Julie Smith has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 11 narrators. The most-rated is Louisiana Bigshot.
New Orleans Noir
Summary
Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation. It's everyone's seamy underside, the city where respectable citizens go to get drunk, puke in the gutter, dance on tabletops, and go home with strangers, all without guilt. It's the metropolitan equivalent of eating standing up - if it happened in New Orleans, it doesn't count. The city was always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, the sociopathic street thug, and, especially, the heartless con artist - but in post-Katrina times it struggles against... well, the same old problems, just writ large and with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. Combine all that with a brilliant literary tradition and you have New Orleans Noir, a sparkling collection of tales exploring the city's wasted, gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming "sliver by the river," its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the past, from that recent innocent time known in contemporary New Orleans as "pre-K," to the mid-nineteenth century, the other time the city was mostly swampland. The complete list of narrators includes: Allyson Johnson, Vikas Adam, Kevin T. Collins, Tom Stechschulte, Robin Miles, Jennifer Van Dyck, Johnny Heller, Lisa Renee Pitts, William Dufris, Kevin Free, Nick Sullivan, Therese Plummer, Mirron Willis, J. W. Wilburn, Lauren Fortgang, Raquel Lozano, Andy Caploe, and Aiello.
©2007 Akashic Books (P)2014 Audible Inc.
GED AudioLearn - Complete Audio Review for the GED (General Equivalency Diploma)
Summary
Are you ready to move forward? Colleges and employers treat a GED the same as a high school diploma - which means that earning your GED can help you reach your goals. And research shows that students who study for the GED do much better than those who do not. Introducing GED AudioLearn: A Complete Audio Review for the GED (General Equivalency Diploma): Using this audiobook, you'll be prepared to earn your best score on the GED. We don't waste your time with information that you don't need to know-we focus instead on just those skills that are regularly tested on the GED. All GED subjects are covered including: Reasoning through language art Mathematical reasoning Science Social studies Each topic is followed by a quiz and a "key takeaways" section to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points. There is also a comprehensive test containing the top-100 most frequently tested questions on the GED with the correct answers. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2018 AudioLearn (P)2018 AudioLearn
Louisiana Bigshot
Summary
Meet the hottest detective duo in New Orleans - she's Queen Latifah. He's Danny DeVito. Or they would be if this were a movie - in print, they're Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino. Talba's got the beauty, the brains, the computer savvy, the poetic soul, the youth, the right demographic, and the sass. Eddie's got the detective agency. Also a short fuse and yes, wisdom. Not only do they make it work, they've got chemistry. And they need every skill and ounce of courage they can summon in this intricate tale of a decades-old conspiracy only now coming home to roost, with the murder of Talba's friend Babalu Maya. Babalu is actually Clayton Robineau, daughter of the local banker in a small Louisiana town that bears her name, a town buried under the weight of its own malevolent past. Something terrible happened to Clayton as a child, but it was far from the usual "something terrible". As Talba and Eddie investigate, they find it was an injury - both psychic and physical - so bizarre, so shameful and damning that almost anyone in town would kill to cover it up. Or so it seems to the New Orleans duo as they dodge bullets and what passes for the law in this malignant enclave, fetid with the rot of its corruption, yet determined to keep its sordid skeletons buried. Never did Faulkner's words ring so true as in Clayton, Louisiana: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
©2003 Julie Smith (P)2016 Julie Smith