Sharon Washington has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 61 ratings. The most-rated is Vanishing Acts.
Vanishing Acts
Summary
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it. What happens when you learn you are not who you thought you were? When the people you've loved and trusted suddenly change before your eyes? When getting your deepest wish means giving up what you've always taken for granted? Vanishing Acts explores how life as we know it might not turn out the way we imagined; how doing the right thing could mean doing the wrong thing; and how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat.
©2005 Jodi Picoult (P)2016 Simon & Schuster
Feeding the Dragon
Summary
For a book-obsessed kid with a big imagination and a flair for drama, could anything be luckier than living in a library? Capturing her remarkable childhood and its impact, Sharon Washington's autobiographical Off-Broadway show brings its sense of wonder and bittersweet realism into your home and heart as an enthralling audio experience. Only from Audible, Feeding the Dragon celebrates the role of books in opening Washington's mind to worlds of possibilities - including a career in acting. As part of our mission to offer listeners outstanding performances in contemporary theater, we are thrilled to present acclaimed stage actor Washington’s debut as a playwright. Intimate and emotionally nuanced, Sharon Washington's reckoning of childhood, race, and memory is, as one listener says, a "feast for the creative soul."
©2018 Sharon Washington (P)2018 AO Media, LLC.
Video Cowboys
Summary
The Georgia Barnett novels, including Hit Time, keep Yolanda Joe’s name at the top of Blackboard best-seller lists. In Video Cowboys, the Chicago TV reporter is thrust into a very perilous spotlight. A bomber has taken hostages at a local bank. If Georgia can’t get his videotape of demands on the major networks, people will die. Georgia needs the help of the Video Cowboys - fearless camera crew willing to do anything to get coverage.
©2005 Yolanda Joe (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC
Should Have Known Better
Summary
When your dreams come crashing down, what's next? In Essence bestselling author Grace Octavia's moving new novel, one woman must begin again when betrayal shatters the life she knew…Dawn Jones's sorority sisters thought she made a big mistake marrying blue-collar Reginald. But thanks to hard work and belief in each other, Dawn and Reginald left the big city and made their own happiness, complete with a comfortable home and two lively children. Dawn can't wait to show everyone just how perfect her choices were - especially when her mega-successful best friend, Sasha, shows up to visit. But she never expected Sasha would like Reginald so much she'd steal him for herself…or that Reginald would see Sasha as a second chance to pursue hopes he never fulfilled. With her perfect life now in shambles, Dawn will do whatever it takes to regain what she's lost. But the road back will mean facing the hardest of truths, even tougher choices - and risking more than she ever imagined to discover what her life could really be.
©2011 Grace Octavia (P)2013 Recorded Books
Open House
Summary
A columnist who regularly contributes to The Nation and The Village Voice, Patricia J. Williams is also a professor of law at Columbia University and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award. In Open House, she shares her unique views on modern American culture and tells stories of her remarkable life. Her voice is powerful, provocative, and utterly charming.
©2004 Patricia J. Williams (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC
The Voice that Challenged a Nation
Summary
Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, The Voice that Challenged a Nation is an inspiring biography. In the 1930s, Black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
©2004 Russell Freedman (P)2005 Recorded Books
My Face is Black is True
Summary
Award-winning Civil Rights advocate Mary Frances Berry sheds new light on the fight for reparations. Callie House, an ex-slave who led the fight, founded the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899. Defying conventions of race, class, and gender, Callie led the organization in an attempt to petition the government for the pension promised them as freedmen.
©2005 Mary Frances Berry (P)2006 Recorded Books,LLC
Dangerous Laughter
Summary
In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser’s imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that’s given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by “phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement” each story “focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition.” (Publishers Weekly)
©2008 Steven Millhauser (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC