“Creative and action-packed…The author has taken a mundane theory and turned it upside down.” —The Page Turner on Frey
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- Rise of the Seven
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 5/31/22
Formats: Digital Audy
Nothing to hide.
Memories and magic recovered, Frey is restored to the throne. But as she works to regain control of the North, a small silver dagger nearly brings her end.
Someone wants her dead.
She raises the Seven of her guard and proves her abilities in order to secure her position. But another attempt on her life, from what appears to be fey, reveals not all are pleased with her return.
She’ll have to find them first.
If she could only figure out the force behind the attacks, she might be able to relax enough to decide what to do about her other problem … Chevelle.
Rise of the Seven includes The Frey Saga Book 2.5: Molly.
Molly dreamt her whole life of living in a world of magic … until the day she walked into one.
This short story chronicling the life of the human girl falls between Pieces of Eight (Frey Saga, Book 2) and Rise of the Seven (Frey Saga, Book 3).
- Rise of the Seven
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 5/31/22
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Pieces of Eight
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/26/22
Formats: Digital Audy
Nowhere to turn.
The story of Frey continues in Pieces of Eight, the second book in the series.
Frey had lived in a world where humans were fairy tales. A world where she believed she’d been wrongfully accused.
All that had changed.
After revealing her dark history, Frey has no choice in her allies. Her old life is the enemy. She needs their protection.
Forced to join with a group of strangers whose pasts seem to intertwine with her own, she struggles to regain her memories and her full power, only to find there is more danger on the other side.
Except now, there is no going back.
- Pieces of Eight
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/26/22
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Frey
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/22/22
Formats: Digital Audy
Nothing is as it seems.
Frey’s life is a lie. She doesn’t remember being bound from magic. She didn’t intend to discover this dangerous secret, to get entangled in Council business. But she did.
And now she’s on the run.
With the aid of a stranger, she discovers a world beyond the elves who bound her. But it’s a world of shadows and dark magic, a world she’s been warned not to trust. The farther she strays, the more she finds a forgotten past. As she fights to reclaim her true identity, Council trackers hunt her down.
If they find her, she will burn.
The stranger offers her a way out, but it’s a path of no return. How do you know who to believe when you don’t even know who you are?
- Frey
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/22/22
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stellar, Vol. 2
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By Ian Graham and Marc A. Hutchins
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/19/21
Formats: Digital Audy
Step #1: Dress up as your crush’s superhero to impress him. Check.
Step #2: Fight off the bullies who have been plaguing the school. Check.
Step #3: Get drawn into a plot to bring back the city’s notorious villain and—wait, what?Yup. That just happened. And sometimes Macy Davis still can’t believe it.
On Macy’s list of things to do, taking on a new crime syndicate wasn’t at the top. Patrolling the city as Stellar, balancing crime-fighting with romance as she fans a budding relationship, and finding Luminesa, her elusive co-superhero, are her priorities. But when she stumbles upon a new enemy and the Alderwoman’s plans to retake the city, she must become more than just the muscle and venture into a world beneath Port Saint Dominic. With the help of old friends and some peculiar new ones, she sets out to unravel the mysteries of the city’s hidden past.
- Stellar, Vol. 2
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By Ian Graham and Marc A. Hutchins
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/19/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stellar
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By Ian Graham and Marc A. Hutchins
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/31/21
Formats: Digital Audy
Meet Stellar—an urban crime–fighter who tackles injustice with swift and decisive action, carrying the burden of freeing society from oppression, fighting for the weak and wounded.
She is brave.
She is beautiful.
She is just a comic book character … or at least she was.
Macy Davis is an athletic high school student with an eye for Patrick Newell, the young artist who created Stellar. When Macy’s best friend, Keri Cartwright, discovers Patrick’s comic book heroine, she convinces Macy to masquerade as Stellar. Because to Macy, Stellar is Patrick’s perfect girl. But when Macy dons a homemade costume to surprise Patrick at the Halloween Dance, her debut takes an unexpected twist and the reveal is more than anyone, including Macy, could have ever imagined.
- Stellar
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By Ian Graham and Marc A. Hutchins
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/31/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- With Fate Conspire
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/13/21
Formats: Digital Audy
Marie Brennan returns to the Onyx Court, a fairy city hidden below Queen Victoria’s London. Now the Onyx Court faces its greatest challenge.
Seven years ago, Eliza’s childhood sweetheart vanished from the streets of Whitechapel. No one believed her when she told them that he was stolen away by the faeries.
But she hasn’t given up the search. It will lead her across London and into the hidden palace that gives refuge to faeries in the mortal world. That refuge is now crumbling, broken by the iron of the underground railway, and the resulting chaos spills over to the streets above.
Three centuries of the Onyx Court are about to come to an end. Without the palace’s protection, the fae have little choice but to flee. Those who stay have one goal: to find safety in a city that does not welcome them. But what price will the mortals of London pay for that safety?
- With Fate Conspire
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/13/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- In Ashes Lie
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/16/21
Formats: Digital Audy
The year is 1666. The King and Parliament vie for power, fighting one another with politics and armies alike. Below, the faerie court has enemies of its own. The old ways are breaking down, and no one knows what will rise in their place.
But now, a greater threat has come, one that could destroy everything. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps free of the oven—and ignites a blaze that will burn London to the ground. While the humans struggle to halt the conflagration that is devouring the city street by street, the fae pit themselves against a less tangible foe: the spirit of the fire itself, powerful enough to annihilate everything in its path.
Mortal and fae will have to lay aside the differences that divide them and fight together for the survival of London itself.
- In Ashes Lie
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/16/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Star Shall Fall
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/09/21
Formats: Digital Audy
The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. It has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition and ushering in an age of enlightenment.
To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. Magic is losing its place in the world-and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes.
In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused by a great Dragon—an elemental beast of flame. Incapable of destroying something so powerful, the fae of London banished it to a comet moments before the comet’s light disappeared from the sky. Now the calculations of Sir Edmond Halley have predicted its return in 1759.
So begins their race against time. Soon the Dragon’s gaze will fall upon London and it will return to the city it ravaged once before. The fae will have to answer the question that defeated them a century before: How can they kill a being more powerful than all their magic combined? It will take both magic and science to save London-but reconciling the two carries its own danger …
- A Star Shall Fall
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/09/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Nazi’s Granddaughter
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By Silvia Foti
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/09/21
Formats: Digital Audy
Hero–or Nazi?
Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community.
But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.”
The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family.
A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.- The Nazi’s Granddaughter
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By Silvia Foti
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/09/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Midnight Never Come
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/16/21
Formats: Digital Audy
ABOVE
The year is 1590. The City of London flourishes, the most brilliant jewel in the crown of Elizabeth I, Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.
BELOW
The Onyx Court is London’s faerie shadow. Ruled by Invidiana, its heartless queen, it reflects and distorts the glory of the mortal court.
BETWEEN
Years ago, Elizabeth forged a pact with her faerie counterpart to secure both of their thrones. Now that alliance is in danger. Michael Deven, a rising star in Elizabeth’s court, seeks the “hidden player” who has influenced mortal politics for so long. Lady Lune, a faerie out of favor, must infiltrate the mortal world to protect her vicious queen. Together this pair will uncover the secret of Invidiana’s power—a secret that has the potential to shatter both realms.
- Midnight Never Come
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Directed by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/16/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Female Detective
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/12/21
Formats: Digital Audy
“Literary ancestor to Miss Marple, Lisbeth Salander, and Nancy Drew.”—The Guardian (London)
First published in 1864, decades before there were official female detectives or female police officers in Britain, The Female Detective features the original lady detective: the determined and resourceful Miss Gladden, known as “G.” She examines crime scenes incognito, tracks down killers, and solves mysteries employing all manner of skill, subterfuge, and charm to achieve her ends while attempting to conceal her own identity from others.
Miss Gladden’s deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and she can be seen as beginning a powerful tradition of female detectives in these seven short stories. The Female Detective is sure to enchant a new generation of crime fiction fans.
- The Female Detective
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/12/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Man in the Brown Suit
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and John Lee
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Release Date: 12/15/20
Formats: Digital Audy
When the recently orphaned Anne Beddingfield moves to London to live with her late father’s solicitor and his wife, she is ready for adventure to find her, and find her it most certainly does.
While waiting for the tube after a failed job interview, Anne witnesses a man fall off the Underground platform onto the rails. The police determine the man’s death to be “accidental.” But the examining doctor fortuitously leaves behind a rather curious note on his way out of the station, and Anne makes the life-altering decision to investigate this “accidental” death on her own. Suddenly, Anne finds herself ensnared in a dangerous plot involving missing diamonds, a murdered ballerina, and even an attempt on her own life.
The Man in the Brown Suit also features the first appearance of Colonel Race, a friend of Agatha Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot, and an excellent investigator in his own right. To save herself and solve this mystery, Anne must work with Colonel Race and journey all the way to Africa. Together, they are determined to crack the case and unmask the killer, an international criminal mastermind known only as “the Colonel,” once and for all.
- The Man in the Brown Suit
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and John Lee
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Release Date: 12/15/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Alicia: My Story
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/08/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank’s diary—a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia’s hand—and follow.
