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A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".

2020 Audie Winner – Best Female Narrator An Earphone Award Winner Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The...

‘Sophie Irwin is an exciting and original voice. She's a must-buy author for me’ Taylor Jenkins Reid 'I simply couldn't put this book down. Joyous, hilarious and full of sparkling enemies-to-lovers tension, it has everything you could want in a regency romcom’ – Beth O’Leary, The Flat...

Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne’s hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love. Ready by narrator Katie Schorr Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2)...

Bertie Wooster is one of nature's gentlemen, so when Gussie Fink-Nottle gets himself into a spot of bother with the law, Bertie helps out - by impersonating Gussie! The plan seems to be working, until Gussie turns up - impersonating Bertie!

Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Throughout the novel, Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

परसाई हँसाने की हड़बड़ी में नहीं होते। वे पढ़नेवाले को देवता नहीं मानते, न ग्राहक, सिर्फ़ एक नागरिक मानते हैं, वह भी उस देश का जिसका स्वतंत्रता दिवस बारिश के मौसम में पड़ता है और गणतंत्र दिवस कड़ाके की ठंड में। परसाई की निगाह से यह बात नहीं बच सकी तो सिर्फ़ इसलिए कि ये दोनों पर्व उनके लिए सिर्फ़ उत्सव नहीं, सोचने-विचारने के भी दिन हैं। वे नहीं चाहते कि इन दिनों को सिर्फ़ थोथी राष्ट्र-श्लाघा में व्यर्थ कर दिया जाए, जैसा कि आम तौर पर होता है।

A magnificent new romance by New York Times best-selling author Emma Chase - available in audio first! Dean Walker is all about keeping life simple. He’s effortlessly talented and intelligent - spending his summers playing drums in the local band and the rest of the year teaching high school in the same Jersey town where he grew up. He likes his love life simple too, enjoying the commitment-free hook-ups his good looks and sexy charm have always made oh so easy. Then he meets Lainey Burrows. And his simple, easy life gets turned upside down.

The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the incursion of imposters. And Blandings has imposters like other houses have mice. On this occasion, there are two of them: both intent on a dangerous enterprise.

The hilarious novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It and The Murder After the Night Before 'I was rooting for Kitty even as she killed more men (oops!). Funny and twisty in the best of ways' Tasha Coryell *********************************************** My name...

Brought to you by Penguin. Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the...

The Times has announced, much to Bertie's astonishment, the news of his engagement to the beautiful Bobbie Wickham. But worse is to come....Uncle Tom's antique silver cow-creamer has gone missing; Kipper Herring has libelled his and Bertie's former headmaster; leading British psychiatrist Sir Roderick Glossop is posing as a butler; and Aunt Dahlia's masterly French chef, Anatole, is once again becoming a pawn in a terrible power struggle.

Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" - he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping. He could disappear quietly. He could play it safe. He could, for once in his miserable existence, do the sensible thing. But he doesn't. He never does.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH 'Black Bag made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times . . . I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'It is excellent...

Audible presents Love Columbus, an Audible original, with Hind Yugm, written by Ashish Chaudhary. This is the life story of Raghu and his two close buddies, Poorva and Pintu. One day, 30-year-old Raghu realizes that he is all alone and has no one to call his own. Raghu has not had a girlfriend 'til now. Pintu and Poorva, the college love birds, are married but their marriage is on the verge of a divorce.

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael...

Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching TV. … From her boyfriend: 2. I’m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. 3...

हास्यऔरव्यंग्यकीपरिभाषाकरनाकठिनहै।यहतयकरनाभीकठिनहैकिकहाँहास्यखत्महोताहैऔरव्यंग्यशुरूहोताहै।व्यंग्यसेहँसीभीआसकतीहै, परइससेवहहास्यनहींहोजाता।मुख्यबातहैकथितवस्तुकाउद्देश्यऔरसरोकारक्याहै।व्यंग्यकासामाजिकसरोकारहोताहै।इससरोकारसेव्यक्तिनहींछूटता।श्रेष्ठरचनाचाहेवहकिसीभीविधामेंक्योंनहो, अनिवार्यतःऔरअन्ततःव्यंग्यहीहोतीहै।इसअर्थमेंहमव्यंग्यकोचाहेंतोतीव्रतमक्षमताशालीव्यंजनात्मकताकेरूपमेंदेखसकतेहैं।व्यंग्यसहृदयमेंहलचलपैदाकरताहै।

Welcome to Book Club! Emma has it all. Jules knows it all. Rosa's seen it all. Marianne's done it all. Lucy watches it all. And Lydia wants it. All.. The wine flows as freely as the secrets, but this is Book Club and Book Club has its rules. But someone is breaking them. And someone is letting her. She wants your life (And your books recs) and she'll do anything to get it. When Emma gets arrested at Book Club, it leaves everyone around her reeling. The women scramble to protect their friend and restore the peace, and Lydia will do anything it takes.