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account!Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey
Young Adult
FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening
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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 Year' Finalist 2005
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| One: A Very Strange Little Boy + Two: The Poc (44.47 MB) | A sci-fi adventure steeped in the lore of an ancient civilization that will appeal to children and adults alike. Max Quick's life drastically changes after time suddenly stops. The young man of 12 -- harassed by bullies, living as an orphan in a violent home for boys and about to be thown into juvenile hall -- is mysteriously immune to this chrono-freeze. He soon discovers other children who are impervious as well -- namely, Casey Cole and Ian Keating -- and the three find themselves embarking on a thrilling quest.... | Mar 25, 2005 |
| Three: The Duel In The Mist (11.77 MB) | Max and Casey leave Starland, CA and travel eastward along a desert highway, towards the eclipse. They encounter a town inhabited by a tribe of wild kids - also mysteriously immune to the time-freezing effects of the Pocket - who force Max and Casey to participate in a dangerous, high-speed whooshing chase. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | Apr 2, 2005 |
| Four: Serpents and Mermaids (25.36 MB) | Max and Casey have been captured by a wild kid-gang calling itself the 'Serpents and Mermaids'. After a mock trial, they learn that for 'the Serps' an entire year has gone by in the time-stop of the Pocket. When they are later imprisoned, Ian Keating, a brainy, British 'VP of the Serps', secretly reveals that UFO's have been buzzing the town, and tells the duo the tale of how the Serps came to be -- and why he is now desperate to escape the town himself. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | Apr 8, 2005 |
| Five: The Books of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus (16.94 MB) | Max, Casey and Ian use the strange, eldritch Books to escape the Serps, but almost immediately Ian is trapped inside their simulacra reality. Therein, the brainy Brit is pursued by a pack of wild wolves, while Max and Casey can only observe by turning the Book's pages. Although the Book clearly shows Ian's death amidst paws and snouts and pointed ears, they race to save him anyway, and make a startling discovery about how the Books actually work ...but they also learn what Siren meant by 'the tyranny of the page'! Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | Apr 14, 2005 |
| Six: The Mystery of Mr. 'E' (21.96 MB) | Max, Casey and Ian encounter a strange farmhouse in Texas that Max dimly remembers in the fog of his amnesia. While they are exploring it, Max inadvertantly trips some esoteric defense mechanism -- which summons a surprise visit from the UFO's Ian has been recording on videotape. When the otherworldly craft arrive, they are surprised to see Johnny Siren step from the lead ship -- and the trio discovers a dark, secret clue from Max's past. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | Apr 22, 2005 |
| Seven: Jadeth (36.86 MB) | In this pivotal hour-long episode, Max, Ian and Casey make their way to New York. After agonizing over the contents of the farmhouse diary, they discover a time-frozen Big Apple infested with Sky Chambers. Ian is right again: it is from here that the Pocket is emanating. Now, blending in with New York's denizens, they make their way to Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park -- and overhear a conversation between Jadeth and her advisor Philomen. The reason for the Pocket is finally revealed, they hear brief mention of the Pendant and the episode concludes with a startling cliffhanger. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne | Apr 29, 2005 |
| Eight: The Singular Eye (30.44 MB) | The Serpents and Mermaids are enslaved. New York is overrun with Jadeth and her Sky Chambers. And Max, Casey and Ian are captured by Johnny Siren. As if things weren't hopeless enough, Siren attempts to break into Max's hidden memories using a gemstone called 'The Singular Eye', and Ian is once again confronted by his eventual death by wolves in the Books of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus. Is the tyranny of the page absolute? Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | May 6, 2005 |
| Nine: The Isle of the Dreamtime (34.36 MB) | Escaping via the Book from Johnny Siren's Sky Chamber, the quartet make their way to the legendary Mr. 'E'. There, on his eldritch Isle -- 'an enfoldment of the Dreamtime nearer the true core of reality' -- the mysterious being reveals his origins from a strange undiscovered rogue planet in our own solar system. By a crackling fireplace at night on the edge of the Sea, questions are answered: Mr. E describes how Books, Sky Chambers, and ancient civilizations intertwine in a tapestry spanning the ages -- and how Max's destiny now crosses both the Pocket and the Pendant. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne | May 12, 2005 |
| Ten: The Tale of Enki (30.73 MB) | The enigmatic Mr. E -- Enki -- an ancient Sumerian 'god' who is actually an alien -- reveals a detailed account of the history of his kind on earth, and their interactions with several ancient civilizations. The origin of the Pendant is revealed, as is the ancient blood-feud between Enki and Jadeth's father -- Enki's brother -- Enlil. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | May 21, 2005 |
| Eleven: Planet Furious (25.42 MB) | After a much-deserved rest, Mr. E gives the foursome several gifts, including the location of the Pendant. But, before Enki can complete his instructions, his Isle is attacked by the mysterious Archons. Enki goes down in a torrent; the magicians dispatch the children back to the Book in the Sky Chamber. There, they find they are in a 'SuperPocket', where the centurions are frozen in time -- and they make a surprising discovery about the band Planet Furious, while Sasha falls back into the clutches of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | May 27, 2005 |
| Twelve: The Pendant (30.26 MB) | Stealing Siren's Sky Chamber, the foursome make their way to the black tarn of Loch Sheil in northern Scotland. There, under its depths, they find a secret cavern containing the Pyramid of the Arches, a grand central station of portals to different times and places. The mystery of how the Pendant was 'hidden perfectly' is discovered; and the Pendant itself is recovered. Yet, there is bitter division between Max and Casey now on what to do ... Words written on a wall of the Pyramid like a Book distinctly show Max handing the Pendant to Jadeth! Part one of the exciting series finale. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne | Jun 9, 2005 |
| Thirteen: 'The Tyranny of the Page' (28.28 MB) | Siren has followed the foursome to the Pyramid of the Arches, and holds a dagger at Casey's throat. Max holds the Pendant, but the tyranny of the page shows events conspire to inevitably lead him to hand it to Jadeth - of his own free will. Is he a sleeper agent of the Niburians? When Jadeth and a legion of centurions show up, the moment of truth arrives, but the time-portals of the Pyramid have a few surprises, as do Cyranus, Casey and Max himself! The second part (of three) of the stunning conclusion of The Pocket and the Pendant. Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne. | Jun 18, 2005 |
| Fourteen: Mr. Blister Gets His (16.06 MB) | Mr. E. explains a few things to the foursome, and things are returned to normal, thanks to some help arriving from Nibiru itself. Questions are answered, and few new ones emerge. The Pocket is no more, and the foursome, the Serps and the rest of the world are returned to normal. Max finds that he has a fortune as his disposal and he rights some wrongs in his old life, especially that of the notorious Mr. Blister and the Starland Home for Boys. The final chapter! Soundtrack music by Bjorn Lynne | Jun 23, 2005 |