Five quiet years have passed in Starland, California since the the time of the Pocket. But when a crazed old man shows up with a warning, Max, Casey, Ian and Sasha suddenly find themselves on the run. Max and Ian go through an Arch back to 1912, where a mysterious Machine is under construction that seems connected to Max’s unremembered secret. Meanwhile, Casey and Sasha follow the old man to the strange town of Arturo Gyp. But there is more afoot than meets the eye: the enemies of Mr. E — th ...
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In this Scribl Podiobook: WHEN TIME mysteriously stops, young Max Quick must travel across America to find the source of this 'temporal disaster'... Along the way, he and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, quantum Books, and clues to the riddle of stopped Time. But the more Max learns, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed... "driven -- and driven well -- by good old-fashioned sci-fi storytelling." - Kirkus Reviews ForeWord Magazine 'Book of the Y ...
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On the island of Maui, a sixteen-year-old international spy named Rio Kayenta discovers a two-thousand-year-old coral stone. Legend has it that the stone is meant for a girl named Amber and that with it, she can stop the evil S.H.R.O.U.D. organization. Amber Page lives in the Arizona desert and wants one thing more than anything else in the world: to see her mom and dad back together again. Amber's mom is a school bus driver who has split with her dad, but Amber believes the two still love o ...
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Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies … This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero. Facing an enemy armed with the Golden Aleph -- a mystical device that allows its wielder to see holographically into every point in time and space, Ptolemy must use every trick of his Oxford-educated mind and circus-trained body to succeed. But how do you f ...
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Epilogue. Octavio Veerspike has an audience on Isla Saqqara with the Crimson Man and at last makes a choice that will define him until the end of his days ...
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Chapter Eleven: John Horn and the Turtle. Not all Elites are bad: enter John Horn, American patriot, billionairre and recent defector from the Commission. Ptolemy and Ashley are told of the Golden Aleph -- and given some help getting to Isla Saqqara ...
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Chapter Ten: Diner of Death. A massive quake his Nassau at night ... just as the Wu sons show up. Ptolemy and Ashley are chased across the island, while Commission operatives are strangely able to quickly locate the duo at will ... but nothing is as strange as the re-appearance of Cat-Eye and what he has in store for them ...…
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Chapter Nine: Fighting Back. Ashley Veerspike describes how she eventually twisted the tables back around on the Commission -- and the price she paid.
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Chapter Eight: Black Butterfly. Over dinner, Ashley Veerspike tells her tale to Armand Ptolemy of 'growing up Veerspike'. Being a young Elite may sound great on the surface, but in truth it's a dark world of mind control, alternate personalities, and terrible trauma ...
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Chapter Seven: Wu and Veerspike When Armand Ptolemy returns to the hotel with the location of Isla Saqqara, he reveals to Ashley Veerspike that his jaunt over to Wu's compound with Cat-Eye may not have been at all what it seemed at the time ... and that Ashley herself had more to do with it that she thinks!…
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Chapter Six: Wu and Cat-Eye. Armand Ptolemy and Ashley Veerspike arrive in Nassau, where the game of games is afoot. The Elite are already assasinating one another, jockeying for position. Ptolemy needs to wring the location of Isla Saqqara out of one of them ... but which one and how?
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Chapter 5: Glyph. Nestled in an apartment in Santa Monica sits Glyph, a Commission-trained (and rejected) synaesthete with a remarkable abilty to meld with the Internet via psychic ability. What she sees and hears via cameras and microphones tells a tale all by itself ...
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Chapter Four: Pindoh. International banker Octavio Veerspike and Mr. Fum know who Ptolemy really is, and he is invited to play the occult card game of Pindoh with some up-and-comers on the world stage. But the stakes are far higher than the pot of money on the table ...
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Chapter 3: Candlelighters. In Cairo, Egypt, Ptolemy infiltrates the secret Candlelight Group conference. Here, Presidents and world leaders were vetted by the captains of industry. And here Ptolemy meets Octavio Veerspike and his stunning daughter, Ashley Veerspike. Of course, Veerspike's manservant Mr. Fum is extra-vigilant here amidst the pyramid…
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Chapter Two: "Expect Us" Ptolemy travels to upstate New York to meet with Lucy Bloom, an eightysomething computer whiz living on a farm. Through her, he learns that an Aleph was used on him in the Library, and that the Commission is planning something sinister in the near future ...
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Chapter One: The Geomancer.When Armand Ptolemy is called to investigate strange tremors plaguing an old branch of the New York public library, he finds himself enmeshed in a series of events that began back in 1912 ...
