Kathleen Mary Carthy has narrated 10 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 98 ratings. The most-rated is The Little Book of Big Change.
The Little Book of Big Change
Summary
Little changes can make a big, big difference! In The Little Book of Big Change, psychologist Amy Johnson shows you how to rewire your brain and overcome your bad habits - once and for all. No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed. By learning to stop bad habits at the source, you will take charge of your habits and addictions for good. Anything done repeatedly has the potential to form neural circuitry in the brain. In this light, habits and addictions are impersonal brain wiring problems that result from taking your habitual thinking as truth, and acting on that thinking in the form of doing your habit - over and over. This book offers a number of small changes you can make in your everyday life that will help you stop your bad habit in its tracks. If you want to understand the science behind your habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, this book will help you to finally take charge of your life - once and for all.
©2016 Amy Johnson (P)2016 Wetware Media
The Bling Ring
Summary
The true story that inspired the Sofia Coppola film. Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson: robbed. More than $3 million in stolen clothing, jewelry, shoes, and handbags reported missing. Who is behind one of the most brazen string of crimes in recent Hollywood history? Meet the Bling Ring: a band of club-hopping teenagers from the Valley with everything to lose. Over the course of a year, the members of the now infamous Bling Ring allegedly burglarized some of the biggest names in young Hollywood. Driven by celebrity worship, vanity, and the desire to look and dress like the rich and famous, these seven teenagers made headlines for using Google maps, Facebook, and TMZ to track the comings and goings of their targets. Many of the houses were unlocked. Alarms disabled. A "perfect" crime - celebrities already had so much, why shouldn't the Bling Ring take their share? As the unprecedented case unfolded in the news, the world asked: How did our obsession with celebrities get so out of hand? Why would a group of teens who already had so much, take such a risk? Acclaimed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales found the answer: they did it because each stolen T-shirt or watch brought them closer to living the Hollywood dream... and because it was terrifyingly easy. For the Bling Ring the motivation was something deeper than money - they were compelled by a compulsion to be famous. Gaining unprecedented access to the group of teens, Sales traces the crimes minute by minute and details the key players' stories in a shocking look at the seedy, and troubling, world of the real young Hollywood.
©2013 Nancy Jo Sales (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers
The Lost Garden Trilogy
Summary
Dr. Evan Knight, a maverick historian and martial arts expert, is on a lifelong quest for the Garden of Eden. He researches it, he paints it, he even dreams about it. One day, while giving a college lecture on the garden, he recognizes a compelling and beautiful woman from his recurring dream. Except Jessima IL Eve is no ordinary woman, and she's about to introduce Evan Knight to a world of danger, wonder, and ancient history. It will challenge his courage and threaten his safety, and hers. He's about to discover his greatest purpose in life. Bad guys, both mortal and immortal, are in hot pursuit. Box set of three best-selling adventure novels, including: The Lost Garden Keepers of the Lost Garden Destroyers of the Lost Garden
©2014 K.T. Tomb (P)2015 K.T. Tomb
The Lost Garden
Summary
Dr. Evan Knight, a maverick historian and martial arts expert, is on a lifelong quest for the Garden of Eden. He researches it, he paints it, he even dreams about it. One day, while giving a college lecture on the Garden, he recognizes a compelling and beautiful woman from his recurring dream. She's no ordinary woman and she's about to introduce him to a world of danger, wonder, and ancient history that will challenge his courage and threaten his safety, and hers. He's about to find out his greater purpose in life, and bad guys, both mortal and supernatural, are in pursuit.
©2013 K.T. Tomb (P)2014 K.T. Tomb
The Four Freedoms
Summary
The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far overseas. He instead identified how Americans defined themselves as a people, with words that resonated and defined the parameters of American politics and foreign policy for generations. Roosevelt framed America's role in the conflict, and ultimately its role in forging the post-war world to come, as a fight for freedom. Four freedoms, to be exact: freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom of religion, and freedom from fear. In this new look at one of the most influential presidential addresses ever delivered, historian Jeffrey A. Engel joins together with five other leading scholars to explore how each of Roosevelt's freedoms evolved over time, for Americans and for the wider world. They examine the ways in which the word "freedom" has been used by Americans and others, across decades and the political spectrum. However, they are careful to note that acceptance of the freedoms has been far from universal - even within the United States. Freedom from want, especially, has provoked clashes between those in favor of an expanded welfare state and proponents of limited government from the 1940s to the present day. In this sweeping look at the way American conceptions of freedom have evolved over time, The Four Freedoms brings to light a new portrait of who Americans were in 1941 and who they have become today in their own eyes - and in the eyes of the entire world.
©2016 Oxford University Press (P)2016 Wetware Media
Keepers of the Lost Garden
Summary
Dr. Evan Knight, a maverick historian and martial arts expert, is on a lifelong quest for the Garden of Eden. He teams up with Jessima IL Eve, a Daughter of Eden who believes Evan is "The Chosen One" and is prophesied to be the savior of the Garden. While Evan and Jess make their way to Iran and toward the Garden of Eden in order to protect and save it, a diabolical exiled Daughter of Eden named Sulna joins up with Alexey Konstantin, of Konstantin Pharmaceuticals and heads for the same place. Alexey risks his very life to be Sulna's partner on this quest. Her unnatural hungers are evil, yet compelling, and she knows how to disable the fortress and get to the Tree of Life. She will stop at nothing to get there first and destruction is her intent. Evan Knight is falling in love with an immortal and drawn into Jessima's world of danger, betrayal, and ancient history that will challenge his courage and reveal his thrilling, greater purpose. Both teams race toward the Tree of Life, which exudes a healing oil like no other. Whoever possesses it shall become an immortal. However, Sulna and Alexey's army is on the way to the Garden of Eden.... Keepers of the Lost Garden is book two in the epic adventure series about the search for the Garden of Eden.
©2014 K.T. Tomb (P)2014 K.T. Tomb
Destroyers of the Lost Garden
Summary
In the final Evan Knight Adventure about the search for the Garden of Eden, modern barbarians are nearly at the gate. Sulna, who believes she is the rightful heir, heads for the Garden with cohort Alexey Konstantin. Alexey has profit on his mind. She wants to burn Eden to the ground. The immortal Daughters of Eve, protectors of the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Life, prepare to fight those who would steal or destroy it. When a computer virus takes down the defense grid, Mother Daughter is trapped inside the Mountain of God fortress. She sends telepathic messages to her Daughters. Jessima IL Eve, one of the Daughters in the mortal world, receives the message. Accompanied by Evan Knight, maverick historian and martial arts expert, Jess hurries to aid her sisters in protecting the Garden and the Tree of Life. With the usual routes sealed off, Jess tells Evan to lead the way, but he must do it without alerting the Iranians to their presence. As they get closer to the Garden, Jess's feelings for Evan cloud her warrior's judgment and her immortal instincts. She knows that Evan is the Chosen One to save Eden and the Tree with the miraculous oil, but she thinks of him as her lover. An inner battle wages war between her emotions and her divine duty, but at all costs, she cannot let the Garden of Eden fall to evil ones. When more factions converge on the Garden, a battle royal will decide its fate. When the time comes for either good or evil to prevail, will Jess be able to make a noble sacrifice for the greater good? Destroyers of the Lost Garden is book three, the final novel in the epic adventure series about the search for the Garden of Eden.
©2014 K.T. Tomb (P)2014 K.T. Tomb
The Cadence Caper
Summary
Life has been quiet for Sarah McDougall, that is, until she's envisions an elderly woman's abduction. Confused over the unwelcome and distressing images of a woman she's never met, Sarah soon gets a plea for help from her friend and lover, Raven De Ville. It turns out his aunt has been kidnapped by treasure hunters. When there's no ransom demand for the return of Raven's aunt, and Sarah experiences more psychic episodes where she sees and is seen while she ghost walks into danger, things take a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse. Sarah's psychic abilities are more complicated and aggravating than she'd originally thought. While she struggles to get the hang of ghost walking, an unwanted gift inherited from her Scottish grandmother, Sarah lands in precarious positions that put her own life in danger. Can she survive long enough to rescue Raven's aunt or will she end up trapped by her own powers?
©2013 J.M. Griffin (P)2013 Jeanne Paglio
Executing the Rosenbergs
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In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century". Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs were executed after years of appeals, making them the only civilians ever put to death for conspiracy-related activities. Yet even after their executions, protests continued. The Rosenberg case quickly transformed into legend, while the media spotlight shifted to their two orphaned sons. In Executing the Rosenbergs, Lori Clune demonstrates that the Rosenberg case played a pivotal role in the world's perception of the United States. Based on newly discovered documents from the State Department, Clune narrates the widespread dissent against the Rosenberg decision in 80 cities and 48 countries. Even as the Truman and Eisenhower administrations attempted to turn the case into pro-democracy propaganda, US allies and potential allies questioned whether the United States had the moral authority to win the Cold War. Meanwhile, the death of Stalin in 1953 also raised the stakes of the executions; without a clear hero and villain, the struggle between democracy and communism shifted into morally ambiguous terrain. Transcending questions of guilt or innocence, Clune weaves the case - and its aftermath - into the fabric of the Cold War, revealing its far-reaching global effects. An original approach to one of the most fascinating episodes in Cold War history, Executing the Rosenbergs broadens a quintessentially American story into a global one.
©2016 Oxford University Press (P)2016 Wetware Media
Floyd Harbor
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“Floyd Harbor brings to mind Denis Johnson and Irvine Welsh, though it’s also as moving and ecstatic as the early songs of Bruce Springsteen.” (Zachary Lazar, author of Vengeance) "Mowdy’s gritty debut collection of linked stories is set in a rundown community on eastern Long Island, with characters struggling to overcome poverty and trauma." (New York Times Book Review, New & Noteworthy) Set largely in the 1990s, the 12 linked stories in Joel Mowdy’s first book take place in and around Mastic Beach, a community on New York’s Long Island that’s close to the wealthy Hamptons but afflicted by widespread poverty. Mostly in their teens and early 20s, the characters struggle to become independent in various ways, ranging from taking typical low-paying jobs - hotel laundry, janitorial, restaurant, and landscaping work - to highly ingenious schemes, to exchanging sexual favors for a place to stay. A few make it to local community colleges; others end up in rehab or juvenile detention centers. However loving, their parents can offer little help. Those who are Vietnam veterans may suffer from PTSD; others may bear the addictions that often come with stressful lives. Neighborhoods of small bungalows - formerly vacation homes - with dilapidated boats in the driveways hint at the waterways that open up close by. The beauty of the ocean beach offer further consolation, as does the often high-spirited temperament of youth. Joel Mowdy brings to his affecting collection both personal experience and a gift for discerning and lingering on the essential moments in his characters’ stories. He intimately and vividly illuminates American lives that too seldom see the light.
©2019 Joel Mowdy (P)2020 Audible, Inc.