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  Eve's Diary

  Mark Twain

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  Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam:    “She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it…. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand, gray moss, green foliage, blue sky…none of them is of any practical value, so far as I can see, but because they have color and majesty, that is enough for her, and she loses her mind over them…. If there is anything on the planet that she is not interested in, it is not in my list.”    (Summary by Esther Lockwood)

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  This Team Is Ruining My Life...

  Steve “Dangle” Glynn

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  Steve Dangle’s incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media star
  		 
  How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve “Dangle” Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto, who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. From video blogging in his parents’ house at 19 to yelling on televisions across Canada at 28, Dangle has been involved with some of the most important sports companies in the country. 
  		 
  In between tales of Steve’s adventures, both online and off, This Team Is Ruining My Life is also a kind of how-to (or how-not-to) guide: in an ever-evolving media landscape, sometimes you have to get creative to find the job you want. This is Steve Dangle and his accidentally on purpose journey through sports media so far.

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  Say Cheesy

  Darby Conley

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  The antics of moody Siamese kitten Bucky Katt and sweetly clueless Labrador-Shar-pei mix Satchel Pooch are scarily familiar to anyone with four-legged 'roommates'." -USA WeekendDogs and cats can be cute, cuddly, and faithful companions. They also can be ornery, unpredictable, and hilarious. Get Fuzzy is all about the latter. In this collection, New York Times best-selling author Darby Conley has found uncommon humor and insight in our common, everyday pets. Get Fuzzy has become one of the premier comics on the funny pages. The Wilco household includes Rob the bachelor, Bucky, the cantankerous cat with an attitude, and Satchel, the loveable-but-clueless dog.  If animals really could talk, one would expect them to sound like Bucky and Fuzzy. Often, it's the subtle nuances of the strip-from Bucky's hilarious facial expressions to Satchel's dopey innocence-that pack the biggest laughs.The strip's dry wit and razor-sharp reality earned it the National Cartoonists Society's prestigious Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2002. Get Fuzzy captures the non-glamorous essence of being a pet owner in a way people who own and operate dogs and cats are sure to love.

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  Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

  Sebastian Faulks

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  “Faulksie nails it again” in this pastiche novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie ”evoking rather than imitating” Wodehouse “but doing so in perfect pitch" (Booklist, starred review). P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in the 1915 short story "Extricating Young Gus” to Wodehouse’s final novel, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, in 1974. These fictional single men were two of the greatest creations of a novelist widely proclaimed to be the finest comic English writer by critics and fans alike.  With the approval of the Wodehouse estate, acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks brings these two back to life for their legion of fans. Bertie, nursing a bit of heartbreak over the recent engagement of one Georgina Meadowes, agrees to “help” his old friend Peregrine “Woody” Beeching, whose own romance is foundering, which means an outing to the English countryside. Almost immediately, things go awry and the simple plan quickly becomes complicated. In a role reversal, Jeeves ends up impersonating one Lord Etringham, while Bertie pretends to be Jeeves' manservant —and this all happens under the same roof as the now affianced Ms. Meadowes. From there the plot becomes even more hilarious, in a brilliantly conceived, seamlessly written comic work worthy of the master himself.“This Faulks certainly knows his stuff when it comes to homaging, let me tell you. Dashed if most of the time I didn’t think I was reading the echt thing.” —Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review”"Entirely delightful. . . . if, like me, you are a Wodehouse addict, you will undoubtedly want to buy three copies for your friends’ Christmas stocking”." —A. N. Wilson, Financial Times 

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  The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles

  Gregory Hill

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  Someone shot his dad. Something killed his horse. So...anybody wanna a drink? 
  Author Gregory Hill trades the mythos of the classic western for a psychological what-the-hell ride within a landscape of supernatural paranoia and cryptic humor. 
  It’s 1975 and cowboy Johnny Riles is a headcase. He’s depressed, he’s drunk, and he’s Lonesome as hell. 
  Left by his family to care for the ranch on his own, Johnny manages to keep the cattle alive while struggling to justify his own existence. Embittered by the success of his younger brother, Kitch, a professional basketball player, it is only thanks to a salt-dry sense of humor and a plentiful supply of whiskey that Johnny keeps himself above ground. 
  On really bad days, he scavenges for arrowheads on the other side of the river that doesn’t run. It calms him down, he says, to collect the old shards. 
  On one of these bad days, Johnny uncovers an artifact far older than an arrowhead. The relic will plunge him into the terrifying underworlds of the Great Plains, where pity and kindness are indistinguishable from despair. 
  ALERT! THIS NOVEL CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF: Cigarette smoking, whiskey consumption, claustrophobic situations, and a basketball game involving a character who was in no way inspired by the life of David Thompson. Also: twenty-eight instances of the word fuck.

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  Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

  Fabio Bartolomei

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  A raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. “A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny” (The Daily Beast, “This Week’s Hot Reads”). 
   
  Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples. 
   
  Their misconceived endeavor would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money, things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance. 
   
  A “miraculous” Italian comedy that will have readers laughing out loud, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei’s vivid debut. 
   
  “An entertaining and humorous debut.” —La Repubblica 
   
  “A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile.” —Internazionale 
   
  “Left the kind of smile on my face that doesn’t go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis.” —Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno

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