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Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk never happened. They don't have cable. They don't really have pop culture, unless you count grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. They hate the government and impregnate teenage girls. But that's not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it's perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. She gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer who listens to Goats Head Soup. Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. He consumes a lot of coffee, thinks about his dead wife, and understands the truth. They all know each other completely, except that they've never met. Like a colder, Reagan-era version of The Last Picture Show fused with Friday Night Lights, Chuck Klosterman's Downtown Owl is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing. Loaded with detail and unified by a (very real) blizzard, it's technically about certain people in a certain place at a certain time ... but it's really about a problem. And the problem is this: What does it mean to be a normal person? And there is no answer. But in Downtown Owl what matters more is how you ask the question.

Chuck Klosterman (Author), Chuck Klosterman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Keith Nobbs, Lily Rabe, Phillip Baker Hall, Various Artists, Wiley Wiggins (Narrator)

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Meanwhile With The Bearded Ladies

Radio 4 sitcom about four women friends, written by and starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte McDougall, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. Four women friends cope with life, work and men. Mel is hunting for a man - any man, and Lucy wants Kevin to help her get rid of a rat. Jo and Kevin are trying for a baby so she can be a really Yummy Mummy, and Alex is planning her wedding. But will she achieve all 154 items on her 'To Do' list - including writing the Best Man's speech?

A Full Cast, Fay Rusling, Oriane Messina (Author), A Full Cast, Fay Rusling, Oriane Messina, Ronnie Corbett (Narrator)

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Der Tod hat eine Anhängerkupplung

Der Tod hat eine Anhängerkupplung Campingkrimi Endlich wieder Urlaub! Doch wer sich auf Dünen, Strand und Ferienluft in Holland gefreut hat, erlebt eine böse Überraschung. Auf Camping de Grevelinge ist alles anders: Blaulicht, rot-weißes Absperrband, Polizei! Der Kantinenwirt des Campingplatzes ist kopfüber in der Porta-Potti-Entsorgungsstation ertrunken aufgefunden worden. Es sieht nicht nach Selbstmord aus. Inspecteur Piet van Houvenkamp, der größte lebende Agatha-Christie-Fan weltweit, stellt bald fest: Der Tod hat eine Anhängerkupplung!

Bernd Stelter (Author), Bernd Stelter (Narrator)

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Die Tagung - Chaos ist Chefsache und Business not usual

Die Tagung Chaos ist Chefsache und Business not usual Für Berater Mats Enning ist es ein Job wie jeder andere: Auf einer Tagung soll er die Mitarbeiter eines Pharmariesen auf Trab bringen. So weit, so einfach. Was er nicht weiß: Der Laden soll verkauft werden. Für viele Mitarbeiter ist es die letzte Party aus der Portokasse. Der Prokurist schläft mit der Frau des Vorstands, die widerum mit dem Leiter der Forschung. Der Außendienst hat vor, die Hotelbar leer trinken, das Essen ist eine Katastrophe, und zu allem Überfluss ist der Kaffee alle. Willkommen auf der Höllen-Tagung!

Michael Wirbitzky, Sascha Zeus (Author), Michael Wirbitzky, Sascha Zeus (Narrator)

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Outtakes from a Marriage

Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joes finally made it; hes the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award. After many lean years, theyve got a grand Upper West Side apartment and an Amagansett beach house, and their two kids go to elite private schools. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joes phone, a message left by a sultry-sounding woman who clearly isnt just a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joes messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julias search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a nothing, as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. A big husband-stalking nothing. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. Joe was a shy, awkward drama student who followed her around like a lovesick spaniel. After he won her heart, Julia helped Joe evolve into a roguishly handsome charmer who became increasingly obsessed with his looks and his career. Julia, meanwhile, settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her sons preschool each day. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. From the Hardcover edition.

Ann Leary (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

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Vanity Fair [With eBook]

Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status---and the need for humility. Show Less

William Makepeace Thackeray, William Thackeray (Author), Wanda McCaddon (Narrator)

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Summer Blowout

Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips-an occupational hazard, since she works at Salon de Paolo, her family-run beauty salon, along with her four half-brothers and sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair who is obsessed with all things Italian. After Bella's own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men. But then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur, and despite their bickering, they can't seem to stay away from each other. A small, well-tressed dog also finds her way into Bella's life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly-in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.

Claire Cook (Author), Angela Brazil (Narrator)

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Swine Not?: A Novel

Best-selling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible new tale---filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and the pursuit of a very clever pig. When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff---especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast---becomes imperative.

Jimmy Buffett (Author), Jimmy Buffett, L. J. Ganser, L.J. Ganser (Narrator)

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Jane Austen (Author), Josephine Bailey (Narrator)

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Deep Dish

Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. But when her show gets canceled, and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss's wife, Gina realizes that she's meant for bigger and better things. The Cooking Channel is looking for its next star, and Gina is certain that she fits the bill. Trouble is, the execs also have their eye on Mr. ""Kill It and Grill It"" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show called Vittles. Tate is the ultimate man's man, with a dog named Moonpie and a penchant for flannel shirts. Little does Gina know, though, that she and Tate are soon to embark on the cook-off of their lives.

Mary Kay Andrews (Author), Isabel Keating (Narrator)

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Remember Me?

With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel. When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident, Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she's about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband, who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she . . . well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does? From the Compact Disc edition.

Sophie Kinsella (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator)

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Revolting People Series 2

Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses' script for Revolting People, about the American War of Independence, winningly mixes the 'boom boom' school of jokes, literary silliness (jeopardy means 'like a jeopard') and anachronisms which make deft political points. Hamilton and Tarses, who has written for the Muppets and the Bob Newhart Show, appear alongside Jan Ravens (Deadringers) and James Fleet in an unmissable series with appearences from Hugh Dennis and Michael Fenton Stevens (TWOS).

Andy Hamilton (Author), , A Full Cast, Andy Hamilton, Jay Tarses (Narrator)

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