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ID: 645369

Title: Tenderfoot

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: John Rayburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:56:57

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. Two of his top selling western novels, The Untamed and Bull Hunter, are Blackstone audiobooks narrated by John Rayburn. This story is part of this prodigious output, a tale of a hapless youth seemingly with no talents or work ability. He fell into bad hands and was captured, accused of murder, and scheduled for execution. A pardon led to freedom and a happy ending. Faust used twenty-one different pen names because one of his outlets, Western Story, would sometimes print several of his stories in one issue and it was thought using the same name for all of them would be poor marketing.

Faust had labored on brutal ranches in California during an orphaned boyhood. This led to his vast knowledge of what it was like in the days of the old West and its inhabitants. He was able to bring to literary life an exciting period of the nations history. Writing literally millions of words he became known as The King of the Pulps. He wrote not only westerns, but such diversified tales as legends, allegories, romance, even some poetry.

A restless nature led to him becoming a war correspondent in WWII when he was fifty-years-old. He went to the front in Italy, joining soldiers in rain and mud. He was hit by shrapnel during a battle and died of his wounds at age fifty-one.

What youre about to hear is one of his lesser known stories that ranks as a prime example of his stupendous ability.

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ID: 634598

Title: This Land Is Our Land: Myths, Facts, and Mysteries

Author: John Rayburn

Narrator: John Rayburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:03

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

Throughout the stories here is information on how places, cities, and states got their names. However, questions arise because Native American tribes of the day didnt yet have a written alphabet, and none of those came along until Sequoyah invented one in 1821, one that was actually more of a syllabary with symbols that stood for consonant/vowel sequences and could make words, basically just a writing system.

One such word example is Tsa-La-Gi in Oklahoma, a recreated Cherokee settlement showing what one was like before European contact. The name means Cherokee, and if you say it out phonetically as Say-la-ghee, its understandable how that was understood as the word Cherokee. It wasnt written out because there wasnt yet a means of doing so.

Many such words were heard by early frontiersmen, most of whom had little or no formal education. As a result, they pronounced and spelled anyway they heard various words, and because that was all that was available, their decisions held up more often not. It brings to mind an old phrase aimed at accepting something while having at least a degree of skepticism about the actual truth or meaning, and that is to take it with a grain of salt. This all means if you come across something here with either skepticism or at least no specific literal interpretation, dont fret. The information is interesting, whether or not always logical or with an occasional small degree of accuracy. Dont let any word choices by those early, often under-educated frontiersmen cause you to be anti-semantic. We repeat the suggestion to just go along with whatever is mentioned, but remember to have that grain of salt handy.

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ID: 645371

Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Author: E. W. Hornung

Narrator: John Rayburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

This is a story of what could and often did happen during a gold rush to Australia in 1851.

Nothing is so easy as falling in love on a long sea voyage, except falling out of love. Especially was this the case in the days when the wooden clippers did finally land you in Sydney or in Melbourne under the four full months. Passengers and crew all saw far too much of each other, unless, indeed, they were to see still more. Their superficial attractions were mutually exhausted, they lost heart and patience in the disappointing strata which lie between the surface and the bed-rock of most natures. Most had not the faintest intention of falling in love on board. In one instance however, there was a young lady passenger who innocently could change such opinions. Eva Denison was her name, and she cannot have been more than nineteen-years-of-age and was as beautiful as she was young.

It was a time when, in many cases, ship captains and officers as well, would join in the stampede to the diggings. This often led to considerable numbers of masterless and deserted vessels. There were obviously many expecting to make their fortunes, but wound up often confronted by lawless ruffians who cared not how they might benefit by the gold rush. It brought about confused feelings of what do we do now? The overall situation was enough to bring about many twists and turns.

We invite you to listen now and find yourself wondering, Oh, oh, what next?

