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61) In the Weeds
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Will's career in New York City politics has fizzled out. When a connected colleague and an ambitious restaurateur ask for his help founding a farm in a neglected part of Brooklyn, he sees an opportunity to reinvent himself like all the picklers, beekeepers, and kombucha brewers he's been reading about. In the Weeds is a cautionary tale and a satire of a time not too long ago when Brooklyn the place became Brooklyn the idea.
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Jay Carlson is an ordinary insurance salesman having an affair with his secretary. He becomes obsessed with sex and a curious obsession with finding Jesus as a physical human being. In a short few weeks his wife leaves him, He's hit by a car. He has an epiphany while he's in a coma about a cartoon Jesus and he eventually finds his way back.
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Get the Summary of George Orwell's 1984 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: George Orwell's classic novel 1984 is a cautionary tale about a dystopian society under the crushing and watchful eye of a tyrannical regime led by Big Brother. The dark story revolves around Winston Smith, an everyman who is tired of the government's lies and relentless persecution of people who dare think for...
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Galway, Ireland. At the wake of a young boy at O'Hare's pub, in walks Sean. Sean has powers, special powers, and he will use them to entertain the family in mourning. And maybe if they're lucky, a bit more besides.
A short story of 3,700 words that blends Irish black humor, satire and fantasy to new heights of absurdity.
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Did you ever wonder what Christmas is like in the Trump White House?
Then he heard it. Heard it deep within the bowels of the White House, down in the levels of sub-basement that aren't even acknowledged to the public. Down beneath the Press Room, beneath the Situation Room, beneath the bunker: a clanking noise, as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over long-lost national security apparatus. Trump protested aloud to steel his courage: "Fake!...
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With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand how a society exists beneath a repressive dictatorship. The rhythmic act of chewing relentlessly continues as individuals, time and land turn to waste. In this debut novel, no one escapes the critical gaze of a writer who witnessed first-hand the brutality of Gaddafi's regime. At times downright funny and at times poignantly sad, Chewing Gum depicts the...
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This book is at odds with America.
Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson are slave traders, the Man with the Mohawk wants to grind your bones to dust, and the Pig-Men wish to take the innocence of the Last Virgin Alive. And - oh, yeah, brother - Hulk Hogan's a racist.
Follow an unknown narrator as they travel through time, space, memories, and - sometimes - the ocean to defend their humanity. Told through a series of surreal and satirical non-sequiturs,...
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This book brings you moviemaking like you've never seen before: The stars! Rance Jericho, the man who was King; The hits! Uplifting movies such as A Carnival for Timmy, Hear the Word, and Three Strikes and You're Saved; The intrigue! Who are these upstarts calling themselves "Blood of the Lamb Films"?; The writers! Meet the hotshot kid who created this year's blockbuster, The Fetal Detective; The passion! Why has Evie Speck taken such a...
70) Situationship
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Situationship is a comic fiction about a casual, commitment-free relationship between an old eccentric gentleman (Mr. Sin) and a young vivacious lady( Miss Bad). The lady is desperate for marriage while the gentleman is non-committal on the issue.
These two love birds unending drama will leave you in stitches.
71) The Greatest Plague Of Life, Or The Adventures Of A Lady In Search of A Good Servant By one who h
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Excerpt: "Ever since we first commenced housekeeping, I cannot say the creatures have let me know one day's perfect peace. A more indulgent master and mistress I am sure they never could have had. For myself, if they had been my own children I could not have looked after them more than I did-continually instructing them, and even sometimes condescending to do part of their work for them myself, out of mere kindness, just to show them how; and never...
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In a Sub-Saharan African country vulnerable to the whims of its dyslexic and tyrannical ruler, a young man named Abdulmoneim Ghoriesh, enrols in the countrys famed university, laden with the scars of a recent family tragedy. On his first night on campus, as he falls asleep on the lawn, Abdul has barely nodded off before he is jolted awake by hundreds of frogs croaking in eerie unison. And so begins Abduls satirical campus journey with five other desperately...
73) Mai way
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Der junge Mann und das Meer. Todkrank am Strand, soll es das schon gewesen sein? Ein Blick zurück, ein Stück Glück im Unglück. Plötzlich taucht eine Seelengefährtin auf und verhilft zu neuen Erkenntnissen. Dazwischen jede Menge Skurrilitäten. Wer mal was ganz Anderes lesen will, ist hier genau richtig.
74) The New Guy
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Does Tim have something to hide? Purity, Amity, and Clarity Blackwood have been looking forward to returning to Faint Hope High for the start of eleventh grade. Handsome new guy in town Tim Harmsworth is just the icing on the cake, at least as far as Purity is concerned. But Amity thinks Tim is hiding something. She doesn't believe that he's elderly Miss Harmsworth's nephew at all: she thinks he's a con artist, and she's determined to uncover the...
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008 contra Sancocho cuenta los avatares del fracasado detective 008 cuando, luego de ser expulsado del cuerpo de policías de Cali, es reclutado por una compañía privada de investigación para resolver los más extraños y peculiares casos. Su autor, Hernán Hoyos, fue el primer escritor colombiano capaz de vivir del trabajo literario antes de García Márquez. Logró hacerse un nombre en su natal Cali y en toda Colombia gracias a su tenacidad,...
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The Christmas Rabbit is an adult satire on the commercialization and corruption of the two main Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter. It tells the tale of how Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny came to be and how they were subsequently were conned and coerced by forces beyond their control into making their yearly pilgrimages and annual deliveries and how each proves to be inadequate to their task. Set in the dawn of history as well as the present...
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Think of an event that rocked your world so much you felt like your life was spinning out of control. Did you feel like nothing made sense? Did you feel hopeless? Carmen suddenly finds herself thrust into a world of uncertainty swirling around her. After being torpedoed with a career killer, Carmen struggles to understand how everything she's ever worked for could be swept out from under her. Recounting events throughout her entire working life, from...
78) Fair Day
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Come celebrate Australia Day among locals and visitors at Founders Bay. Immerse yourself in their many and diverse Australia Day customs and beliefs, even as they begin to unravel and residents struggle to hold on to their values, and even their lives.
79) Bookstore
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Norm Slider, author of The Big Green Weenie Up Youre A** & Other Poems, is an assistant manager at BOOKsMART, one of a small chain of big-box retail book shops in the Midwest. His shrewish GM, Wanda Kropke, is busy downsizing the staff by attrition, as she makes life at work unbearable for everyone. Norm's personal life is in free fall, too. His problems with booze and women have finally caused his wife Linda to serve him with divorce papers, just...
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