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OOP November Special
Food, family, and fiction for a limited time from out-of-print reads. Special series for November. Coming soon.
OOP November, Episode 1: Ten Days to Thanksgiving 
View it here Find November Bomb here
Try your luck at living the shifts of Thanksgiving Shifted Time. Find it here
Can you make it out of the farm found in Right Tree Farm? Find it here
Charmed Birthday Year
Kendra receives multiple correspondence stating, "This is your charmed birthday year until it all runs out." Limited series.
Kendra daydreams while manning her failing mobile juice bar, cafe, and book shop about finally making a profit when she's not thinking about local police officer, Drew. Strange postcards mixed in with her many bills and payment notices annoy her to the point that she considers accepting brick-and-mortar shop, Fuzzy Novel's, deal to buy her truck. A low impact rear-ender at a red light brings Kendra face to face with a very helpful Drew, and the other driver makes arrangements to pay her out of pocket even though her truck has no visible damage. Later, she remembers the message on the postcard: "This is your charmed birthday year until it all runs out."
Immediately after using payment for rear-end damage to spruce up her mobile shop, Drew and another police officer serve Kendra a warrant to search her vehicle. Drew later shows up at her home and tips her off that someone accused her of selling drugs. Horrified, Kendra briefly recalls the strange postcards, but accepts his invite for a coffee date. They chat and enjoy one another's company until a woman confronts them and attempts to throw her coffee all over Kendra. Drew blocks the throw, causing the hot coffee to burn a bystander. Kendra returns home after the fray only to find that her mobile shop has been vandalized.
Kendra clams up when Drew arrives to take a report of the stolen mobile shop, despite his assurances that he doesn't know the coffee-throwing women from the coffee shop. A moment of weakness and tears leads to Drew's attempt to comfort her and an awkward kiss. Despite her vow to have nothing to do with him, Kendra tells him about the message on the postcards and the bad occurrences. Drew promises to find her mobile shop. Later, Kendra searches for one-way plane tickets to South American countries when she receives a phone message from a recent customer with a offer to help her to improve her luck.
Kendra leaves to meet with the mystery caller at the same coffee shop she went to with Drew. Seeing Drew inside the shop while still outside, she enters quietly to avoid him. She doesn't want to explain anything to him and she basically hides in a corner. A reply to her message to the mystery woman comes in stating the woman just arrived. Kendra watches from the corner as Drew meets with the coffee-thrower, and another woman shortly after. The mystery woman? Disgusted, Kendra leaves out of a back exit.
Convinced that Drew conspired with a couple of women to scam her, maybe even to steal her mobile book shop, Kendra prepares to deploy her one-way escape plan. Before she can find a credit card with enough funds to buy the ticket, commotion outside catches her attention. Kendra watches through her window as a tow truck returns her book-shop-mobile. She runs outside. Drew directs the truck and then smiles, but bristles at her demand for answers. He simply explains that he located the mobile book shop and traced it to the coffee-thrower and another woman who turned out to be co-owners of Fuzzy Novel. Realizing her error, Kendra hugs and kisses Drew and accepts that the probably orchestrated postcards were right all along.
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Know Your Role
A game of stealth, requiring close observation and strong conversation. Limited series for teens.
Know Your Role, Episode 1, preview summary
Joey, Ti, Brentin, and Marissa gather in the recreation sun-room to enjoy an orange cranberry cinnamon roll brunch from the local shop, Fluffy Bakery. One of them received instructions to play the role of a character from a well-known novel. Let's see if the others will identify the character and the novel!
Joey: This is really good. This is a cinnamon roll? Okay, my name is Joey. Oh, no names? Um, okay. I'm no good at small talk guys.
Ti: (laughs) You're cute so you don't have to be good at small talk. Hi, everyone. I may or not be playing the role but I am definitely eating a roll. A really tasty roll!
Brentin: Okay, those two are getting ready to be a couple. Yum. This is really good. It's not the typical roll but really good. Is there orange in this?
Marissa: Yes, orange. I know that taste anywhere. We eat these all the time on the farm.
(Long silence around the table)
Ti: Alright. She is playing the role for sure. I'd love to hear more about this farm. Do you all grow cotton, Miss Scarlett O'Hara?
Brentin: Uh, is that a plantation or a farm?
Know Your Role, Episode 2, preview summary
Molly, Justin, and Robyn sit around the sun-room table with their plates of caramel apple cinnamon rolls from a new bakery, Frosting Icing. One of them received instructions to play the role of a character from a well-known novel. Let's see if the others will identify the character and the novel!
Robyn: Mmmm. I love this. I knew I'd love the caramel. Wasn't sure about the apples. But this is so good. I only get one?
Justin: Yeah, and it tastes way better than it looks. Is that mean? Is that bad for me to say?
Molly: It's not bad to say but just don't say it. Just say, "This is absolutely delicious and wonderful. Thank you so very much."
Robyn: So very much.
Justin: So very much.
Molly: We must mind our manners.
Robyn: (giggles) And what are our manners again?
Tom, Neil, Pam, and Mia gobble cinnamon fudge rolls, the newest item from Fluffy Bakery, in the sun-room. One of them received instructions to play the role of a character from a well-known novel. Let's see if the others will identify the character and the novel!
Tom: I have to say this. I have to say this. I like donuts, not cinnamon rolls. But I love this!
Neil: Yeah, we got sold up the river, and this is a great treat.
The whole rooms breaks into laughter.
Mia: Tell us more, Neil. I'm loving this roll and I'm closer to solving this puzzle.
Pam: What river is it?
Tom: Who sold you?
Mia: Do you mean sold sold?
Neil: Who should I answer first?
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Date Auction
Daters are on the auction block and any interested in bidding for the chance for a date must be ready to commit to a reading list. Limited series.
Letitia's dewy face and soft features will surely bring big bids! She recently started an omnibus of Mark Twain writings and her request is for bids to begin there. Bidders commit to her request and add additional readings to up the ante.
Auctioneer: We'll begin with a bid from Perry, the very handsome, eligible lover of science fiction in the back with the Mark Twain omnibus bid. Any higher bids?
Shane: Mark Twain omnibus and A Tale of Two Cities.
Auctioneer: Shane, our dashing literary reader bids an intriguing bid. Any others?
Jones: Mark Twain omnibus and A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Bleak House.
Auctioneer: A bid from Jones, a fetching writer and avid reader of any and all genres. Any others?
Lovely, sweet, outgoing Jana goes easy on our bidders by starting with the three novels in the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros. Bidders commit to her request and add additional readings to up the ante.
Auctioneer: Hello again to Jones, handsome writer and big-time reader of all genres. He starts us off with a bid. Any more for Jana? She has a great sense of humor and loves baking!
Van: Fourth Wing and The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda.
Auctioneer: Wonderful, Van. A lovely bid by a fabulous gentleman. Others?
Barry: Fourth Wing, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.
Auctioneer: Barry, you'll make Jana swoon! The series are piling up. Jones, Van, or anyone else care to bid?
Bruno, tall, dark, hulking, and handsome, knows his high-value-man worth. As such, he starts the bidding with the first ten in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.
Auctioneer: Welcome bidders and Bruno, our protective military contrary and thriller lover. Do we have a bid, starting with the first ten in the Jack Reacher series?
Lily: The whole series. That's 29 books, I think.
Auctioneer: That would be at least of few months of reading together. You'll re-read them with her, won't you Bruno? More bids?
Starr: That's 30 novels. The latest novel comes out in just a few days.
Auctioneer: Very astute, Starr. Stellar, even. Her pledge for 30 novels in the series. Other bids?
Marin: The series, the short stories, and the novellas. I've already read most of them. I'll happily read them again. Can't wait for the new one. It's called Exit Strategy, I think.
Previous bidder Jones gets the auction treatment. This athletic writer with a roguish smile and a love for all genres starts the bidding with the first five in the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.
Auctioneer: Welcome bidders, Jones, and all. Jones generously started with a modest bid of the first five in the Walt Longmire series. Who will start the bidding?
Vida: First eight.
Auctioneer: Thank you, Vida, our beautiful artist and lover of romantasy. First eight. Jones is a man of many talents and highly successful! More bids?
Tori: First 15 is my bid.
Auctioneer: Wonderful, Tori, queen of cozy mysteries. That's more like it. You may think Westerns are not your cup of tea, but this man is worth every book. Ladies, higher bids?
Octavia: The whole series. All 19. Also, the Longmire collection.
Auctioneer: Octavia, excellent. She is stylish, she is superb, and she is a speed-reader! Seriously, she is. She bids the whole series and the collection, Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories. Going once. Going twice...
Previous bidder Lily gets the auction treatment. Both an entrepreneur and educator, Lily starts the bidding with the nine novels of the The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.
Auctioneer: Welcome bidders, Lily, and audience. We'll start with a wonderfully inviting bid of the The Little House on the Prairie series. Who will start the bidding?
Wilmer: Little House and Charlotte's Web.
Auctioneer: Wonderful. Lovable Wilmer, also an educator and dabbler in all genres bids Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. I see Lily glowing. Other bids?
Van: Little House and Anne of Green Gables, the whole series.
Auctioneer: Wow, Van has really gone for it. Two whole series. That's eight books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. More bids? Going once?
Wilmer: Little House, Charlotte's Web, and Anne of Green Gables.
Auctioneer: (cheers) How exciting! Little House, Charlotte's Web, and Anne of Green Gables. Going once to Wilmer. Going twice...
OOP Thriller Special
Get your thrills for a limited time from out-of-print reads. Special series for October.
OOP Thriller, Episode 1: Haunted Home Office
This blast from a point in the past that many would rather forget finds unfortunate workers caught in a workplace horror.
OOP Thriller, Episode 2: Debunked
They're trying to survive a harrowing, bug-out world but they may have trouble right in their midst.
OOP Thriller, Episode 3: Dead Blood
In this world, coming of age means more than heart-break and a first kiss, and if anything goes wrong, it could be deadly lively.
OOP Thriller, Episode 4: Leave Her to Die
When you find a saga within a saga, and it's a cold, lonely night, make sure that you tread lightly. She might be at your door.
OOP Thriller, Episode 5: Cottage Terrace Inn, finale
Don't just read/hear Leave Her to Die, live it. Try your luck at surviving the storied Cottage Terrace Inn.
Big Game
Bay must stop the high school football team's suddenly dangerous behavior, including her younger brother and her crush. Limited series for teens.
OOP Retrospective
An in-depth exploration of story, characters, and themes of an OOP favorite. Limited series.
Fic Fash
Fiction and fashion combine when readers of all ages come together to pull style off of the page. Limited series.
Fic Fash, Episode 1: Starting Pretty Fall
Fic Fash, Episode 2: The Style Friend
Fic Fash, Episode 3: Coffin Nails
Fic Fash, Episode 4: Faultless and Flawless
Fic Fash, Episode 5: Perfect 10, finale
More Rolling Reads
Crashed Glass
If time runs out on Byron and Nia and their dreams, it's over for everyone. Everyone. Limited series.
Character Cap!
Teens identify real people they connect with characters from their school required reading lists. Limited series.
Character Cap, Episode 1: Withering Plights
Character Cap, Episode 2: Grate Expectations
Character Cap, Episode 3: The Out-sighters
Character Cap, Episode 4: Horde of the Flies
Character Cap, Episode 5: Celsius 451, finale
Unearthed
Friends preparing to depart on their individual college or career paths stumble onto buried stash containing a quandary that threatens their future. Limited series for teens.
