Audiobooks narrated by Desmond Manny

American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives

"A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century. In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, nicknamed the "Johns Committee." His crime? Being a suspected homosexual. And the government of Florida would use any tactic at their disposal-legal or not-to get Copleston to admit it. Using a secret trove of primary source documents that have been decoded and de-censored for the first time in history, journalist Robert Fieseler unravels the mystery of what actually happened behind the closed doors of an inquisition that held ordinary citizens ransom to its extraordinary powers. The state of Florida would prefer that this history remain buried. But for nearly a decade, the Florida Legislature founded, funded, and supported the Johns Committee-an organization using the cover of communism to viciously attack members of the NAACP and queer professors and students. Spearheaded by Charley Johns, a multi-term politician in a gerrymandered legislature, the Committee was determined to eliminate any threats to the state's white, conservative regime. Fieseler describes the heartbreaking ramifications for citizens of Florida whose lives were imperiled, profiling marginalized residents with compassion and a determination to bring their devasting experiences to light at last. A propulsive, human-centered drama, with fascinating insight into Florida politics, American Scare is a page-turning reckoning of our racist and homophobic past-and its chilling parallels to today."

Robert W. Fieseler (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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Threads of Us

"Sometimes the answers we are looking for are hidden in our own stories. The night before the dance performance that could determine Gracie Wilder’s career, her father unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a curious gift with ties to a myth told to her as a child. Desperate to understand her father’s unspoken words, she puts her greatest dream on the line for an opportunity to remember the childhood she tried so hard to forget. A few chance encounters with Beau Griffin, a bighearted building contractor, pull Gracie closer to her past. Griffin is no stranger to grief. Most recently, he has been held responsible for the demise of a Chicago building that harbors the cornerstones of his own history. In a moment of faith or folly, the unlikely pair follow the origin of Gracie’s childhood memories to Old Montreal. There, they discover family secrets that will challenge the narratives that have defined Gracie’s life. And Griffin will have to confront his own personal myths if he is to build room for Gracie in his future. Together, they must heal their history backward in order to move forward. Poignant and uplifting, Threads of Us explores the self-discovery that comes to us not despite our hardships but because of them and the mysterious connections that help us recreate ourselves."

Christie Havey Smith (Author), Brandon Massey, Desmond Manny, Helen Keeley, Tegan Cohen (Narrator)

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A Little Bit More

"The Collected Short Fiction of John R Little, fully illustrated black & white paperback and full-color hardcover editions. Illustrations by Luke Spooner, with new story introductions by John R Little. This volume contains 10 stories. A Little Bit More is Volume 3 of a four-part series. Introduction by John R Little Secrets Second Chance The Goldilocks Zone The Exchange The First Lunar Halloween Demon Air Memories The Rules Anniversary By Insanity of Reason (with Lisa Morton)"

John R Little (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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The Quitter's Manifesto: Quit a Job You Hate for the Work You Love

"A life-affirming book for every employee who feels stuck, The Quitter’s Manifesto is an inspiring guide to leaving a job that doesn’t fulfill you in order to find work that does. Quitting a job with a steady paycheck and benefits is tough—you have to write a letter of resignation, find new work or start a business, and dust off the resume. Still, if this was all that was stopping you from making the leap, you probably would have leapt long ago. Though quitting is about action, it’s far more about why you aren’t taking action. If you’ve felt trapped in your job but can’t quite seem to take the next step, this book will give you the game plan you need to deal with uncertainty. The Quitter’s Manifesto was written by two successful Quitters and features the inspiring stories of many more, and they will help you create a plan that will make leaving a job seem less daunting. You’ll learn strategies to: - Find the root cause of why you’re stuck and what to do about it - Develop a safer, more gradual approach to transitioning to work that matters - Build a team to help you find opportunities and navigate difficulties - Dialin your financial situation to make quitting less risky - Failure-proof your mind for the ups and downs of change - Easy to read, simple to follow, The Quitter’s Manifesto is a call to freedom for anyone who’s waited too long to make a change. The work you love is out there—and your new job is not to give up on yourself."

