David H. Lawrence XVII has narrated 15 audiobooks on Listento.it by 15 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 25 ratings. The most-rated is The Jaguar's Children.
The Jaguar's Children
Summary
From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing. Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait. Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar's phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through? Over four days, as water and food run low, Hector tells how he came to this desperate place. His story takes us from Oaxaca - its rich culture, its rapid change - to the dangers of the border. It exposes the tangled ties between Mexico and El Norte - land of promise and opportunity, homewrecker and unreliable friend. And it reminds us of the power of storytelling and the power of hope, as Hector fights to ensure his message makes it out of the truck and into the world. Both an outstanding suspense novel and an arresting window into the relationship between two great cultures, The Jaguar's Children shows how deeply interconnected all of us, always, are.
©2015 John Vaillant (P)2015 Random House Audio
What the CEO Wants You to Know, Expanded and Updated
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The classic on the universal laws of business success, completely revised and updated for today's leaders Completely rewritten for today's business world, What the CEO Wants You to Know, expanded and updated, written by best-selling author Ram Charan, describes the fundamentals behind every business, from street vendors in Mumbai to Fortune 500 companies. Drawing on stories from Uber, Amazon, Apple, Toyota, Netflix, Lyft, The Limited, Walmart, GE, and Starbucks, Charan, in the most accessible language imaginable, explains the ins and outs of how companies work, from gross revenue and operating costs to inventory and cash flow, from turnover, profits, and margins to return on capital and accounts payable and receivable, from product quality to sales. A classic in the business literature, with hundreds of thousands of copies in print, this short and engaging book is like a miniature MBA course. For everyone who wants to master and understand the levers that drive a successful business, What the CEO Wants You to Know is the perfect answer.
©2017 Ram Charan (P)2017 Random House Audio
Secrets of Screen Acting
Summary
When it was first published in 1993, Secrets of Screen Acting broke new ground in explaining how acting for the camera is different from acting on stage. Reaction time is altered, physical timing and placement are reconceived, and the proportions of the digital frame itself become the measure of all things, so the director must conceptualize each image in terms of this new rectangle, and actors must "fit" into the frame. Based on a revolutionary, nonmethod approach to acting, this book shows what actually works: how an actor, an announcer - anyone working in front of the cameras - gives excellent performances on screen. Instead of starting with what is real and trying to wrestle that onto the screen, Patrick Tucker explains how to work with the realities of a shoot and work from there toward the real. His step by step guide to the elements of effective screen acting is an extension and explanation of a lifetime of work in the field, containing over 50 acting exercises and the tried-and-tested screen acting checklist.
©2015 Patrick Tucker (P)2015 Patrick Tucker
League of Denial
Summary
"Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis." So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America's most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: A chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players - including some of the all-time greats - to madness. League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. Comprehensively, and for the first time, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our 21st century pastime. Everyone knew that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn't know - and what the league sought to shield from them - is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football; that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research - a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco's fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives; and former Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it - questions at the heart of crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.
©2013 Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru (P)2013 Random House Audio
Teach and Grow Rich: The Emerging Opportunity for Global Impact, Freedom, and Wealth
Summary
Educate your way to personal success and freedom. The online content industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. Selling information is getting harder every day, refund rates are shooting through the roof, and some of the smartest online entrepreneurs are already changing their business models or quietly exiting the market. But as scary as this is for some people, there are many entrepreneurs who are very excited about it - because when things change, they bring big opportunities for the people who are paying attention. The big emerging opportunity is the Teach and Grow Rich opportunity, allowing anyone to tap in to the multibillion-dollar industry of online education, to create impact, freedom, and wealth. In this short and easy listen, you'll learn how this opportunity is reshaping the online business landscape, which is currently straddling two contradictory business models: a paradigm of information and a paradigm of education. This is unsustainable, and the emerging schism will drive many businesses into the ground and create great opportunities for those who are ready to embrace the better way of doing business and serving their customers.
©2015 Danny Iny (P)2015 Danny Iny
A Deadly Secret
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The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey - the very book found in Durst's own apartment when it was searched by police. When medical student Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, she was married to Robert Durst, son of a New York real estate magnate. Kathie's friends had reason to implicate her husband. They told police that Kathie lived in terror of Robert and that she had uncovered incriminating financial evidence about him. But Durst's secrets went even deeper. For decades Kathie's disappearance remained a mystery. Then in 2001, Durst, an heir to an empire valued at two billion dollars, was arrested for shoplifting in Pennsylvania. When the police brought him in, they discovered that he was a suspect in the murder of Texas drifter Morris Black, whose dismembered remains were found floating in Galveston Bay, and that Durst was also wanted for questioning in the killing of his friend, Susan Burman, in Los Angeles. Based on interviews with family, friends, and acquaintances of Durst, law enforcement, and others involved in the case, A Deadly Secret is a cross-country odyssey of stolen IDs and multiple identities that raises baffling questions about one of the country's most prominent families - and one of its most elusive suspected killers.
