Jennifer Jill Araya has narrated 104 audiobooks on Listento.it by 70 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 436 ratings. The most-rated is HIM.
The Power of a Woman's Words
Summary
Words are one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they can be used for good or evil. When God created our world, He did so with words. He said Let there be...and it was so. While our words cannot bring into existence things that are not, they do have the power to build courage into a husband's life, instill confidence into a child's heart, fan into flames the dying embers of a friend's smoldering dreams, and draw the lost to Christ. This book is for every woman who desires to use her words to build up rather than tear down, to encourage rather than discourage, to cheer rather than jeer. It is for all who desire to have more control over that mighty force called the tongue.
©2007 Sharon Jaynes (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Summary
Welcome to the world of women's gymnastics and figure skating - the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors. From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Bela Károlyi, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families - and is now updated with a new introduction and foreword that address the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated by USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Larry Nassar. This groundbreaking book shows how a longstanding culture of abuse made young gymnasts perfect targets for a sexual predator, and continues to plead for sanity, safety, and an end to our national obsession: winning at any cost.
©1995 Joan Ryan (P)2021 Tantor
You Don't Live Here
Summary
Robyn Schneider, author of The Beginning of Everything, delivers a witty and heartbreaking tale of first love, second beginnings, and last chances in this timely and authentic bisexual coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. In Southern California, no one lives more than 30 miles from the nearest fault line. Sasha Bloom is standing right on top of one when her world literally crumbles around her. With her mother now dead and father out of the picture, Sasha moves in with her estranged grandparents. Living in her mom’s old bedroom, Sasha has no idea who she is anymore. Luckily, her grandparents are certain they know who she should be: a lawyer in the making. Ten pounds skinnier. In a socially advantageous relationship with a boy from a good family - a boy like Cole Edwards. And Cole has ideas for who Sasha should be, too. His plus-one at lunch. His girlfriend. His. Sasha tries to make everything work, but that means folding away her love of photography, her grief for her mother, and he growing interest in the magnificently clever Lily Chen. Sasha wants to follow Lily off the beaten path, to discover hidden beaches, secret menus, and the truth about dinosaur pee. But being friends with Lily might lead somewhere new. Is Sasha willing to stop being the girl everyone expects and let the girl beneath the surface breath through?
©2020 Robyn Schneider (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Crash
Summary
Addie In that one moment everything changed. Everything I thought I knew shattered with just a few words. Who knew the truth could be so devastating. I need to decide which side to take. But can I even trust myself? Xander She's gone, but I'll scorch the earth to find her if that's what it takes. I'll call upon friend and foe for the battle that is to come. The fires of hell couldn't keep me from her and whoever thinks they can take what is mine, is going to regret it for all time. One thing is for sure. The Crash could ruin us all. Contains mature themes.
©2017 Sloane Murphy (P)2020 Tantor
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Summary
Explore the wisdom of a New Thought classic and master the game of life! In the classic best seller The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn helped to define the personal success genre. Written in the new thought tradition, her message is simple yet transformative - we receive back what we put into the world through our actions, energy, and attitudes. Negativity and pessimism are returned in kind, but by switching the script in favor of positive attitudes and affirmations, we are able to manifest success and joy in everything we do. Life, Shinn tells us, is not a battle of us against the world, but rather a game of giving and receiving. What we give to the world we receive back - whether that be the dark weight of fear and inhibition or the freedom of joy and empowerment. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Essentials
©2020 Florence Scovel Shinn (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
Hidden Jewel
Summary
The classic Landry series continues with this thrilling and spellbinding novel following Ruby Landry’s daughter as she tries to blossom even amidst the dark family secrets she worries will one day overwhelm her life. Hidden Jewel is the fourth thrilling novel in the V. C. Andrews Landry series. Following All That Glitters, the spellbinding story of Ruby Landry's daring struggle to find a happy life with Beau Andreas and to protect their precious daughter. Sheltered from sorrow, innocent young Pearl thrives in the sunshine of a loving home...except for the haunting nightmares of her earliest years, and the dark family secrets she worries will one day shadow her destiny.... Raised in a New Orleans mansion filled with kindness and laughter, Pearl dreams of becoming a doctor. With all the finest families wishing her well, her high school graduation party is almost as festive as Mardi Gras itself. But still, she fears that she will never know the essence of romantic passion, or her family’s buried secrets. Yet her summer job in an elegant old hospital is fascinating...and an experienced intern is eager to share his friendship with her. But the sultry Louisiana heat cannot dispel her family’s sinful legacy, the snakelike treachery of a man who threatens Pearl’s innocence, or an awful portent of disaster. After a cruel accident befalls one of Pearl’s twin brothers, the bayou that seized him beckons to Ruby who flees, tormented, back to her Cajun roots. Pearl’s faith in her mother abides, but she cannot hold back her tears when her other brother falls deathly ill, and her father retreats into his own bourbon-soaked world. Pearl’s dreams of success swirl away with the hurricane winds, and she journeys to the swamps in search of her mother and the shocking truths of her heritage. In the warm embrace of a gentle Cajun man, she discovers a blessed refuge. But, until the storm clouds clear, Pearl cannot savor the springtime sweetness that always, always seems beyond tomorrow...
