Gary Bennett has narrated 56 audiobooks on Listento.it by 55 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 170 ratings. The most-rated is The Ministry for the Future.
Absolution
Summary
It's a dog-eat-dog world of upgrades and bio-enhanced assassins, where a brutal dictator keeps New Chicago separated from the outside world. Marisol is a bounty hunter, tasked with tracking down "Runners" - people who have been paid to take the fall for crimes committed by the wealthy. But when she captures a young Runner with a secret, she unknowingly stumbles into a vast conspiracy. The hunter becomes the hunted as those in power turn the city inside out trying to crush anyone who would dare to expose the truth. Nowhere is safe as Assassins close in from every direction. The unlikely duo of a Runner and a rising-star Hunter must survive the endless onslaught to blow the lid off the rampant, city-wide corruption...or be silenced forever. A bit Logan's Run, Running Man, Escape from New York, and even some Ready Player One.
©2019 Justin Sloan and George S. Mahaffey Jr. (P)2019 Justin Sloan and George S. Mahaffey Jr.
The Break
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It begins with a break. Today is the biggest day of Cole Ristler’s life. He’s about to join his wife and unborn child in retirement, an event he didn’t think would ever happen. It’s a cause for celebration, and all that’s left is the ride home. Unfortunately for Cole, the world has other plans. When an unknown phenomenon strikes the planet, man becomes its own worst enemy, transforming into rabid crazies that strike out at the nearest victim, seemingly driven by a single urge: Kill. Cole and a handful of individuals were left mysteriously unaffected. They don’t know why, but more importantly, they don’t care — because right now, it’s all about staying alive. The city streets run red with blood as those infected by the mysterious plague seek out more victims, forcing Cole to reawaken dormant skills from a past life in order to get through the day. Then he has to do it all over again the day after that…and the one after that.... Cole only knows one thing: He will get home to his wife and unborn child, and God help anyone that stands in his way. Book 1 in the Fall of Man saga, a new take on post-apocalyptic horror. Are you ready? Don’t be so sure.
©2020 Sam Sisavath (P)2020 Sam Sisavath
Bearly Breathing
Summary
River: When I was 17 I made an unforgivable mistake. My entire clan hates me even though I'm their alpha. I was willing to live alone in the darkness until I saw him. He is mine. Every fiber of my being tells me that. The clan will object to their alpha being with both a human and a man. I don't care. I will have what's mine. Darius: Everyone gets one great love. I've had mine. She died. Now all that's left for me is survival. One day at a time. One breath at a time. But why is it when I look at him I feel like I could love again? I can't betray her memory.... But I also can't betray my heart. This MM shifter romance can be heard as a stand-alone.
©2019 Kayci Morgan (P)2019 Kayci Morgan
Chemical Attraction
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Working in nanotechnology, Madeline Pierce, a dedicated scientist, has pain in her heart from an abusive relationship. She hides in her research. Charismatic yet brooding, Joe Roberts searches for an instant chemistry with his soulmate, the one person who will love him for his faults not in spite of them. Dr. Pierce teams up with Agent Roberts to uncover a criminal network within her medical research facility in West Michigan. Feeling an undeniable attraction, they struggle to stay professional while they determine the degree of company involvement. In the nearby farming town, animals violently attack the residents. Someone is experimenting outside the laboratory. Are human test subjects next? With the help of Joe's sister Eva, a physician assistant at the local hospital, and her husband Chief Matt Connor, Joe and Madeline hunt for this new bio-weapon before the death toll rises in this gripping third book of The Chemical Attraction Series.
©2012 Christina Thompson (P)2019 Christina Thompson
Shadow Born
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Once an international monster hunter, Joseph is now nothing more than a depressed drunk who occasionally showers. He retired from the magical world five years ago to protect his daughter from the evil that hunted him and killed his wife. Who killed her? Not even he could piece that mystery together. But her killers haven’t finished torturing him. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, a Sorceress had her vampire goons kidnap his daughter. Five years of retirement has made Joseph physically out of shape, magically rusty, emotionally grumpy, and entirely dependent on alcohol...but he’s back in the game and out for blood. He’ll stop at nothing to track down and save his daughter, and kill anyone or anything involved with her disappearance. Will he fail, once again, to protect someone he loves, or can he overcome his shortcomings to intervene before it’s too late?
