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  The Long Road Home - One Step at...

  G. B. Trudeau

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  After losing his leg—and his trademark helmet—B.D. returns home from Iraq to begin a remarkable journey of healing in this Doonesbury book. 
   
  On a road outside Fallujah, an RPG blows apart a Humvee and upends the life of a former football star named B.D. As a medevac chopper swoops down, the wounded Guardsman hears “Not your time, bro. Not today”. The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time chronicles seven months of cutting-edge cartooning, during which B.D.—and readers of the strip—experienced the kind of personal transformation no one seeks. 
   
  B.D. survives first-response Baghdad triage, evacuation to Landstuhl, and visits by innumerable celebs, both red and blue in hue. He's awed in turn by morphine, take-no-guff nurses, his fellow amps, high-tech prostheses that cost more than luxury cars, and his family, including the daughter who hand-delivers succor, one aspirin at a time. 
   
  From rebuilding tissue to rebuilding social skills to rebuilding lives, B.D's inspiring, insightful, and darkly humorous story confirms that it can take a village, or at least a ward, to raise a soldier when he's gone down. “Thank you for getting blown up,” offers one of B.D.'s visiting players. Replies the coach, “Just doing my job.”

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  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. This rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain’s son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery, and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.

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  Abbott and Costello: Spring

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Hanley Stafford subs for Bud Abbott. Script says Bud has a bad case of laryngitis. Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. Lou has Spring fever. Hanley is going to help Lou plant a garden. They do the sew the seed routine. They do more talk about the garden. They find bones buried in the garden and suspect Mrs Wetwash of murder. They are bones buried by Mrs Wetwash's dog.

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  Discount - A Novel

  Casey Gray

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  “[A]n acerbic spoof of corporate retail giants . . . the novel displays . . . considerable storytelling gifts...the result is an eye-opening romp of narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
   
   
   
  Set in the American Southwest, Casey Gray’s ambitious tragicomic debut novel follows a group of customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle inside a classic American institution—The Superstore. With a cast of characters including Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose his day job over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a humane and contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. Discount is a triumphant and big-hearted novel you won’t soon forget. 
   
  “Fans of Jonathan Franzen and T. C. Boyle, Sam Lipsyte and Jonathan Tropper will flock to Gray’s hearty satire of rampant consumerism and corporate arrogance.” —Booklist (starred review) 
   
  “With this novel, Casey Gray leaps into the American literary landscape as an author who cannot be ignored.” —Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown, Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, and Century’s Son 
   
  “By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, personal and political, and all in the very best ways.” —Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once 
   
  “Unsentimental but huge-hearted, Discount is concerned only with literature’s bottom line—honesty and empathy.” —Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.!, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, and Bear v. Shark 
   
    
   
  “This book is an Altman film. . . . Gray combines a complex vision of the wide heart of America with an eye for all the things that are constantly wounding it.” —David MacLean, author of The Answer to the Riddle Is Me

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  Importance of Being Earnest The...

  Oscar Wilde

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  This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person.  LibriVox has three excellent dramatic recordings with all the parts played by different people so if that is more to your taste, please listen to them.   Little needs to be said about the play itself, a sparkling example of Wilde's amazing ability to poke fun at almost everyone while making you laugh out loud at the witty sayings sprinkled throughout the acts.  As to the plot, if you don't know it already, let me just say that it involves two young English men who fall madly and instantly in love with two young English.women who of course love them back mainly because their name is Earnest.  Unfortunately, that is not their names and there are  many bumps and crashes on the road to the happy wedding bells.  I only hope I have done justice to this jewel of a play.   Please listen and enjoy !

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  Postmaster's Daughter

  Louis Tracy

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  A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about the murder. Filled with comic antics of Scotland Yard fellows, local police, and residentsof the town, keeps the murder ever elusive. The "whodunit" is maintained until the very end and the laughter keepsgoing even after the mystery is solved. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)

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