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Narrator Peter Lerman lays out the tenets of author Thomas Berry's unique beliefs as expressed in his audiobook. The Catholic priest, who is also a leading scholar and historian, explains his conviction that no organized religion has proclaimed Earth as a sacred place. He believes that humans are destroying the environment and its species because our organized religions,... Read More

With an uncomplicated and clear delivery, narrator Peter Lerman takes the listener on a deep and cold dive under and around miles and miles of Arctic Ocean ice. He's in search of one of the most mysterious and elusive creatures on earth--the narwhal, a 2,100-pound whale with a tusk, actually a tooth, that can grow up to 10 feet in length. In medieval times the narwhal's tusk... Read More

Operating within a narrowly modulated vocal range, Peter Lerman provides a crisp narration of this study of surveillance capitalism--the acquisition of personal data for money-making purposes. The audiobook is part of a series of books on business published by the University of Pennsylvania. Although conventional wisdom says that surveillance capitalism originated with Google,... Read More

By 1962, when he published his final autobiography, muckraker extraordinaire Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was 83 years old; he had lived a full life and written more than 80 novels, countless articles, and 30 plays. Narrator Peter Lerman nicely mixes Sinclair's urgent staccato prose with the more accessible feel of the author's reminiscences of dealing with an alcoholic father... Read More

"Serving the rich and spurning the poor." That's how Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) viewed the news media. Using the staccato energy and emphasis of a 1940s radio broadcaster, Peter Lerman deftly narrates Sinclair's detailed and often bitter broadside against the mainstream press of the early twentieth century. Sinclair maintained that rather than debate the facts of child labor or... Read More

Narrator Peter Lerman recounts the inevitable demise of Stetson-wearing Johnny Jenkins, former president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Jenkins, an expert on Texas history and rare books, started out as a successful businessman in Austin. Lerman gives him outsized Texas charm and a good-old-boy accent. Listeners will have an exhilarating ride as he... Read More

In this haunting audiobook, a noir gem, narrator Peter Lerman's gruff voice brings cab driver Eddie Miles to life. Eddie is a man who has been beaten down and who accepts the dangers of his job in the declining city of Chicago. Then he is pulled into two serial crimes. First, he rescues a young, mutilated prostitute, who calls him her angel. Soon after, his best friend is... Read More