Pat Hiban, Tim Rhode (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional's Guide to Building Wealth

"Your seven-figure real estate agent income is six simple steps away. It’s difficult to build a real estate business, and it’s even more difficult not to lose yourself in the daily grind. 6 Steps to 7 Figures contains all the tactics that the best real estate agents use to promote their businesses, become financially free, and pursue the lives of their dreams. Pat Hiban is one of the only residential real estate agents to hold the title Billion-Dollar Agent—having sold more than 4,000 homes with a billion dollars in volume—and he compiled two decades of invaluable experience into this manual. A combination of motivational success strategies and practical tips for flourishing in real estate, this completely expanded and revised edition also contains two new chapters on what the author learned from giving up the workaholic lifestyle. In this book, you'll learn how Pat: - Raised his average sales price from $92,000 to more than $450,000 with four simple steps - Transformed $13,000 in annual commissions to more than $5 million annually - Went from zero foreclosure listings to over 325 in two years - Got his team revved up by humiliating himself on YouTube - Landed more customers by dressing up as Dracula - Learned some of his best tactics through “authorized stealing” from his competitors - Shifted from being a raging workaholic to taking 153 days off each year"

Pat Hiban (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

"A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America’s obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times–bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American’s personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans—including author Deborah Plant’s brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America—are deprived of these basic freedoms every day. In her studies of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant became fascinated by Hurston’s explanation for the atrocities of the international slave trade. In her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston wrote: “But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. . . . It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory.” We look the other way when the basic human rights of marginalized and stigmatized groups are violated and desecrated, not realizing that only the practice of justice everywhere secures justice, for any of us, anywhere. An active vigilance is required of those who would be and remain free; with Of Greed and Glory, Deborah Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Deborah G. Plant (Author), Desmond Manny, Emana Rachelle (Narrator)

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The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias

"Phobias are defined as an irrational and extreme fear to something. It could be anything as long as it causes an intense and debilitating fear. What happens when these irrational fears/phobias become reality? When the irrational becomes rational and there’s a reason to be scared? Find out in The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias. We’ve created an A to Z phobia list and elevated each one to a new level of fear. These stories come to life in ways that will make you want to sleep with the light on, double check the locks on your door, and think twice before dismissing your fear as irrational. - A — A TOUCH OF MADNESS — TIM WAGGONER - B — IT CAME FROM THE GRAVE — JAMES PYNE - C — ENTWINED — COLLEEN ANDERSON - D — DESTINY'S ROAD TRIP — JAY SEATE - E — MORBID DREAD OF THE DAWN — PHILIP ATHANS - F — MUTUAL POSSESSION — WT PATERSON - G — RIGHT OF CROSSING — JAMES CHAMBERS - H — PASSING JUDGEMENT — CHAD LUTZKE - I — THE CLINIC — ASHER ELLIS - J — NOT JUST DESSERTS — JONAH BUCK - K — THE MAN WHO FEARED THE SKY — JOHN SKIPP - L — CHILDREN OF BLOOD — GREG CHAPMAN - M — THE YEARNING JADE — HANK SCHWAEBLE - N — THE CEMETERY MAN — JG FAHERTY - O — WHITE TO BLACK — MICHAEL BAILEY - P — THE HUNCH — RICHARD CHIZMAR - Q — FIVE IN THE SIX — SEPHERA GIRON - R — THE TOXIC MAGICIAN — SHERI SEBASTIAN-GABRIEL - S — FEEDING THE ORISHAS — GABINO IGLESIAS - T — MUNCHAUSEN — MAX BOOTH III - U — TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE HAPPIEST PISTACHIO — MEHITOBEL WILSON - V — BEAUTIFUL WOMEN — RAY GARTON - W — A BOLT OF LIGHTNING — EDWARD M ERDELAC - X — HALFPENNY — STEVEN M VANCE - Y — TOO HOT IN BOILERTOWN — JILL HAND - Z — THE CATALYST TO GROW SOME GUTS — KERRY LIPP Read less"

