Audiobook performed by George Newbern, Karen White, Michael Crouch, Jenna Lamia, Sophie Amoss, and Allyson Ryan A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—complex, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now on audio as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” Series, and with a new introduction from the author. Kevin Wilson’s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, yet they are grounded in the emotional truths of the characters’ experiences. “Grand Stand-In” is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies “stand-ins” for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in “Blowing Up On the Spot,” a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully empathetic stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

An Earphone Award Winner Audiobook performed by Ginnifer Goodwin A bighearted, coming-of-age novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

2020 Audie Winner – Best Female Narrator An Earphone Award Winner Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Book Review Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a poignant and often humorous novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable abilities. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins catch fire when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for? With sharp humor and genuine warmth, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unique story of parental love.

Nothing to See Here

The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it’s hard to keep up. Essential Office 365 is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...	Downloading and Installing Microsoft Office Suite	Getting started with Office Online: using Sway, OneDrive, Mail & Calendar	Using Office Apps on your iPad or Android device	Constructing professional looking documents with Microsoft Word	Adding and using graphics, photographs, and clipart	Changing fonts, creating tables, graphs, clipboard, sorting and formatting text, and mail merge	Creating presentations for your lessons, lectures, speeches or business presentations using PowerPoint.	Adding animations and effects to PowerPoint slides	Using 3D and cinematic transitions to spice up your presentations	Using Excel to create spreadsheets that analyse, present and manipulate data	Creating Excel charts, graphs, pivot tables, functions and formulas	The basics of Microsoft Access databases	Keeping in touch with friends, family and colleagues using Outlook	Maintaining calendars and keeping appointments with Outlook	Taking notes with OneNote and more...Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential Office 365 tackles the fundamentals of Microsoft Office, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand. So, if you’re looking for an Office manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential Office 365 will help you maximize the potential of Microsoft Office to increase your productivity, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

Essential Office 365 Third Edition

Updated to cover the May 2019 Update, Exploring Windows 10 is the essential guide for those who want to get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Windows 10. Written in a clear and practical way using illustrations, screenshots, video demos, and easy to follow instructions, Exploring Windows 10 will help you: 	Install or upgrade to Windows 10 May 2019 update 	Master the key features of Windows 10 	Find your way around the Desktop, Start Menu, and the Taskbar 	Organise your files with File Explorer 	Learn about external drives, flash drives, and memory cards 	Learn to use Action Centre, Timeline, and Cloud Clipboard 	Search the web with the Microsoft Edge Browser 	Keep in touch using email and skype video chat 	Organise, enhance, and share your photos with the Photos App 	Create home movies with your video clips, photos 3D models, effects, and music to share with friends 	Have fun with 3D models and Paint 3D 	Listen to your favourite music with Spotify and Groove Music App 	Learn how to watch your favourite TV programs and films using the Films & TV App 	Play your DVD collection on your PC 	Learn about apps, find and download them 	Understand how Cloud storage with OneDrive works, and use it for free storage and sharing files 	Get to know Cortana, the voice-activated Personal Digital Assistant who can perform searches on your computer or the web, and actions like opening apps or documents, or setting reminders. 	And a whole lot more… In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of Windows 10 with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. Finally, maintenance tips to help you keep your PC running smoothly complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around the new OS.

Exploring Tech

Exploring Windows 10 May 2019 Edition

Updated to cover the Catalina release of MacOS, Exploring Apple Mac will help you to understand the fundamentals of your Mac and unlock its potential. Written in a clear and accessible way using full color illustrations, screenshots, video demos, and easy to follow instructions, Exploring Apple Mac will help you: 	Install or upgrade to Catalina 	New introduced in Catalina 	Master the basics of the traditional features such as the desktop, dock, finder, launchpad and navigation 	To use Action Centre, Handoff, Sidecar, Spaces, and Universal Clipboard 	Organising files and folders 	Search the web with the Safari Web Browser 	Keep in touch using email, iMessage, and FaceTime video chat 	Learn about apps such as weather, news, stock, voice memos, and how to download more 	Organise and listen to your music with Apple Music and the iTunes Store. 	Download movies, and TV Programs with the TV App 	Understand how iCloud storage works, and use it for free storage and sharing files 	Get to know Siri, the voice-activated Personal Digital Assistant who can perform various tasks for you 	Organise and enhance photos taken with your iPhone or digital camera. Share them, print them, create calendars, slideshows and greetings cards. 	Edit videos from your iPhone or digital camera with iMovie. 	And a whole lot more... In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of Catalina with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. Finally, maintenance tips to help you keep your Mac running smoothly complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around the new OS.

Exploring Apple Mac Catalina Edition

We’ve all been there before, staring at a computer screen with no idea what to do — don’t worry Using Publisher 2019 is here to help. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Using Publisher 2019 is packed with easy to follow instructions, photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated to cover Microsoft Publisher 2019, this guide will show you how to:	Start Publisher and find your way around the ribbon menu	Lay out and design your page	Use page parts, text boxes, borders and accents	Use pre-designed templates, and build your own	Format text: bold, italic, underlined, strike, and super/subscript	Align, highlight and change text colour	Cut, copy, paste and using the clipboard	Use headers and footers	Insert SmartArt and clipart	Add charts, tables, equations and special characters	Add photos, crop, wrap text and use effects	Print your publications	Check spelling and grammarYou'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around Microsoft Publisher. Have Fun!

