Max Shulman
Maximilian Shulman (March 14, 1919 – August 28, 1988) was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.
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Barefoot Boy with Cheek
- By: Max Shulman
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 15, 2016
- Language: English
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On his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed-and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd... Read more
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Potatoes are Cheaper
- By: Max Shulman
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 30, 2016
- Language: English
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It’s the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. But that’s all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris’s mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to... Read more
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- By: Max Shulman
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 12, 2016
- Language: English
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Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit... Read more
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The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel
A fascinating mystery featuring Ladarat Patalung, the first and only nurse detective in Thailand.
As a nurse ethicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can’t save have at least the dignity of a “good death.”
But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across Thailand, Detective Wiriya Mookjai fears that a killer is at ...
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Holmes on the Range
1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar-VR cattle spread, they’re not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper’s Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes.When another ranch hand turns ...
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Fur Volk and Fuhrer
Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis. Convinced he was growing up in the best country in the world, he dreamt of joining the Leibstandarte, Hitler’s elite Waffen SS unit. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, and just seventeen-years-old, Erwin fulfilled his dream on Mayday 1941, when he gave up his apprenticeship at the Glaser ...
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The Leader’s Climb
“Adam was stuck.” And with this simple phrase, The Leader’s Climb introduces the listener to an engaging tale of how leaders often ascend quickly to the top, only to unknowingly slip down a path of decline-until it is too late. In this novel approach to the subject, set against the backdrop of a rock-climbing vacation gone awry, executive coaches Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen draw from ...
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Soul Ties
“There’s a lot my children still don’t understand about the gifts given to the women in my family, but there was a time I didn’t comprehend it either. The consequences of my ignorance and my insolence, still haunt me.”They didn’t know her story before, because she hadn’t told them.She didn’t reveal how being so deeply tethered to a man who didn’t take care of that precious ...
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Safeguard
Jilted. Living in a glorified closet. The world’s worst bar waitress. I just need to keep a roof over my head and make tuition payments until I can finish graduate school. Then my real life will start. But right now, long nights at the Speakeasy have me burning the candle at both ends and the wax melting all over my fingers.
When a bar manager offers me a job taking care of his adorable ...
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Priscilla and the Great Santa Search
The adorable Priscilla is back in her first Christmas adventure!When Priscilla and her best friend Bettina eagerly join the other holiday shoppers to see Santa at the mall, they realize they are looking at not one, but several fake Santas! The girls are inspired to head to the North Pole in search of the real Santa Claus.Will the Fifty-Year-Storm keep this curious duo’s biggest holiday wish ...
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Red Clocks
Red Clocks: A Novel: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write, and that one day he would be free from slavery. In 1832, Douglass was sent to a plantation in St. Michael’s, where he would live and work as a field ...
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