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The timeless story of Mary Poppins, the world's favorite nanny, and her magical adventures with the Banks family. Mary Poppins is like no other nanny the Banks children have ever seen. It all starts when their new nanny is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house, carrying a parrot-headed umbrella and a magic carpetbag. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial?

Woefield Farm is a sprawling thirty acres of scrub land, complete with dilapidated buildings and one half-sheared, lonely sheep named Bertie. It's "run"—in the loosest possible sense of the word—by Prudence Burns, an energetic, well-intentioned twenty-something New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, but without an iota of related skills or experience. Prudence, who inherited the farm from her uncle, soon discovers that the bank is about to foreclose on Woefield Farm, which means that she has to turn things around, fast. But fear not!

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

This program is read by the author, John Waters. A filthy, uproarious, outrageous audiobook from the brilliant and twisted mind of John Waters, the filmmaker of Hairspray and national bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All . Marsha Sprinkle is a liar. And a thief. And a terrible, terrible mother. And she loves every minute of it. For the first time, the Sultan of Sleaze and the Baron of Bad taste has turned to fiction, and the result is Liarmouth, a riotous, ridiculous, perfectly perverted tale of sex, crime, and revenge.

Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she’s going to win, goddamnit. Not that that’s her slogan, although it could be. She’s said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There’s just one problem: her grown children. Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion (called Hello to All That!). And then there’s his little sister Greta. Smart, pretty, and completely unmotivated, allowing her life to pass her by like the shoppers at the Apple store where she works.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable.

La barbe de Compère Gredin est un véritable garde-manger, garnie de miettes de ses monstrueux festins : restes de spaghetti aux vers de terre, bribes de tarte aux oiseaux ... un régal que Commère Gredin lui prépare chaque semaine. Mais voilà qu'une bande de singes acrobates va troubler les préparatifs du plat hebdomadaire ...

Aucun journal, aucune agence de presse, aucune historiographie n'a jamais mentionné la guerre mondiale du ghetto de San Li Tun, qui dura de 1972 à 1975. C'est à la faveur de cette barbarie que j'ai compris une vérité immense : grâce à l'ennemi, ce sinistre accident qu'est la vie devient une épopée. La mienne serait grandiose : les généraux de l'armée des Alliés m'avaient nommée éclaireur. Sans l'arrivée d'Elena, je serais restée invulnérable jusqu'au bout. Je l'ai aimée dès la première seconde.

La plupart des grands-mères sont d'adorables vieilles dames, gentilles et serviables. Hélas, ce n'est pas le cas de la grand-mère de Georges! Grincheuse, affreuse et égoïste, elle ressemble trop à une sorcière. Et puis elle a de curieux goûts : elle aime se régaler de limaces, de chenilles ... Un jour, alors qu'elle vient une fois de plus de le terroriser, Georges décide de lui préparer une terrible potion magique. Une potion aux effets surprenants, extraordinaires, hilarants.

Some people change your life. Others change your heart. Newly widowed dad Sebastian Dorner was unraveling at the edges--until his son's teacher, Via DeRosa, threw him a lifeline. Now two years later, they reconnect at Matty's new school, and an inconvenient but unmistakable jolt of attraction crackles between them. But why does the first person to spark with Sebastian in years have to be a millennial? Is twentysomething Via really too young for him or does fortysomething Sebastian just feel too damn old?