John Michaels has narrated 15 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Tom Swift and His Motorcycle.
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
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Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, volume 18 in the Tom Swift series, finds our hero building an airship - but not just any airship: this is a battleship of the air, complete with cannons, bombs, and able to stay in the air for at least two weeks on a single tank of gas. Remeber that this book was written just prior to World War I, and although Europe was embroiled in a war, the United States was uncommitted. You can imagine how handy this battleship of the air would be to the warning nations. It is no surprise that the Swift shops are soon infested with spies and evildoers bent on stealing Tom's ideas, and even better yet, his airship. Will the forces of evil steal Tom's airship and his ideas? Tune in and find out.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
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Book number 15 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero pursuing smugglers across the Canadian border. In his friends and a custom agent had to Canada in Tom's mighty airship equipped with the world's greatest Searchlight in search of smugglers were using Shopton as a destination. Of course along the way, Tom and his friends have several hair-raising experiences. This book was originally published in 1912, and attitudes and expressions were different from today, and some may find the language in this material offensive.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Airship: The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
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In Book 3 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and His Airship, our hero, Tom Swift, with the help of his new friend, balloonist John Sharp, builds an amazing airship. It's part dirigible, part airplane, and totally amazing, with a 20-cylinder motor and the ability to land on tall buildings in a single bound. Once again, the redhaired bully Andy Foger plots against Tom, but once again, he is foiled by our hero. Every chapter is a cliffhanger loaded with excitement.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
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Volume 19 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel finds our hero in Peru, South America, along with his friends, Koku the Giant and Mr. Damon blasting his way to the Andes Mountains using a new explosive developed by the young inventor. Of course there are plenty of thrills in this volume. What would you expect with an explosive more powerful than dynamite, and dealing with a new set of villains. This volume published in 1911 contains language and attitudes that were appropriate 100 years ago, however are not politically correct today but overall a thrill-a-minute cliffhanger.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
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Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout takes us back to gentler times when the bad guys weren't really that bad, didn't carry Uzis, and being an inventor like Thomas Edison was the dream of many young boys. In this book our hero creates an electric automobile with a top speed of over 100 mi./h, saves the bank, gives the bully two black eyes, wins the prize for the fastest automobile in a 500 mile race, only stopping once to recharge his batteries. Without a NASCAR pit crew, it only took Tom 25 min. The narrator, John W Michaels reads this thrill a minute treasure of yesteryear, tongue-in-cheek, a true melodrama. Reading from the original text, there are some portions of the book that are unfortunately not politically correct, and the publisher apologizes for this.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Daring Adventures on Elephant Island
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Volume 10 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero building a new airship and taking it to Africa, where he hunts elephants with his new electric rifle and rescues two missionaries from a savage and crafty tribe of red pygmies. Please remember that this book was published in 1911, and attitudes and language acceptable at that time are not politically correct today.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and his Wireless Message
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This is volume 6 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and his Wireless Message where our hero, the young inventor, Tom Swift helps a fellow inventor get his airship the Whizzer off the ground. So far off the ground in fact that he and his fellow travelers are caught in a storm stranding them on an uninhabited tropical island fraught with earthquakes. To make matters even more interesting, Tom and his friends discover another group of castaways from a yacht wrecked in the same storm, but wait there is even more. His girlfriend's parents are among the castaways. In this episode our hero not only flies airship, but he builds a wireless radio from scrap parts, and since he is the only one who knows Morse code sends the message that leads to the rescue of the castaways. Of course every chapter of this melodrama is a cliffhanger that will no doubt keep your your earbuds or headsets on until this audio book reaches its exciting conclusion.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Motorboat: The Rivals of Lake Carlopa
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Tom Swift and His Motorcycle is Volume 2 of the original Tom Swift series. In this book, first published in 1910, our hero, the young inventor Tom Swift, buys a motorboat at auction that he "soups up", making it one of the fastest boats on Lake Charlupa. Meanwhile, the Happy Harry Gang has some sort of interest in the motorboat, with shady characters lurking about the Swift laboratories and the boat. While Tom and his father are away, these characters steal his father's (Burton Smith's) latest and yet unpatented invention, an electric gyroscope to be used in flying machines. Speaking of flying machines, the young inventor, his father, and his chum Ned Newton rescue a fearless "aerionaut" from his burning balloon. Every chapter of this novel is a cliffhanger!
