Audiobooks by James Riley

"Read the third book in the hilarious series that began with the New York Times bestselling The Dragon's Apprentice! Adventure and laughs continue as Scorch the dragon and his human apprentice Ciara face the wrath of the Emperor, unravel new secrets and save magic itself. Citizens of the Draconic Empire! Thanks to your beloved Emperor, the criminal Ciara of Skael has been dealt with, in spite of summoning world-ending Revenants. He has also taken the dragon Scorch into his care, in order to free Scorch's mind of any remaining Revenant influence. The Empire is safe! Of course, there are still enemies out there. The Emperor's son, Prince Aiden, seems to be acting suspiciously. Could you imagine if the prince was somehow working with Ciara of Skael to find her dragon, and overthrow the Emperor? Thankfully the Emperor would never allow such things to happen. No, instead he will turn his eyes toward an even bigger enemy: the Dragon Mage's opposite, a monster masquerading as a human who could destroy magic once and for all. Will even the Emperor be able to defeat such an enemy? Of course, he's the Emperor ... but we might still hide in our beds until it's over. Look for more books in the New York Times bestselling series! The Dragon's Apprentice Revenants Return Destroyer of Magic (coming Fall 2026) The New Dragon Mage (coming Spring 2027)"

James Riley (Author), Alana Kerr Collins (Narrator)

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Revenants Return

"The fate of magic rests in the hands (and claws) of a cranky dragon, a feisty apprentice...and a prince who may not be all he seems? Get ready for the sequel to the hilarious New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure The Dragon's Apprentice-from the beloved author of the Story Thieves series! You were warned to stay away from THE DRAGON'S APPRENTICE. It was forbidden for a good reason, as it told the story of a village girl named Ciara finding her own book of magic and learning spells from a dragon of all things. These are dangerous ideas, and no one should be allowed to see them. Fortunately, Ciara's story didn't end there, or she might have doomed us all. No, thankfully, a true hero to the Draconic Empire, Prince Aiden, has come to Ciara's village to stop her and her teacher, Scorch the dragon. The prince, like his father the Emperor, is a powerful magic-user. And Aiden uses his power to keep us safe from strange, forbidden books. If anyone can stop Ciara from teaching others magic and therefore summoning the horrible Revenants that once defeated the Dragon Mage herself, it's the Empire's beloved prince. Let's just hope that Ciara can't spread her knowledge of magic before the prince can find her and put an end to her evil deeds once and for all… Look for more books in the New York Times bestselling series! The Dragon's Apprentice Revenants Return Destroyer of Magic (coming Fall 2026) The New Dragon Mage (coming Spring 2027)"

James Riley (Author), Alana Kerr Collins (Narrator)

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Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life

"In the towns where the porch lights glow late, the screen doors creak often, and no secret stays secret for long, life unfolds with charm, chatter, and more than a touch of mischief. Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes invites you into parlors both prim and peculiar, where romances are whispered behind teacups, rivalries simmer at choir practice, and widows form committees with suspicious speed. Within these sixteen short stories, you’ll find aging sopranos and checker champions, tangled telegrams and moonlit deacons, poker parties gone sideways and gossip spun tighter than a handmade scarf. Each tale captures the distinct rhythms of small-town American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—with all its humor, heartbreak, and sly subversion of social norms. These are stories not just of people, but of places—of communities that cradle, confine, and sometimes surprise those who call them home. Pull up a chair, pour something sweet, and don’t be surprised if someone starts talkin’ about you next. Featuring the work of renowned authors and some hidden gems of classic American fiction, including: The Gay Old Dog, by Edna Ferber Melinda's Humorous Story, by May McHenry Friends in San Rosario, by O. Henry The Associated Widows, by Katharine M. Roof The Tale of the Tangled Telegram, by Wilbur D. Nesbit A Village Singer, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman A New England Nun, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Scarf, by Madeline Yale Wynne The Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky, by James Whitcomb Riley How The Widow Won The Deacon, by William James Lampton Evan Anderson's Poker Party, by Benjamin Stevenson A Rivermouth Romance, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Not According to Schedule, by Mary Stewart Cutting A Reward of Merit, by Booth Tarkington Sand Flat Shadows, by Carl Sandburg Mrs. Lathrop's Love Affair, by Anne Warner"

Anne Warner, Benjamin Stevenson, Booth Tarkington, Carl Sandburg, Edna Ferber, James Riley, Katharine M. Roof, Madeline Yale Wynne, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Stewart Cutting, May McHenry, O. Henry, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wilbur D. Nesbit, William James Lampton (Author), A.J. Schuck, Alex Picard, Emma Faye, John Hopkinson, Meghan Kelly, Rebecca Stern, Shannon Nicole Locke (Narrator)

