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  Fat Forty and Fired - One Man's...

  Nigel Marsh

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  A “touching and laugh-out-loud funny” memoir about a suddenly unemployed CEO, his family, and the things he discovered when his job disappeared (Booklist).   As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture off the treadmill in search of a more meaningful and balanced existence, Marsh tackled the art of hands-on parenting while simultaneously training for an ocean swimming race and coming to terms with his alcoholism. Touching on topics ranging from marital sex (or lack thereof), dieting, and parenthood to work, love, football, religion, self-help books, and sharks, this “hilarious and inspiring” international bestseller is “Homer Simpson meets Anthony Robbins . . . essential reading for anyone whose life has ever hit a roadblock” (Bob Rosner, bestselling author of Working Wounded)æ”   “Both witty and helpful . . . If there is any flaw to this book, it is that Marsh repeatedly makes the reader laugh out loud and want to read paragraphs at length to any nearby willing listener.” —Shelf Awareness  “Marsh’s epiphanies during his hiatus include the realization that he is fat, but more poignantly, that he is an alcoholic . . . The strength of the memoir lies in the intimate and often humorous moments he shares as he reconnects with his wife and four children.” —Publishers Weekly   “An extremely funny and touching account of how someone can use humor and optimism to put adversity into perspective . . . a thoroughly enjoyable read.” —Paul Wilson, author of The Little Book of Calm

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  The Core of the Sun

  Johanna Sinisalo

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  The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of “scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut” (NPR).  The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award–winning author Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.”   In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their “defective” line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to find her sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations—a temptation so enticing that it just might divert the addicted Vanna from her quest . . .   “A chilling tale reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale . . . A fascinating story centered on gender politics.” —The Washington Post

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  The Crossroads

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Farmer Eben Smith is fed up with big government paying him to bury his crops while folks starve in the streets. He's loading up his fruits and vegetables, and heading for the city. But before he can trade in his turnips, he'll have to deal with something bigger — a break in the space/time continuum — as he plunges into strange new worlds, wreaking havoc in all of them.

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  Jared Pond and Tajikistani Ram

  Martin Lundqvist

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  When Jared Pond is sent on a mission to help the dictator of Tajikistan, Kokhir Ramon, in order to secure four Tajik rams for Scurry Morrissette, he faces a dilemma: He knows nothing about Tajikistan. Yet, after a string  of failed missions, Jared is dedicated to to follow his orders to the letter. However, is it wise to help the dictator eliminating the opposition while abstaining from having sex with Kokhir's beautiful daughter, Madina?  
  There is only one way to find out, listen to this audiobook.

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  Little Masterpieces of American...

  Thomas Lansing Masson

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  Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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  Ridiculously Rewarding...

  Steve Pavlina

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  When you desire to attract and meet a new relationship partner, a common approach is to be more social, start connecting with new people, and try to be as likeable as possible.    I think that's a mistake...

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