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The 3rd Andersson Dexter novel

Storefronts busted, businesses destroyed, accounts frozen. No one knows who’s behind the rash of vandalism in the virtual world, Marionette City, or how to protect themselves from becoming the next victim.

Andersson Dexter has a new lease on life. Things are looking up for the newly independent investigator, when he picks up what seems like an ordinary case of vandalism.

Soon Dex discovers that what appears to be a run of the mill case may be linked to a series of more sinister events which could jeopardize the very existence of the virtual world, Marionette City.

Join Dex and the rest of The Cubicle Men team on his most complex case yet.

Hai mai pensato di poter migliorare il tuo inglese mentre impari qualcosa di utile per te stesso? Con Risveglia il tuo inglese! TU:
* Fisserai il tuo obiettivo di praticare la lingua
* Imparerai come rilassarti volontariamente prima di parlare l’inglese
* Ii rilasserai imparando nuove parole e tecniche potenzianti nonche’ l’inglese che le trasmette
* ti divertirai con 5 lezioni chiave di allenamento mentale dove il protagonista sei TU!

Risveglia il tuo inglese! ti offre:
* in questo podcast solo la versione inglese, nel libro testi bilingue in italiano e in inglese
* metodi di apprendimento accelerato per aiutarti ad assorbire la lingua piu velocemente!
* nessun esercizio di memorizzazione!
* Indicato soprattutto per studenti di livello intermedio!

Puoi trovare tutti i testi di questo podcast nella libreria a te piu vicina, sia in versione cartacea sia come ebook!

La musica usata in questo podcast è royalty free di Kevin Macleod.

Have you ever thought that you could improve your English while learning something useful for yourself? With Awaken Your English! you will:

* Finally set your goal of practicing the language
* Learn how to relax at will before speaking English
* Relax while learning new empowering words and techniques as well as the English language that conveys them
* Have fun with five key lessons in mental training where the main character is YOU!

Awaken Your English features:

* in this podcast only the English version, in the textbook English and Italian parallel texts
* accelerated learning methods to help you absorb the language faster!
* No memorization exercises!
* Especially suitable for intermediate learners!

YOU can find all the texts of this podcast in your nearest bookstore, as paperback and as ebook!

Music used in this podcast is Royalty free Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Narrated by Chris Snelgrove & Antonio Libertino

The final four episodes of Armand Ptolemy and the Golden Aleph by Mark Jeffrey have been posted, making this book complete!

]The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty with baseball bats and pranks.

Our Captain Bligh is Roman Meister, a blustery, insecure giant who manages an
independent-league baseball team near the California-Mexico border. Commanding but confused, endearing but scary, Roman pushes his multicultural young players to win the championship he needs to advance in pro ball–and validate his very existence, it seems. Roman reveres the fading America of Ted Williams, struggles with the burden of inherited prejudices, and lives in terror of disappointing his ex-marine father. He is equally apt to straighten the pillow beneath a sleeping player’s head or brutally bludgeon a still-breathing fish.

Our Fletcher Christian is Rex Hirsch, an elfin eighteen year-old from Venice Beach who plays baseball with joyful abandon. He’s a Hacky-Sacking free spirit with a taste for anarchy who loves animals, plays Native American flute to coyotes in the field, flows easily among his multicultural teammates, and reveres his graybeard hipster dad. He holds absolute views and tends to zealotry.

Rex and Roman get along well at first when Rex’s bold play helps the Coyotes win: Roman likes and admires the youth, and Rex defends Roman as “old school cool.” But conflict builds when these seeming opposites push each other’s hot buttons, and Rex instigates a rebellion that burns through all kinds of contemporary social divides. Will the wounded white male explode into violence? Will the neo-hippie succumb to his dark side and destroy the man?

It’s a wild trip around the bases with gobs of humor, colorful characters, spirited action, and dark overtones.

Is Roman mighty?

Was Gatsby great?

A nice topic for discussion while watching a game.

