Books

20+ results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The way we live now	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…	OL109871W
Guido außer Rand und Band!	Stefan Gärtner,Oliver Nagel	Ist Guido Westerwelle, wie die Legende es will, tatsächlich nicht auf natürlichem Weg geboren worden, sondern aus Genschers rechtem Ohr gekrochen? Hielt ihn während der Pubertät wirklich nur das «Pro…	OL15346967W
Papa Was a Preacher	Alyene Porter	The life of a preacher and his family from his child's point of view. ''..abounding with goodness of spirit and humor..''--New York Times ***Eight lively children running in and about the par…	OL15391560W
Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring	Zach Plague	When the mysterious gray book that drives Ollister's and Adelaide's twisted relationship vanishes, he vows revenge against art patriarch The Platypus and she obsesses over their anti-love affair, whi…	OL15507853W
heute-show	Oliver Welke,Morten Kühne	Wenn Reporter Martin Sonneborn für «Google Home View» in Deutschlands Wohnzimmern stöbert, wenn man endlich kapiert, warum verschiedene Steuersätze für Hard- und Softpornos in «Hotelmedien» gelten, w…	OL16105620W
First Epistle to Dr. Torr	Peter Taylor	An academic satire - "A Poem in Cowardly Couplets in Three Books" - written in the vein of Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock." Hand typeset, printed, and bound on the Gryphon Press by the author…	OL16482160W
Five on Brexit Island	Bruno Vincent	Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog as they leave Britain to declare independence for Kirrin Island. But can their friendship survive the horrors of a referendum?	OL17607699W
Based on a true story	Elizabeth Renzetti	Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her l…	OL17875122W
Yongbo Zhao: Das Grosse Lachen / Hearty Laughter (German and English Edition)	Gottfried Knapp	"This monograph is a confirmation of the artist Yongbo Zhao's standing, being one of the most fascinating contemporary artists to have emerged from China. Born in Manchuria in 1964, Zhao's artistic t…	OL19092371W
I did not kill my husband	Zhenyun Liu	Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the se…	OL19990205W
Make something up	Chuck Palahniuk	"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (…	OL19999551W
Savage theories	Pola Oloixarac	"A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to pop…	OL20045960W
The importance of manners	H. G. Watt	Burt Darwin is a collector of world religions. Lady Chanel Mallory, a former hand model, has married into the aristocracy and loves romance novels. Her husband Lord Percy, a pompous cynic, mistakenly…	OL24686103W
Furtl	Strobe Witherspoon	"In a dumbed-down, dystopic near-future America, high-tech tycoon Manny Kahn fights to save the nation from political pathologies brought about by his own creation, a ubiquitous online search engine …	OL26454722W
Estudios de sátira hispanoamericana colonial & estudos da sátira do Brasil Colônia	Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee,Eduardo Viana da Silva	"El volumen reúne diversos estudios sobre la sátira latinoamericana colonial con el fin de ofrecer nuevas perspectivas sobre autores poco estudiados del canon satírico virreinal, especialmente los sa…	OL27738917W
A Perfect life	Joel Spring	"Jimmy Clark is the poster child for the World Government's promise to provide everyone with a perfect life. In this satire of a dystopian future the 300 highest-earning global corporations control t…	OL28169213W
Bible Dogs	David Tamiran	This amusing cartoon/humor book, with its 60 rich and inventive illustrations, is based on the secret "C" or "Canine Text" ('Calev' in Hebrew)of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Da Vinci Canine Code. It …	OL4136278W
Dogs are human too!	David Tamiran	"Dogs are brainwashed, their books burned, their institutions razed to the ground", says this hillarious book (Children's/Adults). So this book was written (by a dog, of course), "to set the recor…	OL4136279W
Love and Mr. Lewisham	H. G. Wells	One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900. Seeking love rather than his youthful hopes of fame and glory,…	OL52259W
Er ist wieder da	Timur Vermes	Frühjahr 2011. Adolf Hitler erwacht auf einem leeren Grundstück in Berlin-Mitte. Ohne Krieg, ohne Partei, ohne Eva. Im tiefsten Frieden, unter Tausenden von Ausländern und Angela Merkel. 66 Jahre nac…	OL7657493W