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    Honey and Pepper (When in Pheme, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
    Newly freed from enslavement, Nikias is making a life for himself in the bustling city of Pheme, working at a snack stand, drinking with a group of anti-slavery radicals, and pining for the beautiful law clerk next door. When he sees his crush attacked in the street by an outraged ex-client, it seems it's finally Nikias's chance to be the hero. Kallion doesn't need a rescue. What he really needs is a skewer of octopus fritters (with extra sauce) and a friend. Nikias can supply both, and maybe, with the help of Nikias's skill in the kitchen and Kallion's excellent collection of wine, they can fight past their misunderstandings and the disasters of their pasts to something deeper. But when civil unrest roils the city and old threats resurface, the trust these two have built will be tested. And they'd both better hope that Kallion's vicious former master will just stay dead. Honey & Pepper is a standalone m/m romance and also the first book in the When in Pheme series set in an imaginary ancient world.
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    Killer Jam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
    When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead at the Founders' Day Festival with a bratwurst skewer through her heart and one of Lucy's jam jars beside her...and the sheriff fingers Lucy as the prime suspect. Horrified, Lucy begins to talk to Nettie's neighbors, but the more she gets to know the townspeople, the more she realizes she's not the only one who had a beef with Nettie. Can she clear her name, or will her dream life turn into a nightmare? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Clark Linden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007274/bk_brll_007274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Star , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
    After widowed Indie author Kurtis Ward channels his grief into self-publishing his horror novel, an Internet troll decides to skewer his work so viciously that it triggers something deep within Ward - something far fouler than human rage. When Ward tracks down, kidnaps, and tortures his critic, he begins to recognize that the events of his book bear far too many similarities to the world around him. Is this lurker within his mind a product of his grief, or something far worse - could Akko Soggathoth, the horrific beast of Ward’s fiction, be more than a product of his imagination? Can Ward somehow regain control of his descent into madness? If it’s even possible…does he really want to?In Stephen King’s Misery a crazy fan kidnapped an author. Today, things have changed and the author has kidnapped his reader.This story takes place between books 1 and 2 in the Wolves of the Tesseract series. The events are noted in the novels, but familiarity with those stories is not necessary and One Star can stand alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Boozell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130094/bk_acx0_130094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hits and Misses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 232min
    A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars.Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (The Daily Beast) - a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) and James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, he's back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all.Inspired by Rich's real experiences in Hollywood, Hits and Misses chronicles all the absurdity of fame and success alongside the heartbreaking humanity of failure. From a bitter tell-all by the horse Paul Revere rode to greatness to a gushing magazine profile of everyone's favorite World War II dictator, these stories roam across time and space to skewer our obsession with making it big - from the days of ancient Babylon to the age of TMZ. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Rich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004559/bk_hach_004559_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    Roseanne Barr is a force of nature. Whether taking the sitcom world by storm, challenging accepted social norms, or battling the wild pigs inhabiting her nut farm in Hawaii, she is not to be trifled with. In this audibook, Roseanne unleashes her razor-sharp observations on hypocrisy, hubris, and self-perpetuating institutions of questionable value - as well as menopause, pharmaceuticals, and her grandkids. And she's as controversial, original, and funny as ever. Raised half-Jewish, half-Mormon, and 100-percent misfit, Roseanne made a deal with Satan early on as the price she paid for stardom. But now she's looking to refinance the loan of her soul - this book represents her final exorcism of fame. Displaying her brilliance and sharp wit, Roseanne discusses the humor of everyday life with musings on more serious topics, such as class warfare, feminism, the cult of celebrity, and Kabbalah. Bold, brash, and insightful, Roseannearchy shows that she can still skewer any subject under the sun and why The New York Times describes her appeal as the power of a whole planet, pulling everything around it inexorably into its orbit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roseanne Barr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005296/bk_sans_005296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fancies Versus Fads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min
    This collection of short essays by G.K. Chesterton is as applicable in 2020 as it was when it was written in 1923 during the first "Progressive Era". He saves his most subtle and cutting humor for commentary to skewer his favorite targets: feminists, vegetarians, modernists, journalists, social reformers, psychologists, and "sophisticated" people in general.Essays included in this collection:"The Romance of Rhyme""Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst""The Meaning of Mock Turkey""Shakespeare and the Legal Lady""On Being an Old Bean""The Fear of the Film""Wings and the Housemaid""The Slavery of Free Verse""Prohibition and the Press""The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett""A Defence of Dramatic Unities""The Boredom of Butterflies""The Terror of a Toy""False Theory and the Theatre""The Secret Society of Mankind""The Sentimentalism of Divorce""Street Cries and Stretching the Law""Why Reforms Go Wrong""The Innocence of the Criminal""The Prudery of the Feminists""How Mad Laws Are Made""The Pagoda of Progress""The Myth of the “Mayflower”"Much Too Modern History""The Evolution of Slaves""Is Darwin Dead?""Turning Inside Out""Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder""A Note on Old Nonsense""Milton and Merry England" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heidi Wall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223995/bk_acx0_223995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 249min
