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FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SKINNY DIP AND RAZOR GIRL, A HILARIOUS NEW NOVEL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE, SET AGAINST THE GLITTERING BACKDROP OF FLORIDA'S GOLD COAST It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or cause, there's a reason for the local luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and be seen. But when a prominent high-society dowager suddenly vanishes during a swanky gala, and is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. Kiki Pew was notable not just for her wealth and her jewels-she was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident just down the road and a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting their President. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, the President immediately declares that Kiki was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth. The truth might lie in the middle of the highway, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady's mo-torcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Ser¬vice agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . . Carl Hiaasen brightens even the darkest of days, and Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Ir-reverent, ingenious, and highly entertaining, Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times. "The undisputed master of organized chaos . . . Hiaasen's satire is a fierce unmuzzled snarl, swiftly followed by a painfully ironic bite. Quite simply, brilliant." THE SUNDAY TIMES "Carl Hiaasen [is] a superb national satirist . . . A great American writer about the great American subjects of ambition, greed, vanity, and disappointment." ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "[Hiaasen is] a master of the comic crime novel." THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Carl Hiaasen (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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Una semana... ¿de básquet?

El club representativo del municipio se prepara para un enfrentamiento histórico: el partido amistoso más importante de la temporada en la categoría de infantil (categoría liderada por una estrella de trece años llamada Arturo). Jugarán contra el equipo de la localidad vecina, y la rivalidad alcanza cotas superlativas por el hecho de que los gestores de ambos clubes son cuñados. Gómez, el amo del club, en su afán por ganar la partida, se verá inmerso en una guerra psicológica irracional, pues el rival contra el que se enfrenta es él mismo. Utilizando el baloncesto como escenario, Una semana ¿de básquet? es una parodia cargada de ironía y de mala baba, cuya pretensión es relativizar y hacer retornar a la realidad a quienes han sido abducidos por los efectos alucinógenos de sus propios delirios e instintos pasionales.

Carlos Felipe Martell (Author), Javier Reyero (Narrator)

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Das Ende der Bücher (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Wie konnte dieser Text so lange unentdeckt bleiben? Im Jahr 1895 hat der technikbegeisterte Buchliebhaber, Verleger und Dandy Octave Uzanne, gemeinsam mit dem Illustrator Albert Robida, in einer auf 30 Exemplare limitierten Luxusausgabe seine Geschichten für Bibliophile veröffentlicht. Darin enthalten findet sich unter dem tollkühnen Titel Das Ende der Bücher eine umwerfend genaue Medientechnik-Prophezeiung. Uzanne sieht eine Miniaturisierung der Wachswalzen zur Sprachaufzeichnung, kleine Batteriespeicher und mobile 'Hörschläuche' voraus. Autoren werden zu 'Storygraphen', die mitunter Schauspieler engagieren, ihre Werke gekonnt vorzutragen. Ein Fest der Weitsicht und der Phantasie, für Sie entdeckt und endlich in dem Medium zu genießen, für das sich erst rund ein Jahrhundert später ein Name etablieren sollte: Als Hörbuch!

Octave Uzanne (Author), Friedhelm Ptok, Jochen Hörisch (Narrator)

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Noch 3 Treuepunkte bis zum Pfannen-Set - Kleinstadt-Wahnsinn mit den Ahlmanns. Von den Macher:innen

Die Macher:innen vom Instagram-Account alman_memes2.0, deren Geschichten rund um Anette, Achim und Co von mehr als 570.000 Menschen gefeiert werden, erzählen vom ganz normalen Kleinstadtwahnsinn: In der Rosengarten-Siedlung im beschaulichen Städtchen Hildenberg hätten für Familie Ahlmann so schöne, ruhige Zeiten anbrechen können: Die Kinder aus dem Haus, der gewaschene Zafira im Carport stets bereit für einen kleinen Tupperdosenausflug ins Grüne, Bundesligakonferenz am Samstag - ein Leben in geordneten, klarsichthüllengeschützten Bahnen. Aber Anette will mehr, sie will das Bürgermeisteramt, und plötzlich haben die Ahlmanns statt Ruhe und Bienenstich am Sonntag Wahlkampfhelfer auf der Couchgarnitur und die geballte Aufmerksamkeit der Hildenberger auf sich gerichtet. Trotz einer Reihe Hürden im privaten Umfeld und Tuscheleien der Kleinstadtgemeinschaft, stürzt sich Anette voller Elan in den Wahlkampf. Unterstützung erfährt sie dabei von ihrer besten Freundin Biggi und zeigt allen, wer eigentlich in Hildenberg die 7/8-Hosen anhat. Doch als sich plötzlich der schnittige Sebastian Wotzke mit selbstgebackenem Apfelkuchen in den Wahlkampf einmischt, kommt es zum Polit-Krimi-Showdown und Anette ist kurz davor alles hinzuschmeißen. Da schnappt sie im Haarstudio Komm Hair pikante Informationen über ihren Konkurrenten auf, die alles verändern...

