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    The Antarctic Chronicles

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 10:27


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY From December 1961 through early March 1962, I participated in the 16th Chilean Expedition to the Antarctic. In recognition of my work, the US Board of Geographic Names in October, 1964, named the geographical feature Cohen Islands, located at 63° 18' S. latitude, 57° 53' W. longitude in the Cape Legoupil area, Antarctica, in my honor. I think the 4 months I spent “on the ice” were perhaps the most exciting—and challenging—of my life. They involved episodes of high adventure, many of which I captured in my book Cold Blood: The Antarctic Murders Trilogy. The instant volume, The Antarctic Chronicles, is intended as a distillation of the trilogy's more exciting stories, comprising tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder in South America and the Antarctic. Like the making of great cognac, wherein wine is double distilled in an intense process unique to this variety of brandy, I have selected for publication here those stories I think will give you, the reader, the best understanding of what scientists and explorers face when attempting to work on the Frozen Continent.

    Strange True Encounters and Unearthly Experiences

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 8:53


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY In 1965 Fate released the first book in its bestselling “Strange” series, reprinting many of the publication's most acclaimed reports of paranormal phenomena selected from its pages. Over the next ten years the “Strange” books sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. Strange True Encounters & Unearthly Experiences is the first new book in the series in over three decades, and features: Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics at Yale University on discoveries at Anatolia‘s Gobekli Tepe suggesting civilization is far older than previously believed. Gregory Sams on unfolding evidence that stars may be conscious. Janet Brennan on Europe's mysterious Black Madonna statues. Martin Cadin, ex-member Federal Aviation Administration, on his personal experiments using telekinesis. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, on our ten-dimensional universe and paranormal phenomenon. Journalist Chris Friar on 19th century UFO sightings proving they are not a modern phenomenon. Actor Anthony Quinn on the “profound mystical experience” in the Sinai Desert that changed his life. Plus over a dozen other accounts, investigation and in-depth reports on the Ouija board, remote viewing, poltergeists, Kansas' sacred sites, the U.S. warship that was saved by an angel, and much more. We believe this brand-new entry in the “Strange” series – is in every way the equal of its predecessors. And will prove every bit as entertaining and enlightening as the earlier books did. (Asked where he got the ideas for his stories, Steven King credited Fate. “My mother used to read me Fate Magazine, which was about the paranormal, flying saucers…all that stuff. I was fascinated.”)

    Spring Fever and Other Lesbian Encounters

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 17:48


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT WOMEN-LOVING WOMEN GETTING ACQUAINTED, FALLING IN LOVE, LOSING THEIR ILLUSIONS, AND REGAINING HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Although most of this collection fits loosely into the category of contemporary erotic romance, there is some historical fiction, some fantasy, and a ghost story. I'm never sure exactly where ghosts fit in because all fiction is believable on some level, and completely unreal by definition. People have a spectrum of beliefs about unseen spirits—and about deep soul connection, for that matter—and belief can waver from one moment to the next. Regarding gender, all the major characters in these stories are women. Never fear, the men don't take over. Our progress is currently challenged by a rising tide of hate toward everyone who is not a heterosexual white man in the top income bracket, but just as an exuberant bag of popcorn can't return to being a handful of kernels, lesbians or queer women aren't likely to go back to the invisibility of yesteryear. What can be imagined can't be unseen. Welcome to the world of Jean Roberta's imagination.

    Out of the Shadows

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 13:48


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY LOVE FORCES TESS TO EMBRACE HER TRUE SEXUALITY Tess and Kirk seem like a typical married couple with their house in the suburbs, lackluster love life, and proverbial two children. But her life is growing harder and harder for Tess to take, because she has known all along that she is only truly sexually attracted to women. Though Tess has fought her attraction to women for years due to her strict religious upbringing, she finally succumbs when she meets the passionate, perceptive Diane. But her husband's anger, her family's dismay, her own self-doubts, are only the first barriers in the way of her love for Diane. Diane refuses to continue their relationship until Tess comes out of the closet and accepts herself for what she is. Reeling and torn between two worlds, Tess must come to terms with herself if she is ever to know true happiness. Erotica and romance mix in this unique novel only TreSart L. Sioux could have written.

    A Meeting in the Dark 3: Together

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 15:23


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Former rent boy Kim Crosley faces more hurdles in his attempts to establish a relationship with his benefactor. He knows Kit cares for him--didn't he help Kim and his flatmate Toby get away from Angel Delahanty, their former pimp?--but he still keeps Kim at arm's length. When Angel reappears and threatens Kim, Kit's feelings will be put to the test. Angel's ready for blackmail and murder if he doesn't get what he wants, and he doesn't care which man is his victim.

    Shantyboat

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 6:18


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A DYSTOPIAN THRILLER Drawn straight from today's headlines into a soon-to-be America, a broken country gradually beaten down by one-party rule and loss of personal freedoms, Shantyboat follows the story of two homeless men struggling to recover at least a sliver of freedom by building a shantyboat. But their efforts inside a society of surveillance and totalitarian controls soon lead them to commit both theft and murder. Then they meet a remarkable young woman who shows them the path back to self-reliance and dignity. Listen to Shantyboat, a dystopian thriller, by the author of Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics—both available from Wordwooze Publishing.

