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  Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - A...

  David Sedaris

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  Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children's books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.A Hachette Audio production.

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  Deep Dish

  Mary Kay Andrews

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  “Deep Dish is one delicious read. Mary Kay Andrews has cooked up a tale y’all will savor to the last bite. ” — Paula Deen 
  Battling TV chefs—a handsome Georgia redneck with a show called ""Vittles"" and a young professional woman with a cheating boyfriend, bad dye job, and overinvolved family—find themselves competing for a coveted weekly time slot on national television in Mary Kay Andrews’s delightful New York Times bestseller Deep Dish. 
  The incomparable Mary Kay offers heaping portions of humor, heart, and sass that fans of Fannie Flagg, Jennifer Crusie, Adriana Trigiani, Emily Giffin, and the Sweet Potato Queens simply will not be able to resist, as the winner-take-all cooking competition gets intense, especially when love ups the ante.

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  Jesus Boy

  Preston L. Allen

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  “A consummate tragicomedy of African American family secrets and sorrows, and of faith under duress . . . a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace.” —Booklist Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is a member of the austere community of Christian believers at the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who learns too late that the saintly girl he has had a crush on all his life is inexplicably pregnant and soon to be wed. Then the beautiful forty-two-year-old widow, Sister Morrisohn, in the midst of the confused emotions of her grieving, ends up in Elwyn's arms.  Despite the problems posed by their age difference and the strict prohibitions of their strong religious beliefs, Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn's love is true, and as it grows among the ascetics, abstainers, and holy ghost rollers of their church, it exposes with wit, poignancy, and insight the dark secrets and ancient crimes of the pious. In Jesus Boy, “by turns solemn and funny” (The New York Times), Elwyn learns through tragedy and epiphany that the holy are no different from the rest of us.  “Heartfelt and occasionally hilarious, Jesus Boy is a tender masterpiece.” —Dennis Lehane, New York Times–bestselling author of Mystic River and Since We Fell

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  The Tyranny of Flies - A Novel

  Elaine Vilar Madruga

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  In this provocative, darkly funny, and unique novel—a mix of Lord of the Flies and The Royal Tenenbaums—a dictator's former right-hand man becomes housebound and a family power struggle erupts.  
  Growing up on a Cuba-esque Caribbean island, Casandra, Calia, and Caleb endure life under two tyrannies: that of their parents, and the Island’s authoritarian dictator, Pop-Pop Mustache. Papa was the dictator's former right-hand man. Now, he’s a political pariah and an ugly parody of a tyrant, treating his home as a nation which he rules with an iron fist. As for Mom, his wife and hateful second in command, she rules from the mind. Obsessed with armchair psychoanalysis, she spends her days reading self-help books and seeks to diagnose the kids, and perhaps even herself. 
  But within these walls, a rebellion is fomenting. Casandra, a cynical, self-important teenager with the most unlikely of attractions, recruits Caleb, meek yet gifted with a deadly touch, to join her in an insurrection against their father’s arbitrary totalitarianism. Meanwhile, Calia, the silent, youngest sibling who just wants to be left alone to draw animals, may be in league with the flies—whose swarm in and around the house grows larger as Papa’s violence increases. 
  Equal parts Greek tragedy and horror, with a touch of J.D. Salinger and Luis Buñuel, The Tyranny of Flies is a biting and wholly original subversive masterpiece that examines the inherent violence of authority and the frightening and indelible links between patriarchy, military, and family. 
  Translated from the Spanish by Kevin Gerry Dunn

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  Anger Management - Episode 123 -...

  SULI Daniel Johnson

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  An unassuming woman wanders around the landscape of hell accompanied by a dammed priest and a sixties styles teenage demon activist. The trio is sometimes helped and sometimes hindered by a god-like being with dysfunctional split personalities. The series contains many plots and subplots. There is an overall plot that runs throughout the series that involves the nature of Hell being altered by the unintentional efforts of the trio. Equally, there are individual plots for each episode. Several other plots exist that cover intrigues between Heaven, Hell, and the Earth; God, the Devil, and Man. The Audiobook has been produced in the style of a Radio show with actors and audio effects. It is part of a 21 episode series. This audiobook includes: 
  Episode 1- A Narrow Escape Episode 1 finds Laura sowed away on top of a school bus filled with little angels on a field trip to Hell. She tells the border guard the story of her journeys through Hell in hopes of gaining political asylum in Heaven. Thus begins the remarkable and comical story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Heaven Hell and Everything else in between. 
  Episode 2-Anger Management Laura describes how she wound up in the wrath level where she took on Wrath as an anger management student. Wrath uses his new skills to help him manage his anger in his day-to-day life. Finally, he has a heart to heart with his conscience and thinks he uncovers the real problem. 
  Episode 3-How it began We flashback to the customs interview where Laura finds the real question is how did she get to Hell in the first place. Laura begins to explain, and we flashback to San Francisco International airport. Laura is put on a flight along with three terrorists. On the plane, she wrestles with them and their bomb goes off blowing up the plane and sending them all to Hell. She finds herself in a waiting room in hell. Through a series of misunderstandings, she winds up in the back alleys of Hell.

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  Seance

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  "Seance" is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"

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