Chaz Allen has narrated 31 audiobooks on Listento.it by 20 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community.
How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
Summary
Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who proposes it. Savvy developers are willing to work with residents to allay their concerns and gain public support, but at the same time, a real estate development is a business venture financed by private investors who take significant risks. Peter Hendee Brown explains the interests, motives, and actions of real estate developers, using case studies to show how the basic principles of development remain the same everywhere, even as practices vary based on climate, local culture, and geography. How Real Estate Developers Think considers developers from three different perspectives. Brown profiles the careers of individual developers to illustrate the character of the entrepreneur; considers the roles played by innovation, design, marketing, and sales in the production of real estate; and examines the risks and rewards that motivate developers as people. Ultimately, How Real Estate Developers Think portrays developers as creative visionaries who are able to imagine future possibilities for our cities and communities and shows that understanding them will lead to better outcomes for neighbors, communities, and cities. This book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
©2015 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
Gunsmoke Legend
Summary
Jack Page was a living legend - a Union Army sharpshooter, scout, Indian fighter, and US Marshal. Ash Colter, by contrast, was a mild-mannered orphan. They were complete opposites. And yet, theirs was a partnership forged in blood and destined to go down in history. These were the men who survived the famous Snake River Shootout, the men who led Colonel George Armstrong Custer to one of his most controversial victories against the Cheyenne, the men who tamed the hell-towns of Kansas and Dakota Territory. They were as close as brothers. It was said that one of them could not exist without the other. And yet, they were on opposite sides of the fence when the time came for the final bloody showdown. This time, the Gunsmoke Legends were at war with each other.
©1993, 2012 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Angry Orchard, Colorado
Summary
He pointed to a poster on the wall. "Maybe, you'd better read that poster," he said. The poster read: YOU WILL BE TRAVELING THROUGH INDIAN COUNTRY AND THE SAFETY OF YOUR PERSON CANNOT BE VOUCHSAFED BY ANYONE BUT GOD. "Interesting." I said.
©2015 J.C. Hulsey (P)2015 Outlaws Publishing
Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison
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Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. He takes the listener along on a correctional officer’s tour of duty, showing what it was like to pull a lonely, tedious night of sentry duty in the Road Tower, or witness illicit transactions in the clothing room, or forcibly quell a riot in the cell blocks. Gregory provides an insider’s account of the tenures of all four of Alcatraz’s wardens and their sometimes contradictory approaches to administering the institution. He knew and regularly interacted with such legendary inmates as Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Without glamorizing or demonizing either the staff or the convicts, Alcatraz Screw provides a candid portrayal of corruption, drug abuse, and sexual practices, as well as efforts at reform and unrecorded acts of kindness. Various incidents in the memoir convey the fear, hatred, frustration, boredom, and unavoidable tension of being incarcerated. The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "George Gregory arrived at Alcatraz during a critical juncture in the institution's history...In short, he saw it all - and he remembered it all." (John W. Roberts, from the Introduction)
©2013 The Curators of the University of Missouri (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks
Montana Gunsmoke
Summary
A desperate telegram from young Lane Jenkins brought Flint McKay north to Montana, where Randolph Billington was using every dirty trick in the book to take over the territory. But what could Flint do about it? He was just an ageing drifter with failing eyesight. He had no home and no kin, just a horse, a saddle and a pistol he’d won in a bunkhouse poker game. To Lane, though, Flint was the only man who could stand up to the buzzards who’d killed his father. As soon as Flint started making his presence felt around town, Billington sent his hired gun, Owen Thorpe, to get rid of him. But Flint was a whole heap tougher than he looked – and as the land-grabbers soon learned to their cost, he proved to be a hard man to kill.
©1999, 2012 Ben Bridges and Link Hullar (P)2014 Ben Bridges and Link Hullar
Tanner's Guns
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By 1913, Mexico was being torn apart by revolution. But the rebels needed guns before they could march on Mexico City and oust the corrupt General Huerta. Shady businessman Elliott Blaze had an entire arsenal for sale. All he needed was someone to deliver the goods and that's where Jake Tanner came into it. Jake was trustworthy, he spoke Spanish and he knew how to get a tough job done. In next to no time, however, he and his young British partner in crime a would-be Hollywood movie writer were playing cat-and-mouse with the armies of two countries, trying to get even with the men who double-crossed them and, in a final terrifying showdown, pitting their wits against the Mexican Army's latest secret weapon!
