Adam Verner has narrated 340 audiobooks on Listento.it by 267 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3,402 ratings. The most-rated is The 5 AM Club.
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
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An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. She finally calls the police, who want to know why she left her young daughter alone until 8:00 o’clock. Suspicion falls on a computer teacher at her school with no alibi for the time of the abduction. Obvious clues - perhaps too obvious - point directly to him. Unsuspected is Judah (born Judith), an older girl from the same school who has told two friends in her thrall of the Indian legend of the Corn Maiden, a girl sacrificed to ensure a good crop. The seemingly inevitable fate of Marissa becomes ever more terrifying as Judah relishes her power, leading to unbearable tension with a shocking conclusion. Helping Hands, published here for the first time, begins with an apparently optimistic line: “He came into her life when it had seemed to her that her life was finished.” A lonely woman meets a man in the unlikely clutter of a dingy charity shop and extends friendliness, which soon turns to quiet and unacknowledged desire. With the mind-set of a victim, struggling to overcome her shyness and fears, she has no idea what kinds of doors she may be opening. The powerful stories in this extraordinary collection further enhance Joyce Carol Oates’s standing as one of the world’s greatest writers of suspense.
©2011 Original material Joyce Carol Oates. Recorded by arrangement with John Hawkins and Associates, Inc. (P)2011 HighBridge Company
Crater
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One 16-year-old must battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon...and beyond. It’s the 22nd century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth. Sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever. Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doesn’t think he can do it, but he has no choice. He must go. With the help of Maria, the mine owner’s frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie - a sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells - Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies to complete his mission. New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Boys Homer Hickam will take you on a hold-your-breath adventure across the moon, and you’ll never look at the night sky the same way again. “Readers will be caught up in Homer Hickam's thrilling novel of life on the moon!” (Donna VanLiere, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Good Dream and The Christmas Shoes) The first in the Helium-3 series (book two: Crescent; book three: Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company) Book length: 75,000 words
©2012 Homer Hickam (P)2019 Thomas Nelson
Unknown Evil - A Noah Wolf Thriller
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Noah and the Team take some well-deserved time off at the Manor in England, but that always seems to be when things go crazy. The Queen's Ambassador, Catherine Potts, suddenly calls Noah to tell him that there is a single terrorist in the country who has the power to wipe us out, but he's an unknown. MI6 has been unable to break through the secrecy around him to track him down, so the Queen has asked for Camelot's help. They've got less than 36 hours before disaster happens and only a handful of clues that don't seem to fit together. This will be a race against time, and in the end it may not just be civilians that Noah and his team must end up saving.
©2018 David Archer (P)2019 David Archer
Black Sheep
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David Archer is back with a vengeance with his newest hero, Noah Wolf, in a USA Today best-selling series. Noah is called in for debriefing after the mission that lost Sarah and reveals his worries that one of the team members is a traitor...and that Sarah is still alive, the captive of someone who knows exactly who she is! Now, Team Camelot is working once more with Team Cinderella to terminate four CIA agents who have been captured in North Korea, but the real mission is to identify the traitor and find Sarah before it's too late! He's got to put his life on the line more than once, but if there is anyone who can touch that part of him that's been locked away so long, it's her.... And Noah won't give up until he's got her back!
©2017 David Archer (P)2017 David Archer
Highest Order
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While out on a mission, Noah receives a call that tells him something has gone wrong. Allison has been arrested, and there is an investigation going on into the recent admissions of Team Camelot. He is ordered to go to ground and stay off the radar until further notice. Sometimes, though, things are not what they seem. While locked up in a special prison designed for political inmates, Allison is informed there is a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government that is designed to strip America of its sovereignty and its people of their rights. A small group of conspirators are working as double agents, trying to stop the tragedies that will be used to bring about their goals, one of which will cost the lives of thousands of American children. Allison is spirited away from the prison and sent secretly to Noah, where she gives him the orders he never thought he would receive: to assassinate American elected officials, including the president of the US.
©2018 David Archer (P)2018 David Archer
God on the Brain
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Advances in modern science have dramatically increased our understanding of the human brain. While this progress has helped improve many lives, it has also raised many philosophical and theological questions. Researchers are increasingly presenting the brain as comprising the totality of a person. But is this a fair assessment? Bradley Sickler offers a timely theological, scientific, and philosophical analysis of cognitive science, arguing that the brain is more complex than what can be explained by science alone. Navigating questions about the brain, religion, and science, Sickler guides listeners to confidently affirm that the Christian worldview offers the most compelling vision of the true nature of humanity.
©2020 Bradley L. Sickler (P)2020 One Audiobooks
Time to Hunt
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Working in deep cover, Noah and the team are fully aware of the danger that surrounds them as they prepare for the most comprehensive mass elimination in E&E's history, but things may not be exactly as they seem. At the same time, Noah must deal with Monique, the seemingly untouchable mole that has tentacles in every government agency, but it's while dealing with her threats that he realizes there's something amiss. Who stands to benefit most if the Morgan Mafia is eliminated? Even more importantly, whose hands will he be playing into if the mission is carried out? With his confidence shaken all the way to the top of E&E, Noah decides his only option is the one he always takes: to do what he thinks is right, and damn the consequences!
