Middle Ground Books: After Hours

Megan, Debra, and Lance fall into November with Writers Month underway and plenty to catch up on after Halloween. Between bookstore updates and what everyone is reading, Lance gets into the realities of being around toddlers, including the kind of stories that make you wonder how small children survive themselves. Listen in for another after hours conversation about books, community, and whatever manages to take over the room that week.

📖 Question of the Chapter

What are you reading as we head into November?

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📚 Books mentioned in this abridged version:

• Morning Star and Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
• Exit 8 by Genki Kawamura
• Strange Lights by Mira Gonzalez
• Take My Word For It by LeVar Burton
• The Last Ronin
• All My Bones
• The A Court of Thorns and Roses series

📅 Coming Up at Middle Ground Books

✍️ Emporia Writers Month

All November long, including BIC Sundays with dedicated writing time, drinks, treats, and small prizes.

🏺 First Friday with Flor Widmar

November 7

Featuring pottery from Flor Widmar at Middle Ground Books.

📖 Debra’s Saturday Book Pick

November 7

A fall themed selection centered on thankfulness.

👻 Hair Raising Horror Book Club

November 10

Reading Exit 8 by Genki Kawamura.

Veterans Day

November 11

Middle Ground Books will feature Beyond the Banners, with proceeds supporting veterans organizations.

🛍️ Black Friday

November 27

Watch Middle Ground Books for store specials.

📚 Small Business Saturday

November 28

Celebrate independent bookstores and support Middle Ground Books during one of the biggest small business shopping days of the year.

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books:

Support Middle Ground Books wherever you are.

🌎 Physical books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

📖 Print and Ebooks

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore. If Bookshop asks you to choose a bookstore, search for Middle Ground Books and select the Emporia, Kansas shop so your purchase supports the store.

🎧 Audiobooks

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds

Middle Ground Books also has a Biblio shop for unusual, rare, specialty, and secondhand books that might not show up everywhere else.

Here: Middle Ground Books Biblio Shop

🏪 If you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS. Browse in person, meet the team, grab a complimentary lemonade, and find your next great read.

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

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Megan, Debra, and Lance take on The Juniper Tree, a Brothers Grimm fairy tale with a long history of being retold, edited, and softened for younger audiences. Before the performance, they look at where the story came from and why some versions chose to remove its harsher material. Listen along as they give the tale the full reader’s theater treatment for Halloween.

⚠️ Content Warning

This episode includes themes of child abuse, violence, cannibalism, and death.

📖 Question of the Chapter

What fairy tale from childhood has stuck with you the longest?

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📚 The Covered Pages:

The Juniper Tree and Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, selected by Lorrie Segal and Maurice Sendak, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak

Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Maurice Sendak

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books

📖 Print & Ebooks:

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore so your purchase supports the Emporia shop.

🎧 Audiobooks:

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 MGB's Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds:

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🌐 Website & Events:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

🏪 Visit the Store:

Browse the shelves, grab something from the cafe, and join the community at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to keep up with the shop and the growing nerdosphere. 📚✨

🎧 Produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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An ACOTAR Series Recap

Megan, Debra, and Lance attempt the questionable task of explaining ACOTAR in one episode, with Megan doing most of the actual explaining while the other two try to keep up. With Middle Ground Books preparing for its midnight release party on Monday, October 26, they work through the world, the lore, and why Sarah J. Maas’s fantasy series has readers so invested. Join them for the crash course, whether you already know your High Fae from your humans or you’re just as lost as Lance and Debra.

⚠️ Spoiler Warning

This chapter includes spoilers for the A Court of Thorns and Roses series as Megan attempts to explain several books’ worth of story in one sitting. Some of the readings also contain explicit language and mature material. Pasted markdown

📖 Question of the Chapter

If you had to convince someone to read ACOTAR, what would you tell them without spoiling it?

📚 Covered Pages

“A Court of Thorns and Roses,” “A Court of Mist and Fury,” “A Court of Wings and Ruin,” “A Court of Frost and Starlight,” and “A Court of Silver Flames” by Sarah J. Maas

“Inherit the Stars” and The Giants Trilogy by James P. Hogan

🌙 ACOTAR Midnight Release Party

Monday, October 26 at 11:00 PM

Middle Ground Books

606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS

Come dressed in your High Fae court best for special drinks, trivia, a craft, a photo backdrop, and ACOTAR-themed merchandise. Book sales begin at midnight and continue until 1:00 AM.

