Susie Berneis has narrated 62 audiobooks on Listento.it by 41 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 667 ratings. The most-rated is The Learning Brain.
Big Kibble
Summary
What's really going into commercial dog food? The answer is horrifying. Big Kibble is big business: $75 billion globally. A handful of multinational corporations dominate the industry and together own as many as 80 percent of all brands. This comes as a surprise to most people, but what’s even more shocking is how lax the regulations and guidelines are around these products. The guidelines - or lack thereof - for pet food allow producers to include ever-cheaper ingredients and create ever-larger earnings. For example, “legal” ingredients in kibble include poultry feces, sawdust, expired food, and diseased meat, among other horrors. Many vets still don’t know that kibble is not the best food for dogs because Big Kibble funds nutrition research. So far, these corporations have been able to cut corners and still market and promote feed-grade food as if it were healthful and beneficial - until now. Just as you are what you eat, so is your dog. Once you stop feeding your dog the junk that’s in kibble or cans, you have taken the first steps to improve your dog’s health, behavior, and happiness. You know the unsavory side of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. Now Shawn Buckley, Dr. Oscar Chavez, and Wendy Paris explain all you need to know about unsavory Big Kibble - and offer a brighter path forward for you and your pet.
©2020 Shawn Buckley and Dr. Oscar Chavez (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Circle of Dead Girls
Summary
It's the 1790s, and the circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier. On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into a farmer's field on the road leading to the circus. Bored of his household chores, Rees begins investigating at the expense of his home life. He becomes entranced by the lives of the circus performers, including the charismatic horse rider and tightrope walker. Is his longing for his old journeyman's life causing him to take his eye off the case? And can he stay out of Hanson's way and keep his family safe?
©2020 Eleanor Kuhns (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Devil's Cold Dish
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Will Rees is back home on his farm with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farmwork under the blistering sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised and where he's always felt at home. When a man is found dead - murdered - after getting into a public dispute with Rees, Rees starts to realize someone is intentionally trying to pin the murder on him. Rees can feel the town of Dugard turning against him, and he knows that he and his family won't be safe there unless he can find the murderer and reveal the truth...before the murderer gets to him first.
©2016 Eleanor Kuhns (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
That Touch of Ink
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When a rare $5,000 bill arrives in the mail, interior decorator Madison Night knows it's a message from her past. In happier times, she once joked that she could be bought for $5,000 - how could she deny a bill with her name on it? Suspecting the bill indicates trouble, she consults a numismatist. They set up a meet, but upon arrival she finds an abandoned office, a scared dog...and a dead body in the kitchen. The twist? The victim isn't the numismatist; it's a John Doe. The police, led by Lt. Tex Allen, are on the case. But before long, Madison uncovers a kidnapping plot, a unique counterfeit operation, and the true price of her own independence.
©2014 Diane Vallere (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Death in Salem
Summary
It's 1796, and traveling weaver Will Rees is visiting Salem, Massachusetts. He's in town to buy a luxurious gift for his pregnant wife. While traveling through Salem, however, Rees comes upon a funeral procession for the deceased Mrs. Antiss Boothe. When Rees happens upon Twig, a friend who fought alongside him in the war, he learns that Mrs. Boothe had been very ill, and her death had not come as a surprise. But the next morning, Mr. Boothe has also died - and this time it is clearly murder. When the woman Twig loves falls under suspicion, Twig persuades Rees to stay in Salem and help solve the murder. Everyone Rees meets seems to be keeping some kind of secret, but could any of them actually have committed murder?
©2015 Eleanor Kuhns (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Little Women & Little Men
Summary
Little Women Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, this American classic follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, but each ultimately experiences, as most young people do, something completely different. Little Men Now married, Jo couldn't be happier. Along with her husband, she operates the Plumfield Estate School. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans and is attended by 12 adopted boys, as well as Jo's own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally struggle to maintain good manners.
