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    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (eBook, ePUB)
    Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! "Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist."-The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally). Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be! "What's such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams's sardonically silly eyes."-Detroit Free Press
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    The Truth Will Set You Free...: But First It Will Make You Miserable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min
    This book is for Christians and everybody else who takes himself too seriously! Buckingham, renowned storyteller and master satirist, goes behind the scenes to name names and talk about hilarious incidents in his life, and the life of others close to him. No one escapes his pointed pen. The big shots, the unknowns, his wife, his kids, his mother, friend, and foe - all are targets of his humor. He even pokes fun at himself - his weight, his balding head, and his often fumbling methods to represent God. In this collection you will hear the stories of what happened when he baptized a fat woman; when he thought his washing machine had a demon; when he walked behind the horse who had just be given five gallons of laxative; and his ongoing battles with tomatoes and people who wear toupees. TV preachers, the rapture, prophetic words - nothing is sacred in this book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Buckingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086503/bk_acx0_086503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1056min
    Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, "father of the underground press" (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark-raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, "Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked - but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the '60s." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Letwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004247/bk_adbl_004247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flannsday: Erinesque, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
    Flannsday is the first novelette in the Erinesque series by Mark Will and G.J. Villa. Here we meet Martin Wells and J.G. Vara on day one of their quixotic "literary wank" across Ireland.June 14, 2013. Wells and Vara have arrived in Dublin from opposite sides of the globe to celebrate James Joyce, their “original literary superhero”, during the annual Bloomsday festivities. But Bloomsday is still two days away, and in the meantime Wells has insisted that Irish satirist Flann O’Brien, one of the founders of Bloomsday, be honored with a day of his own.Follow Wells and Vara as the events of this day - and night - take them from Parnell Square to Grogan’s Castle Lounge, from a discotheque on Dawson Street to Sweeney’s Bar, then back to the Northside for a truly climactic ending (at least for one of them). Flannsday is certain to amuse, bewilder, and delight the general reader as well as connoisseurs of Joyce, O’Brien, and the Irish literary tradition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Bennett, Gary J. Chambers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209340/bk_acx0_209340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Al Franken and Michael J. Fox, Hörbuch, Digital, 47min
    Satirist Al Franken and actor Michael J. Fox on this edition of Fresh Air. Al Franken's new book spoofs how-to-succeed books. It's called Oh, The Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing That, Happiness. Franekn is former co-producer of Saturday Night Live where he created the self-help guru Stuart Smalley ("I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"). He's also the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. Michael J. Fox got his start acting as a teenager in the popular sitcom Family Ties. After that he made the blockbusters Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success, and Doc Hollywood. He retired from his role on the sitcom Spin City. In 1998 he made the stunning announcement that he had Parkinson's disease and he now heads The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. He has a new memoir, Lucky Man. (Broadcast Date: April 30, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020430/rt_whyy_020430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ned Sherrin: The Autobiography, Hörbuch, Digital, 347min
    In this hilarious, frank, and affecting autobiography Ned Sherrin looks back on his life and career with inimitable wit and a good deal of wisdom. In his long, successful, and event-filled career Ned Sherrin has been an innovative satirist ( That Was The Week That Was), novelist, anthologist, film producer (including Up Pompeii), celebrated theatre director ( Side by Side by Sondheim, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell) and BBC Radio 4 host ( Loose Ends). His autobiography offers fascinating insights into the worlds of British film, radio, TV, and theatre from the 1960s to the present day. From fainting in front of a high court judge, to matchmaking Princess Margaret and Starsky from Starsky and Hutch, he never forgets a good story, and is always happiest when the joke is on him. Famed for his charm and his keen ear for a fine anecdote, Ned Sherrin brings both talents to his autobiography, which is sure to delight and engage his many fans. Language: English. Narrator: Ned Sherrin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000046/bk_twuk_000046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inside Man (Dramatized) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    A Nebula-nominee story never before in audio!From the deft pen of the Hugo Award-winning satirist H. L. Gold comes a comic science-fiction fable that will leave listeners laughing and thinking in equal measure. Here is a fresh, original wrinkle on ESP, as only H. L. Gold could have conceived it. What if instead of reading human thoughts and feelings you could read those of machines? That's what happens to Lester Shay when he becomes the "Inside Man". Soon he is driving himself, along with friends and coworkers, crazy every time he encounters an aging, ill-treated mechanism. For Lester can feel their pain, and it won't stop till the machine is fixed and running happily again. Nor is the whole situation doing his three-month marriage to Thalia any good. For at night, his young wife finds herself deprived of her new husband's attention just when she had been looking forward to it the most. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Gartner, Roxanne Mills, Bill Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/rebb/000012/pf_rebb_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales from a Tall Forest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
    Once upon a time being, forever and ever ago, there lived a forest tall of tales...? When an innocent princess wanders into the forest, she finds herself trapped between a wolf with a ravenous appetite and a sweet little house with a secret. Meanwhile, a desperate fisherman enters into a very bad bargain with a power-hungry monkey. And meanerwhile still, a tiny tricksy tailor promises a promise that not even the most magic of beanstalks can help him escape. In this rich and rambunctious tapestry of tales, satirist Shaun Micallef unravels the traditional fairy story and nimbly weaves your favourite characters into new and surprising adventures. Including a PDF illustrated by award-winning artist Jonathan Bentley, this subversively silly trilogy will captivate parents and children alike - and indignant fairy tale authors too. More grim than Grimms', less soppy than Aesop. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun Micallef. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031192/bk_adbl_031192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Nicolas Kristof and Harry Shearer, Hörbuch, Digital, 45min
    New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof and satirist Harry Shearer on this edition of Fresh Air. Kristof, a national correspondent, has written a series of biographical articles on George W. Bush, focusing on his early years. Kristof is former Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Times, and was co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of Tianamen Square. Shearer is the host of Le Show, and the voice behind several characters on The Simpsons. He is also the author of It's the Stupidity, Stupid: Why (Some) People Hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch. This week he is in Philadelphia as part of the "Shadow Convention" an alternative to the Republican and Democratic conventions, which covers the issues it says the other conventions won't touch like campaign finance reform, poverty in the midst of prosperity, and the drug war. (Broadcast Date: August 2, 2000) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/000764/rt_whyy_000764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The 10th Victim: Victim, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min
    From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. E-Reads is proud to re-publish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly 30 volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections, all with striking new covers. Rediscover - or discover for the first time - a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was "a precursor to Douglas Adams". It's the 21st Century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blonde, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill each other for sport and for the entertainment of the masses - until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes...as each of them seeks to kill their 10th victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020030/bk_adbl_020030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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