Audiobooks narrated by Maria Isabel Pita

The Viking Saint: Olaf II of Norway Audiobook

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy – and sometimes ruthlessness as well. His overriding mission was to Christianize Norway and extirpate heathenism. His unstinting efforts, often at great peril to his life, earned him the Norwegian throne in 1015, when he had barely reached his twenties. For the next fifteen years he labored against immense odds to subdue the rebellious heathen nobles of Norway while fending off Swedish hostility. Both finally combined against Olaf in 1030, when he fell bravely in battle not far from Trondheim, still only in his mid-thirties. After his body was found to possess healing powers, and reports of them spread from Scandinavia to Spain and Byzantium, Olaf II was canonized a saint 134 years later. He remains Norway’s patron saint as well as a legendary warrior. Yet more remarkably, he remains a saint not only of the Protestant church but also of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches – perhaps the only European fighting saint to achieve such acceptance.

John Carr (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Life of Christ

Unabridged English Translation including 92 footnotes. An instant best-seller in Italy, Vita di Gesù Cristo ('Life of Jesus Christ') was also highly praised by Catholic peer journals worldwide and has never since been out of print. The author, Giuseppe Ricciotti, was an archaeologist and Biblical scholar. After his seminary studies and completing mandatory military service, he was ordained a priest in 1913 and continued his studies at the University of Rome. During World War I he served as a military chaplain, volunteering for service at the front lines, for which he was later awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor. After the war, he resumed his studies and graduated in 1919 with a degree in Biblical Studies. During World War II, he took in many refugees at the congregation's Motherhouse the Basilica of St. Peter in Chains. Excerpt from the Author's Preface: I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretation presently the fashion. The first vague notion of writing this book came to me many years ago in extraordinary circumstances. I had been carried to a field hospital set up in a wood of fir trees in a valley among the Alps. For some time, I hovered between life and death. And awaiting my fate, it suddenly came to me that if I should live, I might write a life of Christ; his Gospel, in fact, was on the straw mattress beside me. The thought never left me; it became a kind of spiritual necessity. I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretations presently the fashion. I have even dared to imitate the famous 'dispassionateness” of the canonical Evangelists, who have neither an exclamation of joy when Jesus is born nor a word of lament when he dies. It has been my intention, then, to write a critical work.

Giuseppe Ricciotti (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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The Living Light

The first attempt to travel at the speed of light has been successful. Transported thousands of miles in seconds, the two young astronauts, Rose and Alex, are on their way to explore Proxima b, a candidate terrestrial planet in the Alpha Centauri System 4.2 light years from Earth. Burning through space faster than any humans in history, they realize the launch into light speed created black holes in their memory, and that all their most recent experiences have vanished without a trace. A long journey stretching out before them, they focus on getting to know each other again. And as they begin falling in love, they also discover strange and marvelous things can happen to people living in the Light. Traveling at the cosmic speed limit is full of surprises, and Rose and Alex soon learn they are not alone on their fantastic voyage as the line drawn between science and the supernatural begins to fade.

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Song of the Blood

Sophia is coasting through life. Sick to death of dead-end love affairs, she's living in her best-selling historian father's mansion, content with her books and her dreams until three things happen at once. A secret note arrives from her mother, who disappeared twenty years ago. A nearby castle is bought by a millionaire. And the old house on the estate adjoining hers is opened up again when the deceased owner's son retires from the military. Attracted both to her Veteran neighbor and the castle's mysterious young owner, Sophia begins discovering that reality is much stranger than she realized. With evidence of the supernatural seductively surrounding her, she learns that love and desire are powerful, even Divine forces that can't just be played with, unless she wants to risk paying the ultimate price.

