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  The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass

  Aug Stone

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  Two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass’ Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping and what it’s like to be in your first band. Packed with puns, allusions, and references across a wide range of culture, both popular and not, Stone offers up a big slice of the fun and frustration of playing rock n roll. ONE OF VULTURE’S BEST COMEDY BOOKS OF 2023“like being taken on a rock n roll road trip by Holden Caulfield with a head injury in the best of ways.” – Dave Hill, comedian, rocker, awesome dude “humour of the absurdist school pitched somewhere between Monty Python and Spinal Tap” – Louder Than War“What really propels the story forward, is Stone’s narrative voice — comic and wistful, shot through with a lackadaisical intelligence, and injected with a heavy dose of the countercultural tone that created both Thomas Pynchon and indie-rock music journalism.” – Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent “reads as if Douglas Adams wrote it if he was raised in a record shop by Monty Python and Kurt Vonnegut” – Lance Marwood, V13.net

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  They Went Another Way - A...

  Bruce Eric Kaplan

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  This program is read by the author.A darkly comic memoir about being a working creative person in a world that is growing ever more dysfunctional, by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and television writer Bruce Eric Kaplan In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a television writer in Los Angeles. He started a journal to keep from going mad, which eventually became They Went Another Way.The book’s through line traces his attempt to get a television project set up in the increasingly Byzantine world of Hollywood. But as he details the project’s ups and downs, Kaplan finds himself ruminating not only on show business but also on today’s political and social issues, on old movies and TV shows and music, on his family, on his friends, on his past, on his failing heating system, and on all the dead birds thatkeep showing up in his backyard.This hilarious and surprisingly moving book is about life—about art, about love, about alienation, about connection, about ugliness and beauty, about disappointment, wonder, and hope. In short, it is about everything.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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  Crash Test Cowboy

  Karin A. Fox

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  Ginger O’Shea, not her real name, picks up a temp agency home-nurse call and crashes into the life of broke and broken bull rider Jesse McCloud, a butt-slapping cowboy with an attitude. Ginger meets the mutilated body of Jesse’s girlfriend up close and personal, and her nursing skills may kill Jesse, who can’t compete, but needs money. Then Jesse’s grandmother Thelma suddenly dies, leaving no will in sight. 
  Charismatic developer Victor Marlowe has the perfect solution: Sell Thelma’s rundown Strawberry Canyon Ranch to him. Instead, Ginger starts selling ranch strawberries at the farmer’s market with surprising results. Ginger and Jesse cannot deny the chemistry between them, but Nursing Rule #1 says: Do not fall for the patient, especially if he is a murderer and a thief, or worse yet, a cowboy.

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  Eight Eyes

  Sally Cook

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  Spiders sometimes create terror, admiration and fascination and in this account spiders are heroes and victims. They induce one arachnophobe to pull over in blind panic as one of their members crawls out from behind his car pedals while he is driving at speed along a country road. Another toys with a spider, bouncing it up and down on its web as if it were a yoyo. Spiders create strong reactions in many of us. This story takes us nto their web of life.

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  Forgotten Beach The: Escape to...

  Amanda James

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  Don’t miss this chance to escape to stunning Cornwall for a heartwarming new standalone novel about secrets and second chances 
  They say a single moment can change your life… 
  For Cornish artist Sennen Kellow that moment comes with the discovery of her late gran’s epic love story – a story that happened years before she ever met Sennen’s grandfather. 
  Now, as Sennen digs into her grandmother’s past and discovers a forgotten beach, a hidden poem, and a love that blazed brightly before Fate intervened, her search for answers leads her on a fated journey of her own. One which sees history repeating itself, and Sennen faced with a chance at the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love her gran experienced…but only if she’s willing to risk everything.Readers LOVE The Forgotten Beach: 
  ‘A true love story…curl up in a comfy chair and be transported by this talented author’ Brenda 
  ‘A beautiful love story that spans generations…I loved how the old house slowly got renovated and came back to life plus I could picture the steps down to the private beach with the cave’ Muriel 
  ‘Complex characters, with a simple love story and a heartstopping final arc but the ending we all wanted!’ Ritu 
  ‘The author does a wonderful job of describing the beauty of Cornwall … a good beach read’ Sarah 
  ‘Perfect escapism and I read it in almost one sitting…so much more than just a romance’ Helen 
  ‘A heartwarming love story…My eyes were a bit teary at the end’ Anne 
  ‘I have always been an avid fan of Amanda James, a truly talented author who strives to write a beautiful story for others to enjoy time after time’ Joan 
  ‘Delightful story with the past gently woven into the present.…a joy to read’ Judy 
  The Forgotten Beach by Amanda James is a magical realism tale set in the rural beauty of Cornwall. It's a story of love, friendship, and second chances that will make you believe in the power of small town bonds and the enduring legacy of a love that transcends time. 
  For fans of Faith Hogan (The Women at Ocean's End), Kirsty Ferry (Whispers of the Past), Liz Eeles (The Diary at the Last House Before the Sea), Kate Ryder (Echoes on a Cornish River), and Veronica Henry (The Forever House). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Life and Opinions of...

  Laurence Sterne

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  Tristram Shandy is a satirical and experimental work that takes a unique approach to storytelling. Rather than following a linear narrative, the book is a chaotic and digressive account of the life and opinions of its narrator, Tristram Shandy. The novel incorporates various elements, including humorous anecdotes, reflections on philosophy, and playful experiments with typography. It is often considered a precursor to modernist literature due to its unconventional structure and self-aware narrative.

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