irrepressible young charge Janey Sullivan, Brian will uncover the mysteries of Christmas past - and create a Christmas present that just might restore their hope and fulfill everyone's deepest wishes.
©2012 Joseph Pittman (P)2020 Linden Corners Press