Steve Barnes has narrated 23 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 22 ratings. The most-rated is Blackbeard Superbox.
Blackbeard Superbox
Summary
In the aftermath of an interstellar war with an alien race, Captain James Drake is unjustly court martialed. But Drake won't go down without a fight. Rather than surrender, he'll lead his loyal crew into the frontier worlds to repair and rearm. Fighting the treacherous Lord Admiral Malthorne, Drake makes alliances with aliens and smugglers to clear his name and defeat treason in his beloved homeland.
©2019 Michael Wallace (P)2019 Michael Wallace
The Variant Saga
Summary
Two-hundred years after the world ends, their future begins. In 2157, a mysterious gas known as Variant spreads across the globe, killing or mutating most organic life. The surviving humans take refuge in an underground city, determined to return home. But after generations of failures and botched attempts, hope is beginning to dwindle. That is, until a young scientist makes a unique discovery - and everything changes. Suddenly, there's reason to hope again, and it rests within a group of genetically engineered children that are both human and Variant. Terry is one of these children, modified and trained to endure the harsh conditions of a planet he cannot begin to understand. After years of preparation, Terry thinks he knows what to expect. But the reality is far stranger than anything he can imagine - and what he will become is far more dangerous. The Variant Saga boxset includes all four books in the series. Over 1,000 five-star reviews. Find out why people are so intrigued by this thrilling dystopian, science fiction epic. You won't believe the twists and turns this saga takes!
©2017 Jeffrey Chaney (P)2019 Jeffrey Chaney
Starship Blackbeard
Summary
In the aftermath of an interstellar war with an alien race, Captain James Drake is unjustly court martialed and sentenced to hard labor. Now Drake is on the run from Lord Admiral Malthorne, while another pursuer, Drake's old friend, believes the accusations are true, and promises to bring him to justice. But Drake won't go down without a fight. Rather than surrender, he'll lead his loyal crew into the lawless frontier worlds, infested with pirates and smugglers, to repair and rearm his ship. Then he'll return to attack Malthorne's estates and seize the evidence he needs to clear his name. But more than just Malthorne's estate is at stake. If Drake is captured, he and his crew are doomed - and the kingdom will be plunged into another war. Book one of the Starship Blackbeard series, by Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Michael Wallace.
©2014 Michael Wallace (P)2015 Michael Wallace
Workplace Anxiety
Summary
We spend over a third of our weekday lives at work. You probably see your coworkers even more than you see your family. Since you spend so much time at work, don't you think you should be happy at work? It will improve your whole life if your work situation is a good situation. What do you do if just thinking about work makes you feel upset, anxious, worried, or just puts you in a bad mood? The key is to take charge of your life at work. But how? By actively managing the relationships you have with your coworkers and bosses. What This Audiobook Can Do For You You can become stronger, more productive, and more fulfilled at work. This audiobook teaches you how. This audiobook is your guide to conquering workplace anxiety. What is workplace anxiety? This audio starts out with an explanation of workplace anxiety, to help you reflect and identify where you are having problems at work. Next, the audiobook will help you get over your workplace anxiety with simple tips and tactics you can use to immediately make your work life better. What do you do about a difficult or toxic boss? Learn how to build a healthy relationship with your boss by teaching your boss how to work for you. What about competitive and combative coworkers? Minimize stress and increase your productivity at work with a few easy ways to improve your relationships with your coworkers, all while maintaining your job security. Last, this audiobook discusses anxiety related to the fear of losing your job. Learn how to position yourself to either save your job or quickly find a new one by empowering yourself and making it clear just how much value you provide. Learn how to create better relationships at work and be happier at work through the actionable advice and information in this audiobook. The happier and more fulfilled you are at work, the happier and more fulfilled you will be in your life.