Mj Sydney (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, Vol II

"Expanding upon The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, this second volume brings thirteen* not-so-irrational fears much closer to home. Find out what happens when a family goes missing in their own home, an acquired piece of artwork turns out to be much more than bargained for, a child is left home alone with his grandma, the kitchen compost gets out of control, doors in the house refuse to open and more. Stories by Mehitobel Wilson, Michael Bailey, Donna JW Munro, Steve Carr, Kealan Patrick Burke, Stephen King*, JG Faherty, John Peyton Cooke, John Palisano, Colleen Anderson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Jill Hand and Sèphera Girón. *Please note that due to contractual limitations and obligations, Stephen King’s story, “Gramma”, is only available in the paperback, limited hardcover and audiobook editions. "

Mj Sydney (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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The Laughing Dog: A Bryce Pedley, PI Novel

"Bryce Pedley is a 40s-era PI in modern day Latham, New York, complete with a fedora, a double-breasted suit, a shoulder harness, and a revolver. Where cops fail, he succeeds-and the cops take all the credit. In The Laughing Dog, Samuel Cohen hires Pedley in a bar to find a rare book collection the Nazis stole in 1939. Locate rare books? Easy. Except Pedley's not the only one searching for the books. Wilhelm Hoffmann, of Nazi ancestry, has already purchased several books from the lost collection and has no intention of stopping. After Pedley is beaten, abducted, and left to die, he realizes little of this is about rare books. A stack of old WWII letters lead Pedley to a British Lieutenant and his driver who were in Bavaria in 1945 and to the greatest discovery of post-WWII. Confident he has the mystery figured out, the search leads Pedley to the basement of a house that hasn't been unoccupied for more than eight years. Expectations are high.... but nothing is as he expected."

Dwayne Clayden (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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The Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier

"A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER An essential introduction and guide to navigating the next Internet revolution—everything from the metaverse and NFTs to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity—from the co-author of the international bestseller Blockchain Revolution. The Web, and with it the Internet, are entering a new age. We’ve moved from the “Read-only Web,” which had little functionality for interacting with content, to the “Read-Write Web,” which offered seemingly endless collaborative opportunities, from sharing with our favorite people to shopping at our favorite brands. But the profusion of cyberattacks, data hacks, and online profiling have left many of us to view digital life as a Faustian bargain in need of a major rethink. That rethink is Web3, the “Read-Write-Own Web”—a decentralized Internet where individuals own their own identities and can securely trade assets like money, securities, intellectual property, and art peer to peer. Made possible by blockchains, the foundational technology of bitcoin, Web3 promises the biggest shake up of business since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in the Middle Ages. It is the Internet’s new frontier. In Web3, award-winning author and technology investor Alex Tapscott provides a cutting-edge guide to the Internet’s next era. Covering everything from the metaverse and non-fungible tokens to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, this indispensable, forward-thinking book describes the building blocks and often hidden technologies that will be foundational to our cultural and economic progress."

Alex Tapscott (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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BRUISES

"A collection of 23 stories from Kurt Newton, including: The Pit, Puppies For Sale, Bruises, Under the Bridge, Thumbin ', Something Profound, The Whittling, creak!, Angels of Mercy, Angels of Grief, Skins, The Banana Man, Dead Dogs, Trunk Story, Nature Walk, The Dog Park, B - Side, Lost Dog, Periphery, Post Mortem, The Stagnant Ponds, Thirty-Two Scenes from A Dead Hooker's Mouth, Lump and The Golden Door. “For dark and cerebral writing, read Kurt Newton, a purveyor of tragedies of both the human condition and of the supernatural; to wit, his latest—a collection that is not just 23 short stories, but 23 sharp and shocking BRUISES to the psyche!”—Eric J. Guignard, multiple award-winning author and editor, including That Which Grows Wild and Doorways to the Deadeye"

Kurt Newton (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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The Horned Ones: Cornucopia

Christine Morgan (Author), Desmond Manny (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Desmond Manny