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A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human? A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an intergalactic exchange program to learn how to become human. To live here, the traveler must study and understand our inclinations for seeing people as distinct...
182) Everything and More
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In a dark comedy structured like a great London department store, Arnold, the last of the Haden Brothers, owners of the world's greatest emporium, receives an explosive proposition from an attractive female employee that may result in drastic storewide reductions.
183) High Strangeness
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The mayhem continues! A year has passed since the events of Apartment 239, and Marble Springs has started rebuilding. Unbeknownst to them, a lone survivor flees toward them from another town, bringing with him a long-buried evil… Hunted by an otherworldly entity known as The Grinning Man, teenager Tyler Graves must team up with paranormal real estate agents Serling and Price to stop the arrival of an unfathomable cosmic horror and prevent the destruction...
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Toby wasn't ready to die in 2008-and wake up in 2088. 2088 wasn't ready for Toby either.
Gen-X computer hacker Toby Simmons is a classic American: impulsive, irreverent, intelligent, and inventive. And, after a silly accident in 2008, he can add "inanimate" to the list-because Toby is dead.
But only for a while. Eighty years later, medical science has advanced enough to bring Toby back to life.
Welcome to Southern California, 2088. The...
185) Too Weird for Ziggy
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The renowned rock journalist for Rolling Stone and Mojo takes readers into the outrageous netherworld of pop music in this debut collection of short fiction.
British rock journalist Sylvie Simmons spent decades covering and interviewing music legends from Stevie Nicks to Frank Zappa; from Muddy Waters to Michael Jackson; and from The Clash to Guns n' Roses, and beyond. Now she takes everything she's seen, heard, and experienced in the company of...
186) Fun in Acapulco
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A disgraced rock star smuggling fifty kilos of cocaine in a rented car.A beautiful red-headed journalist on her way to cover a celebrity wedding.A fun-loving millionaire hoping to kill the former, and fuck the latter.A professional hitman determined to kill all three.A devious public relations agent enacting a very personal agenda.A former Penthouse Playmate enjoying herself, and her boytoy.A Mexican drug baron fretting over his daughter's marriage.As...
187) The Threat
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The Threat tells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat-and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a "threatened man." But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding...
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Nineteen brilliant stories from the satirical master about talking cats, fearsome ferrets, and absurd humans . . .
At a country house party, Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak. His latest pupil is none other than Tobermory, the ginger cat belonging to his hosts, Sir Wilfred and Lady Blemley. As the guests express astonishment and incredulity, Sir Wilfred goes off to find Tobermory,...
189) The Knights of Wade
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In this comic novel set in New Orleans in the late 1980s, an inveterate lottery player will risk everything--except gainful employment--to strike it rich. Filled with local-flavored humor, it features engaging, unforgettable characters and a unique plot that offers insights into fate, faith, and the vagaries of life.
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In the pilot for the series, you met the #Davenport clan and all their craziness.Pick up in episode one where the pilot for the book left off.Lucy Davenport is a Hot Mess, no doubt. She's digging herself in deeper and deeper with the surprise announcement from her in-laws. They are demanding that she marry Cash Davenport, her deceased husbands brother. Her family will bond together to fight them, but their hilarious dys-FUN-ctional antics will land...
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Morgan le Fay, sixth-century Queen of Gore and the only major character not killed off by Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, vows revenge upon the Yankee Hank Morgan. She casts a spell to take her to 1879 Connecticut so she may waylay Sir Boss before he can travel back in time to destroy her world. But the spell misses by 300 miles and 200 years, landing her in the Washington, D.C., of 2079, replete with flying limousines,...
192) The Teacher
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This story has many twists and turns. You will never be able to predict what will happen next. The story is about 3 kids who are caught selling fast food in the school cafeteria against the rules by Principle Anderson. This dark short story comedy takes many turns that the reader will never be able to predict.and ends in murder.
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Quand un centre social devient un centre d'excuses, c'est la terre qui tourne à l'envers ! Deux pensionnaires sont régulièrement chargés de présenter des excuses pour les fautes qu'ils n'ont pas commises. Peu à peu, l'habitude aidant, ils présentent leurs excuses pour les fautes commises par les autres résidents. Lorsque les pouvoirs publics vont fermer ce centre insolite, les deux compères sans travail vont ouvrir une agence spécialisée...
194) Au nom du fric
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Hercule du Tylleux a un gros problème : il est riche, très riche ! Banque, pétrole, immobilier, finance, CAC 40, son terrain de jeu est immense ! Pour ne rien arranger, il a une femme fantasque et encombrante mais troisième fortune de France, deux héritiers un peu compliqués, et probablement plusieurs maîtresses…
Quand il décide de léguer sa fortune au plus méritant de ses fils, l'ambiance va brutalement s'alourdir. D'autant...
195) Lockdown
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George ousted from the drama club is desperate to direct again. The drama club would rather have their nails ripped out-----one by one. Will George get another chance?Lockdown has begun, George's caravan park is empty, his pension shares halved, and Catrina his on/off lover is definitely off.George is at a loss what to do until Catrina's Aunt is whisked off to a nursing home with the visiting rights of a security prison.George sees a chance. He decides...
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The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.
Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates...
197) The Celebrity
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When an author's newest novel becomes an overnight sensation, his brother seizes the chance at fame-however fleeting For most of his career as a novelist, Gregory Johns has toiled in relative obscurity. His books have sold modestly, and he lives comfortably enough in the suburbs with his wife and daughter. He leaves the grand gestures and extravagant parties to his more expansive brother, Thornton, an insurance salesman who moonlights as Gregory's...
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Sven and Ole, simpletons extraordinaire from the Upper Midwest, are back with more stories and tall tales. As in How Not to Haul Your Canoe, they prove that things tend to go wrong when you combine faulty logic with a dangerous lack of common sense. The world is a difficult place when you ignore the dangers of thin ice, lead a funeral procession to a landfill, or get outsmarted by the clock on your stove. Add in things like skunks, snakes, and high...
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Ever wonder what those cheerful theme park princesses are really thinking? When twenty-five-year-old Jaine proposes a new marketing role to the local amusement park, the general manager Dylan charms her into filling Cinderella's glass slippers for the summer. Her reign transforms Jaine's ordinary life into chaos that would bewilder a fairy godmother. Secretly dating her bad boy boss, running wedding errands for her ungrateful sisters, and defending...
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A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels.
When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his real-life research, he hardly expected it to get published. But when a publisher changed the title of his novel to Bimbos of the Death Sun, James-under the pen name Jay Omega-becomes an overnight sci-fi star. Invited to the annual...
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