Lesa Lockford has narrated 21 audiobooks on Listento.it by 19 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 113 ratings. The most-rated is Ce qui se passe au Mexique reste au Mexique!.
Ce qui se passe au Mexique reste au Mexique!
Summary
Trois jeunes enseignantes s'envolent vers les plages de Cancún, au Mexique, profitant d'un forfait «tout inclus». Caroline rêve de lecture tranquille sous un palmier; Vicky, de séances de yoga au lever du soleil; Katia, d'une liaison passionnée avec un homme sans histoire… Résultat: échec sur toute la ligne! Les excès de margaritas, les rencontres troublantes et les lendemains de veille qui déchantent meubleront plutôt ces sept jours qui fileront à un rythme effréné. L'ampleur des dégâts sera telle que les trois amies se feront la promesse solennelle, la main sur le cœur, que ce qui s'est passé au Mexique restera au Mexique! Mais qu'est-ce qui a bien pu se produire de si terrible pour justifier un tel pacte entre nos vacancières? Comment un séjour qui s'annonçait pourtant idyllique a-t-il bien pu se transformer en escapade complètement rocambolesque? En suivant les mésaventures de nos touristes – tantôt croustillantes, tantôt humiliantes, mais toujours tordantes! –, vous aurez l'impression de voyager à leurs côtés… en ayant un peu honte pour elles!
©2012 Les Éditeurs réunis (LÉR) (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
White Fire
Summary
Past and present collide in Preston and Child's most thrilling novel ever.... Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who - with brutal precision - begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence. Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story - one that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well. Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack - and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger - Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.
©2013 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (P)2013 Hachette Audio
Unschooled
Summary
As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children’s natural curiosity and exuberance, and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people’s innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
White Lies
Summary
Nothing could have prepared Jay Granger for the arrival of two FBI agents at her door - or for the news they brought. Her ex-husband, Steve, had been in a terrible accident that had left him gravely injured. The FBI needed Jay to confirm his identity. The man Jay finds lying in the hospital bed is almost unrecognizable. Exhausted and afraid, Jay tentatively declares that he is Steve Crossfield. But the man who awakens from the coma is not at all as Jay remembers Steve. And he remembers nothing of their life together. Suddenly nothing is familiar. Not his appearance, not the intensity of his nature, not the desire that flashes between them. Will the discovery of his identity shatter the passion they share?
©1988 Linda Howington (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Duncan's Bride
Summary
Reese Duncan wanted a wife, pure and simple. Someone to have children with, someone to help him rebuild his ranch, someone uncomplicated...and someone very different from his first wife, the woman who'd destroyed his life. But he hadn't bargained on Madelyn Patterson. She was sophisticated and citified, and she was willing to herd cattle, keep house and start a family with Reese. The only thing she asked for in return was love - the one thing Reese refused to guarantee.
©1990 Linda Howington (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Summary
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and - finally - the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment - the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies - failed to act, bringing about the collapse of Western civilization. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature.
©2014 Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Life Among the Savages
Summary
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.
©1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953; renewed 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981 Shirley Jackson; renewed Laurence Hyman, Joan Schnurer, Barry Hyman, and Sarah Webster (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Loving Evangeline
Summary
There was no doubt that the woman who called herself Evie Shaw was the key to the high-tech conspiracy that threatened Robert Cannon's computer company - and he meant to take her down personally. But as he trailed her into the heart of a long, hot Southern summer, he found himself questioning everything he believed. For he was face to face with a breathtaking passion - for a woman who had to be as guilty as sin....
©1998 Linda Howard (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Against the Rules
Summary
When Cathryn Ashe was 17, she ran away to the anonymity of the city after a romantic encounter with Rule Jackson, the manager of her father's ranch. Now, eight years later, her father has passed away, leaving her the ranch, and Cathryn returns to claim what's hers...and to challenge Rule like never before.
©1983 Linda Howington (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Wednesday Daughters
Summary
Hope Tantry arrives at cottage in England's pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally - one of a group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters - had used the cottage while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first introduced in The Wednesday Sisters, now grown women grappling with issues of a different era. Tucked away in a hidden drawer, Hope finds a stack of Ally's notebooks, written in a mysterious code. As she, Julie, and Anna Page try to decipher Ally's writings, they are forced to confront their own struggles: Hope's doubts her marriage, Julie feels grief over her twin sister, and Anna Page fears commitment.
