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Courtesy Jerk 3: It's Your Fault That Your Kids Suck

If you're lucky enough to have children, then you might be unlucky enough to know about all of the garbage that comes with being a parent. Or at the very least, being the parent for a parent.Courtesy Jerk takes a confrontal approach towards this nonsense, and decides to not pull any more punches towards these "little angels." If you're not admitting to being sick of them by now, we'll go ahead and do that for you.

Nicolas M. Parker (Author), Nicolas M. Parker (Narrator)

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Courtesy Jerk 4: Concessionally Speaking, You're an Asshole

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. - Jean-Luc Godard.Yeah? Well, with the way these people are acting, I think their "end" is about to come a lot sooner than expected. The fourth installment of Courtesy Jerk takes us into the world of entertainment, though i'm sure you can tell by this point that life is all but entertaining in the customer service industry.

Nicolas M. Parker (Author), Nicolas M. Parker (Narrator)

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Courtesy Jerk 5: Full of Holes

Honestly, is there anything left to say at this point? Is there no shred of hope of humanity left in the world when it comes to customer service? I think you all know the answer here. Courtesy Jerk's fifth installment centers around the memories we've all had as a child of being that wide-eyed confection customer. Doughnuts. But if you thought life was all glaze and sprinkles, you'd be dead wrong. Leave it to the dregs of society to once again, make another entry level position more hellish than it needs to be.

Nicolas M. Parker (Author), Nicolas M. Parker (Narrator)

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Deadly Assessments

After several years as a vampire, starting a business, founding his own clan, and proposing to his girlfriend, Fred is finally beginning to settle into life as an undead accountant. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy about his continued survival, or the dangerous friends he's made along the way. The Blood Council has dispatched a representative to determine if Fred is fit for the position he currently fills as head of a clan, and the stakes for failure are deathly serious. Worse, Fred will have to muddle through without the help of Krystal, who is off on a mysterious task of her own. Saddled with a new bodyguard, Fred will have to prove he's got what it takes to be a respectable vampire, control his abilities, and lead a clan. Because if he can't, the House of Fred will be no more.

Drew Hayes (Author), Kirby Heyborne (Narrator)

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In Bloom

Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2018 'Makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mary Poppins... this is going to give me a serious book hangover' John Marrs, author of The One If only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME! Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she's free. Except for one small problem. She's pregnant with her ex lover's child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop. But can a killer's urges ever really be curbed? Amazon reviewers love In Bloom: 'Dark, twisted, hysterical and heart breaking all in one. Outstanding.' 'Sick, twisted and disturbing, and so deliciously, darkly funny!' 'Brilliant characters, spot-on dialogue and a great plot. I just can't fault it.'

C.J. Skuse (Author), Georgia Maguire (Narrator)

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Adjustment Day

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk, read by Christopher Ragland. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new Disunited States of America. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

Chuck Palahniuk (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)

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Black No More

According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr. Junius Crookman and his mysterious process, Max and other eager clients develop bleached skin that permits them to enter previously forbidden territory. What they discover in white society, however, gives them second thoughts. This humorous work of speculative fiction was written by an unsung hero of African American literature. George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) wrote for black America's most influential newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, in addition to H. L. Mencken's The American Mercury, The Nation, and other publications. His biting satire not only debunks the myths of white supremacy and racial purity but also lampoons prominent leaders of the NAACP and the Harlem Renaissance. More than a historical curiosity, Schuyler's 1931 novel offers a hilarious take on the hypocrisy and demagoguery surrounding America's obsession with skin color.

George S. Schuyler (Author), Sean Crisden (Narrator)

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The Shoe on the Roof

Meet Thomas Rosanoff: med student and researcher. Meet his subjects: three homeless men who believe they are God. Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomas's life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted medical student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire childhood watched over by researchers lurking behind one-way glass. But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and he's convinced an experiment he has concocted will cure three homeless men of their delusional claims. When the experiment careens out of control, however, Thomas is forced to confront the voices echoing in his own head and the ghosts of his own past. An explosively imaginative tour de force, The Shoe on the Roof questions our definitions of sanity and madness while exploring the magical reality that lies just beyond the world of scientific fact.

Will Ferguson (Author), Jacques Roy (Narrator)

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Courtesy Jerk: Confessions of a Supermarket Employee

Nicolas M. Parker (Author), Nicolas M. Parker (Narrator)

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Spin: The Rumpelstiltskin Musical

SPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining of Grimm's fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, created by musical theatre veterans, narrated by Jim Dale, and featuring a cast of Broadway musical stars. The story takes place in a Nice Little Kingdom, and ignites when a foolish miller brags that his daughter, Jane, can spin straw into gold. Since she cannot perform such a miracle, Jane desperately enlists the powers of a magical being...Rumpelstiltskin... in exchange for a promise with dire consequences. A fun, fractured fairy tale for the entire family. Cast: Jim Dale, Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Nicola Barber, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, John Brady, Johnny Heller Produced by Hvam Audio and Sammy Smile Music; Music Composed, Orchestrated, and Produced by Neil Fishman; Book and Lyrics by Harvey Edelman; Adapted for the Audiobook by David B. Coe and Harvey Edelman; Directed by Khristine Hvam; Musical Direction by Neil Fishman; Recorded, Engineered and Mixed by Charles De Montebello at CDM Studios; Percussion Programming by Sam Fishman.

David B. Coe, Harvey Edelman, Neil Fishman (Author), Jim Dale, John Brady, John E. Brady, Johnny Heller, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, Nicola Barber (Narrator)

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The Infinite Future

An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book--and find it. The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There's Danny, a writer who's been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an excommunicated Mormon historian in Salt Lake City, who years ago corresponded with the reclusive Brazilian writer. The motley trio sets off to discover his identity, and whether his fabled masterpiece--never published--actually exists. Did his inquiries into the true nature of the universe yield something so enormous that his mind was blown for good? In the second half, Wirkus gives us the lost masterpiece itself--the actual text of The Infinite Future, Salgado-MacKenzie's wonderfully weird magnum opus. The two stories merge in surprising and profound ways. Part science-fiction, part academic satire, and part book-lover's quest, this wholly original novel captures the heady way that stories inform and mirror our lives. Audiobook Cast of Narrators: Michael Crouch, as Danny Jonathan Davis, as Sergio Hillary Huber, as Harriet Phoebe Strole, as Sister Ursula Kristen Sieh, as Irena Sean Patrick Hopkins, as Tim Oliver Wyman, as Craig Carol Monda, as Madge

Tim Wirkus (Author), , Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Jonathan Davis, Kristen Sieh, Michael Crouch, Oliver Wyman, Phoebe Strole, Sean Patrick Hopkins (Narrator)

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Out There: A Short Tale of the Weird and Wonderful

It's a day just like any other day... until something utterly unfamiliar suddenly lands in your back yard.Susan is the epitome of the happy housewife, contentedly conducting her daily ritual of cleaning her home and keeping everything just as it should be. Wrapped up in her own little world within those familiar walls, she hardly notices the altogether different arrival in her own back yard.She may ignore the sudden shaking beneath her slippered feet, she might even neglect to spot the conspicuous sight itself-but she can't evade the stench.Something's wrong. Very wrong. And Susan's incapable of determining just what to do about the uninvited eyesore in her back yard.Turning to her best friend for help with the impromptu emergency threatening to shake up her very existence and happy home, Susan combines efforts with neighbor Trisha to decipher the composition and meaning of the frightfully large and utterly unpleasant new arrival.But are these two women really capable of realizing the gift of new awareness they've just been given by an unseen entity? Or will they continue to fail to see the world that exists out there?What a difference a day makes... unless you choose to ignore it.

Justine Avery (Author), Daniela Acitelli (Narrator)

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