Nancy Bober has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors. The most-rated is Mastiffs, Mystery, and Murder.
Christmas at Blue Hydrangeas
Summary
It's Christmas Eve, and as Sara waits for her husband and son to arrive home to Blue Hydrangeas, their Cape Cod bed and breakfast, a blizzard threatens to close the bridges, stranding all travelers to and from the Cape. As she prepares for the holiday, unexpected visitors arrive, all sharing the common bond of grief. Sara is determined the storm and sadness will not spoil Christmas, and ensures Santa will find his way to two fatherless children far from home. A sweet slice-of-life story about loved ones and strangers coming together to share the spirit of Christmas. This is a prequel to Blue Hydrangeas: An Alzheimer's Love Story.
©2018 Marianne K. Sciucco (P)2019 Marianne K. Sciucco
Somewhere in the Mist
Summary
There's no escaping the spirits of Stony Harbor. Sophia Keegan is 14 years old in 1930s Massachusetts. She likes the dark, and she craves adventure and freedom from social constraints. But when she meets a ghostly child on a beach and stumbles onto a dangerous bootlegging gang, it isn't long before she's fighting to save her family and her sanity. Now Sophia must protect her family from the deadly gang of rum runners who will stop at nothing to silence her. And she must uncover the riddle of the ghostly child who haunts her dreams and invades her thoughts before it is too late - before the rum runners kill her or the ghost drives her to madness. This audiobook is perfect for fans of Janet Taylor Lisle's Black Duck, Mary Downing Hahn's Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story, and Richard Peck's A River Between Us.
©2017 James E. Wadsworth (P)2018 James E. Wadsworth
Bound to the Fire
Summary
Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering, and often fetid, conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon skills and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes such as oyster stew, gumbo, and fried fish. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations.
Focusing on enslaved cooks at Virginia plantations including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and George Washington's Mount Vernon, Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history.
"A lively and insightful account of a still-largely-unfamiliar aspect of the history of American slavery." (Publishers Weekly)
"A great service of expanding the literature connecting African and African American foodways with those with which we are familiar." (H-Net Reviews)
"A fascinating account, illustrative of the invisibility of individuals whose work was central to the public performance of plantation culture." (Choice)
©2017 The University Press of Kentucky (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture
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A detailed study of 17th-century farming practices and their relevance for today. We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the 17th century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the 17th century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the 17th century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and nonspecialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up. Building on and connecting histories of food and work, literary criticism of the pastoral and georgic, histories of elite and vernacular science, and histories of reading and writing practices, among other areas of inquiry, Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the 17th century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2020 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks
Finding Euphoria
Summary
Hailey Langley refuses to be a victim and has moved on from her traumatic past. But her marriage problems worsen when a deadly illicit drug threatens to draw her into the life she left behind. Mark Langley has allowed his job to interfere with his marriage, but he never suspected the secrets in Hailey's past might hold the key to solving both of his current investigations. Together, they must unravel the mystery of the drug called "Euphoria" and find a way to save not only their marriage, but countless lives, before it's too late.
©2019 C. Becker (P)2019 C. Becker
Bassets and Blackmail
Summary
Will this mystery game be murder? Peaceful Dreams B&B is hosting a murder mystery game to celebrate its grand opening. Local sleuth Clarissa Hayes and her loyal Saint Bernard, Paw, have joined in the entertainment. All is fun and games until one of the guests is found dead at the bottom of the basement stairs. Was it an accident? Or murder? Did the victim share a secret past with one of the guests or the B&B owners? It's up to Clarissa and Paw to trail the clues to find out the truth. Along the way they're joined by a bevy of friends, both human and animal, including a black cat who is embroiled in a mystery of his own. Will peaceful dreams reign or will the killer unleash nightmares for all? This is the second novel in A Dog Detective Series. Mastiffs, Mystery, and Murder was the first novel.
©2018 Sandra Baublitz (P)2018 Sandra Baublitz
Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
Summary
Today, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. Lack of an overarching theory about how to expand the "Agile Manifesto" has led to many fragmented attempts to apply Agile company-wide. Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson, and Walmart say in the book. Notice, how they emphasize that doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for the whole company. Many experts are looking into implementing company-wide Agility. Yet, they work from one perspective. For example: A Beyond Budgeting expert might say, “Stop fixing the budget annually, because otherwise, you won't have the flexibility to react to frequent market changes.” An Open Space expert might say, “You need to make space for what you don’t know and can’t control, for totally new things to emerge. If people can follow their passion, you will be able to implement company-wide Agility, otherwise people will just do what they are asked.” A Sociocracy expert might say, “You first need to resolve the power structure, because as long as you have a hierarchy defined as top-down you will not become agile.” An Agile expert might say, “You need to start inspecting and adapting by using regular retrospectives in order to react flexibly, otherwise you will neither be able to learn from the market nor from within your company.” All of these perspectives are true, but the perspective is always from within the discipline. Our new perspective synthesizes these approaches and invites you to take a new, overview perspective that can truly address the challenges of doing business in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
©2018 Jutta Eckstein and John Buck (P)2018 Jutta Eckstein and John Buck
Mastiffs, Mystery, and Murder
Summary
It's murder at the dog show! When amateur sleuth Clarissa Hayes and her trusty Saint Bernard, Paw, enter a dog show, they expect to find dogs, blue ribbons, and trophies. Not dead bodies. Clarissa's boyfriend is tracking a suspect in the death of a dog fancier. It's up to Clarissa and Paw to provide him cover as they compete in the show. But the competition turns deadly when another dog owner is murdered. Are the deaths connected? Clarissa and Paw must sniff out the clues to solve the crime before the killer collars them. Will Best in Show become Best in Death?
©2017 Sandra Baublitz (P)2017 Sandra Baublitz