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Something more than corn mash is brewing in Contrary, West Virginia, and it's up to government auditor Owen Allison to uncover the secrets hidden deep in this Appalachian town.

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes during an audiobook recording session? Here is your opportunity to find out! Sometimes the words don't flow quite as easily as you would think, and when the performers run into a tongue twister, the results can be hilarious and bring out the true personalities of our readers.

This is audiobook #2 in the Medicine Wagon series. Henry Wallace, now a fugitive and narrowly escaping death in Denver, is on his way to Cheyenne with Samantha in her medicine wagon. The pair discovers a farm house with a man dying under suspicious circumstances, and the wife refuses Henry's help as a doctor.

Eleven-year-old Sam Parker is a hockey player who has always had fun playing the game. But that was before a bully at school starts hounding him. To make matters worse, even the refs seem to have it in for him, making a series of bad calls that costs his team a game.

A little curiosity can be a dangerous thing. Rustle should have been content in his little pond, hidden away from the world where hopefully nothing exciting would ever happen. But the sea was so near, with all of its mysteries and secrets. He couldn't help but sneak away from time to time and gaze upon the surface, wondering what lay beneath. Little did he know that on this fateful day, there was something equally curious staring back.

It seems that the FDR writer is back wanting more Fe-As-Ko stories from cowpoke Royal Leckner. This time it's 1897, Royal and E.M. have been married about four years. And so have Leviticus and Lou(ella) Perrault, owners of the Four Arrows ranch. Royal is still foreman of the ranch and caretaker of its owner. As he reminds us, Leviticus and Lou(ella) Perrault are "short a hat size," but "nice and honest, which is better than smart and fox-like any day." It's time to take the cattle to Portland for the annual sale, and Royal is bringing Leviticus along to teach him how "to sign on the dotted line."

A trail of bodies reveals the M.O. of a serial killer. It can only be the work of a copycat. After all, the real killer died years ago. If that’s true, then why are his prints left at the crime scenes?

When the owner of Oregon's largest cattle ranch - the Four Arrows - is shot by his horse in a freak accident, Royal Leckner suddenly finds himself charged with teaching the owner's retarded son to take over management of the ranch. The son, Leviticus Perrault, comes as part of an unmatched set, which includes Toofer, a man split between bickering Confederate and Union personalities; Tommy Two Hearts, half-white, half-Indian, and half-paralyzed; and Lou(ella), an idiot savant.

Among the dusty, deserted mining towns of the Old West is Thirsty, Idaho. Stories from the town's turbulent and comic history are exuberantly told by a young boy just as his grandfather related them; stories of a time when the only law in town was hard horse sense and a fast gun. Thirsty was a place where you didn't step on the wrong man's property - or his toes - without paying the price in a shootout. It was a time and place where everyone had an eye out for gold.

In The Royalscope Fe-As-Ko, Northwest cattle rancher Royal Leckner finds himself in the middle of another fe-as-ko, this time in 1915 Hollywood. Dreams of stardom for her daughter, Elsie, and for herself entice Royal's wife, E.M., to buy a silent film company. She quickly renames it Royalscope Productions in order to convince her fuming husband it's a gift.

It began when satellite photos revealed certain anomalies along the border of Saudi Arabia and Jordan: entire areas with no signs of life. That, combined with reports from Iraq that nomadic tribes are being decimated by mysterious illnesses. Could it mean a global nightmare is becoming a reality? Someone is perfecting an ultimate and deadly form of germ warfare, but who?

Vowing to train a young man the art of being a skilled traveler, fighter, and adventurer, Santorray finds himself unsure if he is creating a future noble leader or a menacing ruler. Their mission to investigate and uncover the weakness within the Terra King's realm begins to unravel when Santorray's student is captivated by the King's words while the King's Assassin hunts down Santorray.

Here is the famous Beowulf story, retold for the young-adult listener. Like the original Anglo-Saxon manuscript, it is divided into three parts. The first section narrates Beowulf's battle against Grendel. The second section tells of the furious revenge of Grendel's mother. The third section shows the great hero in his declining years as he battles an aging dragon, who now flies slowly and awkwardly, but can still shoot down enough fire to imperil the Geats kingdom.

The world thinks Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993. The world is wrong. Escobar went deep into hiding, taking with him the access code to a Swiss bank account containing hundreds of millions of dollars. His enemies want that code, and they'll do anything to get it.

Vanquished from his home lands, Santorray has become an enemy to the Kingdom, as well as those who strive to overthrow the current leaders. Santorray retreats to the dark Mythical Forests with hopes of finding some salvation. Unfortunately, the local magical residents of the dark forest see him as a threat to their lands. He finds himself trapped between the locals who wish to feast upon him and the Southwind army who wish to enslave him.

Tilli dreams of becoming the first female Num to become a powerful E’rudite… but at what cost? Overcoming incredible challenges, Tilli must prove her worth to her E’rudite Master before he is willing to teach her the mystical ways of the E’rudites. However, her father’s actions cause a major issue that forces her to choose between her family and her dreams.

Troubled by dreams of hell and Rapture, Michael Rivers fights to overcome his visions by keeping a diary and staying awake. But his nightmares can only be dispelled by facing the preacher who so terrorized his childhood. The psychologist treating Michael, Veronica McCord, has her own problems.

John Mort’s compelling first novel embodies both the Vietnam combat experience and the sad aftermath for those who underwent it. Alternating between “stateside” chapters after the war and the Vietnam chapters dramatizing it, the novel creates a tension back and forth in time as well as geography. We participate in the trauma of combat in crisp and authentic detail, and we witness the effect of that experience on “Irish” Donnelly, a bookish, reluctant soldier, and his fellow infantrymen in the jungles and mountains of Vietnam.

Ascension is a political coming-of-age story that captures the energy and fun of a down-to-the-wire election.

In 1995 Ben Jones is a fifth-year senior at East Central Louisiana University in Ascension, Louisiana. While trying to graduate from college, he naively runs for the legislature to fill a government-studies requirement. But Ben still doesn't know what he wants to do with his life.

The Ghost Squad is a combat-hardened special force trained to operate behind enemy lines. Its mission this time is to find a renegade American with an Australian accent, code-named Stingaree, who is sending information via short-wave to the Japanese regarding American troop movements. The idea is to capture the man and remove him from New Guinea and replace him with a look-alike imposter who will transmit erroneous info to the Japanese. This is vital, so that U.S. forces can land troops in Dutch New Guinea with a minimum of casualties.