J. Keith Jackson has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The Kishi.
The Kishi
Summary
A bloodthirsty demon. A pacifist monk with a deadly past. How much will he sacrifice to overcome unspeakable evil?
Amana hopes his dark secrets will never catch up with him. But when nearby villagers discover a mauled body near him, the residents assume the traveling monk is to blame. Amana suspects the grisly handiwork of a bloodthirsty, mythological creature.
Determined to clear his name and catch the culprit, Amana follows the trail of bloody clues. When shadows from his own past tie in with the demonic attack, he's torn between his vow of pacifism and his duty to protect the defenseless. As the demon prepares to strike again, Amana must summon the courage to confront his own dark deeds before the creature can corrupt the hearts and minds of the entire village.
The Kishi is an enthralling fantasy novel steeped in African folklore. If you like mythological creatures, tormented heroes, and intense battles, then you’ll love Antoine Bandele’s captivating tale of redemption.
Buy The Kishi to embark on an action-packed, magical journey today!
Perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Tomi Adeyemi, and Evan Winter.
©2018 Antoine Bandele (P)2018 Antoine Bandele
Black Heart Boys' Choir
Summary
Great art demands sacrifice. Lucien Beaumont is a teenage misfit and musical prodigy ostracized by his peers and haunted by familial tragedy. When he discovers an unfinished song composed by his dead father - a song that holds terrible power - Lucien becomes obsessed. As he chases after the secret nature of his father's music, the line between gruesome fantasy and real life violence begins to blur. To complete his father's work, Lucien believes that he and his group of outcast friends must appease a demonic force trapped within the music with increasingly sadistic offerings. As things spiral out of control, he finds that the cost of his art will be the lives of everyone around him and, perhaps, his very soul.
©2019 Curtis M. Lawson (P)2019 Curtis M. Lawson
Discourse on Colonialism
Summary
"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness - a process in which [he] played a prominent role." (Library Journal) This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly 20 years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date. Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage", "uncultured", or "primitive." Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationship between consciousness and reality are extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society." A reading of an interview with Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included.
©1972, 2000 Monthly Review Press (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
People Born in May: Anti-Horoscope: Human "Software", Book 5
Summary
Did you know that those born on May 20th leap years or May 21st common years are not just people with imperialistic ambitions who present themselves as ideal, aristocratic, warm, kind, and noble - but also spend huge efforts to maintain this "bright image" to conceal secrets of their nature? At any point they can turn into judicious, domineering, ferocious schemers with eyes glistening of wrath. Or, did you know that those people, who were born on May 9th of leap years or on May 10th of common years are not just constantly worried, strangely-confused, in unceasing turmoil, trembling, worrying, but also that they create the reasons for anxiety and vanity themselves? And then...they complain! Or, did you know that they feel comfortable only when traveling short distances and that inviting them on a trip far from home is a waste of time? Hence the question: Are you sure that you know people, whom you think you know as your own self? Yes, of course, you know them - if we take wordplay into account. You really do know them, like you know yourself - that is...just as bad! You know your own and other people's masks and roles, but that is all. You do not believe this? Then, open this book and see for yourself! This book is for those people, who are fed up with "horoscopism," who are tired of listening to nonsense about themselves and other people from psychologists or their "all-knowing" relatives, friends, and acquaintances. It will help you save not just some time in your life - but your whole life because otherwise, you will spend your entire life on something that is a priori impossible. And, it is impossible not because you are idiots, but because Homo sapiens cannot fully know themselves and other people without an external (and, most importantly, objective) source....
©2017 HPA Press (P)2017 HPA Press
The Ivanhoe Gambit
Summary
In the 27th century, international disputes are resolved through time travel, “clocking” soldiers from the future into conflicts of the past. It seemed like an elegant idea: Wartime industries drove the economy without actually putting nations through the physical ravages of war. And since the past already happened, history could not be changed. So went the theory. What could possibly go wrong? Lucas Priest found out the hard way. Enlisting in the US Army Temporal Corps seemed like an adventure compared to his boring corporate job, but after marching with the Roman legions against Hannibal, fighting Custer’s 7th Cavalry with Crazy Horse, and raiding with Attila’s savage Huns, he could have used a little boredom. And it was about to get much worse. History, it turned out, could be changed, and a plot to kidnap and impersonate King Richard the Lion-hearted was discovered barely in the nick of time. But could it be stopped before a madman changed the course of history? Two elite commando teams had tried and failed in their attempts. Now, Priest was drafted to take part in a third. The team was tasked to infiltrate the past with impersonations of their own to prevent a timestream split. But it would be hard enough passing themselves off as Sir Ivanhoe, Robin Hood, and Little John without having to assassinate a king!
©2013, 1984 Simon Hawke (P)2020 Simon Hawke