e-AudioProductions.com has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Brain Damage in Contact Sports.
God of God
Summary
Being the smartest cadet in the Elohim Academy on Omega Prime was no big deal for the boy named Yahweh. The only reason he majored in both galactology and the galacticNet was that he enjoyed exploring the future. He was removed from his surrogate family on his first birthday because they were human, and he was Elohim. While human children could only dream of keeping up with the superior mind of a Elohim, the policy was to set apart the Elohim children from the inferior human breeding stock. But he felt more connected to his human family than his Elohim, giving him an odd, more sensitive nature amongst his peers.
Graduation changed everything. His galacticNet session was disturbed by Headmaster Zenn with his first mission: a rescue mission to Earth. On Earth he finds new friends and family. His adventure blasts into exciting and calamitous sci-fi through three universes full of time travel, space bugs, terrestrial mollusks, and zombies. Yahweh searches for his destiny that’s been waiting for him with the meaning of life...if he can survive the future he had already lived to see.
©2018 Mark Kraver (P)2019 Mark Kraver
On Old Olympus Towering Top
Summary
This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. The central character is Louis, the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt. Lourdes falls in love with Joseph, a Tigua Indian who previously served in the Army during WWI. Joseph’s sister, Flor, is married to the governor of the Tigua Indian Community and they have a daughter, Rosalia, who is very close to Joseph. Rosalia abandons the Tigua community. Louis’ family survives the depression years and he finishes college. Louis meets a friend, Manfred, who introduces him to his father, a physician. Manfred teaches Louis mnemonics as a memory tool. Louis is accepted to medical school. In medical school during WWII, Louis befriends Izzy Schefter who introduces him to his family. Izzy’s father, Arthur, is a Jewish forensic pathologist who emigrated from Germany after being imprisoned in Russia during WWI. His wife, Madeline, is a doctoral student and their daughter, Anne, is a violist who is a senior in high school. She is infatuated with Louis but the feeling is not reciprocated. Both struggle with a fragile liaison stifled by too many cultural and philosophical differences and they decide to go their separate ways.
©2019 Richard R. Gonzalez (P)2020 Richard R. Gonzalez
Boys, Bumps & Blood
Summary
For Clarence, a two-year-old Minnesota boy, the terrible twos were terrible. His mother was killed in an auto accident, boiling water scalded his arm, and a rooster nearly pecked out one of his eyes. Things weren’t much better at six. Tumbling into a stream, a broken bottle pierced his elbow and doctors contemplated amputating the arm. At eight, his luck changed. During a summer at an Ojibwe Indian camp, he took on a new identity as White Eagle, found friends, developed skills, and gained wisdom from a 103-year-old Indian lady named Grandma Baker - experiences that forged a self-reliant character which allowed him to adapt to being shuffled off to live in an orphanage and with a series of relatives. The book chronicles the childhood of Paul C. Slayback, a young boy who grew up in northeastern Minnesota in the 1940s. Slayback tells entertaining stories of growth and learning, triumph and tragedy, victory and defeat. His earthy and vulnerable voice elicits empathy and laughter, and rekindles memories of a simpler time. Losing a mother, living with relatives, gaining a friend, swimming down the Mississippi, diving off high cliffs, ski-jumping off a mountain, squaring off with a bully, working on a farm, falling in love before he even imagined love, a dance with religion, discovering the soothing comfort of nature, fishing, and hunting with a dog. Slayback's stories are timeless tales of boyhood from another era.
©2013 Paul Slayback (P)2019 Paul Slayback
Babes, Booze & Biceps
Summary
An impressive follow-up to Slayback’s (Boys, Bumps & Blood, 2013) debut memoir.
The author picks up right where his first autobiography left off, in the fall of 1952. At the age of 14, he was shuttled from Duluth, Minnesota, to Lansing, Michigan, while his father headed to Florida. Such trips had been part of their regular routine ever since the author’s mother died; this time, he was left in the care of his married older sister, Lorna. Yet as heartbreaking as it was for the author to hear his father abruptly tell him to "learn to be happy on your own," it hardly sets the tone for the remainder of the memoir. Instead, the author was resilient, throwing himself into a quest for happiness and contentment; he immersed himself in archery, bodybuilding, and bow-hunting, among other things. His diligence with schoolwork eventually allowed him to go to college. There, he enjoyed, for a short time, pole vaulting, spent productive time on a horse ranch, and met a steady procession of women.
This improved effort is sure to delight listeners of heartfelt, folksy autobiographies. Slayback writes with sincerity, imparting vignettes from his life with urgency, as if committing them to paper might relieve the pain or sorrow he encountered in his early youth. His love of Michigan particularly shines through ("Fall in Michigan is football season.... In every city, town, or village, it’s in the air, the fresh, brisk, warm, sunny air of day, coupled with the slight bite of cool air in the evening."). He just as clearly describes his time spent learning to rope calves in a rodeo as he does a spicy boat trip to Cuba. The memoir’s cheeky title, though, belies the emotional, introspective landscape of the author’s life. Overall, Slayback relates his adventuresome life with gusto and reflection.
A delightful second memoir that’s more engaging and contemplative than the first.
©2014 Paul Slayback (P)2019 Paul Slayback
Brain Damage in Contact Sports
Summary
Dr. Omalu provides answers to parents who fear contact sports might cause injuries that have long-term effects. Should your child play football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, rugby, gymnastics, soccer, lacrosse, BMX bike riding, trampoline jumping, and gymnastics or other sports? This audiobook will help you answer this question, but only you, the parent, can answer this question. However, after you have finished this audiobook, it will be a very easy question for you to answer. The simplicity of the truth can even be more fantastic and more beautiful than football or any other sport. Dr. Omalu has received phone calls, emails, texts, and social media messages from thousands of parents reaching out to him from across the world for help - asking the same questions: “Should my son continue to play rugby after his last concussion six months ago?” “I do not want my daughter to play soccer but she loves it so much. What should I do?” “Are concussions permanent brain damage?” “Is it true helmets can cause brain damage?” “My son never suffered any brain injury while he played, but did ice hockey cause his depression, diminishing intelligence, and drug abuse?” “Was my son’s suicide caused by football?” “If my child shouldn’t play football or ice hockey, can I let him play lacrosse or soccer?”
©2018 Bennet I. Omalu (P)2018 Bennet I. Omalu