Ted Neill has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators. The most-rated is Reaper Moon.
Voyage of the Elawn
Summary
Winner of the Kirkus Star.
In this second volume of the Elk Riders series, the stories of siblings from In the Darkness Visible continue to interweave, as Gabriella Carlyle and her brother, Dameon, work to stop the plans of Sade and Vondales - brothers who are powerful members of a dark order of sorcerers.
Gabriella and Dameon travel far across the ocean on a mysterious craft, the Elawn, accompanied by an elk, Adamantus, who holds many mysteries of his own.
All the friends and foes walk paths that explore the bonds of family, the depth of faith, and the ever-perilous road to adulthood, one balanced between good and evil, life and death.
©2016 Edwin B. Neill (P)2018 Edwin B. Neill
The Font of Jasmeen
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When a wayward prince, Haille Hillbourne, with his friend, Katlyn Barnes, seek out an enchanted font to cure his seizures they find themselves drawn into a conflict with sorcerers, slave traders, ambitious nobles, and unruly mercenaries - all the disparate players tied together by an elk of unknown origin.
©2016 Edwin B. Neill (P)2018 Edwin B. Neill
Bunny Man's Bridge
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These stories are old and young at once: old in that they were written almost 20 years ago, but also young as they were written by the author as a young man. They are an examination of a childhood come to a close and a imagining of what adulthood might look like in a new century. Bunny Man's Bridge wanders from the tragic to the comic, where the magical thinking of children collides with the gritty reality of adults. Characters such as Daniel and Sydney reoccur from one story to the next, coping with their own wounds, dreams and disillusionments. They are accompanied by a series of characters familiar in American literature: the working man, the aspiring woman, the frontier hero, the entrepreneur, the immigrant, the artist, conmen, strippers, saints and sinners. St. Paul, Satan, and God himself all make appearances. Neill explores the dark intersection of youthful exuberance and responsible adulthood; a place where love and adventure, the sacred and profane all seem destined to collide. Transcendence or insanity could lurk behind the next bend and the atmosphere shivers with the potential and anxiety of a country shaking off its past to move into another millennium. The stories remind us just what a heady ride young adulthood is and what, collectively, might lie before us.
©2017 Ted Neill (P)2017 Ted Neill
Scavengers & Remnants
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When pandemic meets politics, the US fractures. Unite to survive. Winner - Best Social Political, Best Sci-Fi, Best New Adult; Finalist - Action Adventure - Beverly Hills Literary Awards; Finalist - Readers View Literary Awards The human epidermis deterioration virus (HEDV) has obliterated the population. Billions have died worldwide. The lucky few who survived are now faced with rising racial tensions and white supremacist armies determined to eradicate all people of color and anyone who tries to stand in their way, including Scot Jamieson's mostly white community. Left for dead, Scot is rescued by a young black girl, Coby. Together, dodging supremacist armies, they search for an integrated community of survivors to take them in.
©2019 Edwin B. Neill (P)2020 Edwin B. Neill
Zombies, Frat Boys, Monster Flash Mobs: & Other Terrifying Things I Saw at the Gates of Hell Cotillion
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Liam Reilly is an unattached, occasionally delinquent, teenage ward of the state. He lives in a university workshop. He rides a bike made of bamboo. His best friend is an AI named Eiann. Oh, he’s a genius, too. Liam is content with his life, until a demon named Narvicous Scalegrim Gorgonzola Grimmold Maximus the Terrible (Gerald for short) appears in his workshop eating Cheez-Its and twerking to Cardi B. When a bunch of frat boys open a gate to hell in their basement foosball lounge, it falls on Liam, Eiann, and Gerald to stop the demon army waiting on the other side. Liam — an avowed loner — is stuck working with a bunch of other social outcasts: Jeanie, a T-shirt entrepreneur; her excessively “woke” cousin Mitchell; their androgynous friend Jax a.k.a. Jax Vader a.k.a. DJ Max Spinz; and a mysterious, wise-cracking, East African ninja-assassin, Esmeralda — who also happens to be blind — except when she visits other dimensions; that’s a different story. Thrown together with a busload of Latinx children trying to escape a migrant detention facility and an underworld demigod, Liam and his lab partners — eww, please don’t call them friends — basically have to save the world. If they can manage to save each other first. Zombies, Frat Boys, Monster Flash Mobs is what you get when you take the supernatural capers of Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Sequence, add in the unabashed nerdiness of Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, followed by a helping of the irreverent edginess of an Angie Thomas novel. Zombies, Frat Boys, Monster Flash Mobs is current. It is socially relevant. Don’t call it a sequel! It’s not. But it is a part of an interconnected world, the Snog Team Six Series, with some returning characters, reoccurring themes, not to mention some running jokes — if you are hip enough to get them, wink wink, nudge nudge. Challenge accepted?
©2020 Edwin B. Neill (P)2020 Edwin B. Neill
Two Years of Wonder
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September 25, 2012. Ted Neill picked up a knife to cut his wrists open and kill himself. Post hospitalization and treatment for major depressive disorder, he wrote Two Years of Wonder, a memoir based on his journey toward recovery. In it, he examines the experience that left him with such despair: living and working for two years at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya. Neill interweaves his story with the experiences of Oliver, Miriam, Ivy, Harmony, Tabitha, Sofie, Nea, and other children, exploring their own paths of trauma, survival, and resilience. In a narration that is, by turns, poetic, confessional, and brutal, Neill with the children, he comes alongside, strives to put the pieces of their fractured lives back together as they search for meaning and connection, each trying to reclaim their humanity and capacity to love in the face of inexplicable suffering and loss. Two Years of Wonder has been compared to Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, and Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead. Fans of these authors, their vulnerability, their depth, and their focus on social issues will find that Neill's story and the story of the children he knew in Kenya resonates. About the author: In addition to his time living in Kenya, Ted Neill has worked for CARE and World Vision International in the fields of health, education, and child development. He has written for The Washington Post and published multiple novels.
©2018 Edwin B. Neill (P)2020 Edwin B. Neill
Reaper Moon
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When pandemic meets politics, the US fractures. Unite to survive. Post pandemic, politics and social divisions of the past still cost lives. A supremacist army, Right Nation, surrounds the integrated community of the Orchard, and lay siege to its inhabitants. Winner: Best Social Political, Best Sci-Fi, Best New Adult Finalist: Action Adventure - Beverly Hills Literary Awards, Finalist - Readers View Literary Awards
©2019 Edwin B. Neill (P)2020 Edwin B. Neill