Mandy Kaplan has narrated 12 audiobooks on Listento.it by 11 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is Wild Steamy Hook-Up.
Wild Steamy Hook-Up
Summary
It was never my plan to wake up in a Vegas hotel room as Dominic Mancini’s wife. The man has brought me nothing but heartache since I was 16. At least we agree on one thing - a quickie annulment and we can both get on with our lives. I can go back to teaching little girls to dance, and he can go back to making millions in Wall Street. But sometimes, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. It follows you right into an ambush by your Italian mamas who deliver Oscar-worthy performances when heaping on the guilt. So, we do what any good Italian kids would do. We secretly agree to pretend to give marriage a try. But our easy solution morphs into a convoluted mess and leaves us wondering - is it safe to bet on each other?
©2019 Piper Rayne Inc. (P)2019 Piper Rayne Inc.
Regretting Motherhood
Summary
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true - that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a "natural" role for women - for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.
©2017 Orna Donath (P)2018 Random House Audio
This Is How You Die
Summary
If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published best seller, Machine of Death. The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. Drowned, cancer, old age, choked on a handful of popcorn. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. Old age, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does. This addictive anthology - sinister, witty, existential, and fascinating - collects the best of the thousands of story submissions the editors received in the wake of the success of the first volume, and exceeds the first in every way.
©2013 Matthew Bennardo, David Malki, Ryan North (P)2013 Hachette Audio
Eyes in the Darkness
Summary
Listen to the terrifying tales of Robert the Doll and Annabelle and discover real-life ghost encounters at the most haunted places in the world like the infamous Stanley Hotel and LaLaurie Mansion. These stories are sure to make you check under your bed before you go to sleep at night.
©2020 Kendall Rae (P)2020 InAudio
The Note
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There's nothing sweet about the vengeance I want against Sophia Somerset. When that quick-tongued waitress, with more curves than the real-estate market, makes off with my most prized possession - and the only item saving my company from collapse - payback is the only goal I have planned...at first. My only saving grace? The note she left behind. And my proof. The problem is that I can’t stop thinking about the adorably haphazard thief. Taking my revenge against Sophia may not be sweet. But it sure is sexy. Now I just need to save my company - and my traitorous heart - before it’s too late.... The fifth full-length standalone novel in the Manhattan Nights series is an enemies-to-lovers romance with suspense, humor, heat, and tons of revenge.
©2019 Natalie Wrye (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Texan Meets His Match
Summary
Hot. Rich. Annoying. Helicopter pilot Ethan Gelderman V is a man who understands woman, both in and out of the bedroom. Annabelle "Killer" Smith seems to be the only lady who looks at him like he's something she got stuck on her stiletto. Sexy, beautiful, and colder than a glacier, she lives in the small town of Lake Howling alongside his best friend, and she has a lifetime supply of Texan repellent. But Ethan has one thing in his favor - persistence - and when he gets the chance to infiltrate her defenses, he takes it, and to hell with the bite marks! Annabelle Smith doesn't take anyone's BS. She's tough and a survivor. Betrayed by her brother, she's forced to put her trust in the man she calls the Texan Tomcat. Ethan is a smooth-talking womanizer: too rich, too hot, and too much of just about everything! The problem is she wants him and always has. There is absolutely no way she she's giving in to temptation. Resistance is futile when they're thrown together at a wedding, and the result leaves them wondering what the hell just happened. Raw and vulnerable, Annabelle comes out fighting, but Ethan's not completed years of combat training for nothing. He has the girl he wants, and he'll do what it takes to keep her. If you enjoy your small-town romance sizzling with a side of crazy, then Lake Howling is for you. Meet the real authority in town (the local book club) and remember to stick your nose in everyone's business! Swim in the ice-cold lake, then warm up with a coffee and mystery muffin at The Hoot Café. Plenty of feels and LOLs, all wrapped up in a town that will have you packing your bags to head there the moment you start listening to the book. Books in this series: A Promise of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is
©2015 Vella Ink (P)2019 Vella Ink
A Madness Most Discreet
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Tennyson D'Angelo.... Darkness lives within each of us. Shadows. We are each capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil. It is the duality of being human. I want to live in the light. I don’t enjoy the shadows. But I’m not sure I’ve been given a choice in the matter. The shadows own me. They dance at my edges and tangle in my light. They torment my days and make my nights an anguished hell. I simply want to be free. One way...or another. They call him the Prophet. Tennyson D’Angelo, the man who can foretell the future. A modern-day oracle. And Olivia Hawking desperately needs his help. She tracks him down in Italy, begging for his assistance. She has a life-or-death problem that only a bona fide psychic can solve. But Tennyson is slowly fracturing from within, the weight of the D’Angelo curse destroying him. Olivia and Tennyson join forces, each searching for answers. But their understanding of the D’Angelo curse keeps changing, and time is not on their side. Even as they fall in love, Tennyson and Olivia realize they are in a race against the clock. Will they find answers in time to save themselves?
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Did Hitler Escape?
Summary
We all know that Amelia Earhart went missing that fateful flight around the world, but what happened next? Did she survive? Listen in as true-crime YouTuber Kendall Rae reviews some perplexing mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous figures.
©2020 Kendall Rae (P)2020 InAudio
Cold-Blooded
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H.H. Holmes is said to have murdered between 20 and 100 people in his twisted "Murder Castle" in the 19th century. He was first serial killer in American recorded history to be caught and imprisoned for his crimes, but he wasn't the last. Other killers such as the Zodiac Killer, the Golden State Killer, and the Uber Serial Killer followed in his footsteps. Some were caught, some still remain, but they will all send shivers up your spine with their horrific crimes.
©2020 Kendall Rae (P)2020 InAudio
Breathing Space for New Mothers
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A gentle and novel guide to new motherhood - one that encourages women to take time to breathe, embrace their experiences, and be "good enough" - one yoga minute at a time Yoga instructor Alison Rogers and coauthor Erin O. White forge a new path through contemporary motherhood with their collection of gentle suggestions for beginning and deepening a home yoga practice for new mothers. From the warm-up of first days with a newborn to the wobbly-but-standing postures of confident new motherhood, Breathing Space for New Mothers encourages women to notice and nurture their feelings and foster self-compassion to approach motherhood with curiosity instead of fear, improvisation instead of rigidity, and humor instead of worry. The authors offer mothers a singular message: Your well-being matters as much as your baby's. Each chapter ends with a one-minute mindful yoga practice, which can be done in a sequence to create a relaxing and balancing support for the incredibly demanding first nine months with a baby.
©2019 Alison Rogers and Erin O. White (P)2019 Random House Audio
Tuesday's Child
Summary
My daughter is dead. My husband and I cling to what’s left of our family, desperate to make sense of the tragedy. But when the sheriff knocks, he delivers news no mother should ever have to hear. Our daughter was murdered. And my son is the prime suspect. When we adopted 11-year-old Holden, we weren’t wearing rose-colored glasses. But we never could have imagined this. They say you can’t pick your family. But I picked mine. Did I choose my daughter’s murderer?
©2020 Anya Mora (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Gone Too Soon
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On the morning of March 31, 1995, world famous singer and musician Selena Quintanilla was shot in her motel room by a close friend and employee, Yolanda Saldivar. Shock waves reverberated around the world as news spread of her death. So many of our most beloved and talented superstars have lost their lives too soon, such as Marilyn Monroe, Brittany Murphy, and Natalie Wood, leaving us to wonder what could have been if their lives hadn't been cut so tragically short. Kendall Rae dives in on the backgrounds behind each of these untimely deaths and the legacies they left on the world.
©2020 Kendall Rae (P)2020 InAudio