Audiobooks narrated by Richard Waterhouse

Lead with Heart: Transfer Your Business Through Personal Connection

If you want your company to thrive, you need to break one of the oldest unwritten rules of leadership.Leaders in nearly every industry have learned to keep a professional "distance" between themselves and the people who report to them-to avoid getting too close or too personal. This unwritten rule of leadership is pervasive and quietly destructive, and, little by little, keeping ourselves at arm's length destroys trust, collaboration, and the very fabric of organizations.When Tom Gartland became president of Avis Budget Group, North America, he wanted the corporate culture to become more 'open and connected'-so he started with himself. His message was 'business is personal-very personal.' As he grew closer and connected more with those he was leading, he became a more effective leader, and those around him were inspired to create unprecedented results.Tom found that when we truly open up and care about the people we work with, we can transform organizations into sanctuaries where people feel a deep connection to one another, a profound sense of being part of an important mission, and extraordinary engagement in their work. The result? Employees who feel valued generate exceptional profits. After applying this business philosophy at Avis, not only did Tom see an increase in employee morale, he also saw a significant increase in the company's bottom line.In Lead with Heart, Tom provides an unconventional approach to business leadership, including advice and strategies on how to open yourself up as a leader, recognize potential in your employees, and increase employees' trust in you and the company. Lead with Heart is the revolutionary leadership book that will help managers and employees at all levels grow their businesses by connecting, honestly and meaningfully, with the people they lead.

Tom Gartland (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear & Worry

Edmund Bourne, Lorna Garano (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Ratings Are Murder

Bob Christopher, investigative reporter for Channel 3 in Los Angeles, is an old hand at ferreting out consumer fraud. He hardly feels that an all-out effort to reinstate Saint Christopher to the church’s calendar fits that category. Then the cleaning woman who had taken up the saint’s cause is brutally murdered. Bob, guilty because he brushed the old woman off, is compelled to search for her killer. He finds himself dodging cloudbursts, raccoons, spilled blood, and his obsessed boss, who needs Bob’s presence on the six o’clock news to improve the ratings. Adding to his problems is his elusive film editor, an entrepreneur usually too busy peddling stolen porno tapes to work on the program. Through this hectic action wander rain-soaked fans in weird costumes vying for places and prizes on the station’s game show. They make it easy for suspects—disguised as surgeons, nuns, and chickens—to melt into the crowd. As Bob Christopher approaches dead center of the web of murder, blackmail, chicanery, X-rated films, and station politics that infest Channel 3’s rickety building, he gets closer to a killer who is out to make the reporter his next victim. “Christopher is worth bringing back.”—Kirkus Reviews

R. R. Irvine, Robert R. Irvine (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Horizontal Hold

Bombs, death, and a deadly terrorist have television reporter Bob Christopher at odds with an evil conspiracy. The star anchorman of Los Angeles Channel 3 News had appeared on his last show—as the victim of a terrorist bomb. The shock waves were still rumbling when his accused killer was found dead of an apparent suicide. The terrorist’s death should have closed the case. But instead, it opens a nightmarish can of worms when television newsman Bob Christopher can’t let bad enough alone and defies the men with money and muscle to focus in on a macabre conspiracy of evil that feeds on human lives and manacles the law. "He's got the touch."—Wallace Stegner, praise for the author

R. R. Irvine, Robert R. Irvine (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Freeze Frame: A Novel

Bob Christopher is Los Angeles’ Channel Three television-news action reporter. His beat is the little people—the ones who get pushed around, find themselves in god-awful messes, and produce “human interest” for the insatiable maw of television. But this story was different from the first, when a tiny old lady told Christopher about the bulldozers that had leveled her home without reason or warning. That was ugly enough. What happened to the old lady a little while later was even nastier. And suddenly Bob isn’t dealing with the little people any more. He finds himself in deep with big-time politics, a giant oil corporation, a group of wild American Indians, and a high-priced hooker—all out to make him a corpse before he can report the news.

