Tom Bosley has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The Ultimate Gift.
The Ultimate Gift
Summary
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family. "Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire." What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless tale to heart.
©2007 Jim Stovall (P)2008 Oasis Audio
The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
Summary
Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching autobiographical novel destined to become a classic American coming-of-age story. The place is Albany, New York. The year is 1936. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and their spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned, again, by his father, a charmer and a con artist. With no money and no family willing to take them in, the LaPointes manage to create a fragile nest at 238 North Pearl Street. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, with its ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. As Jean-Luc discovers, it's a neighborhood of "crazyladies": Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites his imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband's grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Luc's own unconventional, vivacious mother. Jean-Luc is a voracious reader who never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum. He gradually takes on responsibility for the family's survival with a mix of bravery and resentment while his mom turns from spells of illness and depression to eager planning for the day when "our ship will come in." It's a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one child's life in the 1930s and '40s, a story that will be remembered long after it ends.
©2005 Trevanian (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc
The Jack and the Beanstalk Collection
Summary
This is the story of Jack, a boy who climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his fortune. The Jack & the Beanstalk Collection also includes "The Golden Crab", "The Elves and the Shoemaker", "The Magic Kettle", "Po-Wan and Kaun-yan", "To Your Good Health", "Don't Cut the Lawn", "A Long-Bow Story", "The Three Little Pigs", "Snow White and Rose Red", and "The Collage Cat".
Public Domain (P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC
The Nightingale Collection
Summary
We travel to ancient China and participate in the search for the only creature who could make the miserable emperor happy. The Nightingale Collection also includes such classics as "Windbird and the Sun", "The Tinderbox", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "How Six Traveled the Wide World", and "The Seven Simons".
Public Domain (P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC