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  Abbott and Costello: Night in a...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Abbott and Costello say next Sunday is Mother's day and talk about what present to get. Lou needs money for a present and Bud asks him to live in a haunted house. Abbott and Costello go to the house. The ghost turns out to be Mrs Wetwash. She is looking for a treasure map and Lou finds it.

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  Fibber McGee and Molly: Women...

  Don Quinn

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  Fibber is dismayed to see women taking over all the men's jobs in Wistful Vista.

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  The Curious Republic of Gondour...

  Mark Twain

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  Embark on a journey into the imaginative and whimsical world of "The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches" by Mark Twain. This audiobook offers a delightful collection of Twain's satirical and humorous essays and sketches that explore a wide range of topics, from politics to society to the absurdities of everyday life. With Twain's trademark wit and clever storytelling, you'll find yourself transported to a place where irony reigns, and laughter is guaranteed. These sketches provide a sharp and often hilarious commentary on the quirks and follies of the human experience, making it a captivating and entertaining listen.

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  You Would Have Missed Me

  Birbit Vanderbeke

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  'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'
  Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the refugee camp. In the East, her Grandma made cakes and kept rabbits; now there is no baking, no pets and certainly no Grandma. West Germany in the early 1960s is a difficult place for a seven-year-old East German refugee, particularly when no one will listen to you.
  Why Peirene chose to publish this book:
  Today, as in the past, people flee from one country to another in the hope of finding a better future. But how do children experience such displacement? How do they cope with traumas of a refugee camp? In this novel Birgit Vanderbeke goes back to her own childhood in the divided Germany of the 1960s. She shows how the little girl she once was saved herself by imagining countries on the far side of the world. A masterpiece of memory turned into fiction.
  'A hauntingly brilliant evocation of childhood.'Jackie Law, Never Imitate
  'A graceful, feather-light novel whose true weight is revealed only gradually.'MDK Kultur

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  Voces Populi

  F. Anstey

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  F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Voces Populi, a collection of his Punch pieces, is considered to be among his best works. He treats an array of situations from the charlatan conjuror to a row over a lady's large, obstructive hat at the music hall.  - Summary by Don W. Jenkins

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  Requiem for Potatoes

  Adam Reta translated by...

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  This amusing musical story is set on a farm where potatoes passionately discuss the meaning of life and death through chorus. The green potato is ostracised from the community for boldly standing against the wide held belief that their life is predestined and that death in service of nourishing humans is to be celebrated and welcome. Although the green potato manages to defy the self-sacrifice rule, will he succeed to completely evade fate within the food chain? This Ethiopian allegorical story is a social satire for young people's unwavering belief and reckless behaviour.

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