 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Except the Protagonist's Name is Changed to Cecil Edgar Vanderton
Publication Date: April 11, 2012| ISBN-10: 147503413X | ISBN-13: 978-1475034134Mark Twain's classic tale of a cross-dressing youth who travels with his friend Jim along the Mississippi River. Except in this version, Huck's name is changed to Cecil Edgar Vanderton. The N-word, however, has been left in ensuring that this anti-racism book will be banned from classrooms for being racist. ...
 |  | Average Jones
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. Happily, his otherwise commonplace face was relieved by the one unfailing characteristic of composite photographs, large, deep-set and thoughtful eyes. Otherwise he would have...
|  | Anyone Whose Heart's been Had
Publication Date: September 2, 2011Sex, love and marriage are up for grabs when the women of Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had attempt to take control of their destiny--for better or worse--and end up as dinner guests at the legendary Valerie Hotel one fateful evening. "What does getting married have to offer you that you havenʼt already got?" famed feminist Muffy Griggslet Hart challenges the other guests at power-table thirty-four in this multi‑generational love story set in the politically‑correct nineties. Ted Randlerʼs novel is a dark comedy of fifteen disparate ch...
|  | The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby - with a new foreword by Graham Earnshaw (Tales of Old China)
Publication Date: January 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 9889987481 | ISBN-13: 978-9889987480This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia in those far-off days - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight. ...
|  | The Average American Marriage: A Novel
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|  | American Road: A Story of the Human Condition and Our Democracy
Release Date: September 29, 2008American Road is a story of an alienated trio who has journeyed too quickly through a bizarre and dehumanized world—a world that vibrates in its instincts and yet shivers at the vulgarity. Therefore, this story is told to the intuitive student, who best envisions all of whom we are, considers how to best address our challenges, and has a fondness for our own silliness. Thought-provokingly written with its focus on the worst and the very best of our democracy, American Road is a historic tale of surviving hardship, raising our children, teaching our youth,...
|  | Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (New Canadian Library)
Release Date: August 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 0771094094 | ISBN-13: 978-0771094095Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness and bite. An undisputed comic masterpiece, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich reveals a depth of compassionate criticism rare in Leacock’s writings.From the Paperba...
|  | Aller Praktik Grossmutter (German Edition)
Release Date: July 12, 2011| ISBN-10: 3842404727 | ISBN-13: 978-3842404724Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur u...
|  | American Male Prostitute - How I (Almost) Got A Book Deal Through Sex, Lies, And Deceit
Publication Date: August 5, 2011Stuart Martin Berry has only three months left to find a publisher for his first novel. In a desperate attempt to achieve his goal, he leaves his home to live in New York. His wife has given him free rein to do whatever it takes to get a book deal. Her only request was not to give her any details on how he got there. If he fails, he will be forced to give up his dream of being a famous writer and accept a regular forty-hour a week job. For Stuart, this is sufficient motivation to start a three-month adventure full of sex, lies, and deceit, without losing focus...
|  | Anima (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Yes Minister: Volume Five: Four BBC TV Episode Soundtracks
Publication Date: August 10, 2010| Series: Yes Minister The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters – Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey, and Bernard Wooley – made Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay’s satirical BBC comedy compulsive viewing. The strength of the writing makes these audios a joy to listen to. The program includes four previously unreleased episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire: The Official Visit; Equal Opportunities; The Challenge; and The Bed of Nails. ...
|  | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (World Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1909175854 | ISBN-13: 978-1909175853Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures. Huck has been placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her sister, Miss Watson, is attempting to civilize him. Huck appreciates their efforts, but finds civilized life confining. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels, universally popular among readers and a continued object of study by serious literary critics.This new edition features...
|  | The Undiscovered Country (Capuchin Classics)
Publication Date: December 1, 2010| Series: Capuchin Classics An experimental and brilliantly inventive tour de force, deserving all its comparisons to the work of Nabokov, Huxley, and Borges Cast in the form of an autobiography, this novel tells the story of the intimate relationship between the narrator, Julian, and his boyhood friend Charles Humphries, a brilliant but erratic young man who fascinates Julian with his strange dark looks and his superior sophistication. "Our lives were so close," confesses Julian, "that they are, to me, almost inextricable." And indeed, one of the ...
| | The Adventuress: A Novel
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|  | At The City Gate
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|  | Addle
Publication Date: August 1, 1980Digby Durant’s savage satire on living in the country begins with Percival Moat nearly eating his missing brother’s finger, which has mysteriously found its way into a home-baked steak-and-kidney pie. Addle is that kind of place. This is the starting point for an incompetent and hilarious police investigation by the local force. Completely original, macabre, funny, and serious at the same time, Durrant’s Addle is a delight. ...
|  | Armageddon Skills
Publication Date: March 14, 2011Armageddon Skills, follows the misguided journey of Virgil, a 23 year old Austin psychedelic barista and James, his 33 year old alcoholic manager. Assuming that an attack on the city of Austin, Texas is indeed the start of Armageddon, and citing a whole slew of impetuous reasons as to why it must be so, James and Virgil set off to Colorado to retrieve James’ son, Zane. As their journey progresses, the fine line between reality and narcotic fantasy forces James and Virgil to make a decision that could ultimately end their internecine relationship. Meetin...
|  | Waiting For An Open Bed
Publication Date: April 27, 2011Sunnyvale Mental Rehab in Fermonga, Ohio decided to fund a written collage of in-patient work. Dennis Latham, a former Sunnyvale resident, completed a dangerous mental quest to bring this strange and psychotic funny volume to print. Mr. Latham, Bill Gump, Coochie Butler, and others give bizarre views on unanswered questions (Ask The Genius and Smart Guy With A Big Old Brain), write questionable novels (Excerpts From Books You'll Never Read), poetry (Homer VanCleish), several short stories, a radio play (The Bump), unique social views, college Cliff Notes (Moby...
|  | Babbitt
Publication Date: April 22, 2012| ISBN-10: 1475240449 | ISBN-13: 978-1475240443Babbitt is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt is one of Lewis’s most well known novels and was influential in the decision to award him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930. If Sinclair Lewis's first widely acclaimed novel, Main Street, sought to shatter early twentieth-century romanticizations o...
|  | Annus Horibilis
Publication Date: November 24, 2011Annus Horribilis is presented in the form of a diary set in contemporary Britain. The passing year tells the story of a supremely self-centred royal family for whom the preservation of privilege is the prime motivator. The protagonists are mostly courtiers and cronies of the reigning monarch, whose disdain for their fellow beings colours their reaction to every person, high or low born, with whom they come in contact. ...
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