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Nothing good ever came from cheap beer. For his thirteenth birthday, super baseball fan Solomon Zuch was chosen by lottery to serve as an honorary ballboy for his favorite team, the Cleveland Indians. His whole family looks forward to the game. Unfortunately, his birthday, June 4th, 1974, also...

In this rollicking sequel to A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage, two (mostly) reformed serial killers discover something more deadly than murder: a midlife crisis. “As funny as it is familiar . . . A perfect read for anyone who has ever tried to maintain a hobby while raising a toddler...

The TV show, The Great Big Thank You, is feel-good, family entertainment, in which Good Samaritans are reunited with those whose lives they saved. But Christian Tidy - media star and champion of re-wilding - is on a social media collision course with Martha McCann, a woman who talks to her beans and wants to restore her local allotments instead.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, and Rome. Now Doug, Jen, their children, and seventy-four-year-old Bev have arrived in Cairo, where the traffic never stops, the horns seem to speak their own language, and even a simple journey...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest danger in society were not a criminal hiding in the shadows, but a charming gentleman welcomed into its finest drawing rooms? In *The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom*, Tobias Smollett unveils a world of deception, ambition...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Doug has learned to ask questions, listen to the answers, and—occasionally—remember that a plan is not the same thing as an adventure. Now the family has arrived in Kenya...

THE THEORY OF GRAVITY ACCORDING TO CLOUDSIn 1802, Britain became obsessed with clouds—not just watching them, but classifying, debating, and conquering them. At the Askesian Society, eccentric scholars clash over balloons, machines, shadows, dirt, and even the proper gender of spoons, all...

I have traveled around the Sun 88 times. That’s quite a distance. In fact, if you do the math—and I have—it adds up to approximately 51.4 billion miles. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly 14 times the average distance from Earth to Pluto, or enough distance to travel to our Moon...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have survived Delhi, but Tokyo is a whole new adventure—and Doug is determined to do things properly this time. He has laminated the maps, studied the instructions, and learned the most important Japanese sentence he can think of: “I...

Edwin Lark works in a quiet corner of a system built to finish things.At the Office of Unresolved Matters, his job isn’t to solve problems—it’s to hold them. Letters never sent. Conversations that ended too soon. Decisions that don’t sit right.But a new initiative changes everything.The...

Nothing: When Nothing Becomes Something by Takezo Art and Susan Ogden Benting, narrated by Ernesto Garcia and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a witty, thought-provoking satirical audiobook that explores consumer culture, modern marketing, public perception, and the surprising...

Truth is stranger than fiction. In this wickedly funny sequel to the Arabian Nights, Edgar Allan Poe lets Scheherazade embark on a thousand-and-second night, spinning the untold final adventures of Sinbad. Sea monsters with blazing eyes, islands built by tiny engineers, forests of stone, rivers...

One overlooked clerk. One diary. A mind coming apart. Experience Nikolai Gogol's psychological classic through a human-narrated performance by Luke Meinier Dalofin—not a synthetic AI voice. A low-ranking government clerk begins recording everyday frustrations, workplace humiliations, and his...

In sports, everybody loves redemption stories, the underdog who no one believes in but through sheer hard work wins it all. But no one tells the stories of the players who work hard and don’t make it. In pro football, 53 guys get on the roster. Ten make it to the practice squad. And then there’s the 64th Man - that’s Billy Logan (Cena), who seems to always be one spot from glory.

C'est une histoire magistrale racontée par la mauvaise personne. June Hayward et Athena Liu ont étudié ensemble à Yale, ont déménagé à Washington après avoir obtenu leur diplôme et sont toutes les deux écrivaines, mais les similitudes s'arrêtent là. Athena est une étoile montante...

Little Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings include social turmoil, economic upheaval and vicious political squabbles - all presided over by the redoubtable head of the Parish Council and secretary of the Rotarians, Mrs Roberts.

In which our intrepid correspondent speaks about math, arithmetic the configuration of numbers, pure and simple and their relationship or lack thereof to our Commander-in-Chief.

La obra maestra de Dickens. El mismo Dickens consideraba a David Copperfield no solo su obra preferida, sino quiza la mejor de todas las que habia escrito. Quiza y en parte, se deba a que muchos consideran que esta es una obra autobiografica, aunque con muchos elementos de fantasia mezclados en la narracion, en la cual a trozos de aventura real, siguen pedazos conmovedores y escenas domesticas descritas con esa mano maestra del gran escritor ingles.

The first novel of six in Trollope's series of the Chronicles of Barsetshire introducing the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the characters of Septimus Harding, the Warden, and his son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly. The Warden concerns the moral dilemma of the conscientious Reverend Septimus Harding, who finds himself at the centre of a bitter conflict between defenders of Church privilege and the reformers of the mid-Victorian period.

A full-cast dramatization of the classic Russian novel. Satan and his retinue, including a seven foot tall skinny fellow with a pince-nez , an obnoxious cigar smoking black cat and a beautiful naked vampire visit Moscow in the 1920s, taking with them chaos and insanity where ever they go.