Richard Roberts has 10 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 15 ratings. The most-rated is Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
Summary
Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets that even she doesn't understand. She has two superpowered best friends. In middle school the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it. Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape-shifters, and ghosts - no matter what the superpowered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.
©2014 Richard Roberts (P)2015 Tantor
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis
Summary
It's summertime for supervillains! Or maybe not, because for Penelope Akk, there is still one foe she has yet to defeat: her own reputation as Bad Penny. It's been a fun ride: fighting adult heroes, going to space, and inspiring the rest of her school to open up about their own powers. Sooner or later, that ride has to end, and with school out of the way Penny is hatching a mad scheme to end it on her own terms. Will that go smoothly? Of course not. Penny's left too many unsolved problems behind her already, like ghosts, seriously crazy friends, and angry little girls from Jupiter. One by one, they'll have to be dealt with before she can do battle with herself. She'd better hurry, because her parents are closing in. Whether she confesses or not, this time they will find out her secret.
©2017 Richard Roberts (P)2017 Tantor
Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her
Summary
Middle school supervillain Penny Akk has defeated every challenge thrown against her. She has bested heroes, villains, weirdos who can't make up their minds, robots, aliens, friends, rivals, enemies, natural disasters, secret admirers, and her own shyness. Now she has only one opponent left. Her own super power... and the other Penny who stole it.
©2018 Richard Roberts (P)2018 Tantor
I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!
Summary
Being a superhero should be fun. After all, a world of super powers is a world where Amazonian juggernauts made of candy battle guys in spandex that drive talking cars. Irene loves that weirdness, loves the game of fighting, and loves being a four-foot-tall woman who still gets to drop big heavy objects on villains' heads. In 1980, that fun is in danger. A mad scientist who murders people for his research has everyone afraid. Two of the friendliest super-powered rivals around stop playing and go for the kill. If superheroes and villains aren't safe in their own homes, how can having powers be anything but a nightmare? Irene will not let that happen. She wants to show her friends - a 10-year-old grim reaper and a zombie mish-mosh of living and metal parts - that their lives don't have to be grim. With the help of a superintelligent spider, Team Tiny will make the world fun again. Except maybe it's the spider who's in charge after all.
©2016 Richard Roberts (P)2016 Tantor
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon
Summary
Supervillains do not merely play hooky. True, coming back to school after a month spent fighting - and defeating - adult superheroes is a bit of a comedown for the Inscrutable Machine. When offered the chance to skip school in the most dramatic way possible, Penelope Akk can't resist. With the help of a giant spider and mysterious red goo, she builds a spaceship and flies to Jupiter. Mutant goats. Secret human colonies. A war between three alien races with humanity as the prize. Robot overlords and evil plots. Penny and her friends find all this and more on Jupiter's moons, but what they don't find are any heroes to save the day. Fortunately, they have an angry 11-year-old and a whole lot of mad science....
©2015 Richard Roberts (P)2016 Tantor
Becoming Fluent
Summary
Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, students may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do, they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages - gained from experience - of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language. Learning a language takes effort. But if adult learners apply the tools acquired over a lifetime, it can be enjoyable and rewarding.
©2015 Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz (P)2015 Blackstone Audio
Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth
Summary
Have you ever had the nightmare of being chased by a beast? Then you’ve met Fang. He’ll be the first to admit that he’s a very simple nightmare. All he knows is hunting your dreams and dragging them into the Dark. He’s not ready for his life to get complicated. He’s not ready to be dragged into his best friend’s schemes to make dreams so terrifying they break people. He’s not ready to love, or to be loved, or to meet someone who makes him happy. He’s definitely not ready for those to be three different girls. He’s not ready to grow up. When he does, one thing will stay the same. He’ll stay an artist, and he’ll paint your dreams with fear until they’re beautiful.
©2013 Richard Roberts (P)2020 David N. Wilson
You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older
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In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker and a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes. What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. She'll only have to deal with killer robots, vengeance-crazed and not very bright computer programs, cyborg vampires, telepathic capybaras, and mean girl mech pilots, and have every homemade weapon in the city pointed at her. Fourteen is old enough for that, right?
©2020 Richard Roberts (P)2020 David N. WIlson
Swing Trading Crash Course 2020
Summary
Do you want to generate passive income and make your money work for you? Here’s how to start investing in the stock market and achieve financial freedom! The stock market is all about taking risks. Big companies do not engage in swing trading for several reasons, but lone traders use it to increase investments. Most swing traders are small market traders who are flexible and benefit from market fluctuations. A swing trader has an unmatchable mind-set. He is sharp and notices opportunities quickly. They also need to act quickly and be firm, overlook losses, move to other things, and be focused, diligent, and confident. A prudent trader knows how to manage risks and create an outlook for overall performance by setting orders and the reward and knowing when to stop before you start. Winning traders create a risk management strategy before they start. In this audiobook you’ll uncover: The basic principles of the stock market and how the stock market works Common mistakes that will undermine your success and how to avoid them How can a total beginner start? What are the first steps? How much capital do you need to get started? Contrarian traders Personality and temperament The top skills needed to succeed at trading Psychology in trading Swing trading strategy and analysis You will thank yourself later for choosing to listen to this audiobook. Start today. It begins now. Your project cannot wait anymore. Scroll up and get the audiobook now. Buy this audiobook now to get access to a complete guide.
©2020 Richard Roberts (P)2020 Richard Roberts
Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen
Summary
What would middle school be like if half your classmates had super powers? It's time for Penny Akk to find out. Her latest (failed) attempt to become a superhero has inspired the rest of the kids in her school to reveal their own powers. Now, all of her relationships are changing. She has a not-at-all-secret admirer, who wants to be Penny's partner almost as much as she wants to be Penny's rival. The meanest girl in school has gained super powers and lost her mind. Can Penny help her find a better one? Can she help an aging supervillain connect with his daughter, and mend the broken hearts of two of the most powerful people in the world? And in all this, where will she find time for her own supervillainous fun, or even more dangerous, to start dating? It's going to be a long, strange semester.
©2016 Richard Roberts (P)2016 Tantor