Showing results by publisher "Big Happy Family, LLC" in Literature & Fiction

Thirteen-year-old Huck runs away from his alcoholic and abusive father in a stolen canoe. Hiding on a wooded island, he comes upon a slave named Jim, who is also fleeing--from slavery. The two set off down the Mississippi on a piece of a raft, each in search of his own kind of freedom.

Pudd'nhead Wilson, like many other Mark Twain books, was read aloud by the author to his wife and daughters, chapter by chapter, as it was being written.

After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California’s Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can’t see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent act triggers a breathtaking cycle of violence that threatens Tommy’s world.  

Nice young boys collect white supremacists to feed a Lovecraftian monster. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

A young hippie couple reach both enlightenment and social fame via their "material pragmatism", supported by both Western and Eastern religion - and with some help from an American Indian named "Little Bird".

A man of many firsts, Mark Twain was the first author to use the typewriter and the first person to have a telephone in his home (which no doubt made him the first person to swear at tech support!). He patented the accordion file, the fountain pen, and adjustable suspenders. And when he published "deleted scenes" from Pudd'nhead Wilson as Those Extraordinary Twins, he became the first publisher to include "bonus tracks" as well as the finished work.

The first Philadelphia Fringe Festival podcast play The Many Men of Martha Manning is a giddy spoof of the classic radio soap operas of the 40s and 50s. This six-episode "StereoSonic Adventure" takes the plucky 1958 housewife from Pepper Pickle, Pennsylvania, on a wild ride around the world in search of the truth about her missing scientist husband, Bill. She's accompanied by her incomprehensible best friend, Dotty.

The Institute team gets its first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

Allele Island is a beachcomber's paradise for a charming little primate named Eena Beena, who tends her stretch of beach - and the hapless castaways who wash up there - as if it were her own private garden. Everything changes when a deranged ape named Prospero arrives with plans to kidnap the island's queen for an evil experiment that threatens the world.

An audiobook narrated by author Bob Andelman, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life is the authorized biography that explores Eisner's amazing life, detailing a career that spanned 70 years. The biography features interviews with many of Eisner's contemporaries, such as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Neil Gaiman, Denis Kitchen, Jim Warren, Dave Sim, Denny O'Neil, and Stan Lee.

If your purpose for buying an audiobook is to find something to help put you to sleep, this is not it. But if you want to follow a small time con-man from coast to coast as he somehow managess to irritate, intimidate, of just in general piss off the following list of people - hit men, drug dealers, doctors, antique dealers, coin dealers, cops, and an unfaithful wife who thinks it is OK for her to steal everything from him that he steals from everybody else - then you have found the right book!

A boy discovers the special connection between fishing, grandfathers, and the great beyond. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Sex and spite, a husband and a wife, a girl and a boy, a divorce and a home divided. Siege at Sorrel Rift presents the events surrounding the end of a marriage in a compelling audio drama. The book's theme of love and war is timely - and timeless. It is a simple - and cautionary - tale of the devastation which results when parents wage war and force children into the fight.

A retarded young girl saves the lives of those in her care with box of broken crayons. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

A kidnapping turns to be unexpectedly deadly when the Mafia encounters ogres and demons. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Alan Krieger, a rather zany ER nurse in New York, is determined to save America from anti-Semitism. He becomes a would-be golem, invoking the image of a creature that, in folklore, protected the Jewish community in 16th-century Prague.

Provocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels.

From traditional to experimental, this collection of short stories includes mysteries, monologues, literary pieces, and mischievous whimsy. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, the stories aim to challenge as much as they strive to please. Strangers become intimates, intimates become strangers: the world is turned upside down, shaken, then served up with a wink. These stories take the listener to private places: they are unforgettable inside stories.

Joe Ash is on a mission to save his daughter. The odds are against him and everyone knows it. Everyone.