Roger Clark has narrated 66 audiobooks on Listento.it by 59 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 1,592 ratings. The most-rated is Six of Crows.
The Sins of Jack Saul (Second Edition)
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The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working-class, Irish-Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, explores his colorful but tragic life and reveals for the first time the true story about what really went on behind the velvet curtains of Number 19 Cleveland Street.
©2016 Glenn Chandler (P)2021 Tantor
Auschwitz and the Allies
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A thorough analysis of Allied actions after learning about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps - includes survivors' firsthand accounts. Why did they wait so long? Among the myriad questions of what the Allies could have done differently in World War II, understanding why it took them so long to respond to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps - specifically Auschwitz - remains vital today. In Auschwitz and the Allies, Martin Gilbert presents a comprehensive look into the series of decisions that helped shape this particular course of the war, and the fate of millions of people, through his eminent blend of exhaustive devotion to the facts and accessible, graceful writing. Through firsthand accounts by escaped Auschwitz prisoners, Gilbert reconstructs the span of time between Allied awareness and definitive action in the face of overwhelming evidence of Nazi atrocities. Contains mature themes.
©1981 Martin Gilbert (P)2021 Tantor
Surrender
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"[A] riveting, and original, achievement." (WIRED) From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation). Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children, or what their country is even fighting for. They follow orders and their lives go by simply, routinely, until - one day - a mute boy walks onto their property. When the authorities announce that the area needs to be evacuated and that everyone must relocate to “the transparent city”, the three leave together. At first, the city proves to be a paradise: a stunning glass dome of endless highways, buildings, trains, and markets. Everything its inhabitants need is provided to them - food, protection, shelter - and the family quickly, unquestioningly, settles into their new life. But, soon, a sinister underlay begins to emerge. Neither secrets nor walls are permitted here, and strict order, authoritarian calm, and transparency must always reign supreme. In a society in which everything private is public, the most chilling portent of our future emerges. Surrender is an urgent novel about dignity and rebellion and the lengths we go to preserve love, hope, and humanity. "Loriga envisions in this gripping tale an unsettling dystopia in which all secrets are forbidden.... This memorable page-turner will appeal to fans of Brave New World." (Publishers Weekly)
©2017 Ray Loriga. English Translation © 2020 by Carolina De Robertis. (P)2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
The Nine Lives of Pakistan
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis - a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these "nine lives" he describes a country on the brink - a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh's abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan's powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
©2020 Declan Walsh (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Planet Xanadu
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They came from our future - human beings very much like us. They came to WARN us! They came with a promise to make things better. And we believed. In a story set in the distant future, Planet Earth is visited by strangers from Planet Xanadu, claiming to have been sent by our own future selves to warn present-day Earth of the dangers that lie ahead. After the initial shock and disbelief, followed by much debate, the world’s leaders agree to put their faith in these Future People, with the hope that they can help to avoid impending disaster and save Planet Earth and its inhabitants. But they soon learn that all that glitters is not gold and all is not as it appears! The true, horrifying agenda of the visitors’ presence on Earth eventually reveals itself - slavery. Now, it is up to a small band of determined rebels to free the slaves and salvage the future of the planet and all humanity!
©2020 Lamees Alhassar (P)2021 Lamees Alhassar
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Coco: La Novela [Coco: The Novel]
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Miguel sueña con volverse un músico famoso como su ídolo, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desesperado por demostrar su talento, Miguel termina en la deslumbrante y colorida Tierra de los Muertos, luego de que una serie de eventos misteriosos se desencadenan. En el camino, se encuentra con Héctor y juntos emprenden un viaje extraordinario. Coco: La novela cuenta la fascinante historia de la nueva cinta de Disney/Pixar. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 Disney Enterprises, Inc. (P)2019 Disney