Mary Beth Garber has narrated 7 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Summary
When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. More people are coping with and caring for those affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders than individuals living with autism, but because there is a stigma associated with this preventable, devastating birth defect, it is a pandemic of disability and tragedy that remains underreported and underexplored. When Rain Hurts puts an unapologetic face to living and coping with this tragedy while doggedly searching for a more hopeful outcome for one beautiful, innocent, but damaged little boy.
©2013 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press
Shattered: When Winds Blast
Summary
Revenge is a destructive fire. Revenge among the gods and goddesses can engulf the world. Such is the threat that Dara and her friends confront. Sparked first by Dara's father's theft of the cauldron of Ceridwen, unleashed by that cup's return, storms of anger collided in Scotland, unwittingly destroying the ancient home of the goddess of winter, Cailleach. Only an elven queen saw this destruction. Only she imagined a way to placate that goddess' anger. Cailleach had given the Grail, a seeing-stone, to a trusted druid leader before the days of King Arthur. That stone was passed on to Merlin. Just before King Arthur's tragic last battle, Merlin passed it on to the harper Taliesen who accompanied Lancelot to France to defend Brittany against the invading Goths. Taliesen and Lancelot's story, and the story of the Grail's hiding, is told alongside the modern quest. The goddess of winter will forgo her revenge if the Grail is returned. Dara and her friends take on this seemingly impossible task with the aid of an elf and the guidance of the Triad who carry on the responsibilities of King Arthur. But landing in France places them in the middle of ancient conflicts that threaten their quest at every step. As winter draws closer Britain, as snow traps hikers and threatens the natural cycle, the four friends race to retrace Taliesen's steps and find the Grail.
©2019 Waldorf Publishing (P)2019 Waldorf Publishing
On Hurricane Island
Summary
As a major hurricane threatens the northeast, math professor Gandalf Cohen is abducted by federal agents and flown to a secret interrogation center off the coast of Maine. Austin Coombs, a young local resident, is a newly hired civilian guard assigned to the detention center. Henry Ames, a man of personal secrets, is the FBI special agent in charge of Gandalf's case and doubts the professor's terrorist involvement; Tobias, his second-in-command, disagrees, preferring violent interrogation. As the hurricane slams the shore, conflict detonates and each character must choose a side if they're to survive the storm.
Told over the five days approaching the anniversary of 9/11, by varying voices on both extremes of the political divide, On Hurricane Island is both a fast-paced political thriller and a literary examination of the sociopolitical storm facing our society. How far should government go in the name of protecting our national security? What happens when governmental powers of surveillance and extra-legal interrogation are expanded? How free are we?
©2013 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press
Kinship of Clover
Summary
He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants.
As the group readies itself to make a big Earth Day splash, Jeremy soon realizes these eco-terrorists' devotion to activism might have him - and those closest to him - tangled up in more trouble than he was prepared to face.
With the help of a determined, differently abled flame from his childhood, Zoe; her deteriorating, once - rabble-rousing grandmother; and some shocking and illuminating revelations from the past, Jeremy must weigh completing his mission to save the plants against protecting the ones he loves, and confront the most critical question of all: how do you stay true to the people you care about while trying to change the world?
©2015 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press
House Arrest
Summary
House Arrest is a novel that explores the fraught relationship between home care nurse Emily Klein and her pregnant ward, Pippa Glenning, a young Isis cult member under house arrest for the death of her daughter during a Solstice ceremony. Despite their difference, Emily and Pippa's friendship grows.
Emily's friends - her cousin Anna with whom she lives, Anna's ex-husband Sam, and her best friend Gina - all warn Emily that Pippa is trouble.
Set in Springfield, Massachusetts, and on an island in Penobscot Bay, the story is told from the alternating points of view of Emily, Pippa, Sam, and Gina. These four views all center on the theme of political activism and its consequences, especially when politics become personal.
House Arrest explores the meaning of family loyalty when beliefs conflict and questions the necessity of sometimes breaking rules to serve justice.
©2009 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press
Her Sister's Tattoo
Summary
Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister. Told from multiple points of view and through the sisters’ never-mailed letters, Her Sister’s Tattoo explores the thorny intersection of family loyalty and clashing political decisions.
©2020 Ellen Meeropol (P)2020 Ellen Meeropol
The Hooker, the Handyman, and What the Parrot Saw
Summary
This is the story of a female detective who works for a small agency outside Virginia Beach. Charlotte Cavanaugh survived a difficult upbringing and endured a very unconventional introduction to sex, which taints all of her personal relationships with men. She has a specific need that no man has been able to deliver, and she has all but given up hope of ever having this need met until now. Charlotte, Charlie, is promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Major Crimes when a string of homicides begins to rock the sleepy suburb of Landon. The twist all of the murder victims are child molesters from her old case files. An FBI agent is brought in to assist the small agency with the serial murders and a power struggle ensues. Charlotte has four men in her life; the killer, the meddling FBI agent, her lead detective and close friend Clint Mcallister, and her long-distance Internet confidant. She will need all four of them to survive this investigation and bring the killer to justice without forfeiting her already tentative sanity.
©2019 Waldorf Publishing (P)2019 Waldorf Publishing