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books

📖 Print & Ebooks:

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore so your purchase supports the Emporia shop.

🎧 Audiobooks:

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 MGB's Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds:

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🌐 Website & Events:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

🏪 Visit the Store:

Browse the shelves, grab something from the cafe, and join the community at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to keep up with the shop and the growing nerdosphere. 📚✨

🎧 Produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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Megan, Debra, and Lance get into the Halloween spirit with books that still unsettle them just talking about them. They break down what they like about each story’s structure and how each one finds its own way to deliver a scare.

📖 Question of the Chapter

What is the scariest thing you’ve ever read or watched?

📚 Covered Pages

“It Could Have Been Her” by Lisa Jewell

“The Book of Night” and “The Thief of Night” by Holly Black

“Slewfoot” by Brom

“At the Mountains of Madness” by H.P. Lovecraft

“The Tommyknockers” by Stephen King

“The Resurrectionist” and “The Cult of Dr. Black” by E.B. Hudspeth

“Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon” by Matt Dinniman

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” series by Sarah J. Maas

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books

📖 Print & Ebooks:

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore so your purchase supports the Emporia shop.

🎧 Audiobooks:

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 MGB's Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds:

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🌐 Website & Events:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

🏪 Visit the Store:

Browse the shelves, grab something from the cafe, and join the community at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to keep up with the shop and the growing nerdosphere. 📚✨

🎧 Produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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Megan, Debra, and Lance look back on the October they grew up with and the one they now get to create at Middle Ground Books. Now those old Halloween memories sit beside the kind of October they’re building for the bookstore and its community.

📖 Question of the Chapter:

What Halloween tradition from your childhood do you still miss?

📚 Covered Pages

“Dreamland” by Olive Blake

“The Book of Night” by Holly Black

“The Pirate Queen” by Ariel Lawhon

“Red Rising” by Pierce Brown

“The King in Yellow”

“Twilight”

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” series

“Throne of Glass” series

“A Court of Splintered Harmony” Pasted markdown

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books

📖 Print & Ebooks:

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore so your purchase supports the Emporia shop.

🎧 Audiobooks:

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 MGB's Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds:

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🌐 Website & Events:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

🏪 Visit the Store:

Browse the shelves, grab something from the cafe, and join the community at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to keep up with the shop and the growing nerdosphere. 📚✨

🎧 Produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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Some books are a Snickers bar. Others deserve the full fine-dining treatment.

Megan, Debra, and Lance turn the focus from what we read to how we read, digging into attention, reading habits, and whether every book deserves the same kind of time and thought.

📖 Question of the Chapter:

How do you read when you really want a book to stick with you?

📚 Covered Pages

“Proust and the Squid” and “Reader, Come Home” by Maryanne Wolf

“Walking” by Henry David Thoreau

“The Iliad” by Homer

“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yes I Can” by Sammy Davis Jr.

“The Fine Art of Lying”

“Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That”

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books

📖 Print & Ebooks:

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore so your purchase supports the Emporia shop.

🎧 Audiobooks:

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 MGB's Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds:

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

🏪 Visit the Store:

Browse the shelves, meet the team, and find your next read at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

🎧 Produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios

https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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📖 Question of the Chapter:

When fall hits, what kind of book do you reach for first: something spooky, something cozy, a classic, or something completely different?

The possibility, the rumor of fall.

Megan, Debra, and Lance settle into fall reading season and the shift in what sounds good once the weather starts to turn. Some readers lean spooky, some want something cozy, and some finally reach for the classic or new release they have been meaning to start.

Fall is also a good time to clear the reading list. Life is too short to keep forcing your way through a book you are not enjoying when there are so many others waiting. The gang keeps that idea going by looking at what feels worth picking up next when the season changes.

Chapter Forty-Seven: Let Those Leaves Fall

The DNF Episode for Fall Reading Season

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🛒 Support Middle Ground Books:

Support Middle Ground Books wherever you are.