Novi colony is inhumanly peaceful and John Jerzy has been sent to find out why. Jerzy’s last assignment ended in disaster, his career has stalled, and he plans to unravel this minor mystery the Novians call the Matcher and get a real assignment as soon as possible.

Stella has lived on Novi all her life and she’s going to the Matcher to find her affinity group. She sees no reason to change and she plans to live happily ever after.

Max Bari wants to change Novi from a backwater colonial planet to an interstellar power, with himself at the helm. All he needs is to fix the Matcher. He has a plan.

Three people, three plans. But the Matcher has no plans. Only rules …

A few weeks back, the final episode of Compensating Controls by James Keeling was released. In case you missed it, and a thriller deep within the world of computers and code is your thing, check it out. It’s complete at 21 episodes!

We are raising a racket in Episode 69 with our new staff interviewer, Arlene Radasky, as she talks with Alicia Goranson about her new audio drama, and Rhonda Carpenter speaks with Mary Holland about Matcher Rules. Plus, we have news and contest information.

Interviews

The Mask of Inanna by Alicia E. Goranson
Horror/Dark Fantasy Family Safe Audio Drama

Website: http://www.themaskofinanna.com
Twitter: @maskofinanna
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mask-of-Inanna/249989415021695
Alicia E. Goranson is a Boston author and playwright. Her novel, Supervillainz, is a 2006 Lambda Literary Award finalist and winner of the 2004 Project QueerLit Award. Charlie Jane Anders, editor of io9.com, says, “Alicia Goranson’s superpowers include searing vision, a powerful voice, and the ability to leap over genre boundaries.”

Matcher Rules by Mary Holland
Futuristic Fantasy
Podiobooks release date April 11, 2012
Website: http://www.mary-holland.com
Get it at Amazon today!
Mary Holland writes social fantasy and science fiction. She has degrees in sociology, art photography, and library science and she has worked as a corporate librarian in Silicon Valley. She lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California with three cats and one husband.

News

The Parsec Awards begin taking nomination on April 15th, 2012. Go to the website, grab one of the promos, and then spread the word and nominate you favorite podcast. http://parsecawards.com/

Brian Rathbone has a new Paranormal Mastery release. Lure is the first book in the Sam Flock Adventure series. The ebook is currently available everywhere for .99 cents. Click here to get it at amazon.

Our friend Ian Rutter has just release the acclaimed podiobook The Faeries of Birchover Wood – Book 1 – The Bad in ebook format. This fantasy is excellent for younger listeners.

Get it on Amazon for only $1.99 and if you are a Prime member you can get it for free! Or listen to it from Podiobooks.com.

Contests

The Masters of Macabre Contest is accepting entries. Time is almost up to take a stab at horror. Gentleman, entries close April 11, 2012. Head on over to the website for all the details.

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The War is over. Isabella has won, and the Talent Master is dead. Aaron Turner now lives in N’Ark, Isabella’s capital, where he mourns his murdered wife and son. All he wants is to tip a bottle, stare at walls, and recover.

But they won’t leave him alone.

The Isabellan government and slavers both want him dead. Savages look to him as their prophesied savior. His lawyer wants to control him. His neighbors and friends have been murdered, and a once dead shaman declares him a servant of her One God.

Aaron has to make things right. His honor demands it.

Dusting off his guns, he sets aside his grief, readies his Talent, and declares a one man war against a nation that has betrayed him, the Clan, and itself.

A serial killer — brilliant, methodical and suicidal — sabotages a large commercial spacecraft’s engines to set it on an eight-day trajectory to burn up in the sun, then remains aboard ship to murder and torment its passengers and crew.

With no other ships near enough to reach them, rescue is impossible, and the few survivors fight their unknown enemy while trying to invent a way to survive the growing heat of the sun.

It’s been three months since former enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon and the notorious assassin Sicarius thwarted kidnappers and saved the emperor’s life. The problem? Nobody knows they were responsible for this good deed. Worse, they’re being blamed for the entire scheme. With enforcers and bounty hunters stalking them, and the emperor nursing a personal hatred for Sicarius, it’s going to be hard to earn exoneration.