Her name is Alicia. She was thirteen when she began saving the lives of people she did not know—while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland.
Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hideouts, and lent them her courage and hope. Even the sight of her mother’s brutal murder could not quash this remarkable child’s faith in human goodness—or her determination to prevail against overwhelming odds.
After the war, Alicia continued to risk her life, leading Polish Jews on an underground route to freedom in Palestine. She swore on her brother’s grave that if she survived, she would speak for her silenced family. This book is the eloquent fulfillment of that oath.
- Alicia: My Story
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/08/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- In League with Sherlock Holmes
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Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/01/20
Formats: Digital Audy
The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger’s popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series
Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. It is little wonder, then, that when the renowned Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger invited their writer-friends and colleagues to be inspired by the Holmes canon, a cornucopia of stories sprang forth, with more than sixty of the greatest modern writers participating in four acclaimed anthologies.
Now, King and Klinger have invited another fifteen masters to become In League with Sherlock Holmes. The contributors to this volume include award-winning authors of horror, thrillers, mysteries, westerns, and science-fiction, all bound together in admiration and affection for the original stories. The resulting stories are funny, haunting, thrilling, and surprising. All are unforgettable.
- In League with Sherlock Holmes
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Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/01/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- My Favorites
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By Ben Bova
Foreword by Spider Robinson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 10/13/20
Formats: Digital Audy
In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.
Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well as the morality of man in “The Angel’s Gift.” Stories such as “The Café Coup” and “We’ll Always Have Paris” dip into speculative historical fiction, asking questions about what would happen if someone could change history for the better. This expansive collection is a key addition for Bova fans and sci-fi lovers alike!
Stories included in this collection: “Monster Slayer,” “Muzhestvo,” “We’ll Always Have Paris,” “The Great Moon Hoax, or A Princess of Mars,” “Inspiration,” “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” “The Supersonic Zeppelin,” “Mars Farts,” “The Man Who Hated Gravity,” “Sepulcher,” “The Café Coup,” “The Angel’s Gift,” “Waterbot,” and “Sam and the Flying Dutchman.”
- My Favorites
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By Ben Bova
Foreword by Spider Robinson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 10/13/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Weird Women
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Edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
Read by Sile Bermingham, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, John Rubinstein, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 8/04/20
Formats: Digital Audy
From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror writers from 1852–1923
While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the success of her immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired dozens of female authors who wrote their own evocative, chilling tales.
Weird Women, edited by award-winning anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger, collects some of the finest tales of terror by authors as legendary as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, alongside works of writers who were the bestsellers and critical favorites of their time—Marie Corelli, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Riddell—and lesser known authors who are deserving of contemporary recognition.
As railroads, industry, cities, and technology flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, so did stories exploring the horrors they unleashed. This anthology includes ghost stories and tales of haunted houses, as well as mad scientists, werewolves, ancient curses, mummies, psychological terrors, demonic dimensions, and even weird westerns.
Curated by Klinger and Morton with an aim to present work that has languished in the shadows, all of these exceptional supernatural stories are sure to surprise, delight, and frighten today’s readers.
- Weird Women
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Edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
Read by Sile Bermingham, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, John Rubinstein, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 8/04/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Burn the Ashes
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes.
In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, that’s the motto of the Firemen who hunted down and burned books wherever they found them. Bradbury warned of a world where our literary history is taken from us. In Burn the Ashes, some of the best science fiction authors working today continue to explore the dystopic worlds they introduced in Ignorance Is Strength.
Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant, the Dystopia Triptych is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. Ignorance Is Strength—before the dystopia—focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. Burn the Ashes—during the dystopia—turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. Or Else the Light—after the dystopia—concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.
Burn the Ashes features all-new, never-before-published works by the following authors, in order of appearance: Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Adam-Troy Castro, Caroline M. Yoachim, Hugh Howey, An Owomoyela, Seanan McGuire, Dominica Phetteplace, Alex Irvine, Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Sigler, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
- Burn the Ashes
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Or Else the Light
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Into the darkness within; or else the light …
When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In Or Else the Light, the third and final entry in the Dystopia Triptych, over a dozen of the best minds in science fiction conclude their stories with a descent into darkness, or perhaps a ray of light.
Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant, the Dystopia Triptych is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. Ignorance Is Strength—before the dystopia—focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. Burn the Ashes—during the dystopia—turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. Or Else the Light—after the dystopia—concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.
Or Else the Light features all-new, never-before-published works by the following authors, in order of appearance: Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Adam-Troy Castro, Caroline M. Yoachim, Hugh Howey, An Owomoyela, Seanan McGuire, Dominica Phetteplace, Alex Irvine, Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Sigler, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
- Or Else the Light
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ignorance Is Strength
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 6/30/20
Formats: Digital Audy
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today’s most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in Ignorance Is Strength.
The Dystopia Triptych is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. Ignorance Is Strength—before the dystopia—focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. Burn the Ashes—during the dystopia—turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. Or Else the Light—after the dystopia—concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.
Ignorance Is Strength features all-new, never-before-published works by the following authors, in order of appearance: Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Adam-Troy Castro, Caroline M. Yoachim, Hugh Howey, An Owomoyela, Seanan McGuire, Dominica Phetteplace, Alex Irvine, Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Sigler, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
- Ignorance Is Strength
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 6/30/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Epstein
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By Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, and James Robertson
Directed by A. J. Moseley
Read by David Linski, with Gabrielle de Cuir and Kate Orsini
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
This is—for the first time—the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American history
He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars, and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury. But while he was flying around the world on his private jet and hosting lavish parties at his private island in the Caribbean, he also was secretly masterminding an international child sex ring—one that may have involved the richest and most influential men in the world.
The conspiracy of corruption was an open secret for decades. And then this summer, it all came crashing down.
After his arrest on sex trafficking charges in July, it seemed Epstein’s darkest secrets would finally see the light. But hopes for true justice were shattered in August, when he was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.
The verdict: suicide. The timing: convenient, to say the least.
Now, Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales delivers bombshell new revelations, uncovers how the man President Trump once described as a “terrific guy” abused hundreds of underage girls at his mansions in Palm Beach and Manhattan … all while entertaining the world’s most powerful men—including President Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump himself.
The answers to these questions and more will be explored in Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales with groundbreaking new reporting, never-before-seen court files, and interviews with new witnesses and confidants.
Combining the very best investigative reporting from investigative journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson—who have been covering the case for close to a decade—will send shockwaves through the highest levels of the establishment.
- Epstein
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By Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, and James Robertson
Directed by A. J. Moseley
Read by David Linski, with Gabrielle de Cuir and Kate Orsini
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- An Arsène Lupin Casebook
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Introduction by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, John Lee, and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Discover the many faces of Arsène Lupin as you’ve never seen them before in this original compilation from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing.
Arsène Lupin boldly makes a name for himself in “Madame Imbert’s Safe” as he attempts to steal from a couple who may be hiding more than just money, and flaunts his keen eye as he traces a cold case in “The Queen’s Necklace.” In “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin,” passengers onboard a transatlantic steamer fear for their valuables when the captain announces that Arsène Lupin has snuck onto the ship … and he could be disguised as anyone. In “Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late,” Lupin goes head-to-head with Holmes, but someone from Lupin’s past may get in the way.
Just when it seems like Lupin is in a criminal league all his own, Herlock Sholmes appears. Similar to the famous English detective (but, owing to the complaints of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, possessing an entirely different name), Sholmes travels to Paris to solve the case of the stolen blue diamond. Monsieur Lupin must employ all his ingenuity to avoid arrest and protect his reputation as the greatest thief the world has ever known. With daring escapes and intricate heists, this compilation showcases Lupin at his most cunning—and his most outrageous
Full contents: Introduction by Alison Belle Bews • “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin” • “The Escape of Arsène Lupin” • “Madame Imbert’s Safe” • “The Black Pearl” • “Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late” • “The Queen’s Necklace” • “Lottery Ticket No. 514” • “The Blue Diamond” • “Herlock Sholmes Opens Hostilities” • “Light in the Darkness” • “An Abduction” • “The Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin”
- An Arsène Lupin Casebook
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Introduction by Alison Belle Bews
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, John Lee, and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Shackled
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By Tom Leveen
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
From author Tom Leveen comes a taut, suspenseful novel about a girl’s abduction that leaves her best friend emotionally paralyzed, until a chance encounter points her toward the truth … and a terrifying new danger.
Sixteen-year-old Pelly has a master plan: After years of therapy, medication, and even a stint in a mental hospital, she’s finally ready to re-enter the world of the living. Pelly has been suffering from severe panic attacks ever since her best friend, Tara, disappeared from a mall six years ago.
And her plan seems to be working, until an unkempt girl accompanied by an older man walks into the coffee shop where she works. Pelly thinks she’s seen a ghost, until the girl mouths “help me” on the way out, and Pelly knows she’s just seen Tara.
Too shocked to do anything, Pelly helplessly watches Tara slip away again as she steels herself against a renewed spiral of crippling anxiety. But rather than being overcome by anxiety, Pelly feels more energized than she has in years. Determined to track down enough evidence to force the police to reopen Tara’s file, Pelly’s master plan takes a turn for the dangerous.