    Chaos and Cranberries

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 6:18


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY MERRIMENT, MIRTH ... AND MURDER In this dual series mystery, Lanie Anders and Cosmo Hill (Piney Falls Mysteries) are excited to share a Christmas celebration with Lanie's newly identified cousin, only to discover he's changed his plans at the last minute. Feather Jones (Charming Mysteries) and her boyfriend, Tug, are in Piney Falls, Oregon to celebrate the holiday, their first away from Charming as a couple. Upon arrival, they are shocked to learn that their hotel room is no longer available because a murder occurred there earlier in the day. Lanie graciously offers her guest house to them, setting in motion the events that will force both women to face their biggest challenges yet. Christmas has never looked the same. Don't miss this delightful Christmas crossover cozy mystery from USA TODAY bestselling author, Joann Keder!

    Platform Shoes

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 5:11


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY The year was 1943. Steve Daniels was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, on loan to the British, flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. After being shot down, he had to make his way back to England with what could prove to be a very important reel of film taped to his chest. He had been wounded, so he was grounded and sent back to the States to the Air Cadet Base in San Antonio, Texas to teach. Plagued by nightmares stemming from his wartime experiences, he was easy pickings for a woman like his commander's wife—beautiful, restless, and the wrong kind of woman for him. What happened when they got together would be nothing less than murder.

    The Stardust Alliance and More

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 6:20


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Presenting six stories involving science and its interaction with the human psyche. Included are elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a group of elder humans hoping to ride to the stars, an AI system taking its programming too literally, and a young woman who can really take charge, to a story that will have you watching the night sky in case an ovoid spaceship appears, each story stretches reality beyond the norm and shows how our qualities as humans have to take charge. And a few of these stories will leave you with that shivering feeling that the story isn't quite over.

    Mr. Morrissey's Secret

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 6:22


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY David Morrissey's life is near-perfect. A widower with a teenage daughter, he teaches at an ultraconservative Southern preparatory school, had been voted Teacher of the Year three times, and is engaged to the daughter of the chairman of the school's board. That life comes to a screeching halt when the fact of his previous employment is emblazoned across the headlines of the school newspaper … that twenty years before, everyone's favorite teacher was a cover model famous for those hot historical romances called "bodice rippers." David isn't ashamed of his former employment. He simply considers it part of a different life and never mentions it. It's even on his application. The school board takes a jaundiced view, however, if a trifle belatedly. In short order, he loses his job, his fiancée, and has television and newspaper reporters beating down his door for interviews. It's all just a little unfair. David isn't taking it sitting down, however. He's preparing to fight back against the board's decision. Little does he know that this newsworthy event will bring back into his life the woman he loved and lost, and another much bigger, more important secret.

    Killer Cars

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 4:15


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY The head of US public relations at Kobayashi Motors, the largest automaker in Japan, is Cadence St. James … that is, until she's forced to take on the dangerous new role of corporate whistleblower. Cadence's twin sister, Cushmeer Kincaid, is a human rights statistician who suffers from a fear of public speaking. When Kobayashi cars start spontaneously accelerating and the death toll rises, Toshio Nakamura, a company executive, heads due north to Minneapolis, Minnesota and pulls Cushmeer into the treacherous fray. Can a secret language between twins bring powerful forces to justice for murder, even from beyond the grave?

    A Meeting in the Dark 2: Confessions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 6:13


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A DEVASTATING ILLNESS BRINGS KIM AND KIT CLOSER Streetwise Kim Crosley doesn't know what to make of Kit Laurence's attitude. Half the time the ex-soccer champ acts like a Pygmalion, trying to turn the sow's ear who's a rent boy into a silk purse...then, occasionally, he allows true affection to show through his puzzling attitude. Kim is determined to break down the walls and force the real Kit to emerge. In the meantime, he's fighting chauffeur Devlin's prejudice by trying to show he loves the man and not his money. A devastating illness offers Kim a chance to prove once and for all how he feels … if Kit survives.

    Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 34:06


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Presenting ten tales with elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a young newlywed couple targeted by a ghost in their chimney, a club of six where one member goes beyond just discussing how to commit a simple murder in a complicated way, a pair of virtual reality goggles that give the wearer a rather deadly experience, a privately owned library where you aren't just fined when a book is overdue, to a mystery man who leads a young woman into a dangerous situation, each story stretches reality beyond the norm. And a few of these tales will leave you with that shivering feeling that the story isn't quite over.

    The Night of the Sciurus: A Western Michigan Tale of Terror

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 6:30


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A Cautionary Tale About the Consequences of Environmental Pollution They are part of our daily lives. We watch them from our kitchen windows and backyard decks as they scurry over the branches of our tall oak trees. We laugh at their antics as they furiously bury and unbury their precious acorns. Yes, they are part of our lives and, though, sometimes a nuisance, we generally enjoy and tolerate them. But what happens when something goes wrong? What happens if some outside force causes their DNA to explode, creating a whole new species? What happens when that species begins to distrust and fear humans? Brooke Davis, her daughter, Tessa, and their intrepid dog, Petey, are about to find out.

