I recently built a custom, double-walled sound isolation booth. Here is an audio sample from "Ruby and Roland," by Faith Sullivan.

Chloe Cannon--Custom Vocal Booth Sample

Lyrics:

Your smile, it was heaven
Enough for me to die
And be okay, as long as I was
In your eyes

You spoke, and I knew
The world was so clear
Inside of your head 
And it killed all my fears

Oh, God, please, don’t let it be gone
This half-hearted faking has gone on for too long,
But everything wonderful came straight from his arms.
So, please, Oh, Lord, let him hear my goodbye song

I refuse to let go
Of this child-like whimsy
The warmth that we felt
When we were alone and free

Maybe this life
It wasn’t meant to last
We were just too in love
To let go of the past

Oh, God, please, don’t let it be gone
This half-hearted faking has gone on for too long,
But everything wonderful came straight from his arms.
So, please, Oh, Lord, let him hear my goodbye song

So I know you’re out there
Finding the strength in your heart,
To go on in this world--
We had to be apart

All I ask of you
Is to remember my smile
When the world tries to make you
Feel sad for a while

Oh, God, please don’t let it be gone
When I said half-hearted, God, you know I was wrong,
Cause everything wonderful came straight from his arms. 
So, please, Oh, Lord, don’t let this be a goodbye song!


GONE

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.

Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.

Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players.

In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.

Available November 12, 2019 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Grand Central Publishing. 

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https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781478995487-wild-life
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https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/wild-life-dispatches-from-a-childhood-of-baboons-and-button-downs/405146
https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/278158/wild-life
https://www.estories.com/audiobook/274294/Keena-Roberts/Wild-Life




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WILD LIFE by Keena Roberts Read by Chloe Cannon - Audiobook Excerpt

Chloe Cannon is an audiobook narrator and musician located in the Mid Hudson Valley in New York.

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Chloe Cannon

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