Ken La Salle has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is The Wrong Magic.
Indian Paintbrush
Summary
In the early '70s, in the middle of the night, on a dried-out lawn in a broken-down neighborhood in the Southern Californian community of Santa Ana, Nate Brewer’s mother held him as they watched his father leave them to an uncertain future. After that, it was every man for himself. At least, that’s how Nate and his brother, Ira, saw it. Now, Nate is 45 years old. He’s losing his wife. He lost his career. His mom is losing that same home in Santa Ana, and Nate thinks he may be losing his mind. That’s just the beginning of Indian Paintbrush, a darkly bittersweet yet comic tale told by Nate himself. He thinks he’s writing a journal for his psychiatrist, but, as his recollections grow darker, he realizes that he has let every bad moment in his life keep him from reaching for anything good. This could be his last chance at remembering just what it is he can’t live without. Some people grow up hoping things will change, but very often, the only thing time changes is our memories. Maybe there are times when “family” comes down to a group of people you just can’t stand and who you actively hate. And these are the people with whom you will share some of your fondest memories.
©2014 Ken La Salle (P)2019 Ken La Salla
DC Home, Volume 1
Summary
Washington politics might as well exist in a void, if we are going to look at the way it is so often reported on cable tv or Facebook, or those newspapers no one reads. Politicians on Capitol Hill make sweeping decisions about vast sums of money, draconian laws, the fate of armies…and those decisions are just too big for us to experience on a personal level. But not if you ask Sherry Finn. Washington’s inability to end gun violence took her sister in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, which left Sherry to take care of her orphaned nephew, Sean. Washington’s neglect of providing mental health care for so many Americans led Old Herbert to Sherry’s door. Laws are passed or not passed, decisions are put off, lobbyists are satisfied, while people like Sherry are left to feel their impact. My name is Ken La Salle and I write Sherry’s stories. I have a front-row seat for the lives of Sherry, Sean, Old Herbert, Brett Kavanaugh, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, and many more. And each week, I sit down and share these stories of their DC Home. Each chapter is 15 episodes long. The first chapter of Sherry’s story is right here. The introductory music was generously provided by Josh Woodward (www.joshwoodward.com).
©2019 Ken La Salle (P)2019 Ken La Salle
Dynamic Pluralism
Summary
In the history of philosophy, there have been many theories about ethics but none have been straightforward enough to understand and use in everyday life. That ends now with dynamic pluralism. Dynamic Pluralism presents a system of ethics that is not only easy to understand and easy to use but beneficial to the lives of those who do so. It filters out the philosophical jargon so popular in academic circles and structures ethics that it is accessible to everyone. Not only does it present an understandable system of ethics but also shows the listener how they can use ethics to create a better world. Dynamic Pluralism casts a clear and defining light on the challenges of our century - war, overpopulation, climate change, energy dependence, equality, and much more - and illuminates our path into a brighter future. We live in a world without a working system of ethics available to all people, and this explains how and why the United States has ended up with a president-elect like Donald Trump, a man bereft of ethical clarity, a moral compass, or any sense of justice. The concept of dynamic pluralism defines ethics, morals, and justice so that we may all understand them, what happens when we live without them, and how they should be used to create a better world. Dynamic Pluralism is not just a book of philosophy. It is a revolution in ethics. It is a system for creating a new world based on ethical treatment, fair and fulfilling relationships, and a future in which we can finally live in peace.
©2016 Ken La Salle (P)2019 Ken La Salle
DC Home, Volume 2
Summary
This collection of DC Home’s second season is the audio version of a man trying to hold back an avalanche with a distraction. After launching DC Home’s first season, I returned for a season filled with more Trump than I could bear. Nobody warned me about the pandemic. And, despite my plots, despite my improvs, despite my rants, COVID-19 took DC Home as it took the United States, painfully unprepared. After losing her bar in Season One and finding herself and her nephew homeless, living in a storage unit down by the shops in Fort Lincoln, Sherry Finn was supposed to have a better year. Her son was supposed to fall in love. So was Old Herbert. There are seeds of these possibilities scattered throughout the season, which paints the stories with a sense of regret common during this pandemic. If Sherry is my Job, it’s only fair that a plague got involved. My name is Ken La Salle and I write the stories of DC Home. I had a front-row seat for the lives of Sherry, Sean, and Old Herbert, as they watched Rush Limbaugh be awarded for his hate, as I explained nuance through Mike Pence’s horrific rape of Donald Trump, as I told my own COVID-19 story, and much more. I look very much forward to having nothing to write about in volume 3.
©2020 Ken La Salle (P)2020 Ken La Salle
The Wrong Magic
Summary
Good relationships take a certain kind of magic to succeed, and what Alex Petroya seems to have is the wrong magic. After his wife Stephanie leaves, Alex has one place left to go: The pink house his parents left to him in Cambria, California. After moving in, he discovers a box filled with unfinished stories Stephanie had written during their marriage. Could finishing them win her back? Alex decides to try but finds writing is harder than it looks. With help from his brother-in-law, Conner, he learns a simple incantation to increase focus. As Alex writes the stories, they come true, creating strange, unnatural events. Then he gets another idea: He will manipulate the stories further to make Stephanie return to him. With the incantation and the stories, Alex seems to have tapped into a magical combination. But in the end, he finds there is no magic stronger than that of the human heart.
©2014 Wido Publishing (P)2021 Wido Publishing