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Government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown (a stone's throw from Chernobyl) be damned! Baba Dunja is going home. And she's taking a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With strangely misshapen forest fruits to spare and the town largely to themselves, they have pretty much everything they need and they plan to start anew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up...
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up...
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"We're in a culture war, and Peachy Keenan is not taking prisoners. This raucous new book is her rallying cry for normal people stuck in the foxholes and appalled by the status quo. Mothers and fathers, regular American families, men and women, can win this battle together. But a lot of ground has been lost. For decades, we stood around and watched as feminists and progressives steamrolled through our institutions-- those formerly robust, now comically...
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Timeshare Titans: A Satire is a fictional account of a man named Henderson Cloud who dies in 2019 after spending many decades in the timeshare business. He leaves all of his writings and tape recordings about his life in the industry to his daughter Maria, who endeavors to make some sense of them in exchange for receiving an inheritance of $10,000. An odd narrative ensues that describes the funny and not-so-funny experiences of Cloud and many other...
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Get the Summary of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Korede, a meticulous nurse, is entangled in her sister Ayoola's lethal habits. Ayoola, the younger and more carefree sister, has a history of her boyfriends dying under suspicious circumstances, which she claims are accidents or self-defense. Korede, bound by loyalty and fear, aids Ayoola in covering up these...
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This edition includes: Novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Gilded Age The Prince and the Pauper A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Novelettes A Double Barrelled Detective Story Those Extraordinary Twins The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The...
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Ce titre m'a été rappelé par mon séjour de deux ans et demi à Toronto au début des années 1960. Certains collègues anglophones faisaient de l'ironie en m'appelant « French-Canuck ». C'est ainsi que j'ai francisé ce terme pour en faire le titre de mon premier roman, publié à la fin de 1994, alors que se dessinait le deuxième référendum. Au départ, le titre devait être « La musique du souvenir », parce que la musique y joue un rle...
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Get the Summary of Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Seven-year-old Elsa feels like an outsider but shares a special bond with her eccentric 77-year-old Granny, who creates a fantasy world called the Land-of-Almost-Awake to help Elsa cope with life's challenges. Granny's apartment building is filled with unique tenants, each with their own quirks...
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I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but I was willing to offer the benefit of the doubt, hoping that once sworn in he'd magically start acting with a dignity befitting the office. That anticipation, more like delusion, had totally dissipated by 2019 when I started writing Trump-related satires as a form of personal therapy, following an age-old tradition that pompous people in power invite ridicule. Here was a man all about himself -- a fragile,...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1995, Lillian, a 28-year-old living in her mother's attic and working two cashier jobs, receives a letter from her wealthy friend Madison Roberts, offering her a job. Lillian accepts and travels to Madison's estate in Tennessee. Madison, now married to a senator, needs Lillian to care for her stepchildren, Bessie and Roland,...
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Barry has not kept up with his routine bodily maintenance. Though he's had regular blood replacements and lymph balancing, his eye fluid is long overdue for changing, and now his eye floaters are a thick cloud that's becoming more and more self-aware by the day.
When Barry is downsized from his job as Pen and Paperclip Auditor, his eye floaters' political rallies turn out to be what save him from starvation and homelessness.
But they're...
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Excerpt: "The object of this essay is to examine vulgarism and slang in the works of Jerome K. Jerome (b. 1859). Jerome gives us very good specimens of the ordinary language of the Victorian era. His style is not surprisingly original, but he shows a remarkable talent in rendering with perfect accuracy the characteristic talk of different classes of society. The persons he introduces to us need only utter a few words, before we are able to form a...
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Larry MaCabe is a man who needs people more than most . . . The problem for Larry is that most people have little need for him.
Larry MacCabe is a retired academic, a widower, and until a chance meeting with the administrator of a care home, also friendless. At her suggestion, he adopts a Basset Hound and joins her one Saturday at the local park. He becomes a regular visitor, and for the first time in his life the member of a gang. While his new companions...
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This book is a collection of interconnected short stories that follow the life of the protagonist, Alex, as they navigate a series of humorous and heartwarming misadventures. From mishaps at a charity gala to culinary disasters and unexpected encounters with colorful characters, each chapter explores the theme of embracing imperfection and finding beauty in life's surprises. As Alex's journey unfolds, they discover that even in the most unexpected...
14) Edward
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An illustrated classic from the author of Saville and Flight into Camden. Written before David Storey's 1976 Man Booker Prize–winning novel Saville, Edward tells the tale of a kindly and aging bishop who lives his life by just and holy standards-until one day he is surprised by the appearance of an old key, sitting in a curious box atop his study desk. Illustrated by the fine hand of Donald Parker, Edward follows the bishop as he works to ascertain...
15) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
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Three masterpieces by 'the counterculture's Mark Twain,' collected in one volume, including the 'lost chapters' of Trout Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review). An author who began his career handing out his work on the streets of San Francisco and went on to become an underground icon of the 1960s and '70s before his tragic suicide, Richard Brautigan gained a unique literary reputation for such works as In Watermelon Sugar as well as...
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From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather...
19) Suburban Porn
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They have always been regarded as losers right from their high school days. Now in their mid-thirties, four friends decide it is time to change the perception of the world about them.It is one thing to dream and another to make the dream come true. They soon realize this when they decide they are going to get rich through filming porn. All they need is equipment and actors.A loan shark lends them money at an outrageous interest rate, but they are...
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The National Sewer Agency is spying on people's toilets, looking for food terrorists...Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America. He believes in eating air. He struggles to get the food monkey off his back. As part of the Global War on Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp.When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the Thin House, the Prophet Jones himself asks Frolick to investigate. For the first...
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