    The Moskowitz Code

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 14:01


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO BE HEALTHY… When his doctor mistakenly types the wrong code into his electronic medical record, Myron Moskowitz—Mike, to the entire world except his mother Celia—finds life, or at least the one he's grown used to, suddenly turned tush-over-teakettle. With that single dodgy digital diagnosis, a chain reaction is set in motion leading Mike to lose his job, accidentally get all trace of himself wiped off of every computer in the known universe, and seriously contemplate buying a Harley. And Mike isn't exactly what you'd call a motorcycle kind of Moskowitz. Somehow Mike must find a way to get back on the grid and get his old job back, all without his wife finding out about any of it.

    Beyond the Strange

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 6:10


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY STARTLING BUT TRUE ARE THE MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA THAT EXIST SOMEWHERE … BEYOND THE STRANGE! In this bestselling book compiled by the editors of Fate magazine you will listen to amazing true accounts of the mysteries of ESP, dreams, ghosts, the occult, UFOs, strange science, witchcraft, and other fascinating phenomena in the world of the supernatural and the unexplained. You'll discover the secrets of these curious events and the remarkable stories of the unusual people who experienced them in this gripping record of happenings that lie … beyond the strange!

    Cappuccino in the Winter

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 17:39


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY African-American computer security expert, Alayna Alexander, will do anything to have a family, including marry a man she doesn't love. But confusion in the form of tall, dark Khavon Brighton, a former computer hacker, slips into Alayna's life when she is assigned to work with him on a top-level security project. Sparks fly as the two race to thwart a desperate cyberthief who has a personal vendetta against Khavon.

    A Meeting in the Dark 1: Whispers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 24:15


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Kim Crosley is a rent boy with too much curiosity. He wants to know who owns the Chrysler touring car stopping at his street corner every night. Hitching a ride and sneaking into the gent's house seems the best way to find out, but he gets caught. . Kit Laurence is an ex-soccer champ, a near-recluse since a sports injury ended his career. Discovering a young man going through his belongings brings an intriguing disruption to both his evening and his life, as well as a relationship he isn't certain he wants. Kit is glad to help Kim leave his street life behind, but the young hustler wants more. It's a battle of wills and attraction, with each man's personal demons getting in the way.

    From the Margins

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 8:10


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY From the Margins tracks the lives of people on the edge of society who find the strength to bind together and break free. These stories provide a bird's eye view of the inner lives of prostitutes, crazies, alcoholics, and oddballs, probe their humanity, and celebrate the redemption they find in each other and their own souls.

    The Turning: The Witches of Storm Island, Book I

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 4:55


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY It is the Year of Our Lord 1685 and fourteen-year-old Maude Prichard finds herself at a crossroads in life. A chance meeting with a strange woman, who never ages, sets the young Puritan maid on a path littered with fear, superstition, and witchcraft. A boy whose love is forbidden and an old man, drenched in darkness and depravity, will catapult Maude out of her well-ordered world into a life fraught with danger. Travel with her as she journeys from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the wilds of Maine where she will finally take her place among The Witches of Storm Island! The Witches of Storm Island is the first installment in a prequel series to the modern-day Kate Pomeroy Mysteries.

    Life After Promiscuity

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 9:10


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A REAL-LIFE JOURNEY INSIDE THE BDSM SCENE Dorothy Freed has been involved in the BDSM scene since the 1970s. In this memoir she writes openly, nostalgically, and lyrically about exploring her sexuality, including her experiences as a submissive and a Domme in a decades-long committed D/s relationship. This collection of interlinked vignettes gives the reader a front row seat to her diverse kinky adventures, providing sexually charged anecdotes that shed light on BDSM and her observations and reflections about the lifestyle. It is laced with humor, warmth, and rich descriptions of San Francisco and The Scene as it progressed over many years. It's a celebration that proves that you're never too old for passion.

    True Werewolves of History From Ancient Times to the Present

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2024 6:47


    Even if you are pure of heart, you may find yourself saying your prayers at night, when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright … after you listen to these sworn accounts of lycanthropy and shapeshifting. True Werewolves of History uses archival chronicles and new research to bring to life the stories of 100 werewolves. This unique tour-de-force focuses on real tales of werewolves (not to mention "werebears,” “werejaguars” and others) from throughout the world and across the centuries. You'll find them all in this volume for your delectation and enlightenment. AMONG THE MORE FAMOUS LYCANTHROPES CHRONICLED: St. Ronan John Lackland Roland Bertin Gilles Garnier Pierre Burgot Michel Verdun Jacques Roulet Jean Grenier Peter Andersen Ivan Of Shiganska Ivan Baranoff Joana of Tarcouca Stubbe Peeter Sergeant Bertrand AMONG THE MOST WELL-KNOWN CASES OF LYCANTHROPY: The wolves with human hands and feet Pope Leo and the witches The werewolf of Auvergne The werewolves at Christmas The shepherd Petronius The werewolves who were burned at the stake The werewolf in the museum Mere Maxim The mare-woman The Wild Beast of Geaudan Wolf Hollow The Vargamor The Werewolves of the Harz Mountains Le Meneur Des Loups The Isawiyya Abbot Gilbert and the Werewolf Revenge of the Were-Jaguars The Werewolf Burgomaster The Werewolf Flower of Transylvania OTHER KINDS OF CREATURES PEOPLE ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO: Were-Tigers Leopard-Men Were-Jackals Lion-Men Were-Equines Were-Hippos Fox-Women Were-Bears Were-Panthers Were-Hyenas

    The Twisted Stitch Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 19:27


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY WHEN AN INNOCENT SEWING CLUB BECOMES DEADLY Piper makes a gruesome discovery while remodeling the old farmhouse. The second location of their bakery must open in a month or risk losing all of their new customers. Can she solve this mystery in time? Meanwhile, Lanie is the victim of a serious "accident" in the woods. She's certain it wasn't an accident at all and is determined to find the perpetrators. Will she realize they're right under her nose before it's too late? When these two mysteries collide, Lanie and Piper will have to make difficult choices and risk losing the people they love. Don't miss this exciting fifth book in the Piney Falls series!

    Full Moon Rising: Tales of the Werewolf Clan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2024 16:23


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY EROTIC TALES OF THE HEATHER GROVE WEREWOLF CLAN Here is a ferociously hot werewolf romance like no other ― packed with sex ... and fur and teeth! Romance can be complicated, but thrilling, when you are a member of a lycanthrope clan. Full Moon Rising is the first installment of an enthralling series that chronicles turning points in the lives and loves of two of the McShaw's of Heather Grove. Megan McShaw falls for another lycanthrope, Derek Lee, and soon the two are hiding in a cabin in the woods from a rogue werewolf who is out to get Derek after a bar fight reveals he is a lycanthrope but not from the local pack. Meanwhile, female reporter, Jac Hamilton, comes to Heather Grove to investigate a “werewolf” rumor. When she meets Ray McShaw, Jac can sense the energy between them. She doesn't dream Ray is a werewolf, and that as the local pack leader he is responsible for concealing the truth from her. Ray winds up trying to protect Jac when a female pack member goes rogue and attacks her, and realizes that he has feelings for her ̶ and that even though Jac is human she is also his mate.

    The Penitent

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 6:02


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A BABY IS BORN AND PLACED IN HIS DEAD MOTHER'S ARMS… When the funeral shroud is cast over her, his father names his son Pall. It will soon become a name that strikes a shiver of fear into the hearts of those who hear it in combat. A lone survivor on a battlefield many years later, Pall dazedly recovers from the wounds of war. Despite the dead cast about him, everything he looks upon is unfamiliar to him. Wandering away from this scene of carnage, he encounters John Savage, a giant of a man who puts Pall within the sight of Savage's seven-foot, nocked longbow. What ensues from this deadly encounter is an elusive journey for truth. Yet, while it is haunted by a ravening demon that is out to destroy Pall and John, the vision and prayers of a startlingly beautiful young woman protect them from afar.

    The Culebra Cut

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 8:37


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY BEHIND THE SCENES DURING THE BUILDING OF THE PANAMA CANAL Undaunted by a mysterious disease killing workers, Teddy Roosevelt stakes his presidency on building the Panama Canal. The day Teddy Roosevelt learned McKinley had died and he was now president of the United States, he made up his mind he would cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama. No small task. The French had tried and failed with more than twenty thousand dead. Roosevelt wasn't alone in wanting to see a canal. The Wall Street financier, J. P. Morgan, wanted it too, and so did revolutionaries in Panama. Morgan wanted a shorter route for his ships and was willing to secretly finance the insurrection against Colombia, who owned the territory of Panama. Not everyone was wild about America in Panama. A radical young patriot with ancestral roots going back 400 years would do anything to stop the Yankees, including murder. There was another more insidious obstacle, a mysterious disease killing workers. The president sends Colonel Goethals to Panama to direct construction. Goethals thinks he knows how to avoid the terrible landslides that ruined the French. He also sends Major William Gorgas, the epidemiologist that rid Cuba of yellow fever during the Spanish American war. Gorgas requests the support of Captain Garrett Hay, the Secretary of State's nephew, who served in Cuba as a doctor. Gorgas also wants to send a civilian scientist, Hiram Walker, who is married to Emma, Garrett's former much younger lover, who deserted him years earlier without a word. They meet again aboard the Athena on their way to Panama. Neither is quite sure whether their love affair is over.

    Savage Rebel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 19:26


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY HANGING FEVER WITH SMOKE WADE'S NECK SLATED FOR THE NOOSE Dakota Territory: 1885. A violent band of Civil War veterans who roamed the Badlands were roused from their restless inertia by the murder of the Colonel they idolized. The towns simmered and hatreds flared up anew and every stranger became suspect. Since Smoke Wade was a stranger, when he stepped out of the hotel a dozen tough and sullen men were waiting for him. They followed him down the dusty street like a pack of hungry dogs stalking a young deer. Someone in their midst spoke the word. "Murderer." The word became a chant, a chant that seemed to sweep through the town. Hanging fever had come to the Dakota Territory! Before long Smoke Wade paced a jail cell . . . listening to the angry rumbling of the mob outside. He had suspected it before, but now he was sure—someone was heating up that mob, trying to make sure he didn't leave his cell alive. He remembered how he had ridden into this boomtown, a stranger with an itch to follow the wild wind, a simple cowboy with too much nerve and a ready gun. He had tried to help a man in a fight, and the next thing he knew he was in a cell, with a hangman's noose awaiting him. Why? For the murder of a man he had never even heard of, a murder that had occurred two days before Smoke Wade had come to town! As he listened to the bloodthirsty cries outside, his anger grew, He vowed to get out of there, clear his name and pin the guilt where it belonged. Up to then, there had never been a horse Smoke Wade couldn't ride or a man he couldn't lick — but this time he'd have to fight a whole damn town! He was a rough and tumble cowpoke who never came across a fight or a bet he was afraid to take on, and was thought by most to be just another pistolero for hire. But he always seemed to be on the side of justice when the powdersmoke settled.

    Sarah and Zoey: A Story About the Power of Unconditional Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 8:09


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A STORY ABOUT THE POWER OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE From multi-award-winning author, Linda Watkins, comes a story of two women from different walks of life and the one dog who loved them both. A feature writer for the Boston Globe, Sarah Palmer had it all – a beautiful apartment, a great job, and a family she adored. A thousand miles away, Mindy Sue Watson didn't have it so good. Trapped in a marriage to an abusive alcoholic, her only pleasure was in tossing a ball to a skinny dog she'd adopted from the local shelter. Sarah & Zoey is the tale of these two women and the one remarkable dog who saved them both. It is a story of the power of unconditional love.

    Planets of Adventure #1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 18:47


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURES IN SPACE: FORGET STAR WARS! STAR TREK, HO HUM! This Planets of Adventure audiobook includes two complete book-length novels of space adventure from the supreme exemplar of highly-charged, vividly-colored space opera, the legendary pulp Planet Stories. Fasten your seatbelts for atomic-powered thrills, alien landscapes, daring heroes, intrepid heroines, and fiendish villainesses. HERE FROM THE 1940s: The Sword of Fire: A Novel of an Enslaved World by Emmett McDowell. He was a plain, ordinary Jones, so his spaceman father named him Jupiter, hoping it would help him stand out. But he remained a plain, ordinary Jones―until the space warp cast him, naked and helpless into the slime of that vile world. Then Jupiter Jones cursed the fate that had marooned him among the planet's groveling mutants. He only wanted to escape. But the mutant's rising excited whispers proclaimed him a knight in shining armor who alone could save them. And the strange sword he'd found was, they said, the one weapon that could prevail against the vicious octopoids who enslaved them. The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears: A Novel of Peril on Alien Worlds by Keith Bennett. Their fighting song was known from Terra's hinterlands to Ganymede's glittering domes. "Oh, the Rocketeers have shaggy ears. They're dirty sons of space!" Someday there will be a legend like this. Someday, from Steamy Venus or Arid Mars, the shaking, awe-struck words will come whispering back to us, building the picture of a glory so great that our throats will choke with pride. Pride in the Rocketeers of Terra.

    My Killer: A Supernatural Crime Thriller

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 13:12


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A SUPERNATURAL MURDER MYSTERY AND CRIME THRILLER Joel Marcus, a young, successful Manhattan DA, stuck in a loveless marriage, is with his beautiful DA girlfriend when he rescues an elderly Haitian woman from muggers. She rewards him with a voodoo ceremony. Now when he dies, his spirit will survive and pass into the one nearest him. When he is, in fact, soon murdered, his spirit does pass into the one nearest him: the black hitman who murdered him. While trying to convince loved ones he's still alive, he's being sought by the police as the prime suspect in his own murder. At the same time, he's in a unique position to learn who the real murderer is—the one who paid for the hit. He's also in a unique position to learn, as a white man, what it's like to be a black man in today's America.

    My Heart Belongs To …

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 14:50


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY CAN A KINKY BICOASTAL ROMANCE SURVIVE? Her heart belonged to master and so did her body! What starts out as a friendly and kinky online chat explodes into an intense lust-at-first-sight hookup after Kay and Jon get together when she travels from California to New York on business. Over the course of six age-play novelettes, now combined into this wonderfully erotic novel, their relationship develops via racy video chats, emails, phone calls, and texts, plus visits to the San Francisco Bay Area by Jon. Despite fully embracing her submissiveness to the dominant Jon, Kay has a little domme in her, which she indulges with local male and female playmates, and even on occasion with Jon. Theirs is a flexible D/s relationship that in no way resembles strict lifestyle BDSM, though equally kinky―heavy into erotic pleasure-pain sex. Includes: "The Master's Little Girl" "The Master's Little Miss" "The Master's Little Toy" "The Master's Little Mess" "The Master's Little Jewel" "The Master's Little Angel"

    Murder at Moonlight Cove

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 13:38


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A BIZARRE MURDER DISRUPTS DETECTIVE BARRETT'S VACATION George Barrett is a detective in the Sioux Bend Police Department. For the first time in six years, George and his family are going on vacation to the most exclusive resort in the west—Moonlight Cove Resort in Wild River, Wyoming. The first morning there, George and his daughter, Karen, go for a run. Near the end of the trail, Karen hears music. When she follows the sound, she discovers two young people tied to pine trees, with arrows in their stomachs. One victim was the son of the Lakota County sheriff and the other was the daughter of the executive director of Moonlight Cove. Since the sheriff's office didn't have any active detectives, George's vacation is cancelled, and he is tasked with solving the murders. While executing a search warrant, George and his partner discover a room filled with pictures of Tristan Collins, the resort director's daughter, and the other victim. They soon learn that the apartment's occupant, Dennis Gibson, wasn't the one who took the pictures, but he wouldn't tell them who did. Who took those pictures and plastered them all over the walls? If it wasn't Gibson, who was he protecting? Can George find out who killed the young couple?

