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When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly.

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12 and a half years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father's death, however, she's been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane's floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor, not to mention coparenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days!, she sets out to pen a best seller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material.

I didn’t mean to kidnap the groom. It was an accident. Mostly.... At least I didn't take much time to plan it. It was more of a spur of the moment kidnapping. Does that count? One minute, the town’s bad boy is standing at the altar about to marry the world’s most evil kindergarten teacher. The next, he’s passed out in my Vespa sidecar with his bride hot on our tail. But I couldn't stand by and watch Jace O’Dell be blackmailed into a loveless marriage. And besides, what’s a little kidnapping between friends? Okay, so maybe we’re not just friends....

Zufrieden sein wäre untertrieben, irgendwo Richtung Sonne und die Liebe dabei im Hinterkopf, das Gefühl, die Sätze an der Wurzel zu packen, um sie dann so wachsen zu lassen, dass sie richtig krachen, könnte man passend sagen: Das ist das neue Hörbuch "Still trying to write love Songs" von Markus Freise: Ob es nun die Alltäglichkeiten des Lebens sind, vermischt mit dem Wunsch, diese doch bitte einer Krawatte erzählen zu können oder gar Discobesuche mit der Einsicht, dass man alle Frauen irgendwie mit Aufstehen oder Sitzen bleiben umschreiben kann, hauptsache man handelt nach dem Motto der Liebe, wenn man denn an sie glaubt. Freise tut das auf jeden Fall. Mit seiner ersten Hörspielveröffentlichung tanzt Markus auf einem Drahtseil, wobei er sich stets mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit nach vorne bewegt...

On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water. Fish Heads and Duck Skin will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered who they are, why they were put here, and how they ever lived before eating pan-fried pork buns.

The 32-man team has undergone extensive training to get prepared.