Audiobooks narrated by Becky Parker

Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror

Benno Neuburger, a modest land investor from Munich and Anna Einstein daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. They begin their lives together with great hope. It is a relatively prosperous time and a very optimistic one for German Jews who are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It’s not clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel. Even as news of an assassination in an “obscure” Balkan corner of the continent passes like a cold wind through Munich on a warm beer-garden July day, people shudder but feel no great alarm. Yet what follows is a war provoked by inter-colonialist competition. It is prolonged and bloody, giving way to German defeat, revolution, a brief socialist interlude in Munich, a merciless counter revolution, and the pitiless demagoguery of defeated generals. So marks the commencement of an era of nearly relentless distress and turmoil for Germany. The lives of Benno and Anna and their extended families are amid this swirl—trying to make a life as they struggle to survive, as they cling to the hope of a peaceful resolution to crisis. But to no avail. Munich becomes the epicenter of German fascism fed by nationalist resentment and racial madness – an offspring of European rivalries and colonialism. In the 1920s the brown shirts of Germany’s former African colonial army become the uniform of a domestic legion of terror. In the 1920s Benno, Anna and their children live as close neighbors to the demagogue who will become the Nazi leader. A slow-moving horror show envelops them in the years that follow. In the 1930s and 1940s: Emigrating children, a pogrom, a new war, evictions, “resettlement” via a train ride east . . . desperate acts of resistance, arrest, trial – as the holocaust plays out— all up close and personal: A human story told through the voices of those who lived it.

Bruce Neuburger (Author), Becky Parker, Bruce Neuburger, Elias Khalil, Heather Tracy, Jason Lasky, Keith O'Brien, Ken Teutsch, Kerr Lordygan, Peter Borys, Rebecca Stern, Samantha Cooper, Tristan Wright (Narrator)

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But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most “normal” childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated—fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture. This memoir explores Claudia’s relationships with her German refugee parents—a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich—and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love. But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.

Claudia Marseille (Author), Becky Parker (Narrator)

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Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships (3rd Edition)

3rd Edition Updated and revised, including a new section on the Troubled Teen Industry Cult victims and those who have experienced abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides insightful information for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track.

Janja Lalich (Author), Becky Parker, Janja Lalich, Ryan Edlinger, Tyra Kennedy (Narrator)

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Expect Obsession

Crystal ball reader Isadora wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility to keep Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered the temp secretary D.C. sent and assumed her identity. The spy's mission is to steal an ancient book of spells coveted by Hitler. After finding the book, the spy's obsession is to avenge her spy lover's disappearance by leaving this U.S. facility in paranormally induced flames.

JoAnn Smith Ainsworth (Author), Becky Parker (Narrator)

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TopKnotch: Adventures with our Clueless Human

In TopKnotch, three Shih Tzu girls—Ginger, Hapi, and Missy, scheme to extricate their late 20’s-something owner, Robin, from a series of foibles. Robin is an engineer who works for her uber-successful, but domineering dad, Fritz. She’s engaged to marry Sean, who works as the intellectual properties attorney for their firm, Rosencratz & Dessein. Determined to connect Robin with the man of her dreams, they are always on the prowl for a new boyfriend to replace Sean. Luck is with them when Robin meets Luke at a backyard pool party. Luke is a world-renowned engineer and inventor, and unlike Sean, he’s a really nice guy. Much to the dogs’ delight, Luke has super powers and can hear them talk! Hi-jinx ensues as the dogs scheme and conspire with Luke to connect with Robin. As Robin becomes increasingly torn between Luke and the “papa-approved” Sean, she discovers a few secrets of her own and learns life is lived from the inside out by being brave and following your heart.

Cj Thomas (Author), Becky Parker, Christine Mascott, Ellie Gossage, Kyle Snyder, Marquiz Moore, Rachel Lin, Samantha Cooper, Shaina Summerville (Narrator)

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Fight or Flight

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder. The death of a beloved friend serves a painful slap of reality to the Hurricanes that incites a burning desire for vengeance among the gang. With angry players going rogue, and weapons in the wrong hands, even the leaders are out of their depth. To make matters worse, Jeff is sidetracked by his budding love for Cindy, whose father just so happens to be the new police chief—the one person the Hurricane leader most wants to avoid. Yet she might also be the catalyst that can save Jeff from his own devices—if it doesn’t kill her first...

Joseph Durette (Author), Becky Parker, Brian Wiggins, David A Wood, Eric Aragoni, Eric Burgher, Eric Jenkins, Fernando Contreras, Hunter Gather, Marquiz Moore, Matt Weisgerber, Michael Kirby, Michael Reaves, Nick Messina, Peter J Borys, Rick Steadman, Samantha Cooper, Samar Nanda (Narrator)

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Crystal Corridor of Light: The Starseed Highway

Have you ever felt like you were missing something and didn't know what it was, or have a dream that was confusing? Perhaps you met someone for the first time and took an instant liking to them or felt that you had known them before but did not know when or where. Many of us have experienced situations like these or similar ones, and have no one close that we are able to share with. This book will provide answers and explanations regarding these topics and others, such as the Enigma of Karma, the Ego, Kundalini, Past Lives, Crystal Energy, the Secret to Life, and the mysteries of the great Unknown. The contents will demonstrate how to navigate the many twists and turns that appear along the Path to Enlightenment. As you wend your way through the pages, you will learn how to unravel the mysteries surrounding the paranormal, you will become more aware of your “outer world” and the many methods that are at your disposal to connect with the Beings in the higher dimensions and once there, you will discover the great love and support that is available to each and every one of us. The way to move forward along the Starseed Highway is through the heart, for that is where your truth and power lies.

