While performing onstage at a bar during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 27-year-old actress and writer Lauren Marks suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. Her struggles to recover her language skills and her life following brain surgeries and aphasia are well rendered through Tavia Gilbert’s narration. Gilbert reads the selections from Marks’s journal with pauses and word…
This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor’s rise to power as both a cultural icon and a trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In the mid-’60s, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl, took over the ailing Cosmopolitan magazine and revamped…
Tavia Gilbert narrates the third book in MacAlister’s Dragon Fall series with vim, verve, and vigor. Sophea Long is escorting her elderly client across Europe to Egypt, where she’ll cruise down the Nile. At the same time, Rowan Dakar has been hired to break the object of power that still holds sway over the Dragonkin.…
This second book in the Black Dragons series is less humorously outrageous than the previous volume, but Tavia Gilbert’s narration still perfectly matches the story’s tone and pacing. The cast of characters is huge, yet each one has a distinct and recognizable voice. Constantine of Norka, former wyvern of the silver dragons, is sent into…
Tavia Gilbert’s rapid-fire narration perfectly matches the fast pace of this paranormal romance. While MacAlister’s wacky humor may be off-putting to some, Gilbert does a fine job capturing what appeals to the author’s fans. Aoife Dakar sees something that cannot have happened, but no one will believe her. Eventually she ends up with a demon…
Enter the dark realm of Nocturna, where blisteringly sexy Rafael dominates the demons of a lawless dimension and tries to help a beautiful young woman avenge her cousin’s disappearance.
Narrator Tavia Gilbert’s voice seduces the listener into a dangerous fantasy world of vampires whose relationships include love, hate, and all-out vengeance. Vlad, the prince of vampires, and Leila, the love of his life, are caught in a trap guaranteed to end them both. Gilbert’s vocal variations balance the masculine strength of Vlad and the…
Narrator Tavia Gilbert’s dramatic talent ensures that each scene of this fast-paced, unpredictable series debut is captivating. She perfectly embodies Ivy, a woman blessed—or cursed—with otherworldly visions. When her sister vanishes, Ivy learns not only that her visions are real but also that she’s in mortal peril, and the only person she can trust is…
The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful sequel to Get Even. The members of Don’t Get Mad aren’t just mad anymore…they’re afraid. And with Margot in a coma and Bree under house arrest, it’s up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. But just as…
Dig out your dictionary for this chilling story of a word virus, performed flawlessly by Tavia Gilbert and Paul Michael Garcia. In 26 chapters, Gilbert and Garcia alternately narrate a journal that tells the story of technology gone awry. In emotion-laden tones Gilbert delivers Anana Johnson’s account of her search for her father, Douglas Samuel…