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    Dilbert 2022 Wall Calendar
    Mind-numbing meetings, clueless colleagues, idiotic innovation-they're all part of the hilarious cubicle culture satirized in Dilbert, the most shared comic strip in the world.Dilbert, Wally, Alice, and the rest of the dysfunctional gang return for another year of corporate inanity in this all-new Dilbert calendar featuring a full year's worth of strips from the iconic workplace cartoon skewering the funniest absurdities of office life. Each monthly spread of the Dilbert 2022 wall calendar features a bright, graphic image of a favorite Dilbert character and a stand-alone quote, plus the strip where the quote appeared. A bonus Dogbert file folder is included with the calendar.Generous grids with space to add appointments and remindersOpens to 12 inches x 24 inchesPlanning spread for September-December 2021Widely celebrated and nationally recognized holidays and observancesPrinted on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink
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    Lord of Secrets: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Rogues to Riches, Book 5) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
    Some secrets should never be unveiled....Heath Grenville is the problem-solver for London's elite. Unmask the devious cretin skewering the ton with audacious caricatures? With pleasure. His success should keep the powerful happy. But when his work leads him to a young lady outside his class, surely he won’t do anything so scandalous as to fall in love....By day, Miss Eleanora Winfield is a proper, unremarkable paid companion. By night, Nora’s skillful hands sketch the infamous penny caricatures rocking high society. Nora desperately needs the money...and her anonymity. But how can she keep them both when she’s fallen for the one man whose livelihood and reputation requires him to expose her?In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series by USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Erica Ridley, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses.... Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.Lord of ChanceLord of PleasureLord of NightLord of TemptationLord of SecretsLord of Vice ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124283/bk_acx0_124283_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Peppered Moth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min
    The most outrageous and hilarious book you will hear - this decade!It's the most important day in his business calendar but Michael Peel has undergone an inconvenient transformation. Although only skin deep, it is a change that immediately induces hysteria in his wife. The police are called and Mr Peel finds himself on the run, suspected of murdering himself.The Peppered Moth is a lively romp through late twentieth-century London. Pitilessly skewering such monsters as a personal loan company boss but equally scathing of the out-of-control mores of political correctness, this is a blast of fresh air that tackles the delicate subject of identity with what appears to be reckless glee.Forced to impersonate a fictitious friend Michael Peel embarks on a desperate adventure that will involve him in everything from enforced stand-up comedy to naked cycling in South London - and will test every fibre of his being. Culminating in a riot in Trafalgar Square, this is a hilarious roller coaster that countless reviewers have described as "laugh out loud". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Preston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151609/bk_acx0_151609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dream Girl (eBook, ePUB)
    How can a woman who never existed come back to haunt you?'Spine chilling . . . Misery for the #MeToo generation.' Erin KellyGerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey.But that can't be. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago.Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?'The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling.' Megan AbbottWhat readers are saying'A twisty and delightfully sharp thriller.''Chillingly addictive.''Witty, timely, prescient and skewering the reception of the #MeToo movement.''One of the best books I have read this year . . . that ending was brilliant.''A great summer read.'
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    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    Flatland is populated by Squares, Triangles, Circles, and Lines, all of which are strictly divided by class and gender. However, our narrator, A Square, living a practical life in this two-dimensional universe, dreams of other worlds. Perhaps A Sphere, a figure from a three-dimensional realm, can help drive home the point. But, as A Square soon discovers, educating Flatland about the shapes of things to come proves to be a dangerous infraction. Published in 1884, Abbott's intricately imaginative novella, which became a classic in the era of Einstein, was a skewering of social hierarchy that inspired Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and anyone who dared to think - literally - outside the box. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to listen to a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, this edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009797/bk_brll_009797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You Think It, I'll Say It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    Random House presents the audiobook edition of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld, read by Emily Rankin and Mark Deakins. In 'The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing 'You think it, I’ll say it', putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he's thinking about their fellow guests. But she is in for a shock when, in time, she finds out what was really in his mind. ‘The Nominee’ sees Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, confessing her surprising true feelings about a woman journalist she has sparred with over the years. In ‘Gender Studies’, a visiting academic sleeps with her taxi driver for what turns out to be all the wrong reasons.  The theme that unites these stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others and how much we all deceive ourselves. Sharp and tender, funny and wise, this collection shows Sittenfeld’s knack for creating real, believable characters while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Rankin, Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003661/bk_rhuk_003661_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Happy Atheist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
    I’m an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there’s only one thing I can do. I have to laugh. (PZ Myers) On his popular science blog, Pharyngula, PZ Myers has entertained millions of fans with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. This funny and fearless book collects and expands on some of his most popular writings, giving the religious fanaticism of our times the gleeful disrespect it deserves by skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by religious fundamentalists of all stripes. With a healthy appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also highlights how the persistence of Stone Age superstitions can have dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our culture. Forceful and articulate, scathing and funny, The Happy Atheist is a reaffirmation of the revelatory power of humor and the truth-revealing powers of science and reason. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aron Ra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015803/bk_acx0_015803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bitter Fruit: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min
    With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africa's political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there. The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas's wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband's participation in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance 20 years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis' fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia's son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents' pasts. A harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements, Bitter Fruit is a cautionary tale of how we do, or do not, address the past's deepest wounds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tug Yourgrau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021797/bk_adbl_021797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Bed with Susie Bright 637: Lena Dunham and the Child Abuse Witch Hunt: What Gives?, Hörbuch, Digital, 34min, (USK 18)
    Right-wing bloggers are skewering popular actress Lena Dunham. Why? Dunham wrote in her memoir about bribing her younger sister to kiss her and apply make-up when they were both children. Conservatives are crying abuse. Susie says give me a break! This misdirected focus on a celebrity is pathetic. Let's talk about real sexual predators and where they exist. Next, Susie reads a letter from Dan Savage's newspaper column Savage Love. The letter is from a parent who is perplexed about how to deal with a masturbating teenager. The worry is that his grades will fall and he'll become porn obsessed. Susie shares her thoughts; the grown-ups need to give the kid some privacy and what he's doing is normal. Then, in our "What's New on Audible" segment, Susie has an audio sample from a coming-of-age memoir to share: A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernadez, a journalist who chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Columbian family taught her about love, money, and race. Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 637, November 7, 2014] Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/141107/pf_suzy_141107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Walking to Hollywood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
    One of the most remarkably inventive voices of his generation, author Will Self delivers a new and stunning work of fiction. In Walking to Hollywood, a British writer named Will Self goes on a quest through LA freeways and eroding English cliffs, skewering celebrity as he attempts to solve a crime: who killed the movies. When Will reconnects with his childhood friend, the world suddenly seems disproportionate. Sherman Oaks, scarcely three feet tall at 45, and his ironically sized sculptures - replicas of his body varying from the gargantuan to the miniscule - spark in Will a flurry of obsessive-compulsive thoughts and a nagging desire to experience the world by foot. Ignoring his therapist and nemesis Zack Busner, Self travels to Hollywood on a mission to discover who - or what - killed the movies. Convinced that everyone from his agent to his friends and bums on the street are portrayed by famous actors, Self goes undercover into the dangerous world of celebrity culture. He circumambulates the metropolitan area in hallucinating and wild episodes, eventually arriving on the English cliffs of East Yorkshire, where he comes face to face with one of Jonathan Swift's immortal Struldbruggs. A satirical novel of otherworldly proportion and literary brilliance, Walking to Hollywood is a fantastical and unforgettable trip through the unreality of our culture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021861/bk_adbl_021861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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