Barry Newman has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is I'm Ugly and Broke.
Within the Law
Summary
Tom gave up on ever falling in love again the day that he buried his high school sweetheart and fiance. He started a career in law enforcement just so that he could find her murderer and rapist. Just when he is about to see justice done, he meets Alli Davis - the defense attorney for the murdering rapist who took his love from him. Alli and Tom share a mutual and passionate attraction, but Alli refuses to make any commitments. She is hiding a huge secret. Tom falls in love with her and pursues her despite a false arrest, kidnapping, and attempt on his life.
©2014 Chelle Cordero (P)2014 Chelle Cordero
I Got the South in My Mouth
Summary
I Got the South in My Mouth is a collection of short stories, poems, and articles written by Southern author Kennesaw Taylor. Best-selling author of Informally Educated, Kennesaw is an advocate against child abuse and domestic violence, a position demanded of him by fate, not granted him by education. His humor column is in its third uninterrupted year in the Wilkinson County Post, as well as other Georgia papers, and continues to grow online. I Got the South in My Mouth: And I Can’t Get It Out and its accompanying book of photography, Kennesaw’s Southern Odyssey, are Kennesaw’s sixth and seventh published works. Born in Milledgeville, Kennesaw now lives in Athens, Georgia, and has spent his life traveling to gain the rich background necessary to make him a treasured American writer. Degrees from the school of hard knocks, the school of life, and others hang on Kennesaw’s office walls.
©2011 Kennesaw Taylor (P)2014 Kennesaw Taylor
Jock Stewart Strikes Back
Summary
The fictional news stories and "night beat" editorial columns in this collection began as posts on the Morning Satirical News blog and subsequently appeared in the Worst of Jock Stewart collection and/or the Jock Talks series of e-books. Jock Talks…Politics was a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee. Stewart, who served diligently as the protagonist in Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire, refutes charges that he was raised by alligators or hyenas. When he was a young boy, his dear old daddy said, "Jock, everyone but you and me is scum and I'm not sure about you." That proverb opened Jock's eyes to the realities of the world, primarily that everything is worse than it seems: the small-town newspaper The Star-Gazer is allegedly run by fools and buffoons; the Junction City, Texas, government is allegedly corrupt and inept. Since modern-day journalism is going to hell in a handbasket and/or nowhere fast, Jock Stewart strikes back by categorizing news events as satirical, outlandish, strange, or political. Nonetheless, according to informed sources, the use of this volume as a journalism textbook has not been authorized anywhere the world is right as rain.
©2014 Malcolm R. Campbell (P)2014 Malcolm R. Campbell
A Chaunce of Riches
Summary
The day that Ben Johnson was hired as a bodyguard for some rich widow and her kid, he never expected to be working for the woman who had abandoned him just when he had needed her the most so many years before. Damn it all, he still wanted her. Samantha Chaunce never thought she would see him again. She never thought she would have to explain why she married the rich man over the man she had sworn she once loved. And she certainly never expected to find out that her rich husband had been murdered and fingers were pointing to her former lover.
©2009 Chelle Cordero (P)2014 Chelle Cordero
I've Fallen, and My Name's Not Chuck!
Summary
I've Fallen, and My Name's Not Chuck! Tales & Poems from the South is a collection of short stories from around the south. Kennesaw is a child abuse survivor and uses humor to brighten the world. He is a child abuse spokesperson and is a voice for those who have none.
©2013 Kennesaw Taylor (P)2014 Kennesaw Taylor
I'm Ugly and Broke
Summary
Kennesaw Taylor is a newspaper columnist. This is a collection of his columns and thoughts over the past year. He intersperses humor with his keen insight into daily life. His columns bring back memories of Lewis Grizzard, an Atlanta icon. A note from Kennesaw: I greet everyone I meet with these words. It is a joke to me, but you should see the looks I get from others. The regular people laugh at it, the ones with a little too much starch in their shorts step back and make some idiotic comment about not wanting to be near that much negativity. Get over yourself; life is supposed to be fun. This is a good way to pick who'll be sitting with you at dinner. If you don't get the title you are probably about as much fun at a party as the grim reaper. This book is filled with my columns, the funny and the serious ones. It has a few poems, the funny ones and the Icky sicky ones. It's got some of my stuff that wouldn't get into the papers; yeah I write such stuff too. It's got a few short stories; I tend to be a little dark with those. I guess it's got all the stuff I've written over the last year, both fit and not fit for print. You must remember that everything that comes from the mind of man isn't fit for the newspapers, so here you get a little taste of what won't make it to the newsstand. I hope this doesn't start too much crap, or maybe I hope it does. I am what I am and I write what is given me. I've had a great year, wrote a lot and prepared several books to go to print. I've been traveling all over Georgia speaking and doing book signings. Thanks to all of you that have made this the best year of my life.
©2010 Kennesaw Taylor (P)2013 Kennesaw Taylor