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The final episode! Remaining questions are answered, and the foursome are united. On a beach that could be anywhere, anywhen they exchange thoughts ... and the opening of Max Quick Book 3: The Bane of the Bondsman is set up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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"Miss Starry ... Mother ... Living in Connecticut" The mysterious note handed to Max by Dunkirk leads Max up north ... WHERE HIS SECRET IS REVEALED TO HIM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Final triumph over the Machine and its terrible purpose seems imminent ... or is it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Madworth and the Machine, Part 1
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Max, Ian and the House of Hidden Hand attack the Niburian nest. The showdown with Madworth, and the purpose of the Machine is unveiled at last. Or is it? Part 1 of the 'season finale' of the 1912 storyline! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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At last: the final showdown between Casey and Blackthorne! The 'season finale' of the Arturo Gyp storyline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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After the disaster at the Ball, the House regroups on the Peking. Faliero reminisces on how he met Romani and tells his 'origin story'. The final moments before the ultimate confrontation with Madworth and the Machine ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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With the banishment of Blackthorne, Arturo Gyp is completely transformed. But now the townspeople speak of 'the Gypture' which they expect imminently. And that's when Sasha figures nearly everything out and explains it all to Casey. Yet this interpretation also means that Blackthorne is coming back, for a final battle to the death ... Learn more ab…
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Romani summons the dispersed House to the Spring Ball at the Waldorf, where Madworth is meeting a mysterious, pock-marked man with salt-white skin ... the traitor is revealed, and Madworth and Romani square off in a duel to the death. Special Guest Star: Johnny Siren! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Blackthorne lays the law down hard ... causing Casey and Sasha to do some digging, where they at last discover the secret of Arturo Gyp (yes this is revealed). Logan, Cody, Sasha and Casey get into a gunfight with Blackthorne and Ace ... and one of them dies. A HUGE episode, and they just get more intense from here until the book's end! Learn more …
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Ian is brought before the House ... iron-clad evidence is presented: someone in the House of the Hidden Hand is in league with the Niburians. But who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Ian discovers two children, Vadim and Vanya, who have escaped Madworth's clutches. The House quizzes them and gains much insight into the Machine. Then Gustav proposes a way to accelerate Max's education, but it is radical and dangerous, and even Romani is kept out of the loop ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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A commercial jetliner suddenly appears in the fog over the Gyp; when the fog lifts, it reveals a startling transformation in the surrounding desert. Blackthorne's true gambit is at last revealed when Casey, Sasha, Cody and Logan chase him down, but Blackthorne does something even he didn't intend ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon…
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In search of his secret, Max and Ian risk a trip to the lower docks of New York, where Petunia said she and Max used to play in 1912. There, they meet Captain Dunkirk, who knows quite a bit about Max. But first, they must gain his trust ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Casey begins the day with a shock: the well from the Books of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus ... is actually here, in Arturo Gyp. A new stranger appears in town, or is he actually a stranger? Sasha finds out, with a shocker of her own. Finally, Blackthorne confronts Casey, and the Sheriff is clearly rattled about something ... Learn more about your ad …
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Michelle convinces Max to sneak out and spend the day with her in Central Park. They visit Sunpike's Sweets, where their day is interrupted by one Millicent Madworth. Following her, Max gets a huge shock and runs into Marvin Sparkle, who reveals some interesting information about the Machine ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/…
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Back in the Gyp, Casey breaks into Blackthorne's Victorian. And of course, she finds something very interesting inside ... Later, Sasha tells a tale from the time of the Pocket, when she and Ace were captured with the rest of the Serpents and Mermaids gang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The Education of Master Quick, Part 2
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Ian must now deal with the consequences of his discovery; Europa Romani tells her 'origin story'. Finally, Ian and Romani meet the enigmatic loner Marvin Sparkle, here to fight the Machine, but who has his own views on who is a friend and foe ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The Education of Master Quick, Part 1
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Carlos Gustav begins training Max. Feeling left out, Ian explores a secret passage in the House of the Hidden Hand and makes a startling discovery ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Sasha gives Casey an earful; then Blackthorne gets his fortune told while Casey sneaks a listen. Then Logan White-Cloud faces down both the Sheridan Brothers and Blackthorne. Finally, Sasha and Casey are taken out to the desert by Logan to learn something that will change them both forever ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…
