01.31.07
Brainwave Suite Audio Book
Brainwave Suite is the second in the series of audio books about meditation with the help of sound. I listened to the sample 5 minutes and added one more audio book to my “books to buy” list. Beautiful music with some unidentified birds singing in the background – really relaxing.
When you listen to the sample, remember to use your headphones. I missed that at first and thought I had some problems with my speakers.
Brainwave suite – A breakthrough audio technology based on your natural brainwaves
We all experience many states of consciousness, from ordinary waking and sleeping states to extraordinary states in which we are more at peace, particularly aware, or unusually creative. Each of these states has a unique pattern of brainwaves that can be mapped and measured. Brainwave Suite uses inaudible pulses of sound, based on these brain maps, to trigger your brain to produce the state you want to experience.
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is a psychoacoustic researcher and sound healing pioneer whose innovative work, based on over 20 years of clinical research, is used by healthcare professionals in 26 countries. Dr. Thompson has his research and clinical offices at the California Institute for Human Science.
Alpha: Relaxation & Meditation – Alpha waves combined with classical guitar, bamboo flutes’, and sounds of birds and gentle breezes free your mind to experience states of relaxation and meditation. Use this program in the background for stress reduction and relaxation, or listen more intently to support any meditation practice, mental imagery, emotional insight, and expansive creativity. Use this program to enhance creative problem solving, and to help you connect with your intuition and artistic expression.
Delta: Sleep & Rejuvenation – waves embedded within soothing ocean sounds and tones of Tibetan bowls relax you and lead you to restful sleep To fall asleep, simply allow the music to guide your brainwaves into rejuvenating delta sleep. To stay asleep, set the recording to play all night long.
Alpha-Theta: Awakened Mind – Combined Alpha/Theta waves (the “Awakened Mind Pattern”) with sounds of flowing streams, rainfall, and distant thunder lead you to the state of clarity and awareness experienced by advanced yogis and meditators. This program supports meditation practice, sharpens mental performance, and promotes inner peace.
Bag of Bones Audio Book
Bag of Bones is an audiobook written and narrated by Stephen King.
When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan’s wife dies, he suffers from writer’s block.
Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs – a house once inhabited by a famous singer. It’s a community run by rich, tyrannical, wheelchair-bound Devore and his terrifying, skeletal female bookkeeper. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his grandchild.
Three year old Kyra and her young mother, Mattie, turn to Mike for help – and Mike, besotted by Mattie, is powerless to resist. But there are others at Sara Laughs determined to prevent Mike’s success – and Kyra can feel them too….
01.29.07
Last Light – Audio Book
Last Light audiobook is written by Terri Blackstock and narrated by Dick Hill.
Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and won’t restart. You can’t call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem . . . and it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won’t operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky.
Is it a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse?
In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces a choice. Will you hoard your possessions to survive—or trust God to provide as you offer your resources and your hearts to others?
Yesterday’s world is gone. Now all you’ve got is your family and community. You stand or fall together. Like never before, you must rely on each other. But one of you is a killer.
#1 bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a selfcentered world. Last Light is the first book in an exciting new series.
01.28.07
Stephen King Audio Books
Stephen King Audio Books is a new section at Audiolibra devoted to The Master of Horror.
I have gathered Stephen Kings audiobooks on a separate page to make it easy to find them all.
Here is one of the titles found on that page:
First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel’s past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family.
Adapted into a cinematic masterpiece of horror by legendary director Stanley Kubrick-featuring an unforgettable performance by a demonic Jack Nicholson-The Shining stands as a cultural icon of modern horror, a searing study of a family torn apart, and a nightmarish glimpse into the dark recesses of human weakness and dementia.
“Horror at an unflagging pace…scary!”-The New York Times
“This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.”-Nashville Banner
“Guaranteed to frighten you into fits…freezing terror…with a climax that is literally explosive!”-Cosmopolitan
Categories at Audiolibra Audio Books 2
The remaining categories at Audiolibra are as follows:
History is a category with 292 different titles.
Subcategories are; 20th Century,21st Century, American, Ancient, Biographical, British,Military
Miscellaneous, Music Related, Pre 1900, Social & Economic and World.
Humor has 323 titles in these subcategories;
Adult, Biographical, Contemporary, Fiction, Miscellaneous, Modern, Classics, Political, Satire, Quiz, Shows, Radio, Shows and TV & Film.
Juvenile holds 374 titles. These are the subcategories;
Action & Adventure, Animals, Classics, Fairy Tales, General, Horror & Ghost Stories, Humor, Love&Romance, Miscellaneous, Myths & Legends, Over 10s, Religious, Sci-Fi, Fantasy&Magic, Short Stories and Under 10s.
Misc has 450 titles on a varying topics.
Radio Shows holds 473 titles and the subcategories are;
American, Audio Theater, Biographical, British Drama, Horror & Suspense, Humor, Miscellaneous, Non Fiction, Old Time, Radio, Quiz Shows, Thrillers and Westerns.
Religion & Spiritual has 241 titles divided in:
Alternative Therapies, Buddhism, Christianity, Inspiration & Devotion, Islam, Judaism, Meditation, Miscellaneous, Other Religions, Philosophy and Prayer & Faith.
Self Help has 241 interesting titles in the following categories;
Creativity, Health & Fitness, Interpersonal Skills, Miscellaneous, Motivation, Personal Growth, Sex & Relationships, Stress Management, Success and Time Management.
