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  What Happens in Greece

  Sue Roberts

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  Charlotte feels shell-shocked as she takes in the scene before her. To the left is her (ex?) fiancé’s retreating figure as he hotfoots it back to civilization; in front, the crumbling Greek island farmhouse she thought was their shared dream; and just below, a goat munching merrily on her sunhat… One year ago, as they drowned their post-holiday blues, Jamie had leaped at Charlotte’s idea to permanently swap drizzly Chester for sun-drenched Crete. Now it looks like she’ll be living this dream alone. Devastated, she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, pouring her misery–and her anger–into turning this derelict house into her forever home. At least the local community welcomes her into their lemon-scented bosom, along with sexy, provoking restaurant-owner-slash-handyman Darius. Taking a sledgehammer to her old life and snacking on homemade honey cake on her breaks, Charlotte begins to see the promise of a future without Jamie. But on a trip back to Chester, he suddenly appears, wanting her back. Faced with a choice between the first love who broke her heart and the gorgeous Greek man, err scenery, that has been putting it back together, how will Charlotte decide where she truly belongs?

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  Rosalynde or Euphues' Golden...

  Thomas Lodge

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  This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high birth, who have recently lost their fathers (one to death, one to banishment), fall in love but are separated almost at once and forced to flee to the Forest of Arden. There they meet again, but as Rosalynde is disguised for safety as a boy, named Ganymede, her lover Rosader does not recognize her. Once Rosader has confided his love to Ganymede, they play a game in which the "boy" poses as Rosalynde to give Rosader practice in wooing. As the comic episodes, replete with dramatic irony, accumulate, minor characters with complementary romantic relationships fill in the spectrum of the sublime ludicrousness of sexual love until the shadow of death (which is not excluded from Arcadia!) brings matters to a happy conclusion. The various sets of lovers are appropriately joined, and once the corrupt seats of authority back home have been either purged or reformed, Rosalynde's banished father the Duke and the high-born lovers return to civilization, bringing with them a better understanding of what really matters in life.

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  Crooked Little Vein - A Novel

  Warren Ellis

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  “May be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the twenty-first century.” —Lansing State Journal 
   
  Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president’s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom’s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity—and this case is driving him even deeper into America’s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind. 
   
  “Combines the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler with the grotesqueness of Chuck Palahniuk’s infamous short story ‘Guts’ and the acerbic social commentary of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch.” —Chicago Tribune 
   
  “Laugh-out-loud funny . . . a deeply inventive look at the undercurrents beneath the mainstream popular culture.” —Charlotte Observer 
   
  “Not for the faint of heart.” —Entertainment Weekly

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  Best Sister Ever - Sometimes...

  Ron Dudderie

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  In Best Sister Ever we meet Martin, hard at work in an empty office, dismantling the company he has built from the ground up. His bankruptcy cost him his life's work and his marriage. With hardly any money left, he retreats to a small cottage somewhere in the woods in Holland. 
  His sister Kate, 16 years his junior, finds him there and takes him to London. She hooks him up with a job in showbusiness and so begins a mad, hilarious and occasionally erotic adventure, in which Martin meets several amazing women who do much to rebuild his confidence. Martin ends up on stage and as a TV sidekick, but will he get back his IT career? And what is Kate's secret? 
  You'll laugh until you cry over this immensely funny and deeply touching romance story, of a love that truly lasts a lifetime. Prepare to fall in love, because once you have met Kate, Melody, Martin and their friends, you will want to live in their world. 
  This mildly erotic but mostly outrageously funny romp dazzled Literotica readers and has inspired seven more books to date. Ron Dudderie is a comedy genius, who effortlessly switches between heart stopping drama and riotous fun. 
  This audiobook is slightly abridged, to make it accessible to a broader audience.

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  How to be a show-off?

  BARAKATH

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  Funny ways for you be a show-off.

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  Bedlam Burning

  Geoff Nicholson

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  The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel.   It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—“a little active, symbolic literary criticism”—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a fire. It is at one such party that the brilliant but sheepish Gregory Collins meets Mike Smith, a handsome classmate. They become fast friends. And then their friendship takes a decidedly strange turn.   When Gregory’s first novel, The Wax Man, is published, he convinces Mike to take his place on the book jacket. Now Mike is the one invited to be a writer-in-residence at an insane asylum run by Dr. Eric Kincaid, whose obscure therapeutic philosophy centers on the soothing powers of literature. When Mike compiles a book of the inmates’ writings, and it becomes a literary success, this comedy of errors threatens to take another, far darker turn.  “Completely addictive and very, very funny. Great.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler’s Anatomy  “Donald Westlake meets Ken Kesey in this . . . compulsively good read.” —Library Journal

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