Audiobooks by David Wright

Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World

In Breaking Bread, third generation baker, food writer and presenter David Wright examines the universal questions about bread and baking. About the people who make and shape the bread we buy and the difficulties that social and cultural change, food fads and health directives have had, and are having, on the baking industry. After his family bakery sadly closed its doors after seventy-five years, Wright asks if the the closure of the bakery underlines the very idea that bread is a dying foodstuff. Is bread good or bad? And what does the future hold for bread? Bread is an essential part of our story, our health, our very being. Every civilisation has a form of bread, and how we create, make and bake it, how we sell it and buy it, our food security, our access to it, affects everything: our physical and mental well-being, the ingredients, the seeds, the very earth we grow our grains in, the water we use and how we treat and sustain these natural resources, impact on the very health and future of our planet. Chapters include: 1 Why Bread? - Creating, making, baking 2: The Wheel of Life - A loaf 's cycle 3: Frankenloaf - Science and the perfect loaf 4: Sicker by the Slice - A marriage not made in heaven 5: Big Bread - Industrial vs artisan bakeries 6: The Breadline - The economics of crust 7: Flour Power - The politics of bread 8: Bloody Bread - The costs of conquest 9: Our Daily Bread - What the gods want 10: Breaking bread - A once ropey baker looks to the future Breaking Bread contains interviews and expert contributions from Olia Hercules - Food Writer, Dan Lepard - Baker and Writer, Felicity Spector - Writer and Baker, Kateryna Kalyuzhna - Baker, Brad Leone - Food Personality, Chris Cowie - Philosopher, Zara Mohammed - Religious Leader, William Kendall - Food Producer, Andy Cato/George Lamb - Wildfarmed, Daisy Terry - Dusty Knuckle, Ollie Hornsey-Pennell - Hylsten Bakery, Tim Williams - Regenerative Farmer, Matt Burgess - Chef, Martha Delacey - Teacher and Writer, Karl De Smedt - Sourdough Librarian, Vanessa Kimbell - Baker, Chris Young - Real Bread Campaign, Ben MacKinnon - Baker E5, Ben Glazer - Coombeshead Bakery, Andrew Gilespy - Fresh Flour, OJ Borg - Radio 2 DJ and Presenter, Christopher Tan - Baker and Writer, Martin Bricknell - War Studies Professor KCL, Wing Mon Cheung - Cereal Bakery

David Wright (Author), David Wright (Narrator)

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Solarnomics: Setting up and Managing a Profitable Solar Business

Solar power has come of age. Not only has it become one of the key alternatives to fossil fuels, it can now be deployed in a way that makes a viable business with a financial profit. This book shows industry professionals and students how to do just that. Solarnomics describes the economics of building and operating a solar power plant today and provides a window into a future in which several technologies collaborate, and in which all participants in the electricity grid become smarter at scheduling both the supply and demand for electric power to give humanity a future that is sustainable, both environmentally and economically. The book shows how to estimate costs and revenues, how to tweak the design of a project to improve profitability, how to calculate return on investment, how to assess and deal with risk, how to raise capital, how to combine solar with batteries to make a hybrid microgrid, and how to be prepared for future developments in the evolving smart electricity grid. Solarnomics will enable professionals in the solar industry to assess the potential profitability of a proposed solar project, and it will enable students to add an extra dimension to their understanding of sustainability.

David Wright (Author), Liam Gerrard (Narrator)

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Tales of Mystery

David Wright (Author), David Wright (Narrator)

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The Captain: A Memoir

The memoir from the last Mets captain, David Wright, one of the most admired players in recent MLB history, about his inspiring and deep commitment to the game. David Wright played his entire fourteen-year Major League Baseball career for the New York Mets. And when he came back time and again from injury, he demonstrated the power of hard work, commitment, and love of the game. Wright was nicknamed 'Captain America' after his performance in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. He is a seven-time All-Star, a two-time Gold Glove Award winner, a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and a member of the 30-30 club. He holds Mets franchise records for most career RBIs, doubles, total bases, runs scored, walks, sacrifice flies, times on base, extra base hits, strikeouts, double plays, and hits. He was named captain of the Mets in 2013, becoming the fourth captain in the team's history. Now the widely admired, beloved New York Mets third baseman and captain tells it from his perspective.