©2014 Relationship Up (P)2014 Relationship Up
Workplace Bullying
Summary
A bully for a boss makes life absolutely terrible. Do you work for a boss that bullies you around? Do you feel fed up, exhausted, helpless, or powerless at work? You can gain back your power, your dignity, and your work life. And this book shows you how. Working for a bully boss is miserable. A bully boss mistreats you, abuses you, and most stressful of all - threatens your livelihood. The situation is unbearable because you need a job and your boss has direct power over your paycheck. It's easy to feel helpless. Also, the effects of a bully boss spill into other areas of your life. Since you're so stressed at work, you carry it with you everywhere you go and the stress will make your relationships and your health much worse. What do you do when you have a bully boss? Workplace Bullying takes you through the steps you need to take in order to feel empowered and get your life back on track. This book will teach you those steps. This books starts out with the signs you need to understand to determine if you are in fact being bullied by your boss - which is a very serious issue. Then this book discusses why being bullied is such a serious issue, and why you may have inadvertently put yourself in a situation to be bullied at work so you can understand what's going on. Next, the book discusses what you should do next. Starting with handling your internal emotions, this book guides you on how to document the abuse, when to stand up to the bully, how to gather support from family, friends, and coworkers, and how to expose the bully to your employer. This book also teaches you how to plan your exit from your employer and discusses the pros and cons to suing your employer. Last, this book helps you recover from the bullying. This is a process, which takes time, but it's a very important step in dealing with workplace bullying.
©2014 Relationship Up (P)2014 Relationship Up
The Luminoso
Summary
After Lord Carbón, one of the rulers of Quintana, discovers an artifact created during an ancient period of magic and super science, he enlists his energetic young chancellor, Iliana Diamante, and his former rival, the elderly Lord Torre, to hide the object before the Luminoso cult can seize it in a bid for power. To stop them, the spider-like Salvatore, head of the Luminoso, enlists his underling, the treacherous Naila Roja, to coerce the secret from her father-in-law, Lord Torre. Salvatore thinks he can control the artifact and bring about a new era of glory with himself in command. While the Quintana lords and the Luminoso maneuver for control of the artifact, the ancient device begins to awaken. And it has deadly intentions of its own.
©2019 Michael Wallace (P)2019 Michael Wallace
JavaScript: A Guide to Learning the JavaScript Programming Language
Summary
JavaScript is a dynamic computer programming language that is commonly used in web browsers to control the behavior of web pages and interact with users. It allows for asynchronous communication and can update parts of a web page or even replace the entire content of a web page. You'll see JavaScript being used to display date and time information, perform animations on a web site, validate form input, suggest results as a user types into a search box, and more. JavaScript is being used more and more... Even though JavaScript is by far the most popular client side programming language in use today, it can and is used on the server side as well. Node.js, Meteor, Wakanda, CouchDB, and MongoDB are just a few examples of where you'll find and be able to use JavaScript on the server side. The time you invest in learning JavaScript can be doubly rewarding as JavaScript keeps moving into more and more areas of computing. Learn the fundamentals of the JavaScript programming language. No matter if you plan to use JavaScript on the client side in a web browser, on the server side, or both, you will need to learn the fundamentals of the language. That's what this book will give you. When you finish reading this book you will feel comfortable and confident programming in the JavaScript language. Here is just some of what you'll learn when you read this book: Where JavaScript can be used How to setup your computer so it's easy and comfortable to program in JavaScript What tools you'll want to have when programming in JavaScript The basics of HTML... What variables are and how to use them How to deal with numbers and perform mathematical operations How and when to use conditionals What functions are, why they are so handy, and how to put them to good use Advanced data structures like associati
©2014 Deep Thought Press (P)2015 Deep Thought Press
Shadow Walker
Summary
With Narina caught in a nightmare struggle against the same curse consuming warriors from the other sword temples, it falls on her sister Katalinka to lead the bladedancers, while simultaneously making peace with former rivals from the warbrand and firewalker temples. The three temple warriors track Narina to the plains, where they find her locked in a struggle with the most powerful of the remaining crowlords. If she loses, the crowlord will take her life and steal her power, but by winning, Narina will become invincible, and lost to her friends forever.
