One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Author:
Narrator:
Narrator:
Narrator:
Narrator:
Published:
Books on Tape 2014
Status:
Checked Out
Description
WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Formats
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
02/04/2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780804164764
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
B. J. Novak. (2014). One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)B. J. Novak. 2014. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)B. J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Books on Tape, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)B. J. Novak. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2014.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 3 | 0 |
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
497af9e5-89dc-635a-5692-49d8dd93908d
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 19:08:21
Date Updated:
Dec 08, 2020 18:34:31
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 23, 2024 22:32:20
Last Metadata Change:
Jun 03, 2023 06:32:18
Last Availability Check:
Apr 23, 2024 22:32:21
Last Availability Change:
Apr 23, 2024 22:32:21
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 26, 2024 02:10:38
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/97D/CAE/36/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/97D/CAE/36/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780804164740
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780804164764
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780804164740
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780804164764
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: B. J. Novak
- title
- One More Thing
- dateAdded
- 2014-04-04T10:49:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=1387085
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- One More Thing Stories and Other Stories
- crossRefId
- 1387085
- subtitle
- Stories and Other Stories
- id
- 97dcae36-abbf-441e-931b-ffe919e39f4b
- starRating
- 3.7
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 06:48:38
- fileName: OneMoreThing_9780804164740_1387085
- partCount: 6
- fileSize: 196191344
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780804164740
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780804164764
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 2/4/2014
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1387085-OneMoreThing.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 06:48:40
- fileName: OneMoreThingStoriesandOtherStories-58039
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 196166006
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780804164740
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780804164764
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 2/4/2014
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1387085-OneMoreThing.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Novak, B. J.
- bioText: B.J. Novak is a writer and actor best known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer. He is also known for his stand up comedy performances and his roles in motion pictures such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in English and Spanish literature.
- name: B. J. Novak
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Thompson, Emma
- name: Emma Thompson
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Wilson, Rainn
- name: Rainn Wilson
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Novak, B. J.
- bioText: B.J. Novak is a writer and actor best known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer. He is also known for his stand up comedy performances and his roles in motion pictures such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in English and Spanish literature.
- name: B. J. Novak
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Kaling, Mindy
- name: Mindy Kaling
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Dunham, Lena
- name: Lena Dunham
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Fischer, Jenna
- name: Jenna Fischer
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Moore, Julianne
- name: Julianne Moore
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Mulligan, Carey
- name: Carey Mulligan
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Perry, Katy
- name: Katy Perry
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Schwartzman, Jason
- name: Jason Schwartzman
- imprint
- Random House Audio
- publishDate
- 2014-02-04T00:00:00-05:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- One More Thing
- fullDescription
- WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader. - reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 28, 2014
Novak’s quirky, humorous short stories translate well to audio. And the author’s dry, deadpan reading—as if all the book’s odd happenings are perfectly normal—makes this audio edition even funnier. The guest narrators perform admirably, with Schwartzman turning in a truly hilarious cameo as a bloodthirsty African warlord on a blind date with a giggly American woman. As the warlord makes small talk with his date, Schwartzman’s jovial, booming voice shifts seamlessly from describing his job of murder, rape, and destruction to a Seinfeldian rant about flourless chocolate cake. Fans of offbeat humor with unexpected punch lines in the vein of Jack Handey’s “Deep Thoughts” will enjoy this amusing and often insightful potpourri. A Knopf hardcover.
- popularity
- 2710
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/97dcae36-abbf-441e-931b-ffe919e39f4b/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 97dcae36-abbf-441e-931b-ffe919e39f4b
- starRating
- 3.6
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/97D/CAE/36/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/97D/CAE/36/{97DCAE36-ABBF-441E-931B-FFE919E39F4B}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Short Stories
- value: Humor (Fiction)
- publishDateText
- 02/04/2014
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
- WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and... - sortTitle
- One More Thing Stories and Other Stories
- crossRefId
- 1387085
- awards
- source: The New York Times
- value: The New York Times Best Seller List
- subtitle
- Stories and Other Stories
- publisher
- Books on Tape
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC016000
- description: Fiction / Humorous / General
- code: FIC029000
- description: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
- code: FIC052000
- description: Fiction / Satire
