Nicholas Vespia has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is The Dead Below.
The Ancestor in the Mirror
Summary
Gonzalo Guerrero and his mom survived the Great Tsunami of La Palma in 2029 when he was only four. Almost his entire family disappeared in the tragedy. Only Gonzalo and his mom kept afloat during the horrific wave that killed almost two million people around the world. Now, they have a bigger issue. She has lost her memory as a consequence of the traumatic brain injury she suffered during the cataclysm. Trapped in the present, there’s no other past or future for her in this world. However, since time travel is available, they could learn from the future in the same way they learn from the past. This book can be used as a cross-curricular material or potential listening material to help high schoolers understand complicated subjects while promoting collaboration among teachers. While most are considering The Ancestor in the Mirror a stand-alone NA novel, this book is also an educational material to prompt questions that teachers can address during their instruction and debates.
©2018 Noel Mendez (P)2020 Noel Mendez
Face the Music (A Space Opera Noir Novella)
Summary
Xeno City, a cross roads in a sprawling multi-species galaxy, is also a city brimming with greed, corruption and murder. Wading through this murky cesspool is J. Azize "Jazz" Singer. A private detective pursuing an honest, or not so honest, buck. When Jazz is told of the death of his childhood friend, Erta L’Hotzuma, a death the local law fails to investigate, he sets out to find out who is responsible and why. His investigation, however, soon meets strong and violent resistance and he begins to suspect he has stumbled onto something bigger than just the death of a friend. Face the Music is the first of the four part novella series Xeno City Blues.
©2020 Castrum Press (P)2020 Castrum Press
Empathy Is the Key to Unlock Your Heart
Summary
Having and practicing empathy is an essential quality if you want to get along with people, resolve issues, create understanding, broaden your perspective, be curious, learn deeply and provide care with a foundation of understanding to others around you. That might be towards people in your family, your workplace or your friendship circles. It can be towards someone you don’t know but come into contact with such as a car driver who cuts you off, a person who trips over on the footpath near you or for a parent with a screaming toddler in a supermarket you are shopping in. It could also be for those you do not know directly such as people you see in the news, on social media, TV or hear about their situations through other people or from observing from a distance without deeper knowledge of the situation. Understanding empathy would be like having a superpower you can use to your advantage and tap into its immense potential to become a better friend, spouse, leader, or whoever you set your mind and heart to become. The ability to put yourself into someone else's shoes and feel what it feels to be them in that moment, that is incredibly powerful. Over here in this book, you'll learn all you need to start to unlock your own empathy capabilities and stretch it as far and wide as you can to make a difference in one more person's life.
©2020 VIP Library Box (P)2020 VIP Library Box
Sour Notes: A Space Opera Noir Novella
Summary
Someone has to pay, and pay dearly - but in the end, will it be enough? Private Detective Jazz Singer is enjoying a peaceful card game when a series of deadly explosions rip through the heart of Xeno City. Jazz has friends among the dead and wounded and he vows to make those responsible pay. As the bodies and the questions begin to pile up, along with Jazz’s mounting dinner bill, he is forced to use whatever means necessary to get to the bottom of things. Even if that means putting those he cares about in the line of fire. Sour Notes is the second installment of Todd C. Wilson’s four part Xeno City Blues series.
©2020 Castrum Press (P)2020 Castrum Press
The Dead Below
Summary
They moved the headstones, but they never moved the bodies.... Built on top of the old city cemetery, Denver Botanic Gardens sits upon thousands of unrecovered human remains. Small wonder, then, that visitors and staff alike have reported all manner of ghostly activity, ranging from disembodied voices, cold spots, and phantom footsteps, to shadow figures and full-bodied apparitions. Are the spirits of the restless dead making their presence known to the living? Join paranormal investigator Richard Estep, of TV's Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, and Paranormal 911, as he and a small team of dedicated researchers are locked down inside Denver Botanic Gardens in an attempt to uncover the truth for themselves.
©2019 Richard Estep (P)2020 Richard Estep