Matthew Dicks
All Books By Matthew Dicks
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
- By: Matthew Dicks
- Narrator: Matthew Brown
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 21, 2012
- Language: English
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4.13(22913 ratings)
Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination–the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise.
Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He’s been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.
Max is different from other children. Some people say that he has Asperger’s Syndrome, but most just say he’s “on the spectrum.” None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can’t protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, the woman who works with Max in the Learning Center and who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.
When Mrs. Patterson does the unthinkable and kidnaps Max, it is up to Budo and a team of imaginary friends to save him–and Budo must ultimately decide which is more important: Max’s happiness or Budo’s very existence.
Narrated by Budo, a character with a unique ability to have a foot in many worlds–imaginary, real, child, and adult– Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend touches on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming . . . and heartbreaking conclusion.
... Read moreSomeday Is Today
- By: Matthew Dicks
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.04(163 ratings)
Realize your creative dreams–starting today
Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways to turn random minutes throughout
your days into pockets of productivity, and dreams into accomplishments.
In addition to presenting his own winning strategies for getting from dreaming to doing, Matthew Dicks offers insights from a wide range of creative people–writers, editors, performers, artists, and even magicians–on how to augment inspiration with motivation.
His actionable steps will help you:
* silence negative messages from family, friends, and teachers
* eliminate time-sucking activities (and people)
* be willing to make terrible things
* find supporters here, there, and everywhere
* cultivate optimism in the face of negativity and obstacles
Each strategy is accompanied by amusing and inspiring personal and professional anecdotes and a clear plan of action. Someday Is Today will give you every tool to get started and finish that [fill in the blank].
... Read moreSomething Missing
- By: Matthew Dicks
- Narrator: Matthew Dicks
- Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 11, 2009
- Language: English
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3.75(3834 ratings)
In this quirky debut novel from author Matthew Dicks, career criminal Martin uses his OCD to pilfer items from his victims’ houses without being discovered. It helps that he only takes things the homeowner would never notice are missing-like a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of maple syrup. Martin has spent so much time snooping through homes he feels like he knows the owners, but when he starts meddling in their personal lives, his precise world turns to chaos.
... Read moreThe Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
- By: Matthew Dicks
- Narrator: Cynthia Hopkins
- Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 08, 2015
- Language: English
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3.48(1690 ratings)
Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She’s a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids), Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. Asserting herself, taking the reins, or facing life head-on are not in her repertoire. So when Caroline suddenly cracks and screams “Fuck you!” at the PTA president, she is shocked. So is her husband. So is the PTA president. So is everyone. But Caroline soon realizes the true cause of her outburst can be traced back to something that happened to her as a teenager, a scarring betrayal by her best friend Emily. This act changed Caroline’s life forever. So, with a little bit of bravery flowing through her veins, Caroline decides to go back to her home town and confront Emily. She busts her daughter Polly out of school, and the two set off to deliver the perfect comeback, which is twenty-five years in the making. But nothing goes as planned. Long buried secrets begin to rise to the surface, and Caroline will have to face much more than one old, bad best friend.
A heartwarming story told with Matthew Dicks’ signature wit, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs is a deceptively simple novel about the ways in which our childhood experiences reverberate through our lives, and the bravery of one woman trying to change her life and finds true understanding of her daughter, and herself, along the way.
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