©2020 Michael Wallace (P)2020 Michael Wallace
Wandering Star
Summary
As one of the rulers of the ancient city of Quintana, Lord Carbón enjoys power and privilege that the lower castes of the city can only admire and envy. His wealth and status come from the coal mined atop the plateau and shipped across the Great Span, a mysterious bridge built during a legendary period of superscience. When miners discover a strange new artifact in the mines, maiming those who touch it and spawning deadly, shadowlike witherers, the discovery draws the attention of Salvatore, head of the secretive Luminoso cult. Hoarding ancient artifacts and terrorizing the city, the cabalists of the Luminoso temple collect scientific knowledge without understanding it, while watching the skies for heavenly signs, determined to bring about another golden age and crush any who meddle with their sacred prerogatives. After Salvatore closes the mines and threatens to shut the Great Span, Carbón organizes a secret group of his own, comprised of his young chancellor and her brother, the captain of the watch, and the aging patriarch of a rival family, who is torn between loyalty to his layabout son and his responsibilities caring for the Great Span. But their real enemy may not be Salvatore, but a hidden cabalist living in their midst who would use the crisis to seize control of both the Luminoso and the city that supports it.
©2018 Michael Wallace (P)2018 Michael Wallace
Rebellion of Stars
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With the alien death fleet destroyed and a temporary truce shattered, Captain Drake and his crew flee from the vengeful Lord Admiral Malthorne who has seized the throne of Albion. When half the fleet joins Drake in rebellion against the usurper, civil war embroils the kingdom. This is the fourth and final book of the Starship Blackbeard series by Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Michael Wallace.
©2015 Michael Wallace (P)2015 Michael Wallace
Chasm of Fire
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When an ancient artifact kills the head of the Luminoso cult and descends into the Rift on a trail of fire, it falls upon Lord Carbón, his chancellor, and a sympathetic cultist to decipher the object before it returns to destroy the city of Quintana. Unfortunately, the treacherous Naila Roja, fresh off a murderous ascent to the top of the Luminoso, wishes only to force Quintana to bend a knee and acknowledge her as its ruler. She is blind to the dangers and possibilities of the artifact, and on the hunt for secrets hidden in the vaults of the Luminoso temple. While Carbón and his companions face the wonders and horrors of the Rift, Naila makes a final bid for power. And this time, she controls the weapons of the ancients. The final book of the Quintana Trilogy.
©2019 Michael Wallace (P)2019 Michael Wallace
Dreadnought
Summary
A renegade from the Royal Navy, Captain Drake is desperate to free his family from unjust imprisonment at the hands of the lord admiral. Drake must avoid a hostile alien navy and the warships of his old comrades as he leads a pirate fleet to assault the lord admiral's forces in orbit around the home world of Albion. Facing Drake and his crew is the mightiest warship in the fleet, Lord Malthorne's own Dreadnought, a massive battleship that has never tasted defeat.
©2015 Michael Wallace (P)2015 Michael Wallace
Ari
Summary
The moment Ari Bowers stepped inside the abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of White Haven, Pennsylvania, she wanted to hightail it out of there like the ghost-fearing girl she was. Instead, she let her crush, Marcus Wagner, lead her into the shadows. Oops. As she predicted, they ran out screaming. But something followed her home. Since that night, Ari is haunted by something she can't see. It watches her when she sleeps. It caresses her in the shower. It carves words into her skin and lives alongside her, never satisfied with her terror. It always wants more, and Ari begins to fear it will take her and her date back to the farmhouse forever. For Ari and Marcus, it's not a matter of whether or not monsters are real; it's a life-or-death race to figure out which one is out to drag their souls to hell.
©2016 S. M. Boyce (P)2016 S. M. Boyce
Lords of Space
Summary
Captain James Drake is desperate to clear his name. Pursued relentlessly by the Royal Navy, he takes his loyal crew to attack Admiral Malthorne's estate and seize the evidence that will prove his innocence. But their search uncovers something else the ruthless admiral has secreted away - the key to stopping a brutal and decades-old war with the Hroom, an ancient alien race. What they find sends Drake on a dangerous mission deep into Hroom territory. Joined by his valiant crew and the daughter of a former rival captain, Drake risks his life and his freedom to stop the war and save what's left of his world. Book two in the Starship Blackbeard series by Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Michael Wallace. The series continues: book three - Dreadnought; book four - Rebellion of Stars.
©2015 Michael Wallace (P)2015 Michael Wallace
Bladedancer
Summary
Narina has barely recovered from the madness that consumed her soul when she is forced to confront the crowlord Damanja, who has risen to mastery on the plains, and now seeks total domination. Even as Narina unites the sword temples against the crowlord, a demon king brings fire from the underworld, while dragon demigods of the mountains bury the land in snow. If Narina doesn't quickly stop the crowlord and lead her fellow sword warriors against these threats, her world will be destroyed by fire and ice.
©2020 Michael Wallace (P)2020 Michael Wallace
Dark Star
Summary
With the short, brutal struggle between humans and insectoids ending in an apparent truce, the navy orders forces withdrawn beyond the Roach Frontier, hoping to avoid a destructive war against their new rivals. But when an ambitious human settlement and a colony of semi-feral insectoids clash in the Segovia System, the conflict quickly spirals out of control, with humans launching an invasion of mechanized troops, and insectoids responding with a rapid military buildup that threatens to push the war into an uncontrollable spiral of complete genocide.
©2020 Michael Wallace (P)2020 Michael Wallace
The Music of the Night
Summary
Cristie Matthews is obsessed with all things related to The Phantom of the Opera. On her once-in-a-lifetime trip to Paris, she visits the Palais Garnier to see the play. After the performance, she hides, remaining in the empty building to absorb the history and relive the haunting story once again. Then she sees him! But how can that be? He is a myth, a legend. Or is he? Previously published in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2009)
©2010 Rebecca J. Vickery (P)2016 Rebecca J. Vickery
Blue
Summary
Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's 14-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble. Together, Chris, Becky, and Miea need to uncover a secret. The secret to why their worlds have joined at this moment. The secret to their purpose. The secret to the future. It is a secret that, when discovered, will redefine imagination for all of them. Blue is a novel of trial and hope, invention and rediscovery. It might very well take you someplace you never knew existed.
©2010 The Fiction Studio (P)2014 The Fiction Studio
Burning Sky
Summary
Lieutenant Capp is integrating Royal Navy tech onto a battered ship from the Old Earth fleet when she gets orders to cross the so-called Roach Frontier and investigate a potentially hostile alien race. The insectoids have survived a genocidal war and are expanding aggressively toward human territory. She arrives to find a navy warship already lurking in the system, with Captain McGowan of HMS Peerless preparing a preemptive strike against an insectoid mining colony. Capp sees hints that the aliens hope to avoid conflict, but McGowan ignores her misgivings and attaches her to a force of marines tasked with snuffing the aliens before they can spread. The insectoids may not have initiated the fight, but they mount a vicious response to the mechanized troops landing in their midst. The deeper Capp penetrates their territory, the more she realizes this is a fight the marines may not be able to win, as she discovers a secret brewing deep within the insectoid colony.
©2020 Michael Wallace (P)2020 Michael Wallace
How Social Anxiety Can Hold You Back at Work
Summary
We've all been in situations where we don't want to socialize - and that's normal. However, sometimes being social can be totally overwhelming and completely uncomfortable. And it's hard to overcome your fear of speaking with someone when you don't want to. It's common to be shy sometimes when you just aren't in a good mood, or don't want to talk. But what about those times when the thought of speaking with someone makes your nervous? Or makes you sweat? Or makes your stomach knot? And what happens when you feel this way at work? How do you deal with social anxiety at work? How do you overcome it? If you can't speak naturally with your boss or co-workers then you're not acting as your best self, and you're not reaching your full potential at your job. Your social anxiety is holding you back at work if you don't do anything about it. In order to advance your career, you need to be the best you can be. Who is this book for? This audiobook is for people who experience social anxiety that prevents them from acting the way they want to when they're at work. This book is also for people with low-level social anxiety that can be managed without needing the help of a professional. However, if you or anyone you know is experiencing social anxiety that prevents normal daily functioning then please keep in mind that this book is not a replacement for professional help. In this book, you will learn: 1. What social anxiety is 2. How social anxiety affects your work life 3. The most common workplace anxieties 4. General advice to keep social anxiety in check 5. How to cope with job interview anxiety 6. How to handle meetings 7. How to network with social anxiety
©2015 Relationship Up (P)2015 Relationship Up