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  Monologue - What Makes America...

  Jon Macks

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  Ever since Johnny Carson first popularized the late-night talk show in 1962 with The Tonight Show, the eleven p.m. to two a.m. comedy time slot on network television has remained an indelible part of our national culture. More than six popular late-night shows air every night of the week, and with recent major shake-ups in the industry, late-night television has never been more relevant to our public consciousness than it is today. Jon Macks, a veteran writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, takes us behind the scenes of this world for an in-depth, colorful look at what really makes these hosts the arbiters of public opinion.From the opening monologue-what's funny, what's dangerous, what's untouchable-to the best vs. worst guests, Macks covers the landscape of late-night comedy and punctuates the narrative with hysterical personal anecdotes, shining the spotlight on some of the very best late-night jokes. With an insider's expertise and a laugh-out-loud voice, Macks explains how late-night TV redefines the news and events of any given day, reshapes public opinion, and even creates our national zeitgeist.

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  Jared Pond and the Quirky...

  Martin Lundqvist

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  In this episode, Jared Pond meets up with Diah Raja, a quirky Malaysian agent, to investigate the murder of the Malaysian Consul in Sydney. As per usual, complications occur and will Jared career survive accidentally blowing up the Malaysian consulate? Is Diah Raja a time traveller or is she just insane? Will the Pond Train reach its destination? There is only one way to find out, listen to this audiobook.

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  The Wee Book of Irish Wit &...

  Sean McCann, Paul Ryan

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  The Irish mix wit and wisdom the way they do whiskey and water, and to the same intoxicating effect.
  Irish wit is an art form that can be sage, silly, insulting, or profound, but it's always entertaining.
  The Wee Book of Irish Wit & Malarkey is a pint-sized draft of potent mirth and malarkey from Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Brendan Behan, and many other wags, including 'yer man' – your everyday son of the sod – on everything from love and marriage to death and dying and everything in between.

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  The Minorities

  Suffian Hakim

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  Meet the four misfits living in one HDB flat. 
   
  One is a Malay–Jew who is trying to get his father to come back as a ghost. Cantona is a promising Bangladeshi artist on the run from a construction company. Tights is a Chinese illegal immigrant with a Forrest Gump obsession. And Shanti is a gifted Indian lab technician hiding from her abusive husband. 
   
  When a forlorn pontianak begins haunting them, the four friends find themselves embroiled in a surreal showdown that may just upend the world, or at least Singapore. 
   
  Written in Suffian Hakim's trademark humour, The Minorities is a novel about those living on the edges of society and their soulful bond.

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  Myths and Legends of Alaska...

  Katharine Berry Judson

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  The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists.  Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected.  The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth, is given with a fair degree of completeness.  .  These tribes are included:  Eskimo (Bering Strait), Tlingit (Wrangel), Tsetsaut, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Athapascan (Upper Yukon), Eskimo (Lower Yukon), Eskimo (Port Clarence), Koyukun, and Koryak (Siberia). - Summary by Author's Preface and david wales

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  Secret Confessions of the...

  Ellen Meister

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  When a Hollywood location scout comes to Applewood, Long Island, and announces that the local elementary school might make the perfect backdrop for an upcoming George Clooney movie, the PTA's decorum crumbles like a cookie from last week's bake sale. 
   
  Enter Maddie, Ruth, and Lisa, three women who become the glue that holds the project together…and wind up forging a bond of friendship stronger than anyone could imagine. 
   
  A good thing, too, because each one of them is about to come apart. Maddie Schein, an ex-lawyer trying hard to fit in and save her marriage, gets knocked off balance by Jack Rose, an old college friend hell-bent on seducing her. Ruth Moss-rich, sexy, and outspoken-has more to give and less to enjoy than most people think. Indeed, since her husband's stroke left him embarrassingly uninhibited yet completely impotent, she's more of a caretaker than a wife. And modest Lisa Slotnick, a loving parent who wants nothing more than to fade into the scenery as she tends to her children, must deal with the humiliation of being thrust into the spotlight by her scandalous, alcoholic mother. 
   
  When these three get together, a powerful alliance is formed. But is it strong enough to overcome the obstacles to getting the movie made in their town? And will their friendship be enough to mend their hearts and homes? Join them as they reach for the stars…and try to pull off a Hollywood ending of their own.

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