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  Cuts - A Novel

  Malcolm Bradbury

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  Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous—and hilarious—effect The year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher’s government have trickled down to university life, where departments are being forced to shave their payrolls to account for reduced public funding. Meanwhile, at Eldorado Television, a different kind of cut is about to wreak havoc. Lord Mellow, head of the declining studio, watches as his last-ditch effort to produce a hit series falls to pieces. The show’s star, the volatile but vaunted Sir Luke Trimingham, has just declared that he will quit unless the script is entirely rewritten. Desperate to save the project, Eldorado brings university lecturer and author Henry Babbacombe into the fold to write thirteen new episodes of ambitious television—something so grand that the leading man cannot possibly refuse it. But the production is plagued from the start, suffering endless calamities with its unpredictable actors and crew, whose behind-the-scenes drama rivals anything Babbacombe could dream up. 

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  10 Short Stories: Volume 2

  Martin Lundqvist

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  This anthology contains a mix of mostly humorous short stories. It contains the following stories: 
  Jared Pond Saves (and Deflowers) an Arabic Princess. 
  The Meditation Camp. 
  The Shooting at Dave's Mansion. 
  Diah Lubis and the Polish Sausage Quest. 
  Diah Lubis and the Pursuit of the Cave Truffles. 
  The Downfall of the Virtuous Todd Connelly. 
  The Deaths at Rosscairn Island. 
  Jared Pond and the Guane Shaman. 
  The Double Date. 
  Diah Lubis and the Minotaur.

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  The Final Confession of Mabel...

  Robert Hough

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  Meet the Tiger Queen—in this "extravagantly entertaining” novel based on the wild life of the famous animal trainer and circus celebrity (The Boston Globe).   In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America’s most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and the greatest tiger trainer in history. She was fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.   It’s 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to lose her job at Jungleland, a Southern California game park. Devastated by the loss of her cats, she looks back on her life, her five marriages, her regrets, and her triumphs. From her time as a mental institution–escapee; the notorious belly dancer, Little Egypt; and a crowd-roaring success with her one true love—a 550-pound Bengal tiger named Rajah—Mabel delivers an audacious confession of dark secrets, broken dreams, and escapades both comic and tragic.   In The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough resurrects the life of a formidably independent, proudly scarred, naughtily ribald, and totally unapologetic star in “one of the most rollicking, good-time books of the year” (USA Today).   “Mabel Stark developed an act so original, so daring, so brave, that it puts all the stupid human tricks on today’s reality shows to shame . . . a captivating portrait of a woman and a way of life that no longer exist.” —The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review   “Narrating with a saucy, bouncy verve, [Mabel Stark] recounts a life story that is one part John Irving, two parts blue movie.” —Time Out New York

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  The Shooting at Dave's Mansion

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A few donut-eating cops are investigating a noise complaint Old McDonald's Farm owned by the eccentric actor David "Dangerous Dave" Toohey. But is David really dangerous? What caused one of the police officers to get shot? Is eating expired donuts really a good idea? There is only one way to find out, listen to the story!

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  Ten Big Ones - A Stephanie Plum...

  Janet Evanovich

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  Take an exit off the Jersey Turnpike to the irresistible world of Stephanie Plum, America's favorite bounty hunter, where she gets into more trouble than ever. This time, she faces a notorious gang in Trenton who wants her dead. Morelli warns that she's in too deep, and Stephanie more than agrees. But the gang won't let her bow out. With Ranger missing in action, Stephanie has to go into hiding, and stumbles on to the secret location of Ranger's "bat cave". Is it the perfect place to disappear? Or will she get into more trouble than she knows by delving into his private world? The tenth Stephanie Plum novel is filled with Evanovich's trademark high stakes, high adventure, high wit, and sly comedy.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Ignorant Lunatics

  James M. Spears

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  Sixteen crazy stories that'll have you laughing until you go completely nuts!

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