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In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime immersed in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing.

In Wistful Vista, there's never a dull moment - not when Fibber McGee's around to make trouble, get in trouble, or completely misunderstand the very nature of trouble! Whether down at the bowling alley, at the Elk's Club dance, or just hanging around at the corner of 14th and Oak, you'll always find plenty of laughs. Here are 20 classic radio romps with everyone's favorite couple, in broadcasts from 1948-1950. Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon, Arthur Q. Bryan, Richard LeGrand, and salesman supreme Harlow Wilcox are heard along with Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly!

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead, the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.

Ever since the accident that changed Sophie’s life, she sees numbers everywhere. From the leaves on a tree to the volume of a puddle, everything has its number. And every person she meets? Their number is counting down the number of days they have left. Despite being lonely, Sophie has decided she’s not dating anyone with a number smaller than 20,000 days: 55 years together should be plenty. Which is fine, until Adam—her first love and most definitely the one that got away—suddenly reappears. And his number? Just 24 days…

In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend - a hungover Toni Munroe - steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating. In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making babies.

In working-class Bay Ridge, Michael drives for a car service and gives lifts to his father, a former sanitation worker and current small-time bookie. He has a friend with a heroin habit, and a longtime girlfriend who expects they’ll get married one of these days. Michael spends most of his time on the familiar streets where he grew up, but now he’s crossing the bridge into Manhattan for some college classes—where he meets a seductive female classmate who seems to come from a whole different world.

Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch. For 20 years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.

El atropello de Chico B, un acontecimiento demasiado habitual en el entorno hostil donde transcurre la novela, es el detonante de un cambio en los dos protagonistas de esta historia: el narrador y el barrio. Esta dolorosa muerte avivará un recuerdo que el narrador creía tener bajo control y sepultado en lo más hondo de su memoria, y acelerará a la vez la transformación del barrio.

In a town of innumerable petrol stations, labyrinthine cul-de-sac streets, two competing shopping plazas and ubiquitous drive-thru franchises, where are these people likely to find the truth about their collective past - and can they do so before the town completely disappears?

El atropello de Chico B, un acontecimiento demasiado habitual en el entorno hostil donde transcurre la novela, es el detonante de un cambio en los dos protagonistas de esta historia: el narrador y el barrio. Esta dolorosa muerte avivará un recuerdo que el narrador creía tener bajo control y sepultado en lo más hondo de su memoria, y acelerará a la vez la transformación del barrio.

In der pulsierenden Metropole Kuroiwa City, wo Neonlichter den Himmel zerschneiden und Träume zum Leben erwachen, fiebert Sue einem unvergesslichen Abend entgegen: Sie wird Neeon Dream live erleben – die größte Band ihrer Zeit. Doch was als schillerndes Abenteuer beginnt, entpuppt sich als düstere Reise hinter die glitzernde Fassade der Stadt und ihrer Idole. Während sich Sue und ihre Freundin Raku auf das Konzert vorbereiten, kämpft Miyu Kaze, der gefeierte Star von Neeon Dream, mit einer unheilvollen Wahrheit.