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The Dragon's Apprentice

"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the first book of a hilarious fantasy adventure series from the author of Story Thieves, a girl strikes a deal with the ancient, cranky dragon she accidentally summoned to teach her the forbidden magic she needs to save her mother. And don't miss the next book in the Dragon's Apprentice series, Revenants Return, available now! STOP. Don't read any further. There are magic spells in this book, and the Emperor has forbidden anyone from learning magic, because it's way too dangerous! If you try one of the spells, any number of terrible things might happen (or so the Emperor says). Don't be like Ciara, a twelve-year-old girl living in the tiny village of Skael. When she used a spell from within this book, she ended up summoning a dragon. A DRAGON! Those things breathe fire! From their mouths! She's obviously doomed. And don't listen if Ciara tells you that dragons won't hurt humans, and that they even once taught us magic, a thousand years ago. Definitely don't pay any attention to the fact that the dragon she summoned, Scorch, might be willing to help rescue Ciara's mother and free her village from the Emperor and his Warden, because it's all obviously a big lie. So put this book down, and forget about it. Magic is just way too dangerous. After all, you wouldn't want to summon your own dragon, would you? Look for more books in the New York Times bestselling series! The Dragon's Apprentice Revenants Return Destroyer of Magic (coming Fall 2026) The New Dragon Mage (coming Spring 2027)"

James Riley (Author), Alana Kerr Collins (Narrator)

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Tales of the Dark Romantics & Beyond: A collection of mysterious and chilling works by

"At the heart of Dark Romanticism is its brooding, pessimistic tone, its emphasis on the supernatural and the sins of humanity, and its use of iconic symbols and horrifying imagery. The classic Dark Romantic authors (Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville) are represented in the stories and poems in this volume, as well as some authors who are not commonly included in this genre. And then there are the poets and folklorists momentarily dabbling in the themes of death, loss and the supernatural, resulting in a collection of classic tales that will chill the listener to the bone."

Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte, Henry James, Herman Melville, James Riley, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant (Author), Andrew Eiden, Emily Eiden, Susan C. Hunter, Tom Shelton, Trevor Murphy (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Great Lakes Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born around the Great Lakes. These huge bodies of water are really inland seas and the poetic beauty created on their shores by poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Vachel Lindsay, James Whitcomb Riley, and Alice Carey humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet's words can."

Alice Cary, Ambrose Bierce, Clara Ann Thompson, Fenton Johnson, James Madison Bell, James Riley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay (Author), Darrell Joe, John-Michael Macdonald, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Mid-West Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the Mid-West. This huge and mythic landscape that stretches from Chicago and the Great Lakes to the deserts of Texas contains a wealth of poets that could summon theme and words to describe and reveal both nature and humanity in sprawling yet intimate detail. Among their number are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, Alice Corbin and Ambrose Bierce, brilliant wordsmiths one and all."

Alice Cary, Ambrose Bierce, Clara Ann Thompson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Eugene Field, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, James Riley, Mark Twain, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Priscilla Jane Thompson, Vachal Lindsay (Author), Darrell Joe, Jamal West, William Dufris (Narrator)

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The Poets Of 19th Century America - Volume 2

"America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. Expanded into its vast frontiers by military force and financial acquisitions; this was a melting pot of peoples and ideas gathering to form an identity. In these volumes we take a particular interest in the poets of the 19th Century and their views as their young nation came to terms with itself and its place in the World."

James Riley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Lorelei King, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Selected Riley Child-Rhymes

"Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American working-class childhood. (Summary by Val Grimm)"

James Riley (Author), Val Grimm (Narrator)

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There Was a Cherry-Tree

"LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 13, 2012. Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he eventually earned successive jobs at Indiana newspaper publishers during the latter 1870s. Riley gradually rose in prominence during the 1880s through his poetry reading tours. He traveled a touring circuit first in the Midwest, and then nationally, holding shows and making joint appearances on stage with other famous talents. Regularly struggling with his alcohol addiction, Riley never married or had children, and was involved in a scandal in 1888 when he became too drunk to perform. He became more popular in spite of the bad press he received, and as a result extricated himself from poorly negotiated contracts that limited his earnings; he quickly became very wealthy. (Summary from Wikipedia)"

James Riley (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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In The Dark

James Riley (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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A Parting Guest

"LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, over half are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". (summary from Wkipedia)"

James Riley (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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