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
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Volume seven of the Tom Swift series, "Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers" brings our hero, Tom Swift, to Phantom Mountain, somewhere in Colorado, in search of a band of rascals who use the power generated in a flash of lightning to create diamonds. Tom Swift encounters Barcoe Jenks, an eccentric character we met in the previous volume, who enlists Tom's aid to get the secret of making perfect diamonds from the sinister gang of Diamond Makers. Once again our hero, Tom Swift, saves his companions from many a disaster. Each of the 25 chapters of this book is an exciting cliffhanger and you will be reluctant to pause as John W. Michaels narrates this exciting adventure of Tom Swift.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift in the City of Gold
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Tom Swift in the City of Gold by Victor Appleton, volume 11 of the Tom Swift series, takes us to the wilds of Central Mexico where Tom and his friends discover an underground city of gold. On the verge of becoming billionaires, their plans are thwarted by savage headhunters, and of course Tom's archrival Andy Foger. Please be aware that this book was written over 100 years ago, and may contain language and references that are today politically incorrect, insensitive and inappropriate.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift in Captivity
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Tom Swift in Captivity is book number 13 of the Tom Swift series. In this adventure Tom, Ned, Mr. Damon and Eradicate travel to South America in search of a tribe of giants. Sam Preston, the owner of a large circus puts Tom and his friends on the trail of these huge creatures. Of course our hero and his friends passed through numerous hazards wild animals, and of course the dastardly bad guy. Travel along as John W. Michaels narrates this early piece of Americana. Please note that some of the language and attitudes in this story common in 1910 are offensive and not politically correct today.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice: The Wreck of the Airship
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In volume number eight of the Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton, narrated by John Michaels, our hero, Tom Swift, takes his airship, the Red Cloud, and his friends above the Arctic Circle in search of gold. They find the gold, but not without dealing with savage Indians, scoundrels, violent storms, and of course the evil Fogers. Please note that some of the language, attitudes, and references, although acceptable when this book was copyrighted in 1911, are not politically correct today.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon
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Volume 16 of the Tom Swift series, finds our hero inventing the world's largest, and of course best, cannon for Uncle Sam, able to destroy a target at a distance of over 30 miles. Not only does Tom Swift engineer this large cannon, but he also invents the propellant. Take-charge type of guy that he is, generals and villains are no match for him, not to mention his faithful giant Koku who nearly single-handedly ties down the 30-ton loose cannon on the deck of a pitching warship. Of course Tom Swift's friends Mr. Damon, Eradicate Sampson, and Ned Newton are also there to lend a hand and encouragement.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
The Creed of the Old South 1865 -1915
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"There is such a thing as fighting for a principle, an idea, but principle and idea must be incarnate, and the principle of states' rights was incarnate in the historical life of the Southern people. Submission to any encroachment on the rights of a State means slavery. To us, submission meant slavery, as it did to Pericles and the Athenians." From the onset of the war, Basil L. Gildersleeve, native of Charleston, South Carolina, a scholar, and professor of Greek at the University of Virginia left his students every Spring to return to the army until he was wounded during a skirmish in the Shenadoah Valley in 1864. Thirty years later he authored The Creed of the Old South, and A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War included in this audiobook.
Public Domain (P)2010 Mike Vendetti
Tom Swift and His Motorcycle
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The first in a series of 28 Tom Swift books by Victor Appleton, this book introduces us to our hero Tom Swift son of noted inventor, Barton Swift. Tom's father's invention for new and improved turbine motor is stolen by the Happy Harry Gang, who we will meet in future episodes since they manage to escape this time. Each chapter is a cliffhanger filled with intrigue, espionage and excitement!
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti