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Humourous fictionCriticism, Anthologies, Hobbies and crafts
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Selection of previously published works that parody or satirize common types of writing. Includes a police log showing officers' increasing…
exasperation with their community, a school's alumni newsletter, and a note on typefaces by Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals (DB 70373). 2012
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Humourous fictionAnthologies, Biography, Customs and cultures, Literature biography, Humour, Essays
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Essays about life in the American South by the author of popular memoirs like All Over but the Shoutin' (DB…
46142). The seventy-two essays, many of which originally appeared in Southern Living magazine, are broken down into categories of "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit."2015
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Short stories, Humourous fictionHumour, Journals and memoirs, Anthologies, Literature biography
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The founder and host of A Prairie Home companion, Garrison Keillor gives us a retrospective of his life as satirist, columnist, singer, storyteller, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. Strong language
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Romance, Humourous fictionAnthologies
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The world of young Mr. Lewisham is one day turned upside down when he meets and falls in love with…
Ethel Henderson, a young woman from London who is visiting relatives in Sussex. Their brief and innocent rendezvous has significant implications when Lewisham's job is threatened. Some time later, Lewisham moves to London, where he decides to go search of Ethel, but finding her proves to be more complicated than expected ... This book is said to closely resemble events in H. G. Wells's own life
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Short stories, General fiction, Humourous fictionAnthologies, Arts and entertainment
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Twelve first-person narratives by British and American writers. New short stories by Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle,…
and Irvine Welsh. In Nick Hornby's "NippleJesus," a museum security guard recounts what happened to a controversial artwork. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2000
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Humourous fiction, Short stories, Science fictionAnthologies
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Thirty short science fiction stories. Includes "Aliens Ate My Pickup" by Mercedes Lackey, "Invasion of the Jack Benny Snatchers" by…
John Gregory Betancourt, and "The Santa Claus Planet" by Frank M. Robinson. Companion to This Is My Funniest (DB 65600). Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2007
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Short stories, Humourous fiction, Classic fiction, General fictionAnthologies
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Compiles 136 comic pieces written between 1862 and 1904, making up a complete collection of Twain's humorous works. Includes thirty…
selections from his five books about travel. Arranged chronologically by year of first publication, with an introduction by the editor, Charles Neider
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Humourous fictionAnthologies
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Collection of humorous and satirical newspaper columns written by the Irish journalist from 1939 to 1966. Among his creations are…
the Plain People of Ireland; the Myles na Gopaleen Central Research Bureau; Keats and Chapman, two absurdly erudite poets; and the brother, a man with a solution to everything
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Science fiction, Fantasy, Short stories, Humourous fiction, General fictionAnthologies
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Machine of Death tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears…
jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprise. Because even when people have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Some violence and strong language
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Multi-cultural fiction, Romance, Westerns, Humourous fiction, General fiction, Contemporary romance, Erotic fiction, Historical fictionAnthologies
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""I'M HAVING YOUR BABY." Savannah Claiborne's simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland's carefully ordered life.…
Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime of obligation for the confirmed bachelor. But Westmoreland men always honored their responsibilities, and leaving Savannah to raise his baby on her own was not an option. So he proposed and she accepted...with one condition: Theirs would be an in-name-only marriage. Durango agreed. For now." -- Provided by publisher
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Romance, Fantasy, Humourous fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Contemporary romance, Romantic suspense, Serious and literary fictionAnthologies
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"Casino owner Ian Westmoreland thought he had seen the last of Brooke Chamberlain, until she checked into his resort claiming…
to need a little R #38 R. Brooke had betrayed him years before, and Ian was willing to bet there was more to her visit than she would admit. No woman had even come close to igniting the heat and passion inside him as Brooke once had. And if Ian was going to discover what Brooke was hiding, what better way than through seduction' But in this game of bedroom cat and mouse, the stakes were very high. Would Ian's ultimate gamble pay off."--Goodreads
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Humourous fiction, Short stories, Indigenous peoples fictionHumour, Essays, Arts and entertainment, Indigenous peoples, Anthologies, Women biography
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Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge uses insight as an act of resistance…
when she writes about her identity as a Native woman in America. These slices of life provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics. Adult. Unrated
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Humourous fictionAnthologies, Essays
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Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window…
