The Authors Show
A professional interview program where new and seasoned authors in all book genres present their work to readers. Some interviews include short readings.
Episodes
February 12, 2026 • 14 mins
Written for young people starting out on life's financial journey, Grow Your Money Protect Your Wealth offers a sound, steady-eddy approach to investing discretionary income. It provides a blueprint that enables you to build a long-term investment portfolio to help meet your financial needs in retirement with a level of risk that is right for you. The book also details the necessary tools including insurance products, legal documen...
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January 7, 2026 • 11 mins
At seventy, Rebekah Lang resolved to confront the guilt she has carried for decades. This journey draws her back to the turbulent summers of the mid-1960s, when she was a bright but self-absorbed teenager, caught between the innocence of youth and the harsh realities of a world unraveling. Amid the backdrop of war, racial unrest, and long-buried family secrets, she encountered a series of emotional, physical, and spiritual awakenin...
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January 5, 2026 • 10 mins
Many military husbands and dads are struggling to keep their marriages and families together. Spouses and family members notice the changes as well. Lesson’s Learned by a Patriot Husband and Dad will help with some common mistakes that may help keep the family and career together.
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December 29, 2025 • 14 mins
In 1920s New Orleans, Eugene Ste. Cherie, a naïve Pullman Porter, stumbles into a world of booze, sex, and jazz when he helps a white passenger. He is later hired to work at a lakefront casino. Despite prohibition, alcohol flows freely, and Eugene tends bar at lavish social events.
His wife Eartha remains oblivious to the secrets and lies surrounding him. As Eugene’s good looks and skills make him a sought-after man, he narrowly e...
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December 21, 2025 • 13 mins
What does courage look like when no one is watching?
It’s the teacher running barefoot through a Texas storm, the bus driver guiding children off a burning school bus, the doctor walking city streets at midnight, the volunteer who simply listens.
In Quiet Valor: Everyday Americans — Acts of Character That Change a Life, a Street, a community, author Larry Nouvel continues his acclaimed series by turning the lens toward the people...
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December 17, 2025 • 14 mins
The story began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory about a Banshee in Ireland. As repressed memories surfaced, the story evolved into an memoir unlike any other. The story blends imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy in the 1960sand his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, and back to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a bro...
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December 1, 2025 • 14 mins
Wild Pitch is a true story that tears the human condition of a man's life down to the bare bone. Its pages paint a portrait of a childhood shattered to pieces by an alcoholic father that leaves Jeff Grose with an anger that grows into a beast born from his dad's belt. Jeff channels the beast inside him into extraordinary success as a baseball pitcher on high school fields and then inside professional ball parks after he is drafted ...
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November 27, 2025 • 15 mins
What can you learn about someone when life throws constant challenges at them? For Randy Rauh, the answer was simple: everything.
In A Letter Unwritten, Randy opens the pages of his heart to share the remarkable lives of two women who shaped his world his mother and his wife. Through a blend of heartfelt storytelling and powerful personal letters, this unforgettable and unique memoir honors the quiet strength, unshakable love, and...
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November 26, 2025 • 17 mins
In the spring of 1862, widowed Rachel Barnum leaves three children with her farm’s hired man to search for her dying son, Dwight, a soldier in Michigan’s 2nd cavalry. Rachel’s decision to travel alone to Missouri, into the heart of darkness, is either a hero’s journey or a fool’s errand.
Mounting obstacles lead to a large Rebel force entrenched on a Mississippi River island. Rachel fears her chances of finding Dwight in time to s...
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November 24, 2025 • 14 mins
Korea DMZ—1983. Rip Razorton, a newly minted Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, enters a military environment filled with danger. He learns the DMZ mission from a friendly NCO while being harassed by superior officers. What keeps him going is his love for his exotic Native American girlfriend, Angeni James. Razorton, collecting battlefield intelligence on the North Korean threat at Guard Post Ouellette is taken captive bu...