©2015 Matt Birkbeck (P)2015 Penguin Audio
Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach
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The road map to success as a knowledge worker, professional, and expert has changed. Gone are the days when education was something that happened only at the start of your career. The name of today's game, both personally and professionally, is to be constantly learning: just enough, just in time, and never stopping. But where can knowledge workers, professionals, and lifelong learners go to find the training and education they need to stay current and thrive? It's no secret that universities and colleges are struggling to keep pace and stay current. Often out of touch, exorbitantly overpriced, and slowed by unwieldy infrastructures, bureaucracies, and tenure, these institutions are fundamentally designed to deliver a mode of education that still serves an important purpose but leaves many of our individual and collective needs for learning and growth sorely unmet. This crisis is an opportunity for the experts and professionals who possess the knowledge and skills that are so sorely needed by so many. The solution is to package their expertise into leveraged learning programs that create transformation for the lifelong learners who need them and profit for the experts who create them. Danny Iny, a successful educator entrepreneur, has been leading the charge on this growing movement. And in Leveraged Learning he lays out the guidebook for navigating and thriving in this new world - both as a lifelong learner and as an expert with something to teach. As a lifelong learner, you'll gain the skills and acquire the tools that you need to grow and thrive: How education has changed and the implications for knowledge workers and professionals. Why the education system is failing you and what alternatives to consider. How to hack your patterns of behavior to support and accelerate your learning. The two layers of learning that you must stack together to achieve mastery.
©2018 Danny Iny (P)2018 Danny Iny
The Neuroscience of Selling
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A revolutionary way to discover real sales success and bring new value to your company! Sales is not just about logic and emotion. Extraordinary salespeople are top earners because they understand the deeper levels of the brain and how buyers think. Global sales expert John Asher explores these hidden biases and brain stimuli and provides tips and techniques to: Increase your likeability Steer a profitable conversation Stand out from the competition Win customers for life!
©2019 John Asher (P)2021 Random House Audio
Last Man at Arlington
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Six young people who had worked for the Kennedy administration in 1963, but all in minor jobs, receive a death threat 10 years later for reasons they "will fully understand". Why them? They hadn't even known the president. Then one night Congressman Thomas Medwick is killed. His car veers out of control, and the police rule it an accident. But George Williams, one of those named on the list, knows better. As a deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department, and its most skilled investigator, he takes the threat seriously, indeed. He had loved the young president, had shared the excitement and mission Kennedy had inspired in America during the '60s; for Jack Kennedy, Williams would have sacrificed anything. But he never thought it would have to include his life. An epic story of the men and women of the Kennedy years.
©1973 Joseph DiMona (P)2014 Lark Productions
Back Seat to Justice
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Florida P.I. Steve Salem is hired to tail an unfaithful husband. Things go from boring to bizarre when his mark is executed right in front of him.Finding the killer is only the beginning of the adventure.
©2010 Tim Baker (P)2013 Tim Baker
Attorney Prey
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In this riveting novella from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger spirals into the addictive maze of a beautiful young criminal defense attorney who has murder on her mind. Cover Art Harry Bennett. This novella was previously published as Assignment: Lawyer Prey.
©2012 R.J. Jagger (P)2012 R.J. Jagger
Roofing Ripoff: Why Your Asphalt Shingles are Falling Apart and What You Can Do About It
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Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Tim Carter, founder of Ask the Builder, exposes why asphalt shingles are falling apart much faster than they should. Carter also reveals how to add copper to the top of all roofs to significantly slow down the degradation of asphalt shingles. Homeowners and businesses that depend on asphalt shingles can end up saving tens of thousands of dollars by following Carter's advice. Carter is a national award-winning remodeler and builder and has authored the syndicated newspaper column "Ask the Builder" since 1993. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2017 Tim Carter (P)2019 Tim Carter
88 Days to Any Goal
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With 88 Days to Any Goal, you can achieve your personal goals - whatever they may be. Magic happens during those 88 days, and this thrilling listen can be the beginning to your massive success! After starting from zero and building an extraordinary senate-seat political campaign in 90 days, Dr. Rollan Roberts realized that while you can spend years, even decades, struggling and grinding along trying to: Earn a massive income Build a massive business Accomplish a massive dream Achieve massive attractiveness ...and never get there...there is another way. 88 Days to Any Goal is about doing the right thing for 88 straight days - day in, day out, with 100 percent focus, purpose, and passion. When you are fully committed, that's where the magic happens.
©2019 Dr. Rollan Roberts (P)2021 Random House Audio
Witness Chase
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When an up-and-coming associate attorney in Denver's largest law firm discovers that she's on a murder list, she frantically searches for answers, not only to save her life but also to find out whether she was tricked into participating in a murder herself.
©2009 R.J. Jagger (P)2013 R.J. Jagger
Sword of ISIS
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The maelstrom of Northern Iraq. A battleground where the blood-soaked warriors of ISIS pursue their vengeful quest to build an Islamic Caliphate. The world watches in horror as they rape, murder and pillage in pursuit of their brutal agenda. When CIA agent Marv Cohagen and his two SEAL bodyguards are kidnapped in the desert, a deadly new threat looms over the West. Cohagen is a drone expert, and his knowledge could equip the enemy with the means to create the unthinkable. An ISIS air force of robotic aircraft. Unmanned. Unaccountable. Loaded with explosives, and able to strike terror anywhere in the West at a moment's notice. An urgent recall goes out for Lieutenant Kyle Nolan to lead two teams of SEALs into Iraq. Their mission, to recover the drone expert at all costs. Or eliminate him. The SEALS soon encounter an enemy more powerful than they could ever have imagined. First they have to face and conquer the cave stronghold of Jahannam, and then fight their way into the ISIS controlled city of Mosul. SEAL Team Bravo is forced to reach deep into their reserves of strength, skill and courage to force back the savage hordes of Islamic extremists that threaten to overrun them at every turn.
©2014, 2015 Eric Meyer (P)2015 Swordworks Books