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  Jeeves Takes Charge

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  There are times when life requires initiative, decisiveness, and a certain strength of character. Fortunately for Bertie Wooster, he has Jeeves.
  Between the delicate politics of high society and the quiet catastrophes of everyday existence, authority proves to be a surprisingly fluid arrangement — one that Jeeves manages with unruffled calm, alarming precision, and impeccable timing.
  With P. G. Wodehouse, no predicament is ever quite as serious as it seems, and no social disaster beyond elegant correction — provided the right gentleman is in attendance.
  When in doubt… leave it to Jeeves.

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  Darwin Awards 3 The: Survival of...

  Wendy Northcutt

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  The Darwin Awards III commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! 
   
  Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. 
   
  These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory! The author has appeared in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The (NY) Daily News, Boston Herald, Publisher Weekly, BookPage and CNN.com.

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  Passwords

  Sally Cook

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  This story tells the frustrating but sometimes humorous journey of the author's interactions with the virtual world where she combats chat bots, racks her withering brain for passwords, almost has a hissyfit at the supermarket checkout, accidentally buys online goods she doesn't want and gets all scrambled  regarding pins, passwords and cyber theft. She used to have a childhood toffee stall to raise money for Freedom From Hunger. Now emails remind her to help save the world, the planet, combat animal cruelty and the climate crisis. Some days it takes nerves to turn on her social devices.

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  The Blind Accordionist

  C.D. Rose

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  In the novel Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else, the character "C. D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C. D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer named Maxim Guyavitch. That search was fruitless, but in The Blind Accordionist, "C. D. Rose" has found the manuscript—nine sparkling, fable-like short stories—and he presents them here with an (hilarious) introduction explaining the discovery, and an afterword providing (hilarious) critical commentary on the stories, and what they might reveal about the mysterious Guyavitch. 
   
   
   
  The Blind Accordionist is another masterful book of world-making by the real C. D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about "C. D. Rose," although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. (The first in the series was The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure; the second was Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else.) 
   
   
   
  Like those books, The Blind Accordionist can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy—or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.

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  Indian Summer of an Uncle

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  There are uncles who settle into dignified middle age.
  And then there are uncles who—at the faintest whisper of romance—decide that destiny has placed laurel wreaths upon their brows.
  In Indian Summer of an Uncle, Bertie Wooster finds himself observing one such seasonal miracle: a gentleman of mature years suddenly aflame with youthful ardor and dangerously optimistic ideas. The result is not so much scandal as social turbulence—the sort that begins with poetry and ends with urgent consultations.
  As ever, when emotion gallops ahead and decorum struggles to keep pace, salvation rests with the incomparable Jeeves. With a raised eyebrow and an intellect honed to surgical precision, he restores equilibrium to a world tilting gently toward chaos.
  Effervescent, exquisitely timed, and entirely free of unnecessary gravity, this is Wodehouse at his most buoyant. No heavy drama—only immaculate comic engineering, sparkling dialogue, and the eternal reassurance that English society, though absurd, remains wonderfully survivable.
  Perfect for listeners who adore classic British wit, aristocratic misadventure, and the soothing certainty that Jeeves is always two steps ahead.
  A timeless comedic gem—especially delightful in audio, where every sigh, pause, and polite disaster can be savored.

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  The Ghost-Ship - A unique and...

  Richard Middleton

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  Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex. 
   
  His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London.  There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.   
   
  Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians club where his literary contacts grew. 
   
  He became an editor at Vanity Fair where he told a fellow editor, the notorious Frank Harris, that he wanted to pursue a career as a poet.  Shortly afterwards Harris published Middleton’s poem ‘The Bathing Boy’. 
   
  As an author he is most remembered for his short ghost stories. 
   
  Richard Middleton died on 1st December 1911.  He was 29.

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