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"Narrated with wry undertones by Helen Laser... [who] takes Clo’s wry and self-injurious attitude and makes her relatable instead of unlikeable. [Laser] can fluidly vacillate from the “showhorse” privileged voice of Davis to the “workhorses” like Clo who endure dysmorphia and private...

What’s a white knight to do when his princess is causing utter havoc, leading in mass murder? Go to the famous Black Sorcerer of Grimslock for help, apparently. What’s a black sorcerer to do when the white knight comes to him for help? Keep him, naturally.

Have you ever lost a friend, family member, or coworker to full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)? 🚨 Do you know someone who hyperventilates at the mention of "Trump 2024?" 🚨 Have you witnessed a meltdown over the mere sight of a red hat? 🚨 Do you fear that political sanity is becoming an endangered species? If so, this book is for you. Welcome to The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook—the hilarious, yet shockingly practical, guide that will help you navigate the outrage-fueled madness of modern political discourse.Inside The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook, you’ll ...

His name became an adjective. "Rabelaisian" — exuberant, earthy, riotous, gigantic — names a whole register of human comedy, and it descends from this one sprawling, indestructible book. Gargantua and Pantagruel is the fountainhead from which Swift, Sterne, Joyce, and nearly every other great comic writer have drunk: the tale of two genial giants — their wars and feasts and educations — and the long uproarious sea-voyage to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. This edition gathers the complete work — all five books — in the translation that is itself a classic of English prose...

Amazon Book Summary — Unmissable Edition What if every ordinary moment was a move in Hell’s oldest war—one you never knew you were losing? Every headline. Every like. Every half-forgotten prayer. There’s a strategy behind it all. And you’re not just in the crosshairs—you’re already on the board. The Wormwood Letters: A Screwtape-Like Tale yanks back the curtains on spiritual warfare for the digital age. Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s classic but forged in the fire of our modern chaos, this is no gentle satire—it’s a surgical strike on your complacency. Wormwood, once the ...

Questions You’ll Regret Asking: A Funny Guide to Workplace Faux Pas Work would be a lot easier if people stopped asking questions they absolutely should not ask. If you've ever been trapped in an awkward office conversation and thought, “Did they really just ask me that?” then you're exactly who this book was written for. Welcome to Questions You Should Never Ask at Work a hilarious workplace humor book packed with awkward office moments, socially dangerous curiosity, and the cringe-worthy questions that turn ordinary conversations into career-threatening disasters. Inside, you'll ...

How to Make RVUs Work for You (Without Losing Your Mind or Your Sense of Humor) By Janel Lynch, MD If you've ever stared at your productivity report wondering if RVUs are a billing metric or a form of ancient torture—this book is for you. How to Make RVUs Work for You, takes you on a hilariously honest journey through the world of Relative Value Units—the three-letter acronym that runs your clinical life (but no one ever taught you how to decode). With wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, this book peels back the curtain on the most mysterious of healthcare performance measures. ...

For twenty-five long years, David Agnew has survived one of modern life’s greatest horrors: the daily bus commute. Packed in with drunks, weirdos, screaming schoolkids, militant pensioners, conspiracy theorists, and an alarming number of fanatical Cliff Richard devotees, Agnew’s journey from suburbia to the city becomes a rolling theatre of humiliation, absurdity, and barely suppressed violence. Mistaken for an inanimate object. Trapped in conversations with lunatics. Forced to endure the strange rituals and unspoken rules of public transport. Every journey pushes him closer to the ...

Ever sat through a job interview and wondered if everyone in the room lost their minds? Welcome to the theater of modern hiring. In Why Do You Want to Work Here? Because Rent Exists!, author Juan Rodulfo cuts through the corporate gaslighting to deliver a brutally honest, hilarious, and pragmatic field guide for today's job seeker. Modern interviews aren't honest human conversations—they're high-stakes negotiations disguised as psychological evaluations. Across 100 ridiculously relatable chapters, this book dissects the most manipulative and absurd interview questions ever conceived: The ...