Pelly decides she cannot be shackled by her past—and the anxiety, fear, and grief that comes with it—any longer if she wants to save Tara. But in seeking answers through whatever means necessary, she’ll come face-to-face with true evil. And not all the shackles are in her head …
- Shackled
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By Tom Leveen
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Queen of Paris
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Called “top-notch historical fiction” by Publishers Weekly, this meticulously researched, bestselling novel of Coco Chanel is as elegant as the woman who inspired it.
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII.
Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. 5. Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. The House of Chanel shall not fall.
While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule. Chanel—a woman made of sparkling granite—will do anything to survive. She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, code name: Westminster. But why? And to what lengths will she go to keep her stormy past from haunting her future?
Don’t miss Pamela Binnings Ewen’s dazzling new historical fiction novel Émilienne, about the young woman who was once considered not only the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris—but all of Europe.
- The Queen of Paris
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Lady of the Shroud
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By Bram Stoker
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/10/20
Formats: Digital Audy
A historical sci-fi tale of the Land of the Blue Mountains
Best known for his masterpiece of horror, Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote a number of other novels and many short stories, all with supernatural themes or filled with a physical terror reminiscent of Poe. First published in 1909, The Lady of the Shroud is an engrossing concoction of an epic steampunk adventure, military tale, and science fiction romance.
Old Roger Melton has died, leaving behind one of the greatest fortunes in Europe. His arrogant relative Ernest Melton expects to be the heir, but, much to the family’s surprise, Roger leaves his vast estate to his obscure young nephew, Rupert Sent Leger. But Rupert’s newfound wealth comes with strange conditions attached, one of which is that he must inhabit the old castle of Vissarion in the remote Balkan nation known as the Land of the Blue Mountains.
Rupert, an intrepid adventurer, agrees and travels to Vissarion with his Aunt Janet, who possesses the occult power of Second Sight. But all is not as it seems at Vissarion. Rupert finds himself visited by a ghostly woman clothed in a burial shroud who sleeps in a tomb. Haunted by her strange beauty, he declares his love and they wed in an Orthodox ceremony conducted by candlelight. As a newly married couple, their trials and adventures continue. From sea battles with mechanical crabs and flying machines to insidious court plotters and spies, the newlyweds battle all manner of foe in their quest to free their country and become the ruling Voivodes of Vissarion, the Land of the Blue Mountains.
- The Lady of the Shroud
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By Bram Stoker
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/10/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Lois the Witch, and Other Gothic Tales
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Produced by Skyboat Media
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Juliet Mills, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/03/20
Formats: Digital Audy
In this original collection from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing, Elizabeth Gaskell showcases the height of gothic fiction’s ability to delight in the otherworldly and to dig deep into what truly haunts us.
Set against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials, “Lois the Witch” reveals much about the complicity of mankind. Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage that had been her home and sail to America. Though she is a God-fearing and honest girl, it seems her identity as the strange, new, English girl is all anyone can see and she becomes a target for the superstitious townsfolk. In “The Grey Woman” we follow a young woman who learns the true nature of her new husband and is forced to flee their isolated home. In “Curious, If True” we are given a peek into a party attended by some very familiar fairy-tale figures. And finally, in “The Doom of the Griffiths” we must wait and see if the prophecy of an old family curse will be fulfilled.
A collaborator and friend of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell is a leading figure in Victorian literature.
Full contents:
“Lois the Witch” – read by Gabrielle de Cuir
“The Half-Brothers” – read by Stefan Rudnicki
“The Old Nurse’s Story” – read by Justine Eyre
“The Grey Woman” – read by Juliet Mills
“Curious, If True” – read by Stefan Rudnicki
“Disappearances” – read by Juliet Mills
“The Doom of the Griffiths” – read by Justine Eyre- Lois the Witch, and Other Gothic Tales
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Produced by Skyboat Media
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Juliet Mills, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/03/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Wharton Gothics
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/11/20
Formats: Digital Audy
An original compilation of eight of Edith Wharton’s gothic stories
A ghostly presence in “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” desires revenge against a tyrannical husband. In “Mr. Jones,” Lady Jane Lynke inherits an estate unexpectedly and can’t make sense of how to manage the servants—especially since the caretaker has been dead for decades but keeps giving orders.
Meanwhile, in “Afterward,” a newly wealthy American couple moves into a large, isolated house in southern England complete with a ghost—and the mysteries surrounding the husband’s business are slowly uncovered. In “The Hermit and the Wild Woman,” the “hermit,” while a young boy, witnessed the killing of his family during an attack on his town. As a result of this trauma, he has retreated into isolation—until he meets a “wild woman” who comes to live nearby.
These are just a few of the wonderful and unnerving tales gathered together in this new compilation of Wharton’s gothic stories.
- The Wharton Gothics
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/11/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Haunted House at Latchford & The Haunted Hotel
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By Mrs. J. H. Riddell and Wilkie Collins
Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Two tales from the golden age of supernatural fiction
The Haunted House at Latchford by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
Mrs. J. H. Riddell excelled at blending the realistic and supernatural elements in her stories. In Essex she found the right dreary setting for The Haunted House at Latchford, “where beyond the fated house and ruined garden lay the belt of pine trees and the lake of the dismal swamp, which had furnished Crow Hall with no less than two tragedies.”
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
Like Edgar Allan Poe before him and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle after, Wilkie Collins shifted easily from rational domains to the “superrational.” The Haunted Hotel exhibits the same relentless pace and narrative power, the same attention to plot and backdrop detail that distinguish The Moonstone and The Woman in White, along with the obsession with destiny and the willful struggle against it. Collins’s much-loved Venice provides the scenery and fatal beauty, the grim waterways and palaces the author will haunt with mysterious women, grotesques, and bloody conspiracies.
- The Haunted House at Latchford & The Haunted Hotel
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By Mrs. J. H. Riddell and Wilkie Collins
Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Black Moth
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
The debut novel from the creator of the Regency genre of romance fiction
Based on a story she had written for her brother and published when she was nineteen years old, The Black Moth is set during the Georgian era in the 1750s and follows Lord Jack Carstares, the eldest son of the Earl of Wyncham. Six years ago, Jack took the blame when his younger brother Richard cheated at cards. Jack consequently faced social exile and fled England for the European continent. He has now secretly returned, robbing carriages as a highwayman.
One day, he rescues Miss Diana Beauleigh when she is almost abducted by the Duke of Andover. Jack and Diana fall in love, but his troubled past and current profession threaten their happiness.
In a contemporary review published in 1921, the Times Literary Supplement deemed the protagonist Jack a “fascinating hero of romance” and added that the novel was “a well-filled story which keeps the reader pleased.”
- The Black Moth
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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Stories by various authors
Edited and with an introduction by Graeme Davis
"The Origins of Sherlock Holmes" by Leslie S. Klinger
Read by Paul Boehmer, Maxwell Caulfield, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, John Lee, Jim Meskimen, Arthur Morey, John Rubinstein, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus―but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s French detective Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” preceded Holmes’s deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his “tales of ratiocination.” In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes’ adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe―and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted in France twenty years earlier.
If “Rue Morgue” was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Two books by Wilkie Collins―The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)―are often given that honor, with the latter showing many of the features that came to identify the genre: a locked-room murder in an English country house; bungling local detectives outmatched by a brilliant amateur detective; a large cast of suspects and a plethora of red herrings; and a final twist before the truth is revealed. Others point to Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and others still to The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–3) by the pseudonymous “Charles Felix.”
As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages―of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain―the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other―but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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Stories by various authors
Edited and with an introduction by Graeme Davis
"The Origins of Sherlock Holmes" by Leslie S. Klinger
Read by Paul Boehmer, Maxwell Caulfield, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, John Lee, Jim Meskimen, Arthur Morey, John Rubinstein, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Touch of Pan & Other Stories
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Compiled and produced by Stefan Rudnicki at Skyboat Media
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Kate Orsini, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/17/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Algernon Blackwood, a journalist and broadcast narrator, was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Included here are thirteen of his stories.
The title story, “The Touch of Pan,” explores the lingering presence of myth in everyday life. In “The Glamour of the Snow,” Blackwood winds a tale about a man’s infatuation with a supernatural winter beauty. In “The Attic,” the ghost of an usurer haunts the old Chateaux and, on the anniversary of a young boy’s death, the boy’s cat brings the family together.
“The Willows” follows two campers who are on a canoe trip down the Danube, with the sense of a looming threat following them. When darkness falls, they pick the wrong place to sleep for the night—a place where another dimension impinges on our own. American horror author H. P. Lovecraft considered “The Willows” to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
Full contents:
“The Touch of Pan,” read by Stefan Rudnicki
“The Transfer,” read by Justine Eyre
“The Occupant of the Room,” read by Paul Boehmer
“The Valley of the Beasts,” read by Stefan Rudnicki
“The Glamour of the Snow,” read by Paul Boehmer
“The Pikestaff Case,” read by Kate Orsini
“The Tryst,” read by Paul Boehmer
“Wayfarers,” read by Stefan Rudnicki
“The House of the Past,” read by Paul Boehmer
“Initiation,” read by Stefan Rudnicki
“The Wings of Horus,” read by Gabrielle de Cuir
“The Attic,” read by Paul Boehmer
“The Willows,” read by Stefan Rudnicki- The Touch of Pan & Other Stories
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Compiled and produced by Stefan Rudnicki at Skyboat Media
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Kate Orsini, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/17/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
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By the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, with Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons—like the one in Thailand run by Gina Haspel—prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies. It also examines charges that the CIA deceived elected officials and governmental overseers about the extent and legality of its operations.