    A timely manifesto urging us to think critically, form opinions, and then argue them with gusto.Hater begins from a simple premise: that it's good to hate things. Not people or groups or benign belief systems, but things. More to the point, it's good to hate the things everyone seems to like.Scan the click-baiting headlines of your favorite news or pop-culture website, and you're likely to find that just about everything is, supposedly, "what we need right now." We are the victims of an unbridled, unearned optimism. And our world demands pessimism. It's vital to be contrarian - now, as they say, more than ever. Because ours is an age of calcified consensus. And we should all hate that.In this scathing and funny rebuke of the status quo, journalist John Semley illustrates that looking for and identifying nonsense isn't just a useful exercise for society, it's also a lot of fun. But Hater doesn't just skewer terrible TV shows and hit songs - at its core it tells us how to meaningfully talk about and engage with culture, and the world. Ultimately, Hater is what we actually need right now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Semley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/prhc/000631/bk_prhc_000631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Woman World
    Best of 2018 lists from Nylon, the New York Public Library, Boing Boing, and The Cut! With her startling humor, it's no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal's web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000 likes. Now, readers everywhere will delight in the print edition as Dhaliwal seamlessly incorporates feminist philosophical concerns into a series of perfectly-paced strips that skewer perceived notions of femininity and contemporary cultural icons. D+Q's edition of Woman World will include new and previously unpublished material. When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes. Dhaliwal's infectiously funny instagram comic follows the rebuilding process, tracking a group of women who have rallied together under the flag of "Beyonce's Thighs." Only Grandma remembers the distant past, a civilization of segway-riding mall cops, Blockbuster movie rental shops, and "That's What She Said" jokes. For the most part, Woman World's residents are focused on their struggles with unrequited love and anxiety, not to mention that whole "survival of humanity" thing. Woman World is an uproarious and insightful graphic novel from a very talented and funny new voice.
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    The Boy Who Was Seen as a Villain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
    Welcome to Christopher Gary's imagination. He is an author with ASD who finds one of the greatest goals in life: do not be bored. His second goal would likely be: make people laugh. Down that list and mostly hidden behind the silly and the funny and the lame names are some other goals, but let's not spoil the whole thing. Have fun. Break the fourth wall. Skewer some tropes like s'mores. He was raised by wolves, and he learned how to communicate and work with animals. What were the wolves like? They tried to eat him. What!? Oh yeah, they were persistent, too! He had to hide and run for most of his life while in the jungle. He learned from them how to run, how to hunt, how to bake, how - Excuse me!? Long story short, apparently the wolves were trained by a baker before they ate him. They were quite savage. Anyway, with some helpful encouragement from the wolves, he learned how to communicate with other animals. He and the animals worked together to fend off the wolves. Now with his amazing strength and cleverness paired with his unbridled relationship with nature, he is known as Anamaly, the great hunter! His favorite quarry: Villains! However, he now has a crippling case of lupophobia. What is lupophobia? Fear of wolves. Oh, that poor man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Kingery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114769/bk_acx0_114769_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Silver Ship and the Sea: Silver Ship, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 958min
    The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild. Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans. Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt. Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful, and dangerous. Fremont’s single town, Artistos, perches on a cliff below rugged mountains. Below Artistos lie the Grass Plains, which lead down to the sea. And in the middle of the Grass Plains, a single silver spaceship lies quiet and motionless. The seasons do not dull it, nor do the winds scratch it - and the fearful citizens of Artistos won't go near it. Chelo Lee, her brother Joseph, and four other young children have been abandoned on the colony planet. Unfortunate events have left them orphaned in a human colony that abhors genetic engineering - and these six young people are genetically enhanced. With no one to turn to, Chelo and the others must now learn how to use their distinct skills to make this unwelcome planet home - or find a way off it. They have few tools - an old crazy woman who wanders the edges of town, spouting out cryptic messages; their appreciation and affection for each other; a good dose of curiosity; and that abandoned silver space ship that sits locked and alone in the middle of the vast grass plain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Fortgang. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004183/bk_adbl_004183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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