Public Domain (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Simply Dead
Summary
In the depths of winter, Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search, Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees’ own family - she is questioned further and claims she was kidnapped...but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. It's agreed that Hortense’s presence is endangering everyone’s safety and that she needs to leave. As the arrangements are made, she is hidden in Zion, the local Shaker community. But while she’s there, a Shaker Sister is murdered. Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wooten’s description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young sons. What is the truth behind Hortense’s disappearance, and who is responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Summary
The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were only the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories - of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
©2020 Carla Gardina Pestana (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Cradle to Grave
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Will Rees is adjusting to life on his Maine farm in 1797, but he's already hungering for the freedom of the road, and his chance to travel comes sooner than he expects. Lydia has just received a letter from her old friend Mouse, who now lives in the Shaker community in Mount Unity, New York. To Lydia and Rees's astonishment, she's in trouble with the law. She's kidnapped five children, claiming that their mother is unfit to care for them. Despite the wintry weather and icy roads, Rees and Lydia set out for New York. There's nothing they can do for Mouse legally, though, and they reluctantly set out for home. But before they've travelled very far, they receive more startling news: Maggie Whitney has been found murdered, and Mouse is the prime suspect.
©2014 Eleanor Kuhns (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Lover Come Hack
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After a falling out with a friend flips interior decorator Madison Night's world inside out, she's determined to revamp her life. Jane Strong, fellow mid-century modern enthusiast, encouraged Madison's entry in an upcoming design competition, but their rift makes collaboration no longer an option. When Jane is found dead, Madison tops the suspect list. And when anonymous computer hackings interfere with both the investigation and the competition, Jane's murder no longer seems random. With a mess of a love life, an angry client, and a looming deadline on her contest entry, Madison turns to an unlikely ally to decode a motive before a crash becomes imminent.
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Come and Get Me
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At Indiana University, someone’s been studying the female student body: their dating customs, nocturnal activities - and how long they can survive in captivity. When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap - and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces with a local police detective and the department that botched her own case so long ago. But while Caitlin follows the clues behind Angela’s disappearance, someone else is following her....
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Decorator Who Knew Too Much
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When interior decorator Madison Night accepts an assignment in Palm Springs with handyman Hudson James, she expects to have designing days and romantic nights. But after spotting a body in the river by their job site, she begins to buckle under the strain of recurring nightmares and grows dependent upon sleeping pills. Soon, she's learned more about the crime than she'd like to - thanks to girl talk with friends, pillow talk with Hudson, and smack talk with the local bad boys. Eventually, Madison decides that she should seek professional help to deal with her troubled sleep - but, before she can, the murder victim she spotted in the river is identified as the very doctor she's been advised to see. Can what Madison knows help solve the murder?
©2017 Diane Vallere (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pillow Stalk
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Interior decorator Madison Night might look like a throwback to the 60s, but as business owner and landlord, she proves that independent women can have it all. When a killer targets women dressed in her signature style - estate sale vintage to play up her resemblance to fave actress Doris Day - what makes her unique might make her dead. The local detective connects the new crime to a 20-year-old cold case, and Madison's long-trusted contractor emerges as the leading suspect. As the body count piles up, Madison uncovers a Soviet spy, a campaign to destroy all Doris Day movies, and six minutes of film that will change her life forever.
©2014 Diane Vallere (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Pajama Frame
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When interior decorator Madison Night's octogenarian friend dies and leaves her Sweet Dreams, the bounty is bittersweet. Once a thriving business, the pajama factory closed decades ago after a tragic accident took the life of a young model - or was that simply a cover up? Between her friend's death and her own stagnant life, Madison is tempted to hide under a blanket of willful ignorance. But when family members and special-interest groups lobby to expose the secrets of the factory, Madison gets caught in a tangle of secrets and lies and discovers that, sometimes, the bed you make is not your own....
