Lyle Blaker has narrated 31 audiobooks on Listento.it by 31 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 29 ratings. The most-rated is Forever Employable.
Colloquium
Summary
Sitting in FCI Milan, the federal prison for an interview that will change his life and make it hard to focus on this new case. The disappearance of a missing girl, an activist protesting Gaines chemical. Neil will soon find out the head of Gaines is more involved than first anticipated. Neil Baggio sits down for a conversation long overdue, with an inmate at FCI Milan. Neil will find out the interview, along with this new case, are tied together beyond him. This case will have Neil sending his team to international waters while he stays home to work the case and the interview. This case brings many questions to the forefront as he must interact with an intellect that understands him more than he realizes. With Gaines chemical, all signs point towards a cover-up, but which part? There are so many skeletons in the closet of this powerful chemical company. Once a staple in the community, built by the CEO’s parents, he has turned his family company into an enterprise. Leaning on unlikely support, Neil will work with convicted felons, inmates, and dirty guards to survive this case. But will he survive it? Will he uncover all that lies below?
©2020 Charles D'Amico (P)2020 Charles D'Amico
How the Body of Christ Talks
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In today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with others - especially with people whose backgrounds differ from our own. C. Christopher Smith, coauthor of the critically acclaimed and influential Slow Church, addresses why conversation has become such a challenge in the 21st century and argues that it is perhaps the most-needed spiritual practice of our individualistic age. Smith likens practicing conversation to the working of the human body. Bodies are wondrous symphonies of diverse, intricate parts striving for our health, and our health suffers when these parts fail to converse effectively. Likewise, we must learn to converse effectively with those who differ from us in the body of Christ so we can embody Christ together in the world. In community, we learn what it means to belong to others and to a story that is bigger than ourselves. Smith shows how church communities can be training hubs where we learn to talk with and listen to one another with kindness and compassion. The audiobook explores how churches can initiate and sustain conversation, offers advice for working through seasons of conflict, suggests spiritual practices and dispositions that can foster conversation, and features stories from several congregations that are learning to practice conversation.
©2019 C. Christopher Smith (P)2019 Baker Publishing Group
Requiem
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A long road trip across the country with Father Roberts to Santa Fe. A time of service and reflection will lead to a case where Maria is dragged in too deep. Will Neil be able to save her? In a case that will see Neil travel across the equator to track down Gaines chemical and their grand scheme, what was once a time of reflection becomes a time of action! Neil Baggio will go from enjoying the sunsets in Santa Fe to chasing down the trail of international drug ring set on releasing a new drug to the world. Neil, reluctant at first, is forced to get involved when Maria trusts the wrong people. Traveling across the US and the globe, Neil will have to find a new path, new routine, and a new way to survive each day. With challenges in front of him on a personal and professional level, Baggio will have to deal with his own internal demons to overcome and persevere. With a new foe challenging Neil at every turn, Neil will have to work outside of his comfort zone to survive. Follow Neil as he is challenged at his core, overcomes insurmountable pain, and is crushed to his core.
©2020 Charles D'Amico (P)2020 Blue Handle Publishing
52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid
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In 52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid, author Jonathan McKee offers just the help you need to have meaningful interaction with your kids instead of always overreacting to their unhealthy consumption of technology and media. In a world where over 80 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds now own a smartphone, parents are searching for ways to pry their kids' eyes from their devices and engage them in real, face-to-face conversation. McKee - drawing from his 20-plus years of experience working with teenagers, studying youth culture, and raising three teens of his own - provides an abundant supply of useful tips and creative ideas to help you bond with the Smartphone Generation.
©2017 eChristian (P)2017 eChristian
The Last of the Giants: How Christ Came to the Lumberjacks
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In its early years, Duluth was a gold mine for lumber barons. Men were employed as lumberjacks and worked like beasts, only to be tossed aside like used equipment when no longer needed. The grand forests were raped for their prime timber, the balance burned wastefully. The men were coarse and hard, but they had to be to survive. More than any other people that ever lived in our land, these old-time lumberjacks could truthfully say, "No man cared for my soul."
That is, until God sent three men to the great Northwoods of our country - Frank Higgins, John Sornberger, and Al Channer. These men blazed new trails of the Spirit and founded an empire for God. They reached a sector of humanity for which no spiritual work had ever been done before, storming the Northwoods with a consuming passion for Christ. And with that passion, they also brought a heart as big as all outdoors, a love for men that burned like a flame, and a desperate desire to see these men saved.
©2015 Aneko Press (P)2018 Aneko Press
CoDA Blue Book: Pocket Edition
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In-depth narratives on recovery, our fellowship, common questions, but without the personal stories.
©2016 Co-Dependents Anonymous (P)2020 Co-Dependents Anonymous
Both Sides of the Line
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High school players in a working-class neighborhood in the 1970s gain desperately needed structure and guidance from Jack "Clyde" Dempsey, a scrappy, charismatic coach who seems like nothing more than a football geek. But Coach also happens to be the toughest guy on the streets of Boston, with a temper to match, and it's his secret life as a mob enforcer/collector that forces him to flee the country, becoming one of America's most wanted. In this memoir a devoted Dempsey disciple, who later became a dean at a private school outside Boston, tries 35 years later to understand his former coach, role model, and mentor - both his good side and his very dark side - and Dempsey's impact on his own life. A completely true story.
©2016 Bancroft Press (P)2016 Bancroft Press
The Cost
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Nestled in a few verses in Luke's Gospel is a Jesus who would not have been tolerated today: He was not politically correct and He certainly did not try to save people's feelings. Steven Lawson unpacks these few verses, looking at the unashamed honesty, passion, and urgency with which Jesus explains the life-long cost involved in choosing to follow Him. True Christianity is the biggest sacrifice any person ever makes...but it is in pursuit of the most precious prize ever glimpsed.
©2017 eChristian (P)2017 eChristian
Living Beyond Pain
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"Our national attention is firmly focused on the growing opioid crises. We know the problem. But what is the solution for the 100 million Americans living with chronic pain? In Living beyond Pain, a physician and a therapist offer a whole person approach to pain management, addressing the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of pain and providing alternative strategies that don't rely on opioids. Through education, pain triumph stories, daily guided cognitive activity, and as-needed pain rescue techniques, listeners will reprogram their neurologic pathways, increase functioning, and experience improvement in their symptoms. For anyone suffering from pain or suffering alongside someone who is, this book offers real, research-based hope that there are better days ahead.
©2019 Linda S. Mintle, PhD, and James W. Kribs, DO (P)2019 Baker Publishing Group
The Milk Wagon
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The Milk Wagon is a 90,000-word John Hughes-meets-John Grisham coming-of-age thriller set in the 1980s involving four teenage boys, a down-on-her-luck FBI agent, and a series of murders related to a money laundering scandal that ties them all together. Matt Frazier, Jason “Hop” Hopkins, and Mark Ragone have been friends since elementary school. They played ball together, they hung out together, and they somehow managed to (mostly) work their way through the awkward years of junior high together. Now, they are finally starting to come into their own as they prepare to start their junior year, but on the first day of school, a new kid named Nate Mayes arrives and, with him, a secret. Nate appears to be polished, flush with cash, and looks to be a potential lady killer, but as the boys get to know him, they soon realize he also lacks certain social skills, is ill at ease in crowds, and has an air of naiveté about him that makes him hard to read. They soon discover that something terrible is going on at home with Nate’s father, Dr. Ford Mayes. FBI special agent Kathryn Cooper believes Dr. Mayes has personally had a hand in several deaths related to a money laundering scandal involving compounding pharmacies, dirty physicians, and the United States government. Her attempts to arrest him, however, have been foiled by an insider working both sides of the fence. With her career - and social life - suffering, agent Cooper turns to her new boyfriend, Chief of Police Rick Papania, to help her out, but he may not be the cure-all she imagined. After finding a piece of evidence that ties Dr. Mayes both to the money laundering investigation and the death of his mother some 14 years prior, Nate concocts a plan to get back at his dad, once and for all. He enlists Matt and his friends to help carry it out, with each making decisions that, individual and collectively, have unexpected and life-altering consequences for everyone.
©2020 Michael Hewes (P)2020 Michael Hewes
Welcome to Adulting Survival Guide
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It's wild. One day people finally start treating you like an adult. And it feels good. For a while. Then you run into adult problems, and everyone acts like you should know what to do in any given situation. But what if you don't? What if, when everyone expects you to stand on your own two feet, you're just trying to put one foot in front of the other without tripping? If adulting has got you stressed, anxious, or even despairing, what you need is sound, biblical advice from someone who's been there. JP Pokluda's got you covered. He's worked with tens of thousands of young adults, and he can tell you which choices lead to success and which ones lead to trouble down the road. With his expert guidance, you'll learn to navigate the many decisions you have to make in life, including building and maintaining strong relationships, achieving career goals, and overcoming anxiety. You're just six weeks away from a more confident and capable you. The Welcome to Adulting Survival Guide will get you there in one piece.
©2019 Jonathan Pokluda (P)2019 Baker Publishing Group