Jean Hetherington has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is From a Whisper.
Dick Powell: A One-Person Play in Two Acts
Summary
Dick Powell made a career of reinventing himself. Born in Arkansas, the young tenor played horn and banjo, and sang with various dance bands and orchestras in Pittsburgh and elsewhere before he was brought to Hollywood, where he sang opposite Ruby Keeler and others in such classic Busby Berkeley musicals as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1935, and the Al Jolson film, Wonder Bar. In the mid-1940s, Powell played Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, which began his period of doing "tough guy" roles in films like Cornered, Johnny O'Clock, and Cry Danger. His astute mind for business led him to invest in real estate, and in the early 1950s, he moved his show-business interests into producing and directing. Along with David Niven and Charles Boyer, he formed Four Star Productions, one of the most prolific production companies in television. Powell was married three times. His second wife was actress Joan Blondell and his third, actress June Allyson, 12 years his junior. Michael B. Druxman's Dick Powell is a one-person play that looks in on the actor at two different periods in his life: during the mid-1940s when he is struggling to reinvent his career from singer to dramatic actor, and the mid-1950s as he deals with billionaire Howard Hughes, producer of director Powell's ill-fated (and deadly) John Wayne-epic film, The Conqueror.
©2019 Michael B. Druxman (P)2019 Michael B. Druxman
Sprig the Rescue Pig
Summary
Things aren't looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn't know where they're going, but his nose knows there's something better out there. So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig, who finds his way to an animal sanctuary. The book includes a bonus section called "More About Pigs", where curious listeners will learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles, run really fast, and other amazing facts. Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, said of the book: "May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are." Sprig the Rescue Pig is the first children's book in our series on farm animals, perfect for ages 4 to 8.
©2018 Leslie Crawford (P)2019 Clare Ellis
Only Shoot Once
Summary
Only Shoot Once: A book of action and intrigue What if you woke up from a dream of being sent on a suicide mission, your family murdered and made to look like an accident and you left for dead to find out it was not a dream? Do that to a sniper and then you have a motivated killer who will find you, put a bullet in you and you'll never hear it coming. Get a look at the drama from the snipers point of view without ever knowing who he is until the end. The sniper is hounded by Detective Damon O'Brian who was looking at the end of his career with a plan of rest, beach and fun. That is until a string of homicides are assigned to him by the governor for no apparent reason. Jurisdiction problems and agency involvement smell of a hit but ordered by whom? You add South American gold and an Inca priest into the mix and you have a mystery that leads nowhere. Only Shoot Once gives a glimpse of the snipers life and the betrayal of his country or was it someone else. The loss of his family coupled with the betrayal of what he thinks is his government brings him to revenge when he finds out his family was actually murdered. Then you find this lone sniper is killing people that have no connection or any traceable past. Detective O'Brian has to find out who the lone sniper is and stop him. Problem is the sniper is dead. Someone is helping in the investigation without anyone knowing who it is. Why? In the end where O'Brian has to decide to shot him or let him go.
©2012 Patrick Sullivan (P)2012 Patrick Sullivan
From a Whisper
Summary
A book of poetry in various styles some dealing with planetary issues including animals, some love poems, some about places visited, and some about the general countryside.
©2014 Mark Wells (P)2014 Mark Wells