Showing results by narrator "Jacob Z-Klimaszewski" in All Categories

If you had the pleasure of meeting Martha right this minute, you would think that she is a wonderful little old lady with an infectious smile and a warm heart. And you would be right in thinking that, too.

A man, an amputee, a dual amputee, wanders the West alone on half of a foot to discover what life has to offer. He takes off, running the only way he still knows how, in a car. A car procured from selling his prosthetic leg (the expensive one) on eBay.

The Blighted Road is a 17th-century story of two women’s harrowing journeys through plague and a brutal witch-hunt. Orla, renowned healer and mid-wife in rural England, confronts stillbirths and a mysterious, deadly sickness afflicting her community. The local superstitious people suspect these sinister events are the actions of the Devil.

Life According to Brian chronicles 44 stories of mishap and misadventure of a scale unparalleled in modern man. Disguised in comedy to protect the seriously guilty, the story follows Brian’s escapades traversing the world and captures not only the lunacy of life but the luck involved in avoiding one’s own death.

The story is set in June 1952 and describes one week of action between Tom, 8-years-old, and his Aunt Siobhan, 18-years-old, who looks after him while his parents are forced to leave home. An unexpected event enables them to holiday in Kent, where exciting adventures befall them both.

The audiobook is about two neighbors who live in houses separated by a fence with a gate in it. It was there before either of them moved in. The gate provides easy access between the two properties. One of the neighbours is an ex-war vet who lives alone, and is struggling with life and relationships after his combat experiences. The other property houses a family: a bank manager and his wife.

Born in 1945 in Middlesbrough, the author lived a life of struggle in an overcrowded house with a large family. His younger years were sometimes tough, but there were many highlights as well. He lost his virginity at the age of 12 and from then on was never starved of sex. He started an allotment with his father, bought the first of many pigs at the age of 13, and joined the Young Farmers Club, as he had become hooked on farming. He left school at 15 and began a career in farming.

Born to privilege, Tess Johnson has it all–beauty, brains and a loving family. But even the beautiful people can have their problems. Tess is cruelly expelled from Australia’s most prestigious public school, and her problems are only just beginning.…

If the World Is Yours is a charming tale awash in Banff history that takes you deep into the lives of the toffs and townsfolk who resided in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains when the Great War broke out.

Heartscapes explores "the greater love" we see in people and the world around us. The "heart" poems are the prayers of a contemplative set in the context of a long life that has known tragedy and suffering as well as love and many friendships.

We are all searching for something…for answers…for love…or God perhaps. (Many would say for happiness.) Or could it be for those precious unexpected moments when life hovers pain-free…life’s "cameos"? As for the enigmatic Giulia, her search to uncover family truths finds her caught between two colliding worlds, or maybe three or four. Where exactly does she fit in? Should she speak of what she discovers?

A mountain that fills the horizon, a dream that becomes a nightmare, a woman in search of her forgotten past and a king looking for his future: These separate but related parts are all brought together when a stranger appears in their midst, asking for help. As the story unfolds, the landscape and its inhabitants come to life with the tale moving slowly toward its inevitable climax.

Here is the story of a man’s life that has been riddled and ruffled with emotionally unstable personality disorder. Despite spending a considerable part of his life at various rehabilitation facilities, Eugene’s life was largely marred with crazy-bound incidences. He was a convicted drug dealer with a history of violence. His case was so bad that he even attacked his dad with a claw hammer. He was everything you could think of when it came to drugs and crime. However, from the lowest depths of a mentally unstable man, Eugene rose to become one of the UK’s finest chefs.

This ageless story introduces us to a caterpillar named Fear. Fear is afraid of everything - the other critters who share the garden, lightning storms, being bullied, and making new friends. A chance encounter with a wise butterfly named Faith helps Fear find the courage within to experience the world in a bolder and more joy-filled way. Rosenblum’s message for children is simple yet profound: Fear is just faith turned inside out.  

Listeners are transported to the historical town of Shrewsbury. The Lion Hotel provides the setting for a story in which a detective’s daughter is wrongly accused of a crime. One might have expected her father, Inspector Horace no less, to have easily been able to prove her innocence, but things never quite work out that way when you are a teenager. Fortunately, Florence is quite capable of remaining one step ahead of her father and the hotel staff.

This is a story that, at once, is a moving, exciting, and panoramic view of life. A story of people, their lives, hopes, and dreams. It is also a story of their exploitation and their death. The story is raw, as were the years of its telling. Here we trace a man’s search for acceptance and love, a search that will take us across the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean and into the dark and frightening depths of the Earth. In these minutes, we will find passion—raw, rich, and beautiful—and we will also find the fallibility of man that leads to pain, suffering, and destruction.

Aiden devoted 30 years of his life to the NYPD wherein he worked aggressively as a street cop and homicide detective. Friends and colleagues affectionately dubbed him "The Hammer". His retirement from the NYPD was a bittersweet turning point in his life. In 2015, Aiden decided to retire and live a quiet life with his wife, Alexis, in the fictional small town of Hill Valley, Tennessee. What began as a quiet and seemingly perfect retirement quickly turns into a world filled with rage and grief as a result of the brutal murder of Aiden’s wife by his neighbour’s son, Taylor.

A glimpse of just how dramatically our rapidly changing future will impact our children, family, business, and society, including how we can avoid pitfalls and choose a better future. Change is now "accelerating" so rapidly that experts estimate the world will probably see more change in the next 20 years than we saw in the past 2,000 years. This audiobook reveals, in easily readable form, the full breadth, depth, and rate of technological change that we can expect to see in the next decade.

I am the son of man. I am the one made of clay. I was driven by the call in my chest to see the sea. I was driven by its salt calling the salt in me. If I was melted by the sea in such a chaos of the drowned, then leave my shadow on the palm, and leave it there as old and calm as the palm tree, or as the olive tree or fig tree. Then, take the best of my tweets and turn them all in a prayer, recite it once and then again, relieve my pain, revoke the curse of son, of man for him to go back to heaven and leave alone the universe.

In London, 1989, the metropolitan police are dealing with the biggest drug crime. Drug problem is rising in the capital, and it is up to them to stop these lowlife dealers from smuggling drugs in their city. PC detective Barry Dermative is the expert when it comes to drugs criminals, however, although he works for the police, Barry does not obey the law. He takes his job seriously and has his mind on only one man; Maverick Loki, more commonly known as Loki.