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Everyman's library volume 156
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Released from his university studies for disciplinary reasons, Paul Pennyfeather accepts a teaching position in North Wales.
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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,...
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Timeshare Titans: A Satire is a fictional account of a man named Henderson Cloud who dies in 2019 after spending many decades in the timeshare business. He leaves all of his writings and tape recordings about his life in the industry to his daughter Maria, who endeavors to make some sense of them in exchange for receiving an inheritance of $10,000. An odd narrative ensues that describes the funny and not-so-funny experiences of Cloud and many other...
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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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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...
6) Nam-a-rama
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Marine helicopter pilot Gerard Finnigan Gearheardt, in the Oval Office on CIA pizza delivery duty ("They don't let freckle-faced teenagers deliver pizza to the White House, you know"), overhears President Larry Bob Jones and the Joint Chiefs of Staff brainstorming the idea of escalating the American advisory presence in Vietnam into a full-fledged shooting war to enhance Larry Bob's image and beef up a flagging peacetime economy. To make sure the...
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It is Oscar night and Hollywood holds its breath to see if Sir Michael Brookes not only wins the best actor but also the best supporting actor award, which would take his tally of Academy Award wins to an unprecedented six....meanwhile his biggest fan, struggling actor and former television soap star Terry Sparkes watches the ceremony alone in his dingy South London flat unaware that this evening will change his life forever......but have Terry's...
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If you are bothered by greenwashing, baffled by eco-denialism, and bewildered by our seemingly inexorable march toward global environmental catastrophe, this book is for you.
In a not-so-distant future, in a world ravaged by climate change and invasive pests, humanity still chooses self-deception over sacrifice. Even the ubiquitous green flies buzzing around our heads don't concentrate our minds on what humanity's survival requires.
When a sly US...
9) Elmington
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No good deed goes unpunished in a willfully blind, technocratic society. Gordon Gray, a retired librarian, only wishes to chain smoke, read twentieth-century novels by dead white men, and at the time of his choosing, shuffle off his mortal coil. Everyone from his thanatophobic doctor to his New Age neighbour has an opinion on what Gordon should want and how he should be treated. When his daughter Martha arrives from the West Coast, she finds Gordon...
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A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.
Swift goes to great lengths to support his argument, including a list of...
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The National Sewer Agency is spying on people's toilets, looking for food terrorists...Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America. He believes in eating air. He struggles to get the food monkey off his back. As part of the Global War on Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp.When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the Thin House, the Prophet Jones himself asks Frolick to investigate. For the first...
13) Suburban Porn
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They have always been regarded as losers right from their high school days. Now in their mid-thirties, four friends decide it is time to change the perception of the world about them.It is one thing to dream and another to make the dream come true. They soon realize this when they decide they are going to get rich through filming porn. All they need is equipment and actors.A loan shark lends them money at an outrageous interest rate, but they are...
14) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
16) Poor Ghost
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On a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a
private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost-one of America's most storied
rock bands-plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman.
Poor Ghost moves back and forth between the impact of the plane crash on
Caleb's life, and an oral history of Poor Ghost, from its beginnings as a
working-class punk band to rock icons.
17) The Nose
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"The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol is a satirical short story that follows Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov, who wakes up one day to discover that his nose has inexplicably vanished. Even more bizarrely, he encounters his nose in the form of a higher-ranking officia
18) The Nose
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"The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol is a satirical short story that follows Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov, who wakes up one day to discover that his nose has inexplicably vanished. Even more bizarrely, he encounters his nose in the form of a higher-ranking officia
19) Bad Vibrations
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What will you sacrifice to attain true health?Valerie just arrived at Doctor's hidden utopia for what was supposed to be a weekend of wellness.A weekend of eating fruits straight from the farm. Of screaming hula hoop yoga and dynamic meditation to expel toxins Valerie knew were holding her back. A retreat where she'd attain the energy needed to return home and set new personal records at the gym. To land her dream job.And of course, she'd finally...
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Experience the charged world of Washington D.C. politics in Henry Adams' thrilling 1880 novel Democracy. When a wealthy young widow named Madeleine Lee arrives in the capital, she is swept into its social scene. A chance meeting with Senator Silas P. Ratcliffe leads to a tentative romance, as Madeleine believes she can positively influence the charismatic politician. However, as she navigates more of the powerful elite, her naïve idealism about democracy...
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