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The Bookshop at the End of the Internet

The Bookshop at the End of the Internet is a podcast dedicated to helping book lovers discover new authors. Like any good bookshop, this podcast features a wide variety of books by the equally varied and interesting authors who felt compelled to write them. Stacey Horan, author and book lover, is the host of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet. Her interviews give you a chance to meet wonderful writers and discover your next must-read book. Listen to the authors describe their books and tell you

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Bookshop Interview with Author Talia Carner, Episode...

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2025/03/05

Author Talia Carner discusses her new historical novel, The Boy with the Star Tattoo. This story combines two real-life events that took place in France: (1) the 1946 Youth Aliya search for Jewish orphans who were hidden in the European countryside during WWII, and (2) the Israeli naval action off the coast of Cherbourg, in Normandy, during the French arms embargo in 1969. In this novel, the assistant to an Israeli naval officer stationed in Cherbourg uncovers the truth about her boss’s mysterious

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Bookshop Interview with Author R.B. Kelly, Episode #232

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2025/02/19

Author R.B. Kelly discusses her debut sci fi novel, Edge of Heaven, and its sequel, On the Brink. Rachael began the first draft of the story when she was only fifteen years old. Always a fan of Terry Pratchett, Rachael loves his notion of inspiration particles sleeting through the universe. What was her own inspiration particle for these books? An imaginary vision of a city built on top of another city. A long-time fan of speculative fiction and being deeply impressed by the movie, Blade Runner,

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Bookshop Interview with Author Francine Falk-Allen,...

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2025/02/12

Author Francine Falk-Allen discusses her new book, A Wolff in the Family. This novel has its origins in a Francine’s own family history. About twenty years ago, she learned a family secret that very few of her living relatives knew. She discovered that the five youngest of her mother’s eleven siblings were sent to an orphanage by her grandfather. It was Francine’s mother, the eldest of the siblings, who kept the siblings in touch with each other through the years. In A Wolff in the Family,

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Bookshop Interview with Author Rebecca Hendricks,...

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2025/02/05

Author Rebecca Hendricks discusses her latest books, Hound Dogged and Hard Dogs Night. These first two books in Rebecca’s new series follow a group of friends in a small town as they attempt to establish themselves as a rock-n-roll band called the Hound Dogs. The year is 1958, and rock-n-roll is just getting started. Rebecca’s stories feature a harmonious mix of friendship, coming-of-age challenges, the notion of found families, the rolls of women in that era, and, of course, the birth of

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Bookshop Interview with Author Lisa Diane Kastner,...

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2025/01/29

Author Lisa Diane Kastner discusses the first two books in her new paranormal fantasy series, Cure and Family Pack. In these books, we meet Luna, a young woman who has just lost her beloved brother. She traces his movements to Sweden where she discovers that her family descends from an iconic female Viking warrior known as the Birke. Luna also discovers that her brother was a shapeshifter, a lycanthrope, and that she has begun to show the same signs of transformation. Both books follow dual

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Bookshop Interview with Author Linda Ambrus...

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2025/01/15

Author Linda Ambrus Broenniman discusses her new book, The Politzer Saga. Linda wanted to learn about her family history but never intended to write a book about it—until she learned the truth. At the age of twenty-seven, Linda found out that her father was Jewish, after being told her whole life that he was Catholic, like herself and the rest of her family. When Linda began her research, she uncovered the world of the Politzers—a cast of characters so amazing they seemed almost fictional. Linda

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Bookshop Interview with Author Matt Scott, Episode #227

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2025/01/08

Author Matt Scott discusses his political thriller series, Surviving the Lion’s Den. All three books in this trilogy—Surviving the Lion’s Den, The Iranian Deception, and The Ayatollah Takedown—are available now. The series opens with a race against time. Can the main characters make it safely out of Iran in the midst of a political coup to overthrow Iran’s Supreme Leader—a coup orchestrated by the U.S. government? Inspired by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Matt set about to write a series that

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Bookshop Interview with Author Margaret Dulaney,...

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2024/12/18

Author Margaret Dulaney discusses her new middle grade book, Whippoorwill Willingly. The story follows eleven-year-old Whippoorwill Willingly as she embarks on a magical journey to an enchanted lake in the Swiss Alps. She meets a variety of friends—humans, animals, and birds—and experiences a mystical world filled with wonder and healing. As a result of her journey, the once-cynical Whippoorwill learns patience, empathy, and a greater appreciation of the natural world. Margaret Dulaney has been

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Bookshop Interview with Author Kurt Deion, Episode #225

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2024/12/11

Author Kurt Deion discusses his book, Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid’s Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President. Kurt was just nine years old when he told his parents he wanted to visit the grave sites of all the U.S. presidents. They were happy to support him, and the family traveled around the country visiting presidential libraries, cemeteries, and other interesting locales. Kurt’s quest expanded to include the vice presidents and first ladies as well. His book

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Bookshop Interview with Author David Weill, Episode #224

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2024/11/20

Author David Weill discusses his new book, All That Really Matters. In this novel, the main character, Dr. Joe Bosco, is a rising star in the heart transplant field, and he’s feeling all the pressures that come with the job. His professional and personal issues lead him into trouble, and he struggles to find redemption. David knows all about being a transplant surgeon, and he wrote this story to give readers an idea of the kind of people who work in the field and what it feels like to that job

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Bookshop Interview with Author Doug Kari, Episode #223

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2024/11/06

Author Doug Kari discusses his debut true crime novel, The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime. In this book, Doug chronicles the 1986 disappearance of Barry Berman, heir to the Kahlua fortune, and his wife, Louise, from Saline Valley, CA, located in the Mojave Desert. Their bodies were eventually discovered by the local sheriff’s office, but the double homicide was never solved, and no one was ever arrested, let alone convicted, for their murders. After

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Bookshop Interview with Author Jane Buckingham,...