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Max and Ian exchange information about the Machine with Romani, Gustav and Sambhava. Max makes a bold request -- which alienates Ian. Sambhava, sensing this, takes Ian on an errand in 1912 New York, where they overhear two Pinkertons discuss the doings of a certain Millicent Madworth ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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Casey demands that Cody and Logan explain exactly what happened in the desert to Sasha and herself. Then Cody treats Casey to a night at the Thirteen, all while Casey keeps an eye out for her 'star people' amongst the denizens of the Gyp. Things at the Thirteen don't go exactly as planned, and it seems something of Nibiru is indeed here in the old …
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Max and Ian are eager to begin the hunt for the Machine, but clash with Romani and Gustav, who prefer a more measured approach. Michelle sneaks a sly word with Max, and then a stab of ... something attacks the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Sasha and Casey set out from Arturo Gyp in search of Enki. Across the screeching-white sands beneath a bloody sun, the duo trudges on. But the desert holds many surprises along the way -- and where they end up is the most surprising of all ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Back in 1912, Max and Ian meet the Hidden Hand, a group consisting of the gypsy Madame Europa Romani, alienist Carlos Gustav, Sambhava the monk, the retired magician Gaspar Faliero and Michelle LeVeux. Are these the Niburians behind the Machine, disguised as humans? Or ... something else? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…
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Casey and Sasha follow Enki through another Arch and discover the strange town of Arturo Gyp. There, they meet Cody Chance, a too-perfect cowboy with a toothpaste smile, and a blind Indian: Logan White-Cloud. After scant clues of Enki's presence, they also meet Sheriff Blackthorne, who does not seem at all pleased by the presence of the girls ... L…
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Max and Ian go back through an Arch to 1912, the pivotal year that contains 'the Machine', a mysterious device somehow intertwined with Max's secret. Sky Chambers roam strangely unseen by the people of this time. Max and Ian pursue a hooded, child-stealing figure through a series of Book-jumps -- and end up worse off than when they began ... Learn …
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The foursome discuss Ian's recent discoveries. Max rashly attempts the Whispering Stone. He learns much, but is greatly disturbed at the same time. The Niburians attack: the foursome must use the Pyramid of the Arches if they are to escape -- but they must also split apart ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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We learn what has befallen Max, Casey, Ian and Sasha during the past five years in Starland, California. But an encounter with a crazed old man brings an abrupt end to the lives they have come to know ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Prelude: A 12-minute recap of Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Mark Jeffrey | Scribl
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Episode 16 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: FORTY-THREE: Mike rescues Amber, Donna, and Robert from the avalanche. EPILOGUE: Months later, the family is together in Hawaii. Amber makes a necklace for her coral stone and hears the name "Levine." She doesn't know what it means. She and
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Episode 15 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: FORTY-TWO: The final showdown between Amber and the S.H.R.O.U.D. The old man and Sandy get the stone to Amber, and it causes a massive earthquake and avalanche.
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Episode 14 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: THIRTY-EIGHT: S.H.R.O.U.D. gunmen materialize on a snowy mountain not far from where Amber, Donna, and Robert are near their crashed car. THIRTY-NINE: Amber awakes in her mom's arms. FORTY: Sandy and the old man race to get the stone to Amber. FORTY-
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Episode 13 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: THIRTY-FOUR: At an oasis, the old man shows Sandy Canton how to use the coral stone THIRTY-FIVE: Donna pulls Amber back from beyond. THIRTY-SIX: Sandy and the old man continue across the stormy desert with the coral stone. THIRTY-SEVEN: Robert return
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Episode 12 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: THIRTY-ONE: Donna travels with Robert to Mike's place in order to tell him about Amber, but the car crashes in the middle of the desert. Donna is knocked unconscious, and when she comes to, Robert is gone. She searches for him around the area, and th
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Episode 11 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: TWENTY-NINE: Sandy, now in a hospital room, discovers the coral stone inside the air purifier. The gunmen manage to find her room, and a gunfight breaks out in the hospital. Then, the whole building begins to shake, as in an earthquake. Sandy sees th
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Episode 10 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: TWENTY-SEVEN: Donna, Amber, and Robert try to recover from break-in. TWENTY-EIGHT: A man on a fiery Harley attacks their trailer, and the whole place goes up in flames. Donna and Robert escape, but Amber is trapped inside.
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Episode 9 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: TWENTY-FIVE: NBC producers realize that Dr. John Irving Bentley has been dead for nearly forty years. TWENTY-SIX: Rio is shot but staggers off the ship. He passes the coral stone off to Sandy Canton and dies. Sandy races away but is pursued by the gu
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Episode 8 - Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone
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-In this episode: TWENTY-THREE: The cruise ship arrives at San Diego. Rio tries to leave with coral stone, but the gunmen open fire. Pandemonium ensues, and a young news reporter Sandy Canton captures it all for Live TV. TWENTY-FOUR: Donna cleans up after the break-in
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