Marius Notter, Sina Scherzant (Author), Petra Kleinert (Narrator)

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La caída del virtuoso Todd Connelly

Todd Connelly es el perfecto comunicador de virtudes. Lleva sus máscaras con júbilo y se pone todas las vacunas que el gobierno le dice que se ponga. Un día, la vida de Todd da un vuelco cuando el corrupto primer ministro Scurry Morrissette decide tratar la epidemia de obesidad de la misma manera que trata la epidemia de Covid...

Martin Lundqvist (Author), Sebastian Llanos (Narrator)

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Die Idee des Jack Wiggle (ungekürzt)

Jack Wiggle, ein unbedeutender Bewohner einer kleinen englischen Stadt, am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, erwacht eines Morgens mit einer Idee. Die Vision, die ihn von nun an leitet, erweckt seine Kreativität und ermutigt ihn, sich allen Gepflogenheiten und Ressentiments gegenüber zu behaupten. Ob sein bester blinder Freund Karl, der Earl von Clayton, oder der Bürgermeister, so manche Dame der kleinen bis dato unbedeutenden Stadt Burghingen, oder die bezaubernde Lehrerin Rose, alle werden hineingezogen in den Sog der Idee des Jack Wiggle. Selbstredend treten mit Veränderungen auch Konflikte und längst vergessene Vorgänge zum Vorschein. Wenn dunkle Geheimnisse sich lüften, oder diese mit allen Mitteln verborgen bleiben sollen. Auch die Liebe, oder besser gesagt die mit ihr verbundenen Nebensächlichkeiten, spielen in dieser Geschichte keine unbedeutende Rolle, da der Familienstammbaum des Jack Wiggle keinerlei Orientierungshilfen bekundet. Wie so manches Geheimnis behütet, Jacks Leben sich verändert und wie sein Umfeld dadurch bereichert wurde, lüftet diese inspirierende und romantische Satire, die die Abgründe und Schönheiten des Menschseins zum Vorschein bringt.

Josef Hiebaum (Author), Sebastian J. Schmidt (Narrator)

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My Year Abroad: A Novel

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A manifesto to happiness-the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements-and this is a book that moves…My Year Abroad is a wild ride-a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia." - Vogue From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure - and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection. Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself. In the breathtaking, "precise, elliptical prose" that Chang-rae Lee is known for (The New York Times), the narrative alternates between Tiller's outlandish, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange, riveting, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future. Rich with commentary on Western attitudes, Eastern stereotypes, capitalism, global trade, mental health, parenthood, mentorship, and more, My Year Abroad is also an exploration of the surprising effects of cultural immersion-on a young American in Asia, on a Chinese man in America, and on an unlikely couple hiding out in the suburbs. Tinged at once with humor and darkness, electric with its accumulating surprises and suspense, My Year Abroad is a novel that only Chang-rae Lee could have written, and one that will be read and discussed for years to come.

