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2008
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“John is the funniest man on four wheels.” –ROBIN WILLIAMS“Screw the critics. I love Callahan. His cartoons are like tongue-kissing your grandma. If it’s so bad, why does it feel so good?” –DAVE ATTELL, Writer and host of Comedy Central’s Insomniac with Dave AttellFrom the warped mind of one of America’s most twisted cartoonists comes The Best of Callahan–a wildly satirical, wickedly funny collection of favorite cartoons, of fans and author alike. Warning: This book is not ...
What Would Kinky Do?
How to Unscrew a Screwed Up World
2008
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The country singer, politician, columnist & mystery novelist shares essays on a variety of topics, featuring his special brand of Texas wit & wisdom."Free-flowing and free associative, occasionally punctuating with puns, he targets topics from Jack Ruby and Michael Chabon to Texas etiquette and politics. Kinky's writing here is funny, focused and hugely entertaining." — Publishers WeeklyKinky Friedman, who would be...
Home Again
A Novel
2021
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AN UNFORESEEN INCIDENT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME. IT CAN CAUSE DRAMATIC LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT FOR THE PERSON IT AFFECTS THE MOST. JJ returned from LSU to Walnut Cove. The place he was born and raised. Unsure of his life’s plans he sought the counsel of his father. Shortly thereafter his parents were killed in a tragic accident. In his grief, JJ chose to leave his beloved home in the middle of the night without telling his high school friends he was leaving. Many decades...
Trading Twelves
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
2010
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This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion.The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a jam session in which two jazz musicians "trade twelves"—each improvisin...
Unforeseen
A Novel
2020
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AN UNFORESEEN INCIDENT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME. IT CAN CAUSE DRAMATIC LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT FOR THE PERSON IT AFFECTS THE MOST. LIFE CAN BE UNPREDICTABLE, FULL OF CHALLENGES, FRAUGHT WITH DANGER, AND EVER-CHANGING. HOW COULD A PERSON PREPARE FOR AN UNSTABLE TOMORROW IF IT SHOULD OCCUR? MOST OF US EXPECT TOMORROW TO BE MUCH LIKE TODAY, BUT WHAT IF IT ISN’T? UNFORESEEN…is all about Jim Turner, who is traveling to his Grandfather’s cabin in the North woods. Without warni...
2019
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LOVE affects the mind as well as the heart. Some couples are able to find a way to experience this phenomenon without heartbreak, but others don’t have the ability to capture its elusive ways. Youth plays a large role in early encounters of love. Most couples seek love in their late teens or early twenties, but circumstances beyond their control will not allow them to follow their intentions. ELUSIVE LOVE is about such as couple. This couple cannot find a way to put aside their life’s ambi...
Be Myself
A Novel
2018
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A wayward yacht came crashing into his secluded dock. Thomas Griffin, a retired tough and gritty New York City Homicide Detective, is faced with a challenging new mystery. His chosen new life is cast aside to prevent a local sheriff from arresting the wrong person. Many entanglements along the way make this case far more engaging than Thomas could expect. Throughout his search for the killer Thomas moves forward in many directions before he is able to identify the motive for the murders.
2014
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Reed, an aging Navy Seal, returns home to care for his father who is dying from ALS. At seventeen, when he enlisted into the Navy program his father labeled him a failurea name tag he would carry in his heart and mind all the time he served. When he joined the Navy Seal program he vowed not to quit the rugged training and duty to prove to his father that he wasnt a failure as he predicted, but a brave combatant. His training as a Navy Seal toughened his muscles and sense of urgencies to de...
2015
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VALIANT JOURNEY .. AN ACTION PACKED DRAMA, CRAMMED WITH CONSPIRACY, DANGER, AND SUSPENSE. THIS ENERGY- FILLED PLOT WILL DRAW YOU INTO THE ACTION. Brian, a brilliant scientist, is run off the road, badly injured, and taken to a nearby hospital only to be operated on by a naturalized Iranian brain surgeon who inserts a chip into his brain to steal the secrets about the laser project he has been working on at the Livermore Laboratories. Realizing something sinister was happening to him, Brian...
2009
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New editions of three foundational texts, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita.
- Narrated by
- Joe Barrett
Unabridged
5 hours 59 min
2018
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In 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12 (alcohol had played a role in his crash), the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he was eventually able to grasp a pen in his right hand and make rudimentary drawings. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good, and begun t...
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The Leisure Seeker
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Judith West
Unabridged
8 hours 37 min
2012
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“The Leisure Seeker is a sweet natured travelogue that’s about the end of the road in more ways than one….The Dangerous Book for Seniors!”—Bob Morris, author of Assisted LovingA sort of Easy Rider meets The Notebook, Michael Zadoorian’s poignant, funny, vibrant, and unforgettable novel, The Leisure Seeker, is a story of two seniors who escape from their retirement home and embark upon a hilarious and touching end-of-life road trip...











