Michael Knowles has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 31 ratings. The most-rated is Another Kingdom.
Another Kingdom
Summary
“What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.? Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?” Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is suddenly changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly transported to a fantastical medieval realm. Austin finds himself wielding a bloody dagger while standing over a very beautiful and very dead woman. Bewildered and confused, he is seized by castle guards and thrown in a dungeon. Just when he begins to fear the worst he is suddenly transported back to reality in LA. Did that really just happen? Has he gone insane? Was it all a dream? Did he have a brain tumor? Desperate for answers, he sets out to find them and discovers that the mystery can only be unlocked by a strange piece of fiction that holds the truth about the magical kingdom. But he isn’t the only person searching for the missing manuscript, and his rivals will stop at nothing to get it first. To complicate matters more, Austin soon discovers that he has no control over when he passes between worlds, and finds himself out of trust for even the simple things, like walking through doorways. Stuck between dual realities - charged for a murder he doesn’t recall in one and running from a maniacal billionaire who’s determined to kill him in another - Austin’s monotonous life has become an epic adventure of magic, murder, and political intrigue in both the New Republic of Galiana and the streets of Los Angeles California.
©2018 Andrew Klavan (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
The Nightmare Feast
Summary
“As screenwriter Austin Lively plunges back and forth between two dark, strange places - the fantasy kingdom of Galiana and the weirdness of contemporary Los Angeles - I turned the pages faster, faster, with growing delight. Scary, suspenseful, funny, wonderfully imaginative, Another Kingdom is pure, unadulterated fun.” - Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times Bestselling author
"This is a journey you won't want to miss." Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times Bestselling author of the Orphan X series
Austin Lively, once just an out-of-luck Hollywood screenwriter, is now a chosen hero caught between two worlds and dual quests in both Los Angeles, California, and the magical medieval world of Galiana. Tasked with taking a talisman across the Eleven Lands to restore the rightful queen to her throne, Austin must evade a murderous, vengeance-seeking wizard who seems to have the Eleven Lands under his control. But just how far does his influence reach, and how can Austin defeat him if the wizard also has access to his darkest memories?
Austin’s only hope is to find a missing manuscript by the title, Another Kingdom, but his sister Riley, the one person who may hold the key has gone missing too. With a deranged billionaire set on creating a “utopia” of anarchy and death also on the hunt for the manuscript, Austin must get to Riley before the billionaire’s assassins.
Trapped in a house of horrors in one world and a game of cat and mouse in the other, time is running out in both of Austin’s realities as he struggles to piece together the clues and find Another Kingdom. With higher stakes, darker secrets, and bigger monsters, there is no going back for Austin Lively and no guarantee he will escape the nightmare feast.
©2019 Amalgamated Metaphor. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Get Rid of Your Accent
Summary
Get Rid of Your Accent is a speech training manual for mastering British-English pronunciation. The audiobook is based on a tried and trusted method, used in London drama schools, that helps British people with provincial accents learn standard British English. This audiobook helps with clarity of speech. If you are not sure how to pronounce particular English sounds, it will lead to unintelligible speech. We deal with all RP (received pronunciation) English sounds in this speech training manual, which will help you sound educated. It includes humorous sentences, tongue twisters, period verses, and rhyme exercises. Relevant subjects are received pronunciation, elocution, and phonetics. It is recorded by professional actors, and the quality of speech is outstanding.
