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  A Life in Too Many Margins -...

  S. E. Thomson

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  A Life in Too Many Margins is a literary episodic tale featuring David, an autistic, chronically ill, and deeply exhausted queer individual. He's survived a few too many doctors with God complexes, and an education system that couldn’t accommodate a paper cut, let alone a brain like his, and now he’s trying to keep it together long enough to get out and figure out what a life outside of survival mode even looks like. 
  Between unpredictable joints, cruel relationships, creeping dysphoria, and backward institutions that treat disabled people like spreadsheet errors, David’s not sure how much longer he can keep pretending to be “fine.” In A Life in Too Many Margins, David finds unexpected connections along the way, through equally chaotic friends, a dungeon master who lets him play with varying gender options, and one particularly random German policeman on a sheep farm. This book captures what it means to grow up disabled and trans in a world that keeps trying to file you away.

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  Don Quixote - The legendary...

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  He traded his sanity for a rusty sword, a noble steed, and a dream of chivalry that the world had long forgotten. 
  In this crowning achievement of world literature, Alonso Quijano, an aging gentleman utterly consumed by romantic books of chivalric knights, loses his grip on reality. Renaming himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, he dons a makeshift suit of armor and sets forth across the Spanish countryside to right wrongs, protect the innocent, and win the favor of his imaginary lady love, Dulcinea. Accompanied by his pragmatic, proverb-spouting squire, Sancho Panza, the self-proclaimed knight tilts at windmills he believes to be fierce giants, mistakes dilapidated inns for grand castles, and turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. What follows is a tragicomic journey of profound depth, where delusion clashes with reality, and madness is sometimes far more noble than sanity. 
  Why you will love this: This cornerstone of Classic Fiction essentially invented the modern novel as we know it. Weaving biting satire with boundless humanity, epic quests, and the ultimate buddy-comedy dynamic, its exploration of idealism versus cynicism remains as sharp, moving, and hilarious today as it was over four centuries ago. 
  About the Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) was a Spanish soldier, captive, and visionary author. Despite enduring profound hardships—from crippling battlefield injuries to five years of enslavement in Algiers—he poured his boundless intellect and irrepressible humor into his writing, immortalizing himself as the greatest literary figure in the Spanish language.

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  The Remarkable Rocket

  Oscar Wilde

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  On the night of a royal wedding, the sky is set to blaze with celebration—but one firework has far grander expectations than the rest. 
  In The Remarkable Rocket, Oscar Wilde delivers a brilliantly witty and satirical tale of vanity, self-importance, and misplaced ambition. As the fireworks gather in the King’s garden, each prepares for their moment of glory. Yet none is more convinced of his own greatness than the Rocket—an absurdly proud and overly emotional figure who believes the entire celebration exists in his honor. 
  Through sharp dialogue and playful irony, Wilde crafts a timeless story that gently mocks ego and highlights the gap between perception and reality. What unfolds is both humorous and quietly revealing, as the Rocket’s long-awaited moment arrives… with unexpected results. 
  Narrated with charm and nuance by Mike Polischuk, this classic short story is a delightful blend of elegance, humor, and insight—perfect for listeners who appreciate Wilde’s signature wit and enduring social commentary.

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  Funny Collection Volume 2

  BARAKATH

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  Enjoy hilarious moments with funny collection volume 2. Laugh laugh and laugh.

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  Avalanche - Stories

  Jessica Westhead

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  "Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. So we can all have the same standard applied across the board. So there is no special treatment, which no one should receive. This is why we need the rules." 
   
   
   
  The stories in Avalanche combine humor with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of waking up to the reality of racism. Focusing on the perspective of white, cis, straight, and mostly middle-aged and middle-class characters, this collection shines a light on the obliviousness of white privilege, the violence of polite, quiet racism hiding just under the surface of mundane, everyday situations, and the anguished flailing of "well-intentioned white ladies" desperate to confirm their essential goodness at all costs. Westhead writes with compassion and empathy for both her frustrating and frustrated white protagonists and the racialized characters who encounter them, and uses humor not to comfortably distance white readers from the harmful behavior of her self-absorbed protagonists, but to pull them in close to recognize—and reckon with—those familiar parts of themselves, and to become more aware of the insidious systems of white supremacy at work behind the scenes. 
   
   
   
  Bonus material: This audiobook includes the Acknowledgments as supplemental material in printable PDF format.

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  The Alchemist

  Ben Jonson

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  An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for fraudulent acts. He transforms himself into 'Captain Face', and enlists the aid of Subtle, a fellow conman and Dol Common, a prostitute. In The Alchemist, Jonson unashamedly satirizes the follies, vanities and vices of mankind, most notably greed-induced credulity. People of all social classes are subject to Jonson's ruthless, satirical wit. He mocks human weakness and gullibility to advertising and to "miracle cures" with the character of Sir Epicure Mammon, who dreams of drinking the elixir of youth and enjoying fantastic sexual conquests. The Alchemist focuses on what happens when one human being seeks advantage over another. In a big city like London, this process of advantage-seeking is rife. The trio of con-artists - Subtle, Face and Dol - are self-deluding small-timers, ultimately undone by the same human weaknesses they exploit in their victims. (Summary by Wikipedia) 
  Cast:Subtle, First Neighbor: Elizabeth KlettFace: ToddHWDol Common: Arielle LipshawDapper, Second Officer: Nathanial W.C. HigginsDrugger, Third Neighbor: Thomas Leigh MooreLovewit: Kevin JohnsonSir Epicure Mammon: Algy PugPertinax Surly, Fifth Neighbor, First Officer: Alan MapstoneTribulation Wholesome: TriciaGAnanias: Martin GeesonKastril: David NicolDame Pliant: Amy GramourFourth Neighbor: Charlotte DuckettNarrator: Kristingj

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