Tracy Turner has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Sioux.
Crimson and the Battle of Lonely Mountain
Summary
The lonesome dragon, Crimson, is stranded in a cave with a wish-catching bat fairy, Flame Twig, and is determined to make the best of a bad situation. When he sheds his scales, they turn into rubies. The spirited dragon does not fit in with the other greedy dragons and misses his family. Crimson soars out into the unknown lands surrounding his cave. During his adventure, he meets other dragons, including Sparks Snorter, a clever and sly warrior dragon who lives in a cave at the bottom of the ocean, Green Smasher the Gold Hoarder, who lives in a lair near an inactive volcano, and Green Smasher's two-headed daughter, Amethyst, who embodies the best and worst of dragon character. Unfortunately, friendship is not what Crimson finds. Soon Princess Penelope who lives at the base of Lonely Mountain in the Castle of Contentment ventures to his lair in search of love. They become friends and get into various adventures together. Crimson gives Penelope a magical ruby necklace. Listeners will delight in the adventures of Crimson and Penelope as they encounter fairies and get caught up in an epic dragon battle of greed and revenge that threatens to destroy Penelope's kingdom. Will Crimson win at the end and restore harmony to the townspeople? Will Crimson overcome his loneliness and find a kind soul to be a friend?
©2016 Valerie Pike (P)2017 Valerie Pike
The Dozier School for Boys
Summary
The Florida State reform school, notorious for its abuses, is now in the headlines for more than just abusing its guests. Bodies are being discovered and the deaths are referred to as being the most brutal killings of the century. This is mainly because the boys were young and some innocent. Not everyone that stayed at the Dozier school was guilty of a crime but rather simply had nowhere else to go. Some residents around the area where the school was built have other thoughts in regards to the oddities they have witnessed since the school's closure. Shadows, colorless shapes, and eerie sightings were also present within the area the school was located. No one knows the whole story - and we may never have an ending to the mysterious happenings within the school's walls - but there is one thing for sure, something evil caused the boys to be murdered. Boot Hill is the location where the bones are being discovered. Some of the shallow graves held children as young as six to 10 years old. No one can say they all died of natural causes when bullet holes were left in the backs of their skulls. No honorable burial, no notification to their next of kin or anything that a normal death would require. This story is fiction based on true recollections, events or whichever word you might want to use. The author doesn't claim to know the whole story - no one really does - but what she does do is make it come full circle, so that an ending could be had.
©2014 Trina M. Ward (P)2015 Trina M. Ward
Heavy Poodles
Summary
In the final months of WWII, two soldiers stumble across something unearthly, changing them forever. Spanning decades, Heavy Poodles is an angry, well-crafted tale, unlike any other. It is unexpectedly touching, uncomfortable, and violently eye-opening.
©2011 Ian Fraser (P)2015 Ian Fraser
Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Sioux
Summary
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept but one - They promised to take our land...and they took it." - Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture. In Charles River Editors' Native American Tribes series, listeners can get caught up on the history and culture of North America's most famous native tribes in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among Native American tribes, the Sioux are one of the best known and most important. Participants in some of the most famous and notorious events in American history, the history of the Sioux is replete with constant reminders of the consequences of both their accommodation of and resistance to American incursions into their territory by pioneering white settlers pushing further westward during the 19th century. Some Sioux leaders and their bands resisted incoming whites, while others tried to accommodate them, but the choice often had little impact on the ultimate outcome. Crazy Horse, who was never defeated in battle by US troops, surrendered to them in 1877, only to be bayoneted to death by soldiers attempting to imprison him. Black Kettle, who flew a large American flag from his lodge to indicate his friendship with the white man, was shot to death by soldiers under George Custer's command in 1868.
©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors