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The Brave Men Run Podcast features weekly installments of the audio book "Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era" read by the author, Matthew Wayne Selznick. Featuring music by Peril Dance. Visit http://www.bravemenrun.com for more information and to order a paperback or e-book edition of "Brave Men Run."

1886 Melbourne is agog as one of its brightest young men is implicated in a murder! One of the first international bestsellers, this charming (but deadly) tale has lost none of its page-turning power.

In 121 AD, the great Hadrian rules the mightiest empire the world has ever known. But a darkness is growing in the north. In the newly pacified fringe province of Britannia, the dead are ning to rise. The legion that feared no mortal enemy will now have to contend with a growing horde of their fallen brothers. Can Rome survive these bleak days? Join us, as the pages of history are rewritten in blood.

The Debut Podcast Novel By K. Gainor

Epic ongoing tale of intrigue and betrayal set upon a different world in another time. With a throne in question, a future unclear and great change afoot what can be certain?

Off the coast of Nova Scotia on a remote island, a lonely scientist, a powerful computer, a simple mistake, unleashes a new threat somewhere in the hills of Margaree. Dead Hunt is Kenn Crawford's chilling tale of a desperate father’s undying love, a daughter frozen in time, and the small group of teens trapped in the aftermath of walking dead.

A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of desperation must face her demons as she attends the funeral of an old friend. Jack was the closest thing she ever had to a father even though their relationship had never been revealed to his family. Christy would have preferred for the native history of Jacks life to remain a secret, but that was not to be. When Christy is discovered by Jacks biological daughter, Jennifer, the truth is finally revealed as her story s to unfold. Christy recounts her memories and recollections as Jennifer seeks to understand the father that she thought she knew. Join these two unlikely acquaintances as they put aside their differences and engage in a discovery of their true selves buried in the emotional depths of love, loss, and what it means to truly come home. This heart warming story will enthrall you as Christy unravels the patch work quilt of her life as both women come to understand that a second chance might only be as far as each other.

Drawn together apparently by the hand of fate, Trent and Cole escape the oppressive totalitarian domed city that has nurtured them all their lives. Outside they discover a world they could never have imagined. They are pursued by the city Militia, intent on returning them to the secretive entity that oversees every facet of the city. They are joined by Floyd, who turns against the Militia; only to be captured once more and freed by those they would have considered most unlikely to help them. The trio begin to understand the truth of their world and must decide for whom they will fight in the coming wars...

One night Gabriel Garrison was visited by a nameless messenger who bestowed upon him great power, a power intended for good. Once discovering what this power was and what it enabled him to do, Gabriel became Axiom-man, a symbol of hope in a city that had none. One night after a routine patrol, a mysterious black cloud appears over the city. Flying over to investigate it, Axiom-man is stopped short when the cloud’s presence shakes him to the core. An electrifying fear emanates from the cloud and he can barely get near it. Quickly, the cloud takes flight and leads him on a wild goose chase throughout the city, only to flee from him in the end. Almost immediately after the cloud’s appearance, a new hero arises, Redsaw, clad in a black cape and cowl. The people, now enamored with this new super-powered marvel, seem to have forgotten about Axiom-man and all he’s done for them. Except something’s wrong. That same fear that emanated from the cloud drips off Redsaw like a foul smell and Axiom-man can barely get close to him without feeling ill. What is Redsaw’s agenda and who is he? And why is it every time Axiom-man gets close to him it feels as if his powers are being sucked away? As if that wasn’t enough, Gabriel’s day job hasn’t gotten any easier. His co-worker and the woman he adores, Valerie Vaughan, has little interest in him, and his boss has made it clear that one more day late to work will be the day he cleans out his desk. Then there’s the new trainee, Gene Nemek. What is his fascination with Redsaw and why is he never around when Redsaw appears? From flying over city streets and soaring at dizzying heights, to balancing a secret identity with destiny, Axiom-man must discover what Redsaw’s presence means and how it ties into the messenger’s life-altering visit before the city—and the world—are enamored with an evil that has haunted the cosmos since the dawn of Time.

