Jim Cooper has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 10 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is So Others May Live.
So Others May Live
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories. In startlingly clear and exceptional writing, Martha LaGuardia-Kotite tells 12 heroic stories of the greatest maritime rescues attempted since the program began in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the heroes, reveal an understanding of how and why the rescuer, with flight-crew assistance, risks his or her own life to reach out to save a stranger. Covering diverse environments - oceans, hurricanes, oil rigs, caves, sinking vessels, floods, and even Niagara Falls, So Others May Live is truly a can't-stop-listening collection.
©2006 Martha LaGuardia-Kotite (P)2018 Martha LaGuardia-Kotite
20/20 Vision
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You've battled through all the changes in the automotive industry. You've done the right things at the right times. You've seen the good times come and go, but you know that the right ideas at the right times make all the difference. You're ready for what's next. Let's get there faster than the competition, you say! Just up ahead there are signposts for more change. How will you handle digital retailing and all that it means to you? After sharing thousands of communications via books, podcasts, emails, and articles I gained the perspective of 20/20 vision and recognized the vast majority of my blogs help those interested in effectively managing change. Now it's time to look forward to 2020 with additional vision. I've assembled some of my best blogs produced over the last decade. You can take in as many as you like at a time with the idea that you've already introduced the internet to your enterprise, that you've successfully navigated the subsequent mobile explosion and that it's time to get ready for the third wave - digital retailing. I'm certain that you'll be able to recognize the opportunities buried inside my thoughts and ideas. And given your experience and past success, I bet you'll make it through the next surge even better off than you were before. Get ready for 20/20 Vision: Actionable Insights for Digital Retailers!
©2019 FJCF Enterprises (P)2019 FJCF Enterprises
Beyond the Tailgate
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Jim and Cheryl Flint '94 tailgate in Texas where everything is bigger. As passionate football fans, they love planning and participating in tailgating. With more than a decades worth of active tailgating experience in College Station the couple shares their stories and experiences in Beyond the Tailgate. The couple recently established the Jim and Cheryl Flint '94 Endowed Scholarship at Texas A&M University's College of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this audiobook will fund additional scholarships at Texas A&M University.
©2020 FJCF Enterprises, Inc (P)2020 FJCF Enterprises, Inc.
On Old Olympus Towering Top
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This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. The central character is Louis, the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt. Lourdes falls in love with Joseph, a Tigua Indian who previously served in the Army during WWI. Joseph’s sister, Flor, is married to the governor of the Tigua Indian Community and they have a daughter, Rosalia, who is very close to Joseph. Rosalia abandons the Tigua community. Louis’ family survives the depression years and he finishes college. Louis meets a friend, Manfred, who introduces him to his father, a physician. Manfred teaches Louis mnemonics as a memory tool. Louis is accepted to medical school. In medical school during WWII, Louis befriends Izzy Schefter who introduces him to his family. Izzy’s father, Arthur, is a Jewish forensic pathologist who emigrated from Germany after being imprisoned in Russia during WWI. His wife, Madeline, is a doctoral student and their daughter, Anne, is a violist who is a senior in high school. She is infatuated with Louis but the feeling is not reciprocated. Both struggle with a fragile liaison stifled by too many cultural and philosophical differences and they decide to go their separate ways.
©2019 Richard R. Gonzalez (P)2020 Richard R. Gonzalez
All Involved
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A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price—a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central LA in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. With characters that capture the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and George V. Higgins.
©2015 Ryan Gattis (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love
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Is it possible to relieve suffering without vengeance or further pain? Discover a path to justice that leads to healing, wholeness, and joy. Have you longed to make someone pay for causing you to suffer? Has your desire for revenge only caused you more pain? Are you searching for a less destructive path to fulfillment? Best-selling author Jarem Sawatsky has traveled the world to find a better way. After spending extensive time studying communities that practice healing justice, he’s ready to share these joyful teachings with you. Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love combines research, storytelling, and honest observations to challenge the outdated notion that justice requires trading an eye for an eye. Sawatsky immersed himself in communities in Canada, Scotland, and France that employ little-known practices to transform suffering into wellness. By sharing the teachings of the lotus, the eagle feather, and the Celtic knot, the author lights the path in your journey toward regaining your wholeness. In Healing Justice, you’ll discover: Practical steps to turn pain and suffering into positivity The relationships necessary to support holistic inner healing The alternatives to violence, vengeance, and shame when seeking justice How to incline your life toward a healthier future Observations from a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated author And much, much more! Healing Justice is an inspirational guide for adapting a painful past into a restorative future. If you like the works of Anne Lamott, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Brené Brown, then you’ll love Jarem Sawatsky’s groundbreaking guide about returning to a life of joy. Buy Healing Justice to begin your journey toward peace today!
©2018 Jarem Sawatsky (P)2018 Jarem Sawatsky
Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong
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The award-winning audiobook Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong, shows us the downright, honest truths about life. In doing so, this audiobook gives us the tools to live life in the best possible way. It is a unique self-help audiobook, in the sense that it does not try to change you, motivate you, inspire you, or teach you coping skills. It drills down to the basics of how we become who we are, in turn, revealing the origin of stress. The audiobook was authored in a manner that makes logical sense. It is divided into six sections meant to be listened to one week at a time. It provides the listener the opportunity to experience the concepts in each section, in order to fully grasp their meanings. When you truly understand the ideas in this audiobook, it will give you a new awakening. You may find the happiness you are seeking and live a stress-free life. But it doesn't end at the audiobook. The publisher also follows through with the listeners by giving them access to the authors through hosting a website. This site provides exclusive content and a private online forum where people gather regardless of gender, race, religion, or political affiliation. It is a community of people helping people achieve the same goal - the simple and easy life.
©2017 Conrad Aquino and Bryson Miller (P)2018 Conrad Aquino and Bryson Miller
Vampire of My Dreams
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On her 18th birthday, Zoe is devastated when her parents are brutally murdered before her eyes. Her life was saved by a vampire. After 11 years of sorrow, Zoe calls on the vampire to save her once again. But will he this time?
©2010 Christina Moss (P)2020 Christina Moss