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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

Unwritten in the annals of the sporting world is the story of a man with unlimited potential who was denied his rightful place in the lore of golf...It is a story that might never have been told had Charley Hunter not accepted a summer internship at Butler & Yates, a prestigious Atlanta law firm. Bobby Jones, the legendary amateur golfer, had once been a partner at the firm and his old legal files had been severely neglected over the years.

I, Tillie Jean Rock, am not in love with my brother’s teammate. Sure, he might have those biceps and that “I am the grouchiest of grouchy bears” smolder, and he might shovel snow off his driveway next door wearing nothing but boxer shorts and rubber boots, and he might be running a side business feeding all the stray goats in town, but studliness is only skin-deep.

A razor-sharp satire on the rise and fall of Tony Blair, told as an Edwardian boy’s school story. A wickedly funny tale of jam puffs and missing rifles in which the guilty, as usual in politics, escape punishment. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is pure coincidence. The animals, however, are real.

What happens when the haggling is done and the shops are closed? When the quest has been given, the steeds saddled, and the adventurers are off to their next encounter? They keep the world running, the food cooked, and the horses shoed, yet what adventurer has ever spared a thought or concern for the Non-Player Characters? In the town of Maplebark, four such NPCs settle in for a night of actively ignoring the adventurers drinking in the tavern when things go quickly and fatally awry.

Who knew the world's most famous detective... was funny? The Petaluma Radio Players present The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series of radio plays written by Vince Stadon. The Petaluma Radio Players prove beyond a reasonable doubt that murder is hysterical when you're killing it with high-end comedy. It's quite elementary, yet oh so nutty!

The Burglars' Club is the most exclusive of exclusive Gentleman's Clubs in Victorian London. To pay their dues, members must steal something very valuable and hard to get, and present it to the club at the following meeting (They return it afterwards, of course, if possible). Full of comedy, suspense, and mystery. The award-winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air brings these wonderful stories to life with a full cast, music, and sound effects.

Sherlock Holmes on trial... for murder? Can he expect a hung jury, or can he expect to be hung by the neck? Tune in and find out!

The first play in UK playwright Vince Stadon's series the Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. A comedy of chilling proportions, The Misadventure of the Disgruntled Physician - featuring world-famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his trusty cohort in crime solving, Dr. Watson - poses a diagnosis most diabolical: Has Sherlock Holmes lost his mind? What would make him execute a poor, helpless pig...and in the living room of 221B Baker Street? Or is this a matter of some convenience? Did Mrs. Hudson forget to go shopping for breakfast bacon?

Internationally renowned sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his trusty cohort in crime solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downright funny!