©2020 Alex Gates (P)2020 Alex Gates
Pay Dirt
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Buried treasure. Ancient secrets. Vengeance unleashed. When a hungry ghoul uncovered a cache of treasure hidden beneath Lost Falls, he thought all his problems were behind him. When he realized how wrong he was, he came to me for help. As Lost Falls' resident folk wizard, breaking curses is my specialty. But the ghoul and his treasure hunting friends found more than cursed gold down there in the dark. They unleashed something old. Something alive. Something better left buried. And if I can't send it back where it came from, the treasure hunters won't be the only ones paying the ultimate price. If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Shayne Silvers, M.D. Massey, or Orlando A. Sanchez, then you'll love taking a trip to the sleepy town of Lost Falls, where not everything is as it seems.
©2018 Chris Underwood (P)2020 Chris Underwood
The Rhapta Key
Summary
When fear stands between you and your enemy, what do you do? Alex hasn’t left the safe confines of her home in three years. Instead, she’s thrown herself into her career as an archaeological researcher with a prominent British university where her archaeologist father works. But then, her father disappears under sinister circumstances while working on a case. With his fate in her hands, forced out of hiding, she battles her worst fears and travels to the last place he was seen alive: Tanzania, Africa. Tasked to go with her, the inexperienced Sam Quinn joins her on an action-packed adventure through the treacherous African Savannah, where an abundance of danger, fear, and heartache confront them head on. As they come face-to-face with sabotage, crime, and betrayal that will test their inner strength and will to survive, the pair takes on an enemy they never saw coming. Join their adventure and travel from the luxury of your favorite armchair to Africa in this gripping tale that you can't stop listening to! Inspired by actual historical facts and places, the Alex Hunt archaeological adventure thriller series will take you on dangerous faraway adventures that will leave you thrilled, inspired, and informed -all at once.
©2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Urcelia Teixeira (P)2020 Urcelia Teixeira
The Power of Three
Summary
On a mission to Afghanistan to gather information about the opium trade, Rex Dalton stumbles across spine-chilling deceit and corruption reaching the highest hallways of power in Afghanistan, America, and Europe. His requests to his superiors to wipe out the drug stores, labs, and drug lords, fall on deaf ears. With no time to waste, and US politicians failing to act, Rex takes matters into his own hands and stirs up a hornet’s nest. One so deadly, even Rex, one of the world’s most lethal assassins, might not survive.
©2018 JC Ryan (P)2020 JC Ryan
The Last Voyage
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He's a criminal. She's far from it. Together, they’re Earth's last hope...they just don’t know it yet. Sinbad Singh had everything. A thriving smuggling career, his hologram on wanted posters on eleven planets, and plenty of women. Then she walked into his life. Andrea Talltrees, member of a backwards cult not believing in space travel or anything else invented after the 20th century. She wants him to find her husband, a fugitive accused of being an Albegensian spy, the planet currently at war with Earth. He doesn’t want anything to do with an Earther, but a massive culture clash and a heavy dose of instant attraction get in the way, sending good sense flying out the viewport. They'll brave some very unsavory characters, maybe even prevent a second interplanetary war...if they can stop arguing. It's Star Wars meets Firefly in this exciting space opera thrill ride that doesn't let up. Pick up your copy today and join the adventure.
©2020 Aethon Books (P)2020 Aethon Audio
Prototype Exodus
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Des stares at the mushroom cloud in the distance. The extreme heat threatens to melt his circuits. If he doesn't get away soon, he will be dead like the rest of his companions.
He travels onward, unable to stay behind and bury the bodies of those who had offered him friendship and a home. But his steps are not aimless. He knows there is only one group of people in all the world who could have detonated a nuclear weapon: the Mainlanders.
