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What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
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"What does 'allegiance' mean?" the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart.
In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell's extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read...
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We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second thoughts given about them.
Rental cars are exposed to so many things in the short lifespan before being retired and sold. Often overlooked and easily forgotten, what if rental cars had a voice? What...
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Barry has not kept up with his routine bodily maintenance. Though he's had regular blood replacements and lymph balancing, his eye fluid is long overdue for changing, and now his eye floaters are a thick cloud that's becoming more and more self-aware by the day.
When Barry is downsized from his job as Pen and Paperclip Auditor, his eye floaters' political rallies turn out to be what save him from starvation and homelessness.
But they're...
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I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but I was willing to offer the benefit of the doubt, hoping that once sworn in he'd magically start acting with a dignity befitting the office. That anticipation, more like delusion, had totally dissipated by 2019 when I started writing Trump-related satires as a form of personal therapy, following an age-old tradition that pompous people in power invite ridicule. Here was a man all about himself -- a fragile,...
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Wo wir daher hinblicken, sei es Alltagsleben, Kunst oder Nationalsport-der Tarrola zeigt in allem eine sehr ausgebildete Eigenart. Seine hohen Berge, die ihn wie ein schützender Wall umgeben, werden ihm jederzeit behilflich sein, sein Wesen vor dem verderblichen Einflusse Europas zu bewahren.
Jubiläumsausgabe des Skandalbuches
"Schilderung von Land und Leuten von nicht alltäglicher satirischer Art"
ein Blick in das intime Leben und Fühlen eines...
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Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Familie im Herzen Münchens und setzt die Grundschulzeit ihrer Tochter auf humorvolle und sarkastische Weise in Szene. Die Geschichte beginnt am ersten Schultag ihrer Tochter und endet mit dem Übertritt auf die weiterführenden Schulen, stets gewürzt mit einer Prise Ironie und einem Schuss Münchner Lebensart.
Eine kabarettistische Lektüre für Eltern, die sich in dem Buch wiederfinden werden, sobald ihr Nachwuchs eingeschult...
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Die Loslösung des Freistaates Bayern von Deutschland war nur der Anfang gewesen, denn danach ging es erst so richtig los. Volksentscheide pflasterten den Weg in eine unglaubliche Zukunft, doch der Größenwahn kam immer ganz zuverlässig vor dem Fall und auch die Utopisten landeten irgendwann wieder auf dem harten Boden der Realitäter. Eine Satire für alle Leute, die einen ziemlich schrägen Humor haben.
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Ein reicher Mann will auf einer Insel ein Experiment starten. Auch die Medien sollen ihn mit ihrer Berichterstattung darüber unterstützen. Aber irgendwie läuft alles nicht so wie geplant und deshalb versucht er es noch einmal anders. Mit der neuen Besetzung wird alles anders, aber auch besser?
11) FreedomLand
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Can the Red and Blue extremes of America ever get along? Can men and women? Possibly... if held at gunpoint and an African leopard is involved.
In one memorable night Gage Randolph steals the Confederacy's most sacred Civil War relic, gives a ride to America's dumbest domestic terrorist, and accidentally kidnaps a liberal cable TV host.
This wildly incompatible group needs to lie low and a bankrupt restaurant run by Gage's friend, Bud Roy Roemer,...
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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...
13) Mai way
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Der junge Mann und das Meer. Todkrank am Strand, soll es das schon gewesen sein? Ein Blick zurück, ein Stück Glück im Unglück. Plötzlich taucht eine Seelengefährtin auf und verhilft zu neuen Erkenntnissen. Dazwischen jede Menge Skurrilitäten. Wer mal was ganz Anderes lesen will, ist hier genau richtig.
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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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A defiant woman and her colorful neighbors reclaim their homes in Chernobyl.
There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowo-also known as Chernobyl-but Baba Dunja has returned. And she's brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start anew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading...
16) In the Beginning
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From the author of The End of the World is Flat?The Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs‘ Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror of this madness' Gareth RobertsWhen Tara Farrier returns to the UK after a long spell as an aid worker in war-torn Yemen, she' s hoping for a well-deserved rest.But a cultural battleground has emerged while she' s been away, and she' s unprepared for the sensitivities...
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Larry MaCabe is a man who needs people more than most . . . The problem for Larry is that most people have little need for him.
Larry MacCabe is a retired academic, a widower, and until a chance meeting with the administrator of a care home, also friendless. At her suggestion, he adopts a Basset Hound and joins her one Saturday at the local park. He becomes a regular visitor, and for the first time in his life the member of a gang. While his new companions...
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Die knorke Parodie des neuesten Psychothrillers von Dem-der-aus-rechtlichen-Gründen-nicht-genannt-werden-darf.
Merlan Tal steht brennend neben einer Ampel aus Knochen, als ein Minivan neben ihm hält. Ein völlig verängstigter Hundewelpe sitzt auf dem Rücksitz. Wimmernd presst er einen Zettel gegen die Scheibe. Ein Hilfeschrei? Merlan kann es nicht lesen, denn er hat seine Lesebrille vergessen. Er ist einer von über 12 Millionen Männern in Deutschland,...
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This edition includes: Novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Gilded Age The Prince and the Pauper A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Novelettes A Double Barrelled Detective Story Those Extraordinary Twins The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The...
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This book brings you moviemaking like you've never seen before: The stars! Rance Jericho, the man who was King; The hits! Uplifting movies such as A Carnival for Timmy, Hear the Word, and Three Strikes and You're Saved; The intrigue! Who are these upstarts calling themselves "Blood of the Lamb Films"?; The writers! Meet the hotshot kid who created this year's blockbuster, The Fetal Detective; The passion! Why has Evie Speck taken such a...
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