Audiobooks narrated by Pamela Almand

Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk

This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don't want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China? This is an obvious question. Yet there's been an extraordinary effort by government officials in China, as well as leading scientific experts in the United States and around the world, to shut down any investigation or discussion of the lab leak theory. In private, however, some of the world's elite scientists have seen a lab accident as a very real and horrifying possibility. They know what the public doesn't. Lab accidents happen with shocking frequency. Even at the world's best-run labs. That's among the revelations from Alison Young, the award-winning investigative reporter who has spent nearly 15 years uncovering shocking safety breaches at prestigious U.S. laboratories for USA Today and other respected news outlets. In Pandora's Gamble, Young goes deep into the troubling history -- and enormous risks -- of leaks and accidents at scientific labs. She takes readers on a riveting journey around the world to some of the worst lab mishaps in history, including the largely unknown stories of the lab workers at the U.S. Army's Camp Detrick who suffered devastating infections at alarming rates during World War II. And her groundbreaking reporting exposes for the first time disturbing new details about recent accidents at prestigious laboratories - and the alarming gaps in government oversight that put all of us at risk. Sourced through meticulous reporting and exclusive interviews with key players including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former CDC Director Tom Frieden and others, Young's examination reveals that the only thing rare about lab accidents is the public rarely finds out about them. Because when accidents happen, powerful people and institutions often work hard to keep the information secret.

Alison Young (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Restored for His Glory: Disgrace to Grace, A Pathway to Freedom and Forgiveness

Do the Setbacks and Scars of Life Define You or Refine You? women have made decisions in life that they have allowed to define them in some limiting way. Maybe it was ending an unplanned pregnancy, experiencing a failed marriage, having an abusive childhood – the list can seem endless. Often feelings of regret, guilt and shame, feelings we have gotten very good at hiding from others, keep us settling for less than our true, God-given potential. This book can be your passport to a life of strength, purpose, significance, and joy! Discover a place of grace, of healing, help, hope and restoration for your weary soul. As Denise shares with you her journey to wholeness, may you too find renewed confidence, belief, and hope that your best days are ahead.

Denise South (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief About Racism

By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies invites readers to look at how white Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both experienced psychotherapists skilled at facilitating dialogue about racial issues, are cognizant of the challenges that even the thought of such conversations often presents. Their book is based on the premise that for positive and lasting change to occur, hearts as well as minds must be opened. This courageous anthology posits that unearned privilege has damaged the psyche of white people as well as their capacity to understand racism. Drawing on the intimate stories of diverse contributors, Combined Destinies is organized thematically, with individual chapters focusing on topics such as guilt, shame, silence, and resistance.

Ann Todd Jealous, Caroline T. Haskell (Author), Ann Richardson, Barbara Henslee, Bernadette Dunne, Caroline Shaffer, Carrington Macduffie, Dion Graham, Hillary Huber, Johnny Heller, Justine Eyre, Pamela Almand, Patrick Lawlor, Robert Fass, Robin Miles, Suzanne Toren, Traber Burns (Narrator)

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A Widow's Journey: Reflections on Walking Alone

Have you recently lost your husband? Are there days when you feel so terribly alone—and that no one else could possibly understand? Author Gayle Roper understands. As a recent widow herself, Gayle writes, So who am I now that there's only one place at the table...one pillow with a head dent, one damp towel after a shower. There's only one toothbrush in the holder. The seat is never left up anymore. I can still write Mrs. in front of my name, but I'm no longer in a marriage relationship. You need two people for a marriage and there's only me. Is there only you? Then join Gayle as she draws on her emotions during the loss of her beloved husband, Chuck, and offers you a compassionate devotional to encourage you through your darkest days. Gayle knows a widow's pain is deep. But she also knows God's love is deeper still, and it's in His love you'll find your deepest comfort.