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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The Way of the Prince

Abandoned by her parents on a dark and lonely road during a freezing rain storm, Abby desperately seeks shelter before losing consciousness. She wakes in a strangely beautiful place, a modern yet castle-like building powered by an AI more advanced than any she has ever experienced. One of hundreds of residents mysteriously suffering from severe memory loss, Abby is assigned a roommate and guardian so beautiful and kind, she accepts that he can't tell her where she is. And then there's the Virtual Reality Hall provided for everyone's entertainment, which is so realistically immersive it's hard to keep worrying about where she came from. But when Abby begins remembering, the flashbacks are so vivid, she loses all sense of her surroundings reliving them. Disturbed by what these memories reveal of her former life, she begins exploring the vast and beautiful lands surrounding her new home. Then one day, she meets a young man who tells her he has come in search of her. Surprised, intrigued, and instantly drawn to him, she lets him begin leading her down a thrilling path of discovery, marred only by the growing sense of a dreadful danger waiting for her at the end. Abby must decide who she trusts, and how far she is willing to go in search of the truth and her freedom. Listener Reviews: 'Extraordinary! This book is truly the most memorable book I've read this year... The emotions and awe that was part of this experience is something that I think will always be a great part of my life.' 'I thoroughly enjoyed this story written and narrated by Maria Isabel Pita. Such a unique storyline! I was drawn right in from the very beginning... Beautifully presented.' 'The writing is superb and powerful, the story emotional and moving, and the narration spot on.'

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Light and Breath

My name is Mary Fallon, I'm eighteen years old, and a few months ago, I came to Egypt to visit my best friend Carol. As it turns out, I never left, because I fell in love with a young Archaeologist, and with God, whose immense love I first experienced in a dream when I took a nap in an ancient tomb. I can hardly believe I'm an Egyptologist's Admin now, living luxuriously by myself in an apartment on loan to my boss by the mysterious Matthew J. Waters while he's away in Europe. Being in Cairo is thrilling, but I'm also beginning to realize how dangerous it can be. My lucid dreams are intensifying, and they seem to be making me more lucid in my waking life as well because I'm rationally questioning concepts I always took for granted, reincarnation for example. Carol is expecting a baby, while I'm expecting and hoping Steve will soon be more than just my boyfriend. The only problem is that Owen, a beautiful yet sinister lucid dreamer, can't seem to take no for an answer. REVIEWS: 'I read through the three books back to back, I was so enthralled by them!' 'Maria Isabel Pita really suckered me pretty good with this series. I thought her first book, the Spirit of Imhotep, was a 'mummy' tale. You know, kid goes to Egypt, heads into a pyramid, wakes up some slumbering monster and all heck breaks lose. That was not the book at all. Nope. But I still listened to it, because she writes an interesting story. She writes from her spirit, you really feel that as you listen to the narration. Pita's semi-autobiographical story really moves you. Even I, a manly man, was touched deeply by this journey.' 'I've read all three books, and feel like the characters are friends I've known for years. Have grown fond of them and can't wait to find out what happens next! Maria's writing is riveting, and the story pulls you along leaving you wanting more.'

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Fifty Shades of Hell

My name is Mary Fallon and I came to Egypt a few weeks ago, fulfilling a lifelong dream. I was also visiting my best friend, Carol, who had magically scored a job photographing tombs in the desert. So many intense things have happened since I arrived, time has flown by and my tourist visa is about to expire. But I have no intention of leaving Cairo, where I've fallen in love with an archaeologist, and with another man who lived over two-thousand years ago, but that doesn't matter, because he also happens to be God. My new boyfriend is already making plans for me to stay. Meanwhile, he's treating me to a cruise down the Nile, during which I'm discovering that something ancient still walks among us, a seductive enemy who enjoys playing with my most thrilling dreams and desires. But the cost of fantasies becoming reality might be what I truly want from life. The problem is that my body cares only for the present, and possesses a dangerously hungry will of its own. LISTENER REVIEWS: 'A glimpse of modern day spiritual warfare in the flesh!' 'Maria's tastefully sizzling Book Two made these Winter days warmer for me! I fell into the story so deeply, the final page was a sad parting from characters I've come to care about as friends. Not every writer has the ability to drop their readers so remarkably into a scene, but Maria makes me feel as if I'm there, seeing with my own eyes.' 'The spirituality in this book is palpable... Miss Pita is also the narrator and it makes the book all that much more moving, meaningful, and real. You'll feel like you've taken a long spiritual journey, and end up doing some inner reflection. This is a good thing.' 'An incredible read and very thought provoking. I really enjoyed the ride of emotions.... humor, drama, suspense, intrigue, passion... complex loveable characters... it's all there in this wonderful series.'

