John Feather has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Ahimsa.
Ahimsa
Summary
Jainism arose as a systematic response to human and animal violence by positing a radical alternative - the path of ahimsa or non-violence. Their argument is a simple but profound one. If we can lessen the pain and suffering of those around us, why not choose that option instead of needlessly perpetuating the never-ending cycle of violent retribution? Jainism raises a most pregnant question for all of us: how big is our circle of compassion? Can we extend its circumference beyond our selves and ken to include other human beings not of our tribe and even further to include animals and other living beings? In those brief moments where we almost instinctively lash out others, can we instead pause and change our responses? The Jains believe that we can and have demonstrated over hundreds of years of how it can be ecologically and ethically successful. This book is a brief introduction to the Jain religion, including a close look at its inception and how it evolved over time to its present day status. Special attention will be given to how Jain ideals such as ahimsa and anekantavada (the doctrine of non one-sidedness) can serve as a much needed and welcome panacea to the world's strife and misery. Although Jainism is perhaps the smallest of the world's religions, what it has to offer humankind is of inestimable value.
©2016 Andrea Diem-Lane (P)2016 Andrea Diem-Lane
Crooked Creek Farm
Summary
Imagine the bumbling Inspector Clouseau on a farm and you will understand what it was like for a city family that moved to Crooked Creek Farm. From herding cattle with firecrackers to runaway horses, nothing went right for them. Noah would have been proud of the collection of animals that made Crooked Creek Farm look more like a children's petting zoo than a serious farm. Take a hilarious look at farm life like it was never meant to be.
©2006, 2014 Kimber C. Turner (P)2014 Kimber C. Turner
Red Airwaves
Summary
At the height of the Cold War, one man decodes clandestine signals broadcast over a shortwave radio station. His discovery pushes the world to the brink of global nuclear disaster.
©2014 Antonio Simon, Jr. (P)2015 Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.
An Underground Life
Summary
That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.
©1999 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
Amazing Insecurity
Summary
The day before the rebellion of the Earl of Essex in London, the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed upon commission Richard II, a play wherein Bolingbroke might be taken for Essex and King Richard for Queen Elizabeth. Amazing Insecurity presents two scenes from that performance, as revised by F. L. Light in Sophoclean English classicized. A description of the insurrection and Shakespeare's response thereto are in this play included. The protagonist is Shakespeare. This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances.
©2014 F. L. Light (P)2015 Frederick Lazarus Light
Bitter Ends
Summary
Alex Issa's thought-provoking stories are difficult to classify. From post-apocalyptic fables tackling restraint in the absence of law, to tales of hit-man morality, his short fiction has challenged listeners and delighted critics with its minimalist sensibilities and ever-present subtext. Here, six almost surreal short stories lead the listener through disturbing and somehow beautiful locations in the mind. 1. Of Princesses and Freaks: Two Short Tales Bella's Slippers Locked in the tower, Bella laments her fate, the decisions she made about the liquidation of her mother's estate, and the ambitions that have left her helpless on unforgiving stone with rodents and roaches her only companions. Big Top Slick A father explains to his son why running away to the circus isn't the best option in this surrealistic and vaguely philosophical exploration of society, shunning, and human nature. 2. Swings Don't Grow Lonely: A Tale of Endings Richard, an old man awaiting the end, and Anne, a young girl with burdens no girl should bear, sit on the swings and circle around the only topic of import. In this moving and bleak story of both untimely and timely ends, Alex Issa draws emotion effortlessly and powerfully with the very picture of bittersweet truth. 3. Dancing with Bounties The Blank Twins, violent bounty hunters, hired usually for their particular ability to forget the "Alive" part of "Wanted: Dead or Alive", lie in wait for a serial killer with 19 brutal rapes and murders to his name. Dark, violent, and strangely comic, the unforgettable and more than a little disturbing world of Alex Issa is sure to please. This thrilling short story is one of many in the Devil Twins series. 4. Dry County (Devil Twins 2) Michael and Barton Blink are back, and this time, their bounty takes them to, of all places, a town without a drop of alcohol for sale. The Devil Twins are here for a bounty that should be easy pickings, if they could just find a way to get a drink first. 5. Choice of Sanity: A Post-Apocalyptic Fable In this dark but deeply satisfying story, Alex Issa explores the rights and obligations of men and women in world which has lost all rules. Can a woman refuse to give her body for the repopulation of the race? Is the extinction of mankind justification for rape? Tom, Mischa, and Ed may be the last three people on Earth, and for them these questions aren't hypothetical but real, urgent, and immediate. From its opening sentence to its shocking conclusion, the story unfolds with the stark beauty that only Alex Issa can produce.
©2013 Cultural Fast Food Press (P)2016 Ghost Cowboy, Inc.