©1995 Virginia C. Andrews Trust. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Second Chance Angel
Summary
After a devastating galactic war, disgraced veteran Ralston Muck ekes out a living as a bouncer at Last Stop Station’s premier nightclub, A Curtain of Stars. Night after night he listens to the club’s star performer, Siren, sing her memories and ease some of his aching loss. But when Siren goes missing, Muck finds himself drawn into a world of dirty cops, drug lords, and conspiracies that trace back to the war itself. The only person he can trust isn’t even human. Angel, Siren’s personal AI, was ripped from the singer’s mind the night Siren disappeared. With no idea what has happened to her human host, and pursued by a killer virus, Angel flees to Muck for answers. Together they struggle to comprehend the conspiracy that entangles both their lives. Can Muck and the angel on his shoulder recover Siren before it’s too late? Or will he lose everything that matters to him one more time?
©2020 Griffin Barber and Kacey Ezell (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Game Changer
Summary
An explosive new novel by the author of the National Book Award-winning Challenger Deep and the New York Times best-selling Arc of a Scythe series, about the limited ways we see our world - and how a jolt out of the ordinary can upend the universe.
©2020 Neal Shusterman (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Nine Lives
Summary
The ghoul population is on the increase. FACT. Creatures' numbers are dwindling. FACT. Into this sorry state of affairs falls Eve. She's abnormal in all the ways that count to humans, but at Caelum, where she should be among her peers? Even here she's weird. No woman has more than one mate. Eve? She has seven. And the creatures that dominate her mind? There are eight of those battling for power in her soul. With the war having come to Caelum's front door, Eve and her mates have no option but to escape the perils she faces at an Academy where anyone extraordinary is to be exterminated. On the path to safety, however, Eve and her mates must uncover exactly who she is, and what, if they can ever hope to lead normal lives. But with the revelations come more peril than any of them could have imagined. Contains mature themes.
©2019 Serena Akeroyd (P)2020 Tantor
A Stoneybrook Mystery Collection: A Cozy Mystery Box Set Books 1-3
Summary
Even small towns have secrets.... This is a box set of the first three books in the Stoneybrook Mystery series. Book 1 - A Crafty Crime Book 2 - A Fresh Kill Book 3 - A Sweet Death
©2019 Eryn Carpenter (P)2019 Eryn Carpenter
The Wife Lie
Summary
My husband is missing. And his wife is on my doorstep. The wife I never knew he had. Does that mean my husband’s out looking for wife number three? The more I dig...the more I find. Ledger Stone is not the man I thought I knew. What I'd thought was a whirlwind romance has turned out to be a hurricane laced with lies. It started with one. Will it end with another? The Wife Lie is a domestic suspense novel where secrets are buried deep. Penny Stone gave up everything for the husband she thought she knew - and now she must uncover the truth: just how much of her marriage was a lie? And is their love worth fighting for?
