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  South Pole Station - A Novel

  Ashley Shelby

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  Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume in a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are some of the questions used to determine if you have what it takes to survive at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54 F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them, and her results indicate that she's abnormal enough for Polar life. Cooper's not so sure that's an achievement, but she's got nothing left to lose, so she decides to accept a one-year assignment to the National Science Foundation's Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica. There, she encounters the Polies, a group of misfits that only have in common their conviction that they don't belong anywhere else. But when a fringe scientist arrives-claiming that climate change is a hoax-his presence rattles the already imbalanced community, bringing them to the center of a global controversy an

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  Abbott and Costello: Football

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Costello takes on The Great Gildersleeve, on and off the football field.

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  Hey Idiot! - Chronicles of Human...

  Leland Gregory

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  Over 200 true stories of boneheadedness and buffoonery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Stupid History! Former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory has shown us gray matter-challenged examples in everything from the criminal world to the hallowed halls of government. This time, though, everyone, everywhere is fair game if they've exhibited outrageously stupid behavior. Consider:  * The forgetful fireman who left cooking oil on the stove and returned from a call to find the station house burned to the ground  * A lung cancer patient who caused an explosion when he lit up a cigarette—in his oxygen tent  * A 58-year-old billiards player who was suspended from competition after testing positive for a muscle-building hormone  * F. Edward Hebert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who said, “The only way we’ll get a volunteer army is to draft them” Hey Idiot! lets everyone from bosses to public officials, doctors to sports heroes, skewer themselves with their moronic words and actions.

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  Chance Developments - Stories

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. 
  Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling, what made them sad?What emerges are surprising and poignant tales of love and friendship in a variety of settings - an estate in the Highlands of Scotland, a travelling circus in Canada, an Australian gold-mining town, a village in Ireland, and the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. 
  Some will find joy and fulfillment - others would prefer happier endings. Each of them, though, will find love, and that is ultimately what matters.

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  Naked DJ

  Jo Maeder

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  "Our industry is complicated, fun, and sometimes downright corrupt! Naked DJ dares to expose what happens off the air." DELILAH, nationally syndicated radio host, Radio Hall of Fame inductee, and author 
  Patty “Jazmyn” Brown should be ecstatic she’s finally reached the number one radio market in America and her gypsy radio days are over. But what she’s asked to do in New York City to boost ratings and her own career has her reeling — and questioning everyone around her. Just how much of herself, literally, should she expose for her job? What's she going to do about the two men she loves who claim they love her in return? And would those demons from her uncool, outcast past vanish already? Teeming with stalkers, smooth-talkers, rappers and rockers, Naked DJ is shocking, hilarious, biting satire at its all-too-real best. It also takes you deep into the secret sorority of female DJs from one who knows: Jo Maeder, a former Miami and New York City DJ once known on the airwaves as "The Rock and Roll Madame." 
  SOVAS nominee Audiobook Narration – Fiction, Best Narrator: Rachel Butera. Bonus Material (where available): Reading group guide guaranteed to bring out the inner DJs lurking in your book club. It can also be found on the author's website. 
  "Grabs you on the first page and keeps the intrigue high. A rockin' radio riot that reveals everything." Paul Shaffer, performer, Grammy winner, and former Musical Director, Late Show with David Letterman 
   

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  The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk

  Peter De Vries

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  Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed “America’s preeminent comic novelist” by the New York Times When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, and a punning doppelgänger. The Cat’s Pajamas is the story of how Tattersall, a scrupulous self-reflector, falls from point A to point Z, rushing through a host of identities and indignities along the way. The unexamined life may not be worth living, he discovers, but the examined one is hardly a bed of roses. In Witch’s Milk, Tillie Seltzer has her own trials to attend to. Chief among them is her marriage to Pete, the kind of guy who tucks a cigarette behind his ear and calls everybody Frisbee. When they first met, Tillie had more sophisticated tastes—dark strangers, homburg hats—but she was also a thirtysomething virgin whose prospects weren’t getting any better. When she cracked a joke about the honeymoon being over, Pete believed her. Now stuck in suburbia with a sick child and a philandering husband, Tillie takes a hard look in the rearview mirror. Her search for an escape route will lead her to the most unexpected place of all. These short novels are linked by Tillie’s cameo appearance in Hank’s narrative and by the thrilling blend of satire, tragedy, and philosophy that defines the one-of-a-kind fiction of Peter De Vries. 

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