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81) Augustus Carp
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Una sátira contra la hipocresía.
Administrador de una parroquia, superintendente de la catequesis y presidente de la Liga por la Pureza de San Potamus, Augustus Carp tiene por costumbre exponer los pecados y defectos de los demás mientras, al mismo tiempo, es perfectamente capaz de ignorar los propios.
Desde su más tierna infancia, Augustus emprende continuas campañas contra la lascivia, la bebida y el tabaco, mientras a su vez cae en muchos...
82) Dear Kevin
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Patricia writes to Kevin about some of the the experiences that they shared from her perspective.
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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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Originally published in 1848, this early work by William Makepeace Thackeray is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It is a collection of satirical works on English society in the mid 19th century and is attributed with coining the word 'snob' in its current usage. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for anyone who is a fan of Thackeray or interested in the satire of the age. Many of the earliest books, particularly those...
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Excerpt: "To all surviving saloon passengers of the good ship Lithia, who have rounded the Horn and passed through perilous Beering Straits, and suffered shipwreck, shock, and sudden thirst: to those intrepid souls who have clung to the slippery hull of the Water Wagon when it seemed the gallant craft could not live another hour; who, lashed to the sprinkler, have ridden out many a choking dust-storm; who have heard the cafe Lorelei sing, and still...
86) El corazón de Inbu: La hija de un granjero entra a un torneo para casarse con un príncipe testarudo
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Presionado por las exigencias de su padre para que busque esposa, el príncipe Inbu organiza un torneo como ningún otro para encontrar a la mujer de sus sueños. Creyendo que nadie querrá nadar en leche o bailar con cerdos, se da cuenta de lo equivocado que está cuando trescientas mujeres de todo el continente se inscriben. Entre las valientes doncellas está Mei, la hija de un granjero que quiere probar que las aldeanas pueden hacer una diferencia....
87) Dumb-Show
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A satirical campus novel, Dumb-Show shrewdly confronts the cultural politics of masculinity through a narrative that twists the structure of Henry IV. A controversial Canadian professor of political science at a Toronto university rises to power when his political views divide the student body. Two siblings, one a student at the university, develop isolated personal relationships with the professor, and find themselves spiralling to infamy alongside...
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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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Case officer Victor Caro is back, and he's brought the whole family along this time. On assignment in South America with his wife and young son, Victor must break up an alliance between one country's charismatic autocrat and a narco-trafficking revolutionary group in the country next door. As the group's support for the increasingly dictatorial leader grows, Victor enlists the help of a colorful group of CYA colleagues, along with his own family,...
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In what the Washington Post has called "the scoop of the century," the author and political operative John Sedgwick discovered Mitt Romney's secret tell-all memoir in the Romney family vault in the basement of the Mormon tabernacle built in 1867 by Mitt Romney's great grandfather. Never intended for publication, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, OKAY? lays out, for the first time, aspects of the Romney psyche that have long been baffling mysteries. Among them:...
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There is a never-ending recession lingering overhead and the specter of things ever returning to their previous peak seems unlikely. Politicians speak of solutions as the economy struggles to gain traction, but no-one thinks much about those at the bottom rung. Left to fend for themselves in a dying industrial city, homeless duo Horace and Alvie stumble their way through life. Their only goal is to survive. But when things take an unexpected turn...
92) Los nuestros
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El hombre tiene al enemigo en casa, sanciona el autor emergente Dovlátov. Se arriesga así a penetrar en el misterio de sus orígenes, encadenando las crónicas de cuatro generaciones surcadas por una especie de verdad insistente y anómala. El autor gobierna a sus inolvidables personajes como cambiantes máscaras libertarias. La titanomaquia de los abuelos, judíos de Oriente y armenios del Cáucaso, cede ante la decadencia de hijos y nietos....
94) 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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A Town Called Forget is Anne of Green Gables turned on its head. But in this tale it is not an over-imaginative redheaded orphan that takes center stage but the off-beat town itself, full of individuals that should be restrained if not medicated. And the poor heroine of this yarn, banished to live with her Aunt Lily whom her parents have never publicly recognized, has to navigate the delicate balance between her aunt's sanity and neuroses. Amid adventures...
96) 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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This book contains a collection of verse written and illustrated by W. S. Gilbert. "The Bab Ballads" was written prior to his becoming famous for his comic opera "Librettos", and was integral to the development of his famous "topsy-turvy" style. This approach entailed silly situations being followed through to their logical conclusions - in hilarious style. This volume is highly recommended for lovers of comic literature, and is not to be missed by...
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Welcome to Columbus, Ohio, winner of the Smart City Challenge and home to countless public servants, such as Ellen Matthews, a Software Engineer with spunk and a wayward car. After Ellen uncovers election tampering on Primary election day, telling anyone about it isn't as easy as it seems, and powerful special interests are trying to kill her.
On the run, Ellen and her longtime boyfriend, Zach, team up with some quirky characters to try to mobilize...
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Once upon a time, Zack Hardiman, a typical American male, attempted to find a shirt for jogging that contained absolutely no advertising. This became the first step in his descent into insanity. When he recovered, he slowly began a more extensive trip along the winding road we call American Culture. Although SEX and the AMERICAN MALE is not a fairy tale, it does include a happy ending with a married couple, a white picket fence and 2.5 children. SEX...
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The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria. It concerns Dr James Beaney, a very colourful and controversial surgeon, who amassed a fortune from his practice, and displayed it in the jewellery he wore, the mansion he had built (which still exists today) and in his social life. He was, however, a generous benefactor to...
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