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81) Fair Day
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Come celebrate Australia Day among locals and visitors at Founders Bay. Immerse yourself in their many and diverse Australia Day customs and beliefs, even as they begin to unravel and residents struggle to hold on to their values, and even their lives.
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The Christmas Rabbit is an adult satire on the commercialization and corruption of the two main Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter. It tells the tale of how Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny came to be and how they were subsequently were conned and coerced by forces beyond their control into making their yearly pilgrimages and annual deliveries and how each proves to be inadequate to their task. Set in the dawn of history as well as the present...
83) The Out Crowd
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Hallie Flynn was ready for the perfect senior year, but everything changes at Homecoming when petty rumors spiral out of control. The In Crowd was always who everybody in the Out Crowd dreamed of being. The Out Crowd consisted of everybody else. Isaiah was also expecting a normal senior year. His biggest concern was earning a scholarship for college, but then all the norms evaporated. Gossip piles on top of itself, overwhelming his social life, and...
84) Mattered People
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Dina is a hurting mess, when she discovers Ramone. Little did she know how instrumental he would become, and she wonders how she ever lived without him. Together, they navigate the streets on the Island, meeting various people along the way that help Dina discover who she is, and what she wants out of life. Complete craziness ensues, and it has Dina wondering who the crazy one is supposed to be.
85) Karmalitics
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In his pacey, darkly humorous first novel, Duncan Abbott doesn't pull any punches. With a searing eye for satire and a great deal of comic ingenuity he proposes some startling new political ideas at a time when paucity of thought and poverty of ideals seem to be the norm.
Join our hero George King, a talented, popular and ethical MP, and his cadre of madcap idealists as they saunter amusingly through the sordid side of parliament changing the nation...
86) MBA
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Why is so much of the world MBA? When business school hot shot Ben Stillman is fired, he has the chance to find out. Ben jumps head first into turning his former business school into world-class madrassa of capitalism. Ben has 10 days to rescue the launch of its spectacular glass tower, and his own career-as well as confront terrorist plots, undercover police, the extravagant demands of the super-rich, and the only woman who can save him from this...
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"The Great Stupidity" is a witty work of fiction that offers a satirical look at an historic public health crisis. Author Andy Lazris transports readers back in time as the Black Death strikes a small village in France. Village leaders send off a blacksmith's son on a ridiculous quest to cure the disease — and on his journey he encounters many "experts" who "know" how to solve this crisis. A black comedy with 12 songs, the book is an historical...
88) Bookstore
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Norm Slider, author of The Big Green Weenie Up Youre A** & Other Poems, is an assistant manager at BOOKsMART, one of a small chain of big-box retail book shops in the Midwest. His shrewish GM, Wanda Kropke, is busy downsizing the staff by attrition, as she makes life at work unbearable for everyone. Norm's personal life is in free fall, too. His problems with booze and women have finally caused his wife Linda to serve him with divorce papers, just...
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In the irreverent tradition of her best-selling Death by Carbs, Paige Nick rounds up a fresh herd of sacred cows in another hilarious South African satire. But this time it's Number One who gets the treatment. When ex-president J Muza is released from prison on medical parole for an ingrown toenail, his expectations of a triumphant return to power and admiration are cruelly dashed. His once lavish Homestead is a rotting shell, his remaining wives...
90) La maleta
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El libro más celebrado de Serguéi Dovlátov se recrea en el escaso contenido de la maleta que lo acompañó en su exilio.Cada uno de los inútiles objetos que constituyeron su único patrimonio nos conduce a un lugar memorable de su biografía. Mago del estilo, Dovlátov entrega aquí lo más parecido a un canon de su escritura. Preciso, despojado e irónico, el resultado es un recorrido personalísimo por algunos avatares de su vida, tanto como...
91) Aguas Turbias
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Las debilidades de la sociedad crean manchas como aguas turbias estancadas. Esta satírica novela ofrece impactantes comentarios sobre la cultura, economía, política, el crimen, la corrupción, alcoholismo y todo lo que es feo, así como hermoso en una sociedad en particular. Las descripciones pintorescas sumergen al lector directamente en los puntos de acción – desde los políticos engañados que creen que están en el servicio público para...
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Welcome to Columbus, Ohio, winner of the Smart City Challenge and home to countless public servants, such as Ellen Matthews, a Software Engineer with spunk and a wayward car. After Ellen uncovers election tampering on Primary election day, telling anyone about it isn't as easy as it seems, and powerful special interests are trying to kill her.
On the run, Ellen and her longtime boyfriend, Zach, team up with some quirky characters to try to mobilize...
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Never Trust A Hero is a 40,000 word novel that pits a cynical, burned out CIA agent Nick Farraday against an even more cynical Ex-CIA agent, Thaddeus Polanski, AKA, Tadpole. Tadpole's dropped off the radar years before and is living as a jack-of-all trades and ne're do well in L.A. Every time he makes love, he breaks into the CIA Oath. From a war wound, he suffers from priapism. Just back from years of overseas service as a CIA assassin, Nick's job...
94) El corazón de Inbu: La hija de un granjero entra a un torneo para casarse con un príncipe testarudo
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Presionado por las exigencias de su padre para que busque esposa, el príncipe Inbu organiza un torneo como ningún otro para encontrar a la mujer de sus sueños. Creyendo que nadie querrá nadar en leche o bailar con cerdos, se da cuenta de lo equivocado que está cuando trescientas mujeres de todo el continente se inscriben. Entre las valientes doncellas está Mei, la hija de un granjero que quiere probar que las aldeanas pueden hacer una diferencia....
95) Dumb-Show
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A satirical campus novel, Dumb-Show shrewdly confronts the cultural politics of masculinity through a narrative that twists the structure of Henry IV. A controversial Canadian professor of political science at a Toronto university rises to power when his political views divide the student body. Two siblings, one a student at the university, develop isolated personal relationships with the professor, and find themselves spiralling to infamy alongside...
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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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Once upon a time, Zack Hardiman, a typical American male, attempted to find a shirt for jogging that contained absolutely no advertising. This became the first step in his descent into insanity. When he recovered, he slowly began a more extensive trip along the winding road we call American Culture. Although SEX and the AMERICAN MALE is not a fairy tale, it does include a happy ending with a married couple, a white picket fence and 2.5 children. SEX...
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Cascade Falls explores the failed promise of the American Dream. Raised to believe that with hard work, anything is possible, a staggering number of Americans hate their jobs and see little chance of ever escaping the grind. In his tragicomic follow-up to the laugh-ridden Elevating Overman, Bruce Ferber asks the question: "How does giving up our dreams affect our relationships and our psyches?"Danny Johnson, a writer whose career never materialized,...
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Originally published in 1848, this early work by William Makepeace Thackeray is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It is a collection of satirical works on English society in the mid 19th century and is attributed with coining the word 'snob' in its current usage. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for anyone who is a fan of Thackeray or interested in the satire of the age. Many of the earliest books, particularly those...
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Excerpt: "To all surviving saloon passengers of the good ship Lithia, who have rounded the Horn and passed through perilous Beering Straits, and suffered shipwreck, shock, and sudden thirst: to those intrepid souls who have clung to the slippery hull of the Water Wagon when it seemed the gallant craft could not live another hour; who, lashed to the sprinkler, have ridden out many a choking dust-storm; who have heard the cafe Lorelei sing, and still...
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