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81) 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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"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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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.
84) 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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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.
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In Zeiten wie diesen, in denen die Ressentiments wie Pilze aus dem Boden schießen, in denen die Parteien dem Volk das Dasein vermiesen, kann man sich nur dazu entschließen, die eigene Phantasie zu genießen, laßt Blütenträume sprießen! Das Ende der politischen Landschaft, wie wir sie kennen.
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Novels
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Gilded Age
The Prince and the Pauper
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The American Claimant
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tom Sawyer, Detective
A Horse's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
Novelettes
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Those Extraordinary Twins
The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Stolen White Elephant
The...
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In Lincoln, Massachusetts-a Boston exurb of exquisite taste and understatement-one simply doesn't acknowledge the raw capitalism and the rank privilege that sustain the hot-house liberal sensitivities blooming there. Until Miranda, a woman of devastating wit and looks, enters town politics. Her goal is to force the right-thinking people of Lincoln to confront their hypocrisies, and ultimately, the cherished refinements that prevent them from beating...
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A dystopian comedy with a difference. "Makes the Hunger Games look like Hungry Hippos. Makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Polyanna." The Bloomfield Review says, "Like an obnoxious spy-comedy seen through the eyes of a filthy drunk ... The language can be absurdly, almost heroically obscene." The TBR Pile says, "Bonkers. Weird. Surreal. Satirical. Politically incorrect. Clever. Absurd. Witty. Disgusting." It's debauched, depraved, delirious, delightful....
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These satirical columns, written from 2003 to 2009, allow startlingly candid Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush to explain their need to control the destinies of countries, regions, and, ultimately, the world. Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Karl Rove, and other notables, not all famous, also demand part of the stage.
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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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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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Excerpt: "The object of this essay is to examine vulgarism and slang in the works of Jerome K. Jerome (b. 1859). Jerome gives us very good specimens of the ordinary language of the Victorian era. His style is not surprisingly original, but he shows a remarkable talent in rendering with perfect accuracy the characteristic talk of different classes of society. The persons he introduces to us need only utter a few words, before we are able to form a...
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Frankie Horvath is not happy. He's almost forty. He's fat. His wife is dead. He designs forks for a living. And his son? Well, he might just be the Antichrist. Which is why Frankie is about to meet with Satanists to find out the truth once and for all. And taking into account Frankie's lifelong delusions of grandeur (and the gun stuffed down the front of his pants) a bloody showdown for the fate of mankind is not out of the question. If you love the...
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There is a time in one's life when it becomes apparent that playing by the rules and doing a consistently good job only gets you something north of screwed, which is something south of what you had always considered to be success. In your twenties and thirties, this didn't seem to be much of a problem since there was always time to burn. Now, it would appear, there is only time left to burn.
96) Les Frincekanoks
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Ce titre m'a été rappelé par mon séjour de deux ans et demi à Toronto au début des années 1960. Certains collègues anglophones faisaient de l'ironie en m'appelant « French-Canuck ». C'est ainsi que j'ai francisé ce terme pour en faire le titre de mon premier roman, publié à la fin de 1994, alors que se dessinait le deuxième référendum. Au départ, le titre devait être « La musique du souvenir », parce que la musique y joue un rle...
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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...
98) Xx C. Top
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Independence period timer, in his work using sensationalist novel principles. Sensational themes, sudden plot turns, pathetic philosophical digressions - these are the main engines Roukas novels, most of them will never go without forthright eroticism. Eccentric mix of genres and prunes language of these works brings us closer to the amateur writings and undisputed expertise and attentiveness to current issues - the cognitive, literary publicist.
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The Last Good Book is a combination of tumultuous emotions and everyday nuances forged into one.
The various divisions in the take different jabs at societal issues needing urgent attention, from the tale of a nation about to collapse, the repercussions of indecision, unrequited love to environmental hazards.
The setting is an answer itself to a lot of questions. This book is a bumpy ride. Only those seeking deep reflection and a bit of thrill would...
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The Famous Frog Fiasco takes place in 2006. It is a caper that mixes the Cowboy Mafia, ex-high school football stars turned bank robbers, bikers, the president and vice-president, cable news personalities, FEMA, a well-known documentary filmmaker, a gadfly national religious figure and a beloved movie star frog with the locals in a small West Texas oilfield hamlet with the same name as the frog. The small town is devastated by the catastrophic events...
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