during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff doesn't belong. Nor does he try to. Still, he continually finds himself off in the far-flung hinterlands of our culture, notebook or microphone in hand, hoping to conjure that dyed-in-the-wool New York condescension. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. Some violence
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Westerns, Romance, Short stories, Serious and literary fiction, General fiction, Humourous fiction, Historical romanceAnthologies
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"Chance Wilder never wanted to be a hero. A road-weary gunslinger with a ruthless reputation, he focuses only on his…
next target--and his next payday. That is, until a young boy offers Chance everything he owns--a piece of string, a harmonica, and a bent penny--if he'll save his sister from a couple of thugs. Chance agrees, only to discover that the beautiful, fierce young woman in need of rescue is actually the very person he's been hunting: his next mark. But after he saves her, Lillian Madison awakens in him long-buried dreams and possibilities. Facing the demons of his past, Chance is forced to question his next move. Dare he risk everything by following his heart...and trust that the road to redemption begins with Lillian?" -- back cover. Some strong language. Some violence
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Romance, Historical romance, Humourous fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Movie and television tie-insAnthologies
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Contrary to gossip columnist Lady Whistledown's reports, London's most eligible bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton, has decided to marry and begins courting…
Edwina Sheffield. Determined to protect her from the notorious viscount, Edwina's half-sister, Kate, schemes to thwart their betrothal--and falls in love with Anthony herself. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2000
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Humourous fiction, Science fictionAnthologies
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LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves,…
thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind. Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi's sanity) when they are "calculated apart" and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world. Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snær Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.
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Legal stories, Serious and literary fiction, Humourous fictionAnthologies
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Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year…
lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out. To keep the job he hates, pay the mortgage and salvage his marriage, he will have to do something strikingly daring, something he never thought himself capable of. But if he’s not careful, it might be the last job he ever has...
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Humourous fictionDrama, Anthologies, Arts and entertainment
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Environmentalist, activist, and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse edition of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen&’s…
renowned 1882 play. Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story and pressure Dr. Stockmann to retract his statements. At a public meeting, an attempt is made to keep Dr. Stockmann from speaking, but he launches into a tirade condemning the corruption of the town and the tyranny of the majority. Finding his speech offensive, he is shouted down by the masses and reviled as "an enemy of the people." In his foreword, Kennedy alerts readers to the undeniable fact that the persecution of those who tell uncomfortable truths, which Ibsen described over one hundred years ago, continues to this day and is as relevant now as ever. We face environmental deregulation and degradation, politicians in lobbyists&’ pockets, attacks on facts that are agreed upon by reputable scientists, corporate funded and controlled research, and attempts to impede and suppress whistleblowers. The battle continues and Kennedy joins Ibsen on the front lines.
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Humourous fiction, Short storiesAnthologies
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A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.Nikolai…
Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller," in which Benjamin contrasts the plotty machinations of the modern novel with the strange, melancholy, but also worldly-wise yarns of an older, slower era that Leskov remained in touch with. The title story is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad and did go on to become the most popular of Dmitri Shostakovich's operas. The other stories, all but one newly translated, present the most focused and finely rendered collection of this indispensable writer currently available in English.
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Among contemporary Russian writers, Yuz Aleshkovsky stands out for his vivid imagination, his mixing of realism and fantasy, and his…
virtuosic use of the rich tradition of Russian obscene language. These two novels, written in the 1970s, display Aleshkovsky’s linguistic gifts and keen observations of Soviet life.Nikolai Nikolaevich begins when its titular hero, a pickpocket by trade, is released from prison after World War II and finds a job in a Moscow biological laboratory. Starting out as a kind of janitor, he is soon recruited to provide sperm for strange experiments intended to create life in the Andromeda galaxy. The hero finds himself at the center of the 1948 purge of biological science in the Soviet Union, in a transgressive tale that joins science fiction (and science fact) with gulag slang and a love story. The protagonist and narrator of Camouflage is an alcoholic who claims that he and his gang of friends are just one part of a vast camouflaging operation organized by the Party to hide the Soviet Union’s underground military-industrial complex from the CIA’s spy satellites. As they pass their time on the streets and share their alcohol-inspired fantasies, they see the stark reality of the Cold War in Russia in the late seventies. Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage introduces English-speaking readers to a master of the comic first-person narrative.