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  Jack Benny: Tall Tales

  Jack Benny

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  Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn't do, or hadn't done -- to hear him tell it, anyway.  The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to romantic lovers and back again. Here's a collection of some of Jack's most fabulous guises!  EPISODES INCLUDE: From Glen View AFB, Illinois 02-11-45; Eighty-Five Thousand Dollar Bet 10-28-45; Edward, My Son 09-18-49; I Was Betrayed 01-22-50; The Champion 03-19-50; King Solomon's Mines 01-07-51; My Naval Career 03-30-52; Scoop Benny 10-05-52

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  How the Soldier Repairs the...

  Saša Stanišić

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  “A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times).   For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers invade Višegrad—a town previously unconscious of racial and religious divides—and it’s no longer important that Aleksandar is the best magician in the nonaligned states; suddenly it is important to have the right last name and to convince the soldiers that Asija, the Muslim girl who turns up in his apartment building, is his sister.   Alive with the magic of childhood, the surreality of war and exile, and the power of language, every page of this glittering novel thrums with the joy of storytelling.   “Wildly inventive.” —San Francisco Chronicle   “Poignant and hauntingly beautiful.” —The Village Voice   “A funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written novel.” —The Seattle Times

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  Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky...

  Adele Parks

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  In the eyes of Nadine, a polygamist and serial bride, nudging her husbands into heaven is a testament to love. Even Nancy Neptune, a notorious shock jock, is gobsmacked by Nadine's so-called "Celestial Send-Offs". Things go to hell in a hand basket when Nadine offs the wrong guy and is charged with assisted suicide.Meanwhile, Blue McKenna has problems of her own. A power outage has leveled Blue's medical marijuana dispensary. Scottie Sphincter, lead singer of a band called The Rectal Surgeons, is fingered as a suspect. As Blue attempts to unmask the inscrutable Sphincter, she develops an incurable crush which makes her question why she grows pot for a living.Using witty narratives, a cast of nice characters transport listeners to Navel, Utah, a place where voyages to the afterlife are done with God Speed. Cosmic mirth and hilarity abound in Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky Audio Book.  Gadzooks! was named as a 2015 Audie Finalist in the Original Work category by the Audio Publishers Assoication.

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  Esme

  Saki Saki

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  The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns out to be an escaped hyena, which adopts her and Constance Broddle and leads them to cover up a heinous killing. Hector Hugh Munro at his most macabre.

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  The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA

  Rory O'Conor

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  Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of fan, one who is obsessed with the GAA calendar, the local club and the county team above everything else.
  This hilarious guide to the GAA covers it all: bleep tests; post-game hangovers; forty-way WhatsApp conversations; that lad always doing his hamstring; fair-weather Dub supporters; old men who've umpired every parish game since the Civil War; Marty Morrissey's forehead; ham sandwiches; dirty corner-backs; more hangovers; impenetrable Kerry accents; weight training followed by ten pints; pretending to understand tactics; lobbing it up to the big lad; prima donna corner-forwards.
  Infinitely recognisable and laugh-out-loud funny, it's the perfect read for GAA fans.

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  Remember Me

  Fay Weldon

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  Madeleine wants to love, be remembered—and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn’t tend) to Hilary, who is growing more difficult by the hour. By night, she entertains dark fantasies about Jarvis’s second wife—Lily the Supplanter. And what of Margot, the doctor’s wife, who had a one-night stand with Jarvis many moons ago? All are ripe for their comeuppance as Madeleine, with malice aforethought, orchestrates her revenge. In Remember Me, Fay Weldon plumbs the depths of a fury that nothing, not even death, can stop. Compulsively readable, this is a novel that will be remembered for its wit, originality, and persistent humanity.

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