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  Mark Twain San Francisco Love...

  Peter Clark, LLC Mark Twain...

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  Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ina Coolbrith, and Charles Stoddard are the four San Francisco Bohemian writers of the 1860s who set the course for American literature. This Mark Twain Valentine audiobook tells the story of their love triangle. 
  Mark Twain made sure that his full true-life story would not be told for 100 years after his death, so this story has never been heard publicly before! 
  Make a date with your sweetheart to listen​ in!  
  Mark Twain became a credited author for the first time while in San Francisco, a hundred years before the Summer of Love, with the publication of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Twain and the other San Francisco Bohemian writers were in their twenties at the time. The de Young brothers were in their teens when they started the San Francisco Chronicle with Mark Twain as a reporter! 
  Bret Harte was the leader and mentor of San Francisco’s Bohemian writers, and Mark Twain competed with Bret for the attention of the enchanting poet Ina Coolbrith.​ This is the story of how that turned out​... details kept from the public for over 160 years. 
  Ina held salons in her home on Russian Hill for her Bohemian friends and their patrons, which became the foundation for the Bohemian Club. Ina later became Oakland’s first librarian (where she mentored Jack London) and became the first poet laureate of any state. But the love triangle occurred during an earlier, more tumultuous time as the American Civil War was being brought to a close and San Francisco grew in sophistication. 
  This two-hour audiobook is important California history told with the droll sarcasm unique to Mark Twain. It should not be missed!

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  No Birds Sing Here

  Jr. Daniel V. Meier

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  Satire at its best!In this indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time, two young people, Beckman and Malany set out on an odyssey to find meaning and reality in the artistic life, and in doing so unleash a barrage of humorous, unintended consequences.Beckman and Malany's journey reflects the allegorical evolution of humanity from its primal state, represented by Beckman's dismal life as a dishwasher to the crude, medieval development of mankind in a pool hall, and then to the false but erudite veneer of sophistication of the academic world.The world these protagonists live in is a world without love. It has every other variety of drive and emotion, but not love. Do they know it? Not yet. And they won't until they figure out why no birds sing here.Meier's writing is precise and detailed, whether the situation he describes is clear or ambiguous.Fans of Franzen and Salinger will find Meier to be another sharp, provocative writer of our time.

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  Fourth of July Fireworks

  Gene Clements

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  Elmer is thrilled to be named to head up the annual Fourth of July Parade Committee by the mayor of South Branch! This doesn’t seem like a difficult position, until Elmer realizes that he will be in charge of selecting the young lady who will grace the Betsy Ross float, the centerpiece of the parade. The competition is fierce, and the young candidates and their overambitious mothers will stop at nothing to influence Elmer’s selection! Tilly believes Elmer is a little too fond of the unladylike attention these women sometimes lavish on him. Elmer feels it’s all in good fun. Fireworks ensue! 

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  R is for Rugby

  Paul Morgan

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  A superb collection of humourous Rugby stores, anecdotes, quotes and jokes, highlighting some of the key characters of the game such as Jonny Wilkinson, David Campese, Gareth Edwards and many more.

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  The Talented Mr Varg

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  In the second installment of the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf and his team investigate anotorious philanderer—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may be all bark and no bite.The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, is alwaysprepared to dive into an investigation, no matter how complex. So when the girlfriend of an infamous authorwho insists her bad-boy beau is being blackmailed approaches Ulf Varg, the department’s lead detective, Ulfis determined to help. It’s rather difficult to determine what skeletons hide in the hard-living lothario’s closet,though. And while Swedes are notoriously tolerant … well, there are limits. Even for the Swedish.The case requires Ulf’s total concentration, but he finds himself distracted by his ongoing attraction to hiscoworker, Anna, whose own fears about her husband’s fidelity are causing a strain on her marriage. When Ulf isalso tasked with looking into a group of dealers exporting wolves that seem more canis familiaris than canis lupus,it will require all of his team’s investigative instincts and dogged persistence to put these matters to bed.

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  Willow's Wedding Vows - A Laugh...

  Debbie Viggiano

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  Wedding vows have never been this personal…Willow has been living with marriage-shy Charlie for more years than she cares to remember and is old-fashioned enough to want a wedding band and a loads-of-sex honeymoon before stretchmarks and nipple shields. So when the once-wary Charlie surprisingly goes down on one knee, Willow doesn't question why her boyfriend is suddenly so keen to rush her into saying “I do”. The first clue comes as Willow is zipped into her Cinderella dress, the second as she bobs into the wedding car, and the third as the Roller swings towards its fairy-tale destination… leaving a shell-shocked Willow desperately trying to figure out what to do next.

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