Jonny C. gets caught up in a mystery involving drugs, infidelity, and murder. Join him as he unravels a tale of revenge that takes him from the tiny town of Catherine, MS to the Big Easy and back.

The host interviews authors who have podcasted their novels.

The Spirit of Education: The Podiobook is an audio rendition of my book, The Spirit of Education (available as a free e-book at www.spiritofeducation.com). It attempts to get at what education is, apart from what we do in schools (and call it "education"). It starts not with what people ought to learn, or how that should be taught, but what humans are, and how they might take a conscious path toward becoming. Though it doesn't pretend to have all the answers, neither does it elide some big questions.

Nineteen year-old Chet Brown arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 and found that, for him, the war was only beginning. Betrayed by his friends and lover, ignored by his family, Brown travels across the country in search of meaning behind the horrors of his war. "Bleak and disturbing... dead-on-target ...This first novel is a work of pure psychological conflict." --Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John Hanchette, Reno Gazette-Journal "Brutally honest, direct, and meaningful, Prayer At Rumayla is a compelling novel of coming to terms not only with dangers and traumas of the battlefront, but with its aftermath upon the lives of the surviving combatants." --Midwest Book Review

The page turning true story of the little law school that did... This audio book is available at this feed in two editions, an enhanced edition which includes hundreds of pictures of the real people, places and events, and an mp3 edition which is playable on all mp3 players

1874 Near Weatherbury (in Hardy's mythical Wessex), Bathsheba Everdene is loved by three men. Published anonymously in the Cornhill, it at once secured the writer a foremost position among popular authors.

1895 Serial first published in Illustrated London News. After an unexpected windfall, a man goes in quest of a woman he knows only from a picture in his landlady's photo-album.

1911 Filled with details from his own life and those of his sisters, the successor to Sister Carrie is "full of a rugged sincerity, a fearless devotion to the truth, and undisguised pity for the impotence of human nature."

1879 The heartbreaks of Sir Willoughby make for a delightful listen, both charming and bitterly ironic.

1909 Too bright for any school or job that his Victorian lower-middle class upbringing can offer, George throws in with his Uncle Teddy -- failed pharmacist but successful inventor of an utterly worthless patent medicine; and becomes "the stick of his uncle's rocket."

1882 Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's Life of "The Kid." Sheriff Garrett was Billy's friend -- and the man who eventually sent him to the last roundup.

1915 Three adventurers discover a strange, garden-like upland country, inhabited solely by women.

1896 A small-town minister of many foibles is skewered in this acid satire.

2006 The growing popularity of cultural commons thinking sets new and provocative challenges for traditional copyright law. Subtitled "A Guide to Creative Commons Thinking for Cultural Organizations," this book has an evangelical flavour, advocating the adoption of Creative Commons licenses.

1860 Two gentlemen seek Clara Desmond's hand, and each has a claim to Castle Richmond. Another story of love and law from Trollope, this time set in Ireland during the famine of the 1840's.

The Podcast version of the epic fantasy novel, Daughter of the Sun, by Lonnie Ezell. Since the Sundering, all use of the Breath has been outlawed. The Overlord and his family have destroyed all who could wield that mighty power. Now, the Overlords own son needs that outlawed power to unseat his father. Having spent her entire life trying to stay unnoticed, Elena is forced to come to grips with the Breaths curse when her only child is ripped away from her. A pawn in the game between the Duke and his father, she must find a way to rescue her daughter and remain free of their manipulative grasp. When she does, her entire world collapses around her, and she realizes just how dangerous this game is. As she struggles to out maneuver the Overlord, the Duke, and their supernatural allies, Elena must find a way to defeat them both. If she can not, the entire world will pay the price.

