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  Abbott and Costello: Abbott...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Lou was at the racetrack. He was out last night with Susan Miller. A man enters who tries to sell Lou all kinds of stuff. Lou says he must have made a mistake on his income tax last month. Bud wants Lou to get a job. Bud tries to get Lou a job as a babysitter. Bud winds up doing the babysitting for a pretty girl.

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  Insane Idiots

  James M. Spears

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  Idiotic Audio presents Insane Idiots,  by James M. Spears 
  Sixteen of the Funniest Stories in the World!

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  Gorgias

  Plato

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  This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates, as presented by Plato, shine forth in this wonderful work on sophistry and other forms of persuasion or cookery. (Summary by Kevin Johnson)

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  The Department of Lost & Found -...

  Allison Winn Scotch

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  From a New York Times bestseller, a “profound and moving” novel of a woman who receives a lifechanging diagnosis that rocks her love life and her career (Booklist). 
   
  It didn’t start out as the worst day of Natalie Miller’s life. . . . 
   
  As the top aide to New York’s powerful woman senator, Natalie’s moving rapidly up the political ladder. She works hard, stays late, and enjoys every bit of it. Then her neglected boyfriend announces he’s leaving. But that’s only the beginning. Her doctor gives her the worst news any woman can hear, and suddenly the life Natalie needs to change is her own. 
   
  The time has come for her to overcome her strange obsession with The Price Is Right and take a tough look at the choices she’s made. She’ll start by tracking down the five loves of her life in order to assess what went wrong. And by revisiting her past, Natalie just might discover exciting new paths to unexplored places—and learn how to stop barreling through life long enough to really embrace it. 
   
  “Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won’t want to miss.” —Johanna Edwards, author of The Next Big Thing 
   
  “Funny, touching, tender, true. . . . I loved it.” —Pamela Redmond Satran, New York Times bestselling author of Younger 
   
   “Engrossing.” —Valerie Frankel, author of Smart Vs. Pretty 
   
  “Allison Winn Scotch’s thoroughly engaging and optimistic debut novel simply sparkles!” — Claire Cook, New York Times bestselling author of Life’s A Beach 
   
  “Smart and well-written.” —Marie Claire 
   
  “A light, fast and fun read on a serious topic.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

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  Planet Funny - How Comedy Ruined...

  Ken Jennings

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  A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year: An “impressive and highly entertaining” history of humor by the New York Times–bestselling Jeopardy! host (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
  Record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings knows a lot of things about a lot of things, and in this “lively insightful” book (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette) he takes on a fascinating subject—the evolution of humor from fart jokes on Sumerian clay tablets to today’s Facebook memes. 
   
  Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the rails, it is being funny. Humor—and attempts at it—seem to have taken over the planet. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. And thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day. 
   
  In Planet Funny, Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing comedy from the caveman days to the bawdy medieval antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, he explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor. 
   
  “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important.” —A.J. Jacobs, New York Times–bestselling author of The Year of Living Constitutionally 
   
  “Smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny.” —Booklist (starred review) 
   
  “Full of good sense and meaningful interviews . . . it would be difficult to find a smarter or more satisfying treatment of a subject so evanescent and idiosyncratic as comedy.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  Greed in Paradise

  Deborah Brown

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  This time, the girls find themselves written into the will of a friend and business partner, although his death seems anything but cut-and-dried. The steamy climate heats up even more as sexual tension skyrockets between Madison and an old family friend, and Fabiana falls even deeper with her French model boyfriend. Once again, the super sleuths are up to their necks in murky water. Can they piece things together in time, or will they wind up dead just as suddenly and inexplicably as their friend?

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