©1991, 2011 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Five Shots Left
Summary
Thrilling Western stories by 13-time Amazon Kindle number-one best-selling writer Ben Bridges! When you've got only five shots left, you have to make each one count. Like the outlaw whose quest for revenge didn't quite go according to plan. Or the cowboy who ended up using a most unusual weapon to defeat his Cheyenne enemy. Then there was the storekeeper who had to face his worst fear; the down-at-heel sheepherder who had to set past hatreds aside when a bunch of renegade Comanches went on the warpath; and the elderly couple who struggled to keep a secret that threatened to tear them apart.
©2015 Ben Bridges (P)2015 David Whitehead
Little Black Book of Economic Development (2nd Edition)
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The Little Black Book of Economic Development has been one of the most popular books written in the economic development genre, and as such it is due an update and refresh. This second edition will bring it more current with our current economic conditions. It remains the clandestine science and practical art of rebuilding local economies as a practitioners guide to economic development at the local economy level. This book has been inspirational to countless economic developers. The comments and guidance of more than 50 of the world's best and brightest economic developers gives all those engaged in this meaningful work pearls of wisdom of the hundreds of years of experience these colleagues have in combined wisdom.
©2013 Don Allen Holbrook (P)2013 Don Allen Holbrook
A Different Face of War: Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam
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A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers, Buddhist bonzes, shopkeepers, scribes, physicians, nurses, the mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source for his memoir. The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village, killing more than 100 people and destroying their village; the heart-wrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnel-ravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority. The book is published by University of North Texas Press.
©2015 James G. Van Straten (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
The Plainsman
Summary
After he saw his father set upon and stabbed, nothing was ever the same for the boy who would grow up to become Buffalo Bill Cody. The hatred and bigotry his family suffered in Kansas led him to kill his first man when he was just 10 years old. And in the years that followed, he would face one battle after another - against marauding Cheyenne, against the elements and against the Great Plains themselves. But there was no quit in Will Cody. He was, as his friend Wild Bill Hickok had said, "all spit and grit". He'd need grit, too, to survive the Pony Express, the Civil War and merciless guerrilla fighters like William Clarke Quantrill and the James Boys. For Will Cody, however, the greatest challenge of his life was still to come. And even he didn't think he could survive it.
©2016 David Whitehead (P)2016 David Whitehead
The Oklahombres
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Blistering, all-new frontier action from Amazon Kindle number one best-selling western writers Steve Hayes and Ben Bridges! It didn’t matter a damn that Bill Doolin had never killed another man, that he was a loving husband and a devoted father with a young son. No - Bill became a target for every Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma Territory because the people hailed him as “The King of the Outlaws.” That alone meant he had to die - so his fate would set an example to anyone who thought of following his in his footsteps. While Bill and his gang, the Oklahombres, raised hell throughout the Twin Territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations, U.S. Marshal E. D. Nix sent three hundred of his best men out with orders to catch or kill them. And that army of badge-packers were led by Nix’s ‘Three Guardsmen’ — the living legends that were Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas and Chris Madsen. ,p>But that was the thing about the Oklahombres – they were going to be living legends too … or die trying!
©2014 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Indiana Belle
Summary
Providence, Rhode Island, 2017. When doctoral student Cameron Coelho, 28, opens a package from Indiana, he finds more than private papers that will help him with his dissertation. He finds a photograph of a beautiful society editor murdered in 1925 and clues to a century-old mystery. Within days, he meets Geoffrey Bell, the "time-travel professor", and begins an unlikely journey through the Roaring Twenties. Filled with history, romance, and intrigue, Indiana Belle follows a lonely soul on the adventure of a lifetime as he searches for love and answers in the age of Prohibition, flappers, and jazz.
©2016 John A. Heldt (P)2017 John A. Heldt
September Sky
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When unemployed San Francisco reporter Chuck Townsend and his college dropout son, Justin, take a cruise to Mexico in 2016, each hopes to rebuild a relationship after years of estrangement. But they find more than common ground aboard the ship. They meet a mysterious lecturer who touts the possibilities of time travel. Within days, Chuck and Justin find themselves in 1900, riding a train to Texas, intent on preventing a distant uncle from being hanged for a crime he did not commit. Their quick trip to Galveston, however, becomes long and complicated when they wrangle with business rivals and fall for two beautiful librarians on the eve of a hurricane that will destroy the city. Filled with humor, history, romance, and heartbreak, September Sky follows two directionless souls on the adventure of a lifetime as they try to make peace with the past, find new purpose, and grapple with the knowledge of things to come.
©2015 John A. Heldt (P)2016 John A. Heldt
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
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The past 60 years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, "Cajun" became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Shane K. Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.
©2003 University Press of Mississippi (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
To the Death!
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At last! An all-new adventure featuring the best damn outfit in the US Cavalry...Company "C"! Author Brent Towns brings the characters created by best-selling western writer Ben Bridges roaring back to life in.... To the Death! They fought like demons in a Mimbreño stronghold.... Captain Nathan Kelso was on the brink of drunken oblivion. He'd lost the respect of his commanding officer, and Company "C" had been unofficially disbanded. Now, with both bronco and Mimbreño Apaches raising hell throughout the territory, Company "C" is finally called back into action - as an escort detail under the command of Major Matthew Hackett. But things go wrong from the get-go. A patrol under a green lieutenant is all but wiped out and an incident involving two rabid coyotes sees Hackett badly injured. At least now, Kelso is back where he belongs - in command of the best damn company the cavalry has to offer. When things go from bad to worse, however, Kelso has to lead his men into the Santa Rita Mountains on a do-or-die mission to save five female prisoners of the Apaches. It's a trail that will see Kelso and Company "C" fighting - to the death!
©2017 Brent Towns and Ben Bridges (P)2017 Brent Towns and Ben Bridges
Destroyer Captain
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This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout the world during his 1993-1995 tour. Drawing on daily journals he kept for the entire period, the author reveals the complex nature of those deployments in a "real-time" context and describes life on board the Barry and liberty ashore for sailors and officers alike. With all the joy, doubt, self-examination, hope, and fear of a first command, he offers an honest examination of his experience from the bridge to help listeners grasp the true nature of command at sea. The window he provides into the personal lives of the crew illuminates not only their hard work in a ship that spent more than 70 percent of its time underway, but also the sacrifices of their families ashore. Stavridis credits his able crew for the many awards the Barry won while he was captain, including the Battenberg Cup for top ship in the Atlantic Fleet. Naval aficionados who like seagoing fiction will be attracted to the book, as will those fascinated by life at sea. Officers from all the services, especially surface warfare naval officers aspiring to command, will find these lessons of a first command by one of the Navy's most respected admirals both entertaining and instructive.
©2008 Adm. James G. Stavridis (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
Clear Stone, Wyoming
Summary
We all went over to the sound, and there in the bushes was a young Indian brave. He was in pretty bad shape. The other Indians must have thought he had run off when the fighting started, or maybe they didn't care because he was so young, so they didn't bother looking for him. He was probably 10 or 11 years old, too young to be going on a raid like this.
©2015 J.C. Hulsey (P)2015 Outlaws Publishing
Itching Tree, Idaho
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The town was named Itching Tree because when the first settlers arrived, one of the trees was covered with poison oak and poison ivy. Anyone who got near it would itch for days, even weeks. Only one out of several trees was contaminated. The people tried everything to rid the tree of the poison, but nothing seemed to work. Then one day, almost six months later, magically the tree was clear of all signs of the poison. No one knows what happened. It seemed like a miracle had happened overnight.
©2015 J.C. Hulsey (P)2015 Outlaws Publshing LLC
The Calendar Woman
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The Calendar Woman An eccentric old woman has given young Alan Clayton an incredible gift-a calendar which predicts the future. Armed with this knowledge, he conquers New York and the world of finance. Finally Alan faces his last and harshest lesson-every gift carries a price! This is an original audiobook, which means that it was acted live and not derived from a written script. If you like listening to radio plays, you and your children will love this beautiful audio version of this original performance. Perfect listening for the entire family. Thank you for considering the purchase of this audio play. We know you and your children will listen to it over and over again.
©2018 Chaz Allen (P)2000 Springtime Motorcoach LLC
Windy Butte, New Mexico
Summary
While visiting with my aunt and uncle in Itching Tree, Idaho, I received a telegram. A double bolt of lightning zigzagged and streaked across the sky bringing right behind it the rumble of distant thunder. It looked as though it was going to be a gully washer. I pushed my leather hat back off my forehead and opened the telegram. It was from Mayor Madison of Windy Butte, New Mexico. I had taken care of a problem they had when we passed through there on our way to Velvet Sky, Arizona. It seemed they had a similar situation now. The new sheriff they hired was causing all kinds of grief and trouble. He had taken over the town and was demanding that everyone do exactly as he said, or else. He hadn't killed anyone yet, but the mayor felt it was just a matter of time before he did. This was the kind of mission I felt God had ordained me to do. Alleviate trouble where and whenever needed. I also needed to see if the mayor had lived up to his promise to allow his young daughter, Melody, to have more freedom in her life. I stuffed the telegram in my shirt pocket and stepped indoors to tell my friends of our new journey, just as the rain started pouring down.
©2014 J.C. Hulsey (P)2016 Outlaws Publishing LLC