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2024/10/30

Author Jane Buckingham discusses her new young adult psychological thriller, A Lie for a Lie. In this novel, Sabrina Richard’s carefully orchestrated future is on the line when she finds herself ensnared in a series of high school revenge pranks that get out of hand. By messaging a revenge account, she and her fellow classmates can exact revenge on their enemies, but at what cost? Sabrina discovers she’s being set up to take the fall for a prank gone wrong and must uncover the mastermind behind

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Bookshop Interview with Author Evette Davis, Episode...

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2024/10/16

Author Evette Davis discusses her new novel, The Others. It is the first installment in her urban paranormal fantasy series, The Council Trilogy. The main character, Olivia Shepherd, is a political consultant in San Francisco who stumbles upon a secret society of witches and vampires that is actively meddling in elections around the world. While uncovering this supernatural cabal, Olivia also learns some secrets about her own heritage. Evette describes The Others as a metaphor for the ways in which

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Bookshop Interview with Author Becky Dean, Episode #220

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2024/10/02

Author Becky Dean discusses her new young adult contemporary romantic comedy, Hearts Overboard. Set on a cruise ship bound for Alaska, this novel follows Savannah Moore, who is still reeling from a public breakup with her boyfriend and being nicknamed “Moore the Bore.” In an effort to heal her heart and her reputation, Savannah vows to do one new thing each day. Stepping out of her comfort zone is far from easy, and it’s made all the more challenging because her long-time nemesis, Tanner Woods, is

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Bookshop Interview with Author Steven Joseph, Episode...

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2024/09/18

Author Steven Joseph discusses his new Snoodles series for young readers. Book One (Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, The Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle) and Book Two (Snoodles in Space: The Zoodles Strike Back) are available now. Though the Snoodles series is for young readers, Steven has also written books for adults that focus on what he describes as the power of crankiness. In his CrankaTsuris books for adults, Steven encourages readers to embrace their crankiness through stories

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Bookshop Interview with Author Marcia Menter, Episode...

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2024/09/04

Author Marcia Menter discusses her new book, That Voice: In Search of Ann Drummond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life. Part biography and part memoir, the book details the life of Scottish contralto, Ann Drummond-Grant (known as Drummie) who died during the prime of her career in 1959. Drummie sang lead roles for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, a famous Gilbert and Sullivan troupe that toured Great Britain for over a hundred years. Years after Drummie’s death, Marcia was a young teen in upstate

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Bookshop Interview with Author Ben Gonshor, Episode #217

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2024/08/21

Author Ben Gonshor discusses his new novel, The Book of Izzy, in which a man named Izzy finds himself at a dead end in his career, his romance, and his life in general. But Izzy has the opportunity to play the main character in The Dybbuk, a play that is considered Yiddish theater’s Romeo and Juliet, and the novel follows Izzy’s journey from going off his meds, to experiencing the world of amateur dramatics, to ultimately discovering the impact that Yiddish theater has on his identity and his

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Bookshop Interview with Author Raymond Paul Johnson,...

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2024/08/07

Author Raymond Paul Johnson discusses his debut novel, Conspiracy Ignited. Ray’s main character is a former CIA combat pilot-turned-California litigator named Eric Ridge. As the book opens, an attempt is made on Ridge’s life, which sets off a twisty, suspense-filled game of cat and mouse that ultimately leads to his discovery of a powerful cabal vying for control of the US legal system. This fast-paced thriller also touches on the civil trial lawyers, CIA operatives, the world of aviation, and the

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Bookshop Interview with Author Brian J. Morra,...

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2024/07/31

Author Brian J. Morra discusses the first two books in his new series: The Able Archers and The Righteous Arrows. The series is a work of historical fiction based on certain real-life events during the late Cold War period of the 1980’s. The protagonist, CIA officer Kevin Cattani, is inspired by Brian’s own experiences as a U.S. intelligence officer during that period, and Cattani’s Soviet counterpart, Ivan Levchenko, is a composite of various KGB and GRU officers who Brian knew in the 80’s

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Bookshop Interview with Author Don Silver, Episode #214

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2024/07/17

Author Don Silver discusses his latest coming-of-age thriller, Scorched. In the novel, Jonas Shore had a difficult home life as a teenager in the 1970s. After his father’s unexpected death when he was just fifteen, Jonas began selling drugs in order to help support himself and his mother. After he was arrested, he was sent to a boarding school for fatherless boys where he was involved in a violent altercation that had deadly consequences. Twenty years later, Jonas’s childhood actions come back to

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