 | The Trouble with Mental Wellness: A Novel
Publication Date: February 9, 2004| ISBN-10: 1882593820 | ISBN-13: 978-1882593828With a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, the author demonstrates the humanity of his odd-ball characters. His portrayal of a city neighborhood in transition also gives the story a distinctive sense of place. ...
 |  | 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,...
|  | 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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|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Murder, Mortarboards & Mackerel: An Academic Mystery
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Ben Messing, a professor in the English department at Oakham College, has been murdered. Every one of his colleagues is a suspect. But whodunit?! This novel charts the intrigues of the faculty members of the English department at Oakham College as they attempt to solve the murder mystery, as they entangle themselves in a complex, convoluted series of (mis)adventures, where the solution to the mystery could result in yet another murder. Either a satirical farce or a farcical satire, this send up of the English department is part murder mystery, part literary nove...
|  | The Adventuress: A Novel
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|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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, 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. ...
|  | Permelia Lyttle's Guide to the End of the World
Publication Date: April 23, 2012Luray Flitch is a neurotic, pill-popping recluse who discovers a prophetic Victorian diary, only to learn that the end of the world is just around the corner. With his trusty dog, Jason, Luray ventures out to warn the world that the end is near, but people keep trying to steal the diary. Written a century before by British clairvoyant Permelia Lyttle, the diary hides many other secrets: a murder mystery and Permelia's strange life in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, where she was forced to give psychic readings to the power elite of her day. Prophecies unite...
|  | 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...
|  | Seeing Double
Release Date: August 22, 2006All is not well in the West African State of Niagra. The General---the Unique Miracle of the Century---has banned all but country and western music; a giant statue of Elvis desecrates the sacred Amuz Rock; street children are terrorized by the General's disposal units, and someone is conducting experiments on unwitting Evangelical Christians. In Xanadu, Bob Marley, the sign painter, draws portraits that are more real than the real, more human than human, and longs for the mother stolen from him by Idi Amin Ogwu.The nation rejoices when idealistic young army offic...
|  | Susan Slutt, Girl Shamus
Publication Date: May 27, 2011Who's the world-famous girl sleuth who solves all sorts of queer mysteries with the help of a butch tomboy, her feminine friend, and two boy detectives named Frank and Joe? If you guessed "Nancy Drew," you're wrong! Meet Susan Slutt, the hottest schoolgirl shamus since the invention of jalapeno-flavored edible underwear. In this collection of cases, Susan gets down and dirty while investigating a messy "Fracas at the Fudge Factory." She travels to Switzerland to join "The Search for the World's Biggest Icehole," where she faces another puzzle: Is that a snake in...
|  | 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...
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