🌎 Physical books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

📖 Print and Ebooks

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore. If Bookshop asks you to choose a bookstore, search for Middle Ground Books and select the Emporia, Kansas shop so your purchase supports the store.

🎧 Audiobooks

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds

Middle Ground Books also has a Biblio shop for unusual, rare, specialty, and secondhand books that might not show up everywhere else.

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🏪 If you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS. Browse in person, meet the team, grab a complimentary lemonade, and find your next great read.

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

🗓️ Store Events and News:

• Speculative Fiction Writers Group meets Thursday, September 17th at 5:30 PM.
• Late Night with Metalark follows Thursday, September 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
• Family Story Time is Saturday, September 19th at 11:00 AM.
• Second Breakfast Book Club meets Saturday, September 19th at 4:00 PM to discuss Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher, with themed food from the book.
• The fall sale begins Tuesday, September 22nd with yellow, orange, and red tag discounts.
• The first Crochet and Knitting Ensemble, also known as CAKE, meets Tuesday, September 22nd at 5:30 PM.
• The Threshing Day midnight release party begins Monday, September 28th at 11:00 PM, with the book available at midnight.

📚 Covered Pages

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Autumn at the Cat Cafe by Kathleen Fuller

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel

Hollywood, Ending by John Green

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

1984 by George Orwell

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

The Second Death of Locke by V. L. Bovalino

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway

Victorious by V. E. Schwab

Vicious by V. E. Schwab

🎧 Produced by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios:

Produced and audio engineered by “Cosmic” Ron of Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicatomsounds/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CosmicAtomSound

YouTube: ‪@CosmicAtomSounds‬

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Take a seat as Middle Ground Books After Hours tests the old line: “the book was better.”

Megan, Debra, and Lance look at what books can hold that screen versions often lose, from internal character work to narrator voice, then turn toward the rare cases where another format may understand the story better.

Percy Jackson missed the point. The Princess Bride may have improved the source. Winnie-the-Pooh might not belong on screen at all.

Chapter Forty-Six: The Book Was Better, Right?

You Don’t Know Pooh

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📚 Covered Pages

• Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
• Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books:

Support Middle Ground Books wherever you are.

🌎 Physical books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

📖 Print and Ebooks

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore. If Bookshop asks you to choose a bookstore, search for Middle Ground Books and select the Emporia, Kansas shop so your purchase supports the store.

🎧 Audiobooks

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds

Middle Ground Books also has a Biblio shop for unusual, rare, specialty, and secondhand books that might not show up everywhere else.

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🏪 If you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS. Browse in person, meet the team, grab a complimentary lemonade, and find your next great read.

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

🗓️ Store Events and News:

• Speculative Fiction Writers Group meets Thursday, September 17th at 5:30 PM.
• Late Night with Metalark follows Thursday, September 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
• Family Story Time is Saturday, September 19th at 11:00 AM.
• Second Breakfast Book Club meets Saturday, September 19th at 4:00 PM to discuss Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher, with themed food from the book.
• The fall sale begins Tuesday, September 22nd with yellow, orange, and red tag discounts.
• The first Crochet and Knitting Ensemble, also known as CAKE, meets Tuesday, September 22nd at 5:30 PM.
• The Threshing Day midnight release party begins Monday, September 28th at 11:00 PM, with the book available at midnight.

🎧 Produced by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios:

Middle Ground Books After Hours is produced and audio engineered by “Cosmic” Ron of Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicatomsounds/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CosmicAtomSound

YouTube: ‪@CosmicAtomSounds‬

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💬 Comment Question:

What book would you defend even if everyone else calls it strange?

Descend into madness with Middle Ground Books: After Hours as Chapter Forty-Five slips between mad science, cosmic horror, octopus intelligence, and fiction that eats away at memory.

Kate McKinnon’s "The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science" with weird kids, theatrical audiobook narration, Tim Burton vibes, and middle grade storytelling that still works once you’re grown.

Also on the shelf: "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Mountain in the Sea", "There Is No Antimemetics Division", Megan’s fantasy homework for ACOTAR, and books that lose something when they leave the page.

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📚 Covered Pages

• The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon
• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Fine Art of Lying by Alexandra Andrews
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
• ACOTAR series by Sarah J. Maas
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
• Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News by Bill Kurtis

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books:

Support Middle Ground Books wherever you are.

