John Wray has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 26 ratings. The most-rated is Tragedy at Dieppe.
Tragedy at Dieppe
Summary
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944. But the Canadian public and many politicians were impatient to see Canadian soldiers fight sooner.The first major rehearsal proved such a shambles the raid was pushed back to the end of July only to be cancelled by poor weather. Later, in a decision still shrouded in controversy, the operation was reborn. Dieppe however did not go smoothly. Drawing on rare archival documents and personal interviews, Mark Zuehlke examines how the raid came to be and why it went so tragically wrong. Ultimately, Tragedy at Dieppe honors the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought and died that fateful day on the beaches of Dieppe.
©2012 Mark Zuehlke (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Real Help
Summary
Do you ever feel like self-help gurus are lying to you? You want a better life. You know it’s possible, but the promises you see most self-help books make just seem too good to be true, right? “Work 4 hours a week and make millions?” “Quit your job in six months!” “Follow these 10 steps to become rich, famous, and everlastingly happy! Is there a better alternative? Is there a way to learn how to live a better life without all the extra hype, fake promises, and BS? Real Help: An Honest Guide to Self-Improvement details the in-depth self-improvement knowledge and wisdom from Ayodeji Awosika - a self-taught three-time author, TEDx speaker, and top writer on medium.com with over 50,000 followers who helps millions of readers and listeners every year with wisdom and insights to change their life. This book won’t guarantee any of the following: You’ll make millions of dollars You’ll build a life-changing business that helps you quit your job overnight You’ll find perfect peace, happiness, and contentment It will, however, teach you everything you need to know to help you: Discover your life purpose (without needing an “exact match”) Develop the mental toughness you need to thrive in an unfair world Start your first passion project or side business (without needing to be an expert) Increase dramatically your odds of living a successful life (even though this can’t be guaranteed) Build life-changing habits and execute them on auto-pilot (even if you’ve tried and failed before) This is an audiobook that tells you what you need to know, not what you want to hear. It also tells you how the world actually works, not how you think it should work. Aren’t you tired of being told you can “succeed no matter what”? It’s almost insulting. You live in the real world. If you want to succeed in the real world, you have to understand how to be optimistic and realistic at the same time. With Real Help, you’ll get a no-holds-barred field guide to improving your life with the circumstances you’ve been given. It will help you build a tailor-made path to a successful life, based on your definition of the word.
©2020 Ayodeji Awosika (P)2020 Ayodeji Awosika
Shady Bizzness' Life as Eminem's Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters
Summary
This drama graphic novel is based on Eminem's success and the factual ills of "white rapper" and hip-hop rap god, years before Eminem's Kamikaze CD. Shady Bizzness tell about real life events of his public and private lifestyle. The book details the good times, hardships, drug abuse, domestic violence, scandals, sex, near-death experiences, murder, oppression of employees, and bitter betrayal. Shady Bizzness is everything a parent despises, thugs love, groupies lust over, and wives hate!
©2000 Byron Williams (P)2012 Byron Williams
Soldat
Summary
A German soldier during World War II offers an inside look at the Nazi war machine, using his wartime diaries to describe how a ruthless psychopath motivated an entire generation of ordinary Germans to carry out his monstrous schemes.
©1992 Siegfried Knappe Charles T. Brusaw (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Glorious Finish
Summary
What separates pastors who finish well from those who don’t? When trusted pastors fall into sin and destroy a ministry, the entire body of believers gets hurt. After helping two large churches through the aftermath of such an event, Daniel Henderson discovered that pastoral failings are not primarily rooted in overdeveloped passions for self and sin, but rather in underfed visions of eternity and a lack of zeal for God’s glory. In Glorious Finish, Daniel Henderson teaches you: Why focusing on God’s glory is the key to a fruitful ministry How leaders can build habits that keep them captivated by God and his glory How to stay glory-oriented in the grind, challenges, and spiritual attacks of ministry How to forget the latest techniques and the strategies and spend some time re-centering on what you know is most important - his glory
©2020 Daniel Henderson (P)2020 Daniel Henderson
Suicide Squeeze
Summary
The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store - in one of the stupidest insurance scams in history. Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring cross-country odyssey - and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he ends up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing.
©2005 Victor Gischler (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
No Time to Hide
Summary
For years, Michael Collins evaded FBI Agent Frank Vatch and avoided prosecution for purportedly taking millions of dollars in client funds. He had quit the practice of law, burned his suits and ties in a glorious back alley bonfire, and dropped out. He loved his life as a beach bum in Mexico, but the investigation was never over. He was never truly free. In No Time to Hide, Michael Collins is indicted, arrested, and must account for his past. The only question is whether Michael Collins has one more trick up his sleeve or whether it's all over.
©2014 J.D. Trafford (P)2014 J.D. Trafford
The Queen of Sidonia
Summary
Princess Cosima will be queen, if she survives to her 18th birthday. In a galaxy controlled by massive corporations, few worlds are truly free. When explorers find a priceless wormhole near Sidonia, the hostile attention of the Aquitaine Corporation focuses on the small, backwater kingdom. To protect their world, Sidonia's royalty rush 17-year-old Princess Cosima into an arranged marriage, one that will guarantee a treaty and shield Sidonia from Aquitaine's clutches. But Cosima never asked for the honor of becoming the next queen to a man she doesn't love. With the fate the planet in the balance, a team of deadly assassins targets Cosima. The best killers money can buy will see the Princess dead before her wedding day. Cosima will need her wits to uncover the identity of the assassins targeting her, and her courage to stay alive in the middle of an interstellar power struggle. If you like space opera novels with intrigue, a fast-paced plot, and a tale of survival against impossible odds, then listen to The Queen of Sidonia today! PG-13 for sci-fi action, wartime violence, and alcohol references.
©2015 Richard Fox (P)2016 Richard Fox