Over five years in the making, and withheld from public view since its declassification in April, 2014, this is the full summary report as finally released by the United States government on December 9, 2014.
- The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
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By the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, with Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Red Fairy Book
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Edited by Andrew Lang
Introduction by Orson Scott Card
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/10/19
Formats: Digital Audy
It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Three-headed trolls, horses that carry their masters up mountains of glass, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres—these are the companions who will thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang’s phenomenally successful collections of stories have proved. From the day that they were first printed, the Lang fairy-tale books of many colors have entertained thousands of boys and girls, as they have also brought pleasure to the many parents who have read these unforgettable classics to their children.
In addition to such familiar favorites as “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Rapunzel,” “The Ratcatcher” (“The Pied Piper”), and “Snowdrop” (“Snow White”), The Red Fairy Book contains a wonderful collection of lesser-known tales from French, German, Danish, Russian, and Romanian sources. A tale from Norse mythology recounts the old story of Sigurd and Brynhild; tales by the great Madame d’Aulnoy include “Graciosa and Percinet” and “Princess Rosette”; lesser-known tales from Grimm’s collection include “The Three Dwarfs,” “Mother Holle,” and “The Golden Goose.”
All in all, this collection contains thirty-seven stories, all narrated in the clear, lively prose for which Lang was famous. Not only are Lang’s generally conceded to be the best English versions of standard stories, his collections are the richest and widest in range. His position as one of England’s foremost folklorists as well as his first-rate literary abilities makes his collections unmatchable in the English language.
- The Red Fairy Book
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Edited by Andrew Lang
Introduction by Orson Scott Card
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/10/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Becoming Starlight
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/27/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Most people know of the Near Death Experience (NDE), but very few have heard of the The Shared Death Experience (SDE). The SDE is similar to the NDE except that it occurs not to the person who is dying, but to a loved one who is physically well. That person could be sitting right next to their loved one, sitting across the room, or even across the globe unaware of the impending death of someone they love.
Location or activity level is of no consequence to the SDE. That person is “invited along” to witness the aftermath of physical death. The invitation extended has no RSVP—the person accompanying the dying individual can neither accept nor refuse—they are just “taken” or “given” the experience by powers outside of their control. Becoming Starlight is one of those stories. Deeply embedded in Starlight is an ongoing war with death, faith, and hope—and with God—a war most of us have experienced or will experience in our lifetimes.
Becoming Starlight is a story that has been written, in one way or another, since the beginning of time. The war between life and death—who lives and who dies—is at the heart of this deeply personal experience. It’s a life-and-death struggle with spiritual darkness and loss of faith. It is a story not unlike the stories of anyone who has loved and lost, grieved and sorrowed, felt anguish and rage, fallen from grace and questioned the very existence of God. The specifics are different, but the humanity splattered on every page is the stuff of life. Some find redemption more easily than I. It took a complete fall from grace for me to awaken from the darkness that had found its way into my life, and an unexpected encounter—a SDE—to bring me into the very arms of a compassionate God. Becoming Starlight is the Lifting of the Veil that led to a peek into foreverness.
- Becoming Starlight
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/27/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- War of the Rose Covens
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/13/19
Formats: Digital Audy
A standalone novel in the Portland of the Spirit Knights series
Portland has a coven problem. Sixteen-year-old Sophie Harris wishes magic could solve all her problems. It created them, after all. It made her a disappointment, a pathetic waste of space in her mom’s coven. Every time they pat her on the head for being a good little girl, they push her down a little more. She can’t protect herself or help with anything that matters, or so they tell her again and again.
Armed with new friends who care more than her family ever has, Sophie plunges into a quest to prove herself worthy to a mother who can’t see her as anything but a weak child. One way or another, she’s going to try to force her mom to give her the respect her friends want her to believe she deserves. If she’s lucky, the dark secrets kept under lock and key by both of Portland’s covens won’t get in the way. If she’s even luckier, they won’t get anyone killed.
This story takes place after the Spirit Knights series.
- War of the Rose Covens
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/13/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Crawlspace
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 7/16/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Uncertain. Eighteen-year-old Emma Harper knows she has a problem. Now she has to learn to live with it.
Learning to eat like a normal person, though, is the least of her worries. When hostile aliens interrupt her attempt to get herself and her Marines home to Earth, she’ll have to evade capture and figure out what really matters to her.
Who is she? How can she help? What can she even do a zillion light years from everything she’s ever known?
Five lives hang on the answers, and she doesn’t even know where to start.
- Crawlspace
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 7/16/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Porcelain
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 7/09/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Eighteen-year-old Emma Harper misses her brother. Two years ago, the bad news—MIA—killed a piece of her heart. Her father ignoring her dreams of building spaceships and demanding she become an accountant killed another. Lost and rudderless, Emma drifts through a life she doesn’t want with friends who pretend to care.
When a bizarre event sends her sailing across the universe, she’ll have to decide what matters most to her. Life or death, the universe doesn’t care.
But does Emma?
- Porcelain
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 7/09/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Earth Is the Lord’s
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/25/19
Formats: Digital Audy
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a “magnificent” epic based on the early life of Genghis Khan (New York Herald Tribune)
This sweeping saga captures life in the Far East during the Middle Ages and dramatizes the events that transformed a Mongol tribesman named Temujin into the man who would conquer Asia and be known to the world for centuries to come as Genghis Khan.
Raised by an indomitable woman and educated by his outcast uncle, Temujin becomes a fearsome warrior who inspires loyalty in his friends and hatred in his enemies. But he is also blessed with a keen intelligence and the charisma of a natural-born leader. In an era marked by treachery and savage violence, these gifts lead Temujin to a relentless pursuit of power.
From the Gobi Desert to Samarkand, Taylor Caldwell transports readers to a distant world and shines a brilliant light on one of history’s most enigmatic figures. On her “huge historical canvas…blood spurts from the knife; beads of sweat stand out on straining flesh; lusts are consummated and revenges achieved” (New York Herald Tribune).
- The Earth Is the Lord’s
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/25/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
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By Lorrie Moore
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger—until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help—and then everything changes.
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
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By Lorrie Moore
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Three Sisters in Black
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.
But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey’s death was no suicide. And Ocey’s own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.
In fact, behind the veils of their strange black mourning clothes, they were monsters, having tormented Ocey almost since birth in a sick pattern of both physical and mental abuse, after a lifetime of which the women planned to cash in on poor Ocey’s sad and inevitable death.
An Edgar Award finalist, Three Sisters in Black is the true story of a gothic, gaslight nightmare that fascinated, shocked, and baffled the nation—and the disturbed women who almost got away with murder.
- Three Sisters in Black
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Murder on the Links
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Produced by Gabrielle de Cuir
Dialogue directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by John Rubinstein, with Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Not one, but two dead bodies are discovered on a French golf course, leaving Hercule Poirot to unravel a grisly conundrum.
Hercule Poirot receives an urgent cry for help from a client summoning him to France. But he is too late, and arrives to find his client facedown in a shallow grave on a golf course, brutally stabbed to death, and dressed in a too-large overcoat with an impassioned love letter in the pocket.
With a long line of suspects including the victim’s wife, his embittered son, and his mistress, Poirot works to unravel the mystery.
But before Poirot can discover the meaning of the clues, a second, identically murdered corpse is found …
- The Murder on the Links
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Produced by Gabrielle de Cuir
Dialogue directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by John Rubinstein, with Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Over the Hills and Far Away
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/11/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) is one of the world’s bestselling, most cherished authors of children’s literature whose books have enchanted generations for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and surprising life.
Inspired by her twenty-three “tales,” Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter’s stories and uses them to explore her multifaceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up.
This biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter’s work and especially for fans of her children’s literature who want to know the real-life animals behind Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and of course, Peter Rabbit.
- Over the Hills and Far Away
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/11/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dancing at the Edge of the World
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/22/19
Formats: Digital Audy
From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos—in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.
Le Guin is an authentic, wise woman, remembering, performing, and passing on the ancient ceremony of celebration, dancing “the dance of renewal, the dance that made the world”—and in this collection, she does so with wit and eloquence that make for exhilarating listening.
- Dancing at the Edge of the World
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/22/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Aviator
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Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, and John Rubinstein
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Release Date: 6/26/18
Formats: Digital Audy
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love, and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia.
A man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov. As memories slowly resurface, Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early twentieth century, living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon, only one question remains: how can he remember the start of the twentieth century, when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999? Reminiscent of the great works of twentieth-century Russian literature, with nods to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov’s The White Guard, The Aviator cements Vodolazkin’s position as the rising star of Russia’s literary scene.
