Darren Roebuck has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 38 ratings. The most-rated is The Trumpet of the Swan.
The Trumpet of the Swan
Summary
Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. Leaving his wild and beautiful home, he finds a young human friend, Sam Beaver, who helps him learn to read and write. When he returns to the lake, Louis discovers his education isn't enough: the beautiful swan he loves, Serena, can't read his declarations of love, and he can't trumpet them. Louis' resolution to win the swan of his desire launches him on an adventure that will take him far from home and lead where fate and love have a few surprises in store. With humor and lyric beauty, E.B. White tells a timeless tale of love, courage, and freedom that will capture the imagination of every listener.
©1970 E.B. White (P)1992 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Wisdom Keeper
Summary
Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe's holistic spiritual beliefs. He recounts his developing consciousness and call to leadership and describes his work of the past 30 years bringing together Western science and indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge and wisdom to address the most pressing issues of our time. Tracing the extraordinary history of his ancestors - who mummified their dead in a way very similar to the Egyptians, constructed one of the most sophisticated high seas kayaks in the world, and densely populated shorelines in North America for 10,000 years - Merculieff describes the rich traditions of spirituality, art, dance, music, storytelling, science, and technology that enabled them to survive their harsh conditions. The Unangan people of the Aleutian Islands endured slavery at the hands of the US government and were placed in an internment camp during WWII, where they suffered malnutrition and disease that decimated 10 percent of their population. Merculieff movingly describes how the compassion of indigenous elders has guided him in his work and life, which has been rife with struggle and hardship. He explains that environmental degradation, the extinction of species, pollution, war, and failing public institutions are all reflections of our relationships with ourselves. In order to deal with these critical challenges, he argues, we must reenter the chaos of the natural world, rediscover our balance of the masculine and the sacred feminine, and heal ourselves. Then, perhaps, we can heal the world.
©2016 Ilarion Merculieff (P)2017 Random House Audio
Meditation: Meditation Handbook Guide
Summary
Readers will discover the numerous benefits of meditation; many of which are often overlooked and underused. Life is stressful, but it doesn't have to be. That's right! You can actually enjoy a life virtually unaffected by stress and tension. How? Through the practices of meditation and relaxation, that's how. Readers of Meditation for Everyday Living will discover how to live a happy and successful life by spending 20 minutes a day in meditation. Why let stress and tension rule your life when you don't have to live that way? Why not become the person you've always wanted to be but didn't know how to become? Let meditation bring you to your true self.
©2014 Sam Siv (P)2014 Sam Siv
Dreams: Lucid Dreaming - Lucid Dreams - New Age Dreams
Summary
Discover the incredible power of lucid dreaming. Control and experience your dreams consciously. What is a lucid dream? Lucid dreaming is the process of dreaming with complete consciousness of the dream. Sleep is an involuntary feature of being human. Even though our body and conscious mind take a rest, our subconscious mind - the most powerful weapon in our arsenal - never takes a break. It continues weaving possible universes and scenarios relevant to you. This is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the history of sleep, dreams, and lucid dreaming dates back into the ages of Egyptians and Greeks. Do you want to be able to use your lucid dreams, and script the dreams you want? Would you like to sleep better? Are you interested in a dictionary on what some common dreams mean? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this book is for you. In Dreams: Lucid Dreaming, you will learn the answers to all of those questions and much more. You will learn: A brief history of dreams How to understand the dream state - how and why we dream How new age lucid dreams work An understanding of lucid dreams with a lucid dream encyclopedia A deeper understanding of lucid dreams In addition, you will learn how to experience a lucid dream through: 1. Dream recall 2. Reality testing 3. Using the MILD technique 4. Napping
©2015 Sam Siv (P)2015 Sam Siv
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
Summary
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll "a high point of modern antihumanism." A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll's revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species' morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll's work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds out new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the whole framework of biopolitics itself.
©2010 Regents of the University of Minnesota (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
Poco Bueno
Summary
Poco Bueno is the story of every man’s fantasy - escaping the life-numbing prison of his nine-to-five existence. Stokes is a 31-year-old executive in the lucrative Texas oil business. His marriage to the boss’ daughter is on the skids, and his true love - an over-restored 70-foot Hatteras fishing yacht - has him panicking in debt. Following his heart and the naked truth of his fun-loving boat captain and sidekick JP, the two fishing buddies throw caution to the wind and head out on a quest for genuine adventure and meaning. Like the ever-churning margarita blender onboard the boat, Poco Bueno serves up a potent mix of 30-something male angst, bikini-clad willful women, testosterone-fueled antics, and off-the-charts fishing. Based on the very private, but oh-so-real, million-dollar Port O’Connor Offshore Invitational Fishing Tournament held off the coast of Texas, this book might very well be the next great American Western, albeit a watery one! Yes, this is a novel about fishing - fishing in one of its most savage and primordial forms - but it is really a story about the ultimate inevitability of what life serves up and our ability to eat well at the feast.
©2021 Chris Parks (P)2021 Chris Parks