    Monterey Lies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 18:39


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY BARKER'S BACK SOLVING CRIME WITH HIS PACK OF ADORABLE CANINES! Barker, the mysterious homeless detective with no memory of his past, returns in the wild, third installment of the Barker Mysteries. Sequestered in a thrown-together shack beneath the soggy planks of California's Old Fisherman's Wharf, Barker and his gaggle of street dogs have kept largely to themselves since the events of Monterey Pulp. When three teenagers go missing in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and an incriminating note is left on the beach below his barnacle-covered home, Barker is thrust into pulse-pounding action. From the sinister friar of the historic Carmel Mission to an encounter with crime boss Sleepy Redbone in the sweltering red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, our reluctant hero faces his greatest threats and learns a secret to his past he thought lost to him: his first name.

    Holly's Exotic Dancing Debut

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 22:47


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY HOLLY'S JOURNEY TO EXOTIC DANCING HEADLINER After Holly tires of the erotic film industry grind in Los Angeles, she heads to San Francisco in hopes of parlaying her modest fame into an exotic dancing career. A chance conversation with a waitress at Big Al's results in the break she needs and leads to exciting friends-with-benefits naughtiness.

    Mink: Skinning Time in Wisconsin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 14:29


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A NOIR BLEND OF CRIME AND HORROR It's 1993—a year of optimism, change, and killer music—when Kees VanSpyker, a penniless Gulf War veteran and would-be guitar hero, takes a job with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) to infiltrate a Wisconsin mink ranch and find out what happened to the last guy they sent there who subsequently vanished. Kees just wants to earn enough cash to take his guitar and follow the stampede to Seattle, but finding out what happened proves hairier than he bargained for. Sinister doings and suspects abound on the ranch, in Madison, and among the ALF members themselves. Kees can't tell whom to trust as he risks his own skin delving into the grisly business of fur farming and double-crosses in this novel described as The Monkey Wrench Gang meets Psycho.

    I, The Vampire & Other Weird, Forgotten Tales of the Undead

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 24:48


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Think all the great vampire tales from the shudder pulps—"Weird Tales," "Strange Tales," "Horror Stories," "Unknown," etc.—have been republished? And you've heard them all? Think again! We have unearthed from their yellowing pulp pages coffins, six stories that you have probably never heard, and combined them with two indisputable classics for one of the best and freshest anthologies of undead doings you are likely to listen to for a long time to come. For instance, have you heard "After Sunset" by Philip Hazleton? "Mortmain" by Seabury Quinn? "The Shadow of Nirvana" by Earl Peirce, Jr.? "The Undead Die" by Everett Evans and Ray Bradbury? "Spawn of Darkness" by Kirk Shaw? Or, "Vampire Girl" by Bryce Walton? If you have listened to only a few or none…this is the anthology for you!

    Hot Pursuit

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2024 12:05


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY SERENDIPITY BRINGS FORMER LOVERS BACK TOGETHER Driving back to her home town for her parent's anniversary, Cassie Meadows, speeds through town. Suddenly a cop car pulls behind her in hot pursuit. To her humiliation, the man in blue is an Adonis in uniform, her ex-boyfriend, Steve Tanner. Steve is still in love with Cassie and wants a chance to explain why he broke her heart years ago. Cassie is attracted to Steve as well. She may not be ready to forgive him; but she can't quite say “no” either. So, Steve sets out in a hot pursuit of Cassie neither of them will ever forget! A sizzling romance from the best-selling author of Full Moon Rising!

    Family and Other Ailments

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 18:38


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY GRIPPING TALES OF CRIME AND HORROR ON THE HOMEFRONT Blood ties. The family we've been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The 26 stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery, or even the possibility, of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories. The collection opens with “Spy Head,” a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In “Texas Two-Step,” brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. “Razorbills” shows a young woman seeking freedom from the prison-like caring of her sibling. “Black and Tan” slips into domestic horror, as does “Mutti,” with a hint of the fantastic. “Hour of the Bat” and “Bag Limit” are deep-woods Texas noir, while “A Head for Numbers” and “No Recoil” go west, to the stark unforgiving beauty of the desert. M. E. Proctor draws characters with a tender touch. She catches them at an inflection point in their lives, a moment of choice. We feel what they feel, see what they see, and their voices linger for a long time in our memory.

    Dogs Don't Cook

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2023 6:55


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY THE STRUGGLES OF A WAR HERO RECOVERING FROM PTSD Thomas “Hatch” Hatchfield is an artist derailed by the Vietnam War. Beginning with crayons as a child, he honed his love for drawing as an art major in college and during a semester of study in Rome. Twenty-seven years after discharge, with a gut injury and a Purple Heart, Hatch still wanders Seattle's Pioneer Square. With an air of snarky hostility, he drinks away his talent, having long ago traded his paint brushes and pens for Ripple and Thunderbird. At least he has his invisible dog, Bud, always trotting beside him, always willing to listen, even willing to talk. Hatch faces a DUI and attends court-ordered AA meetings. One night he stops at a nearby Seattle diner owned by Rosa, a Puerto Rican earth mother who hires him as a kitchen prep. Rosa inspires Hatch to renew his love of drawing. As he claws his way to sobriety one brushstroke at a time, Hatch must come to terms with ghosts from the war, a fellow ex-marine's failings, and the truth about his dog.

