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101) 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.
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The Journal of Arthur Stirling is a novel by author Upton Sinclair, published in 1903. It is written in a first-person perspective, with the main fictional character being Arthur Stirling. Stirling, unknown poet and writer sets out to write his first poem, The Captive. He begins writing a journal to help him further his work as an artist-the novel being the journal. The novel begins with an introduction by a character who calls himself, "S."; Stirling...
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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...
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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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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.
106) Power Park: A Novel
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Ever hear of a twenty -thousand- year -old roller coaster?
How about a moth piloting a commercial flight from Washington to Boston?
Fake News or Real Deal?
Meet: Lance Mantis, business man. He'd like to reinstate Power Amusement Park to its former glory, but will Communication Station replace it instead?
Meet: Larry Leverage, U.S. intelligence agent suspected of counter terrorist activity by The Crockett Organization.
Meet: Lucy Lava, Martel...
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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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David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa is an expression of doubt about the raîson d'etre concerning the 19th Century explorers and missionaries in Africa. Led by David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary, they are said to have come to civilise "backward" Africans, which the author creatively re-imagines, arguing that it is far from the truth. Instead, their actions gave impetus to colonialism proper. In this book the omniscient...
109) University Gossip
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A response to the changing American ethos. An intimate study of identity and power in a postmodern world. In UNIVERSITY GOSSIP, Brian Herman touches on class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, abledness, and politics, and boils it all down into what it really means to be human as a part of the cosmos.
110) 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.
112) Sour Grapes
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'Dan Rhodes is a true original' – Hilary Mantel
When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes. But the villagers are not prepared for the peculiar habits, petty rivalries and unspeakable desires of the authors. And they are certainly not equipped to deal with Wilberforce Selfram, the ghoul-faced, ageing enfant terrible who wreaks...
114) The Great Stupidity
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"The Great Stupidity" is a witty work of fiction that offers a satirical look at an historic public health crisis. Author Andy Lazris transports readers back in time as the Black Death strikes a small village in France. Village leaders send off a blacksmith's son on a ridiculous quest to cure the disease — and on his journey he encounters many "experts" who "know" how to solve this crisis. A black comedy with 12 songs, the book is an historical...
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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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The Street Singer follows flat-broke New York CIty subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles into contact with Thaddeus Hoover, the high-powered developer with a plan to build the Barclays Arena and bring Brooklyn a National Basketball Association team - the first major professional sports team since baseball's Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1958. He ends up playing project supporters and opponents against each other as he plots a song he's written...
117) Dear Kevin
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Patricia writes to Kevin about some of the the experiences that they shared from her perspective.
118) The Out Crowd
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Hallie Flynn was ready for the perfect senior year, but everything changes at Homecoming when petty rumors spiral out of control. The In Crowd was always who everybody in the Out Crowd dreamed of being. The Out Crowd consisted of everybody else. Isaiah was also expecting a normal senior year. His biggest concern was earning a scholarship for college, but then all the norms evaporated. Gossip piles on top of itself, overwhelming his social life, and...
119) Allegory
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Allegory should be compared to a tour through the mind of one Clifford C. Chase, a confused "drop out, cop out and a loser." It is a trip through a surrealistic world of fantasy colliding with touches of reality. After reading the second page of a letter to a commissioner, the reader is introduced to a man with no past to speak of. His present life is in shambles and his future only seems to lead to a dead end to the point that he feels that suicide...
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"Why are you so unhappy?" That's the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar, asks almost everybody he meets as part of an obsessive project, "The Inventory of American Unhappiness." The answers he receives-a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint-create a collage of woe. Zeke, meanwhile, remains delightfully oblivious to the increasingly harsh realities that threaten his daily routine, opting instead to focus his energy on finding...
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