Microsoft Office

Using Publisher 2019

Exploring Galaxy Tab is the perfect companion for your new Samsung Galaxy S4 Tablet. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Galaxy Tab is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated to cover Android 9, Exploring Galaxy Tab will help you :	Install or upgrade to Android 9	Setting up your tablet	Configuring your tablet 	Transferring data from your old tablet or phone	Setting up email and social media accounts	Bluetooth devices and printers	Connecting to Wifi and the internet	Tablet navigation with touch gestures	Using Gmail, Chrome browser, calendar, contacts	Video chat with Hangouts	Using DEX mode to get some work done	Using S-Pen	Taking pictures and videos	Downloading music, films, and TV programs	and more...In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of Android 9 on the Galaxy Tab s4 with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around your new tablet.

Exploring Galaxy Tab S4

Exploring Chromebook is the perfect companion for your Chromebook. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Chromebook is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated for 2019, Exploring Chromebook will help you :	Setting up your Chromebook	Configuring your Chromebook	Transferring data from your old machine	Setting up email and social media accounts	Bluetooth devices and printers	Connecting to Wifi and the internet	Chromebook navigation with touch gestures	Using Gmail, Chrome browser, calendar, contacts	Using Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides	Video chat with Hangouts	Editing photos	Downloading music, films, and TV programs	and more...In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of Chrome OS on the Chromebook with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. Finally, maintenance tips to help you keep your device running smoothly complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around your new Chromebook.

Exploring Chromebook Third Edition

Exploring Apple iPad is the perfect companion for your new iPad, iPad Air or iPad mini. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Apple iPad is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated to cover the iPadOS update, Exploring Apple iPad will help you :	Upgrade your iPad to iPadOS	The new features introduced in iPadOS	Find your way around the dock, menus, and icons	Navigate with touch gestures: tap, drag, pinch, spread and swipe	Multi-task with slide over, split view, and drag & drop	Use iPad as a second screen on your Mac with SideCar.	Use control centre, lock screen, notifications, and handoff	Connect external keyboards as well as the on-screen keyboard	Use Apple Pencil to draw, annotate, and take notes	Get to know Siri, voice dictation, and recording voice memos	Communicate with email, FaceTime, and iMessage	Use digital touch, and peer-to-peer payments	Browse the web with Safari web browser	Take, enhance, and share photos and video	Stream music with Apple Music, buy tracks & albums from iTunes Store	Stream TV programs & movies with the new Apple TV App	Use Files App, as well as Maps, News, Apple Books, and Notes	Setup and use Apple Pay, Calendar, and Contacts, and more...Finally, maintenance, system updates, backups, and general housekeeping tips complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around your tablet. Have Fun!

Exploring Apple iPad: iPadOS Edition

Bits, bytes, logic, RAM, CPUs, hard drives and SSD drives. Master the geeky acronyms and simplify computer hardware & terminology with ease. Computer hardware with all its technical jargon can be baffling, even for the moderately experienced user.	This book is ideal for a computing course, whether in high school, college or first degree.	Step-by-step, visual approach to help you quickly decode the jargon	Plenty of full color, illustrated screenshots and photographs to help you	Presented in an easy and simple to read format.This book looks at	Computer fundamentals: logic gates, binary arithmetic, hexadecimal, and number base conversions	Data compression and encryption	Hardware components: CPUs, RAM, Hard Drives, Portable Drives, video cards memory cards, motherboards, and the BIOS	Inside the CPU, CPU architecture, instructions sets, and the fetch execute cycle	Data Storage: bits, bytes, kilo bytes, megabytes, giga bytes and tera bytes	Computer ports: VGA, HDMI, DVI, USB 2&3, FireWire, RJ45 ethernet, eSATA and more	Different types of computer: desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablets, hybrids and supercomputers	Operating systems: process management, memory management, file management	Computer Software: applications, system software	Computer peripherals: laser and inkjet printers Types of computer networks, 	Network topologies, LANs, WANs, MANs, fibre optics and ethernet	WiFi and Cellular internet connections	The internet: email, the cloud, the world-wide web, and packet switching	IP Addressing, web servers, DNS servers and DHCP servers, TCP/IP model, OSI model	and more...Techniques are illustrated step-by-step using full color photography and screen prints throughout, together with concise, easy to follow text from an established expert in the field, provide a comprehensive guide to computer systems.

Exploring Computer Systems

In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children. “Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time. “Scroll Through the Weapons” is about a couple taking care of their underfed and almost feral nieces and nephews. “Signal to the Faithful” follows a boy as he takes a tense road trip with his priest. And “Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine,” the title story, is about a narcissistic rock star who moves back home during a rough patch. These stories all build on each other in strange and remarkable ways, showcasing Wilson’s crackling wit and big heart. Filled with imagination and humor, Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine is an exuberant collection of captivating and charmingly bizarre stories that promise to burrow their way into your heart and soul.

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine

An Earphone Award Winner Audiobook performed by Therese Plummer When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's at a crossroads in her life. Fresh out of high school and pregnant with her art teacher’s baby, Izzy faces an uncertain future. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head-case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or prospects, she's left searching. So when Dr. Grind offers her a space in The Infinite Family Project, she accepts. Housed in a spacious compound in Tennessee, she joins nine other couples, all with children the same age as her newborn son, to raise their children as one extended family. Grind's theory is that the more parental love a child receives, the better off they are. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising: Izzy enjoys the kids, reading to them and teaching them to cook. She even forms a bond with her son more meaningful than she ever expected. But soon the gentle equilibrium among the families is upset. Unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester. The project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's feelings for Dr. Grind, who is looking to expunge his own painful childhood, make her question her participation in this experiment in the first place. Written with the same compassionate voice, disarming sense of humor, and charm that made The Family Fang such a success, PERFECT LITTLE WORLD is a poignant look at how the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.

Perfect Little World

Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiot An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this heartfelt new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here. Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him on a road trip to find them all. As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm? Infused with deadpan wit and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.

Run for the Hills

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