Andrew Shaffer
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Summer 2018: Two years into President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, America has never been greater. The Even Greater Wall along the Mexican border is under construction, paid for by Mexico. Americans have more money in their pockets thanks to lower taxes and the president's creative money-raising strategies. (Who else would have thought to pay for FEMA's budget by suing the Catholic Church over property damage caused by acts of God?) And...
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Quirk Books
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[2019].
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English
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"Following a successful but exhausting book tour, Joe Biden is looking forward to returning home. However, before he does, he's got one last stop to make: Chicago, where the Obama Foundation is holding its first annual global economics forum. Barack Obama has invited Joe to meet a wealthy left-leaning philanthropist, whose deep pockets Joe will need if he decides to run for president. Joe isn't even sure if wants to run...but he's not going to pass...
3) Secret Santa
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The Office Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre. But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her...
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Marjorie Mayfield is a big lady with an even bigger problem. She has a knack for killing off the innocent folks at the retirement community to keep her estate sale business afloat, but that special skill does not seem to help her when she is deep, deep, deep in debt to the neighborhood Slavic mob, then faced with hot competition from a pair of eager-beaver whiz kids, and then given a do-or-die mission to kidnap some of the local color. So, in a world...
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Crown
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2014
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English
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Sharks Are Flying at Your Head at 300 mph.
How Will You Survive?
In the apocalyptic world we live in, Mother Nature is angry. Danger waits at every turn, and catastrophes like the Los Angeles sharknados have taught us that we need to be ready for anything. Too many lives have already been lost.
But fear not. How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters is the first and only comprehensive guide
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Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including:
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." (Rejected by everyone he proposed to, even when he kept asking and asking.)
Jean-Paul Sartre: "There are of course ugly women, but I prefer those...
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Quirk Books
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[2018].
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English
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"Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they...
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A heartwarming audiobook for children and adults featuring everyone's favorite flying cryptid, brilliantly performed by much-loved British actor and comedian Richard Ayoade
Few have seen the West Virginia creature known as Mothman, but everyone agrees nothing good happens when he's around-there always seems to be an accident or some other mishap. Is he really an unlucky charm? Even he's unsure.
When Rudolph takes an unexpected vacation one foggy Christmas...