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ID: 630459

Title: Roof over Our Heads

Author: Nicole Kronzer

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:11

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, General

Summary:

A charming YA novel about a family who puts on an immersive, interactive play to save their historical home

Finn lives in a family of theater lovers. His older brothers are both actors, and one of his moms is an actor and the other one is a director. They even live in an enormous historic mansion owned by the Beauregard, Minnesotas largest regional theater. Finn is desperate to be an actor, too, despite the fact that he can never seem to remember his lines. When a new artistic director threatens to sell the Jorgensen house and kick his family out of the only home hes ever known, his family puts on a showan immersive 1890s experience unlike anything else out there. But will it be too much for his mom Lula, who is recovering from cancer? Will Finn connect with his crush and deal with his long-time rival, Jade? Will saving the house save Finns acting career? Funny, warm, and full of Victorian hijinks, this is a novel for anyone looking for a place to belong.

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ID: 649908

Title: Ghost in Her

Author: Anika Savoy

Narrator: Linda Quinn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:29:11

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Summary:

Being psychic isnt all its cracked up to be.

Its 1888, and the sordid Bowery District of New York City is a lonely and dangerous

place for any young woman to live- especially one who can see ghosts. An

impoverished Irish seamstress, Maggie O'Connor wishes that the otherworldly entities would

leave her alone to concentrate on her worldly ambitions: putting food on the table

and buying her own dress shop one day, but the quirky ghosts have other plans. They

want Maggie to locate her departed sisters lost infant and embrace her gift as a seer.

Maggie is a reluctant student. She knows that sharing her gift could result in being

labeled as a witch, just like the persecuted female seers in her ancestral line.

Things look up when the handsome son of Maggies employer falls for her. Gershom

understands that having psychic gifts does not necessarily make a woman crazy. If

only the local judge agreed. When Maggie ends up at the New York City Lunatic

Asylum on Blackwells Island, she must find a way to escape and return to Gershoms

loving arms. But can they locate her sisters lost infant?

Miracles occur with the help of ghostly entities and Andrew Carnegie, one of

Americas richest men.

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ID: 649645

Title: Edge of Evil

Author: Robyn Peterman

Narrator: Jessica Almasy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:44:43

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

What happens in Vegas, slays in Vegas.

With a show to produce and my career as an actress on the line, I really dont have time to dieespecially violently. However, while that might not be on my agenda, it seems to be on others.

Awesome.

Instead of acting in my latest endeavor, Im playing the real-life role of Reluctant Demon Who Has To Save The Worldor at the very least, the hot hero.

Fine. Im always up for a plot twist or a re-write.

Scene OneSave Abaddon from the evil clutches of the hideous Pandora.Scene TwoDont die.Scene ThreeAvoid Pandora like the plague. I understand she has an evil box Scene FourDo not die.Scene FivePossibly meet my mom, the woman who abandoned me as a baby.Scene SixDo Not Freaking Die.Scene SevenGo back to my non-deadly life and win a damn Emmy for Ass The World Turns.

Even though Im living on the edge of evil, half insanity, half upheaval, Im a pro and the show must go on.

As the saying goes, a bad dress rehearsal means I dont get dismembered on opening night. Or something like that.

Its showtime, folks.

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ID: 643444

Title: Rescued from Ruin Collection: Volume Three

Author: Elisa Braden

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29:47:55

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

A Rescued from Ruin Collection: Volume Three includes three full-length novels:

Anything but a Gentleman (Book Eight): Augusta Widmore must force her sister's ne'er-do-well betrothed to the altar, or her sister will bear the consequences. She needs leverage only one man can provide-Sebastian Reaver. When she invades his office demanding a fortune in markers, he exacts a price a spinster will never pay-become the notorious club owner's mistress. And when she calls his bluff, a fiery battle for surrender begins.

A Marriage Made in Scandal (Book Nine): As the most feared lord in London, the Earl of Holstoke is having a devil of a time landing a wife. When a series of vicious murders brings suspicion to his door, only one woman is bold enough to defend him-Eugenia Huxley. Her offer to be his alibi risks scandal, and marriage is the remedy. But as a poisonous enemy coils closer, Holstoke finds his love for her might be the greatest danger of all.

