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Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation.

Over the course of a year, Michael Austin - an English professor and literary critic who was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - read the Book of Mormon for the first time in more than 30 years and wrote weekly blog posts detailing his insights and challenges with the text. The 44 essays in Buried Treasures, adapted from those original posts, show a trained scholar and literary critic grappling with the foundational text of his own religious tradition and finding surprising things that he had never seen before.

The internet is a treasure trove of original fiction! Here we dig through and try and find the next big thing.

My Buried Treasure is a true-life treasure hunt story, where the narrator embarks on a quest for hidden riches. Told with humor and suspense, this adventure explores the thrill of the chase, the unexpected dangers, and the excitement of uncovering secrets lost to time.

In 2008, a monumentally misguided child wrote a 252-page fantasy novel by flagrantly ripping off the likes of [redacted until pending lawsuits are settled]. Now, over a decade later, that same boy revisits the dusty book to reckon with his cringeworthy past. Each episode features Newton Holt and his co-hosts reading an otherwise unreadable chapter of ”Rupture,” an odyssey through the mind of an eleven-year-old idiot.

In this thrilling chapter of the Motor Boys series, our heroes head to Mexico and uncover the secrets of a buried city. Racing against rivals, they uncover mysteries, brave dangers, and experience new cultures.

Like crime stories, books and people talking about those things? This could be the podcast for you. In each episode, hosts Sarah and Frankie share two books under a different theme from the world of crime literature. Want to talk books? Email us at readandburiedpodcast@gmail.com.Artwork by Andrew Thompson www.athomson.co.ukTheme music by Saul Focus http://soundcloud.com/user-573898275 A proud part of the We Made This podcast network: www.wemadethisnetwork.com