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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  Emma Woodhouse has successfully played matchmaker for her friend, and discovers that she has a taste for setting up romances for her friends. She gets to work meddling in her friends’ affair, convincing them to call off imminent engagements and relationships in favor of ones she creates. 
   
  The matchmaking quickly gets out of Emma’s hands, and her actions and instructions begin harming the people she cares about. Though she means well, her interference spirals and her good intentions cause difficulties and confusion. And though Emma continues to matchmake and attempt to create relationships among her friends, each new connection just adds another wrench in the works and scrambles the suitors once again. The question becomes who will be the final couples left together by the end of the novel? 
   
  Told with Jane Austen’s signature charm and wit, Emma is the story of a most unusual heroine and the chaos she creates in her friend circle with her antics. It is a humorous and heartwarming novel that will leave readers amused and enchanted.

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  Abbott and Costello: Hector the Dog

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Lou brings a dog, Hector, to the studio. They decide to auction the dog off. Bud tells Lou to up the bidding. The dog is sleeping with Abbott and Costello in the bedroom. They find a lost dog ad and return the dog to the pet shop. Lou wants to keep the dog. Lou agrees to work in the pet shop to buy the dog. Lou takes Hector to a dog show. Lou wins as a dog.

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  The Bet

  Anton Chekhov

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  In Anton Chekhov's "The Bet," a wealthy banker bets a young lawyer that solitary confinement is preferable to the death penalty. The lawyer endures years of isolation, challenging his ideals and the bet's true worth. The story explores the consequences of extreme choices and the subjective value of freedom. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Undead AF

  MaryJanice Davidson

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  Have you been wondering what's been going on with Betsy the Vampire Queen after she defeated the anti-Antichrist and became Satan 2.0? And are all her entourage still with her? So here is Undead #16—Undead AF!The day Betsy, Queen of the Vampires and Ruler of Hell, tried to ignore is coming soon…and she is dreading it. Betsy’s reign needs to be celebrated as her Jubilee. But Betsy has a lot on her mind at the moment. Her mother is dying, her father, who faked his own death to get the insurance money, is back in her mom’s life and so many of her staff are constantly coming to her to answer questions, answers she just doesn’t have. Add to this, vampires from all over the world want to know her secrets. How has she been able to make zombies and how can her sexy husband, Eric Sinclair, walk in the sunlight? With all this going on, Betsy wishes she only had to worry what pair of shoes to wear, not how to reign supreme over the vampires and Hell, itself.

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  What is Man? and Other Essays

  Mark Twain

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  What Is Man?, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the political and the ironically humorous. (Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman)

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  Camels Are Easy Comedy's Hard

  Roy Blount

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  An eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writingI’ll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: “What in the world is that?” And then, after a while, “Yet it seems to fit together some way.”In this laugh-a-minute assortment of essays, travel writing, poems, and even the occasional crossword puzzle, Roy Blount Jr. covers sixty-four different subjects, all unified by his trademark humor. “Tan” is a personal essay about Blount’s lifelong battle with—sometimes for and sometimes against—that elusive summer glow. “Wild Fish Ripped My Flesh” chronicles his misadventures navigating the Amazon River. And “Lit Demystified Quickly” is a tongue-in-cheek poem about larger-than-life literary figures such as James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Walt Whitman.Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard is a classic compendium of the wisecracks and wisdom for which Blount is renowned.

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