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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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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,...
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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...
85) Last Draftees
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Our book is about lessons learned from decades of war in U.S. history and the consequences brought on by the draft, otherwise known as conscription. The Vietnam War (conflict) was the vehicle that brought to light not only widespread corruption associated with conscription but also our political shortcomings as a country. More importantly it shines a spotlight on abuse of power and the racial divide in the United States during the span of three U.S....
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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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Jay Carlson is an ordinary insurance salesman having an affair with his secretary. He becomes obsessed with sex and a curious obsession with finding Jesus as a physical human being. In a short few weeks his wife leaves him, He's hit by a car. He has an epiphany while he's in a coma about a cartoon Jesus and he eventually finds his way back.
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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...
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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...
90) Mattered People
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Dina is a hurting mess, when she discovers Ramone. Little did she know how instrumental he would become, and she wonders how she ever lived without him. Together, they navigate the streets on the Island, meeting various people along the way that help Dina discover who she is, and what she wants out of life. Complete craziness ensues, and it has Dina wondering who the crazy one is supposed to be.
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With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand how a society exists beneath a repressive dictatorship. The rhythmic act of chewing relentlessly continues as individuals, time and land turn to waste. In this debut novel, no one escapes the critical gaze of a writer who witnessed first-hand the brutality of Gaddafi's regime. At times downright funny and at times poignantly sad, Chewing Gum depicts the...
92) Rome & Joliet
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From the story's inception, CIA Agent Satchel X. Gilespie (one L) is smack dab in the middle of a pristine Georgia forest trying to uncover a stash of illegal weapons, which he hopes will jump-start his foiled career and return him to prominence within the agency. To put it mildly, this is no easy task because Gilespie (one L) has as his one main goal: the prize capture and incarceration of top Mafia don, Capulet Benvolio.
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'Ovoid Diaspora' follows the main characters introduced in 'Ovoid, Illinois – Fictionalized Accounts of Inconsequential People'. Cher Billingham, Duncan Reynard, Gene, Daedelus and Mylo leave the microscopic Midwestern town of Ovoid to seek their fortunes and further their educations, formally and in the school of hard knocks. As the story begins, Cher is an aspiring journalist at the University of Illinois/Urbana writing a music column for the...
94) The Greatest Plague Of Life, Or The Adventures Of A Lady In Search of A Good Servant By one who h
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Excerpt: "Ever since we first commenced housekeeping, I cannot say the creatures have let me know one day's perfect peace. A more indulgent master and mistress I am sure they never could have had. For myself, if they had been my own children I could not have looked after them more than I did-continually instructing them, and even sometimes condescending to do part of their work for them myself, out of mere kindness, just to show them how; and never...
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Did you ever wonder what Christmas is like in the Trump White House?
Then he heard it. Heard it deep within the bowels of the White House, down in the levels of sub-basement that aren't even acknowledged to the public. Down beneath the Press Room, beneath the Situation Room, beneath the bunker: a clanking noise, as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over long-lost national security apparatus. Trump protested aloud to steel his courage: "Fake!...
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This book brings you moviemaking like you've never seen before: The stars! Rance Jericho, the man who was King; The hits! Uplifting movies such as A Carnival for Timmy, Hear the Word, and Three Strikes and You're Saved; The intrigue! Who are these upstarts calling themselves "Blood of the Lamb Films"?; The writers! Meet the hotshot kid who created this year's blockbuster, The Fetal Detective; The passion! Why has Evie Speck taken such a...
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This book is at odds with America.
Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson are slave traders, the Man with the Mohawk wants to grind your bones to dust, and the Pig-Men wish to take the innocence of the Last Virgin Alive. And - oh, yeah, brother - Hulk Hogan's a racist.
Follow an unknown narrator as they travel through time, space, memories, and - sometimes - the ocean to defend their humanity. Told through a series of surreal and satirical non-sequiturs,...
98) Situationship
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Situationship is a comic fiction about a casual, commitment-free relationship between an old eccentric gentleman (Mr. Sin) and a young vivacious lady( Miss Bad). The lady is desperate for marriage while the gentleman is non-committal on the issue.
These two love birds unending drama will leave you in stitches.
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A response to the changing American ethos. An intimate study of identity and power in a postmodern world. In UNIVERSITY GOSSIP, Brian Herman touches on class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, abledness, and politics, and boils it all down into what it really means to be human as a part of the cosmos.
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Get the Summary of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Korede, a meticulous nurse, is entangled in her sister Ayoola's lethal habits. Ayoola, the younger and more carefree sister, has a history of her boyfriends dying under suspicious circumstances, which she claims are accidents or self-defense. Korede, bound by loyalty and fear, aids Ayoola in covering up these...
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