©2018 David Archer (P)2018 David Archer
Noble Man
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Fans of Vince Flynn rejoice! Jake Noble, Special Forces veteran and ex-CIA operative, is living on his boat, trying to scrape together enough money for his mother's cancer treatments. When the Company offers him 150k dollars to track down a missing girl, Noble has no choice but to delve back into the seedy underbelly of Manila's sex trade. With the clock ticking on the girl's life, Noble will need all of his old skills to survive. Every move he makes unravels another deadly conspiracy and what he finds goes deeper than a random kidnapping....
©2015 William Miller (P)2018 William Miller
Hit the Road Jack
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The first heart-stopping, enthralling serial-killer thriller in the million-copy best-selling Jack Ryder Mystery series. Ben is supposed to be in school. It's Monday morning, but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today's field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he's not making it to school today at all. Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids' field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found, and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once the truth is revealed. With her new hero, Jack Ryder, as a loving father and committed detective, a new location in tropical Florida, and a story that moves at an incredible pace, Hit the Road Jack is Willow Rose at the top of her game.
©2015 Willow Rose (P)2019 Willow Rose
Embodied Hope
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Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God's sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But where, then is honest lament? Aren't we shortchanging believers of the riches of the Christian teaching about suffering? In Embodied Hope, Kelly Kapic invites us to consider the example of our Lord Jesus. Only because Jesus has taken on our embodied existence, suffered alongside us, died, and been raised again can we find any hope from the depths of our own dark valleys of pain. As we look to Jesus, we are invited to participate not only in his sufferings, but also in the church, which calls us out of isolation and into the encouragement and consolation of the communal life of Christ. Drawing on his own family's experience with prolonged physical pain, Kapic reshapes our understanding of suffering into the image of Jesus, and brings us to a renewed understanding of - and participation in - our embodied hope.
©2017 Kelly M. Kapic (P)2020 Tantor
VIP
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Best-selling author O. S. Hawkins returns to the topic of a life well lived in his newest book, VIP: Vision, Integrity, and Purpose. The Bible says that God has "assigned to you an area of influence" (2 Corinthians 10:13). The question is, what will you do with it? Author O. S. Hawkins has sold more than 370,000 copies of his books, The Joshua Code and The Jesus Code, in the last two years. His newest book, VIP: Vision, Integrity, and Purpose, is the next installment of his outlook on what the Christian life should be - completely full in its potential for greatness. This book will make a fantastic gift for new graduates, young professionals, pastors, and leaders from all walks of life. With his trademark wisdom and poignancy, O. S. Hawkins takes complex ideas and simplifies them down to straightforward life applications for everyone. This book will give vision to listeners and help them live purposefully and intentionally.
©2016 O. S. Hawkins (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
One Trillion Dollars
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Yesterday John Fontanelli was just a pizza delivery guy in New York City. One day later, he's the richest man in the world. One trillion dollars - one million times one million - $1,000,000,000,000: more money than anyone could imagine. For generations the Vacchis, an old Italian family of lawyers and asset managers, had supervised the fortune as it grew over five hundred years, until one particular date that the benefactor had stipulated in his will. The youngest male descendant would be fated to oversee the fortune for the good of humanity. John relishes his new life of luxury, rubbing elbows with royalty, buying up corporations, fielding a flood of beautiful women - until one day the phone rings, and a mysterious stranger tells the trillionaire that he knows what dirty secrets lie behind the fortune...
©2014 Bastei Lübbe (P)2014 Lübbe Audio
Through My Eyes
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Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top prospect in the NFL. Now, in Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, he shares the behind-the-scenes details of his life, on and off the football field. Tim writes about his life as he chooses to live it, revealing how his Christian faith, his family values, and his relentless will to succeed have molded him into the person and the athlete he is today.
©2011 Timothy R. Tebow (P)2013 Zondervan
In Sheep's Clothing
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Team Camelot has recovered from the devastation of their last mission, and it's time to go back to work. This time, they find themselves working right here in the good ol' US of A, taking out the top echelons of an entire drug cartel, and Noah gets the chance to use some of Wally's supergadgets. The mission comes off better than anyone could have hoped, and the team heads for home. But then all four of their phones signal an incoming message: Neverland under attack! Only Team Camelot is still able to function, and Noah and his team are given the orders they thought they'd never hear: Go out on their own, and get the sons of bitches who did this! With Allison's life in the balance, Noah and the team go after the only person who could mastermind such an attack.