- The Aviator
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Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, and John Rubinstein
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Release Date: 6/26/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Boys Can’t Be Witches
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By Lee French
Directed by Claire Bloom and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/27/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Portland has a witch problem.
Claire expects Christmas vacation to deliver an earned respite from thinking, doing, and obeying. She gets to sleep in and play with dragons. Right? Of course not. Ghosts don’t care about vacation.
Drew wishes magic could finish high school for him. Who cares about calculus or dangling participles when he can crush mutant bugs with his mind? It can’t do much more, though, until he gets off his butt and learns how to use it properly.
In this fifth and final installment of the Spirit Knights series, Claire and Drew find out what happens when they spend three weeks ignoring the obligations of the power at their command and live a normal life.
Spoiler alert: nothing good.
- Boys Can’t Be Witches
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By Lee French
Directed by Claire Bloom and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/27/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Moonborn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/06/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Livvy Foster has a new heart, home, and a place in the powerful halls of House Windhook. The fall of Sliver was only the beginning of a civil war that sees angels from across the sky challenge each other to lead a world in which the past and the future are connected by a storm crafted from time, ambition, and power.
When House Selinus attempts to bend the light of days in order to become the supreme power in an apocalyptic future, they confront a goddess who is older than time itself—and she’ll stop at nothing to get the one soul who escaped her deadly grasp: Livvy.
With deceit, war, and love swirling in the clouds above the shattered world that was once Livvy’s home, she’ll be asked to do something a girl with a broken heart never thought possible.
Fight for Windhook. Fight for her world.Take wing with Livvy, one heartbeat at a time.
- Moonborn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/06/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Heartborn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/28/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Her guardian angel was pushed.
Keiron was made to be a hero. Born high above in a place of war and deception, he is Heartborn, a being of purity and goodness in a world where violence and deceit are just around every corner. His disappearance will spark a war he cannot see, for Keiron has bent time to save a girl he has never met.
Livvy Foster is seventeen, brave, and broken. With half a heart, she bears the scars of a lifetime of pain and little hope of survival.
Until Keiron arrives.
In the middle of a brewing war and Livvy's failing heart, Keiron will risk everything for Livvy, because a Heartborn's life can only end in one way: sacrifice.
Fall with Livvy and Keiron as they seek the truth about her heart, and his power, and what it means to love someone who will give their very life to save you.
- Heartborn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/28/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Dark Country
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Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
Read by Dennis Etchison, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 10/24/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Etchison’s fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award in 1982, the first time a single work received both major awards. Contents include sixteen groundbreaking stories and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
- “It Only Comes Out at Night”
- “Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly”
- “The Walking Man”
- “We Have All Been Here Before”
- “Daughter of the Golden West”
- “The Pitch”
- “You Can Go Now”
- “Today’s Special”
- “The Machine Demands a Sacrifice”
- “Calling All Monsters”
- “The Dead Line”
- “The Late Shift”
- “The Nighthawk”
- “It Will Be Here Soon”
- “Deathtracks”
- “The Dark Country”
- The Dark Country
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Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
Read by Dennis Etchison, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 10/24/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Best of Bova, Vol. 3
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By Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society—a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars.
- The Best of Bova, Vol. 3
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By Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Nights of the Living Dead
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By Jonathan Maberry, Joe R. Lansdale, and various authors
Edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/11/17
Formats: Digital Audy
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new—and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.
But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry teams with the godfather of the living dead himself, George A. Romero, to present a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak.
Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!
For anyone who loves scary stories, take a bite out of this!
- Nights of the Living Dead
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By Jonathan Maberry, Joe R. Lansdale, and various authors
Edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/11/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Walkaway
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Read by Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Amanda Palmer, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Wil Wheaton, and Mirron Willis
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Release Date: 4/25/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Cory Doctorow’s first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.
But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has nowhere left to be―except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. Falling in with Natalie, an ultrarich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society―and walk away.
After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life―food, clothing, shelter―from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.
It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators, animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultrarich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war, a war that will turn the world upside down.
Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multigenerational SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years—and the very human people who will live their consequences.
- Walkaway
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Read by Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Amanda Palmer, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Wil Wheaton, and Mirron Willis
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Release Date: 4/25/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ghost Is the New Normal
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Portland has a mutant cockroach problem.
Death didn’t solve anything for Claire. Now condemned to an eternity of roaming the Earth as a sixteen-year-old, she has to figure out this whole ghost thing from the other side. Lesson one: memories are power. Lesson two: this sucks.
Drew has no idea how to deal with the loss of his best—and only—friend. With the questionable guidance and help of the ghost possessing him, he’s trying. He’s really trying.
In this fourth installment of the Spirit Knights series, old friends and new threats force both to confront their pasts. While the Knight’s away, though, the bugs will play. Claire and Drew must each find the strength to conquer their fears or Portland won’t survive the giant cockroach apocalypse.
- Ghost Is the New Normal
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Best of Bova, Vol. 2
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By Ben Bova
Introduction read by Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
The second volume of the best stories from legendary hard science fiction writer Ben Bova, the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society.
The stories included in this volume span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars.
- The Best of Bova, Vol. 2
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By Ben Bova
Introduction read by Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ethereal Entanglements
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Portland has a Knight problem
Now that the Spirit Knights have accepted sixteen-year-old Claire into their order, she just has to convince all its Knights she belongs. Forced into a test to prove her worth, she discovers more than anyone wants her to.
Meanwhile, Justin runs around playing janitor. He’s made some big messes, but cleaning them up puts him on a new path, one he never imagined his future could hold. All on Thanksgiving.
In this third installment of the Spirit Knights series, Claire thinks she knows what must be done to save herself and the world from the plague of ghosts the Spirit Knights have left behind.
If she’s wrong, there may be nothing left to save.
- Ethereal Entanglements
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By Lee French
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Backyard Dragons
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By Lee French
Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/06/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Portland has a dragon problem.
Now genuinely a Spirit Knight, sixteen-year-old Claire wants to know everything about the job. Fate dumps a dragon on her and she only has more questions. She knows how much she needs training and wishes she could snap her fingers to learn everything at once.
Justin can answer Claire’s questions, but between his demanding young daughters, his sarcastic horse, and the recent loss of his own mentor, he’d rather just be a Knight. No one told him adopting an apprentice would devour all his free time and dredge up the past.
In this sequel to Girls Can’t Be Knights, Claire and Justin face dragons, ghosts, witches, echoes, and memories. Their survival and the fate of Portland may depend on Justin’s intellect. They’re doomed.
- Backyard Dragons
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By Lee French
Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/06/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Goon Squad
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Nicholas Guy Smith, Jim Meskimen, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in an alternate version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it—along with most other large urban centers—has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad: Year One features three action-packed volumes in a single collection: Goon Squad: Special Talents, Goon Squad: Without Sin, and Goon Squad: Old Enemies.
- Goon Squad
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Nicholas Guy Smith, Jim Meskimen, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Girls Can’t Be Knights
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By Lee French
Directed by Jodi Dorries
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Even the Spirit Knights could not see this coming …
Sixteen-year-old Claire wants her father back. His death left her only memories and an empty locket. After six difficult years in foster care, her vocabulary no longer includes “hope” and “trust.” But everything changes dramatically when she encounters Justin, a Spirit Knight restlessly hunting dangerous ghosts that devour the living, who rides into her path on his magical horse and takes her under his wing. When an evil spirit threatens Claire’s life, she’ll need Justin’s help to survive.
A fun and absorbing adventure tale full of humor and magic!
No one, including Claire, believes she can be a Spirit Knight, even when all signs show she is ready to become one. This is because the Spirit Knights have been a boys’ club for over a thousand years. Worse yet, Claire will have to dive into the hair-raising ghost-hunting job before she gets full access to the Knights’ order. Fortunately for her, she has Justin as her private tutor. With the help of his sarcastic horse and saintly wife, he’ll teach her the finer points of the job. Add in a little luck, and they both might survive long enough for her to learn it all.
Girls Can’t Be Knights is a magical and unique adventure story that will touch your soul and raise your spirits.
- Girls Can’t Be Knights
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By Lee French
Directed by Jodi Dorries
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 6
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/06/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to Dublin with their family to visit the Ha’penny Bridge and Trinity College Library. Take side trips to the Giant’s Causeway, Blarney Castle, and the Cliffs of Moher. Learn about local cuisine (Irish stew and Irish soda bread) and basic local phrases.
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Maui with their family to visit the Haleakala National Park (and see a volcano crater), walk on the Honokalani black sand beach, and travel the Hana Highway. Take side trips to the Wailau Waterfall, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and visit the Big Island of Hawaii. Learn how to do the hula, attend a luau, discover local cuisine (such as poi), and learn basic local phrases.
Lastly, join Bella and Harry as they travel to Saint Petersburg with their family to visit the Hermitage Museum, Catherine Palace, Peterhof Palace, and other magnificent places. Learn about local cuisine and basic local phrases as well.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 6
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/06/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ella, the Slayer
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By A. W. Exley
Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/14/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Ella is an Edwardian Cinderella with an undead problem.
The flu pandemic of 1918 took millions of souls within a few short weeks. Except it wasn’t flu, and death gave them back.