". . . and urgent and Byzantine plot that races along." - Michael A. Stackpole, NY Times Bestselling author of I, Jedi 1,000 years ago—the world was shattered. Today—the Overlord is about to do it again. Since the Sundering, all use of the Breath has been outlawed. The Overlord and his family have destroyed all who could wield that mighty power. Now, the Overlord’s own son needs that outlawed power to unseat his father. Having spent her entire life trying to stay unnoticed, Elena is forced to come to grips with the Breath’s curse when her only child is ripped away from her. A pawn in the game between the Duke and his father, she must find a way to rescue her daughter and remain free of their manipulative grasp. When she does, her entire world collapses around her, and she realizes just how dangerous this game is. As she struggles to out maneuver the Overlord, the Duke, and their supernatural allies, Elena must find a way to defeat them both. If she can not, the entire world will pay the price. Daughter of the Sun is the first book in the Sundered Breath Trilogy, available in both podcast and print formats.

1881 A judicious account of the great Southern victory of 1863, colored by the personal observations of a historian who served personally with the Eleventh Corp, famously routed by Stonewall Jackson.

1764 Walpole introduced and named the genre with The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story -- which was to influence Matthew G. Lewis, Radcliffe and Shelley.

1848 The life and love of an English governess.

1915 One man is handed the mysterious key to the threat from Germany. (No, the earlier threat from Germany.)

From the "hard realism" school of Chicago novelists, this fictional account of a rise to power.

1912 Tale of the London Clubs and drawing-rooms, with young man-about-town Comus Bassington. "There is no greater compliment to be paid the right kind of friend than to [email them a link to] Saki, without comment." - Christopher Morley (slightly updated)

1912 A groundbreaking work of modern fiction that powerfully describes a man's struggle against the constraints of racism -- as well as honestly addressing the temptations of passing as white.

1724 A woman makes her way in the world using her beauty, plus a few disguises.

1851 Virtue triumphs over human pretension in this richly poetic story of good and bad brothers, a classic Victorian fairy tale.

1901 Freed from slavery in his youth to become an educator and spokesman for his race, Washington tells his own story in this acclaimed work.

1880 "A Tragedy of the Sierra" -- The first and best source concerning a grim episode in the annals of the settlement of California.

1912 A thrilling tale of the abandoned infant Lord Greystoke, his upbringing by Kala the ape, and his rediscovery by humankind -- all hinging on a race for pirates' treasure!

1898 A tour de force that recreates the magical thinking of children. By the author of The Wind in the Willows.

1899 How the town synonymous with "honesty" got its comeuppance.

1919 A perennial best seller, this is Maugham's fascinating fictional exploration of the career of Paul Gauguin.

1901 Australian coming-of-age tale, featuring the exuberant, impetuous Miss Sybylla Melvyn.

1912 An unforgettable tale of love and jealousy, by the modern master who, above all others, locates the universal in the exotic.

1912 One of the enduring comic treats, a picture of life in the fictional Canadian town of Mariposa.

1778 A beautiful "country cousin" comes out in society, in this wickedly funny novel-in-letters. First-rate comic characters and lively action.

1909 masterpiece about the terrorists of the early 20th century. A stark and believable narrative.

1751 Cleland's second novel, after the enormously successful (and notorious) Fanny Hill.

1844 An Irish knave progresses to rogue. His rollicking, wildly funny memoirs recount battles, card-playing and court intrigues.

1875 romance that Trollope called "the best novel I ever wrote."

1922 Adventure on the high seas, with physician turned slave (turned pirate), Peter Blood. Fast-paced, exciting and satisfying.

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An expatriate's hallucinogenic mid-life crisis/adventure, and homage to Malcolm Lowry and Hermann Hesse

On a remote island in Lake Superior, scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation -- using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. Funded by the biotech firm Genada, Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf seeks to recreate the ancestor of all mammals. By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs. Rhumkorrf discovers the ancestor, but it is not the small, harmless creature he envisions. His genius gives birth to a fast-growing evil that nature eradicated 250 million years ago -- an evil now on the loose, and very, very hungry.