©2016 David Archer (P)2016 David Archer
Deep Allegiance
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On a diplomatic mission to discuss possible E&E assistance to the European Union, Donald Jefferson falls victim to an international assassin, and Allison is in shock. With the intelligence community at a loss to find out who was behind the attack, Noah and Team Camelot are called on to track down the elusive criminal kingpin known only as Spear and bring his powerful murder cartel to an end. The only way to determine who Spear is, however, is to infiltrate his organization, and that requires Noah, Neil, Jenny, Marco and Renée to all go into deep cover. Trouble follows, though, when Renée seems to have fallen under Spear’s sway and turned against the team. With Marco insisting that Renee would never turn traitor, Noah has to decide whether to obey the order to eliminate her or risk everything to bring her back in from the cold. And he’s only got hours left to do so.
©2019 David Archer (P)2020 David Archer
High Treason
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With E&E shut down and everyone in hiding, Noah and the rest start to think about retirement. But then, an ultra-secret message comes in that tells him to set up a whole new operation in the UK. He and Wally come up with a cover story in the form of a new factory that will house and conceal the new R&D labs, while giving the teams a reason to be traveling around the world. The problem is that the first missions to come in are necessary to protect the teams from being found out, and they lead to some discoveries of treason in some of the highest levels of the government - and, perhaps, the end of Allison Peterson.
©2020 David Archer (P)2021 David Archer
Stone Groove
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No Bodies. No Signs of Violence. Just a Message on A Bloody Stone. The first stand-alone action thriller in the Amazon-bestselling series that has enthralled thousands of listeners around the world. Pure adrenaline Historical conspiracies Sinister villains 1970s grooviness And a headstrong hero Enter the world of Dale Conley. Don’t forget to buckle up.... The government recruited him. They were looking for the smartest. They got the toughest. Dale Conley’s covert investigations take him deep into the shadows - but he’s never seen anything this dark. In rural Virginia, an entire utopian community vanishes overnight. A mass kidnapping. All that remains is a cryptic message chiseled into a bloody stone. As Dale feverishly races the clock, he not only discovers an eerie connection to the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke, but he’s also met with the demented kidnapper’s escalating demands. Yet it’s only when survivors begin to reappear - maimed, broken, dead - that Dale realizes the kidnapper knows about Dale’s dark past. Now Dale must clash with his own demons to have any chance at saving the missing people. Each Dale Conley thriller brims with historical intrigue. Stone Groove features: The Lost Colony of Roanoke and the mysterious Dare Stones. If you like action heroes with the tenacity of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, the intelligence of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon, and the sheer grit of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, then you’ll love Dale Conley. Unlock Stone Groove and start your Dale Conley mission today!
©2017 Erik Carter (P)2018 Erik Carter
The Perfect You
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Do you - as a believer - have a "deceitful" and "wicked" heart? Should your heart be tested, not trusted? If that's what you believe, your spiritual experience will be one of duty and obligation, only a faint imitation of what Jesus promised. This provocative book invites you to a radically different approach, an inspiring move from head to heart that affects every aspect of your life: How you handle conflict How you communicate and love others How you view yourself and God There's a place of purity within you where Jesus lives. God calls you to live from this perfect place - not merely from your head, but from your heart. Knowing the perfect you means no more waiting for closeness with God. Knowing the perfect you brings a newfound freedom like you've never experienced before.
©2021 Andrew Farley and Tim Chalas (P)2021 eChristian
Dialogues with the Devil
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From a number one New York Times best-selling author: Lucifer and the Archangel Michael debate the fate of humanity in the final nights before the apocalypse. Upon the end of days, Lucifer, the Fallen One, that Infernal of Infernals and Murderer of Hope, wonders if his Father will bother to raise another race after Armageddon. After all, he'll only have to tempt them - again - to certain death. Their choice, not his. On God's behalf, Archangel Michael responds. So begins a series of letters between two brothers, at once cordial and combative, about their purpose, their fears, their familial estrangement, and their Father's great folly: the human race. Equally defensive, unrepentant, objective, and, for a time, amused, they challenge each other on science and spirituality, physical love and emotional love, the crucifixion, and the crimes committed by man. They deliberate the virtues of empathy and vengeance, redemption and punishment, and the laws of the Bible versus its lies. Their civil discourse soon becomes a heated trial of wills.
©1967 Taylor Caldwell (P)2021 Tantor
Scarlet
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After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest - and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion - Will joins the heroic archer and his men. Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging - unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts. That, of course, he will never do. Wales is slowly falling under the control of the invading Normans, and King William the Red has given his ruthless barons control of the land. In desperation, the people turn to King Raven and his men for justice and survival in the face of the ever-growing onslaught. From deep in the forest they form a daring plan for deliverance, knowing that failure means death for them all. Scarlet continues Stephen R. Lawhead's riveting saga that began with the novel Hood, which relocated the legend of Robin Hood to the Welsh countryside and its dark forests. Steeped in Celtic mythology and the political intrigue of medieval Britain, Lawhead's trilogy conjures up an ancient past and holds a mirror to contemporary realities. Prepare for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.
©2008 Stephen Lawhead (P)2021 Thomas Nelson