Bookburners

Magic is real. And it’s dangerous. It’s locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or by design, magic escapes and wreaks havoc upon the world. That’s when Team Three is deployed—known by their enemies as: The Bookburners.


Tasked with identifying and neutralizing magical threats anywhere in the world, the Bookburners are a cohort of special investigators from wildly different walks of life—a New York City detective, a Guatemalan priest, an indestructible woman from China, a techno-occultist from Ireland, and an inquisitive scholar from the Ivory Coast.


But each member of the Bookburners bears the scars of their own past magical trauma. What that means for the team, as they face horrors that threaten their sanity and their very lives, will cause them each to question their mission… and their faith in one another.


Bookburners is a Realm production voiced by Xe Sands, created by Max Gladstone, and written by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Amal El-Mohtar, Mur Lafferty, Andrea Phillips, and Brian Francis Slattery. Listen away.

Fiction
Drama
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S1 E19 - Shore Leave, Part 1
It’s Grace’s one-day-off-a-year, and nothing will stop her from enjoying every last second of it, not even Sal’s sleepwalking.
33 min
102
S1 E18 - Ancient Wonders, Part 2
As Sal becomes suspicious of her own increasingly strange sleeping habits, Team Three seeks out the Oracle of Delphi and learns the dangers of playing with prophecy.
41 min
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S1 E17 - Ancient Wonders, Part 1
Following the latest game of cat-and-mouse with the mysterious Mr. Norse in their hunt for the Codex Umbra, Team Three turns to old friends and even older magic.
33 min
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S1 E16 - Under My Skin, Part 2
Team Three must find the source of demonic ink before time runs out and more victims are stained by its power.
36 min
105
S1 E15 - Under My Skin, Part 1
Team Three jets to the Southwest U.S. where the human canvases of a tattoo competition show begin dying under magical circumstances.
38 min
106
S1 E14 - Now And Then, Part 2
Sal learns the horrifying truth about Grace, and her connection to a cursed candle: a story that goes all the way back to 1930s China
40 min
107
S1 E13 - Now And Then, Part 1
While all the members of Team Three have their secrets, only Grace seems willing to guard hers with fists of fury…until Sal sets out to learn exactly what her deal is..
41 min
108
S1 E12 - Big Sky, Part 2
As an American town faces total destruction, the Society calls in its big guns against the Tornado Eaters, and Sal gets her first look at the kind of heat the paramilitary Team One is packing.
41 min
109
S1 E11 - Big Sky, Part 1
Something too big to fully comprehend is loose in Oklahoma. Team Three touches down in a tiny town under threat from rampaging titans that feed on tornados.
36 min
110
S1 E10 - The Market Arcanum, Part 2
While the rest of the team back in Rome suddenly find themselves under attack, Sal and Menchú are left scrambling to stop a group of techno-cultists who have disturbing interest in Sal.
37 min
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S1 E9 - The Market Arcanum, Part 1
Father Menchú takes Sal to Lichetenstein for the annual Market Arcanum, where the ex-cop gets a closer look into the broader world of magic users, and confrontation with the sinister Mr. Norse.
41 min
112
S1 E8 - A Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Part 2
An entire city has become preternaturally obsessed with a local restaurant. Sal and Asanti find something sinister in the kitchen, and fend up wishing they hadn’t left their muscle back in Rome.
33 min
113
S1 E7 - A Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Part 1
Sal and Asanti leave the rest of the team in a lurch when they jet off to Scotland to attend the funeral of the archivist's mentor. But the duo discover something else that is terribly, demonically wrong.
42 min
114
S1 E6 - Fair Weather, Part 2
Tracking the missing book to a luxury yacht, the team gets less of a high-end boating experience and more of a demon-on-the-loose nightmare.
41 min
115
S1 E5 - Fair Weather, Part 1
A tip from a local antiquarian fails to reach the team in time, and they are left with the ruins of a Rome bookstore, a missing magical tome, very few clues, and suspiciously helpful tour guide.
34 min
116
S1 E4 - Anywhere But Here, Part 2
A breathing apartment door, two little girls being held hostage, and some furniture that’s far too alive for good taste are just the beginning of Sal’s first day on the job.
45 min
117
S1 E3 - Anywhere But Here, Part 1
No sooner does Sal Brooks settle in with Team Three of the Societas Librium Occultatum beneath Vatican City, than she goes on her first mission: investigate a magical disturbance in the heart of Madrid.
41 min
118
S1 E2 - Badge, Book, and Candle, Part 2
When Sal’s attempts to find her missing brother intersect with those of a mysterious team of occult investigators, she realizes that magic is real—and it’s hungry.
41 min
119
S1 E1 - Badge, Book, and Candle, Part 1
NYPD Detective Sal Brooks is no rookie, but even the most hardened cop would think twice upon seeing her brother open a strange book and become something altogether different, and infinitely more terrifying.
41 min
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Introducing Bookburners
Bookburners premieres 2/14.
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