Steve Twitchell has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is Two Days Taken.
US Secret Service Secrets
Summary
Did you know? President Abraham Lincoln authorized the Secret Service on April 14, 1865, the day of President Lincoln’s assassination. This audiobook will cover the history of the U.S. Secret Service, from its formation by the authorization signed by Abraham Lincoln earlier in the day prior to his assassination the evening of April 14, 1865, to its present-day service protecting the president, vice president, their families, and visiting dignitaries from around the world. The Secret Service is still involved in rooting out money counterfeiters, cyber fraud, and many other frauds and dangers that are active and part of the world we live in today.
©2019 Bluesource and Friends (P)2019 Bluesource and Friends
"Follow the Flag"
Summary
Follow the Flag offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company. Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball", the Midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, 40 years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation. The book is published by Northern Illinois University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "A major contribution to our understanding of American railroad development." (The Journal of American History) "One of the best in the genre of traditional corporate history." (Technology and Culture) "A well-written, in-depth history of the railroad." (Trains Magazine)
©2019 Northern Illinois University Press (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks
Servant Leadership
Summary
The world needs servant leaders - people who love unconditionally, give of themselves sacrificially, and leave a legacy worth following. If each of us would choose to be a servant leader, we could change the effect of the generational dysfunctions that exists in our world today. In Servant Leadership: Leading Today for a Better Tomorrow, John Wallace Whitehead poses that we have a model of servant leadership to follow. That model is Jesus, whose method has stood the test of time. Inspired by him, we will not only begin to focus on identifying and operating from our strengths, but we can also become better leaders by understanding our weaknesses and shortcomings. Servant Leadership: Leading Today for a Better Tomorrow will help its listeners not only become the leaders Jesus created them to be, t will also allow them to lead others to him.
©2019 John Wallace Whitehead (P)2020 John Wallace Whitehead
One Day Gone
Summary
Mylas Grey is a private investigator, but don’t call him a private detective. That title belongs to his father, not to him. Mylas is the chief investigator for Senator Davis Allen, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. His job is to do background investigations for the president’s judicial nominees, and that’s the only kind of investigation he’s interested in doing. But then, Lizzie, the senator’s daughter, goes missing from her campus apartment. And suddenly, just like that, Mylas finds himself back in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, investigating her disappearance as if he were a run-of-the-mill private detective. Nothing about the investigation is easy. Discovering a motive isn’t easy... Lizzie has a reputation for doing the unexpected, and she could have just left town for a few days without telling anyone. On the other hand, she could have done something stupid and gotten herself into serious trouble. Staying focused on the investigation isn’t easy... When Mylas meets a beautiful photographer at his brother’s church, and she offers to help him find Lizzie, he finds himself getting a little distracted from the investigation. Well, maybe, more than a little distracted. Revisiting his past isn’t easy... As Mylas is forced to spend time in his hometown, he begins to question his career choice, his rejection of Christianity, and his failed personal relationships. Solving the mystery of Lizzie’s disappearance isn’t easy... It gets even more complicated when Mylas learns Lizzie was researching an article for her campus newspaper about a judge with a secret past. Is the judge connected to Lizzie’s disappearance? Did Lizzie’s boyfriend play a role? What about Lizzie’s roommate? So many suspects. So little time. This is the first book in the Mylas Grey Mystery Series - a clean, suspenseful, fast-paced mystery, involving complex relationships, a fledgling romance, and a man’s search for happiness in all the wrong places. If you enjoy an engaging, multilayered mystery with a vulnerable, endearing hero - someone who will make you cry one minute and laugh the next - you’ll love this book!
©2019 Luana Ehrlich (P)2020 Luana Ehrlich
Ask Me Anything About Epistemology!
Summary
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is the discipline that makes it clear what conditions one must meet if one is to have knowledge. Epistemology thus explains how it is that we can have knowledge of the future, the past, and the present but imperceptible. Epistemology also explains how we can have knowledge of truths that concern abstract entities, such as numbers and properties, as opposed to spatio-temporal entities. Epistemology also explains how our ability to have a given kind of knowledge may interact with our ability to have some other kind of knowledge, so as to produce an ability to have a third kind of knowledge. Thus, our ability to understand truths of a purely mathematical kind interacts with our ability to grasp truths about the external world, in such a way as to produce an ability on our part to grasp laws of physics. Epistemology also explains how we can have knowledge of an external world, and it identifies the limits of such knowledge, some of the principles relating to which are embodied in important scientific principles, such as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Finally, epistemology clarifies the nature and limits of our knowledge of ourselves; and in so doing, it elucidates the nature of the discoveries made by Freud and Chomsky, and also suggests ways to rearticulate and improve upon the theories put forth by those investigators. In this AMA (Ask Me Anything)-session, I answer people’s questions about epistemology.
©2020 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2020 John-Michael Kuczynski
Two Days Taken
Summary
Two days. That's all it's supposed to take. But when Mylas suddenly discovers the truth, it isn't two days anymore. Private investigator Mylas Grey is anticipating photographer Whitney Engel's visit to Washington. He's been planning their itinerary, looking forward to spending time with her, and wondering if the spark between them will ignite into a roaring fire. He isn't anticipating having to do a favor for Senator Allen. However, the favor isn't supposed to take more than two days. All he has to do is take a trip up to Baltimore, spend a couple of days investigating a matter for another senator, and then he'll have the rest of the week to entertain Whitney. But then... He wasn't anticipating having an encounter with a psychopath. When Mylas realizes the man he's investigating has a dark side to him, and he starts digging into his background a little further, it sets off a series of events that puts his own life, as well as Whitney's, in grave danger. Which means... He must rely on his faith to overcome the danger. Mylas is a smart man, a highly skilled investigator, and a man of means. Yet, when he's confronted with a threat he never imagined, he must depend on his fledgling faith or he could lose everything. Book two in the Mylas Grey Mystery Series is a clean, nail-biting mystery, involving complex personalities, developing relationships, and a man learning about his newfound faith.
©2020 Luana Ehrlich (P)2020 Luana Ehrlich