Seventeen-year-old Ella copes the best she can by caring for her war-injured father, scrubbing the floors, and slaying the undead that attack the locals. Like rats, these vermin spread pestilence with every bite. Ella’s world collides with another when she nearly decapitates a handsome stranger—one who is very much alive.
Seth deMage, the new Duke of Leithfield, has returned to his ancestral home with a mission from the War Office: control the plague of vermin in rural Somerset. He needs help; he just didn’t expect to find it in a katana-wielding scullery maid.
Working alongside Seth blurs the line between their positions, and Ella glimpses a future she never dreamed was possible. But in overstepping society’s boundaries, Ella could lose everything—her home, her head, and her heart.
- Ella, the Slayer
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By A. W. Exley
Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/14/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 5
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/07/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to Istanbul with their family and visit the Bosphorus River, the Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and Topkapi Palace. Along the way, local cuisine (such as menemen) is introduced to the listener.
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Jerusalem with their family and visit Masada, the Western Wall, and the Old City. Along the way, learn about local cuisine (such as shawarma and knafeh) as well as basic Hebrew phrases.
Lastly, join Bella and Harry as they travel to Vancouver with their family and visit Whistler Mountain, Stanley Park, and other fun places. Along the way, walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge, explore Grouse Mountain and Vancouver Island, and sample the local cuisine.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 5
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 6/07/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Expiration Day
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Expiration Day is an insightful coming-of-age novel set in the near future by debut author William Campbell Powell.
It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction.
Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.
Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at the Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania’s life are not real?
Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth “birthdays,” teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again.
Told in diary format, Expiration Day is the powerful and poignant story of a young girl coming of age and discovering what it means to be truly human.
- Expiration Day
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 4
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to Edinburgh with their family and see Edinburgh Castle, the Royal Botanic Garden, and enjoy a trip to Loch Ness to search for Nessie! Along the way, local cuisine (such Dundee cake) is introduced to the listener.
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Rome with their family and see the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Trevi Fountain, and other sites. Along the way, local cuisine (such as antipasti) and basic Italian words are introduced.
Lastly, join Bella and Harry as they travel to Berlin with their family to visit the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, Charlottenburg Palace, and other fun places. Take a side trip to Potsdam, enjoy some local cuisine (bratwurst), and learn basic local phrases.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 4
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 4/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 3
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/09/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to Athens with their family and go to the Acropolis, the Plaka, Crete, and learn about the origin of the Olympics. Along the way, local cuisine (such as spanakopita) is sampled, and some basic Greek phrases are introduced to the inquisitive youngsters
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Barcelona with their family and spend time at Las Ramblas, La Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, and other magnificent places. Local cuisine (such as tapas) and some basic Spanish phrases are also introduced.
Lastly, join Bella and Harry as they travel to Beijing with their family and visit the Forbidden City, explore the Temple of Heaven, walk along the Great Wall of China, and do other fun things. Take a side trip to Xian and see the Terracotta Warriors. Go to Chengdu and learn about pandas. Local cuisine and some basic local phrases are also introduced to young listeners.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 3
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 2/09/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Best of Bova, Vol. 1
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By Ben Bova
Introductions read by Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The first volume in a sterling collection of stories from legendary hard science fiction master Ben Bova
These are selected stories from Bova’s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour series, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. The very best of Ben Bova, these stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the solar system beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values and human failings which are as timeless as the stars.
- The Best of Bova, Vol. 1
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By Ben Bova
Introductions read by Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Goon Squad, Vol. 3
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Jim Meskimen and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it—along with most other large urban centers—has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 3: Old Enemies is composed of: “Life during Wartime,” “Red Wolf, Red Wolf, Does Whatever a Red Wolf Can,” “Shadow of the Vivisector,” “The Man from Switzerland,” and “The End of the Year Show,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
- Goon Squad, Vol. 3
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Jim Meskimen and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 12/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 2
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 12/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to Venice with their family and explore St. Mark’s Square, the Rialto Bridge, and take a ride in a gondola. Along the way, local cuisine (such as gelato) is presented to the inquisitive listener and basic Italian phrases are introduced.
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Cairo with their family and learn about the Valley of the Kings, the Pyramids of Giza, King Tut, and other captivating landmarks. Local cuisine is sampled, and basic Arabic and hieroglyphics are introduced to the listener.
Lastly, join Bella and Harry as they travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and visit Christ the Redeemer, Copacabana Beach, Sugarloaf Mountain, and other fun places. Along the way they sample local cuisine (such as barbecued meat and cheese bread) and learn some basic local phrases.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 2
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 12/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Women Destroy Science Fiction!
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Guest-edited by Christie Yant
Stories by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Tananarive Due, Maria Dahvana Headley, and others
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 11/18/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Guest-edited by longtime Lightspeed assistant editor Christie Yant, Women Destroy Science Fiction! contains eleven original science fiction short stories, four short-story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of flash fiction stories.
This special issue includes
- Original science fiction by Seanan McGuire, N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kris Millering, Heather Clitheroe, Rhonda Eikamp, Gabriella Stalker, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, and K. C. Norton;
- Reprints by Alice Sheldon (a.k.a. James Tiptree Jr.), Eleanor Arnason, Maria Romasco Moore, Tananarive Due, and Maureen F. McHugh; and
- Original flash fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Denham, Samantha Murray, Holly Schofield, Cathy Humble, Emily Fox, Tina Connolly, Effie Seiberg, Marina J. Lostetter, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Sarah Pinsker, Kim Winternheimer, Anaid Perez, Katherine Crighton, and Vanessa Torline.
- Women Destroy Science Fiction!
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Guest-edited by Christie Yant
Stories by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Tananarive Due, Maria Dahvana Headley, and others
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 11/18/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Ten-Cent Boy and the Brooklyn Dime
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By W. DeLaney
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 11/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Blanche Bianco, a fifteen-year-old girl, reluctantly transfers to a high school 250 miles north of Brooklyn, where her mother was educated. Her parents are concerned about her slipping grades and problems with drugs, arrests, and pregnancy at her Brooklyn school. Beautiful in a flashy sort of way and with a Brooklyn accent, she thinks she’s an outcast. Then she meets Ken, a student athlete of unexpected quality but limited means because of a broken home.
Blanche doesn’t treat Ken differently just because he is poor, and they quickly forge a strong relationship—one that cracks when Blanche returns to Brooklyn High School of the Arts for her senior year before enrolling at the Brooklyn College of Performing Arts. Ken gets a lacrosse scholarship to Maritime College in the Bronx with Blanche’s help and tries to maintain contact with her, but their relationship is severed when Blanche transfers to Pace University and subsequently gets a movie contract requiring she go to Los Angeles. The only viable link between them lies with Blanche’s parents.
Having not seen each other for three years, Ken and Blanche meet in the summer and spend five days together. But when Blanche is engaged to a Hollywood producer as a publicity stunt, she becomes concerned that Ken will do something violent.
- The Ten-Cent Boy and the Brooklyn Dime
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By W. DeLaney
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 11/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Goon Squad, Vol. 2
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Nicholas Guy Smith
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Release Date: 10/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it—along with most other large urban centers—has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of “A Star in Strange Ways,” “Holy Fool,” “Dead Man Tells Tale,” “A Brief History of the Goon Squad,” “Tale of Terror,” and “Pomona Island,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
- Goon Squad, Vol. 2
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, with Nicholas Guy Smith
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Release Date: 10/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 1
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
The Adventures of Bella & Harry is a book series that chronicles the escapades of a pup named Bella, her little brother Harry, and their family as they explore the sights and sounds of new, exciting cities around the world. This series is an informative and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries and customs, history, landmarks, and more—sure to win the hearts of young listeners.
Join Bella and Harry as they travel to London with their family and visit the Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge, and other noteworthy places. Along the way, local cuisine is introduced.
Then join Bella and Harry as they travel to Paris with their family and discover the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and other fascinating places. Local cuisine is presented to inquisitive youngsters, and basic French phrases are introduced.
Lastly, come along with Bella and Harry as they travel to New York City for Christmas. Join the pups as they stroll down Fifth Avenue, see the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, go ice skating, visit Radio City Music Hall, and more, all while sampling New York City’s famous street food.
The comedic and informative adventures of Bella and Harry will stimulate children’s imaginations and foster a thirst for understanding the world in which they live.
- The Adventures of Bella & Harry, Vol. 1
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Goon Squad, Vol. 1
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it—along with most other large urban centers—has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 1: Special Talents is composed of six tales: “The New Girl,” “Nightclubbing,” “By the Water, by the Grave,” “Changes,” “No-No Dojo,” and “Exterminating Angel,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
- Goon Squad, Vol. 1
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Introduction read by Jonathan L. Howard
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 9/08/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ellison Wonderland
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Foreword by J. Michael Straczynski
Afterword by Josh Olson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/13/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All the Sounds of Fear," "The Sky Is Burning," "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman," and "In Lonely Lands." Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than fifty years later.
- Ellison Wonderland
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Foreword by J. Michael Straczynski
Afterword by Josh Olson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/13/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost
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A Skyboat Media production
Compiled and produced by Stefan Rudnicki and Molly Underwood
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/12/15
Formats: Digital Audy
They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.
