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Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize in Economics, but he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the prize must stay within his grasp, and so they conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement, just eight days away. Their plan starts out simple: crank up the AC, take shifts watching the apartment, forge texts and emails. As the days pass, things start to unravel and hidden motives emerge.
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Jen Beagins funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona -- almost 24, cleaning houses to get by, emotionally adrift. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. Always just under the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she's trying to disentangle herself. The story of her journey toward a...
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I was on the bottom rung of the music business.Then my new friend Dewey invited me to play a basket-house night with him in the middle of nowhere.Now I'm convincing him of my musical worth like my life depends on it because, for all I know, it does.This is a short-story in the Artists Of Leaves End universe.(Also available in an earlier form in Street Apples Magazine #1)
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On 15th June 2011, an extraordinary event took place in Brixton, south London. On that day, an Irishman devoured two doner kebabs in a mere 1 minute and 59 seconds. What made this feat even more remarkable was the fact that he had already indulged in 13 pints of lager. Now, in a riveting account, the true story of the events leading up to this accomplishment is recounted by the protagonist, 'Johnny Two Kebabs.'In this 'prequel' Johnny invites us into...
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A gay man and a black woman meet in the woods outside Leadville, Colorado. Well, they don't really meet. They run into each other when the gay man (Quincy) is running from the cult of Tree Tree McForest Face and the black woman (Maya) is running away from two QAnon conspiracy theorists who have just dissected their friend in an attempt to find evidence of a deep state plot to weaponize gayness to reverse global warming. A pursuit through the Colorado...
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The Journey of Sandra and Ike enters a new stage. This precarious duo avoids capture by law enforcement and reaches the Star 69 nightclub in Sin City. Delivering the gemstones to the proprietor, Vincent Dupree, Ike gives his best friend his notice. Suffering from severe wanderlust, Ike decided he didn't want to be a bouncer at such a sketchy club for the rest of his life. Stubbornly refusing to return home, despite knowing how much suffering her...
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The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to chat, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realize that they've all survived rape-and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle becomes the Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. They declare open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
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When investigative reporter Kerry McDonough finds double-dealing Senator Ralph van Patten dead in her bed, she can't call the police. Any investigation would paint her as suspect Number 1, putting her in an unwanted spotlight. Plus if it gets out that she slept with an interview subject, her career would be blown out of the water. And she couldn't live with herself if people knew she was with a slimy Republican!Instead, Kerry calls her jack-of-all-trades...
11) Platypus
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A short novel. The book follows the story of Cyrus, a man that finds himself in quite the peculiar predicament. For reasons, and by methods he cannot comprehend, he is repeatedly transported to a disturbing, bizarre location where he is subjected to unspeakable horrors, and where he encounters characters that defy all reason, and where nothing that happens ever makes any sense, at all. Is it all just a bad dream? He sets about uncovering the secrets...
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Have you ever felt that your life is like a movie, but someone else is writing the script? Sandra feels that way all the time, but she feels trapped and unable to do a damn thing about it.That all changes the day she's kidnapped. Sandra Verhoeven is a 15-year-old fashion model trying to make it big in her profession. However, she was having real doubts about her life trajectory. Despite the constant prodding from her mother, Midori, Sandra...
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Chris Benson looks up to his older brother. In fact, everyone looks up to Chris's older brother. Most have no choice when they're lying on their stomachs in the middle of Barclays bank. But when Gavin Benson gets sent down for 15 years, the somewhat unprofessional trio of Chris, Sid and Vince are left without a ringleader. As if Chris hasn't got enough problems, his adulterous partner Debbie is spending money faster than he can steal it, his sexually...
14) Reputation
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Three brothers, Whammy, Zeke and Benny, are becoming adults in the present-day world of miserably unhappy, scheming, badly-coifed, fashion-felon social justice warriors. The boys must protect their reputations and characters in much the same way as Victorian ladies fought to maintain their virtue and honor--albeit without being allowed to faint or have the 'vapors.' Additionally, it is highly impractical to carry 10-foot poles.
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"Hope", one must have it, for, without hope, what else is there? "Cockroachalisms, Life Lessons Learned On My Journey Through Life", allow the guru of wellness that is Xavier Cockroachal Damon to lead you down the path of happiness with life lessons only he could teach. "Motel Hell", the place where lost souls dwell. "Climb from Hell", Supustrus is trying to rescue himself and his wife by escaping hell. Will they make it? "Gus Versus the Evil Gods",...
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Tom was living a normal life. He had a girlfriend that would soon move in with him, a group of loyal friends that played boardgames with him, and a good job that he didn't hate and paid well. Nothing lasts forever, though, especially good things. One day, he died changing a light bulb. And then, he got up again.What will he do, being the world's first zombie? How will he keep himself hidden? And how will he manage the fact that he can see dead people?...
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A humorous retelling for a different generation.Who is Phil Osafa?What do The Dissentry of Magic do?How do you persuade your (drinking, gambling, thieving) weenix to behave like a respectable owl?What is ditchwitch? And why can't girls play?How do you tame the tiny, ugly, vicious - yet strangely desirable - guardian on the third floor?The answers are waiting inside this clever little file of fluid locations...Barry's uncles, Vermont and Patrice, are...
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Two old scallywags break a silly law to "prove" the extinct Tasmanian Tiger lives on.But that's just for starters in this six-novel bundle based on the island of Tasmania at the bottom of Australia.The two octogenarians don't just want to alter the course of ecological history. They also want to make sure the former mayor gets what he deserves.They take a detour to Ireland, where one of them inherits a castle and descends into a whole lot of trouble,...
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