Gayle Roper (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air,

Amelia Earhart captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane. This audiobook, her personal account of the historic flight, sparkles with her high-spirited charm and adventurous determination. Narrated by a fellow female pilot with a voice reminiscent of Earhart’s mid-West twang, it includes logbook entries from the historic flight as well as an autobiographical account of her young adult life and fascination with airplanes, and a serious-minded discussion of the future of flight and the important role of women in aviation. 20 Hrs. 40 Min. remains a classic tale of adventure to this day. Includes a bonus PDF with illustrations and photos, including photos of actual logbook pages from Amelia’s flight

Amelia Earhart (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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In the Crosshairs: A Contemporary Western Romantic Suspense

Changing Your Life Won’t Make Things Easier Book 4 in Terry Odell’s Colorado-based Triple-D Ranch Romantic Suspense series catches up with the cowboys. There’s more to ranch life than minding the cattle. Cowhand Frank Wembly loves his work on the Triple-D Ranch. After his stint in the army as a Ranger, he relishes the peaceful life in the Colorado mountains. However, the ranch is in financial straits, and a cattle rustler threatens to destroy what he’s grown to love. Meeting Kiera when she’s stranded on the ranch has Frank wondering if he should rethink his “no attachments, no strings” lifestyle. But first, he has to call on his army skills to help keep the Triple-D running. Financial advisor Kiera O’Leary thinks her new boss might be guilty of more than sexual harassment, so she takes advantage of her use it or lose it vacation time before she officially quits. She sets off to pursue her dream of being a photographer—until a car-meets-cow incident forces a shift in plans. She refuses to be a guest at the Triple-D ranch and insists on trading her bookkeeping skills for room and board to help get the ranch’s finances in order. She’s falling for one of the ranch hands, but things are heating up at home. Meanwhile, she finds herself in the middle of a mystery—one with potentially deadly consequences.

Terry Odell (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools-and What We Can Do about It

We're used to assuming that politics stop at the classroom door. Those days are over. Are your kids being indoctrinated in school? Unfortunately, it's increasingly likely. From "social justice" to critical race theory, and from advocacy and activism campaigns to planned "action weeks," teachers and schools nationwide are abandoning neutrality in the classroom, embracing political agendas and partisan aims, and expecting students to get on board. Meanwhile, students with doubts or misgivings decline to voice objections due to fears of lowered grades, impacted college recommendation letters, social ostracism, "cancellation," public shaming, ridicule, and other formal and informal means of "correcting" them and making them toe the ideological line. Is this what we want for our kids? Will this kind of "education" produce able citizens or independent thinkers capable of self-government? The range of opinion has been narrowing in higher education for some time; now, heavy-handed thought constriction and chilled speech are choking our secondary, middle, and even elementary schools. The situation is dire-and America urgently needs a response. This book provides the tools we need to confront and remove hidden agendas, to uproot and reject educational biases, and to restore balance and integrity to America's classrooms. It's time to undoctrinate our schools!

Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Scared Fearless: An Unlikely Agent in the US Secret Service

The era: the 1970s. The location: an airplane en route to Washington, DC. Kathryn Clark Childers chats with a fellow passenger. "Are you visiting?" her seatmate asked."No, I work there," Childers said, pointing out the window to the White House, which had just come into view. "I'm a Secret Service agent." "Really? I didn't know they let girls pull that duty. I'm not really sure what you do.""It's a secret." Recruited to the Secret Service as one of its first five female agents, Childers would surprise many people, including herself. Her duties included undercover work, protective details for Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, and attending state dinners where she met world leaders, including Prince Juan Carlos of Spain. In addition, she had to figure out how to disguise the .357 Magnum revolver that she carried at all times, whether wearing jogging clothes, a business suit, or an evening gown. It was 1970, and the Secret Service, like most public and private organizations, struggled-sometimes unsuccessfully-with the challenges of incorporating a rising tide of women into government service and other professional workplaces. Written in a lighthearted but highly informative style, Scared Fearless details the obstacles and the joys, the moments of high adventure, and the laughable fashion dilemmas that were part of Childers's groundbreaking role. Through everything that happened, Childers says she followed her father's admonition: "Just do it scared."

