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  The Wig My Father Wore

  Anne Enright

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  From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. “Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. 
   
  Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she’s in for. Stephen explains that he is an angel, a former bridge builder who committed suicide in 1934. He has been sent back to earth (as all suicides are) to guide lost souls. Grace does not take this personally at first, but eventually she has to face the idea that things are not so easy, and that her greatest intimacy is with this supernatural creature. As Grace begins to take stock of her life and the prospect of caring enough about something to fight for it, The Wig My Father Wore takes us on a moving, surreal romp through Catholicism, parents, and the reclamation of love from the twin modern evils of cynicism and the detritus of pop culture. 
   
  “Weird and wonderful . . . Enright beams out a vibrant and complex picture of religion, sex, love, and redemption united in a celestial blue, televisual glow of wit and linguistic sedition.” —The Guardian (London) 
   
  “Mesmerizing.” —The Independent on Sunday (London)

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  Happy Days

  A. Milne

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  Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual, they are funny, wry, and poke fun at almost all of our human foibles. There are 6 short one act plays that he wrote to demonstrate the 6 allowable plots for amateur playwrights and they are absolutely hilarious. The other topics run the gamut from dogs to dates. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

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  MM Romance Christmas Box Set

  Isobel Starling

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  Decent Fellows Press presents The M/M Romance Christmas Box Set containing four funny seasonal romances:•	Fred & Ginger: Chris Miller, a patisserie chef for Big Boy Cupcakes has to rush the last minute order of naughty cupcakes for the party of a celebrity, but in his haste to deliver, he falls foul of an over-keen chocolate Labrador named Fred, and his handsome owner... •	The Christmas Bonus: The Investobanck Christmas shindig  puts Jake Walters, and the object of his lust in the same place at the same time...•	Daddy Christmas: Ryan Sutherland, a side character from 'Detective Fox' gets the happy ending he deserves. •	Back Where He Belongs: Keir Campbell returns to Scotland from Australia to spend Christmas with his family. What he finds there is a gift that is worth more than money could buy.

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  Start Without Me - (I'll Be...

  Gary Janetti

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  This program is read by the author.From New York Times bestselling author, and Family Guy writer Gary Janetti comes Start Without Me, a collection of hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he’s here to tell us.In Start Without Me, Gary returns with his acid tongue firmly in cheek to the moments and times that defined him. He takes us by the hand as we follow him through the summers he spends in his twenties, pursuing both the perfect tan and the perfect man to no avail and much regret. At his Catholic high school, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a nun who shares Gary's love of soap operas, which becomes a salvation to them both. And don't get him started on how a bad hotel room can ruin even the best vacation. This laugh-out-loud collection of true-life stories from the man “behind his generation’s greatest comedy” (The New York Times) is for anyone who has felt the joy in holding a decade-long grudge.Whether you are a new convert to Janetti or one of the million who follow him on social media for a daily laugh, Start Without Me will have you howling at Gary's frustrations and nodding along in agreement at the outrages of life's small slights. It's the literary equivalent of a night out with your funniest friend that you wish would never end.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

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  I Hate Everyone Except You

  Clinton Kelly

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  Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore-unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's least enthused high-school commencement speaker. 
   
   
   
  Whether he's throwing his baby sister in the air to jumpstart her cheerleading career or heroically rescuing his best friend from death by mud bath, Clinton leaps life's social hurdles with aplomb. With his signature wit, he shares his unique ability to navigate the stickiest of situations, like deciding whether it's acceptable to eat chicken wings with a fork on live television (spoiler: it's not). Clinton delves into all these topics—and many more—in this thoroughly unabashedly frank and uproarious collection. 
   
   
   
  Please note: This is an abridged edition of I Hate Everyone, Except You.

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  The Journey to Ineffectiveness -...

  Dr. JC

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  The Journey to Ineffectiveness: A Beginner’s Guide” by Dr JC, presents the novel argument that Ineffectiveness is a good thing and we should embrace it. It lays out a plan whereby we can increase our ineffectiveness. The book introduces our other IQ (Ineffectiveness Quotient), which is measured by our behavior, rather than our mental ability. It introduces a number of areas that present us opportunities to increase our IQ in a humorous, and some might say an outrageous, style. Let’s take a look at a few examples. Confess! You’ve bought and/or been given a self-help book. You probably read part of, but 90% of the people who buy them read the entire book. Furthermore, .0001% take their advice, but don’t despair. The time and money you spent on self-help increase your ineffectiveness. While this isn’t a self-help book, it will increase your ineffectiveness and determine you Ineffectiveness Quotient. Dr JC will take you on a hilarious journey through many areas of your life. In addition to self-help, you’ll be taking a look at some so-called mental helpers, the search for domestic tranquility, the dumbness that surrounds us, and many more. The journey will take you from your favorite ‘big box’ store to dealing with artificial intelligence and everything in between. Get ready and buckle your seatbelt. We’re going for a ride with Dr JC that’s a laugh a minute. He says to be sure and bring snacks and plenty of tequila for our stops along the way. There’s plenty of room so All Aboard!

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