©2006 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS
The Emperor's Sword
Summary
"The Emperor's Sword is a wildly entertaining adventure of overlapping worlds and titanic clashes between fundamentals of good and evil. Klavan's world-building is both amazing and all too plausible." - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Paranoia and House on Fire "Part swashbuckler, part fantasy, part Romance (in the old sense), part comedy, and part acidulous commentary on The Way We Live Now, The Emperor’s Sword brings Andrew Klavan’s trilogy to a resounding conclusion. I guarantee this: you won’t be bored." - John Wilson, aka “The Man Who Reads Books” Having survived the Nightmare Feast, Austin Lively is living the dream. He has returned to Hollywood and his movie career is in full swing. His new script, Another Kingdom, has been unexpectedly purchased by a top producer at an enormous price. Beautiful women flock to his bed, movie stars court his attention, and the powers-that-be are predicting stardom. His only problems: a recurring vision of a magical landscape he can’t quite remember, and a giant mouse who seems to be following him - a giant mouse with a woman’s face. After his beloved Jane Janeway is accused of murder, Austin begins to realize that this dream he’s living is a nightmare in disguise. He is caught in the coils of a terrible magic, and the only way he can save his soul is to give up his success, re-enter the Eleven Lands, and find the Emperor Anastasius so he can restore Queen Elinda to her throne. But when he arrives at the emperor’s encampment, he is shocked to find Anastasius dead. With a weird hitman on his trail in Los Angeles, he must break Jane out of prison before a murder plot takes her life. In the Eleven Lands, he must follow the Emperor into hell itself where he will face the most shocking revelation of all.
©2021 Amalgamated Metaphor. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Pace, Pitch, Pause, Power: Public Speaking Skills Training Manual
Summary
This audiobook will help you learn how to modulate your voice, use pauses for a dramatic effect, and make your speech sound powerful. This is a practical training manual for public-speaking skills. This audiobook is based on a tried-and-trusted method used in London drama schools for decades.
©2018 Olga Smith (P)2018 Olga Smith
Get Rid of Your Accent for Beginners
Summary
This book is ideal for beginner learners of English. It is also recommended for more advanced speakers of English as it contains the most essential everyday vocabulary. It is based on tried and tested methods used in London drama schools for decades. The book has useful phrases, humorous poems, and short prose passages to help you practice your English accent. This new book includes all the techniques that you need for accent reduction: Learn and practice English sounds and essential vocabulary to master a British accent Practice English intonation and sentence stress Learn and use connected speech patterns Practice difficult consonant clusters and word endings Learn about silent letters in English spellings Visit our website for information about our full line of accent apps and books and to book your individual speech analysis.
©2018 Olga Smith BATCS GLOBAL (P)2018 Oriana Smith
Get Rid of Your Accent for Business
Summary
All of our Audible audiobooks for accent reduction are very popular because the Audible format is very well-suited for learning speech and pronunciation. This is the only audiobook on the market that has both pronunciation training and business vocabulary training. You can also get this title in print on Amazon and in bookstores, and as an e-book on Kindle. Use this audiobook with the companion iPhone app, Business English Speech, in the Apple App Store. Learn more at our website, www.batcsglobal.com. In this speech training manual, we teach you how to produce all British English sounds. Each chapter in the book covers one sound. First, we explain how to place your tongue, lips, and jaw for the target sound. Then you repeat the sound in words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, famous quotations, verses, and tongue twisters. In addition, you drill contraction exercises, words with silent letters, and French expressions used in business in the English-speaking world. This is the most complete and comprehensive resource for business speech training. It's written in the style of the Financial Times and The Economist. It contains interviews with top professionals from finance, IT, HR, marketing, and law to help you practice up-to-date business lingo. This book is a shortcut to achieving a high level of business English. Our customers tell us that it immediately helped them to improve their performance at work. It is a must-have for all professionals who would like to succeed in this competitive world.
©2012 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS
Get Rid of Your Accent: Advanced Level Pt. 2: The English Speech Training Manual (Part 2) by James, Linda, Smith, Olga (2011)
Summary
In the first part of this speech training manual, we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, and strong and weak forms of words. The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns. The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation, sentence stress, and onomatopoeia. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace, and pause. At the end of the book, we provide useful vowel and consonant comparisons and difficult to pronounce London stations and place names. The book contains words, word pairs, colloquial expressions, and idioms, sentences, dialogues, prose passages, and poetry.
©2011 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS