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The club of angels
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Luís Fernando Veríssimo |
After their leader dies of AIDS, a group of men who meet every month to dine together meet his possible replacement. |
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The Dog of the South
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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 … |
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True Grit
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Charles Portis |
True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her … |
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An Unsocial Socialist
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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… |
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Rachel Ray
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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… |
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The way we live now
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Anthony Trollope |
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition):
*“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… |
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The collected works of Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes |
Not Without Laughter is a story of an African-American family. The main character, Sandy observes the difficulties of an African-American while growing up. Sandy’s family is poor due to the discrimin… |
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The Best of McSweeney's
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Dave Eggers,Jordan Bass |
"A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket. |
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Lake Wobegon summer 1956
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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… |
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Flatland
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Sajad Hussain,Trains of Trains of Thought Publishing,Edward Abbott,Joel Dueck,Edwin Abbott Abbott,Monty |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its… |
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Angels on Toast
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Dawn Powell |
Written between the 1930s and the 1950s, the novels of Dawn Powell evoke a time when an artist *manqué* could come to New York with no money and improvise a life there within days; an era when even t… |
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Johannes Cabal the necromancer
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Jonathan L. Howard |
In this uproarious and clever debut, it's time to give the Devil his due.Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead.… |
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Never Mind
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Edward St Aubyn |
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner
Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose … |
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The road to Mars
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Eric Idle |
On a tour of planets in the 24th century, two comedians are caught in a terrorist plot to sabotage a spaceship. They are rescued by their robot, the third member of their act. |
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Full moon
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P. G. Wodehouse |
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. ' Stephen Fry.A Blandings novelWhen the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting… |
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Money for nothing
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P. G. Wodehouse |
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA P.G. Wodehouse novel.The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to… |
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The heart of a goof
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P. G. Wodehouse |
Humorous golf short stories by an acknowledged master of tickling the funny bone. |
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The Adventures of Sally
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P. G. Wodehouse |
From the book:Sally looked contentedly down the long table. She felt happy at last. Everybody was talking and laughing now, and her party, rallying after an uncertain start, was plainly the success s… |
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The sheriff of Yrnameer
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Michael Rubens |
Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs i… |
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The herring-seller's apprentice
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L. C. Tyler |
A darkly subversive take on the detective novel, peopled by a memorable cast of eccentrics. |
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