Upon arrival to Mainland, Des finds himself engulfed in another conflict between the Mainlanders and Outlanders as he tries to discover who is responsible for killing his friends. As the mystery unravels, he learns of a new danger that threatens to destroy humanity once and for all, and it is up to Des to stop it.
©2016 Jason D. Morrow (P)2019 Jason D. Morrow
Midnight in the Graveyard
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Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind, that the moonlight is playing tricks on your eyes, that it’s only the swirling mist you see. But when you hear the graveyard gate clang shut, the dead have something to say. Here are their stories …
©2019 Thomas F. Monteleone, Kealan Patrick Burke, John Everson, Chad Lutzke, William Meikle, Catherine Cavendish, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, Ronald Kelly, Kenneth McKinley, Jason Parent, and various authors (P)2020 Spoken Realms
Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an internationally best-selling artist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and an Oscar winner for Things Have Changed. His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he seemed to choose more than two decades ago? What transformed a heroin addict into one of the most astonishing literary and musical icons in American history? At 72 years of age, Dylan's final act of his career is more intriguing than ever - and classic biographies like Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and even his own Chronicles: Volume One came too soon to cover this remarkable new chapter in his life. Through extensive interviews and conversations with Dylan's friends, family, sidemen, and fans, Los Angeles Times journalist Dennis McDougal crafts an unprecedented understanding of Dylan and the intricate story behind the myths. Was his romantic life, especially with Sara Dylan, much more complicated than it appears? Was his motorcycle accident a cover for drug rehab? What really happened to Dylan when his career crumbled, and how did he find his way back? To what does he attribute his astonishing success? McDougal's meticulous research and comprehensive interviews offer a revealing new understanding of these long-standing questions - and of the current chapter Dylan continually writes in his life and career.
©2014 Dennis McDougal (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Best American Short Stories 2020
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“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To listen to these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. The Best American Short Stories 2020 includes: T. C. Boyle Emma Cline Mary Gaitskill Andrea Lee Elizabeth Mc Cracken Alejandro Puyana William Pei Shih Kevin Wilson And others
©2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (P)2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Firebase
Summary
The real fight to stay alive begins. They survived the first five days of what might very well be the beginning of the end of the world as they know it. Man has become its own worst enemy, driven insane by an unknown infection that has claimed much of the globe. The infected will target anyone and anything in their path in order to satiate a never-ending bloodlust. For Cole and Emily, reuniting against all odds was a miracle. Now, they’ll have to face the leftovers of a ravaged planet. Fortunately, they’re more than equipped to handle whatever is thrown at them. Or, so they thought. The answers to “what happened” lies somewhere out there, but for Cole and Emily, along with the handful of survivors depending on them, getting through the next day - then the ones after that - is all that matters for now. Their goal is to find a safe haven from which to regroup. That’s where Lars comes in...
©2020 Sam Sisavath (P)2021 Sam Sisavath
Building Self-Esteem
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Challenging widely accepted views within the self-esteem movement, author Joseph Burgo argues that self-esteem does not thrive in the soil of nonstop praise and encouragement, but rather depends upon setting and meeting goals, living up to the expectations we hold for ourselves, and finally sharing our joy in achievement with the people who matter most to us. Along the way, listening to and learning from our encounters with shame will go further than affirmations and positive self-talk in helping us to build authentic self-esteem. Richly illustrated with clinical stories from Burgo's 35 years in private practice, this self-help book also describes the myriad ways that unacknowledged shame often hides behind a broad spectrum of mental disorders including social anxiety, narcissism, addiction, and masochism.
©2020 Joseph Burgo (P)2021 Joseph Burgo
Preacher's Frenzy
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Johnstone country. Where the good die young. And the bad die sooner. There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into - a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So, he sets off after the grifters - on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal underworld of the French Quarter. Then, he’s enslaved on a pirate ship heading straight to hell. Now, there’s only one way out for Preacher. Start a mutiny. Take over the ship. Then return to New Orleans to reunite Charlie with his money - and not to get butchered in the process.
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Recorded Books