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Richard Trevino, Jr.’s New Audiobook, “Legion: A Texan’s Adventure in the French Foreign Legion,” is an Insightful Story About the Culture Shock of Joining a Foreign Army
Trevino writes, “My mother’s father was in the Army and fought in Europe during World War II, and her brother was also in the Army and served in Vietnam. They would tell me stories of their time in the military and their tours overseas. Their stories always sounded so exciting to me, and I wanted to see foreign lands and experience the same adventures they talked about. So, between my junior and senior years of high school in 1987, I joined the Texas National Guard and completed basic training that summer at Fort Benning, Georgia. I returned home to finish my senior year, and the following summer, I went back to Fort Benning to complete my advance individual training as an infantry soldier. After completing my training in June 1989, I returned home to enjoy the rest of the summer and try to figure out my next move. It took me an entire year to figure out that I wasn’t going anywhere. At the end of the summer of 1990, I joined the regular Army, and I was shipped off to Fort Lewis, Washington, and attached to the 9th Infantry Division.”
Published by Audiobook Network, author Richard Trevino, Jr.’s new audiobook is a gripping book about the author’s experience serving in the military. While stationed in Korea, Trevino learned about the French Foreign Legion. Intrigued, he used one of his weekend passes to escape the brutal hills and mountain ranges to visit the French Embassy in Seoul. He quickly read the Legion’s informational pamphlet front to back but had to put his dream aside while he finished his tour.
In 1994, Trevino was honorably discharged from the army and looking forward to civilian life. However, he found it difficult to adjust. Coming from an extremely structured and disciplined environment, he felt like a stranger to the people around him in the civilian world. He knew that he had found his calling within the Legion years back and decided to take the chance. Author Richard Trevino, Jr. invites listeners to join him in his fish-out-of-water exploits serving in the French Foreign Legion.
Listeners can purchase the audiobook edition of “Legion: A Texan’s Adventure in the French Foreign Legion” by Richard Trevino, Jr. through Audible, the Apple iTunes store, or Amazon.
Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in the digital publishing industry. According to The Infinite Dial 2019, 50% of Americans age 12 and older have listened to an audiobook. This huge growth can be partly attributed to increased listening in cars, which surpassed the home as the #1 audiobook listening location in the 2019 survey. Smart speaker proliferation also bodes well for future listening growth and more mainstream listening.
Audiobook Network, Inc. (ABN) is a full-service audiobook publishing company that transforms authors’ books or eBooks to life through audio narration. ABN handles, narration, production, audio editing, digital formatting, distribution, promotion, and royalty collections all under one roof. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Audiobook Network at 866-296-7774.
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‘SALIGIA’ Inverts the Seven Deadly Sins: New Book Explores Virtues Through Mythological Fantasy
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Author Tagore Almeida’s new book, “SALIGIA: The Evil Is Outside. The War Is Within.,” is now available on Amazon, according to the announcement promoting the release.
The title is not invented for the book. SALIGIA is a centuries-old Latin mnemonic device used in Christian theology to remember the seven deadly sins: Superbia (pride), Avaritia (greed), Luxuria (lust), Invidia (envy), Gula (gluttony), Ira (wrath) and Acedia (sloth). The sins themselves never appear as an explicit list in the Bible; the grouping developed within early Christian tradition, drawing on scattered biblical passages, and the acronym became a memory aid for clergy and laypeople alike. The announcement itself does not spell out this connection, though it’s central to how the book’s central conceit works.
Where the traditional mnemonic catalogs vices, Almeida’s book inverts it: according to the announcement, the story is structured as a journey through a symbolic ancestral dwelling with separate rooms, each embodying different virtues rather than sins — courage, compassion, humility, integrity, forgiveness, reverence and love. Other promotional material describes the book as a mythological fantasy following characters named Salem and Medea on a quest against the forces the title names, and credits the release to publisher The Alcove Publishers, which has described the book as blending mythology, self-reflection and mystery.
The announcement frames the project as “a fusion of mythological elements, spiritual themes, philosophical inquiry, and personal exploration,” built around the idea that readers already possess the virtues the book examines, rather than seeking them from external sources.
The book is currently listed for sale on Amazon under Almeida’s author page.
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Ginn grounds the story in his personal history: childhood in the Ozark hills and Navy service aboard an aircraft carrier during Vietnam, experience he has said shaped the novel’s naval detail. He has also described the Book of Esther as, in his words, the greatest "sting operation" in biblical history — a framing that underpins the book’s central comparison between the ancient narrative and its modern-day parallel plot. Ginn spent four years writing the novel, per the announcement.
"I wanted to illustrate God’s unwavering love for His people and show how Jesus’s death and resurrection makes eternal life possible for all believers," Ginn said in a statement released with the book. "By connecting Esther’s courage with contemporary challenges, I hoped to demonstrate that faith remains relevant and powerful in our modern world."
The novel centers on themes of redemption and what the publisher describes as divine providence — the concept that their encounter and purpose are ordained rather than coincidental. It was published through Christian Faith Publishing, a Christian-market publishing house, and is available now in bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play and Barnes & Noble.
No release date beyond the announcement was provided, and there’s no indication yet of whether the book is part of a planned series.
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