Fiction-Reader's Roundtable
Readers discuss the book blurbs of newly published fiction to decide what they should read next. Limited series.
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Interior MO
MO has an eye for decorating homes and a head for solving crimes. She'll have to use all of her tools and talents when her latest client and case go sideways. Limited series.
Dear Author
If you like advice columns, you'll enjoy this text-based series featuring the questions of advice seekers and answers from advisor-expert, Author.
Dear Author, Episode 1, preview summary
Dear Author, Episode 2, preview summary
Dear Author, Episode 3, preview summary
Dear Author, Episode 4, preview summary
Dear Author, Episode 5, preview summary, finale
Stay the Course
Carmen receives the invite of her life, to join an adventure in her own backyard. This text-based limited series reveals the ever-present excitement in every day life.
OOP vs The News
This text-based limited series, highlights overlap between recent news and stories from the out-of-print vault of FDP Reads (now defunct).
Reading Roundtable
In this text-based limited series, actors discuss stories that have made their way into books and onto film.
Host -- Rea D., master reader
A dinosaur, a monstrosity, and a robot show up for the party
Arm yourself with your choice of visor, bow and arrows, or video camera and press play!
Is it a work of magic, nothing more than manipulation, or more like psychopathy?
We love their work but do they also inspire fear?
It happened through a board, through a book, or through a person
Out-of-Print and Pastry
A story and sugary snack interlude, with stories from the OOP vault of FDP Reads (now defunct). Two friends will play a game, one has read the story while the other has not. The one unfamiliar with the story will ask ten questions to try to determine the story concept. After each correct guess, each will get a bite of dessert. Ten correct guesses will win both parties a prize!
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Tough As Nails
This text-based limited series police drama finds two complex women on the force racing against the clock to thwart the twisted games and nail designs of a mysterious criminal.
Belle of the Halls
Text-based limited series chronicles one teen's quest to match up classmates looking for connections.
Blind Date Tales
This text-based series features unsuspecting daters meeting their blind dates, characters from well-known stories. Will each man and woman successfully identify the character name and story title?
Defining With the Stars
The text-based podcast that defines terrific vocabulary words with not-quite-celebrities.
Host -- Merriam W., word-phile and not-quite-celebrity-interviewer
Episode 1: The C Word
Episode 2: The Big Con
Episode 3: At the End of the Day
Episode 4: Oh, Oh, Oh
Episode 5: Dog Eat Doggy, finale
Get Set 1 of Defining With the Stars
Reads Excerpts
Cash Out, preview
"You've got it, Lela. Roll 'em."
June said those words, and blew on the dice in Lela's hands. For Lela, time seemed to stop.
They'd both had their contracts come up but neither of them had earned the necessary numbers to win their freedom. They'd been dragged to wherever they'd been dragged. They thought they were going to meet their end. Well, Lela thought that. June seemed incapable of understanding what was at stake.
Even that, at the very moment, June seemed not to realize what was happening.
Big Dough, the one calling the shots, upon seeing them seemed to grow a heart. No, not really. He just like to play with people. He liked to pretend to give a chance when he knew they had no chance. Instead of handling it quickly, he gave them a chance to play for their lives.
But Lela had to roll for the both of them. Only one of them would go free. "Free." Whatever that would actually mean.
June said, "I don't know if blowing like that helps but I've seen people do that before in the movies."
Despite the noise, the jitters, the threat of death that caused her to want to pee, time seemed to stop.
Lela could barely see past June, the dealer, and the crowed around the table.
They had no way out.
Swallowing a glob of nervous spit and blinking her eyes, Lela made a decision.
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Dinner Or Death, preview
Kwan artfully slid the bills to the other man. Smiling and nodding, he started to speak but was cut off.
"Just remember, if anything happens, I don't know you, never seen you."
Sighing, Kwan felt a brief moment on uncertainty. He couldn't do that. He almost put a grin on his face but went serious instead.
"I've got this, cousin. Always had it."
Kwan's cousin thumbed the money. When he was satisfied, he headed for the kitchen door. "Good luck."
Scoping the dining area, Kwan wondered at how he'd so soon gone from "No doubt" to "I hope so." But he kept moving. He saw the table and he saw his target. Then he moved, trying to be swift but without a care, not wanting to attract any attention.
"Helio," he said, dropping a hand on the man's shoulder.
Helio's shoulder felt stiff as stone. His head turned with the precision of a machine, at a painstakingly slow speed, and his eyes fell on Kwan with the fear of God.
"Helio," Kwan repeat, slightly shaken, "Kwan, P-Pause, haven't seen you in a while, man. I thought I'd come over..."
Helio's tension released instantly and he glanced toward every entrance.
"Right, P-Pause," said Helio. "Well, look, I'm expecting someone."
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Let's Play, preview
Arily felt sweat run down into her eyes. She flicked it away. The sauna had just become less confortable and the other two ladies had already exited, leaving her there alone.
She breathed deeply, wondering what her test results might reveal. Something unexplainable had taken over her body. She needed answers.
The sauna door opened. Arily paid no mind until she caught a male figure in her peripheral vision and saw the towel drop. Arily sighed.
"Feels great in here."
Arily recognized the voice of Doctor Robinson, Le Med's medical director. She kept her eyes on her feet. The doctor was handsome and helpful--he'd agreed to run tests for her privately. But if this was the payment he expected... She was in no mood.
"Yes. I think I'll leave soon before I over-heat."
"Before you do that, I got the results of the test. Everything looks fine. Care to tell me what you expected to find?"
Arily did not care to tell him.
"Maybe once I've showered and dressed. Thank you again."
Arily allowed herself to look over the naked doctor's body where he laid out on the platform. She shrugged, impressed. Then she stood.
"That's an excellent idea. Dinner this evening?"
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Delwyn In Wonderground, preview
In a dark place, somewhere few people could ever identify, or find, or escape, a man's motionless body lays out like the dead. Until his arm strikes out without warning to reach for something that he does not find. Then he freezes. Then he jumps up and flies into a rage.
"Let me out!" he shouts.
"Mr. Delwyn," responds a voice immediately, "let's calm down, shall we? Anger won't get you out of here. Why don't we just discuss what will?"
Delwyn looks feverishly around himself. Where is the exit? Where is person attached to the voice? Where is the--
"Mr. Delwyn please. Can we just get down to business? You've been resourceful and creative and you've escaped all of this for many years but you are here now. You won't be released until we get what we need."
Delwyn takes a deep breath. He sits back down on the cot he sprang up from. He sees his prison, a low-lit, sparse room with a large, dark window in one wall and little else.
He says, "And what do you need?"
"The pole shift is here," says the voice. "Certain geographic locations require protection."
Delwyn's head falls to his chest. He closes his eyes. He feels the rage welling up before he slows his breathing. Delwyn lifts his head.
"Okay."
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Plain Twain, preview
Because May dropped the phone, she did not hear the ranting woman on the phone and her frantic words.
"May," the voice distantly squeaked, "I want you to come in for an evaluation. You don't sound well. Your thoughts are scattered, you are drawing wild connections, and frankly I don't know what to say. You think that you may have been cloned without your knowledge and that this identical twin of yours has been out to get you? I don't want to scare you but this kind of talk can be very dangerous if clients get wind of any of this."
"Why don't I get that for you."
The woman who only recently entered the room, reached down and picked up the phone. Without a word, she disconnected the call with a smile.
She said, "Hello, May."
Shocked into silence, May stared at the very one the caller had referred to, the clone, the identical twin, the one out to get May. The same one she'd felt stalking her.
"Who are you?" May asked.
The other woman frowned. "You mean to tell me that you don't know?"
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