Abby Elvidge has narrated 11 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 18 ratings. The most-rated is Grunt.
Grunt
Summary
Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries - panic, exhaustion, heat, noise - and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you'll never see our nation's defenders in the same way again.
©2016 Mary Roach (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Joan Rivers' 100 Greatest Jokes
Summary
If you loved the controversial comedy of Joan Rivers, get ready to laugh out loud! Joan Rivers' 100 Greatest Jokes is a collection of Rivers' most razor-sharp punchlines, expanding her entire career. Although, the world lost Joan Rivers in 2014, her legend lives on in this hilarious keepsake. Joan Rivers' 100 Greatest Jokes is the perfect audiobook. So sit back, grab a cocktail, and enjoy a hilarious evening with the queen of comedy!
©2014, 2015 Player Publications (P)2015 Player Publications
Stevie-Girl and the Phantom of Crybaby Bridge
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Stevie-girl and her best friend, Jase, are phantom magnets. Whenever they are together, the doorway between this world and the next swings slightly open. The summer his parents treat them to a camping trip in New Mexico, the two friends can't wait to visit the legendary Crybaby Bridge. Right away, they hear the crying baby. Is it a phantom, or is someone playing tricks on them? As the two friends scour the campgrounds for answers, they discover that phantoms are not the only secrets the nearby town has kept hidden for over 60 years. They also discover things about each other, and about Stevie's family history, that will force their relationship to a whole new level - a level from which there may be no return.
©2013 Ann Swann (P)2014 Ann Swann
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52; Being a Series of Twenty-Three Letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to Her Sister in Massachusetts, with Dame Shirley, the Writer of These Letters. "An Appreciation"; Being a Paper Prepared by Mrs. Mary Viola Tingley Lawrence to Be Read Before a San Francisco Literary Society. Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The Shirley Letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of Dame Shirley in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters, Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the letters (from The Library of Congress). "Of all the writers drawn to California between 1845 and the mid-1860s, [Clappe] speaks with the most original voice. Her only real competition, in my view, is Mark Twain." (James D. Houston, author, Californians: Searching for the Golden State)
Public Domain (P)2018 Abby Elvidge
Why Crime Does Not Pay
Summary
Sophie Lyons was a “thief from the cradle”, as one Chief of Police said; at the early age of six years she had already been trained by her stepmother to be a pickpocket and a shoplifter. A beautiful child with engaging manners, she was sent out every day into the stores and among the crowds of shoppers, and was soundly whipped if she came out of a shop with less than three pocketbooks. “I did not know it was wrong to steal; nobody ever taught me that,” Sophie Lyons writes. “What I was told was wrong and what I was punished for was when I came home with only one pocketbook instead of many.”
As the child grew into womanhood she was conspicuously beautiful, and she soon became known as “Pretty Sophie”. Then romance entered her life and she married Ned Lyons, the famous bank burglar. Her husband was a member of the great gang of expert safe-blowers who were the terror of the police and the big banks of some years ago.
For 25 years Sophie Lyons was “The Queen of the Bank Burglars”, the active leader of many expeditions in various parts of the world, and with her were associated about all of the great criminals of Europe and America. It has been said that she has been arrested in nearly every large city in America, and in every country in Europe except Turkey. She has served sentences in several prisons, and, on one occasion, her husband, Ned Lyons, was in Sing Sing while she herself was confined in the women’s wing of the prison across the road. Ned Lyons managed to make his escape and very soon drove up to the women’s prison and effected the escape of his wife, Sophie Lyons.
The actual happenings in her career have been more extraordinary than the imagination of any novelist has dreamed; more surprising than any scene on the stage.
Yet nearly every one of those whose exploits she has recounted here is now an outcast, has served a good share of life in prison, is in poverty, or has died poor. Surely, as she has asserted again and again - and hopes to abundantly prove - Crime Does Not Pay.
Public Domain (P)2019 Spoken Realms and Blackstone Publishing
All Things Slip Away
Summary
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found. But the killer wasn't dead. He'd only been waiting to take his revenge on Frank and those he cares about now...10 years later. Frank retired early and is living back in his hometown of Spookie when the killer resurfaces to take up where he left off. Kidnapping more innocents and tormenting Frank and the people he cares about. Unless Frank and his artist girlfriend, Abigail Sutton, can find and stop him before he kills more people and perhaps both of them.
©2014 Kathryn Meyer Griffith (P)2014 Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Ghost Diaries, Case #2
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Could someone experience a haunting and remain completely unaware? In the case of Reginald Bonner, investigator Taija Ford believes she's uncovered evidence revealing just such an event. Sometimes people don't realize what they have until it's too late, and if they refuse to believe the impossible, they might not comprehend the real danger until death stakes its claim.
©2013 Willow Cross (P)2017 Willow Cross
A Christmas Miracle
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A short inspirational story about a single mother and a very special Christmas.
©2011 Willow Cross (P)2017 Willow Cross
Ghost Diaries, Case #1
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While rifling through her deceased father's belongings, a young woman named Taija Ford discovered a maze of files filled with journal entries and old letters that mention various claims of hauntings and alleged demonic possession. The oldest dating back to 1881. This particular file asserts a girl named Sarah Beth Hawkins was attacked by an unseen entity. In an attempt to piece together her father's previously secret life, Taija opened her own investigation into these Ghost Diaries.
©2012 Willow Cross (P)2017 Willow Cross
DeadTimes
Summary
She made a deal with a demon to live again…Now she's cursed to live over and over, see-sawing into people's lives at the moment of their deaths, thrust into maelstroms of violence and emotion without any warning. As she strives to survive and do the right thing, she finds herself sometimes forced into evil acts, recognizing that she has become a game piece used in the eternal game of good vs. evil. DeadTimes is about what someone will do to live again. DeadTimes is about the nature of right and wrong. DeadTimes is about what death leaves behind. DeadTimes is about real people. DeadTimes is an audiobook about life. And it goes on forever…
©2000 Yvonne Ochse (P)2013 David WIlson
Bad Things
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Creepy crawlies, dark shadows, hideous monsters secreted under your bed.... Bad Things is a collection of paranormal stories that will make your skin crawl and heart race. Do you sleep with the light on? Maybe you should.... They come at night When the moon grows dark To steal your treasures And weaken your heart An empty bed Is all that remains If the Bad Things decide To visit again Mommies take care Watch your young as they slumber For babies and children The Bad Things do hunger Check closets and attics And under all beds If the Bad Things come calling You'll wish you were dead.
©2014 Willow Cross (P)2015 Willow Cross