 | Hot Sexy Banker Chicks
Publication Date: February 15, 2011So here I was in the middle of cows and cornfields.What possibly could be so difficult or interesting about banking in the "North Country?" Sure I was a little out of my element. After all I had worked for banks in San Francisco, New York and New Hampshire and I was prepared for anything. (So I thought.) Well, like it or not, I would soon find out and learn a thing or two along the way. ...
 |  | The Man Who Killed Durruti (Read & Noir S.)
Publication Date: July 25, 2006| Series: Read & Noir S. A former policeman, now a Major in the Spanish Republican Army, is sent to Madrid to investigate the circumstances in which the legendary anarchist was killed. In his search for the truth he interviews the key witnesses and uncovers a number of contradictory accounts. Nobody tells the same story in quite the same way, but as an experienced police officer, he knows it is not inconceivable that they are all telling the truth. But it is also possible that some of them are lying, that some are trying to hide what they know, and more siniste...
|  | King, Queen, Knave
Publication Date: December 5, 2010This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Pe...
|  | Diddle
Publication Date: June 21, 2011Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of absolute acculturation. The book comprises a dozen short stories, each generated out of a line from the old nursery rhyme, laced with double entendres, multiple meanings and overlaps. These tales, written by a poet with a rich touch of language, question the very notion of identity and bel...
|  | Harvard Unleashed
Publication Date: November 9, 2010Harvard Unleashed is a myth-busting lampoon of academic gamesmanship. The nation's oldest and richest university may never be the same after foolishly accepting stock in a dog food company in order to set up a think tank for dogs! The nutty donor, Emanuel Blackhead (founder of KibbleNibble) persuades his nephew Marvin (a Harvard has-been) to return to Cambridge as CEO of R.I.C.H: the Research Institute for Canine Happiness. For Harvard and its pompous new president, however, RICH brings only migraines. The university is publicly ousted for its investment in ...
|  | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (The Writings of Mark Twain)
Publication Date: March 25, 2011| Series: The Writings of Mark Twain An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition With All Original Illustrations, To Include: How To Tell A Story - In Defense Of Harriet Shelley - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Traveling With A Reformer - Private History Of The 'Jumping Frog' Story - Mental Telegraphy Again - What Paul Bourget Thinks Of Us - The Invalid's Story -The Captain's Story - Stirring Times In Austria - Concerning The Jews - From The 'London Times' Of 1904 - At The Appetite Cure - In Memoriam - Mark Twain: A Biographical Sketch ...
|  | 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...
|  | Marvellous Hairy
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1926617088 | ISBN-13: 978-1926617084Hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you're a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Freudian mythology and guilt-free sex, turning into a monkey has its upsides. Nick Motbot may be evolving as a novelist, but his friends aren't too sure about his DNA at least, not since Gargantuan Enterprises started experimenting with it. And once they figure out what's happening to him, they decide to set things right. Marvellous Hairy is a satirical novel about a ...
|  | Edipo en Stalingrado (Narrativa Sexto Piso) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Narrativa Sexto Piso Far from the Stalingrad Front, Charley's bar is a decadent world filled with eccentric souls who consider themselves heirs to the broken spirit of the times, snobs completely disinterested in the events that led to World War II. The young Traugott von Yassilkovski tries to establish himself within Nazi Berlin's high society, and so he learns how to dress, how to speak, with whom to socialize, and he even marries a blond Aryan woman, the heiress to an ammunitions fortune. This ironic satire about social climbing is an exciting psyc...
|  | 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...
|  | Flexon Vale: A Whimsical Tour Of Modern America
Publication Date: June 14, 2012***SEE THE KINDLE DESCRIPTION FOR IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES AND REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS*** How far would you be willing to go to be #1? Set in the year 2030, in Raeden Zen’s breathtaking satirical debut the reader will be whisked from the early 2020s to the late 1990s. Runaway inflation, cars driven by computers, super-advanced water filtration systems, and a spy system that makes the NSA look like child’s play are among the features of America circa 2024. Chase Vale and Felicia Sandorf are power brokers who seek, more power, while a scandal at Zeno State s...
