Ricco Fajardo has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Small Data.
Small Data
Summary
Named one of the "Most Important Books of 2016" by Inc. A Forbes 2016 "Must Read Business Book" Named a "Book Retailers Should Read in 2016" by Shelf Awareness Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, harnesses the power of "small data" in his quest to discover the next big thing. Hired by the world's leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year in strangers' homes, carefully observing every detail in order to uncover their hidden desires and, ultimately, the clues to a multimillion-dollar product. Lindstrom connects the dots in this globetrotting narrative that will enthrall enterprising marketers as well as anyone with a curiosity about the endless variations of human behavior. You'll learn... How a noise reduction headset at 35,000 feet led to the creation of Pepsi's new trademarked signature sound. How a worn-down sneaker discovered in the home of an 11-year-old German boy led to LEGO's incredible turnaround. How a magnet found on a fridge in Siberia resulted in a US supermarket revolution. How a toy stuffed bear in a girl's bedroom helped revolutionize a fashion retailer's 1,000 stores in 20 different countries. How an ordinary bracelet helped Jenny Craig increase customer loyalty by 159 percent in less than a year. How the ergonomic layout of a car dashboard led to the redesign of the Roomba vacuum.
©2016 Martin Lindstrom (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Bulletproof
Summary
Tyler Madden is used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, a high achiever set to have a successful career. But one secret made all that disappear. Now he's reclusive, sarcastic, and morbid and is stuck in one of the most dangerous jobs there is for an 18-year-old. He wants everything to go back to how it was. He wants to leave the hole he's dug himself into. But things aren't that easy. Now he has to fight for his freedom - and drag the girl he's in love with into his, too.
©2018 Tahlie Purvis (P)2018 Hachette Audio
Chasing Spring
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I thought I'd left Blackwater, Texas, behind for good. I didn't belong in the small town, but my dad wouldn't listen. He dragged me back home in his beat-up truck and dropped a bomb along the way: Chase Matthews was moving in with us. He was the golden boy of my high school, my former best friend, and the last person I wanted sleeping across the hall. His presence was too great a reminder of the ghosts I was trying to forget. I didn't ask for a hero. I don't want to be saved. To me, Lilah Calloway meant late nights sneakin' out, moonlit hair, and sparklers in July. She was my best friend until the day she left, and I'd assumed Blackwater had seen the last of her. Then, like a tempest, she rolled back into town for the final half of senior year. The chopped hair and dark, devil-may-care attitude warned most people away, but I knew if I fought hard enough, I could find the lost girl. I didn't want to be her hero. Some girls don't need to be saved.
©2015 R.S. Grey (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Confessions About Colton
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When smart and charismatic Colton Crest disappears, his small country town in rural New South Wales jumps into obsessive conclusions of his whereabouts. His parents claim that he's visiting relatives, but even Mrs. Crest seems unconvinced by her own words. So when Colton returns two months later, seemingly unharmed, everyone is both relieved and highly suspicious. There's a shift in the community. There's murder in the air. On the night before graduation, Colton is found in the local lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, his closest companion, Elliot Parker, finds a letter hidden in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiraling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. This is a scavenger hunt to capture a killer, and the outcome is destined to end with a bullet and a bang. Elliot is about to learn how to appreciate well-crafted minds...and also fear them.
©2017 Olivia Harvard (P)2017 Hachette Audio
Shooting Up
Summary
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. Stimulants (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines) have been used to temporarily create better soldiers by that improving stamina, overcoming sleeplessness, eliminating fatigue, and increasing fighting spirit. Downers (e.g. alcohol, opiates, morphine, heroin, marijuana, barbiturates) have also been useful in dealing with the soldier's greatest enemy - shattered nerves. Kamienski's focuses on drugs "prescribed" by military authorities, but also documents the widespread unauthorized consumption by soldiers themselves. Combatants have always treated with various drugs and alcohol, mainly for recreational use and as a reward to themselves for enduring the constant tension of preparing for. Although not officially approved, such "self-medication" is often been quietly tolerated by commanders in so far as it did not affect combat effectiveness. This volume spans the history of combat from the use of opium, coca, and mushrooms in pre-modern warfare to the efforts of modern militaries, during the Cold War in particular, to design psychochemical offensive weapons that can be used to incapacitate rather than to kill the enemy. Along the way, Kamienski provides fascinating coverage of on the European adoption of hashish during Napolean's invasion of Egypt, opium use during the American Civil War, amphetamines in the Third Reich, and the use of narcotics to control child soldiers in the rebel militias of contemporary Africa.
©2016 Lukasz Kamienski (P)2016 Audible, Inc.