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  Yes I Can Say That - When They...

  Judy Gold

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  ""No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold. If I had to pick one comedian to write a book about free speech, it would be Judy."" – Amy Schumer 
  From award-winning comedian Judy Gold, an equal parts thoughtful and hilarious polemic on the current efforts to censor comedians, arguing that they undermine the art—and purpose—of comedy itself. 
  “You can say anything that comes to mind as long as it is funny.” — Richard Pryor 
  The fallout after Michelle Wolf’s roast at the 2018 White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Samantha Bee’s forced apology after calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt,” Kathy Griffin’s being “blacklisted” from Hollywood after posting a photo with what looked like the president’s severed head, all represent a dangerous and growing trend—to censor comedians. 
  In Yes I Can Say That, comedy veteran Judy Gold argues that ""no one has the right to tell comics what they can or cannot joke about…. Laughter is a unifier. It's the best medicine. It's also the most palatable way to bring up seditious, subversive topics.” For Gold, nothing is more insidious than enforcing silence and repressing jokes—the job of a comedian is to expose society's demons, and confront them head-on, no prisoners allowed. In ten impassioned polemics, she frames comedy as a tool of empowerment, a way to reclaim hateful rhetoric and battle the democracy-crushing plight of censorship. 
  Uninhibited and bold, Gold is as skilled at making readers laugh as she is at exposing uncomfortable truths about our culture and society. In this era of partisan politics and gaping inequalities, Yes I Can Say That is the refreshingly candid, wickedly funny and deliciously blunt manifesto we need. 

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  Community Klepto - A Novel

  Kelly I Hitchcock

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  This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.  
   
  Ann Josephson is a twenty-five-year-old sociopath whose compulsive kleptomania manifests itself in the most unlikely of places: the community center where she works out every day. The walls of the community center insulate her from the terrors of the outside world, which include her freelance work as a graphic artist; her socialite parents, who pay the better part of her living expenses; her therapist, who devotedly punches the clock; and the dark void of romantic relationships.As Ann battles the inner demons that plague her millennial psyche, she must also battle the fiends that plague her at the gym: the loudly grunting beefcake who can’t be bothered to drop his weights at a reasonable volume, the naked old lady in the locker room using a towel as butt floss, the housewife in yoga pants that obviate the need for yoga wheeling her double stroller up and down the indoor track. Set in suburban Kansas City in the early 2010s, Community Klepto—a droll combination of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Choke—makes incarnate the characters and shenanigans that go on in every gym in the world.

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  Project Hush

  William Tenn

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  The most secret mission in United States Army history is about to reach the Moon—assuming its own security procedures do not destroy it first. 
   
  Project Hush has been concealed behind false records, restricted budgets, psychological screenings, and enough military paranoia to make even its carefully selected personnel nervous. Its objective is simple but historic: establish a permanent armed base on the Moon before a rival nation can get there. 
   
  Colonel Benjamin Rice and his elite team have sacrificed years of their lives to ensure that no one outside the project knows what they are building. Even neighboring military installations and other branches of the armed forces have been kept completely in the dark. 
   
  Against every technical and bureaucratic obstacle, the mission succeeds. 
   
  Then the soldiers discover another dome on the lunar surface. 
   
  Convinced they may be facing a foreign enemy—or something not of this world—the team prepares for a dangerous investigation. What they find reveals the spectacular absurdity of military secrecy, interdepartmental rivalry, and government organizations that conceal so much information they no longer know what their own country is doing. 
   
  Originally published in 1954, William Tenn’s *Project Hush* is a clever Cold War science-fiction satire that turns the race to militarize space into a sharply funny tale of bureaucracy, paranoia, and institutional incompetence. 
   
  Narrated by Chris Velasco.

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  Who Gives a Focal? - A Hundred...

  Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea

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   We Irish have enriched the English language with a   slew   of   snazzy   gems. Did you know we're the ones behind   quarks  ,  electrons  and   vectors  ,   Sudocrem   and   Wellington   boots? No surprise that we invented   begrudgery  , but   croquet   and   Wunderkind   were us too! So if some   yahoo   is   getting on your nerves  , don't box him in the   gob   – hit him with Irishisms   galore  , and you'll soon put the   kibosh   on his   shaninagans  . Y'  dig  ? 
  Written and illustrated by Colin Murphy and Donal O'Dea, the  craggy  old  blokes  behind the bestselling Feckin' Collection and Stuff Irish People Love.

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  The Takeover

  Cara Tanamachi

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  On Nami’s thirtieth birthday, she’s reminded at every turn that her life isn’t what she’d planned. She’s always excelled at everything—until now. Her fiancé blew up their engagement. Her pride and joy, the tech company she helped to found, is about to lose funding. And her sister, Sora, is getting married to the man of her dreams, Jack—and instead of being happy for her, as Nami knows she ought to be, she’s fighting off jealousy. 
   
  Frustrated with her life, she makes a wish on a birthday candle to find her soulmate. Instead the universe delivers her hate mate, Nami’s old nemesis, Jae Lee, the most popular kid from her high school, who also narrowly beat her out for valedictorian. More than a decade later, Jae is still as effortlessly cool, charming, and stylish as ever, and, to make matters worse, he’s planning a hostile takeover of her start-up. Cue sharp elbows and even sharper banter as the two go head-to-head to see who’ll win this time. But when their rivalry ignites a different kind of passion, Nami starts to realize it’s not just her company that’s in danger of being taken over, but her heart as well.

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  From Time to Time: Further Tales...

  Edward Forde Hickey

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  A series of Tipperary tales within a fictitious hillside community during the early twentieth century.'From Time to Time' includes:*a tale of a brutal wartime revenge contrasting with the gentleness of a young English girl in the face of local hostilities,*a tale of a young school rebel rescuing a priest from death,*a young man's irreparable grief when his mother drowns while saving her turf in the bog,*a youth's entry to manhood on a sunny fair-day in the company of a thieving young temptress from town*a memorable clown's farewell and a last faction fight*the joyful dance of the entire community when their illicit whiskey-brewer finally makes his return to them from jail.'an endearing collection of rustic tales by a natural storyteller'.Addison & Cole

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