|  | Metzabadiv Muratskanere (The Honorable Beggars) (Armenian Edition)
Publication Date: January 12, 2012Baronyan was an influential Ottoman Armenian writer, satirist, educator, and social figure in the 19th century. Born in Edirne, Paronian is widely acknowledged as the greatest Armenian satirist of all time, closely followed by Yervant Odian. Baronian's most famous work was the book Medzabadiv Muratsganner ("Honorable Beggars"), which parodies the almost beggar-like state of writers and publishers in that period. Baronian was also known for his biting, sarcastic criticisms of leading figures in the Armenian social circles of Istanbul; some of these critical c...
|  | Mis supermachos 3 / My Macho Men 3 (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Miss Lonelyhearts
Publication Date: October 15, 2010Set in New York during the Great Depression, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column — but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed to razor-edged shards by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into alcoholism and a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness. ...
|  | Corporate Ties: Relocation, Recruitment, and Romance in the Workplace (Business gibberish included!)
Publication Date: August 19, 2011Jason Harris has found the perfect job as a web developer with a Fortune 500 financial subsidiary. He meets his cool and quirky co-workers and even scores a date with an Indian princess/database administrator.This lasts all of eight days. Due to “organizational restructuring,” the parent company announces that all employees at Jason's location are being relocated to corporate headquarters in another state.Each person mulls the idea of exchanging a laid-back, business casual dress environment for a cafeteria, a fitness center, and a strangling &#...
|  | La hora de todos & La fortuna con seso/ Time for All & The Fortune with Brains (Spanish Edition) (Clasicos Castalia / Castalia Classics)
Publication Date: June 30, 2009| Series: Clasicos Castalia / Castalia Classics (Book 300) En La hora de todos, Quevedo recrea, a partir de dos satiras de Luciano Zeus confundido y Zeus tragico , una reunion de heroes y dioses del Olimpo, modelando dos espacios distintos: el cielo y la tierra, comunicados por la intervencion de los dioses en los negocios humanos. Al llegar la hora de la verdad, quitada la mascara de las apariencias, los enganos y mentiras de los hombres se haran evidentes... ...
|  | IT'S IN THE WATER and Other Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Fifteen science fiction, real-life drama, satire, and children's stories to touch your heart, amaze, and scare you. Compared with Michael Creighton and Isaac Asimov, Hull uses science and real life experience to wend his tales with a twist. Whether you are an end of the world or a happy ending fan, you will find it here. Even the children's stories are edgy real. ...
|  | Der Moderne Knigge (German Edition)
Release Date: December 6, 2011Dieses 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 und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so ...
|  | Confound It
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Bobby Weaver is back and he has brought with him all of the characters from his first novel, The Interstellar Incident.That includes the aliens One, Tu, and Tree, together with his friends from Galdarnet, Brianbob and Justinbob.Traveling around the universe Bobby is still fighting for equal rights for the interstellar LGBTQ communities everywhere.And he is still writing about all of his encounters including that incident with Maggie, the director of the newly formed T-NOM, The National Organization of Muggers.You'll be very surprised to discover how Bobby's j...
|  | Golden Biker (English edition): A road-movie-adventure novel in India (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 6, 2012About this book: Brought together in India through a series of hare-brained adventures are Arthur, an old bohemian from Cologne; Albert, otherwise known as Bear, a snack bar owner who emigrated to Goa; Gerd, a German businessman with a mid-life crisis; and Sherie, a stunningly good-looking prostitute from Bombay. Together, they embark on a mission to find a mystic figure in the Himalayas: The Golden Biker, who supposedly cruises through the mountains on a golden motorbike, to punish the evildoers and give to those who mean well some of his not less mystical mari...
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