Audiobooks narrated by Tony Chiroldes

"Brought to you by Penguin. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene. Narrated by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous civil servant, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS 'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York Times ‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian © Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Roberto Bolaño (Author), David Crommett, Emilio Delgado, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El soñador (The Dreamer)

"A breathtaking audiobook from Pura Belpre Award winner, Pam Ryan, and MacArthur fellow and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sis! Neftalí siente admiración y curiosidad por todo: los colores del aceite en un charco, un guante perdido, el viento al navegar, el canto de los pájaros. A Neftalí le encanta coleccionar tesoros, soñar despierto y escribir -pasatiempos que su padre piensa que le hacen perder el tiempo. Sin embargo, a pesar de todas las adversidades, el espíritu de Neftali prevalece a pesar de su timidez y la crueldad de su padre hasta llegar a convertirse en uno de los poetas más leídos en todo el mundo, Pablo Neruda. Este libro inspirara' a jóvenes escritores y artistas."

Pam Muñoz Ryan (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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The Hole in Our Gospel 2025 Edition: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

"Read by the author and Tony Chiroldes. Richard Stearns shows that the Bible boldly speaks that there is no "whole gospel" without compassion and justice shown to the poor. With more than 260,000 copies sold, The Hole in Our Gospel continues to impact readers worldwide, and this new edition includes updated statistics, photos, and a foreword from the current World Vision president. Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins? Or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? More than twenty years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child. Stearns's journey took much more than a long flight to Africa. It took answering God's call on his life, a call that tore him out of his corner office at one of America's most prestigious corporations, to walk with the poorest of the poor in our world. Stearns's compelling story demonstrates that the whole gospel was always meant to be a world-changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with each one of us. With more than 260,000 copies sold, this revised and updated edition will be part of World Vision's 75th anniversary. Infographics and reference material can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download."

Richard Stearns (Author), Renée Stearns, Richard Stearns, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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Death Takes Me: from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"Bloomsbury presents Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza, read by Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin, and Victoria Villarreal. Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: ‘Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.’ After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city. From one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, Death Takes Me is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims – a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine – it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality. PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA 'Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language' Lina Meruane 'A masterful storyteller' Jennifer Clement C 2008 Sarah Booker C 2008 Robin Myers C 2008 Cristina Rivera Garza P 2025 Penguin Random House LLC"

Cristina Rivera Garza (Author), Carlotta Brentan, Fabiola Stevenson, Ines del Castillo, Lee Osorio, Mark Sanderlin, Tony Chiroldes, Victoria Villarreal (Narrator)

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Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life

"Life is beautiful, ruthless, and very, very strange. In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies. From sharp claws to brute strength, camouflage to venom—all these tools and abilities share one purpose: to keep their bearer alive long enough to reproduce, helping the species avoid extinction. Every living thing on this planet has developed a time-tested arsenal of weapons and defenses. Some of these weapons and defenses, however, are decidedly more unusual than others. In Strange Survivors, biologist Oné R. Pagán takes us on a tour of the improbable, the ingenious, and the just plain bizarre ways that creatures fight for life. Inside this funny, fascinating field guide to nature’s most colorful characters, you’ll meet killer snails, social bacteria, and an animal with toxic elbows. But Strange Survivors is more than a collection of curiosities—it is a love letter to science and an argument for the continuing relevance of this evolutionary battle as we face the threat of resistant bacteria and the need for novel medical therapies. Whether discussing blood-thinning bats and electric fish or pondering the power of cooperation, Pagán reveals the surprising lessons found in some of life’s natural oddities and how the tactics they employ to live might aid our own survival."

Oné R. Pagán (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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The Sons of El Rey

"A "masterful…mesmerizing and unflinching" (Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author) story about a multigenerational family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond. Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was discovered by a local lucha libre trainer at a time when luchadores—Mexican wrestlers donning flamboyant masks and capes—were treated as daredevils or rock stars. Ernesto found fame, rapidly gaining name recognition across Mexico, but at great expense, nearly costing him his marriage to his wife Elena. Years later, in East Los Angeles, his son, Freddy Vega, is struggling to save his father's gym while Freddy's own son, Julian, is searching for professional and romantic fulfillment as a Mexican American gay man refusing to be defined by stereotypes. With alternating perspectives, Ernesto and Elena take us from the ranches of Michoacán to the makeshift colonias of Mexico City. Freddy describes his life in the suburban streets of 1980s Los Angeles and the community their family built, as Julian descends deep into our present-day culture of hook-up apps, lucha burlesque shows, and the dark underbelly of West Hollywood. The Sons of El Rey is an "epic and transporting novel" (Alejandro Varela, National Book Award finalist and author of The Town of Babylon) of a family wading against time, legacy, and generational trauma, yet always choosing the fight."

Alex Espinoza (Author), André Santana, Gisela Chípe, Lee Osorio, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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Puerto Rico: A National History

"This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today. In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus, and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's turbulent history in the centuries that followed, from the first indigenous insurrection against colonial rule in 1511—led by the powerful chieftain Agüeybaná II—to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1952. He deftly portrays the contemporary period and the intertwined though unequal histories of the archipelago and the continental United States. Puerto Rico is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly. Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta"

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Mantequilla

"Tito, el héroe de este relato, hace un viaje a su infancia, la recorre a través de capítulos de una vida de variados matices: tenebrosos, humillantes, alegres, reveladores, tristes y definitorios para convertirse en el hombre que escribe la historia. Basado en la producción de la compañía de teatro Teatro SEA, este audiolibro bilingüe está narrado por un elenco completo e incluye música y efectos de sonido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Tito, the hero of this story, travels back to his childhood, while passing through chapters of a life with a myriad of shades: dark, humiliating, joyful, revealing, sad and defining; to become the man who now writes this story. Based on the Teatro SEA theatre company production, this bilingual audiobook is narrated by a full cast and includes music and sound effects."

Manuel Antonio Morán (Author), Manuel Antonio Morán, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Los cuentos de Juan Bobo

"Un personaje del folklore puertorriqueño, quien a través de sus travesuras y ocurrencias aprende el valor de la honestidad, el trabajo y la amistad. Basado en la producción de la compañía de teatro Teatro SEA, este audiolibro bilingüe está narrado por un elenco completo e incluye música y efectos de sonido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A charming character from Puerto Rico learns to value honesty, hard work and friendship while making the most out of his playful adventures. Based on the Teatro SEA theatre company production, this bilingual audiobook is narrated by a full cast and includes music and sound effects."

Manuel Antonio Morán (Author), Manuel Antonio Morán, Tony Chiroldes, Wanda Arriaga (Narrator)

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I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

"Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt these stories. A college grad reunites with a high-school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy-hour french fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit for the sake of friendship. Exploring the lives of bisexual and gay Puerto Rican men, these fifteen stories show a vulnerable, intimate world of yearning and desire. The stars of these narratives linger between living their truest selves and remaining in the wings, embarking on a journey of self-discovery to satisfy their hunger for companionship and belonging."

Christopher Gonzalez (Author), Anthony Medina, Christian Barillas, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Memorias de un primate: La vida nada convencional de un neurocientifico entre babuinos (A Neuroscientists Unconventional Life Among the Baboons)

"En la tradición de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores científicos más reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de cómo dejó las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante más de dos décadas su trabajo de campo con una tropa de traviesos babuinos en la sabana africana. Sólo un joven idealista podía aterrizar en el corazón de Kenia esperando encontrar ahí una versión animada de lo que había visto y estudiado hasta entonces en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Nueva York. Memorias de un primate combina serias observaciones científicas con comentarios irónicos sobre los desafíos y placeres de la vida en la selva del Serengueti. Sapolsky sobrevive a atrocidades culinarias y surrealistas encuentros a punta de pistola, mientras da buena cuenta de la invasión de la mentalidad turística en los vestigios más remotos del África virgen. Durante su investigación sobre las alteraciones en el sistema nervioso de los primates enfrentados a situaciones de estrés, se enamora perdidamente de estos animales, a primera vista agresivos y bastante antipáticos, y regresa a ellos verano tras verano. Aislado en la sabana, sin luz y sin agua, pero con el humor y la curiosidad siempre bien dispuestos, Sapolsky se convierte en un agudo observador de la fauna animal y humana del lugar."

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Bailando con elefantes: Entrenamiento en mindfulness para quines viven una enfermedad cronica, demencia, oun cerebro que envejece (Mindfulness training for those living with dementia, chronic illness or an aging brain)

"“Yo no sé nada acerca de elefantes, y tampoco sé sobre baile. Y a pesar de todo, este libro es un manual de entrenamiento y una carta de amor dirigida a los que, como tú, bailan con elefantes. Hacer frente a los elefantes es algo que generalmente evitamos. La mayoría de nosotros tenemos elefantes escondidos en nuestros armarios, ocultos a simple vista. Son nuestros grandes temores no reconocidos. ¿Cuáles son tus elefantes? ¿A qué tienes miedo? ¿Quién te dio esos elefantes? ¿Cómo puedes aprender a amar a tus elefantes y a bailar con ellos? En este libro, te guiaré en el arte de bailar con elefantes. Uno de mis grandes elefantes es la enfermedad de Huntington. Es una patología cerebral genética, incurable, progresiva, fatal. Una especie de combinación entre párkinson, alzhéimer y esquizofrenia. ¡Basta con que te imagines un elefante con esta combinación! Esa imagen hoy en día me hace reír. Pero no siempre ha sido así”. - Jarem Sawatsky, autor de Bailando con elefantes. Si te gustan las historias conmovedoras, la sabiduría consciente y un toque de humor irreverente, entonces te encantará este libro"

Jarem Sawatsky (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Tony Chiroldes

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