    Denied: Stories of Male & Female Sexual Ache

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 5:56


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY DELICIOUSLY NAUGHTY SEXUAL TEASE AND DENIAL STORIES Ralph Greco, Jr. leads the reader through stories of sexual denial where mind games, chastity devices, and relationship dynamics push the characters to their limits both physically and mentally. Whether by friends, neighbors, lovers or strict mistresses, the men and women in Denied will be challenged in the most delicious ways. From lesbian couples dabbling in mutual denial to heterosexual partners embracing new roles, and dirty little secrets being revealed, these stories are sure to have you on the edge of your seat.

    The Adventures of Cocoa and Cream—Remarkable Twin Ponies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 9:59


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Meet Cocoa and Cream, the amazing twin ponies with wild, untamed manes! They are anything but ordinary. Cocoa and Cream have a big dream: to teach little kids how to ride, and help them discover their incredible potential. Join Cocoa and Cream, and discover the countless ways these special ponies help kids like you reach their goals!

    The Swamp Dragon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 23:36


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY A Perilous Civil War Era Tale of Destiny, Magic, and Power From the misty mountains and shadowy hollows of West Virginia, a new legend arises. It's 1863 in the Civil War-torn southern Hardy County. Beloved school teacher George Voorhees becomes the unlikely hero shortly after he joins the local Union Militia known as the Swamp Dragons, at his brother's insistence. When he's mortally wounded in an ambush by Luther Boggs, a vicious leader of a gang of Confederate bushwackers, Abigail—his friend, local midwife, and witch—turns him into a real swamp dragon in order to save his life. Overnight, his simple life is shattered, and he's thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only Abigail's advice for guidance and the continued support of Sarah, the girl he loves, George must navigate the dangerous terrain of a suddenly unfamiliar world in a quest to end the reign of terror by a man whose evil knows no bounds.

    Follow That Hearse (A Harry Horne Mystery)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2023 17:52


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY WHILE TRYING TO CATCH THIEVES, JOURNALIST HARRY HORNE FINDS CATCHING A BULLET OR A BLOND IS MORE LIKELY! One frightened blonde, eight chorus girls, a singer and three strippers… Hundreds of rancorous Reenactors itching to fight the Civil War all over again… Harry Horne hot on the trail of a stolen million somewhere on the battlefield… A dozen big city mobsters with .45s in Civil War regalia hot on Harry's trail… It's a recipe for excitement, sex and lots of action.

    Women Spanking Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2023 20:26


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY TEN DELICIOUSLY NAUGHTY SPANKING STORIES Here is a diverse assortment of vignettes featuring women spanking women. Vicariously experience friends, lovers, roommates, newbies, life-stylers, and kinky aficionados indulging in spanking scenarios ranging from penance, eavesdropping, OTK, edging, and pleasure-pain to motivation, first-time, rekindled love, corporal punishment, climax denial, and more.

    Trios: Death, Deceit and Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 14:10


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY AN EPIC TALE OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND REVENGE Rita Collins, a reporter and writer for a local Washington DC television station, faces apparently unexplained rejection by her husband, who has suffered amputation of both legs during the Iraq War. He refuses both her affection and any attempts at rehabilitation. At the same time, Rita is investigating a radical political cell on an elite college campus. With the help of her husband's psychiatrist, she discovers that her marriage was doomed from the start because of its intricate ties to the career of her politically corrupt father-in-law, a Pennsylvania state senator, and his manipulative political advisor. Once her initial grief gives way to anger, Rita uses her contacts within the news media to exact revenge on her father-in-law. On the same night she successfully covers a major campus riot, the revenge she fashions proves more destructive than she could have imagined

    Rest in Agony

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 27:59


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY   TRAPPED IN THE MESHES OF THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS   Here is a keystone work in the development of the modern horror novel first published in the early 1960s. When Ambrose Sampson dies, everyone in the family considered him the next-best thing to a saint, including his college-grad nephew, Hal. So Hal is outraged when a stranger knocks at the door and tries to strong-arm his way into the house, demanding a work supposedly written by his uncle titled "The Book of Ambrose" and hinting at his uncle's involvement in something dark and sinister. But Hal's outrage turns to horror when he answers the phone and hears a ghostly but familiar voice say, "Hello, Hal. This is your uncle Ambrose." Hal's horror deepens when he learns his beloved uncle was a practitioner of Satanism and had pledged Hal's sister, Lisa, to the mighty Prince of Darkness. However, Ambrose has repented and begs Hal to help him oppose the forces of darkness he unleashed. Only then can he rest in peace and not in agony! Hal agrees, not knowing that he will face temptations and dangers rarely experienced by mortal men: For in his future lie the perils of the House by the Devil's Bend, the Place of Pain, and the Goddess of Dark Waters, along with the unholy temptations of Caress Dillon and Amora Cartwright. And if he survives those, Hal will still have to face the combined forces of a Satanic cult and the awesome power of the Prince of Darkness himself.

