Kirby heyborne audio books
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Audiobooks Narrated bygd Kirby Heyborne
The Real Education of TJ Crowley
It’s 1968, during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement and TJ Crowley, a young vit teenager, faces a critical choice when a Black family, the Washingtons, crosses the city’s racial redline and moves next door. As racial tensions surge, TJ questions his prejudices and forms secret friendships with his Black peers and the doctor next door, who becomes his mentor and sports coach. The story unfolds in the wake of the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., del of the Fair Housing Act and school integration. Inspired bygd the author’s own story and historical events, including the characters of Dr. Val Brown, Josephine Brown and Sheila Brown Kinnard. The story plays out against the background of a nation divided over civil rights and the Vietnam War. As an immersive experience, The Real Education of TJ Crowley offers an authentic and relatable utforskning of racial awakening and the ongoing fight for justic
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The Business Trip
- A Novel
- By: Jessie Garcia
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephanie and Jessica have nothing and everything in common. The two women don’t know each other but are on the same plane heading to California. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship. After a few days, they text their friends the same exact messages about the same man—the messages becoming stranger and more erratic. And then the two women vanish. The texts go silent, the red flags go up, and the panic sets in. When Stephanie and Jasmine are each declared missing and in danger, it begs the questions: Who is Trent McCarthy?
- 1 out of 5 stars
Laughable, disbelieving, offensive, and a complete waste of time and money.
- By Dee on 01-17-25
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Kirby Heyborne likens the excitement he gets from narrating audiobooks to Christmas. It starts when he gets an invitation from a publisher and thinks, "I can't believe they want me!" That's heightened by opening a manuscript few people have read. "You know how when you're reading a great book, you want to throw everything aside and just spend eight hours reading it? I get paid to do that!"
What could be better? Maybe it's when he goes beyond understanding how the main character thinks and believes, and knows what he sounds like. He definitely had that experience portraying Boggs, the chilling villain from Daniel Kraus's ROTTERS, the audiobook for which Heyborne just won the Odyssey Award. "I felt so shaky doing someone who's so far from what I am. I knew what he sounded like in my head, and I knew who he was, but when I read live on the mic, and he came out, it was a scary moment--like 'This is him!'"
Heyborne grew up with book-loving parents, especially his father, who turned him