Kathryn Clark Childers (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Amelia Earhart's autobiographical book The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation covers Earhart's life through May 20-21, 1932, "when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland. The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes ... and stirred such public adulation that she confided, 'I'll be glad when the zoo part is over.'" (ANB)

Amelia Earhart (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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The Glory Road: A Gospel Gypsy Life

Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows Anita Faye Garner grew up in the South-just about every corner of it. She and her musical family lived in Texarkana, Bossier City, Hot Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Pascagoula, Bogalusa, Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans, and points between, picking up sticks every time her father, a Pentecostal preacher known as "Brother Ray," took over a new congregation. In between jump-starting churches, Brother Ray took his wife and kids out on the gospel revival circuit as the Jones Family Singers. Ray could sing and play, and "Sister Fern" (Mama) was a celebrated singer and songwriter, possessed of both talent and beauty. Rounding out the band were the young Garner (known as Nita Faye then) and her big brother Leslie Ray. At all-day singings and tent revivals across the South, the Joneses made a joyful noise for the faithful and loaded into the car for the next stage of their tour. But growing up gospel wasn't always joyous. The kids practically raised and fended for themselves, bonding over a shared dislike of their rootless life and strict religious upbringing. Sister Fern dreamed of crossing over from gospel to popular music and recording a hit record. An unlikely combination of preacher's wife and glamorous performer, she had the talent and presence to make a splash, and her remarkable voice brought Saturday night rock-and-roll to Sunday morning music. Always singing, performing, and recording at the margins of commercial success, Sister Fern shared a backing band with Elvis Presley and wrote songs recorded by Johnny Cash and many other artists. In her touching memoir The Glory Road, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The story begins with Ray's attempts to settle down and the family's inevitable return to the gospel circuit and concludes with Sister Fern's brushes with stardom and the family's journey west to California where they finally landed-with some unexpected detours along the way. The Glory Road carries listeners back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.

Anita Faye Garner (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Nothing Bad between Us: A Mennonite Missionary's Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness

After being publicly humiliated in front of her entire close-knit Mennonite community, Marlena Fiol didn't know how she would recover. Follow her journey from an abusive upbringing in Paraguay to escape, love, and loss in the United States and finally on to forgiveness and reconciliation. Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena's childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to both be accepted in Paraguay and escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad between Us, follow Marlena's journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars and imperfections included. Uncover inner peace-and inner strength. Nothing Bad between Us is a story of brokenness and eventual redemption that taps into our collective yearning for healing and forgiveness. As you read Marlena's story, you will: Learn how to forgive yourself and others without giving up your personal growth and self-confidenceDiscover that transformation and redemption often exist even in the most broken parts of who you areFind out how to stand in your power, knowing that vulnerability won't lead to your downfall, but to increasing courage, connection, and authenticityReaders of memoirs about family, self-healing, and the strength of a woman like The Glass Castle, Love Warrior, and Leaving the Witness will be captivated by Nothing Bad between Us.

Marlena Fiol (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All

A native of Canada with direct experience under a single-payer system, Pipes debunks the Medicare for All plans touted by Democrat contenders. American health care is at a crossroads. Health spending reached $3.5 trillion in 2017. Yet more than 27 million people remain uninsured. And it's unclear if all that spending is buying higher-quality care.Patients, doctors, insurers, and the government acknowledge that the status quo is unsustainable. America's last attempt at health care reform-Obamacare-didn't work. Nearly a decade after its passage, Democrats are calling for a government takeover of the nation's health care system: Medicare for All.Supporters of Medicare for All assert the right to health care, promising universal, high-quality care to all Americans at no cost. With a sales pitch like that, it's no wonder the idea has broad support. Democrats, particularly progressive ones, hope to capitalize on this enthusiasm.Here Sally C. Pipes makes a case against Medicare for All. Using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the UK she explains how single-payer health care makes a litany of promises it can't possibly keep.Between unpacking the plans under consideration in Congress-including the real costs behind the claims-and detailing the horrors of single-payer care in other countries, Pipes highlights how Americans actually fare better than their peers in Canada and the UK on health outcomes. Included are heart-wrenching stories of the human costs of free, universal, government-run health care systems.Pipes concludes with her vision for delivering the affordable, accessible, quality care the American people are looking for.

Sally C. Pipes (Author), Pamela Almand (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Pamela Almand