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

Welcome to a professional development book that absolutely should not count as professional development. If you have ever: reread an email five times before replying “Thanks.” attended a meeting about a meeting that scheduled another meeting carefully planned to begin work tomorrow opened a document to prepare to think about editing it felt exhausted despite accomplishing mostly emotional labor …then congratulations — you are already highly trained in modern productivity. This book is not about laziness. It is about the invisible effort surrounding work: the preparation, ...

What if the ending you were handed was not the ending you had to keep? The Eleventh Ending is a strange, funny, emotionally sharp collection of speculative stories about burnout, boundaries, banned books, adulting, love, grief, and becoming human anyway. Inside these pages, a retired fraud investigator buys an honest scam. A school compliance officer becomes the missing ending of a banned book. A woman learns that anger is not a flaw, it is an alarm. A trapped girl discovers that one person’s romance can be another person’s horror story. A writer summons a demon and finds out ...

A Definitive Guide for Workaholics! Workaholics make the world go round but we are often misunderstood and underappreciated! Do your friends and family ever: Tell you to relax Try to take your phone away Expect you to spend time with them Want you to take a vacation If these issues sound familiar, you need this book! Learn valuable tips to keep work at the forefront of any situation! After all, if we all worked 9-to-5 jobs, nothing would get done!

When your marriage ends, why not make it content? Sibley Bloom thought her life had officially hit rock bottom when she discovered her husband’s affair—ending fifteen years of marriage and most of her faith in men. But her colleagues at The Positive Enlightenment Journal, a metaphysically minded magazine, have other ideas. To “support her healing journey,” they convince her to document her life as a newly single woman—one holiday blind date at a time.

From the acclaimed author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. In 1835 Paris, young Maurice de Barthèle lies dying—not from illness, but from the exquisite torment of unrequited love. The object of his passion? Fernande, a celebrated courtesan who rejected him for the most honorable of reasons: he is married. Desperate to save their son and husband, Maurice's mother and wife devise an audacious plan—invite the notorious Fernande to their respectable country estate. But when the courtesan arrives, nothing unfolds as expected. For Fernande, despite her scandalous ...

ESPN's star comedic duo, Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg, bring their radio and TV sports shtick to the listener in this hilarious audiobook, which includes their definitive list of rules to live by. This is for all ESPN devotees, all Mike and Mike fans, and fans of audiobooks like Dennis Miller's Rants and Tony Kornheiser's As Bald as I Want to Be.

During an upturn in the economy, faced with a downturn in the soul buying business, The Devil resorts to telemarketing.

Heaven is not what anyone expected—especially Elliott, a chronically overworked middle manager who wakes up in the afterlife to discover the system is held together with sticky notes, misfiled tickets, and badly labeled heavens. Instead of harps and clouds, he’s reassigned to “Dog Heaven,” where the goodest boys have performance reviews, squeaky toys have seniority, and even tennis balls have halos. When Elliott uncovers neighboring heavens—Bird Heaven, Fish Heaven, Zoo Heaven, and a mysterious department for “Cat‑Adjacent Things”—he realizes the entire operation runs like...

You’ve read the books. You know the language. You can explain your patterns, your triggers, your attachment style, and your childhood wounds. And yet—nothing really changes. This book is for people who have done some work… and quietly stopped too early. With 37 razor-sharp red flags, this satirical self-awareness guide exposes what happens when insight replaces effort, therapy language replaces accountability, and “doing the work” turns into a personality instead of a practice. This isn’t about shaming. It’s about noticing where growth stalled—and why. Perfect for readers ...

They strut, they shout, they promise paradise tomorrow if only you give them everything today. But here’s the truth tyrants don’t want you to notice: they’re not original. They’re lazy magicians recycling the same tired scams. 🃏 In Tyranny For You, Poor Richard exposes how authoritarians manipulate fear, twist truth, and gaslight nations — and, most importantly, how you can spot the tricks, decode the playbook, and resist tyranny (old tricks, new dogs).🔥 Inside, you’ll discover how to: Unmask Fear as Control 😱 — why panic is a leash, not power. Learn how “fear ...