Scott Slocum has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors. The most-rated is Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written.
Get Your Ideas Approved: Job Skill #1
Summary
You’ve got this idea that is pretty cool. It could easily be a career booster. But not so fast. You’ve got this boss who loves squashing ideas. You could stop thinking for awhile, tread water, and wait for a new boss. Or, you could use a secret tool to get your idea approved. Jon Spoelstra used such a tool to get even the craziest ideas approved by his bosses, owners of pro sports teams. He got bosses of all types to approve things. We’re talking about tough bosses, cunning bosses, brilliant bosses, bosses who hated him, bosses who didn’t want to approve anything he did, bosses that loved him, government bosses, and even wonderful bosses. One word of warning: Get Your Ideas Approved is not a book about negotiations. With negotiations, there’s often give-and-take. There are compromises. There’s settling on a middle ground. None of those are applicable in this book. This book is about getting your idea approved by your boss - about getting your idea approved the way you want to make it work. This book is the proven blueprint on how to get the approval you need and want without taking a risk. Some may think this is your unfair advantage in getting your boss to approve whatever you want to initiate. It is. Here’s your advantage on a platter. Go ahead, use it, run with it. You and your boss will be delighted that you did.
©2020 Jon Spoelstra (P)2020 Jon Spoelstra
Work at Home Now: The No-nonsense Guide to Finding Your Perfect Home-based Job, Avoiding Scams, and Making a Great Living
Summary
In Work at Home Now, you'll learn: The top insider tips on good and bad Google search terms. How to find the "needles in the haystack" on Craigslist, Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder, and other big sites. Where the real jobs for mystery shoppers, transcriptionists, and similar part-time specialties can be found. Scam-spotting tips that even law enforcement doesn't know. Including interviews with hiring managers and successful home-based workers, Work at Home Now is the ultimate guide to finding the work-at-home job or project you want most.
©2010 Career Press (P)2011 Laurie A Kelly-Pye
The Theme Is Freedom
Summary
The Theme is Freedom could have easily been titled "Everything You Were Ever Taught Was Wrong." Author M. Stanton Evans challenges nearly every concept most of us have learned in history classes from elementary school to college. The Theme is Freedom presents a new reading of the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the constitutional founding, and the religious clauses of the First Amendment. Evans draws the conclusion that our liberties have always been dependent of the religious traditions of the West - directly contrary to accepted theory. On every salient issue, The Theme is Freedom stands conventional wisdom on its head. It will disturb some, encourage others, inform many, and above all, provide a view of American political history that liberals and conservatives alike will find provocative and surprising.
©1994 M. Stanton Evans (P)2013 Regnery Publishing
The Fever Kill
Summary
Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It's where his father, the sheriff, met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It's where Crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line 10 years earlier. Now Crease is back. He's been undercover for so long that most days he feels more like a mobster than a cop. He doesn't mind much: the corrupt life is easier to stomach than a wife who can't understand him, a son who hates him, and a half-dozen adopted kids he can't even name anymore. He's also just gotten his drug-dealing, knife-wielding psycho boss Tucco's mistress pregnant. A fine time to decide to settle old scores and resolve a decade-old mystery.... With Tucco hot on his tail, Crease has to find his answers fast. Who kidnapped little Mary? Who really killed her? Was his own father guilty? And what happened to the paltry 15-grand ransom that seems to spell salvation to half the population of Hangtree? The town still has a taste for his blood and secrets it wants to keep. Crease has a single hope: a raw and raging fever driving him toward the truth that might just burn him up along the way.
©2008 Tom Piccirilli (P)2012 David N. Wilson
Buzzards Bay Chowder and the Alien Invasion of Cape Cod
Summary
In May of 2013, Gene Kenworthy - widower, semi-retired ad exec, and air personality - wheels his RV onto Cape Cod for a summer radio job, anticipating sunshine, solitary beach walks, and good seafood. Instead, he and some new friends encounter disturbing phenomena in the air, and on the air, and the clock is ticking on what could become a global tragedy.
©2019 Scott Slocum (P)2019 Scott Slocum
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Summary
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history". For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and the soles of his feet; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived. Sir Douglas Mawson is remembered as the young Australian who would not go to the South Pole with Robert Scott in 1911, choosing instead to lead his own expedition on the less glamorous mission of charting nearly 1,500 miles of Antarctic coastline and claiming its resources for the British Crown. His party of three set out through the mountains across glaciers in 60-mile-per-hour winds. Six weeks and 320 miles out, one man fell into a crevasse, along with the tent, most of the equipment, all of the dogs' food, and all except a week's supply of the men's provisions. Mawson's Will is the unforgettable story of one man's ingenious practicality and unbreakable spirit and how he continued his meticulous scientific observations even in the face of death. When the expedition was over, Mawson had added more territory to the Antarctic map than anyone else of his time. Thanks to Bickel's moving account, Mawson can be remembered for the vision and dedication that make him one of the world's great explorers.
©2000 Lennard Bickel (P)2011 Steerforth Press LLC