©2013 Meg Waite Clayton (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Too Hard to Handle
Summary
Dan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him 4,000 miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Dan's searching for a rogue CIA agent selling classified government secrets to the highest bidder when Penni DePaul appears. Keeping Penni safe becomes Dan's priority. A lot has changed since former Secret Service Agent Penni DePaul last saw Dan. Now a civilian, she's excited about what the future might hold. But before she can grab on to that future with both hands, she has to tie up some loose ends - namely, Dan Currington, the man she just can't forget. And a secret that's going to change both their lives - if they can stay alive.
©2015 Julie Ann Walker (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Brave Girl
Summary
When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school, spent hours studying English, and helped support her family by sewing in a shirtwaist factory. Clara never quit, and she never accepted that girls should be treated poorly and paid little. Fed up with the mistreatment of her fellow laborers, Clara led the largest walkout of women workers the country had seen. From her short time in America, Clara learned that everyone deserved a fair chance. That you had to stand together and fight for what you wanted. And, most importantly, that you could do anything you put your mind to.
©2013 Michelle Markel (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Island: A Story of the Galapagos
Summary
Charles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on Earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island - its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands.
©2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Summary
Gates' characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative, and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living - or assisted-dying - facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently - even when they're going nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to the countryside upstate and in New England.
©2015 David Gates (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Come Lie with Me
Summary
After a terrible accident, Blake Remington struggles to regain the ability to walk. Therapist Dione Kelly is his final hope - if he can bring himself to trust the woman whose past is shrouded in mystery.
Dione's soul is as paralyzed as Blake's body. Dione wants only to help Blake recover, but as his strength returns, so does his desire to unearth her secrets. When they give in to the passion that flares between them, Dione just might find that her patient is the only one who can heal her private pain.
©1984 Linda Howington (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Shirley
Summary
Two imposing literary figures are at the center of this captivating novel: Shirley Jackson, best known for her short story "The Lottery," and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife, Fred and Rose Nemser, move into Shirley and Stanley's home in the fall of 1964, they are quickly cast under the magnetic spell of their brilliant hosts. While Fred becomes preoccupied with his teaching schedule, Rose forms an unlikely, turbulent friendship with the troubled and unpredictable Shirley. Fascinated by the Hyman's volatile marriage and inexplicable drawn to the darkly enigmatic author, Rose nevertheless senses something amiss - something to do with nightly unanswered phone calls and inscrutable accounts of a long-missing female student.
©2014 Susan Scarf Merrell (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Fragments of Isabella
Summary
On the morning of Isabella's birthday in 1944, she and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There she and her siblings fought the greatest evil in human history with the only weapon they had: love. Isabella's Pulitzer-nominated memoir will take you into a world of darkness where she will reveal humanity described in the voice of a poet.
©2016 Isabella Leitner (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Summary
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette, Pinocchio, to be his son, a fairy brings the toy to life. But Pinocchio is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. But even with the help of Jiminy, a cricket who the fairy assigns to be his conscience, Pinocchio goes astray. He joins a puppet show instead of going to school, he lies instead of telling the truth, and he travels to Pleasure Island instead of going straight home. An astonishing work of fantasy, this beloved classic was first published in 1883 and was brought to life by Walt Disney in 1940.
Public Domain (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Christmas with My Cowboy
Summary
From the snow-covered prairie to the remote Australian Outback, a cowboy's loving kiss makes this Christmas merry and bright in each of these novellas. The Snow Man by Diana Palmer: Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the Colorado ranch she's inherited. Cattleman Dal Blake wants his pretty neighbor's dog to quit digging under his fence. This Christmas, the unexpected gift of love will surprise them both. Kassie's Cowboy by Lindsay McKenna: During a snowstorm, former Marine and current ranch-hand Travis Grant finds his childhood sweetheart injured in her car. This snowy silent night will be their chance to set aside their painful past and let love heal their wounds. Her Outback Husband by Margaret Way: Scott and Darcey were devoted to each other and their family cattle ranch - that is, until a rumor ended things. Now, in hopes that the season of forgiveness will bring them back together, Scott's mom plans to reunite the two by sending them to the Outback for Christmas.
©2017 Diana Palmer, Lindsey McKenna, and Margaret Way (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Overload
Summary
Blackout! The entire Southeast was without power...but there was still more than enough electricity between Elizabeth Major and Tom Quinlan! They were stranded together in a Dallas high rise for the duration...and setting off enough sparks to light up the darkest night.
©1993 Linda Howington (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC