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Heroes Are Human Now an Audio Book

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WESTPORT, Connecticut – (Staff Report from Official News Release) – Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines—an important new book that honors front-line healthcare workers with gripping, first-hand stories of their struggles during the pandemic—will be available as an audiobook when it published Sept. 27, as well as a hardcover and e-book from City Point Press.

Tantor Media, a leading audiobook publisher based in Old Saybrook, Ct., has produced Heroes are Human with two veteran performers – Randye Kaye, an accomplished voice talent and nominee for a prestigious Listen-Up Award; and Barry Abrams, who has wide-ranging experience narrating and producing audiobooks for an array of publishers.

Tantor, founded in 2000, produces more than 100 new audiobook titles every month and its roster includes more than 150 of the industry’s top narrators. Highly regarded in the industry, Tantor has a stellar catalogue that includes Pulitzer and National Book Award winners. In 2015, Tantor was acquired by Recorded Books, the largest independent publisher of  unabridged audiobooks with operations in the U.S., England and Australia.

Tantor’s production will showcase the empathetic guidance of Bob Delaney—internationally recognized in the field of Post-Traumatic Stress. Heroes are Human is comprised of powerful stories told by frontline health-care workers, their family members, and those they care for in the harrowing fight against COVID-19.

It is at the forefront of new books that deal with this critical issue, deepening our understanding of the toll this work has taken and offering invaluable strategies for self-care and healing. His message to frontline workers—not all wounds bleed, and invisible wounds may hurt as much as the wounds we see.

Kirkus Reviews recent reviewed the book: “An eye-opening work about health care workers’ sacrifices and burdens.” Heroes are Human is co-authored with award-winning journalist Dave Scheiber, and contains a foreword by renowned Harvard Global Mental Health director Dr. Richard Mollica. It is published by City Point Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. For more information, or to order the book, visit heroesarehuman.com.

Students Learn: Heroes Are Human

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JERSEY CITY – (Staff Report) – New Jersey City University students, faculty and staff spent time on Sept. 30 with NBA Cares Ambassador and NJCU alumnus Bob Delaney, who shared the message of his new book, Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines (City Point Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster).


“It was great to be back on campus speaking with students pursuing noble careers in nursing, law enforcement, firefighting, teaching and other service-oriented professions,” said Delaney, an elite NBA referee for 25 years before his retirement in 2011, and prior to that a New Jersey State Trooper whose dangerous undercover mission inside the Mafia in the 1970s was chronicled in his first book in 2008, Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob.

Delaney, a member of the NJCU Sports Hall of Fame, presented his message of self-care and trauma awareness – one he has been delivering for four decades with the military, first responders and many other groups. That message was showcased in Delaney’s second book, 2011’s Surviving the Shadows: A Journey of Hope Into Post-Traumatic Stress.

Heroes Are Human, written with the co-author of all three books, veteran journalist Dave Scheiber, tells the stories of members of the healthcare community who have been at war with an “invisible enemy” – sharing lessons on how caregivers can navigate the resulting stress and potential burnout through an uplifting message of self-care and post-traumatic stress education.
Delaney and the NBA “gifted” books to students, faculty and staff, allowing the important topic of what he calls “mind health” to be discussed on the NJCU campus.

Students and Faculty at New Jersey City University (file photo)

“Not all wounds bleed ” is a common theme presented by Delaney, who earned his criminology bachelor of science degree from New Jersey City University, and later learned about post-traumatic stress first-hand from his three-year undercover investigation of the Mob. His riveting talks about his experiences underscore peer-to-peer conversations as a first line of defense when dealing with trauma.

Dr. Richard Mollica, Director Harvard Global Mental Health Trauma Recovery Program, wrote of Delaney in the Heroes are Human foreword, “His down-to-earth style, charisma and honesty – delivered by a man who has walked the walk connects universally with his varied audiences.”