    Lavender's Tangled Tree

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2023 13:48


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY You are cordially invited to the wedding of Lanie Anders and Cosmo Hill! In the fourth book of the Piney Falls Mysteries Series, the wedding event of the decade is about to take place in Piney Falls. From the decorations to the cake and music, every single citizen has contributed in some way to make this day perfect. Until Cosmo and Lanie begin their lives together, everyone is on their best behavior, trying to assure no mystery disrupts the one thing they've all worked in unison to achieve. When a stranger shows up at Cosmic Cakes and Antiquery with some shocking news, the perfectly constructed event begins to fall apart. Even more concerning, Cosmo and Lanie's future together may be in jeopardy. The stranger's message means Lanie must face the one thing she's been avoiding her entire adult life: her mother. The twisted family mystery that begins to unravel before her will change everything Lanie thought she knew about herself. Don't miss the fourth installment of this exciting cozy mystery series with a dash of humor, history, and of course, a good mystery!

    A Very Bad Girl

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 16:29


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY   A SIZZLING HOT ROMANCE BY MAGGIE CARPENTER   "She's been a very bad girl. Now she needs to be punished." Steph Grady had to be taught a lesson. She needed to learn the hard way that bad girls who spy on men like me don't just get spanked. They get taken roughly and shamefully, with every climax more overwhelming than the one before. When I'm finished with her, she won't just be begging for mercy and for more at the same time. She'll be mine. She needs to be. There's no one else able to keep her safe."

    Holding it All Together When You're Hypermobile

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2023 19:40


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY Tired of being told there's no name or treatment for your illness? That it's 'all in your head' or that your pain can't be real because you're too young/old/pretty/bright/healthy/normal to have a chronic disorder? What if instead, there was someone who knew what you were going through and could teach you strategies for coping with rare chronic illness? This is not a false hope. You can turn pain into possibility with this life-changing book that can help everyone with elusive hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) – from those newly diagnosed to those who have suffered in silence for decades. Wherever you are on your journey navigating the complexities of chronic illness, you're not alone. Christie Cox explores not only the physical effects of hEDS but its emotional impact as well. As a fellow patient and medical rarity, known to doctors as zebras, she's experienced her body's betrayal and suffered through the myriad complications stemming from this disease. But she's also found a way out from the depths of this life-altering disorder with wisdom you can turn into hope. As a self-advocacy guide, she offers practical, no-nonsense advice about living with chronic illness and the concrete steps you can take to achieve a new normal. In her book, you'll discover… ·         A healing prescription for the miracle of the modern mindset ·         A look at the latest scientific research on the edge of answers ·         Q&A interviews with expert doctors and advocacy groups ·         Guidance for how to help loved ones better understand hEDS ·         Christie's own inspiring story of how she came to live her best life ·         Lessons, questions and quotes to inspire your search for answers   "This book gives you the tools and resources you need to get back to living the life you want."

    True Vampires of History

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 13:31


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY   Historical accounts of the undead who returned from the grave to drink human blood! From the cobblestone streets of medieval Europe, across the vastness of Asia and the jungles of Africa, to the haunted forests of New England in the 20th century, the author brings his researches to life in over fifty narratives and case histories. Have you ever wondered whether or not vampires actually exist? Whether they are merely folk tales or real creatures that walk the same world we do? Donald F. Glut's classic survey of the historical record provides food for thought and fascinating insights into the sanguinary world of True Vampires of History. Donald F. Glut is a world-recognized authority on monsters. His books The Dinosaur Dictionary and Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia were included by the American Library Association in their lists of best reference books of the year. And his The Dracula Book and The Frankenstein Catalog were both recipients of the annual Ann Radcliffe Award from the Count Dracula Society. In addition to hundreds of articles on monsters real and fictive, Glut's other books include Classic Movie Monsters, Jurassic Classics: A Collection of Saurian Essays and Mesozoic Musings, The Frankenstein Legend, True Vampires of History, and True Werewolves of History. He has also written three vampire novels, directed and executive-produced three feature-length movies featuring Dracula and regularly writes stories for Vampiress Carmilla magazine. He is probably best known for his novelization of the movie The Empire Strikes Back.

    Morocco Jones: The Syndicate's Golden Angel

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 23:34


    CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY   MOROCCO JONES VS. MAFIA, MURDERS, MOLLS, AND MAYHEM The wheels on the Syndicate's deadliest racket – taking over unions to leverage the old protection racket on whole industries – have begun to steam-roll over the shipping business in the quiet California town of Pacific Port. They send an S.O.S. for the one-man army – P.I. and ex-spy, Morocco Jones. His name is whispered in secret, and in awe – from Budapest to Bangkok, from Copenhagen to Cairo to Kansas City, Mo. He's the toughest, smartest operator ever to work and survive the roughest racket of them all – overseas counterespionage. He's the guy who rocked the Mafia on its heels in Chicago, the guy who took Border City's underworld apart with his bare hands. The man who's come to take the Cosa Nostra by the throat and end it once and for all. If he survives the baited, one-woman death trap called "the Syndicate's Golden Angel." The final book in the classic series that took the war to the Mafia a decade before the debut of Mack Bolan, The Executioner.

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