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  How to Act around Mountain Lions

  J Richard Osborn

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  Injuries and damages caused by mountain lion encounters are on the increase in several western states as the suburbs there move into mountain lion territory and as lions learn to hunt in the suburbs.  For public safety, fish and wildlife officials suggest the following behavioral guidelines . . .

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  Five Children and It

  Edith Nesbit

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  After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first appears... The first in E.Nesbit's "The Psammead" trilogy, published in the Strand Magazine from 1902. Narrated by Michael

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  Double Blast

  Gretchen Archer

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  SMALL TOWN. BIG BOOM. 
   
   
   
  Davis Way Cole returns to her hometown of Pine Apple, Alabama, to fill in for her police chief father during the bustling Memorial Day Celebration. It'll be fun. Relaxing. And a no-brainer. After years of leading an elite security team at a billion-dollar casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, Davis has no doubt whatsoever she can run little ole Pine Apple in her sleep. 
   
   
   
  She should think again. 
   
   
   
  A blast from her past shows up. (With baggage.) Just before her casino-spy partner from Biloxi blows into town. (As a fugitive.) Then something goes wrong with the weed-control crew. (Terribly wrong.) And that was just Davis's first day on the job. 
   
   
   
  Her missteps that follow threaten to blow her life to smithereens. They include pilfering a botanical garden from her Biloxi employer, hiding out in a closed diner with a surprise in the freezer, and choosing a questionable-at-best team to aid and assist when a fireworks problem pops up. But all that pales next to Davis reopening Pine Apple's oldest and deepest wound. Because, as she soon learns, some small-town secrets are best left buried. 
   
   
   
  What will she do? 
   
   
   
  Everything she possibly can.

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  That's Not Funny - How the Right...

  Matt Sienkiewicz, Nick Marx

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  A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture 
   
   
   
  "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take listeners—particularly self-described liberals—on a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the "right-wing comedy complex." 
   
   
    
  In That's Not Funny, "complex" takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complex—it feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the irony-laden media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of them in action to guide listeners through media history, text, and technique.

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  Snippets

  BARAKATH

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  When to call the police, part 7: 
  When you have to climb a coconut tree and pluck the coconuts all by yourself, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you eat jam and get stuck in a traffic jam, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If an elephant is chasing you from dawn to dusk, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you have to watch a movie and that movie has no sound at all, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If your school administration forces you to pay fees every time you enter the school, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you have to take an old cake near a lake, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If a tall building gets shorter and shorter day by day, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you see a torture chamber full of roses and fragrance, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you have to climb on top of a tall mountain and the moon is laughing at you, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  When to call the police, part 6: 
  If you see a thief putting back whatever he has stolen, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  If you see a dog sniffing an innocent person's shoes, call the police. 
  Freeze, police. 
  A hilariously absurd guide to the most unexpected moments when you should "Call the Police!"—or rather, shout “Freeze, police!” From coconut tree adventures to silent movies, jammed traffic to laughing moons, this collection blends surreal humor with a straight face. Written by Barakath, this quirky series delivers punchy lines and bizarre logic that will leave you laughing, scratching your head, and possibly rethinking every traffic jam and old cake you’ve ever encountered. Perfect for fans of offbeat comedy and imaginative nonsense.

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  A Woman Trapped in a Woman's...

  Lauren Weedman

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  Lauren Weedman's hilarious essays are like a compendium of what not to do as a fully-realized, functional adult. Her self-deprecating, confessional, and terribly funny voice finds a special place in the hearts of those who can relate to her—which, for better or worse, includes all of us. From the uproarious account of her time at the Daily Show, where she developed an entirely one-sided infatuation with Jon Stewart, to the time she read her boyfriend's diary with disastrous results, Lauren's work is filled with the wit, honesty, and personality that make for great personal writing.

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