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41) 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...
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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...
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Actor John Lithgow wields a satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few years in politics. He takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul Manafort, Trump's doctors, and many others. Illustrated from cover to cover with Lithgow's own line drawings, the poems draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear,...
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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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Upton Sinclair's disturbing novel about the Wall Street scare of 1907 portrays the tactics of greedy capitalists who organise the fall of a rival trust company, creating a crash in the stock market crash and a run on American banks. Ultimately thousands of jobs are lost, throwing the world into financial chaos. (goodreads)
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"The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual "Experience Abroad" to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual...
48) Sour Grapes
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'Dan Rhodes is a true original' – Hilary Mantel
When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes. But the villagers are not prepared for the peculiar habits, petty rivalries and unspeakable desires of the authors. And they are certainly not equipped to deal with Wilberforce Selfram, the ghoul-faced, ageing enfant terrible who wreaks...
49) 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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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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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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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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Get the Summary of Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Seven-year-old Elsa feels like an outsider but shares a special bond with her eccentric 77-year-old Granny, who creates a fantasy world called the Land-of-Almost-Awake to help Elsa cope with life's challenges. Granny's apartment building is filled with unique tenants, each with their own quirks...
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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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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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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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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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Noah is a 500-year-old winemaker with a comfortable life who only wants to be left alone to enjoy his days making wine. But a visit from Yahweh turns his world upside down when he is commanded to build an ark. Thus begins The Flud, a novel of irreverent humor. A lack of ark building skill and the requirement of capturing thousands of animals adds to Noah's anxiety, but what fills him with dread is the task of capturing the koheleh, the fastest and...
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