You’ll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
- A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost
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A Skyboat Media production
Compiled and produced by Stefan Rudnicki and Molly Underwood
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/12/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Heart of the Comet
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By David Brin and Gregory Benford
Directed by Cassandra de Cuir and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, P. J. Ochlan, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/24/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in this bold collaboration about our near human future in space
Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells—that might once have brought life to Earth—begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future—and that of Earth—only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
- Heart of the Comet
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By David Brin and Gregory Benford
Directed by Cassandra de Cuir and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, P. J. Ochlan, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/24/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Untouched by Human Hands
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Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir and Susan Hanfield
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/17/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Untouched by Human Hands consists of thirteen stories of beings who dwell on the strange borders of reality. Some of these stories tell of people you know or of events that might happen—but haven’t yet. Some will take you to the furthermost reaches of the sky and to planets whose names are unknown this side of Arcturus. And some—perhaps the richest and most memorable of these stories—open into the interior of strange minds to reveal the reflection of ourselves.
This classic collection consists of the following short stories:
- “The Monsters”
- “Cost of Living”
- “The Altar”
- “Shape”
- “The Impacted Man”
- “Untouched by Human Hands”
- “The King’s Wishes”
- “Warm”
- “The Demons”
- “Specialist”
- “Seventh Victim”
- “Ritual”
- “Beside Still Waters”
- Untouched by Human Hands
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Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir and Susan Hanfield
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/17/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Doll Maker
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By Sarban
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A masterful horror tale by the author of The Sound of His Horn
The Doll Maker tells the tale of Clare Lydgate, a young woman studying at boarding school for her Oxford scholarship examinations. In the evenings, she escapes the school grounds by climbing over the wall of Brackenbine Hall. It is here that she encounters the charismatic and mysterious Niall Sterne, the "Doll Maker." This is a subtle, intelligent, and compelling tale of horror.
- The Doll Maker
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By Sarban
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 3/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sunborn
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Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Susan Hanfield, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
The award-winning author of Timescape and Eater returns with a gripping new novel set in the same dynamic future as his wildly popular The Martian Race.
Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of Pluto's methane sea, Shanna has discovered intelligent creatures thriving in the -300┬░ degree temperatures. But even as their findings shift from the amazing to the inconceivable, the two crews must overcome their own intense rivalry to work together, for the most remote reaches of the solar system are filled with unimaginable wonders … and countless forces that will crush all human life.
- The Sunborn
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Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Susan Hanfield, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- In the Midst of Life
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include
- “A Horseman in the Sky,”
- “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”
- “Chickamauga,”
- “A Son of the Gods,”
- “One of the Missing,”
- “Killed at Resaca,”
- “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch,”
- “The Coup de Grâce,”
- “Parker Adderson, Philosopher,”
- “An Affair of Outposts,”
- “The Story of a Conscience,”
- “One Kind of Officer,”
- “One Officer, One Man,”
- “George Thurston,” and
- “The Mocking-Bird.”
Bierce’s stories about the lives of civilians during the Civil War period include
- “The Man Out of the Nose,”
- “An Adventure at Brownville,”
- “The Famous Gilson Bequest,”
- “The Applicant,”
- “A Watcher by the Dead,”
- “The Man and the Snake,”
- “A Holy Terror,”
- “The Suitable Surroundings,”
- “The Boarded Window,”
- “A Lady from Red Horse,” and
- “The Eyes of the Panther.”
- In the Midst of Life
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 2/10/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations
The testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record.
- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Future Crime
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By Ben Bova
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy
An exciting collection of SF stories by Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova
No matter what strange forms the future takes, says Ben Bova in his introduction, crime and criminals will always be with us—and with them, the need for law enforcement. Included in this collection of short stories are the full-length novel City of Darkness and "Brillo"—the famous collaboration between Bova and Harlan Ellison.
- Future Crime
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By Ben Bova
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Whisper in the Dark
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Directed by Claire Bloom and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/16/14
Formats: Digital Audy
From the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight.
This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all.
The book takes its title from the tale "A Whisper in the Dark," arguably Alcott's gothic masterpiece, a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are "The Mysterious Key and What It Opened," "The Abbot's Ghost; or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story," "La Jeune; or, Actress and Woman," "Ariel: A Legend of the Lighthouse," and "The Skeleton in the Closet."
- A Whisper in the Dark
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Directed by Claire Bloom and Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/16/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Martian Race
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 12/09/14
Formats: Digital Audy
From the Nebula Award–winning author of Timescape and Foundation's Fear comes a hard-science thriller about the race to Mars.
When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. Now, the race is on to get to the Red Planet first.
- The Martian Race
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 12/09/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Carbide Tipped Pens
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Edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/02/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authors
Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact—both beneficial and dangerous—of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well.
In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the twenty-first century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball.
From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the-art science fiction.
This collection includes stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others!
- Carbide Tipped Pens
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Edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/02/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Forsaken Inn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 11/18/14
Formats: Digital Audy
An old and dilapidated inn in upstate New York provides the setting for this gothic mystery involving two couples in eighteenth-century Revolutionary America.
Told through the diary entries of an innkeeper named Mrs. Truax, this chilling tale concerns Edwin Urquhart, who arrives with his bride at the Forsaken Inn for their honeymoon. The very next day, the couple leaves—but something has transpired during the night, a mystery that won't be solved until many years later.
- The Forsaken Inn
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 11/18/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ringstones
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By Sarban
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/11/14
Formats: Digital Audy
One of Sarban's first published works, Ringstones helped establish him among critics and readers as a writer of unusually evocative power. Originally published in 1951, the story is set on the Northumberland moors, where Daphne Hazel appears to cross the boundaries of time, becoming involved with terrifying personalities from the mysterious past.
Sarban is truly a master of his craft.
- Ringstones
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By Sarban
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/11/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Frontera
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By Lewis Shiner
Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 10/28/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debut
After the world's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors, but Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive; they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.
- Frontera
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By Lewis Shiner
Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 10/28/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Witchcraft of Salem Village
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/14/14
Formats: Digital Audy
A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written by the author of "The Lottery"
Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.
- The Witchcraft of Salem Village
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/14/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dread Journey
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/07/14
Formats: Digital Audy
On a transcontinental train, a starlet fears her director may be trying to kill her.
Four years after she arrived in Los Angeles, Kitten Agnew has become a star. Though beautiful and talented, she'd be nowhere without Vivien Spender, Hollywood's most acclaimed director—and its most dangerous. But Kitten knew what she was getting into when she got involved with him; she had heard the stories of Viv's past discoveries. Once he discarded them, they ended up in a chorus line, a sanatorium, or worse. She knows enough of his secrets that he wouldn't dare destroy her career—but he may be willing to kill her.
On a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, Kitten learns that Viv is planning to offer her roommate a part that was meant for her. If she lets him betray her, her career will be over. But fight for the part and she will be fighting for her life as well.
- Dread Journey
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 10/07/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Hunger, and Other Stories
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 8/26/14
Formats: Digital Audy
A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles Beaumont
When The Hunger, and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published collection, contains some of his best. Ranging in tone from the chilling gothic horror of "Miss Gentilbelle," where an insane mother dresses her son up as a girl and slaughters his pets, to deliciously dark humor in tales like "Open House" and "The Infernal Bouillabaisse," where murderers' plans go disastrously awry, these seventeen stories demonstrate Beaumont's remarkable talent and versatility.
- The Hunger, and Other Stories
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 8/26/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The So Blue Marble
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/19/14
Formats: Digital Audy
An actress finds herself caught between her ex-husband and a pair of murderous twins
At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satterlee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is staying in his apartment. Walking back one night, she meets two cheerful young men who want to go home with her—and won't take no for an answer.
David and Danny are twins, and they are the most beautiful men Griselda has ever seen. They are also the most dangerous. They want something from her: a lustrous blue marble, which they insist is in Con's apartment. Though they leave without hurting her, Griselda knows that next time, they won't be so amiable. To save herself, she must discover the secret of the marble—a secret with death at its core.
- The So Blue Marble
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 8/19/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- New Frontiers
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By Ben Bova
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 7/22/14
Formats: Digital Audy
New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.
Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.
From the Baghdad of The Arabian Nights to a vast interstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to a one-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the asteroid belt, from virtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golf tournament on the moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and explorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young Albert Einstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must venture out into unexplored territory—thanks to the limitless imagination of Ben Bova.
- New Frontiers
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By Ben Bova
Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 7/22/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Pauline’s Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Janis Ian, and Emily Janice Card
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Release Date: 7/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
A fiery and passionate tale by the beloved author of Little Women
Writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, Louisa May Alcott wrote a series of what she termed "blood and thunder" thrillers for a weekly pulp magazine. Pauline's Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades brings together five of these wicked tales.
In "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," narrated by Emily Rankin, Alcott explores the unfair roles of men and women, as well as the societal expectations and forbidden desires in this story of love and vengeance.
Set in Victorian Britain, in "Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power," narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, a new governess, Jean Muir, arrives to serve the wealthy Coventry family, but is she really who she says she is? As she works her way into the hearts and minds of the Coventrys, will her true intentions be revealed?