Anthony Dicomo, David Wright (Author), Joe Knezevich (Narrator)

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Humane Disposal

A victim with no memory. Maria woke with no memory, rescued from the sex dungeon of a man who had held her captive. With her captor dead, now she may be the only hope for police to find another missing woman. A cop ordered to lie. Detective Cody McGraw is tasked to help Maria recover her memories. Just one problem - Maria isn't who she thinks she is. She's not even human. She's a robot that shouldn't exist, a model so close to human that it had to be shut down years ago - all of them humanely disposed of. She's the first of her kind that anyone has seen in years and now she is marked for destruction. But first, Cody is given a chance to find out what she knows. The Clock is ticking. Government agents want to dismantle and destroy Maria to find out how she has survived after her kind were disposed of. Cody is given a vary narrow window to get close to her and find out what she knows about the missing woman. But getting close brings back his painful past, and he soon finds himself torn between his duty and doing the right thing. Humane Disposal is a twisty, gut punch of a sci-fi thriller from the bestselling authors Sean Platt and David Wright.

Avery Blake, David Wright, Sean Platt (Author), Tim Jackson (Narrator)

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Hit & Run

Jack should never have been out that morning. If he hadn't been out, he never would've hit the girl on the bike. He never would've made the worst decision of his life - to flee the scene of the crime. Now, two years later, his crime has destroyed two families. And fate has brought him into the life of the last person he thought he'd ever have to see - the girl's mother. Elodie losing her daughter was only the beginning of her pain. Things fell apart with her cop husband, she's struggling to pay her bills, and she's at the end of her rope. Then she meets a man who can help turn her life around - Jack. He's sweet, caring, and the host of a well-known show. He seems perfect. She has no idea that he is also the man who destroyed her everything. Hit and Run is the second book in the new multi-author sci-fi anthology series Version Control, perfect for fans of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone.

Avery Blake, David Wright, Sean Platt (Author), Cindy Kay (Narrator)

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Z 2135

The Darwin Games are over. The battle for survival has just begun… The Lovecraft family is in ruins. Their convict father, Jonah, roams The Barrens, near starvation, in search of his daughter Ana. Only the hope of seeing her again keeps him alive. Meanwhile Ana, Liam, and Duncan have found temporary relief at a camp outside The Walls. Inside City 6, Jonah’s young son, Adam, has been co-opted by Jonah’s enemy, Chief Keller, and is being groomed as a City Watch spy. Between the terrifying zombies roaming The Barrens — monsters created by the plague that destroyed the Old Nation — and the ruthless, manipulative government that controls everything and everyone within the City Walls, no one is safe. Z 2135 is both a frightening vision of a dystopian future and a heartening tale of family, hope, and humanity. The newest season from Sean Platt and David Wright is as captivating as it is terrifying.

David Wright, Sean Platt (Author), Dan John Miller, Sean Platt (Narrator)

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Z 2134

One hundred years after the zombie apocalypse, those lucky enough to survive now exist in scattered cities, under the merciless rule of the City Watch. A simple tenet overshadows all aspects of daily life: obey or die. When Jonah Lovecraft is framed for murder, his status as a Watcher doesn’t spare him from the ultimate punishment: being cast into the Barrens and forced to battle zombies and other criminal contestants in the Darwin Games. As he fights for every heartbeat, his daughter, Ana, embarks on her own desperate quest to uncover the truth about her father. Yet neither expects their efforts to reveal grim secrets that could tear apart the fabric of society — if either lives long enough to expose the truth.

David Housewright, David Wright, Sean Platt (Author), Dan John Miller (Narrator)

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