Patrick Hester

1 week ago | functionalnerds.com | Patrick Hester

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Maura Jortner, author of Keepers of the Marsh. About Keepers of the Marsh: Twelve-year-old Lana isn’t looking for trouble when she ventures into the swampy marsh behind her family’s home in Galveston Bay. She’s just sweaty and bored and lonely, sick of sitting around doing nothing. Her family never goes anywhere. Her mom and her sisters want nothing to do with her, and none of them will talk about their dead dad.

2 weeks ago | functionalnerds.com | Patrick Hester

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Chuck Wendig, author of The Staircase in the Woods. About The Staircase in the Woods: Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared.

1 month ago | functionalnerds.com | Patrick Hester

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Jim C. Hines, author of Kitemaster. About Kitemaster: Nial Sarnin is twenty-one years old, far too young to have lost her beloved husband Jika. One year after Jika’s death, Nial is preparing to fly a kite sewn from the shirt Jika wore at their wedding, to carry his spirit to the stars and beyond. Instead, Nial finds herself launched on an adventure that will change the fate of her world.

1 month ago | functionalnerds.com | Patrick Hester

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Harmattan Season. About Harmattan Season: Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much?least of all trouble?but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he’d rather be left alone to deal with his bills as the Harmattan rolls in to coat the city in dust, but Bouba is a down on his luck deux fois, suspended between two cultures and two worlds.

Nov 11, 2024 | functionalnerds.com | Patrick Hester

This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome R.S.A. Garcia, author of The Nightward. About The Nightward: For 500 years Gaiea’s Hand has stood as a ward against the Dark. The Age of Chaos is a faded memory. The Goddess has left Gailand and given her Blessing to the Queens to rule in her stead. Princess Viella of the court of Hamber is the Spirit of Gaiea, presumptive heir to the throne and budding wielder of magic.