"Marion Earle; or, Only an Actress," narrated by Susan Hanfield, brings sexual betrayal and abandonment to center stage, following the life of an actress and her scandalous profession.
Virginie Varens is a femme fatale in "V. V.; or, Plots and Counterplots," narrated by Justine Eyre, which tells the tale of Alcott's most devious heroine caught up in misdirected passion and jealousy.
In "A Perilous Play," narrated by Janis Ian, a group of women have a picnic on the banks of a harbor island. What sounds like an idyllic and innocent activity becomes the center of drama, romance, and scandalous events involving hashish-laced sweets.
- Pauline’s Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades
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Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Janis Ian, and Emily Janice Card
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Release Date: 7/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Wastelands
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Edited by John Joseph Adams
Stories by Octavia E. Butler, George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Gene Wolfe, and others
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/06/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse.
Gathering together the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction—including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King—Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core.
- Wastelands
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Edited by John Joseph Adams
Stories by Octavia E. Butler, George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Gene Wolfe, and others
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/06/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes
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Stories by Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Eric James Stone, Aliette de Bodard, and others
Edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert
Directed by Claire Bloom and Susan Hanfield
Read by Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne Hernandez, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel—welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-year history and reprinted them together in one big book of reading pleasure. Anything that is remotely possible—futures near and far, artificial intelligence and alien encounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creating universes, planet-eating black holes and lunar racetracks—is all here under the big tent of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
This anthology features stories by such award-winning authors as Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert, Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad R. Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-new essay by Orson Scott Card about writing the character of Ender.
- Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes
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Stories by Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Eric James Stone, Aliette de Bodard, and others
Edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert
Directed by Claire Bloom and Susan Hanfield
Read by Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne Hernandez, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin, and Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Honeymoon in Hell
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir and Claire Bloom
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Harlan Ellison
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Release Date: 3/11/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Imagine …
Ghosts, gods, and devils—heavens and hells—cities in the sky and cities beneath the sea.
Time machines, spaceships—certainly you can imagine Martians, but what about interplanetary vampires? Or a mouse that isn't a mouse?
Honeymoon in Hell proves that Fredric Brown has a special vision, a sight beyond our wildest nightmares, a perception of things we couldn't even begin to imagine.
Stories include:
"Honeymoon in Hell"
"Too Far"
"Man of Distinction"
"Millennium"
"The Dome"
"Blood"
"Hall of Mirrors"
"Experiment"
"The Last Martian"
"Sentry"
"Mouse"
"Naturally"
"Voodoo"
"Arena"
"Keep Out"
"First Time Machine"
"And the Gods Laughed"
"The Weapon"
"A Word from Our Sponsors"
"Rustle of Wings"
"Imagine"
- Honeymoon in Hell
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir and Claire Bloom
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Harlan Ellison
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Release Date: 3/11/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- V Wars
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Edited by Jonathan Maberry, with stories by Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Holder, John Everson, Yvonne Navarro, Scott Nicholson, James A. Moore, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Gregory Frost
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/27/12
Formats: Digital Audy
They are hunting us.
In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren't your usual vampires and werewolves—it goes much deeper than that.
Conceived by Jonathan Maberry, V Wars features stories from various frontlines as reported by such contributors as Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson—as well as Maberry himself, of course. The result is a compelling series of tales that creates a unique chronicle of mankind's response to this sudden, hidden threat to humanity.
The narrators of this audio production include Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and Audie award winners.
- V Wars
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Edited by Jonathan Maberry, with stories by Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Holder, John Everson, Yvonne Navarro, Scott Nicholson, James A. Moore, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Gregory Frost
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/27/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sam Gunn Omnibus
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By Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/03/11
Formats: Digital Audy
A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women, though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice—and he really does love money and women. Whether he’s suing the pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the virtual sex trade, or on trial for his life, charged with interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who’ll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve, and a weapon in his pocket.
Now, for the first time in one volume, Hugo-winner Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the solar system to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term venture capitalist.
- The Sam Gunn Omnibus
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By Ben Bova
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/03/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Lost Songs
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Read by David Birney, Gabrielle de Cuir and others
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Release Date: 12/31/09
Formats: Digital Audy
This final collection in Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short works features the "hidden stories", including his first published piece, some tales about Mormon family life and other stylistic departures, and several stories that were later developed into acclaimed novels such asEnder's Game,Songmaster,Invasive Procedures, and the Tales of Alvin Maker series. Listen as Card crafts a paranoid thriller, a spoof of "serious" contemporary literature, an epic narrative poem, and much more. Card includes background commentaries for each story in his afterwords. Stories include:Ender's Game;Mikal's Songbird;Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow;Malpractice;Follower;Hitching;Damn Fine Novel;Billy's Box;The Best Family Home Evening Ever;Bicicleta;I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry; andGert Fram.
- Lost Songs
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Read by David Birney, Gabrielle de Cuir and others
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Release Date: 12/31/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Maps in a Mirror
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With an introduction and afterword written and read by Orson Scott Card
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/29/09
Formats: Digital Audy
This third volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features ten fantasies and fables full of princesses and giants, bears and monkeys, magic and revelation. Discover the pitfalls of paradise, how to handle a dragon, the true secret of happiness, and much more. Card offers background commentaries for each story in a series of afterwords and introductions.
Unaccompanied Sonata
A musical child prodigy, raised alone in a cabin so that his only influences come from nature, plays a complicated instrument capable of a wide range of sound. Against his keepers' wishes, he is introduced to the music of Bach and is ejected from his musical Eden. As he strives to make music, his nemesis strives to stop him.A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon
A young man blames all of America's problems on former president Richard Nixon.The Porcelain Salamander
A curse can be lifted only once it is complete.Middle Woman
An average woman—who is a middle child, of middle income, and living mid-way between her other two sisters—meets a cruel, trickster dragon on the road who grants her three wishes. Through wisdom and compassion, she is able to outsmart his trickery.The Bully and the Beast
A giant hired as the king's bully falls hopelessly for the king's daughter, the most beautiful woman in the world.The Princess and the Bear
A magic bear saves a princess' life twice: once from a wolf in the forest and once from her own husband.Sandmagic
A young boy who watches his parents die vows to avenge their pain. This story is set in the Mithermages universe, which includes the story "Stonefather."The Best Day
A woman rejects an old peddler's explanation that happiness is a matter of taking joy in overcoming the difficulties in life. Instead, she prefers to buy a traveling medicine man's elixir of happiness which promises that your best day will be with you forever. In reliving one happy day from her past she misses out on the rest of her life.A Plague of Butterflies
Selfishly choosing to save his own life by not slaying a dragon, Amasa becomes involved in evil and allows it to flourish. Since it's too late to change matters, he must suffer eternal anguish knowing what he has done.The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun
Paradise can have its hidden pitfalls.- Maps in a Mirror
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With an introduction and afterword written and read by Orson Scott Card
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 12/29/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Enchantment
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/01/08
Formats: Digital Audy
The moment ten-year-old Ivan stumbled upon the clearing in the Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, a beautiful princess lay still as death, but a malevolent presence nearby sent Ivan scrambling for safety.
Years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest nor convince himself it was merely a frightened boy’s fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss—and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago.
A rich tapestry of clashing worlds, Enchantment is an original novel of a love and destiny that transcends centuries and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.
- Enchantment
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir
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Release Date: 1/01/08
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Seventh Son
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Read by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, and Stefan Rudnicki
Afterword read by Orson Scott Card
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Using the lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settled a continent, and the beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Card has created an alternate frontier America; a world where a particular kind of magic really works and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. "Knacks" abound: dowsers find water, sparks set fires, blacksmiths speak to their iron, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read the heart-fire of anyone within reach. It is into this world, in a roadhouse on the track westward, amid the deep wood where the Red man still holds sway, that a very special child is born.
Young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, born while his six brothers all still lived. Such a birth is a powerful magic; such a boy is destined to become something great—perhaps even a Maker. But no Maker has been born for many a century, and there is no lore to tell how the Maker's knack works. At the age of six Alvin doesn't seem to have any special talent at all, unless it's the knack he has of working with stone and wood, crafting tools and ornaments; unless it's his ability to paint a hex just right; unless it's the way he has with animals…
Yes, Alvin is something special; and even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him. Something will do anything to keep Alvin from growing up.
- Seventh Son
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Read by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, and Stefan Rudnicki
Afterword read by Orson Scott Card
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Prentice Alvin
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Read by Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
Produced and directed by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Orson Scott Card’s Tales of Alvin Maker have created a moving fantasy world from the dream of America and the simple magics of the people who settled her. Here is a world where folk magic is as much a part of life as hard work and religion, and where the red man and the white still have hope for living in peace with the land and each other. It is a fantasy unique to literature, yet as inevitable as breathing. It is a work that will live forever in your heart.
Alvin’s mortal enemy, the Unmaker, has found hearts and hands willing to do its bidding, while Alvin and the Prophet’s people were making their last stand. Now young Alvin returns to the town of his birth and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, or else his destiny will be unfulfilled.
- Prentice Alvin
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Read by Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki
Produced and directed by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy