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    Orlando
    'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness. Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
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    Pnin
    Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.
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    The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    Fran Lebowitz in "Public Speaking" A Martin Scorsese Picture Now an HBO(R) Documentary Film The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" ("The New York Times Book Review") who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British "Vogue"). In "elegant, finely honed prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life--its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, she is always wickedly entertaining.
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    The Western Mail Order Bride: Well, Hello Dolly - Is it Really You?: A Christian Romance Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min
    The Western Mail Order Bride: Well, Hello Dolly - Is it Really You? is a wry look at how one battered by life older woman, her illegitimate daughter, and a whole lot of 'baggage' end up with an old rancher, who happens to also be a preacher out west. What will Gilbert do when he finds out about her past? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul J. McSorley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011375/bk_acx0_011375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Whistle: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min
    Whistling has long been used to entertain and to communicate. The short stories of Gregg Shapiro also entertain and convey his skilled recollections of the past. The gay men found in this audiobook are sardonic: they drink, they indulge, they offer wry comments on friends, family, and life. In other words, they are a joy to hear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry L. Wheeler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070518/bk_acx0_070518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Linda Smith Live, Hörbuch, Digital, 101min
    Linda Smith was one of Britain's best-loved comics, famous for her wry observations and her razor-sharp take on modern life. Now fans old and new can enjoy her one-woman show recorded live – a unique collection of jokes, stories, and monologues from one of our funniest, most perceptive, and most missed comedians, recorded at the peak of her abilities. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/hodd/000078/pf_hodd_000078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Or Is That Just Me?, Hörbuch, Digital, 180min
    More of the wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of Richard Hammond - TV presenter, adventurer, and general drawer of the Short Straw. Continuing where As You Do and Did I Just Say That? left off, this one focuses on just a few of the many hair-raising stunts, expeditions, and encounters experienced by Richard Hammond over the last eventful year. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Hammond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000350/bk_orio_000350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deliver Us from Evie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 244min
    Even Parr admits that sometimes he thinks his sister looks a bit like a guy. His mother is always trying to get Evie to change and be more feminine. Then one day beautiful Patsy Duff befriends Evie, and she does begin to change - but not the way everyone had expected. With wry and compassionate strokes M.E. Kerr explores the dilemma of expressing one's sexual identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxwell Glick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016748/bk_adbl_016748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Michael Ian Black: Noted Expert, Hörbuch, Digital, 57min, (USK 18)
    Veteran of sketch, television, and film, comedian Michael Ian Black has mastered a delivery that's equal parts dapper and deadpan, whether he's discussing the pro-choice debate or the Tilt-A-Whirl. Taped at John Jay College in New York City, Black's special includes his wry take on the human experience, from parenting and gender roles to guilty pleasures of all shapes and sizes. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Ian Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cody/000472/bk_cody_000472_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lessons at the Halfway Point: Wisdom for Midlife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min
    Lessons at the Halfway Point is a deeply thought-provoking look at one man’s courageous journey to understand life from the perspective of having just turned 40. It is both a wry reflection on the past as well as an optimistic look to a challenging future. Nothing escapes Michael Levine’s critical eye, insightful mind, and often humorous spin on our world and ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004308/bk_blak_004308_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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