TV & Film has 82 titles in these subcategories;
Biographical, British, Film, History, Humor, Juvenile, Non Fiction and TV.
This completes the list of categories at the Audiolibra audio book shop. The first ones you find in the first post about categories at Audiolibra.
Be well,
Erik
01.26.07
Brainwave Journey Audio Book
Brainwave Journey is an audio book about meditation with the help of sound. Listen to the sample and you will get a really interesting experience. To be honest I didn’t really hear what the man said…but…maybe that’s the point….imagination….
As sound therapist Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, and guided imagery instructor Owen Morrison take you on a high-tech journey through inner space .
Subtle pulses of sound embedded in an evocative musical soundtrack stimulate your brainwave patterns -transporting you to an enhanced “visualization zone. ” Once there, vivid spoken imagery guides you through the three-dimensional worlds in the theater of your mind. This inspiring inner journey will lead you discover new sources of joy, creativity, energy, and healing.
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has been researching the effects of sound frequencies and music on the mind and body since 1981. He maintains his private practice in Encinitas, California.
Owen Morrison is a visionary artist and Director of Graduate studies of Mind Development Corporation.
Journey of the Mind – Theta waves – the pattern experienced during dream stare, and low alpha waves – associated with a relaxed mind, help you to decrystailize mental patterns that chronically prevent you from achieving your full potential.
Journey of the Body – Deeply relaxing delta waveforms center and balance your physical being. Low frequency tones and “prima! life-pulses” mirror the rhythms of brainwaves, heartbeats, and craniosacral movements in this ambient musical massage.
Journey of the Heart – Archetypal images associated with uplifting emotions combined with Theta waves and natural ocean and wind sounds stimulate your own inspired imagination and increase your capacity for joy, creativity, and love.
Journey of the Spirit – Expanding images and lush instrumentation carry you beyond the limitations of your body, opening you to explore your deeper purpose. Uses the “awakened mind” brainwave pattern —the pattern experienced yogis attain in deep meditation.
01.22.07
Assassination Vacation Audio Book
Assassination Vacation is an audio book by Sarah Vowell. It’s a seven hours abridged audio book published by Simon & Schuster.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other–a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.
From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial.
The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue–it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and–the author’s favorite–historical tourism.
Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Conan O’Brien Robert Todd Lincoln
Eric Bogosian John Wilkes Booth
Stephen King President Abraham Lincoln
Dave Eggers Mike Ryan
Catherine Keener Gretchen Worden
Jon Stewart President James A. Garfield
Tony Kushner John Humphrey Noyes
Brad Bird Charles Guiteau & Emma Goldman
Daniel Handler President William McKinley
Greg Giraldo President Theodore Roosevelt
David Rakoff Leon Czolgosz
About the Author:
Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.
01.21.07
Madonna – Audio Book
Madonna is a 10 hour audio book by Andrew Morton. The narrator is Ian Peakes.
At the age of forty-three, with a career that spans two decades and ranges from the scandalous to the transcendent, Madonna is a bigger phenomenon than ever. But who is the private woman behind the public image?
Andrew Morton, whose #1 New York Times bestsellers about Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky have proved his ability to gain access to insiders who won’t talk to anyone else, answers that question in this decidedly unauthorized biography.
Morton’s extensive, in-depth interviews with members of Madonna’s inner circle – lovers, friends (even as far back as school friends), and business connections, many of whom have never spoken before now – allow him to go behind the carefully constructed myths to unmask the real Madonna.
Andrew Morton is able to make startling revelations, among them the real story of Madonna’s family background; the events behind the violent attack that changed her views on sex and men; her relationships with Michael Jackson, Prince, John F. Kennedy Jr., Vanilla Ice, and other rock and Hollywood stars; the mystery man she wanted to marry; and the darkest days of her career when she threatened to quit show business.
From motherless child to wife and mother, from “boy toy” to fiercely independent diva, Madonna is one of the most remarkable women of our time.
01.18.07
Audio Book Light On Snow
Audio book Light On Snow is written by Anita Shreve and narrated by Alyson Silverman.
From the bestselling author of The Pilot’s Wife comes a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
Snowshoeing over crusted snow in the woods near their home, twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father come upon something shocking. There, in the pristine winter scene, an abandoned baby wails, its survival made possible only by the coincidence of their having chosen this path for their late afternoon outing.
In the days and weeks that follow, Nicky glimpses corners of the adult world that she never dreamed existed. As she follows the fate of the baby girl and talks with the police officers assigned to investigate, Nicky for the first time asks questions about her life’s strange shape.
Why has her father moved them to this isolated New England farmhouse? How can they come to terms with the tragedy they left behind? And how can she bridge the chasm between his needs and her own growing sense of the world?
Nicky’s ideas about life are thrown into stark relief by the arrival of a young woman haunted by her own terrible choices. Together, Nicky, her father, and this woman must work their way through a thicket of decisions, each one seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption.
With the glorious prose and emotional resonance that have won readers’ hearts all over the world, Anita Shreve delivers her deepest and most powerful novel yet-a mesmerizing story of the secrets we keep and the secrets we unearth, and the power of forgiveness to mend even the most battered souls.
01.17.07
Lisey’s Story Audio Book
Lisey’s Story is an audio book from Stephen King.
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy.
Scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist.
And a complex man.
Lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo’ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live.
Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face her husband’s demons. And what begins as a widow’s effort to sort through her husband’s effects becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.
