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  Greats Abridged The: A Voyage to...

  Cyrano de Bergerac

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  Step into a whimsical world where philosophy meets imagination in The Greats Abridged: A Voyage to the Moon—a 17th-century satirical masterpiece by Cyrano de Bergerac. Narrated with charm and clarity by Richard Stibbard, this early science fiction tale follows the bold and eccentric Cyrano as he devises bizarre methods to travel to the Moon. Once there, he discovers a strange lunar civilization and engages in witty philosophical debates that challenge earthly norms. 
  Blending fantastical adventure with social commentary, this audiobook is both entertaining and thought-provoking—an imaginative predecessor to modern speculative fiction. Perfect for fans of Jules Verne, Voltaire, and early Enlightenment satire.

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  Reflections: More Tales from...

  Edward Forde Hickey

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  This series of tales was compiled during the recent pandemic lockdown and they include colourful incidents in the lives of bonesetters, matchmakers, youthful lovers, newcomers from beyond the mountains, a reformed villain’s wedding, celebrated by the whole community for days thereafter, and lots more.This is the second volume and has been written once more in a lyrical language similar to that of past storytellers such as Mark Twain - enthralling and unbelievable at times.Reflections should certainly appeal to those not only with an interest in Ireland’s social history but to fans of the author’s earlier novels."An effortless evocation of an almost-forgotten world...wonderfully personable narration and endlessly charming characterisation."  (Addison & Cole)

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  Lifeless in the Lilies

  Dale Mayer

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  Book 12: Lovely Lethal GardensRiches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Suddenly it’s quiet. … Too quiet if Doreen’s involved!​​​​​​​What was supposed to be a leisurely stroll through a peaceful cemetery after a recent funeral turns into the start of a new case. Someone clobbers Doreen over the head and leaves her facedown among the funeral flowers.Is it random violence? Revenge? A warning of worse to come?No one knows, not even Doreen, but one thing is certain: the attack enabled the disappearance—perhaps the abduction?—of Doreen’s beloved African gray parrot, Thaddeus. Frantic, Doreen foregoes a trip to the emergency room in favor of heading straight home, where she hopes Thaddeus will return sooner rather than later.When he does show up, riding a branch down the river, coming right home, he’s different, and all he can talk about is Big Guy. He’s also sporting an SOS message fastened around his ankle… Doreen sets out to retrace Thaddeus’s path, while Mack hunts down her attacker.Between birds and boys and Corporal Mack Moreau’s brother, the lawyer looking into her divorce situation, Doreen has her hands full. And that’s before her former lawyer shows up unexpectedly at her home! Off-balance by all these events, Doreen opens her door to someone with a serious grudge to take her down …

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  Knocking Myself Up - A Memoir of...

  Michelle Tea

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  From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman 
  Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea’s route to parenthood—with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck. Along the way she falls in love with a wholesome genderqueer a decade her junior, attempts biohacking herself a baby with black market fertility meds (and magicking herself an offspring with witch-enchanted honey), learns her eggs are busted, and enters the Fertility Industrial Complex in order to carry her younger lover’s baby. 
  With the signature sharp wit and wild heart that have made her a favorite to so many readers, Tea guides us through the maze of medical procedures, frustrations and astonishments on the path to getting pregnant, wryly critiquing some of the systems that facilitate that choice (“a great, punk, daredevil thing to do”). In Knocking Myself Up, Tea has crafted a deeply entertaining and profound memoir, a testament to the power of love and family-making, however complex our lives may be, to transform and enrich us.

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  Kissing My Ass Goodbye

  Tom McCaffrey

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  Tom McCaffrey presents Book 3 in the Claire Trilogy.

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  gentlemen

  Ferdinand Folk

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  Gentlemen is a fluid and gripping combination of a coming-of-age modern tale and a study of human nature, psyche and self-discovery in the journey toward becoming a gentleman and a scholar. The year is 2013, in the post collegiate age of statistic student debt, Ferdinand Folk’s alter ego Frank finds refuge in the shadows of a dark and grim Los Angeles world of a lifestyle brimming with vice, degradation and blatant hypocrisy.He finds light in the moon filter and vignette effect of Instagram and an XM soundtrack of Cole Porter, well curating a facade and virtual identity that becomes his salvation in the upper-crust temptations of a Man of the Night profession.Through five years of his wild career, he soaks up knowledge and some bizarre perspectives from the men that call upon him, but soon finds himself at a globe-trotting crossroads, stoically going against the grain, yet unable to resist those millennial antics he struggles to avoid and which might just be his demise. This is a startling tale that hurtles toward an ironic and terrifying but inevitable finish.

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