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| Podcast title | The Bookcast
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| Description | Discover Indie Authors | |
| Updated | Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:03:13 +0000 | |
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1. The Fate of the World in the Hands of Two Teenagers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.95Mb) Description: To others at his new high school, Kaden is a typical teenage boy. To her friends and teachers, Aren is a typical teenage girl. But neither is what they appear to be, in Charles Pulsipher‘s fantasy novel “The Crystal Bridge.” Kaden, we learn, can open wormholes to distant worlds. Aren has a jaw-dropping gift of empathy that allows her to experience not just the memories but the souls of others. So what happens when these two earnest young people meet and merge their unique abilities? Well, wait’ll you hear what happens. Listen to Charles Pulsipher Download audio file (charlespulsipher.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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2. A Love Story Across the Centuries http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Over a hundred years ago, in a small town near the California coast, lived a young woman named Daphne Lindstrom. She was not only a beautiful woman, she was newly married to the most prominent citizen of Red Gap. Her strange disappearance created a local legend. Someone even wrote a book based on Daphne’s story. Now, in the present day, Red Gap is no longer a redwood logging town. As Christina Dudley imagines it, in her novel “Everliving,” it’s a tourist destination. And it’s where botany student Ben Platt winds up, after a messy breakup with a cheating girlfriend – and a messy collision with a deer on an old logging road. Now, for all these years, it turns out Daphne’s spirit has been a presence in Red Gap, and in the lives of one family in particular. And Ben must decide whether to answer a chilling call for help. Listen to Christina Dudley Download audio file (christinadudley.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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3. The Knife Is Her Only Comfort http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.72Mb) Description: A young and successful, but emotionally troubled artist in search of self-acceptance is at the heart of the new novel by Tiffany Lovering called “Alone.” Buy the book Willow is 23 years old, and has been cutting herself almost half her life, because sometimes a knife provides the only comfort Willow knows. Tiffany says that “Alone” was a “labor of love” book, and although not autobiographical, it was nevertheless a very personal story. Listen to Tiffany Lovering Download audio file (tiffanylovering.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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4. ‘American Psycho’ Meets ‘Sex & the City’ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.60Mb) Description: After years of sexual abuse, then the loss of his mother, then the loss of his faith and finally the loss of his one true love, David Howard finally cracks. Buy the book In S.C. Cunningham‘s intense thriller “The Penance List” David has turned from a mama’s boy to a psychotic killer, and is terrorizing London. Yet’s a character who elicits from readers mixed feelings – empathy for a killer. Understanding. Fear. Mostly fear, as David targets and stalks those he blames for what his life has become. His is a death list. Listen to S.C. Cunningham Download audio file (sccunningham.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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5. Her “Addiction” Will Delight You http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.45Mb) Description: Mina Kitchen is a forty-something single woman, a New Jersey native currently living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania — and true to her surname, Mina loves to cook. In fact, you could say Mina has a “catering disorder.” Buy the book We meet Mina in Lizz Lund‘s book “Kitchen Addiction.” We also meet Mina’s Swiffer-addicted neighbor Vito, her godmother who has unusual methods for encouraging new members to join St. Bart’s church, and Mina’s enormous cat. Mina is trying to endure her job as an office manager, while also carefully navigating the minefield called the Breakfast Wars between St. Bart’s and First Meth. Oh, and did we mention all the recipes in this book? Listen to Lizz Lund Download audio file (lizzlund.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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6. One Man’s Search for a New Life – On An Asteroid http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.41Mb) Description: Have you ever wondered what it might feel like if the world just started moving too fast for you to keep up with it? You know that feeling – you think you can no longer handle the pace and the pressure. You’d love to escape the madness. Buy the book Neville Lansdowne escaped. Well, he let go. And the world spun away without him, leaving him standing in the middle of a dark nothingness. Until a nice asteroid field came along, and suddenly Neville has his choice of hundreds of new homes. How will he choose? Where will he wind up? Will he ever get back to Earth? Does he even want to? Jonathan Gould answers all of these questions, and many more you have undoubtedly thought of just in the last ten seconds, in his book “Doodling,” which he calls a “comic fantasy.” Well, actually he calls it an “engaging comic fantasy.” Listen to Jonathan Gould Download audio file (jonathangould.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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7. A Kidnapping? Or Something Far Worse? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.37Mb) Description: Mallory Petersen is a private investigator in Des Moines, Iowa, whose caseload usually runs to the routine, even the mildly offbeat. But when a young mom named Cheryl McGee comes to her with a heartbreaking story, Mallory is drawn into a nightmare of a case, in Stephen Brayton‘s mystery “Beta.” Cheryl’s 8-year-old daughter Cindy has disappeared, the apparent victim of a kidnapping. But there is no ransom demand, no word at all about what may have happened. Buy the book But before long Mallory is horrified to realize that she is being pulled into the dark underworld of child pornography. Listen to Stephen Brayton Download audio file (stephenbrayton.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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8. Small Town, Big Intrigue http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.50Mb) Description: Small towns in America aren’t always like Mayberry or River City or Lake Wobegon. Sometimes they’re like Exeter, Massachusetts, the setting of Jennie Coughlin‘s book “Thrown Out: Stories from Exeter.” Buy the book This is a town of grudges, and secrets, and regrets. Alliances form and reform, the past becomes the future, where young boys find bodies in the marsh — and where nothing is ever quite what it looks like on the surface. Who better to write such a tale than lifelong small-town resident Jennie Coughlin? Listen to Jennie Coughlin Download audio file (jenniecoughlin.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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9. Will This Teenager Step Up and Save His World? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.00Mb) Description: Sometime in the near future, a bright fourteen-year-old named Nick Lyons is trying to get back home – to the Lunar Colony from which he was brought to Earth a few years earlier by his parents. Buy the book Nick has it figured out. All he has to do is build a solar transference machine, win a million-dollar prize, and he can buy a one-way transworld shuttle ticket back to the Trafalgar Lunar outpost. So it comes as quite a shock for Nick, then, to learn that he is both steward over the mythological city of Huron and responsible for its fate. This is how the story begins, in Kevin McGill‘s debut “Nikolas and Company: A Creature Most Foul.” Listen to Kevin McGill Download audio file (kevinmcgill.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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10. Does He Really Want to Know The Family Secrets? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 10.41Mb) Description: What do you know about your ancestors? You know what they look like, if you have photo albums. Perhaps they left some letters, maybe an old newspaper clipping. But what does that really tell you about them? Buy the book Imagine learning the truth about your family. I mean, the real truth, the parts no one talks about anymore, the details no newspaper clipping contains. In his novel “Faded Lives” Edward T. Vaughan introduces us to one young man, Mark Stephens, who’s about to find out about his ancestors. And what he finds out is going to change everything. Listen to Edward T. Vaughan Download audio file (edwardvaughan.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. |
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