©2020 Anya Mora (P)2020 Vibrance Press
Alice and the Billionaire's Wonderland
Summary
Adelie is after the white rabbit. Not Maddox Hatter's heart. A contest. To save a dwindling theme park. When Adelie finds the white rabbit and wins the prize, it puts unwanted attention on her from every side. Suddenly, the park’s owner makes her an outrageous offer. He’s rebranding Wonderland. And he wants her to be his Alice. Maddox Hatter is intriguing. With his quirky, seductive smile and thoughtful attention, he’s mysterious and oh so tempting. Adelie is no model. She knows she’s crazy to accept his offer, even if it does mean more time with him. Then again, Wonderland promises everyone is a little mad sometimes. Buy this clean, romantic, contemporary Alice in Wonderland retelling today!
©2020 Cortney Pearson (P)2021 Cortney Pearson
Goldie and the Billionaire Bear
Summary
Of the women he's dated, she isn't too picky or too critical. For Adrian, Goldie fits him just right. Goldie Bybanks is terrible at following directions. After a mysterious letter arrives from a long-lost aunt, Goldie sets out to find answers in a part of the country she’s never been to before. But one wrong turn leads to another. Her car is running out of gas. The sun is setting. There isn’t a town in sight, much less a hotel. Before digging herself too deeply into this mysterious area, she decides to stop for the night at an abandoned cabin. Adrian Bear is shocked to discover a beautiful blonde sleeping in his family fishing cabin. His weekend plans to locate his late father’s missing lock box quickly veer into an attempt to help Goldie find her long-lost aunt instead. It isn’t only because Adrian is the type to aid a person in need. But because the woman who ate his oatmeal, sat in his chair, and whom he discovered sleeping at his cabin is too captivating to let go. She’s no catch-and-release. She’s a keeper. If only he could convince her of that. True love with a twist. These billionaire fairy tale retelling take beloved stories you know and add a pinch of modern, a dash of happy, and a whole heap of clean, swoon-worthy romance. Shaken, not stirred. You'll find yourself drinking them up. Each fairy tale romance is a stand-alone and can be listened to in any order.
©2019 Cortney Pearson (P)2019 Cortney Pearson
You've Got Some Nerve
Summary
Derryen Plante knew her destination in life long before she reached it: She was going to be a special investigator for the federal government working on high-level crimes. Every step she took was in preparation for one day achieving that dream. Then, without warning, her dream was shattered. While completing a unit check at the juvenile prison where she worked, Derryen was violently attacked by one of the inmates. She suffered a traumatic brain injury that sent her into a spiral of PTSD, depression, and multiple medical interventions. As she navigated her life after the attack, Derryen struggled to accept her new reality. She’d built her entire life around a dream that no longer seemed possible. Without that, who was she? You've Got Some Nerve is Derryen’s real, raw, and honest account of how she redefined her life, navigated the challenges unique to brain injury recovery, and found support in unexpected places. Her journey offers keen insight into how each of us can support those suffering with the long-term effects of an invisible injury.
©2021 Derryen Plante (P)2021 Derryen Plante
Where the Heart Is
Summary
If home is where the heart is, what would happen if you lost it? Compassion and humor infuse the story of a family caught in financial crisis and a girl struggling to form her own identity.
It’s the first day of summer and Rachel's thirteenth birthday. She can't wait to head to the lake with her best friend, Micah. But as summer unfolds, every day seems to get more complicated. Her “fun” new job taking care of the neighbors’ farm animals quickly becomes a challenge, whether she’s being pecked by chickens or having to dodge a charging pig at feeding time. At home, her parents are more worried about money than usual, and their arguments over bills intensify. Fortunately, Rachel can count on Micah to help her cope with all the stress. But Micah seems to want their relationship to go beyond friendship, and though Rachel almost wishes for that, too, she can’t force herself to feel “that way” about him. In fact, she isn’t sure she can feel that way about any boy - or what that means.
With all the heart of her award-winning novel See You At Harry's, Jo Knowles brings us the story of a girl who must discover where her heart is and what that means for her future.