Robert R. Irvine (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Jump Cut: A Novel

There are three members of KTFO’s ace six o’clock news team—and two of them have been murdered. It is the hottest story of Bob Christopher’s life, assuming he doesn’t get canceled by a sniper’s bullet. But what a story! There are Vegas mobsters, brown berets, a blackmailed executive, and a sex kitten … not to mention the Ku Klux Klan, the Navajos, and an assassin built like a Mack truck. Is this what they call media backlash—or mass murder? “He’s got the touch.”—Wallace Stegner, praise for the author

R. R. Irvine, Robert R. Irvine (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Calamity Town

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town. At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years prior, never to recover. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him. “The best mystery produced by Ellery Queen.” --New York Times

Ellery Queen (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations

Unless you’re lucky enough to be the CEO, you’ll need to present your ideas to people up the chain to get anything done—and those presentations can sometimes be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes if the presenter doesn’t know the rules at the top level. Tactics and techniques that work wonderfully with peers, subordinates, and immediate supervisors suddenly crumble in the tense meeting room with the “bigwigs.” A psychologist by training, Gilbert offers revelatory insights into the minds of the men and women who make it to the top—critical information if you’re going to understand what they’re looking for from you. He keeps it simple by focusing on three key imperatives for “speaking up:” 1. Know the people, 2. Get to the point, and 3. Improvise. Gilbert’s research suggests that 67 percent of middle managers break one or more of these rules. Based on ten years of research and hundreds of interviews, Gilbert’s book is unique in featuring extensive comments from C-level leaders explaining exactly what they want and don’t want in a presentation, as well as mid-level managers’ stories of triumphs and tragedies and what they learned as a result. This is a must-have audiobook for surviving the high-stakes meeting. “There are two times when you’re alone in life: one is when you die, and the other is when you present to senior management.”—Rick Wallace, CEO, KLA-Tencor

Frederick Gilbert (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Reunion at Red Paint Bay

Nothing much happens in the small town of Red Paint, the “Friendliest Town in Maine!” It’s the kind of place where everyone knows your name, a romantic night out might include meatloaf, and carnivals still hold a kind of magical wonder. Simon Howe, once a promising reporter in Portland, Maine, is the last person anyone would have expected to move back to his childhood home to raise a family. He’s owner and editor of the local paper, husband to a hard wife who can’t help but play therapist to the family’s problems, and father to a son who seems to be growing up far too quickly. Yet, Simon’s quiet existence dramatically changes when he starts receiving threatening messages from an anonymous sender. As Simon tries to identify his stalker, he must also struggle to keep his life and family together as secrets from his past threaten to destroy everything he has built. “Harrar tackles some big issues here, notably vengeance, guilt, and absolution, with the underlying question of when sex becomes rape. But messages aside, this is tightly written psychological suspense.”—Booklist

George Harrar (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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The Chinese Orange Mystery

A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen. Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour the mysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker, and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down. The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man’s clothes have been put on front-to-back. As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into the secrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuth must tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off a cliff. “A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now.”—Agatha Christie, on the Ellery Queen mystery series

Ellery Jr. Queen (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town’s Christmas. It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world—all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Ellery divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion. “A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now.”—Agatha Christie, on the Ellery Queen Mystery series

Ellery Jr. Queen (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

First and foremost a book about running, The Longest Race takes listeners alongside ultramarathoner Ed Ayres as he prepares for, runs, and finishes the JFK fifty-mile race at a then record-breaking time for his age division—sixty and older. But for Ayres, this race was about more than just running, and the book also encompasses his musings and epiphanies along the way about possibilities for human achievement and the creation of a sustainable civilization. Looking back over a lifetime of more than fifty years of long-distance running, Ayres realizes that his running has taught him important lessons about endurance, patience, and foresight. These qualities, also hallmarks of being human, likely helped humans to survive and thrive in the evolutionary race—and, Ayres posits, they are qualities absolutely necessary to building a sustainable society. Grounding each step of his argument are vivid details from this particular race and other moments across his long running career. These experiences take us far beyond the sport, into new perspectives on our origins and future—and what it means to be a part of the human race. In the end, Ayres suggests, if we can recapture the running prowess and overall physical fitness of our “wild” ancient distance-hunting ancestors, we will also be equipped to keep our bodies, our society, and the entire world running long into the future. “Like the expert runner that he is, Ayres perfectly paces his tale and evokes the feeling of being on a long, rambling run with a very good friend. A gifted storyteller, he seamlessly moves between discussing running to exploring larger life issues such as why we run, our impact on the environment, and the effects of the nation’s declining physical fitness.”—Booklist

Ed Ayres (Author), Richard Waterhouse (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Richard Waterhouse