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    Time Shelter
    A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.
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    Biography of Chelsea Handler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
    She jokes. She writes. She acts. She hosts. She produces. Is she a budding tycoon? A whirling typhoon? Well, yes and yes. Chelsea Handler is at once a sexy, sharp-tongued comic, a highly-rated television host, a best-selling author, and, of late, a sitcom actress playing her own sister. Despite her self-deprecating humor and surgical skewering of all-things-celebrity, she has become a bona fide superstar in her own right. On the tube, the shelves, the stage, and the tabloids, the blonde beauty is seemingly everywhere. Compared to Handler, Ryan Seacrest is a couch potato. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Earl Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022905/bk_acx0_022905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret Lives of Litterbugs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 401min
    Take David Sedaris’ self-deprecation and deep sense of the absurd and toss in a pinch Erma Bombeck’s happy skewering of domestic life: there you have M. A. C. Farrant. In this witty, affecting collection of personal essays, Farranthas a gift for making those observations that would be harrowing, if they weren’t so funny, and here tackles the absurdities of family life from both sides of the generational divide: as a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family in the 1960s, and as a mother herself to three troublesome teenagers. The pieces are funny and sharp, completely original while describing an utterly familiar world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Moon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010569/bk_adbl_010569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Everything Abridged: Stories
    AUTHOR CONNECTIONS: The author is well-connected in literary circles and with writers, including Paul Beatty, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Gary Shteyngart, and Paul La Farge, all of whom will be approached for support of the book's publication.TARGETED AUDIENCE: For readers of David Wong's This Book is Full of Spiders, Paul Beatty's The Sellout, George Saunders's CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Lincoln in the Bardo, and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.SATIRE AS AUTHOR'S BRAND: Dayle is a political performance artist whose most recent stunt—a series of satirical political mailers skewering the New York City mayoral candidates—was shared on Twitter thousands of times and amassed nearly 50,000 likes.
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    Pure Drivel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
    In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Steve Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker already know: that Martin is a master of the written word. Hilariously funny and intelligent in their skewering of the topic at hand, these pieces, some of which first appeared in The New Yorker, feature Martin at his finest. With a playwright's ear for dialogue, a sense of irony only Martin could muster, and a first-class comic ability to perfectly time the punch line, Pure Drivel will have listeners crying with laughter, and marveling at the fact that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000034/bk_sans_000034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vanity Fair: February 2016 Issue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
    Don't mess with Megyn Kelly! Meet Fox News' brightest star, skillfully skewering GOP windbags, including one Donald Trump. In this issue: Is Martin Shkreli evil or just misunderstood? Secrets of Hillary's right-hand woman Murder mystery at the world's top dog show A dispatch from Brussels, Paris, and a refugee camp Plus: Grease, Cecily Strong, and more! Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice - often the only choice - for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008439/bk_blak_008439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Innocents Abroad
    The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians” and the European "Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, "Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, "If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”
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    Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min, (USK 18)
    As one of America's hottest female comedians, Lisa Lampanelli has earned critical acclaim across the country for her no-holds-barred style and ability to make people laugh at their own stereotypes and differences.Now, from the gutter-mouth comedienne who "talks like a truck driver but resembles a '50s housewife" (New York Times) comes her over-the-top, laugh-out-loud memoir, Chocolate, Please.Often described as "a cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen", Lampanelli has an opinion on every subject under the sun, and she happily dishes on nearly everything - from why all white women should date black men, to the virtues of codependency, to how to turn a stick of butter into parental love and attention - and offers her dangerously hilarious "Rules to Live By", delightedly skewering all topics with equal fervor, herself included. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Lampanelli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001874/bk_sans_001874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Divine Sister, Hörbuch, Digital, 107min
    A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time around, we present Busch's high-voltage spoof of religious melodramas, starring three of the principal players from its original 2010 Off-Broadway run.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Emily Bergl as Agnes, Charles Busch as Mother Superior, Maxwell Caulfield as Jeremy/Brother Venerius, Alison Fraser as Sister Walburga/Mrs. MacDuffie,Julie Halston as Sister Acacius/Juliet Mills/ Mrs. Levinson⁄TimothyDirected by Carl Andress. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Alison Fraser, Julie Halston, Juliet Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000361/pf_latw_000361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min
    A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and listenable volume. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative - and highly challenging - view of human economic development over the ages. As always, Dr. Hoppe addresses the fundamental questions as only he can. How do family and social bonds develop? Why is the concept of private property so vitally important to human flourishing? What made the leap from a Malthusian subsistence society to an industrial society possible? How did we devolve from aristocracy to monarchy to social democratic welfare states? And how did modern central governments become the all-powerful rulers over nearly every aspect of our lives? Dr. Hoppe examines and answers all of these often thorny questions without resorting to platitudes or bowdlerized history. This is Hoppe at his best: calmly and methodically skewering sacred cows. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Millian Quinteros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058516/bk_acx0_058516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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