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Penguin presents the audio edition of Minecraft: The Lost Journals, read by Emily Schaffer. The brand-new official Minecraft novel is a journey into the unknown! Alison and Max must team up to find his missing uncle Nicholas. Using the journal his beloved uncle left as a guide, the duo hurtle headlong into a treacherous and unknown landscape called the Nether.

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social pariah. So when Mallory gets the opportunity to take refuge on a sentient space station, she thinks she has the solution. Surely the murders will stop if her only company is alien beings. At first her new existence is peacefully quiet…and markedly devoid of homicide.

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her—and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.)

Yolanda Davenport, star reporter for Galaxy Sports Magazine, is searching for the truth about Ju Tweedy’s involvement with the murder of Grace McDermot. Ju, a former star running back for the OS1 Orbiting Death, had to flee Orbital System One following the murder accusation. That incident let him to join Ionath Krakens, but Ju still claims innocence. Are the Krakens knowingly employing a murderer, or was Ju framed for this horrible crime?

"I should be writing" is what people say, but they rarely do it. This podcast is designed to help you get past those blocks, whether it's what your teacher told you when you were a kid, to being totally sure you'll never be as good as (FAV AUTHOR) so you might as well quit.

Though Han Solo has thrilled Star Wars fans for decades, the notorious wisecracking scoundrel was chasing adventure and dodging trouble long before he walked into the cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport. Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind. But as long as he’s trapped in a life of poverty and crime - and under the thumb of the sinister Lady Proxima and her brutal street gang - reaching the distant stars seems impossible.

Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too - her newfound ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel. Work isn't all that brings Zoe to the Big Easy. The only person who can save her boyfriend from zombism is rumored to live in the city's swamps, but Zoe's out of her element in the wilderness....

Mentre la Terra è sempre più depauperata di risorse e sfiancata da guerre, la nave spaziale Dormire trasporta nel paradiso incontaminato di Artemis, un pianeta nel sistema stellare Tau Ceti, migliaia di esseri umani addormentati. Nel viaggio di quattrocento anni necessario per raggiungere la destinazione finale, le loro vite sono salvaguardate da IAN, sofisticatissima Intelligenza Artificiale con poteri decisionali e di veto. Ma qualcosa va storto: i sei membri dell'equipaggio, tutti ex criminali che sperano di ripulire il proprio passato e ricominciare una nuova vita.

Magic is real, and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad - Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum - and together they stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label. 

Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don't get doctor block and ditch diggers don't get ditch digger block, and working writers can't get writer's block. Business and humor.

Sal og Asanti tager alene til Skotland for at tage til begravelse for arkivarens mentor. Det går hurtigt op for dem, at der er noget helt galt i den lille by. Alle er som fortryllede af en restaurant, der er ejet af den afdødes eneste levende slægtning. De beslutter sig for at undersøge det, men det går for sent op for dem, at de skulle have ventet på resten af teamet, for der er fare på fære i Skotland... Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig.

Sal Brooks og resten af holdet fra Vatikanet tager til Las Vegas for at efterforske en række mystiske mord. Det eneste, ofrene har tilfælles, er, at de alle er blevet tatoveret til en tatovørfestival, og nu har de deres egen dødsdom stående under huden! Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig. Følg Sal Brooks, den seneste rekrut på en hemmelig magisk mission, mens hun rejser verden rundt for at holde overnaturlige kræfter i skak. Men husk: Hold øjnene åbne, og rør ikke ved noget. Mur Lafferty (f. 1973) er en amerikansk fantasyforfatter.

Grace har set frem til sin årlige fridag i - ja, et helt år! Der er intet, der kan stoppe hende i at nyde den til fulde, hverken Sal, der mærkværdigvis er begyndt at gå i søvne, eller den mystiske turistguide Aaron, der aldrig helt er til at finde ud af. Ikke engang den magiske boble, der er ved at lægge sig omkring hele Rom, og som får tiden til at gå langsommere end i verden udenfor! Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig.

Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don't get doctor block and ditch diggers don't get ditch digger block, and working writers can't get writer's block. Business and humor.

A rerun of I Should Be Writing, the longest running writing podcast on the Internet, complete with commentary, new interviews, and transcripts! Look back at 2005 before host Mur had ever sold a story, and podcasting was barely a year old!

What if Heaven wasn't all it's cracked up to be? Friends Kate and Daniel find that after their untimely deaths, Heaven leaves them dissatisfied and itching for something... else. So they're off, with a passport to discover more afterlifes, heroes and gods. During their adventures, they find out that their travel isn't a journey taken on a whim, but may be orchestrated, or even prophesied.

Daniel has been forced from the afterlife to be exiled in the wasteland, with nothing but his misery and Kate's dead body. But he is not without power entirely, and he begins to make his way in this world that looks less like a wasteland and more like another world. But the volatile power of the wasteland still touches this new world, and Daniel and his friends must not forget the trouble facing Heaven and Hell.

Playing for Keeps tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Lessons from the Geek Fu Master is a collections of essays by Mur Lafferty, producer and host of the podcast, Geek Fu Action Grip. Her essays cover the spectrum of topics from gaming, comics, writing, feminism, and parenting. This podiobook features the essays from her podcast, the essays she contributed to The Dragon Page Wingin' It podcast as well as some essays that have never been released.

By bringing back the patronage system, a new alien species has transformed the moon into the new artistic center of the universe, and Sally Ride Lunar Base soon gains the nickname “Mollywood.” These aliens can do amazing things with art and the senses, allowing a painting, for example, to stimulate other senses than simply sight. When someone asks a starlet, “Who are you wearing?” she could as easily say “J.K. Rowling” as she could “Gucci.” Every creative person in the world wishes for a patronage. It’s quite competitive. Marco wanted one, once. But then his girlfriend got ...