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Pillage, plunder, mayhem, and wicked magical tattoos...sounds like the perfect life for pirate Captain Maggy Low. Her life is a dream of violent chaos if you don’t count the fact that magic causes her first mate’s brain to melt until he turns to a beast intent on eating his fellow crewmates.

A lifetime of watching her beautiful mother cater to the whims of the wealthy, titled patrons who owned her body and soul has soured Maive Barrington on men forever. She is grateful that she is too plain and too clever to attract the attention of the opposite sex. How ironic that desperation over the mountain of debts she inherits when her mother dies forces her to accept the offer of a small fortune to impersonate her missing twin at her betrothal ball. For it is at this ball that the kiss of the prospective bridegroom miraculously awakens all the sleeping passion hidden deep inside her ...

Lovely young Adriana Blackburn is grateful that her marriage to the Marquess of Chalford has taken her away from her drunken father and pinchpenny brother, but it has also taken her away from the social whirl she enjoys in Brighton and London. Although Joshua is kind and tender toward his bride, Adriana begins to believe that he wants her only as a mistress for his half-crumbling Thunderhill Castle in Kent - not as mistress of his heart. But how can she know what Joshua truly feels when nothing seems to disturb his unruffled calm?

Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman reveals in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee" to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul.

Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture.

Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family.... But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi), plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them.... These are the Bridgertons: less a family than a force of nature. Through eight best-selling novels, listeners laughed, cried, and fell in love. But they wanted more.

Change Is the Only Constant is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and wonderfully bad drawings.

Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch’s life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway’s great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock.

You know us from Puppy Culture, When Pigs Fly and Madcap University. Now Jane and Mark have launched a radio station to bring you podcasts on the intersection of dogs, life and the science of doing anything well and being happy doing it.

The bride is on the run—right into a stranger’s arms! When Samantha Avery’s groom hands her a ring she recognizes as stolen, she has to run and keep running until his trial. But with nowhere safe to go, she hides out with a stranger—as his wife! Kieran French needs a temporary wife for legal reasons. But has Samantha jumped out of the lace-trimmed frying pan into the fire? Take your own plunge into this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by the USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Wore Gym Shoes and Assignment: Groom! “Jacqueline Diamond writes marvelous romantic comedy.”--...

Miss Felicia Easton, holed up happily at Easton Manor, was quite content with her unchaperoned state, thank you very much. The last thing she needed was to be summarily fetched to see her ogre of a guardian, the elderly Duke of Somerset. And so she fled with her childhood friend, Scott - only to run into a highwayman!

Leaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye. The dowager, no less, has invited her for a season in London, where she will attempt to catch a husband. Thus begins our heroine’s tale as she attempts to tackle the London season with all her rustic finesse. Unfortunately her rustic finesse turns out to be as delicate as a fat bear trying to rip apart a honeycomb infested with buzzing bees.

A simple night on the town with Angie Mandarich is all Hal Bailey wants. Dinner and a movie. Hitchcock followed by the Forest City. A classy night with a classy lady. Hal doesn't know he's about to meet the nuttiest collection of con men, swindlers, safecrackers and hustlers this side of the Cuyahoga River. Their screwball plans make this a New Years for Hal to remember. Fans of Westlake, Leonard, and George V. Higgins will enjoy the pace and tone of this book's pitch-perfect dialogue. Cool, funny, sympathetic and gritty. A zany taste of Cleveland in the 80s.

In this audiobook Newman and Hotchner recount the picaresque saga of their own nonmanagement adventure. In alternating voices, playing off one another in classic “Odd Couple” style, they describe how they systematically disregarded the advice of experts and relied instead on instinct, imagination, and mostly luck. They write about how they hurdled obstacle after obstacle, share their hilarious misadventures, and reveal their offbeat solutions to conventional problems.

Elton is in the throes of a dilemma. His supernatural experiences might get him diagnosed as a schizophrenic. This would, of course, inevitably lead to what he fears the most—being put on medication that would entail potentially serious side-effects. He would prefer to learn to master these other-worldly experiences on his own, thereby keeping them secret, both for his own personal development, and in order to avoid inviting "the system" into his life.

The Fairweather sisters adore each other and always stand by one another. But when circumstances force Dorothy May Fairweather to marry Lord William Edmund Huxley - the man her best friend is in love with and the Duke’s arch enemy - things change. With her one foolish mistake, Dorothy manages to vex all those that mean the most to her.

If you are looking for a deep political or psychological dive of a film, this ain’t it... But if you are looking for uncensored commentary with a dash of little known facts about your favorite movies, The Madcap Review is the film review podcast for you! Join hosts CL, Derek, and Shawn for this weekly podcast as they dig into the plots of recently watched movies. Good times and laughs are promised as your hosts break down the good, the bad and the terrible! P.S. We will spoil the hell out of a new movie, this is your first warning!! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...

A new Fairweather sister, Jane, is of age, but woe betides, she does not want to marry. She is a brilliant artist and determined to make a name for herself in the male-dominated field. Enter Mrs Fairweather, a determined mother who will go to any length to get her daughter married off. Alas, through trickery, Jane finds herself taking her wedding vows wrapped in a quilt and wearing only a chemise.

Will she stop a scandal or create one? It’s a huge society wedding—a whole weekend’s worth—but the groom’s dogged by doubts. The bride’s pushy mother commands her harried assistant, Anne, to keep him in line, unaware that she’s his ex-girlfriend. As for Anne, feelings she believed dead are stirring to life. Does Eric share them? And if he does, how much of a wedding catastrophe are they going to wreak? Don’t miss this hilarious romantic comedy by the USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Wore Gym Shoes and The Would-Be Mommy.

Dejando atrás el encanto rural de Finnshire, la señorita Penélope Fairweather llega a Londres con el ánimo rebosante de ilusiones y sus miras puestas en un sueño. La duquesa viuda de Blackthorne, nada menos, la ha invitado a pasar la temporada en Londres, donde Penélope habrá de encontrar marido.