Chang-Rae Lee (Author), Lawrence Kao (Narrator)

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There but for the

Brought to you by Penguin. A sparkling satire from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they first appear... 'Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting' Guardian 'Adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read' Literary Review 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph © Ali Smith 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Ali Smith (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)

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The Nose

In 1722 Peter the Great introduced a system of positions and ranks for the military, the government, and the Russian court which enabled commoners to gain a modicum of nobility through service to the state. He did so in order to diminish the power of the hereditary nobility with whom he was struggling. This led to large bureaucracies and an obsession with appearances and status, a situation ripe for the brilliant satire of “The Nose”. The story is an absurd, comic, surreal and sometimes grotesque send up of Major Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning to find his nose missing. The story has three parts. In part one, Kovalyov's barber finds his client's nose in his breakfast and is nabbed by the police when he tries to throw it off a bridge. In part two, Kovalyov awakes to find his nose gone. When he leaves to report the loss, runs into it on the street dressed in the uniform of an important official who outranks him. He chases it, but the nose eludes him until it is apprehended it is about to flee the city by coach. The nose is returned to Kovalyov, but it can't be re-attached, leading him to suspect that a curse has been placed on him. Meanwhile, the nose has become the talk of the town. In part three, the Major awakes with the nose fully intact. Things just drift back to normal. The story is a staple of Russian literature, has been staged and adapted numerous times, and has had a monument erected in its honor in St. Petersburg.

Nicolai Gogol (Author), Douglas Harvey (Narrator)

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The Wine Club: A suspenseful tale of suburban crime: two wives in a rough patch break bad with a tre

Get hooked with The Wine Club. Most people can’t tell a good wine from a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. At least that’s what Reggie and Audrey decide one night while celebrating their daughters’ election to the elite Mohave High Pom Squad. But cheerleading in Scottsdale is expensive, and both women are strapped for cash and going through a rough patch. Reggie’s husband announced he’s gay and wants a separation. Audrey’s husband is entering rehab. What if they could earn money by selling cheap wine in fancy bottles? How hard could it be? As they perfect their high-stakes con, they enlist the help of Cynthia, an ex-Mrs. Arizona with her own problems. When the money flows, their greed and mistrust grow…as does the realization that they are now a team of real-life female criminals. The Wine Club is a witty, wicked tale of suburban crime. With its dark humor, creative satire, a twisted plot, and female criminals who 'break bad,' this suspenseful novel is filled with surprising twists and turns, and one you won't put down. Read about Laurie at LaurieLisa.com. Amazon reviews: 'Stellar Read...One of the top five I have read this year...Meticulously crafted...A masterpiece of feminine literature.' KA '...spellbinding and filled to the brim with unexpected turns.' BY 'Don't miss this darkly funny thriller...I devoured The Wine Club in just a few days, anxious to find out how far Reggie, Audrey, and Cynthia would go to save themselves and their children from financial ruin.' AZ 'An entertaining example of women's Literature...a story of many layers. It is brilliant.' J 'Brilliant! This book is phenomenal!...a fast-paced read and one that is difficult to put down.' CM 'A masterfully crafted story...If you liked Gone Girl or Girl on a Train, you will enjoy reading this!' RD

Laurie Lisa (Author), Jeanine Kane (Narrator)

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Stack Bullion

Is Sex & Drugs & Rock ’n’ Roll a communist plot or is society just licentious? Is a conspiracy of rotten eggs from Moscow out to sap the vital fluids of red-blooded Canadians? Darien has emerged as an organized crime wave, and former Chief Inspector Jacques Gaffeur and his nephew, Wilhelm Gaffeur, Professor of Scatology, commit themselves to gather evidence on Darien and arrest him and his aide-de-camp, Alois Schicklgruber, with the help of the RCMP. Or is the Canadian government right and will inject freedom-loving Canadians with a microchip in their brain in order to instruct their thoughts unless Canada’s Socialist Party, the NDP, re-programs left-leaning Canadians to fight a guerrilla war against the Canadian government while uploading a subliminal message to vote for NDP? Will they succeed? Read Stack Bullion and the sequel, The Explication of the HUCAC, to find out.

Gavin Whyte (Author), Jacob Zbigniew Klimaszewski (Narrator)

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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark

Trapped in a dead-end job in his Ohio hometown, watching the girl of his dreams move on to a glamorous new life in a big city-Donald McDougal's aimlessness has held him back for a long time. When a lightning strike grants him superhuman powers, he jumps at his chance to finally be somebody. But the new abilities and the pursuit of superheroic fame come with a price tag, and it may not be one he can afford. This wry debut is at once a fanboy's homage to the history of superhero storytelling in America and a keen-eyed satire of those same stories, raising questions about race and privilege that are becoming impossible to ignore.

Charlie J. Eskew (Author), Sean Crisden (Narrator)

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