🌎 Physical books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

📖 Print and Ebooks

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore. If Bookshop asks you to choose a bookstore, search for Middle Ground Books and select the Emporia, Kansas shop so your purchase supports the store.

🎧 Audiobooks

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds

Middle Ground Books also has a Biblio shop for unusual, rare, specialty, and secondhand books that might not show up everywhere else.

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🏪 If you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS. Browse in person, meet the team, grab a complimentary lemonade, and find your next great read.

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

🗓️ Store Events and News:

• Page to Screen Book Club discusses Remarkably Bright Creatures on Thursday, September 10th at 5:30 PM.
• Great American Market takes over downtown Emporia on Saturday, September 12th.
• Storytime with Debra is Saturday, September 12th at 11:00 AM.
• Sci-Fi Book Club meets Saturday, September 12th at 4:00 PM to discuss Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• Bill Kurtis will be at the Emporia Granada Theatre on Sunday, September 13th at 2:00 PM for a journalism panel with Max McCoy and Alec Loganbill. Middle Ground Books will be there selling copies of Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News.
• Book Club meets Wednesday, September 16th at 5:30 PM to discuss The Fine Art of Lying by Alexandra Andrews.

🎧 Produced by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios:

Middle Ground Books After Hours is produced and audio engineered by “Cosmic” Ron of Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicatomsounds/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CosmicAtomSound

YouTube: ‪@CosmicAtomSounds‬

Website: https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com

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Middle Ground Books After Hours introduces Readers Theater, a new audio narrative format where the hosts read a selected portion of a story and the production turns it into a theater-of-the-mind experience.

For this first installment, Megan, Debra, and Lance read from Nephilim X Russia, an unpublished story presented as a first look with the author redacted for now.

Chapter Forty-Five: Readers Theater

Nephilim X Russia

⚠️ Listener Discretion:

This Readers Theater episode contains uncensored profanity, gun violence, knife violence, a graphic injury scene, and sudden loud noises. Listener discretion is advised, especially for younger listeners or anyone sensitive to intense audio scenes.

💬 Comment Question:

Do you want to hear more of Nephilim X Russia in a future Readers Theater episode? Like the video and leave a comment if Middle Ground Books After Hours should continue the story.

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🎭 About Readers Theater:

Readers Theater is designed to give local authors, new writers, and published authors a way to hear their work performed in an audio narrative format.

This episode includes only the opening portion of Nephilim X Russia, not the full book. It was recorded as a first-read performance, so the reactions and discoveries are part of the experience.

If you have a story you would like considered for a future Readers Theater episode, reach out to Middle Ground Books.

📚 Featured Story:

Nephilim X Russia

🛒 Support Middle Ground Books:

Support Middle Ground Books wherever you are.

🌎 Physical books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

📖 Print and Ebooks

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

When ordering through Bookshop.org, make sure Middle Ground Books is selected as your bookstore. If Bookshop asks you to choose a bookstore, search for Middle Ground Books and select the Emporia, Kansas shop so your purchase supports the store.

🎧 Audiobooks

https://libro.fm/middlegroundbooks

🔎 Rare, Special, and Hidden Finds

Middle Ground Books also has a Biblio shop for unusual, rare, specialty, and secondhand books that might not show up everywhere else.

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&order=pricedesc&dealer_id=5343414

🏪 If you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS. Browse in person, meet the team, grab a complimentary lemonade, and find your next great read.

📅 You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at:

https://www.middlegroundbooks.com

📱 Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay connected with the shop and the reading community. 📚✨

🗓️ Store Events and News:

Check the Middle Ground Books website, newsletter, and socials for the latest store events, book clubs, author visits, and community updates.

🎧 Produced by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios:

Middle Ground Books After Hours is produced and audio engineered by “Cosmic” Ron of Cosmic Atom Sound Studios.

This Readers Theater installment was edited and sound designed by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios for an immersive audio narrative experience.

If you have a podcast, audio story, film, song, small business, or creative project you want to bring to life, you do not have to have everything figured out before reaching out. Cosmic Atom Sound Studios works with people who have a vision, even if they are still shaping the next step.

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