©2018 Diane Vallere (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Origins of You
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After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world’s preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in shaping how a child matures? Is daycare bad - or good - for children? Does adolescent delinquency forecast a life of crime? Do genes influence success in life? Is health in adulthood shaped by childhood experiences? In search of answers to these and similar questions, four leading psychologists have spent their careers studying thousands of people, observing them as they’ve grown up and grown older. The result is an unprecedented insight into what makes each of us who we are. In The Origins of You, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt, and Richie Poulton share what they have learned about childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, about genes and parenting, and about vulnerability, resilience, and success. The evidence shows that human development is not subject to ironclad laws but instead is a matter of possibilities and probabilities - multiple forces that together determine the direction a life will take. A child’s early years do predict who they will become later in life, but they do so imperfectly. For example, genes and troubled families both play a role in violent male behavior, and, although health and heredity sometimes go hand in hand, childhood adversity and severe bullying in adolescence can affect even physical well-being in midlife.
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
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A neighborhood cat observes the changes in German and Jewish families in Berlin during the period leading up to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. This cat's-eye view introduces the Holocaust to children in a gentle way that can open discussion of this period.
©2010 Meg Wiviott (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Christmas with My Cowboy
Summary
From the snow-covered prairie to the remote Australian Outback, a cowboy's loving kiss makes this Christmas merry and bright in each of these novellas. The Snow Man by Diana Palmer: Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the Colorado ranch she's inherited. Cattleman Dal Blake wants his pretty neighbor's dog to quit digging under his fence. This Christmas, the unexpected gift of love will surprise them both. Kassie's Cowboy by Lindsay McKenna: During a snowstorm, former Marine and current ranch-hand Travis Grant finds his childhood sweetheart injured in her car. This snowy silent night will be their chance to set aside their painful past and let love heal their wounds. Her Outback Husband by Margaret Way: Scott and Darcey were devoted to each other and their family cattle ranch - that is, until a rumor ended things. Now, in hopes that the season of forgiveness will bring them back together, Scott's mom plans to reunite the two by sending them to the Outback for Christmas.
©2017 Diana Palmer, Lindsey McKenna, and Margaret Way (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Even If It Kills Her
Summary
Like many 30-somethings, Bailey Weggins has a few regrets. But when she runs into Jillian, her former college roommate, she comes face to face with her biggest regret yet. For more than 10 years, Bailey has felt guilty for not staying in communication with Jillian after her family was murdered during their sophomore year and Jillian had to leave school. But now that the man accused of the murders has been cleared of the crime, the real killer is walking free, and Jillian is desperate for Bailey's help securing justice for her family. As the two women return to Jillian's childhood town to investigate, secrets from Jillian's past begin to surface. And it doesn't take long before they learn that not everyone is happy with their sleuthing - not the local police, not family friends, and certainly not the true killer. With someone watching their every move, Bailey and Jillian must decide how much they are willing to risk to uncover what happened that terrifying night.
©2017 Kate White (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Dark Fire
Summary
The Andean Cloud Forest in Ecuador is mysterious and beautiful. Trace Rawlings is a man who lives by his own rules. Ruthless and domineering, he takes what he wants. But Cynthia is used to someone trying to manipulate her, having dealt with her father all her life. She feels sure she can handle Trace. After all, he's just there to guide her through the treacherous forest, right?
©1988 Elizabeth Lowell (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances
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Evie is stuck at The Inn, managed by the stern and mysterious Mrs. Auberchon, although she's supposed to join a training program at The Sanctuary. That's what she signed up for - never mind that she lied and doesn't know the first thing about animals. Once up on the mountain with staffers, volunteers, and her dog students, Evie takes notes on the new things she’s learning. Alpha. Forgiveness. Play. Rehabilitation. Like the racing greyhound who refuses to move, the golden retriever who returns every time he's adopted, and the rottweiler who's a hopeless candidate for search-and-rescue, Evie came from a troubled past. She writes: Rescue. Best. Verb. Ever. As she creates her own training manual, she may even write an entry on herself.
©2014 Ellen Cooney (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC