Guy Bethell has narrated 10 audiobooks on Listento.it by 11 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 24 ratings. The most-rated is Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The Templars
Summary
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive history of these loyal Christian soldiers of the Crusades - sworn to defend the Holy Land and Jerusalem, but ultimately damned and destroyed by the Pope and his church. A best seller in the United Kingdom - the first history of the enigmatic warriors to include findings from the Chinon Parchment, the long-lost Vatican document absolving the Knights of heresy - The Templars by Michael Haag is a fascinating, must-listen book.
©2011 Michael Haag (P)2017 Tantor
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summary
This is a top-quality audiobook of G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas. Etienne Gilson, leading scholar of Aquinas, says, "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas. The few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and who, perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot fail to perceive that the so-called 'wit' of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame."
Public Domain (P)2018 Chesterton Books
Batavia's Graveyard
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed - but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus' treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers.
©2002 Mike Dash (P)2016 Tantor
A Short History of the World
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There is an increasing realization that our knowledge of world history - and how it all fits together - is far from perfect. Here, Christopher Lascelles aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to follow and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. He doesn't aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that nonhistorians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past. While this book explores world history from the big bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events, and empires since the dawn of the first civilizations in and around 3500 BC. Epic in scope but refreshingly concise, A Short History of the World is an excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch.
©2011 Christopher Lascelles (P)2016 Tantor
The Third Grave
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When archaeologist Thomas Ashley is invited to remote Devonshire by Lucian Mallory to examine and decipher millennia-old papyrus scrolls, he is unable to resist the offer, despite knowing of Mallory’s sinister and unsavory reputation. The scrolls, retrieved from an ancient necropolis, purportedly contain Egyptian secrets of resurrection and immortality. From the moment of Ashley’s arrival, it is clear something is terribly wrong: a gruesome murder has been committed, and everyone is fearful a madman is on the loose. But the truth is far more shocking. As the murders continue, Ashley works to uncover the secrets contained in the scrolls and begins to glimpse the horrific reality of Mallory’s inscrutable plan... Originally published as a limited edition Arkham House hardcover and long out of print, The Third Grave (1981) is a chilling tale by David Case (1937-2018), an undeservedly neglected master of literary horror. Two volumes of Case’s best short fiction are also available from Valancourt.
©2019 David Case (P)2019 Valancourt Books LLC
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories
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Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories. This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like "Feet Foremost" and "The Cotillon" to the wonderfully black humor of the horror masterpieces "The Travelling Grave" and "The Killing Bottle". Originally published in 1948 and long out of print, this collection features 12 of Hartley's best tales.
©1948, 2017 The Estate of L.P. Hartley (P)2017 Valancourt Books, LLC
Man out of Time
Summary
What would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future, into a world where your home is no longer your home, and you've been declared legally dead? This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself in, at the beginning of this latest installment in The Time Bubble series. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse for Dan very quickly. Before long, he finds himself incarcerated in a secure psychiatric unit, and his hopes of ever returning to the past looking bleak. Elsewhere, Josh has unlocked the secrets of the time bubbles and can now freely travel in time. He returns to the scene of past encounters, as well as travelling to the future to join Peter on his adventures through time. But has he been careful enough to prevent others from discovering his secrets? Man out of Time is the third novel in The Time Bubble series. The story continues with Splinters in Time. A fifth volume, Class of '92, was released in December 2018. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available. Want to know more about the author? You can find him at: jasonayres.co.uk, facebook.com/TheTimeBubble, or Twitter @TheTimeBubble.
©2015 Jason Ayres (P)2019 Jason Ayres
Good: Glinda the Good and the Plot Against the Wicked Witch of the North
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Long before Oscar Diggs' balloon carried him off from the county fair to his destiny as a humbug wizard or a twister turned Dorothy Gale's farmhouse into a flying merry-go-round, Oz groaned under the tyranny of the Wicked Witches...the witches and their great enemy, Glinda the Good. For Glinda, nothing was more important than the destruction of the Wicked Witches. She was willing to pay any price to win her private war with the witches, even if that price was the life of an innocent girl. Good is an exciting fantasy adventure filled with humor, magic, talking beasts, humbug magicians, and intrigue, set in Oz a century before the events described in The Wizard of Oz, but it also asks serious questions about the nature of good and evil and why, sometimes, they may look so much alike.
©2018 Andrew J Heller (P)2019 Andrew J Heller
How to Analyze People: Analyze Body Language & Personality Types
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Are you commonly told that you are too gullible or naive? Do you always believe what people say at face value and find that it regularly comes back to bite you? Maybe you find that you never seem to know exactly how you should behave in social settings with those around you. If this sounds familiar, then keep reading... If you find that social skills are not your forte, there is a very real possibility that you struggle with reading people. You may find that body language is something that becomes endlessly confusing for you. You may struggle to tell when you are going too far, or you may find that you never seem to know when to approach someone who is waiting for you. All of these subtle nuances are skills that must be learned and practiced, and because of that, you may find that you are in need of assistance - and that is okay. When you learn how to read other people’s body language, you learn the skills of a lifetime. You learn how to defend and protect yourself because you can read the intentions of other people. You can tell when you are causing problems because you can read whether or not people want to interact with you further. If you think that learning body language is for you, and learning how to put all of that knowledge will help you learn how to better interact with other people, you are absolutely right! This audiobook is here to help. In this audiobook, you will be guided through the ins and outs of understanding how to analyze people and how to read their body language in ways that are effective and easy to learn. They may require practice and some rote memorization, but when you get that in, you will find that you, too, can become a body language reading champion. In this audiobook, you will be guided through this process with the following information: Learning what it means to analyze people and how it matters Learning how to understand the personality types of other people and how to work that out through analyzing and observing others How to read body language, from the face to the feet and with almost everything in between How to understand and consider posture and why it can be so important How to read proxemics, both vertical and horizontal, and how people regularly make use of space in nonverbal communication How to read some of the most common clusters of body language And more! Even if body language and being able to read other people has always caused you trouble in the past, it is not too late to learn. You can learn how to recognize what other people are really telling you and how to understand those silent messages with ease. You can learn how to read other people so you are no longer the laughingstock of your work meetings when you say or do something that should have been avoided. It is never too late to stop working on how to understand your body language - all you have to do is be willing to step out of your comfort zone and reach for it. Take that control back today - don’t hesitate! Buy this audiobook now to begin taking back your life once and for all.
©2020 Tina Berg (P)2020 Tina Berg
The Little Book of Stupidity
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As human beings, we are great storytellers. We tell stories about who we are, what we're doing, and why we are doing it. The problem is, sometimes those stories are fiction; created by our own blindness to reality. We are such good storytellers that we often don't know we are deceiving ourselves. The brain has evolved to make information processing simplified and, with this, has created a need to simplify the world. The problem is, sometimes rational thinking becomes sacrificed for this simplicity. In The Little Book of Stupidity, Sia Mohajer draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among 10 of life's most pervasive cognitive biases. It is a story about how stupid we can all be and also how we can become more compassionate as a result.
©2015 Sia Mohajer (P)2015 Sia Mohajer