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Truth is the Soul of the Sun - A Biographical Novel of Hatshepsut-Maatkare

This is the story of Hatshepsut, the ancient Egyptian princess and queen who was crowned king, and for more than twenty years ruled on the Horus Throne of the Living as the Female Falcon. The name Hatshepsut chose for herself can be read as 'Maat is the Ka of Re' which translated means 'The True and Beautiful Manifestation of the Sun’s Divine Life-force.' A more poetic but still accurate rendition is 'Truth is the Soul of the Sun.' Before becoming Pharaoh, Hatshepsut served as God’s Wife of Amun, an important economic and spiritual office created by her grandfather that holds the key to her mysterious and unprecedented power. Maatkare was not only a charismatic political leader, she was a mystic who inspired the wholehearted devotion of brilliant men. One of them was Senmut, a commoner she elevated to unparalleled heights of authority. But her most influential advocate was Hapuseneb, the High Priest of Amun and the Governor of the South. Hapuseneb served under three pharaohs and yet only Maatkare is represented in his tomb. Hatshepsut’s life is a profound story of love — for her country, two of its most fascinating men, and for Amun-Re, also called the Hidden One, King of the gods.

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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The Spirit of Imhotep

ALL THE BOOKS IN THIS SERIES ARE BASED ON REAL DREAMS AND EXPERIENCES I was supposed to start college next year, but after being given a ticket to Cairo as a high school graduation present, I skipped the ceremony and jumped on the plane. My name is Mary Fallon. I'm eighteen years old, and for as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by ancient Egypt. I'm staying with my best friend, Carol, who's working as a photographer in an Old Kingdom burial ground, where her Egyptologist boss is on the trail of a major discovery. But someone much more powerful than the Antiquities Department seems to have gotten wind of it and, for some mysterious reason, he is also intensely interested in me and the dreams I have begun having. I could never have imagined the experiences awaiting me here in the ancient land of the pharaohs, including having my first lucid dream. You see, I'm discovering that Spiritual Warfare isn't a video game but the reality we live in, both awake and asleep. You won't find the front lines on any map, because the battles are fought in our hearts and minds, and some of them can be dangerously pleasurable. It's a good thing I'm not fighting alone. Listener Reviews: 'There are elements of lucid dreaming woven into the story in a way that leads on into deeper themes and thoughts.... A great listen and, as expected, Maria’s voice is liquid gold.' 'I love that Maria Isabel Pita narrated her own audiobook. She has a beautiful voice and displays not only a wonderful ability to write but also excellent voice acting skills. Definitely recommended.' 'Fascinating book that lures you in with the author's vast knowledge of Egypt's history. Really enjoyed the Maria's narration. Her spirited recount of experiences while in Egypt brought the vivid descriptions to life.'

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Dreaming in Egypt-The Story of Asenath and Joseph

Daughter of the high priest of Re, Asenath is a child when she first meets the Hebrew slave, Joseph. That night her lucid dreams begin as her heart and destiny are forever joined with the extraordinary man whom Elohim, the one true God, has chosen as part of His plan for the world's redemption through the Incarnation. The untold story of Asenath’s awakening to the divine truth through the power of love and dreams gives flesh, blood and soul to the woman Scripture merely names as Joseph’s bride. Maria Isabel Pita draws directly from the Biblical Book of Genesis to tell the story of Joseph from a remarkable new perspective. The Story of Asenath and Joseph is a heart-soaring tale of romance, destiny, dreams, and faith that views the rise of a captive Hebrew from slave to prisoner to ruler through the eyes of the woman who loves him.

Maria Isabel Pita (Author), Maria Isabel Pita (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Maria Isabel Pita