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November 18, 2025 • 13 mins
Arthur was determined to find a solution that would be able to save his child in the event of an emergency and end unnecessary choking tragedies. He used his inquisitive mind and his sharp business and building skills to bring LifeVac to market. Arthur has since forged LifeVac into an international medical device company that has received widespread media attention and saved thousands of people worldwide, ranging in age from severa...
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November 11, 2025 • 15 mins
Back from Suicide reveals the suicidal mind through the misery of depression and the difficulty of coming out. It’s the enigma of self-destruction after a lifetime of success. It is a mother’s pursuit of the biggest question of humankind. Why do people kill themselves?
Patrick Wood is a valedictorian with perfect SAT scores. A year after he graduates from Stanford with honors, his mother struggles to understand his suicide.
Marie...
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November 3, 2025 • 15 mins
After his mother dies during the pandemic, Brian Newman stumbles upon a legendary Scroll that creates life from clay. Seeking to bring his mother back to life, he enlists the help of a disgraced rabbi to obtain a gruesome list of ingredients for use in a ritual that changes everything. Pursued by mercenaries, a foreign weapons company, the police, a purveyor of ancient artifacts and an unscrupulous Russian private investigator, Bri...
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October 27, 2025 • 13 mins
They say life is a journey, but it becomes a true adventure when you find someone who not only rides shotgun but cheers you on at every turn. In She's Not Just Along For the Ride: A Journey With My Biggest Fan, Keith Thorn invites readers into a soulful, humorous, and heart-filled memoir-turned-travelogue of love, second chances, and the beauty of shared roads.
From the palm-lined coast of Port Isabel to the sun-drenched beaches o...
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October 27, 2025 • 13 mins
The book is a true story full of twists and turns, but it is not the whole story. It never could be. The “twists” are secrets and the “turns” are fateful choices.
The characters struggle with confession, contrition, and forgiveness. They seek happiness, disrupted by unexpected pregnancies, and altered lives. This tale weaves together the secrets of the author, birth parents, adoptive parents, and their families to reveal the delic...
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October 22, 2025 • 17 mins
The pull to overparent is intense in today's world -to raise up children to be superstars and to "have it all." This effort leaves marriage partners disconnected when the kids leave. This book highlights the impact to the marriage and the kids when the focus is on the wrong relationship first. Parent or Partner is a guidebook to prioritizing the partnership which in turn promotes healthy children.
Parent or Partner addresses the g...
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October 13, 2025 • 15 mins
Three children whose inquisitive minds find them on a family vacation smack in the middle of adventures that seem to be just waiting for them. Unknown to our intrepid vacationers, a long-ago group of brave and curious eighth graders on their remote destination island of St. Frederick formed a group of amateur detectives known as the Buccaneers.
Together with the third generation Buccaneers, these clever kids discover some of the a...
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September 22, 2025 • 14 mins
Seth’s life until now has been a product of a diabolical, evil Truman Show, his entire upbringing a façade orchestrated for malevolent purposes. After his beloved dies, he undergoes a demonic metamorphosis, which causes the world’s fictitious walls to crumble.
As he tries to piece a semblance of his life back together and move on, he meets friends who inspire, but even more harsh truths are revealed, perhaps too difficult to cope ...
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September 18, 2025 • 12 mins
After my 26-year career at major Wall Street firms, I saw organized crime, pump-and-dumps, mafia fixers, and insider corruption up close. This is the unfiltered, true story—names changed—of what happens behind closed doors in high finance.
Your audience builds on financial crime exposure and gutsy stories. I share the full saga: the corrupt traders, mob payoffs, and systemic chaos I experienced.
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September 4, 2025 • 14 mins
The Aananda Nath lineage is a branch of the Nath tantric lineage, a timeless tradition that is thousands of years old. This text contains real practices from the Aananda Nath lineage, and unfolds a rich display of characters, storylines and cosmology of this ancient lineage.
In this book, an introduction is given into the system of Tantric Japa Yoga, along with reflections on the path. Tantric Japa Yoga is a system of meditations ...
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