Nancy McLemore has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Emergency Teacher.
The Emergency Teacher
Summary
Christina Asquith presents a moving firsthand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors. Asquith, then a 25-year-old reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, joined their untrained ranks. More challenging than her classroom in the crime-infested neighborhood known as "the Badlands" are the trials she faced outside, including a corrupt principal, the politics that prevented a million-dollar grant from reaching her students, and the administration’s shocking insistence that teachers maintain the appearance of success in the face of utter defeat - even if it means falsifying test scores. Her story will inspire, educate, and entertain.
©2007 Christina Asquith (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Missing Peace
Summary
As life begins to unravel, Joan begins to reflect on questions that plague us all. While on a weekend retreat, she admits to herself that her financial and professional success hasn’t brought her the fulfillment she expected, and that her life is empty at the core. And so she begins - however tentatively - to ask the existential questions with which all seekers eventually come face to face. Through her correspondence with the fascinating and wise Brother Theodore, Joan gains a new perspective on success and fulfillment.
©2013 Glandion Carney (P)2013 Spoken Books Publishing
Clara Bow
Summary
Clara Blow is a one-woman play in two acts about the life and times of Clara Bow. The "It" Girl was the movies' first American sex goddess. The star of Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, Clara Bow's unhappy life, in many ways, paralleled that of her successor, Marilyn Monroe. A longtime victim of insomnia, Ms. Bow lies awake on the morning of her estranged husband's funeral and painfully remembers the mentally ill mother who once tried to kill her; her career as the ultimate "flapper" her many nervous breakdowns; and affairs with the likes of Gary Cooper, Gilbert Roland, director Victor Fleming, and, as is said, the USC football team. Michael B. Druxman's Clara Bow is a tragi-comic tale about another of Hollywood's victims.
©1985 Michael B. Druxman (P)2013 Michael B. Druxman
Encountering God in the Prayers of Others
Summary
When Jesus' followers saw him praying, they knew that he connected to God in a profound way. Wanting to know how they could do the same, they asked: "Lord, teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1). Their request continues to be the desire of all who long for a meaningful life with God. Learning how to pray can happen in many ways. Sometimes we learn to pray from those who pray for us and with us. My parents prayed over our meals by day and over us by night. A spirit of gratitude and intercession pervaded my early life. My initial prayers were no doubt formed by what I heard them say to God in my presence. As we mature, we involuntarily learn to pray when crises hit. Mimicking our parents' prayers doesn't help in those moments. Difficulties drive us to articulate that most personal of prayers: God, I need you right now.... Perhaps for the first time in our lives, we talk to God from our hearts, in all sincerity. Adversity became our instructor. Praying Scripture is another way to mature in our life with God. When we read the Bible, we listen for God's voice. When we discern his direction, we respond in prayer. Often our words simply repeat the language of Scripture. If you are reading a psalm of thanksgiving like Psalm 103, and you want to pause and tell God how grateful you are for all of the blessings in your life, then it would be natural for you to repeat the words of gratitude from verses 1-2: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits" (Ps 103:1-2 NASB). Praying Scripture gives us the benefit of beautiful, borrowed language to talk to God. In this way, God's Spirit teaches us to pray.
©2015 David Tullock (P)2015 David Tullock