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  Lady Windermere's Fan

  Oscar Wilde

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  Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, Wilde satirizes the morals of Victorian society, and attitudes between the sexes.The action centres around a fan given to Lady Windermere as a present by her husband, and the ball held that evening to celebrate her 21st birthday. (Summary by Ruth Golding)Cast: 
  Lady Windermere - Kristin HughesLord Windermere - Joe EarleyMrs. Erlynne - Elizabeth KlettLord Darlington - Simon TaylorThe Duchess of Berwick - Ruth GoldingMr. Cecil Graham - ChugoshLord Augustus Lorton - Chrystian J. GonzalezMr. Dumby - Geoff CowgillParker - Ed MeadeLady Agatha Carlisle - EzwaLady Plymdale - Christie NowakMr. Hopper - tubeyesLady Jedburgh - KalyndaRosalie - DuanLady Stutfield - Sara KorsmoMrs. Cowper-Cowper - Anna RobertsNarrator - Annoying TwitAudio edited by Rosalind Wills and Ruth Golding.

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  The Late Great Creature - A Novel

  Brock Brower

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  “A lost classic . . . the history of a horror-film star and a treatise on human frailty . . . is back to be savored and marveled at anew” (James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy).   Simon Moro, a sixty-eight-year-old star, is making his last picture, a low-budget remake of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Moro, infuriated by the bland horror movies of his day, sees his own career—even as it ends—as an ongoing effort to wallop the public with an overwhelming moral shock. And he succeeds when an elaborate publicity stunt turns into a gruesome and grand personal statement. As Moro’s life reels toward its macabre end, it also reels backward through lies and evasions to show its surprising beginning. Underneath his Frankensteinian exaggeration, Moro has a vivid and humane story to tell, even as the coffins break open and dark, erotic secrets are revealed. Brock Brower has taken the horror film in all its gory glory to create a book that recycles pop material into literature, creating a Dickensian tale of America.   “A wonderful book . . . Like a circus with several brilliant performances going on at the same time . . . A real breaking through. I don’t think anybody ever again will be able to dabble politely in mixing ‘real life’ and fiction.” —Joan Didion, New York Times–bestselling author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem   “The way the book skewers society’s obsession with celebrity culture is even more valid today than when it was written, proving that great art stands the test of time.” —Forbes   “A cult novel that amounts to a loving satiric tribute to cinema schlockmeister Roger Corman.” —New York Post  

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  Risk Uncertainty & Profit: The...

  Knight Frank

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  Frank Knight, University of Chicago Professor of Economics under whom famous Economics studied such as Milton Friedman, wrote about how entrepreneurs were personally important to specific company’s profits, a new idea at the time. He also differentiated between insurance risk and uncertainty that only entrepreneurs such as Bezos or Jobs did well with.

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  I'm So Full of Happy Today - The...

  Martin Andersen, Mora Tuffy

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  Finalist Pacific Book Awards 2018! A celebration of one of the most simple joys in life: the unwitting comedy of children.   Is there anything more likely to make you laugh and put a smile on your face than the innocent and funny remark of a child? Ever since Art Linkletter first published Kids Say the Darndest Things in 1957, people have laughed and been delighted with the things kids say. The Danes have a word for the feeling of happy delight that you get from simple things in life: “hygge.” In I’m So Full of Happy Today: The Hygge Wisdom of Children you will explore many of the hilarious things kids say in our world today, like these quotes:   Dylan, age 5, “Mom, did it hurt much when you gave birth to Daddy?”Keira, age 8, “Being in love is like having a birthday in your stomach.”Miley, age 3, “When I grow up, I want to be pregnant. Or a princess.”Jack, age 5, “Mom, how old were you when you were my age?”  The latest in funny kids books: I’m So Full of Happy Today is a heartwarming collection of the remarkably observant, funny, and wise things said by children, aged two to ten years. All of the stories have a very real and personal feel, and include the name and age of each child. These playful, sometimes “tongue-in-cheek” tales straight from the minds and mouths of kids will have you learning and laughing long after you’ve turned the last page. You will be hygge happy!

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  Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a...

  Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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  New York Times Bestseller: This entertaining-yet-enlightening crash course on philosophy is “an extraordinary read” (Orlando Sentinel).  
   
  Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent journey through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It’s Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas covered are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it’s like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally—it all makes sense! 
   
  “A hoot.” —Chicago Sun-Times 
   
  “An extraordinary read you’ll want to share with as many people as possible.” —Orlando Sentinel 
   
  “The zaniest bestseller of the year.” —The Boston Globe

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  Family of Noblemen

  Mikhail Saltykov Shchedrin

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  Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations necessary in the new social order. Petty, back-biting, greedy, rigid, ignorant, and cruel, their personalities are captured in the array of nicknames they themselves give each other: The Hag, Little Judas, Simple Simon, Pavel the Sneak, the Orphans, the Blood-Sucker. They hate each other ferociously and utterly despise the peasants around them, who are gradually awakening to the potentialities of their new freedoms. In this most famous of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novels, there is a keen sympathy toward the plight of women caught in the complexities of social change: Anninka and Lubinka, the aristocratic orphans who, seeking independence, recklessly cast themselves into the bohemian life; the matriarch Arina Petrovna, whose desperately vigorous administration of the estate leads to an exhilarating but only temporary stability; the peasant girl Yevpraksia, who is resistlessly taken by the loathsome Porfiry Vladimirych as his mistress. Far from a piece of social propaganda, A Family of Noblemen shows a subtle portraiture of the complex characters and convoluted circumstances of the time. (Expatriate)

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