©2019 Jo Knowles, original book published by Candlewick Press. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Ella and the Billionaire's Ball (A Clean Billionaire Fairy Tale Romance)
Summary
As a custodian, Ella usually cleans up after the Christmas ball. She’s never been invited. Until now. Hawk Danielson is sweet. Endearing. And chivalrous. And so charming he makes her insides tingle. As owner of the building she cleans, he can’t know who Ella is. But she’s entranced by him, especially when, of all the women at the ball, he only has eyes for her. Before midnight, they share an enchanting kiss. Ella gets whisked away in the fantasy of being with him. Until office supplies go missing, And she becomes a suspect. Can a relationship between Hawk and Ella be possible, or will he accuse her of stealing more than his heart? You'll relish this clean, tummy-tingling romance because everyone loves when someone gets a chance at love, even though they feel they don't deserve it. With a secret crush, a sexy billionaire heartthrob, and a girl who never gives up, don't miss this twist on the beloved Cinderella story by Catelyn Meadows!
©2019 Cortney Pearson (P)2020 Cortney Pearson
Which Way Is Home?
Summary
A riveting debut novel about a family escaping Czechoslovakia after the 1948 Communist takeover - based on the author's own family history. Anna's father disappeared months ago. He had to flee the country because the cruel new Communist government wanted to arrest him. The Communists may have arrived like heroes at the end of World War II, saving Czechoslovakia from the Nazis - but since then, things have changed. Now Anna's whole family feels threatened and doesn't know whom to trust, so she and her mother and sister set out to escape, hoping to reunite with Papa. During their dangerous journey, they have to hide from the authorities and navigate through the wilderness, constantly relying on people they've never met for help. They have no way to contact Papa and they're running out of options, so putting their lives in the hands of strangers might be their only hope of seeing him again.
©2020 Maria Kiely (P)2020 Listening Library
Soul Riders: Darkness Falling
Summary
Step into the final installment of the fantasy trilogy based on the massively popular game, Star Stable. Follow four friends who discover their magic powers and learn that every girl can be a hero. A storm is coming. Darkness is falling. Will the Soul Riders find their strength in time to save Jorvik? From cozy stables to stormy nights and magical places, Darkness Falling is a thrilling adventure where the fate of the world lies in the hands of four friends and their horses. The four Soul Riders - Lisa, Anne, Linda, and Alex - are facing their greatest test yet. Mr. Sands’ sinister plans are threatening to destroy life on Jorvik. Only the Soul Riders and their horses have the power to stop him and his Dark Riders. To succeed, the Soul Riders must learn to master the magic. But they are running out of time.
©2021 Star Stable Entertainment (P)2021 Andrews McMeel Publishing
The Undercover Resort Billionaire
Summary
She's at the resort to rebuild her dreams. He's forced to work undercover at the resort he owns. He can't wait to tear the whole place down, and she can't imagine life without it. Work brings them together, but will their competing dreams tear them apart? Callie Hayes never expected that her fiancé was out to steal all her money. But a drained savings account and foreclosed home puts her dream of owning a luxury purse line on hold for the foreseeable future. Thankfully, she finds an out-of-the-way resort where she can rebuild her life. Billionaire Liam Summers has been acting CEO of the most prestigious luxury resort company in the world for the last three years. After his uncle's death, he inherits everything on one condition: he must work undercover at The Hideaway resort as a staff member. Upon arriving at the dilapidated resort, he is convinced that the best course of action is to tear the entire place down and start from scratch. That is until he meets his trainer, Callie. Her passion and determination opens his eyes to the possibility of a different future, for the resort and for him. But will he be able to go through with the plans and risk losing Callie? All of the romances in this series can be heard in any order. Each book is a sweet/clean contemporary billionaire romance and has a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
©2018 Chelsea Hale (P)2019 Chelsea Hale
You've Got Some Nerve
Summary
Derryen Plante knew her destination in life long before she reached it: she was going to be a special investigator for the federal government working on high-level crimes. Every step she took was in preparation for one day achieving that dream. Then, without warning, her dream was shattered. While completing a unit check at the juvenile prison where she worked, Derryen was violently attacked by one of the inmates. She suffered a traumatic brain injury that sent her into a spiral of PTSD, depression, and multiple medical interventions. As she navigated her life after the attack, Derryen struggled to accept her new reality. She’d built her entire life around a dream that no longer seemed possible. Without that, who was she? You've Got Some Nerve is Derryen’s real, raw, and honest account of how she redefined her life, navigated the challenges unique to brain injury recovery, and found support in unexpected places. Her journey offers keen insight into how each of us can support those suffering with the long-term effects of an invisible injury.
©2021 Derryen Plante (P)2021 Derryen Plante