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The video stores are dying. But most of you don't care. You've got your Netflix and your Redbox and your DVR, so why deal with VHS tapes or scratched DVDs? Why deal with the grumpy guy at the worn-down independent video store?

Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.

With The Last Days of California, Mary Miller bursts into the literary world, taking up the mantle of Southern fiction and rendering it her own with wry vulnerability and contemporary urgency. Miller’s revelatory protagonist, Jess, is fourteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery home to drive west to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming.

What would you do with just 24 hours left to live? Spend it with friends and family? Finally tell your boss how you really feel? Or just go on a mad looting frenzy? Join two complete unknowns, Adrian Rojas and Rochelle Hadley, as they get into the deepest, darkest corners of people's minds and force their guests to consider what they would do on their last day on Earth. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @LastDayPod or send us your questions at lastdaypod@gmail.com.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lastdaypod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish mob. Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher’s, a long-established—some say the best—funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an...

Guests from all over the entertainment industry are transported back to school after a clerical error leads them to be one day short of graduation. To make the process as painless as possible, they get to decide how the day is spent, essentially creating their “perfect day at school”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.