Tony Plana has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is The Secret of Evil.
Still Dreaming
Summary
A candid, savvy, inspiring, and often hilarious memoir by one of America's most fearless political leaders. Beloved by the immigrants and working people whose rights he has championed, 11-term Congressman Luis Gutierrez is, among Latinos and along with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the most recognized Hispanic public figure in America. Here Gutierrez recounts his life between two worlds: too Puerto Rican in America, where he was born and yet was told to "go back to where you came from"; too American in Puerto Rico, where he was ridiculed as a "gringo" who couldn't speak Spanish. For much of his early life, he seemed like the last person who would rise to national prominence. Yet his tremendous will and resilience shaped his varied experiences - from picking coffee beans to driving a cab - into one of the most surprising careers in American politics. He campaigned for Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of his house, and he only grew more committed to reform. Tested in the crucible of the notoriously tough Chicago city council, he earned the nickname "El Gallito": the little fighting rooster. Gutierrez was one of the first Latino public figures to support gay rights; he led the fight to cut Congressional paychecks, hashed out legislation with both Ted Kennedy and John McCain, and fought with Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush. Despite his strong support for Barack Obama in two elections, he has twice been arrested while protesting for immigrants in front of the Obama White House. From recollections of his failures as a teenage activist to his crackling observations of the nautical decor in Kennedy's office and the white-gloved waiters of the Speaker's dining room, Gutierrez is as endearing to the reader as he is sometimes maddening to his colleagues, inspiring us all to stand up for our rights and for those of others.
©2013 Luis Gutierrez and Doug Scofield (P)2013 Audible Inc.
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La Super Dieta Latina [The Hot Latin Diet]
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Not just another diet plan, The Hot Latin Diet offers a new outlook on what it means to live well, feel great, and look fabulous. Dr. Manny, the senior health correspondent for FOX News and a leading ob-gyn, introduces the seven Latin power foods and reveals how incorporating these satisfying cuisines into a diet can help every woman unleash her inner bombshell body. El objetivo de este libro es informar y motivar. Usted encontrará mucha información que seguramente lo inspirará a alcanzar sus metas. En este libro encontrará las herramientas con las cuales alcanzará su sueño de tener buena salud y un peso equilibrado. Y lo mas importante, La Super Dieta Latina es la base para una vida larga, feliz y saludable. Este libro le enseñará a incorporar los siete alimentos latinos a su dieta diaria, le permitirá conocer las razones que hay detrás del aumento de peso y cómo prevenirlo, como establecer sus metas para perder peso y lograrlo, no sólo durante el verano, sino para toda la vida. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2008 Dr. Manny, Inc. (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Runaway Heart
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The New York Times best-selling author combines medical sciences and action-packed suspense in this stunningly original thriller What if the military's foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals programmed to kill, with superhuman strength and speed and just enough intelligence to follow orders blindly? This is exactly the weapon that a top-secret government agency is developing in the desert. Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, is a champion of lost legal causes who becomes involved when his employee is literally torn limb from limb by one of the creatures. At great personal risk, Herman, his beautiful daughter and law partner, Susan, and ex-LAPD detective Jack Wirta, plunge headlong into harm's way, finding themselves in a nightmare beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
©2003 Stephen J. Cannell (P)2002 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
The Secret of Evil
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A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation’s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano’s son Gernimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory... The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.
©2007 The Heirs of Roberto Bolano, Copyright 2007 by Editorial Anagrama, Translation copyright 2012 by Chris Andrews, Translation copyright 2011 by Natasha Wimmer (P)2013 Audible, Inc.