Resultado narrado por "Les Smith" em Todas as categorias

Hurled into a clockwork world, a naive young man must face his greatest fears before the Imperium seizes the world and destroys it.

Starting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. The book helps readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals.

Having answered a Berlin newspaper advertisement for strong women who can cook and do farm work,” Sophie Charlotte finds herself married with two sons on an Icelandic sheep farm, trying to sever cords of memory that lead back to the powerful love she knew in Germany and all that she lost there. When World War II began, Charlotte was attached to a supremely talented but politically furious painter in Berlin. But she would lose him twice: first to the resistance and then to the camps.

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials refuse to reveal her origins. She leaves her strict, Catholic upbringing behind and emerges into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos.

Student life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with, including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams, family pressures, and challenging relationships. It is not surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. But there are simple and effective ways to take ownership of your mental health. This book guides you through your student journey, from preparing to go to college, managing academic pressures, and everything in-between.

For most of his life, Korrenzo Smith has been fighting battles he never asked for—against family expectations, societal norms, religious dogma, and perhaps most powerfully, against himself. In this raw, unfiltered memoir, he reflects on those struggles with honesty, vulnerability, and hard-won accountability. From a self-conscious boy in rural Arkansas to a man who now walks in peace and authenticity, Korrenzo vs. Scooby chronicles a journey of identity, healing, and self-acceptance.

When Woody Rawls read The Call of the Wild, a classic novel about a stolen mistreated dog and a kindly man, his life was forever changed. Maybe it was because he loved his own dog, or maybe it was because the story reached deep into his heart and stayed there. From then on, Woody was determined to learn to write and become a teller of tales. Woody didn't care that he couldn’t afford pen and paper. He would use a stick in the sand if he had to. Woody trusted his heart and used his imagination to create his stories, which he shared with Rowdy, his trusty hound.

When Kayla Macintyre discovers her twin sister Ashley brutally murdered, grief quickly gives way to terror—because Kayla was the real target. A case of mistaken identity fools the police into thinking she’s the one who died, and Kayla seizes the chance to disappear into her sister’s glamorous life as a supermodel. It’s a dangerous gamble for a tech-savvy, adrenaline-chasing computer repair specialist with zero fashion sense.

This language learning audiobook uses engaging narratives to help beginners to intermediate learners naturally build their Spanish skills. With more than 50 bilingual stories in Spanish and English, listeners expand vocabulary and comprehension naturally through context rather than memorization. The stories progress sequentially in difficulty, starting with present-tense situations and gradually adding past and future tenses. Repeated vocabulary and sentence patterns reinforce learning, while the English translations provide quick support when needed.

Johnny, a 14-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and Brook, a 14-year-old Native American girl From South Dakota, meet at a summer job working at a cowboy show in the suburbs of New York City—first meeting as antagonists, then like childhood friends. Coming from different cultures and lifestyles, they learn a lot from each other.

1982. Nearly 3 years after 52 Americans were taken hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran, student protestors once again attack a western embassy – this time the British, just a week after the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and his Russian counterpart. The Israelis, the British and other western enemies are suspected. Four months later, the Head of Bonn Station for MI6 is murdered along with his family. Forty years later, ex-SAS officer Tom Miller, now working in MI7's Black Ops unit, receives a call from an Iranian terrorist group about an impending terror attack.

Everyone has a dark side, a part of them that they try to keep hidden. As President of the Black Savages MC, my darkness is a constant companion, one I embrace with open arms. But even I have limits. Sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong isn’t without consequences. And mine come in the form of a feisty author who makes me want to step into the light. Neither of us believe in fairytales, but something about her has me vowing to be the knight in leather armor who shows her what it’s like to be forever savage. Nova…

Annie Oakley was a remarkable sharpshooter whose legendary accuracy with firearms captivated audiences across the world. She could place bullets precisely where she intended from distances that left spectators breathless with amazement. But as impressive as this was, there was more to Annie Oakley's life than her ability with a gun.

In a city humming with restless energy and the quiet hum of digital lives, The Chef invites you into a world where modern living meets the timeless yearning for true connection. San Francisco, a sprawling beast of ambition and isolation, sets the stage for a poignant tale of two souls navigating its labyrinthine streets and the intricate web of their own desires.

Living with PeaNette is based on all the adventures she shared with her best friends throughout the years, and yes, all animals mentioned are real, as are their adventures. There was never a dull moment living with PeaNette!

Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being part of a couple: between being an individual and a couple, relating, non-relating, and the narcissistic problem in tolerating the otherness and alienness of one’s partner. She guides the listener through managing feelings of both separateness and intimacy, issues around sex and sexuality, the tension between love and hate, and the importance of curiosity.

Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was the most feared pirate of the Golden Age—a towering figure who struck terror into the hearts of sailors from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Most biographies seem to start and stop with that statement, but there was much more to the life of Blackbeard than that, and much more to learn about the man behind history’s most fearsome pirate legend.

Cassie Woods's tenacity has helped her achieve a modicum of success in the male-dominated world of journalism in 1880s New York City. Despite her father's recent downfall, her courtship with gruff but handsome Detective O'Neill is going well. Now she has the opportunity to earn a place at the second-biggest newspaper in the city--if she can prove herself with an undercover story exposing the dangers of life in the city's garment factories.

Punching Above Your Weight: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Mind Written and narrated by Ryan J. Smith What if AI isn’t the end of your job, but the start of your edge? Written in one week and recorded with grit, Punching Above Your Weight is part memoir, part manifesto — a crash course in using AI to scale your clarity, courage, and impact.

Hey, it’s not that hard for a cop to solve crimes if he can time-travel back a week and apprehend crooks before they even walk into the bank. Detective Aaron Mathews, the iPod’s new unsuspecting victim, sniffs around to track down its former owners, and begins to realize God is demanding a whole lot more of him than just lucky junkets to Atlantic City. His hard-boiled agnosticism begins to thaw as he witnesses the Columbine killings up close, and is sorely tempted to undo America’s first mass shooting.