Bethel Barr (Author), Becky Parker (Narrator)

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The Left Turn

What if you past vanished? Who would you become? Hannah, a forty-six year old author plagued with anxiety, and her partner James, an HR recruiter caught in a headlock of grief over his brother’s death, are as desperate for inner peace as they are clueless about how to find it. But when they embark on a sunny bike ride shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, a split-second decision propels them into different versions of their lives—ones they don’t recognize as their own. With a mental fog obscuring their recent past and who they were, they are forced to dig inside themselves to figure out who they are now. Surprising discoveries about the nature of the universe send them on a psychological journey towards who they can be. Will they be able to let go of their deeply ingrained subconscious beliefs about life and themselves to embrace the unfamiliar potentials they now face? Reminiscent of the film Sliding Doors and novels The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd by Josie Silver and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Becky Parker Geist (Author), Becky Parker, Js Arquin (Narrator)

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Condolences Pocket Guide

Grievers live on the other side of an invisible and seemingly uncrossable canyon, separated from where their previous life with us, their friends and family, has always been. If we’re to help a grieving friend, we must learn to be a bridge over to where they now reside, by saying compassionate condolences. It's simple to learn how to do this once we understand why most popular condolences are of the burn-the-bridge variety. So, why do we say them? And why do so many of our condolences hurt instead of help? Get answers to these and other questions in Condolences Pocket Guide—the definitive book on how to help a grieving friend.

Dana Lacy Amarisa (Author), Becky Parker (Narrator)

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The Lazarus Project: Someday, I will collect you too: A Paranormal Suspense Thriller

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . . In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan’s breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue light—a hologram with every living detail that had been Jean—when she was alive. When gifted homicide detective Ryan Mills is recruited to a top-secret FBI division known as S.P.E.C.T.E.R., the world of the supernatural becomes more real than she could have ever imagined. She is introduced to an incredible device known as LAZARUS, which can replay the events of a crime with the smallest pieces of available evidence. With the help of her new partner, Special Agent Sam Masters, and Dr. Matthew Holbrook, the research scientist who created Lazarus, Ryan is plunged into the paranormal exploration of unsolved murders. But Ryan holds a secret, one she can’t share with her partner or Holbrook. That secret comes back to haunt her when a homicide crime scene holds clues to someone from her past and has torn at the edges of an eighteen-year old cold case: the disappearance and possible murder of her own sister. The killer has scrawled a message meant only for Special Agent Ryan Mills: 'Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . .' He's back. The only person who knows what happened to her sister. And he knows something about Ryan too . . . something even she doesn’t know—yet.

Carrie Merrill (Author), Becky Parker (Narrator)

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Rediscovering Republicanism: Renewing America with Our Founding Vision and Values

When well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and persecuted believers. Yet for decades now, America’s federal government has been underperforming. Social Security and Medicare face looming insolvency. The federal government’s “war on poverty” has failed to “end poverty” and arguably made it worse. In 2012, the United States Postal Service lost more money than the nation spent on the State Department, and Amtrak has lost money every year since being created in 1971. How can an enduring institution, so thoughtfully crafted, now produce such poor results? The federal government has grown so much because it serves a new and different vision, American Progressivism. American Progressives believed that democratically elected, public-minded federal politicians and employees could use federal programs to solve the nation’s greatest problems in a way no other American institution could. This idea justified the federal government’s massive expansion: today, the federal government runs over 1,500 programs and employs over 5% of the U.S. workforce. Yet federal results do not match Progressive expectations. Three key problems – “windfall politics”, “the government surcharge”, and “complexity failure” – overlooked by American Progressives explain the federal government’s consistent failures. American Progressive’s rosy-eyed view of human nature and political institutions have not been borne out by the evidence. In an era of substantial political fermentation and debate, rediscovering and re-applying American Republicanism represents the best path forward for the United States. The federal government should retain many necessary responsibilities but turn over those where it has failed.

John Nantz (Author), Becky Parker, John Nantz (Narrator)

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The House that Jack Built

Ever felt like a grump? In this delightful musical audiobook “The House That Jack Built,” poor old Jack starts out grim and grumbly. But even Jack can't resist warming up with the help of his singing and dancing barnyard friends right out of your favorite nursery rhymes. A tale—or tail?—of love, life and forgiveness promises fun-filled family entertainment with BlueGrass music and memorable moments. Produced by the talented team at ProAudioVoices.

Lyudmyla Nesterenko (Author), Becky Parker, Kasey Logan, Marquiz Moore, Nick Walther, Scott Allen (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Becky Parker