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The Dog of the South The Dog of the South Charles Portis Ray Midge is befuddled when his wife takes off with his car, his money, and her ex-husband. When credit card statements start rolling in, he takes off to find them (in the ex-husband's clunker). His … OL104533W
An Unsocial Socialist An Unsocial Socialist George Bernard Shaw From the book:In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her… OL1066453W
Rachel Ray Rachel Ray Anthony Trollope "Rachel Ray is an 1863 novel by Anthony Trollope. It recounts the story of a young woman who is forced to give up her fiancé because of baseless suspicions directed toward him by the members of her c… OL109861W
Lake Wobegon summer 1956 Lake Wobegon summer 1956 Garrison Keillor "The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and on the porch of the big green house on Green Street, fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking dow… OL11629828W
The annotated Archy and Mehitabel The annotated Archy and Mehitabel Don Marquis "Archy and Mehitabel is, to my mind, a distinguished work in American letters." -E. B. WhiteGenerations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequ… OL11728867W
Memories of the future Memories of the future Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskiĭ Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, … OL12084029W
Love among the chickens / by P. G. Wodehouse Love among the chickens / by P. G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse at his comical best with the tale of a young writer who agrees to help his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge start a chicken farm. But chickens become only a secondary concern … OL1336891W
The golf omnibus The golf omnibus P. G. Wodehouse Amongst the many memorable characters P. G. Wodehouse has created is The Oldest Member, who, full of reverence for the sacred game of golf. tells some of the most hilarious stories about it In all i… OL1337032W
The heart of a goof The heart of a goof P. G. Wodehouse Humorous golf short stories by an acknowledged master of tickling the funny bone. OL1337111W
The Golden Gizmo The Golden Gizmo Jim Thompson One of Thompson's most outrageous works of fiction, the Golden Gizmo incorporates elements of the classic American tall tale with descriptions of the particularly hardboiled criminal underclass of 19… OL13420879W
Neighbors Neighbors Thomas Berger The adventures of Earl Keese, a pudgy homeowner living on a dead-end road in the country. A younger couple moves in next door and begins to harass Earl in a fashion that is by turns sinister and fetc… OL137296W
The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart Jesse Bullington Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked o… OL13771875W
Pilgrims Pilgrims Garrison Keillor Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to RomeMargie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her-he's been sleepin… OL14864637W
Liberty Liberty Garrison Keillor,Keillor G Staff Clint is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July pa… OL14864643W
Fool Fool Frederick G. Dillen After swindling his partners, a New York investment dealer is put out of business and retires to Oklahoma to lick his wounds. On a visit back to New York he predicts a crash, the prediction saves his… OL14867553W
Finger lickin' fifteen Finger lickin' fifteen Janet Evanovich,Lorelei King Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Can she hunt down two killers, a traitor, … OL14915055W
Pygmy Pygmy Chuck Palahniuk The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club."Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern Am… OL14926283W
These Boots Weren't Made for Walking These Boots Weren't Made for Walking Melody Carlson Willing to make the necessary sacrifices--even skipping the occasional latte--to ensure career success, 31-year-old Cassidy Cantrell "invests" in a chic pair of boots, certain they'll make a spectacu… OL15109882W
Rhino What You Did Last Summer Rhino What You Did Last Summer Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Fame. Fortune. Screaming girls. The adoration of strangers. I've had it all before, yet nothing could have prepared this Horny Little Devil for his new life in the City of Angels. Sacked as the coach… OL15185648W
I Capture the Castle I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chron… OL1518582W
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