Todd Barry
Todd Barry is a stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He’s had three Comedy Central specials, and his fourth, The Crowd Work Tour, (produced by Louis CK) is currently on Netflix. Acting credits include Louie, The Larry Sanders Show, Flight of the Conchords, and as Mickey Rourke’s mean boss in The Wrestler. He has released four comedy albums including Medium Energy, named one of the best comedy albums of the decade by The Onion’s AV Club. Find more from Todd on his Facebook page: Facebook.com/ToddBarryFanPage, follow him on Twitter @ToddBarry, and check out ToddBarry.com.
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Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg
- By: Todd Barry
- Narrator: Todd Barry
- Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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“With this charming, sardonic debut, stand up comedian and actor Todd Barry makes readers laugh as hard as the audiences at his shows” (Publishers Weekly) in this hilarious book of travel essays from his time on tour in the US, Canada,... Read more
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The Battle of Salamis
On a late September day in 480 BC, Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia after it occurred, the clash between the Greeks and Persians at Salamis remains one of the ...
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Genius & Anxiety
This lively chronicle of the years 1847-1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal).In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known–Marx, Freud, Proust, ...
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Froggy Bakes a Cake
Jonathan London serves up another winner in the widely adored Froggy series. What should Froggy do for his mother’s birthday? He could make a cake! Of course whenever Froggy does anything it never turns out exactly as he expects. Froggy mixes up the flour, the sugar, the chocolate candy his mother had hidden since Halloween, and a whole box of baking powder-what could possibly go wrong? John ...
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A Cure for Suicide
***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***
From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.
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On Moral Fiction
“Fearless, illuminating” criticism from a New York Times bestselling author and legendary teacher, “proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial” (Los Angeles Times).
Novelist John Gardner’s thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: “True art is by its nature moral.” It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book’s ...
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Home to Roost
Hens and homicides in a cozy slice of paradise.The world’s most prestigious tiki carving championship has come to Maikai’i, the cozy little Hawaiian town where Saffron Skye runs her egg farm and Brightblossom Events.Saffron’s friend Mano is participating in the Kahuna Kalai Championships to determine who is the world’s best tiki carver. Saffron is in charge of the ten-day event, and from ...
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The Safe House
Packed with “high suspense” and “memorable choices and consequences” (Booklist) Kiki Swinson’s novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting-and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman with two targets on her back tries to keep those she loves-and herself-alive . . . Run for cover It was supposed to be easy ...
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Anti-Fear
Take Action Against “Fear” Now!“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”This famous proverbial quote, indeed, carries with it undeniable wisdom to justify our deepest discomfort with the unknown that is “fear.” Yet, have you ever stopped to wonder about the fallacy here? If that were entirely accurate, then you probably would never have any fear (or heck, wouldn’t be reading ...
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A Call from Heaven
What happens when we die? Do we really die alone? What if death is not the end but a new beginning?As the dying prepare to leave this world, they often begin to get a glimpse of what lies beyond through deathbed visits from deceased loved ones, strangers, and angelic or divine figures. Religious beliefs appear to have no bearing on these experiences-even atheists and nonbelievers have reported ...
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David Falkayn
When You Trade Upon a Star!Think self-congratulating Federation lackeys are going to be the ones to boldly go where no one has gone before? Think again! Now second-son of nobility David Falkayn, hot to prove his worth, leads a team of alien capitalists through deadly threat and gnarly interplanetary dilemma. The mission: to keep intergalactic trade forever free-and always profitable!Contains ...
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