John Scott

The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 8 mins)
• By John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, Scott Sigler
• Narrated By Mur Lafferty, Rajan Khanna, Kate Baker, and others
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Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, Scott Sigler
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Mur Lafferty, Kate Baker, and others

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. "The Apocalypse Triptych" will tell their stories.

A Guy Like Me

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Scott, Brian Cazeneuve
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne
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The John Scott story is the ultimate underdog narrative in sports during 2016 when Scott - in the twilight of his career - went from a joke All-Star fan-voted nominee to scoring two goals and winning the All-Star Game's MVP title. This is his heartwarming story about an average Joe who became a sports superhero overnight. Known as a willing-and-able fighter and bruiser in the league, John Scott was a surprising and tongue-and-cheek nominee for the 2016 NHL All-Star Game.

Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Douglas Cohen (editor), John Joseph Adams (editor), Orson Scott Card, and others
• Narrated By Nick Podehl, Tanya Eby
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When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, best-selling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Jane Yolen to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans.

Counter-Measures Series 2

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Matt Fitton, James Goss, Cavan Scott, and others
• Narrated By Pamela Salem, Simon Williams, Karen Gledhill, and others

The British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. This box set contains four of their adventures plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Aleppo; Theranos; Amy Adams

• ORIGINAL (52 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, Richard Fontaine, Amy Adams, and others

Tonight on the program, guest host Jeff Glor leads a discussion of the ongoing battle for Aleppo, Syria, with Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for New American Security, and James Jevvrey of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

We continue with an examination of Theranos, the biotech startup currently under federal criminal investigation. Glor is joined by John Carreyrou and Michael Siconolfi of The Wall Street Journal.

We conclude with guest host A. O. Scott and actor Amy Adams, discussing Adams' new movies "Arrival" and "Nocturnal Animals."

More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Karen Joy Fowler, and others
• Narrated By Roddy McDowall, Terry Farrell, Wil Wheaton, and others

Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

Episode 74: High-Fashion Hijabs, Jill Soloway, and Bluesman Blind Joe Death

• ORIGINAL (55 mins)
• By David Remnick, Jill Soloway, Nailah Lymus, and others

Modelling can be a tricky business for Muslim women who cover up. Judith Thurman visits Nailah Lymus, the head of a new modelling agency that represents the modestly dressed, and admires the bright, bold hijabs Lymus designs. Jill Soloway, the creator of Transparent, joins David Remnick in a discussion about her new show, I Love Dick. And two fans of the guitarist John Fahey mourn his difficult life and celebrate his transformational music.

Sci-Fi Junior High

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 42 mins)
• By James Patterson, Scott Seegert, John Martin
• Narrated By Nate Begle

Kelvin Klosmo isn't just the new kid at school - he's the new kid in the galaxy! Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an intergalactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells, and...slime content. As the son of Earth's two most famous geniuses, Kelvin isn't just the smartest kid in the world...he's the smartest kid in the universe. At least that's what everybody at Sci-Fi Junior High thinks. So maybe Kelvin lied a little about being a genius to fit in. And maybe a mad scientist is about to take over the universe unless Kelvin can stop him. Maybe everyone is doomed.

Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Charles Dickens, and others
• Narrated By Rupert Degas, Martin Jarvis, Jonathan Firth, and others

This carefully compiled collection is the perfect gift for Father’s Day or a special birthday and a rich listening experience for both women and men all year round. This truly eclectic collection of unabridged short stories from the audiobook specialist CSA Word encompasses stories by and about intriguing, inspirational, charismatic and even unusual and extraordinary men.

Destination: Reinvention: Starting Over During the Worst Job Market in a Lifetime

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Scott
• Narrated By John Scott
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Destination: Reinvention is the story of starting from scratch and searching for a new career path, one that looks nothing like the one left behind. The book takes you on a journey of 366 days, wondering and wandering from the Northern California coast to the corn fields of Iowa. You'll visit, among other places, a beer warehouse, San Francisco hilltops and ocean vistas. Add a heart-wrenching relationship and it adds up to a story about the brutal but ultimately satisfying attempt to make it back - to good.

Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Scott Meyer, Sarah Carnes, John Nelson, and others
• Narrated By Scott D. Meyer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

You can live the life you want anywhere in the world. You can be a digital homesteader. Thanks to digital technology such as social media, you can connect with the people who will help you, buy your products and services and provide inspiration as you pursue your frontier.

Las Vegas Noir

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Jose Skinner, John O'Brien, David Corbett, and others
• Narrated By Arielle Lipshaw, Mike Vendetti, Charles Bice, and others

In 2004, Akashic Books launched a groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, starting with the award-winning best-seller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In this chilling portrait of America's Sin City, lady luck is just as likely to dispense cold hard cash as a cold-hearted killing. Brand-new stories by: John O'Brien, David Corbett, Scott Phillips, Nora Pierce, Tod Goldberg, and many others.

The Architect

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Scott
• Narrated By Richard Aspel

Two architects: Andrew Martin, a fêted young Australian whose success has come early, and Johannes Von Ruhland, an aging genius who draws with the hand of God but whose work has never been realised. When Martin finally meets the mythic Von Ruhland on a trip to Berlin, it is a dream fulfilled, but once that dream is brought back to Australia it jeopardises his marriage and divides his friends.

Before I Wake

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By John Scott
• Narrated By Richard Aspel

Jonathan Ford, childless at 43, moves restlessly through other people's lives. From Australia to Europe he pursues a series of ill-fated relationships with the vulnerable and the insecure. In turn he is pursued by his past, whose echoes he finds all around him: in Danielle, a young French poet condemned to perpetual childhood; in the ageing Violet, wickedly irreverent even as she struggles through her days alone in a council flat; in the flawed genius of the painter Malcolm Richardson; in many lives, ordinary and extraordinary, that he changes in the profoundest ways.

Warra Warra

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 36 mins)
• By John Scott
• Narrated By Michael Veitch
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Warra Warra is a dot on the map, at least until a jumbo jet explodes above the town, killing all aboard the plane and many of the locals. For those who survive, though, this is only the beginning of their nightmare. After the emergency workers, the politicians and the journalists have gone - just when the townsfolk believe that they can rebuild their lives - strange things start to happen. Strange and menacing. The dead are rising. And they want Warra Warra for themselves.

Narrative Verse, Volume 4

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By John Keats, Walter Scott, Michael Brayton, and others
• Narrated By Sean Barrett, David Shaw-Parker

Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but narrative verse or poetry takes the form of telling a story, whether it be simple or complex in a longer form. Among the most ancient forms of poetry, it has widespread roots through almost every culture. In Volume 4 we bring you the classics 'The Eve of St Agnes' by John Keats; 'Flodden' by Sir Walter Scott; 'The Ballad of Agincourt' by Michael Drayton; 'Tam O'Shanter' by Robert Burns; and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning.

A Warm Family Christmas

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Locke, Charles Dickens, and others
• Narrated By Erin Maya Darke, James Mio, Blair Mellow, and others

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family. Includes F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Luckless Santa Claus", "A Christmas Dinner" by Charles Dickens, O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi", the hilarious "Reginald on Christmas Presents" by Saki (H.H. Munro), and a tender scene exerpted from Little Women.