Bookburners: Badge, Book, and Candle: Episode 1

Bookburners Season One (16 Book Series)

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and others
• Narrated By XE Sands

Magic is real, and hungry - trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep the supernatural in check. Just remember: watch your back and don't touch anything.

Ninefox Gambit

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Yoon Ha Lee
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

To win an impossible war, Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.

Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris' career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the Hexarchate itself might be next.

Penric's Demon: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Lois McMaster Bujold
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric.

Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Vivian Shaw
• Narrated By Suzannah Hampton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead. After inheriting a highly specialised and highly peculiar medical practice, Dr Helsing spends her days treating London's undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's dreamed of since childhood. But when a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead alike, Greta must use her unusual skills to keep her supernatural clients - and the rest of London - safe.

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Seanan McGuire
• Narrated By Emily Bauer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline.

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Kij Johnson
• Narrated By Kij Johnson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.

The Dispatcher

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 19 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Zachary Quinto
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.

A Peace Divided

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Tanya Huff
• Narrated By Maguerite Gavin

Ex-Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr drew together an elite corps of friends and allies to take on covert missions that the Justice Department and the Corps could not officially touch. When the scientists doing a preliminary archaeological dig on a Class Two planet are taken hostage, Torin's team is sent to free them. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the mercenaries holding them are a mix of Confederation and Primacy forces, and are looking for a weapon with power beyond anything previously known.

Winter Tide

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Ruthanna Emrys
• Narrated By Gabra Zackman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the US government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future. The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets.

Chalk: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Paul Cornell
• Narrated By Jonathan Broadbent

Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with his fellow losers at school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies - led by Drake - will pass by him in search of other prey. But one day they force him into the woods, and the bullying escalates into something more; something unforgivable, something unthinkable. Broken, both physically and emotionally, something dies in Waggoner, and something else is born in its place.

The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Charles Stross
• Narrated By Jack Hawkins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Never volunteer for active duty... Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe; but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than 'control+alt+delete' to sort this mess out...

The Collapsing Empire: The Interdependency, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

Binti

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Nnedi Okorafor
• Narrated By Robin Miles

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares.

The Bedlam Stacks

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Natasha Pulley
• Narrated By David Thorpe
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

An astonishing historical novel set in the shadowy, magical forests of South America, which draws on the captivating world of the international best seller The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Deep in uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the edge of a forest. The shrine statues move, and anyone who crosses the border dies. But somewhere inside are cinchona trees, whose bark yields quinine: the only known treatment for malaria. On the other side of the Pacific, it is 1859, and India is ravaged by the disease.

The Hallowed Hunt

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Lois McMaster Bujold
• Narrated By Marguerite Gavin

The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. The road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.

The House of Shattered Wings

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Aliette de Bodard
• Narrated By Peter Kenny

Paris in the aftermath of the Great Magicians War. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black, thick with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France's once grand capital. House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, now lies in disarray.

The Shambling Guide to New York City

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Mur Lafferty
• Narrated By Mur Lafferty
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Could you find a hotel for a harpy? Or a bar for a Bigfoot?Following the disaster that was her last job, Zoë is searching for a fresh start as a travel writer in New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position, though, Zoë is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her résumé - human. Not to be put off by anything - especially not her blood-drinking boss or death goddess co-worker - Zoë delves deep into the monster world.

Chasing Embers: A Ben Garston Novel

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 7 mins)
• By James Bennett
• Narrated By Colin Mace
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

There's nothing special about Ben Garston. He's just a guy with an attitude in a beaten-up leather jacket, drowning his sorrows about his ex in a local bar. Or so he'd have you believe. What Ben Garston can't let you know is that he's also known as Red Ben. He can't let you know that the world of myth and legend isn't as make-believe as you think, and it's his job to keep that a secret. And there's no way he can let you know what's really hiding beneath his skin....

Provenance

• UNABRIDGED
• By Ann Leckie
• Narrated By To Be Announced

A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family and her world before they are lost to her for good.

Flex: Mancer Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Ferrett Steinmetz
• Narrated By Peter Brooke

A desperate father embraces forbidden magic, drawing from his obsession with bureaucracy in order to save the life of his injured daughter. FLEX. Distilled magic in crystal form. The most dangerous drug in the world. Snort it, and you can create incredible coincidences to live the life of your dreams. FLUX: The backlash from snorting Flex. The universe hates magic and tries to rebalance the odds; maybe you survive the horrendous accidents the Flex inflicts, maybe you don't.

The Star-Touched Queen

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Roshani Chokshi
• Narrated By Priya Ayyar
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Though she's content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar.

Dreadnought

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 28 mins)
• By April Daniels
• Narrated By Natasha Soudek
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.

Rivers of London: PC Peter Grant, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Ben Aaronovitch
• Narrated By Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit--we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to--and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May.

The Emperor's Blades: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Brian Staveley
• Narrated By Simon Vance
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley, the emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life-path on which their father set them, destinies entangled with both ancient enemies and inscrutable gods.