Audiobooks narrated by Arte Johnson

Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults

Todays Generation iY (teens brought up with the internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake childrens superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity. Shows how to identify the problem of artificial maturity in Generation iY and Homelanders Reveals what to do to help children balance autonomy, responsibility, and information Includes a down-to-earth model for coaching and guiding youth to true maturity Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth regularly a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership they so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion.

Tim Elmore (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Resonance

When the Earth's magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity. Dr. Becky Sorenson has found a cache of frogs with a very high mutation rate...and some odd behaviors. Dr. David Carter's core earth samples seem to indicate the next polar reversal will be worse than predicted. And CDC researchers Jordan and Jillian are looking at a strange new disease. When the four scientists delve deeper, they discover they are all looking at the leading edge of a sweeping magnetic polar reversal. As humanity ignores their increasingly panicked warnings, the scientists will have to fight to save everyone...if they even can. Resonance is a gripping, science-based thriller that will make you wonder what will happen when the poles really do shift. If you're ready for a smart ride that will keep you guessing, start listening to Resonance now. Praise for the book: 'An action-packed thriller. Highly recommended.' (Midwest Book Review)

A.J. Scudiere (Author), Arte Johnson, Carrington Mcduffie, David Birney, Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The False Gems & Other Tales of Obsession

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short-story genre, producing more than three hundred during his lifetime. These concise stories contain twists and shocking turns, and range from the fantastic and supernatural, with characters descending into madness and their most base desires, to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, and to the broader philosophical ruminations on the nature of regret and what it means to love. The twenty-eight stories in this collection include "The Horla" (a chilling tale of one man's descent into madness); "The Diary of a Madman" (a respected judge with a dark secret); "The Artist" (a skilled performer seeks revenge on his wife, who happens to be his costar); "The Diamond Necklace" (a poor woman borrows a diamond necklace and disaster strikes); "A Coward" (a man instigates a duel and struggles to face his own fear); "In the Moonlight" (a priest opens his eyes to love in unexpected places); and more.

Guy De Maupassant (Author), Arte Johnson, Gabrielle De Cuir, Justine Eyre, Paul Boehmer, Simon Vance, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Resonance

When the Earth’s magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity. Dr. Becky Sorenson has found a cache of frogs with a very high mutation rate...and some odd behaviors. Dr. David Carter’s core earth samples seem to indicate the next polar reversal will be worse than predicted. And CDC researchers Jordan and Jillian are looking at a strange new disease. When the four scientists delve deeper, they discover they are all looking at the leading edge of a sweeping magnetic polar reversal. As humanity ignores their increasingly panicked warnings, the scientists will have to fight to save everyone...if they even can. Resonance is a gripping, science-based thriller that will make you wonder what will happen when the poles really do shift. If you’re ready for a smart ride that will keep you guessing, start listening to Resonance now.

A.J. Scudiere (Author), Arte Johnson, Carrington Maduffie, David Birney, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Around the World in 80 Days - Mercury Theatre

Jules Verne (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres. A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants-these stories and ten others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead," "Deathman," "A Girl like You," "Loverboy," "Muse," "Riff," "The Brasher Girl," "Survival," "Masque," "Second Most Popular," and others. This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic."

Ed Gorman (Author), Aaron Johnston, Arte Johnson, Gabrielle De Cuir, Moira Quirk, Rex Linn, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Various, Various Narrators, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown-until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes. You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.

Edd Mcnair, Edgar Allan Poe, Elliot Engel, Oscar Wilde, Phd Elliot Engel, Robert Frost (Author), Alfre Woodard, Arte Johnson, Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, David Warner, Efrem Zimbalist, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elliott Gould, Gabrielle De Cuir, Gregory Hines, Jean Smart, Joel Grey, Kevin Mccarthy, Melissa Manchester, Michael Tucker, Michael York, Phd Elliot Engel, Roger Rees, Roscoe Lee Browne, Simon Vance, Simon Vance, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Fry, Various, Various Narrators, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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The Pet and the Pendulum

In The Tell-Tale Start, twins Edgar and Allan Poe foiled the nefarious Professor Perry, who wanted to use them in his deadly quantum entanglement experiment. In Once Upon a Midnight Eerie, they took on his equally evil mother and daughter. Now, in The Pet and the Pendulum, it's time for the real showdown, which takes place in an old mansion right outside Baltimore. As with the first two books, The Pet and the Pendulum is filled with codes, brain-teasers, smart (not snarky) humor, and cameos by the actual Edgar Allan Poe, who is watching over his great-great-great-nephews from the Great Beyond. Listeners won't want to miss the Misaventures' end!

Gordon McAlpine (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Once Upon a Midnight Eerie: The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book Two

In The Tell-Tale Start, Edgar and Allan Poe (great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe) managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who was (and is) determined to kill just one of them, in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? And can the twins—with the help of their co-stars, Em and Milly Dickinson, their ghostly forebear, and a pair of real ghosts—manage to outwit them? “Entertaining and original. . . . Endlessly fun and ultimately very satisfying on every level.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Tell-Tale Start audiobook

Gordon McAlpine (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Resonance

The shift is coming—soon. Dr. David Carter knows this. However, he’s a geologist, so “soon” means anywhere from tomorrow to a thousand years from now. People are dying—now. Drs. Jordan Abellard and Jillian Brookwood are standing at the edge of SuperAIDS … or are they? They won’t be able to figure it out if they can’t get some authorization signed—and soon. But they’re peons, and no one is paying attention. Whole species died at the last polar shift, 65 million years ago. Right now Dr. Becky Sorenson has some seriously mutated frogs in her lab. In Los Angeles, bees are making abnormal columns on the side of the freeways. In Georgia, birds are migrating out of season. It all makes a sick kind of sense when the doctors consider that the last magnetic shift is strangely coincidental to the dinosaur die-out. And the only similarity in the problems today is that each is occurring in a hot spot—a pocket of reversed polarity that tells them all. The shift is already here.

A. J. Scudiere (Author), A Full Cast, Arte Johnson, Carrington Macduffie, Dan Jenkins, David Birney, Ellen Datlow, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, Judy Young, Mirron Willis, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor, Scott Peterson, Stefan Rudnicki, Tom Schiff, Various Readers (Narrator)

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Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrit

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling novels, think again. Dance of the Reptiles collects the best of Hiaasen’s Miami Herald columns, which lay bare the stories--large and small--that demonstrate anew that truth is far stranger than fiction. Hiaasen offers his commentary—indignant, disbelieving, sometimes righteously angry, and frequently hilarious—on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system as well as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Bernie Madoff's trial, and the shenanigans of the recent presidential elections. Whether or not you have read Carl Hiaasen before, you are in for a wild ride.

Carl Hiaasen (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Bad Monkey

Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters. Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.

Carl Hiaasen (Author), Arte Johnson (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Arte Johnson