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  Enough Is Enuf - Our Failed...

  Gabe Henry

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  A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter. 
  Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, at one time or another, struggled with its spelling. 
  So why do we continue to use it? If our system of writing words is so tragically inconsistent, why haven’t we standardized it, phoneticized it, brought it into line? How many brave linguists have ever had the courage to state, in a declaration of phonetic revolt: “Enough is enuf”?  
  The answer: many. In the comic annals of linguistic history, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spelling reform, risking their reputations to bring English into the realm of the rational. This book is about them: Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, Eliza Burnz, C. S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Darwin, and the innumerable others on both sides of the Atlantic who, for a time in their life, became fanatically occupied with writing thru instead of through, tho for though, laf for laugh, beleev for believe, and dawter for daughter (and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).  
  Henry takes his humorous and informative chronicle right up to today as the language seems to naturally be simplifying to fit the needs of our changing world thanks to technology—from texting to Twitter and emojis, the Simplified Spelling Movement may finally be having its day. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Uncle John's Bathroom Reader:...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  For more than 25 years, there’s always been a home in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for those stories about doctor visits or routine surgeries gone horribly wrong--the wrong limb getting amputated, the wrong person getting a transplant, the nurse who didn’t notice her patient had died…for three days. Because we never get tired of reading about big boo-boos (as long as they’re happening to someone else), here is a whole book of the troubling and funny stories of when good health care goes bad. Read all about:* The woman who needed her gall bladder out…so she removed it herself* The man who waited in an emergency room…for three weeks* The heart surgeon who got caught drawing his signature on his work* And many more stories of dreadful doctors, hospital horrors, and bad medicine.

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  Spin - The Rumpelstiltskin Musical

  Neil Fishman, Harvey Edelman,...

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  2019 Audie Winner – Best Original Work 
  2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook 
  2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Outstanding Production in Audiobook 
  2018 Parents Choice Award – Silver Honor for Audiobook 
  SPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining of Grimm’s fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, created by musical theatre veterans, narrated by Jim Dale, and featuring a cast of Broadway musical stars. The story takes place in a Nice Little Kingdom, and ignites when a foolish miller brags that his daughter, Jane, can spin straw into gold.  Since she cannot perform such a miracle, Jane desperately enlists the powers of a magical being…Rumpelstiltskin… in exchange for a promise with dire consequences. A fun, fractured fairy tale for the entire family.  
  Cast: Jim Dale, Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Nicola Barber, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, John Brady, Johnny Heller Produced by Hvam Audio and Sammy Smile Music; Music Composed, Orchestrated, and Produced by Neil Fishman; Book and Lyrics by Harvey Edelman; Adapted for the Audiobook by David B. Coe and Harvey Edelman; Directed by Khristine Hvam; Musical Direction by Neil Fishman; Recorded, Engineered and Mixed by Charles De Montebello at CDM Studios; Percussion Programming by Sam Fishman.

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  Collected Stories and Lies

  Aaron Zevy

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  Collected Stories and Lies is a collection of stories, recollections, and memoirs which crackle with wit, brazen sentimentality, and unfiltered self-awareness. With a motley cast of characters, both real and imagined, led by the 'I'm just a little weird' Zevy, popping and out of stories, Collected Stories and Lies blurs the lines of fact and fiction. 
  With Stories culled from Zevy's childhood, misadventures with friends and family and blind date disasters, Collected Stories and Lies is full of exotic food, quirky characters, radios, and generous portions of chutzpah and hubris. You will come away with wry lessons on gambling, family, and the subtle art of exaggeration. 
  After all, one should never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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  The Mixed Doner Murders

  Johnny Two Kebabs

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  This third instalment is arguably the most important volume of Johnny's memoirs as it firmly establishes him as one of the great ‘thinkers’ of modern times. Johnny shares with us some of his insights into the criminal mind and what drives him in his crusade against evil. The art of boxing, political ideology and gender fluidity all play a part in this latest fascinating chapter of Johnny's experience. In these pages we get closer to understanding Johnny's "philosophy of life" through the examination of modern day issues such as "diversity and inclusion."

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  Wonder Boys

  Michael Chabon

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  The “wise, wildly funny story” of a self-destructive writer’s lost weekend by a Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author (Chicago Tribune). A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.

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