A Kiss from a Rogue (Book Ten): A cruel past left Hannah Gray with one simple longing-a normal life with a safe, normal husband. Finding one would be easy if she weren't distracted by wolf-in-rogue's-clothing Jonas Hawthorn.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 630754

Title: Death by Society

Author: Sierra Elmore

Narrator: Deanna Anthony, Emily Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:27:45

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, General, Tough Topics

Summary:

Mean Girls meets Its Kind of a Funny Story as two teenage girls worlds collide when one attempts suicide to avoid toxic popularity.

Carter Harper may have created an award-winning app and have a 3.93 grade point average, but her successes are overshadowed by brutal bullying, depression, and loneliness. Tired of being treated as the popular girls plaything, Carter thinks her only choice is to die by suicide.

Abby Wallace is one of the most popular girls in school, subordinate only to Kelsey, her best friend with benefits. The ambitious poet destroys reputations without care to prove how cool, cruel, and strong she is, all while pushing down her past trauma and secret guilt.

Carter and Abbys tumultuous relationship comes to a boiling point when Abby stops Carter from attempting suicide. But what happens when they have to protect one another from Kelseys harmful antics?

If Carter and Abby can stand each other for more than three minutes, they can stop Kelsey from hurting more girlsand maybe become friends in the process.

In the tradition of Courtney Summers and Laurie Halse Anderson, Death by Society questions how far we will go to gain power over our livesand what happens when we use our voices for both good and to harm others.

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ID: 632582

Title: Bookclubbed to Death

Author: V. M. Burns

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:13:32

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

V. M. Burns returns with the latest book in her popular Mystery Bookstore mysteries set in a Michigan bookshop specializing in selling murder mysteries.

When the bookshop she owns becomes a crime scene, mystery writer Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity.

After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make or break careerssomething Sam can ill afford with her debut historical mystery soon to be published.

But the next morning, Sam opens her shop to find the unpleasant woman dead on the floor, bashed with a heavyapparently lethaltome: The Complete Works of Agatha Christie. While Sam is busy writing her latest British historical mystery in which the queen mother is suspected in the murder of a London Times correspondent, a pair of ambitious cops suspect Sam of the real-life crime.

When she gathers Nano Jo and their friends from the Shady Acres Retirement Village to review the case, they discover that every one of the Mavens had a motive. With her novel about to hit the stores, Sam must find out who clubbed Delia before a judge throws the book at her.

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ID: 645366

Title: Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2

Author: Gail Simone, Jeff Grubb, Keith Baker, Ken Liu, Veronica Roth

Narrator: Ray Greenley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:21:43

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, features fifteen stars of tabletop roleplaying games and fantasy fiction, such as Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, Ken Liu, Kate Elliott, Mike Shea, Tobias S. Buckell, Shanna Germain, Gabe Hicks, the Dungeon Dudes (Monty Martin & Kelly McLaughlin), Jeff Grubb, and more.

Middle-Earth, Faerûn, Westeros, Eberron, The World of the Wheel, Exandria these richly-detailed fantasy worlds have captured the imaginations of legions of fans worldwide. These settings offer worldbuilding that launched a thousandor a thousand thousanddreams.

Whether youre worldbuilding because you want to write the next Game of Thrones, intend to build a rich, vibrant world to enthrall the players of an upcoming tabletop RPG campaign, or youre just curious to find out how all these creators did it, the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, puts a team of master world-architects at your side.

Featuring practical essays and roadmaps for the intrepid worldbuilder to follow, this anthology shows you how to:

- create a pantheon of gods - incorporate technology into your fantastical environments - build great settings that look beyond our own history and cultural expectations - design a world in just thirty minutes - leave space when building a world so the characters can help bring it alive

What worlds await? Lets find out!

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