Kevin Bacon has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Yard Work.
Yard Work
Summary
This wasn’t the plan. Judge Herman Calvert, 88, never thought he’d outlive his beloved wife, Marie. Yet now he finds himself alone, a grieving widower, desperate for escape from the home they built together, where every turn brings a painful reminder of his late wife. So the judge retreats to his lake cabin in rural Wisconsin, a place where an old man can find peace and solitude. A place where nature can take its course. But something new has moved in. The judge’s property is crawling with Persicaria perfoliata, an invasive vine that has no earthly business in Wisconsin lake country. And this plant has teeth. Its barbs and tendrils have snaked deep into the ground, choking the life out of everything they touch, including the old oak tree he and Marie planted on their honeymoon. If the judge doesn’t do something fast, the vine will take everything he has left. And it won’t stop there. He believes it’s after him. Yard Work is a new original story by acclaimed screenwriter, director, and novelist David Koepp. Koepp has written or cowritten the screenplays for more than 30 films, including Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, Ghost Town, and Angels and Demons. His latest film, the Universal Pictures/Blumhouse thriller You Should Have Left, starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, is streaming now. His debut novel, Cold Storage, which The New York Times hailed as “pure, unadulterated entertainment”, was published by Ecco in 2019 and is out in paperback this month.
©2020 David Koepp (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.
Digital Career Transformation
Summary
Eighty-seven percent of companies worldwide have implemented or are in the process of implementing digital transformation. There is an inevitable tipping point within most if not all industries between an old model and a new digitally transformed model. Once this change begins within a business organization you begin seeing the ripple effects in layoffs and discharges. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics release in Q2 2019, Professional and Business Services have a 25 percent annual layoff and discharge rate across all regions, 66 percent higher than the industry average. It has become clear that every career professional today needs to act proactively in order to survive, or even thrive, in the Digital Transformation Age. If you feel you are a dynamic professional who finds themselves stuck and perhaps trapped in a dying career or business, trust your instincts. Scientifically speaking, those are your “fight or flight” reflexes urging you to act! Maybe you’re like thousands of professionals I’ve worked with whose organization is going through a massive digital transformation. And you realize that unless you evolve and transform quickly, you too will face an inevitable fate you’ve witnessed others endure. The dreaded, “We really appreciate your years of service but...” conversation. No matter your situation, I urge you, I encourage you, and I invite you to join me on an amazing journey of transformation. This book is set up to not just “tell you” how to transform your career but it will “show you” how to transform yourself and your career. It will provide you step-by-step instructions along with actionable challenges that will produce that newer version of yourself and career you deserve. You’ll learn: How to quickly find out if your industry, organization, and profession is at risk How to predict the future outlook of your industry, organization, and profession How to identify which industries, organizations, and career profession options you can/should transition to
©2020 Kevin Bacon (P)2020 Kevin Bacon
8
Summary
An unconstitutional proposition. An unprecedented decision. An all-star cast. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Martin Sheen, 8 is written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner. The play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial. A full-cast performance featuring: George Clooney as David Boies Brad Pitt as Chief Judge Vaughn Walker Martin Sheen as Theodore B. Olson Kevin Bacon as Charles Cooper Jamie Lee Curtis as Sandy Stier Christine Lahti as Kris Perry John C. Reilly as David Blankenhorn Jane Lynch as Maggie Gallagher Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Dr. Ilan Meyer Matthew Morrison as Paul Katami Chris Colfer as Ryan Kendall Yeardley Smith as Dr. Nancy Cott Matt Bomer as Jeff Zarrillo George Takei as Dr. William Tam Rory O’Malley as Dr. Gregory Herek Cleve Jones as Evan Wolfson James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Gary Segura Jansen Panettiere as Elliott Perry Bridger Zadina as Spencer Perry Vanessa Garcia as Clerk Campbell Brown as Broadcast Journalist Directed by Rob Reiner. Recorded before a live audience at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, on March 3, 2012.
©2012 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2012 L.A. Theatre Works