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1) Tom Jones
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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"gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world...
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While they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing-working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends decide that they must go on a vacation. After rejecting the ideas of a sea trip or country stay, because Jerome doesn't like the sea, and Harris finds the country to be dull, the men decide on a boat trip. With their bags packed and with the company of...
4) Noir
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"Metafiction lustily mates with hard-boiled mystery in this hilarious homage to Raymond Chandler and company." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer-if he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappear-if she was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives,...
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"Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorce with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington, DC, for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious 'landlord,' but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him"--Publisher marketing.
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2012
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils.... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
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"Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."-People
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous...
8) Cherry
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"Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they...
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2023.
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started....
10) How's the Pain?
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Gallic Books
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2012
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How's the Pain? is an off-kilter, blackly comic novel about an unlikely duo of a soon-to-be-retired assassin and a deadbeat young man, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier.
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times
Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast,
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A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly." In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character "C.D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer...
12) Decline and Fall
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The "enormously funny" satire of prewar British society by the New York Times–bestselling author of Brideshead Revisited (The Telegraph).
Theology student Paul Pennyfeather has been unceremoniously ejected from Scone College after the rambunctious members of the elite Bollinger Club deprived him of his trousers, leaving him to run across campus in a highly inappropriate manner. As a result, his allowance is cut off, and he has no choice but...
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He thinks he's a deadly ninja. He's not. He's Barry Harris and he still lives with his mum.
Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life's not done with throwing him curveballs.
A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime. With talking hedges, samurai ghosts, meddling psychotherapists,...
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The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the Table, and You Better Not Cry, Sellevision is Augusten Burrough's darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home-shopping channel.
Welcome to the world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much loved and handsome (that is, lonely and gay) host of a "Toys for Tots" segment, accidentally...
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Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the...
16) Voracidad
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Español
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Voracidadprocura ser una novela provocadora, un despiadado retrato esperpéntico y satírico del nacionalismo, de la España gobernada por la derecha, del sexo, de la televisión, del arribismo y la falta de escrúpulos, del oficio de buscavidas, de la estupidez y la locura, de la venganza, del horror e incluso del amor por Internet.
Y del sistema, que se devora a sí mismo, como demuestra la crisis económica en la que estamos inmersos.
Por la novela...
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Blick's Condition is a dark humour novel set in the world of medicine. Norris Blick is a modern-day misfit, whose life is thwarted by his domineering father, Dr. Thaddeus Blick. With intriguing plots and overtones of Tom Sharpe farce, the book is divided into three parts. Norris Blick Comes of Age, Blick on the Rocks and Dr. Blick, heal thy self. Blick's Condition for the most part is a roller coaster ride on a journey from pre-pubescent childhood...
18) The Money Shot
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Sebastian Hunter is a rake and womanizer. He's also a star reporter for the CBC. He has the money shot of a luxurious house falling over a cliff, and the whole world is watching. He's about to take down the chief of police and is working a story that could topple a government. Everything is lining up. Engaged to the boss's daughter, Sebastian's path to the anchor seat on the nightly news broadcast seems a foregone conclusion. But when foreign correspondent...
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The distant future: the year 2020. Brexit still hasn't, meant Brexit. The Conservatives are still in power. Things are bad. For average Brits Ian, Ben, and Nate it's time to get away from it all with a holiday to a country where the leader is competent and the politics are civil. Just kidding: they go to America.
What should be a relaxing tour of the east coast turns into a holiday from hell, when they, become embroiled in increasingly apocalyptic...
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