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61) 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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Still haunted by the past and his most recent failures, Kent lives in a capsule hotel, penniless, jobless, forgotten by a fickle public, abandoned by his wife, and at the mercy of a nasty methamphetamine habit. Kent has vanished from the spotlight. But Denis Ozman, shock comic and husband of Kent's former mistress, has not forgotten what Kent did to him. He's escaped from Japan's most notorious prison and is coming once more for Kent to seek the revenge...
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I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but I was willing to offer the benefit of the doubt, hoping that once sworn in he'd magically start acting with a dignity befitting the office. That anticipation, more like delusion, had totally dissipated by 2019 when I started writing Trump-related satires as a form of personal therapy, following an age-old tradition that pompous people in power invite ridicule. Here was a man all about himself -- a fragile,...
64) Haze
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Anyone painful memory with traces kept back in particular placesIt will be unique, but they have vanished in a haze of antiques!
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We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second thoughts given about them.
Rental cars are exposed to so many things in the short lifespan before being retired and sold. Often overlooked and easily forgotten, what if rental cars had a voice? What...
66) Toff Chav
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Archie Hodgkin-Smith is the quintessential British Toff. From the stately environs of Risely, he is determined to launch a career as a photographer while enjoying a hedonist lifestyle. But everything changes when he meets the liberal and progressive Polly Raynard. Will Polly truly change him? Or will Archie remain the unabashed snob that he always was? Meanwhile, Gary Brown, the archetypal Chav, is forced to confront the harsh realities of his own...
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The only thing worse thanwaking up with the hangover from hellis waking up with a hangover in hellWhen literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he' s been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives.But he soon realises there' s something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway.Is Foster...
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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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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...
70) 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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Setting the Record Straight: A Compleat History of the Alternate States of America tells the story of our country's history, from the time that Christopher Columbus set sail with his three ships, right up to, and even beyond our time in the twenty-first century. Unlike most history books, it takes an alternative approach by, as the subtitle suggests, telling the story in a unique way. The author uses humor and satire to full effect as he covers the...
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What are you served for dinner while in the company of a lecherous reverend, an aging beauty queen, a gay lottery presenter, a guru, a shrink, a few reporters, and an odd assortment of South African parodies? Why, dinner of course! The rest is just dessert!This novel takes a quirky look at South Africa, its inhabitants, and the comedy that is politics. This is what some real South Africans are like. Some you may like, and they will be back in their...
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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...
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Stephen Lewis is living the dream, travelling the world as the King Maker of the music industry. A charmed man with a charmed life, what could possibly go wrong?
Isla Kiely leaves her suburban roots behind, seeking romance and adventure as an air hostess. When she falls for a stranger on a transatlantic flight, it seems their love story is already written in the stars, but fate has other ideas...
The Pressure Drop is a tale of love and tragedy,...
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, is one of the greatest satirists and moralists in history. His works, of which sixteen are preserved, are scathing and unapologetic in their presentment of Rome and its citizens. Juvenal is also revered as a social historian for his vivid depictions of Latin life. He wrote his satires between 100 and 127 AD, and although his volumes of poetry were lost for several centuries, his rediscovered works introduced...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1995, Lillian, a 28-year-old living in her mother's attic and working two cashier jobs, receives a letter from her wealthy friend Madison Roberts, offering her a job. Lillian accepts and travels to Madison's estate in Tennessee. Madison, now married to a senator, needs Lillian to care for her stepchildren, Bessie and Roland,...
77) The New Guy
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Does Tim have something to hide? Purity, Amity, and Clarity Blackwood have been looking forward to returning to Faint Hope High for the start of eleventh grade. Handsome new guy in town Tim Harmsworth is just the icing on the cake, at least as far as Purity is concerned. But Amity thinks Tim is hiding something. She doesn't believe that he's elderly Miss Harmsworth's nephew at all: she thinks he's a con artist, and she's determined to uncover the...
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Sexual satisfaction for all would Make America Great Again.
There is a shocking conspiracy to hide the link between baby diapers, building the wall, sex, and zombies Q knows the secret held by the Deep State. Only group sex will satisfy all leaving us with the time and energy to sort out the diaper crisis and the wall.
Find out what THEY don't want us to know and how we found out the TRUTH. This book might be your shortcut to enlightenment and...
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In a Sub-Saharan African country vulnerable to the whims of its dyslexic and tyrannical ruler, a young man named Abdulmoneim Ghoriesh, enrols in the countrys famed university, laden with the scars of a recent family tragedy. On his first night on campus, as he falls asleep on the lawn, Abdul has barely nodded off before he is jolted awake by hundreds of frogs croaking in eerie unison. And so begins Abduls satirical campus journey with five other desperately...
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