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Abrams Image
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2023.
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In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers inside the zany world of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. The book features brand-new anecdotes and opinions from the show's wild cast of recurring characters, and matches the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the zany, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang!...
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Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
43) My Man Jeeves
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My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse is a collection of comedic work featuring three of Wodehouse's famous characters. Bertie is an idle rich man, who is always ready to help his friends. However, he would never be able to do so without the help of his odd but intelligent valet, Jeeves. Said to be the prototype for Bertie, Reggie Pepper is also rich Englishman dedicated to assisting his friends, however, unlike Bertie, he often has to act as the brains...
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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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The Circus Pig and the Kaiser is a rollicking historical satire that deals with freedom of expression under an authoritarian regime, a subject much talked about today! The novel takes place in 1907 in Russia and Germany. Vladimir Durov has a prized pig he has trained for the circus. Durov loves to make people laugh at his pig's crazy antics. But he finds that when his pig performs for the recently widowed circus owner, Natasha, the most he can get...
46) Mooncalf
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Mooncalf: Suggesting misshapen. Or a fool, not belonging. It is a quest for perfection that is not found. In this collection you will find joy, satire, pathos, magic, and the goblin spirit, duende. Some of the poems come from dreams, some from close encounters with the bending sickle. The closer the chine, the truer the line. In 2011 it came close when I spent seven days in the hospital with extensive blood clotting. After getting out I realized I...
47) Back to Blood
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A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day,...
48) Slade
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An unlikely celebrity with a self-help book becomes a reluctant spiritual guru to the Hollywood elite, spawning a cult he wants nothing to do with.A car crash thirty years earlier left Slade Bennington severely disabled but with a new outlook on life. His book about overcoming trauma becomes a bestseller and a box office hit movie. Slade strikes up an unusual friendship with Schuyler, the six-foot-tall teenage actress who portrays his sister in the...
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"What does 'allegiance' mean?" the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart.
In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell's extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read...
50) A Tale of a Tub
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From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies, the three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, inherit his will and each receive a decorative coat. Their father also leaves them instruction not to alter these coats in any way because doing so would be...
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Sinclair's novel follows the journey of Samuel Prescott, an idealistic young farm boy who strikes out on his own to strike it rich when his father dies shortly after losing all of his savings in a bad stock market investment. What would typically be a rags-to-riches story becomes a rags-to-rags exercise in futility, as Samuel is confronted with every form of social injustice and societal ill that you can imagine. Upton introduces Samuel to the reader...
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It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a novel with another author. The title of their rollicking 1873 tale became synonymous with the rampant post—Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C., where...
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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...
56) 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...
57) Rome & Joliet
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From the story's inception, CIA Agent Satchel X. Gilespie (one L) is smack dab in the middle of a pristine Georgia forest trying to uncover a stash of illegal weapons, which he hopes will jump-start his foiled career and return him to prominence within the agency. To put it mildly, this is no easy task because Gilespie (one L) has as his one main goal: the prize capture and incarceration of top Mafia don, Capulet Benvolio.
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Ein alter Sack schaut auf sein Leben zurück. Ein anderer Kerl derselben Sorte will sich an einem Schriftsteller rächen und trifft dabei auf sein Opfer. Dazu auch noch jede Menge Interessantes und Humorvolles über Politik, Fußball, Medien und Religion sowie ganz viele absurde Geschichten, die nicht nur lustig sind, sondern manchmal sogar auch noch zum Nachdenken anregen. Sehr abwechslungsreich.
59) Buckeye's Ballet
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Elected president for his entertainment value, Buckeye keeps the spotlight on the White House. When his Russian cronies propose building a dam across the Bering Strait to reverse global warming, he agrees to champion the collaborative project in exchange for choice seats at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. Creating the dam is simple-and ominous. Just tap volcanic matter by super fracking deep beneath the sea floor, chill the magma into a wall across the Strait,...
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Dieselben Leute, die immer mit dem Stinkefinger auf die Anderen zeigen, erweisen sich als überfordert, wenn es darum geht, die Wirklichkeit von der Realität zu unterscheiden. Was geht in den Köpfen von Arbeitslosen vor? Kamen sie schon arbeitslos zur Welt oder machten sie eine Ausbildung zum Arbeitslosen auf der Arbeitslosenakademie? Hochinteressante Fragen, die leider auch in diesem Werk nicht beantwortet werden.
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