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  Last Summer in the City - A Novel

  Giancarlo Calligarich

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  The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman.In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At thirty, he’s still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich―but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever. Rather than toil and spin, isn’t it better to submit to the alienation of the Eternal City, Rome, sometimes a cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and sublime? There can be no half measures with her, either she’s the love of your life or you have to leave her.First discovered by Natalia Ginzburg, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature, a great novel of a stature similar to that of The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye. Gianfranco Calligarich’s enduring masterpiece has drawn comparisons to such writers as Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Jonathan Franzen and is here made available in English for the first time.

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  The Life and Opinions of...

  Laurence Sterne

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  The bawdy and satirical eighteenth-century novel: “A comic tour de force whose humor, of observation and incident, explodes on to every page” (The Guardian, “The 100 Best Novels”).   Written in 1759 and published in nine volumes, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was a literary sensation. An experimental, fictional autobiography, it broke the traditional rules of chronological storytelling. Tristram tells his tale his own way, peppering in opinions and random anecdotes throughout the events of his life—starting from his almost interrupted conception. The novel features such memorable characters as Tristram’s parents, his tender uncle Toby, the “man-midwife” Dr. Slop, and pastor Yorick.   “Tristram Shandy and its author, Laurence Sterne, are so intensely modern in mood and attitude, so profanely alert to the nuances of the human comedy, and so engaged with the narrative potentiality of the genre that it comes as something of a shock to discover that the novel was published during the seven years war.” —The Guardian, “The 100 Best Novels”

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  Adventures in Grocery Shopping -...

  Dan May

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  A collection of life experiences, observations and musings from the mind of singer-songwriter Dan May.

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  But You Seemed So Happy - A...

  Kimberly Harrington

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  In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life. 
  Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their divorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about divorce — heavy on the dark humor with a light coating of anger and annoyance. After all, on the heels of planning to dissolve a twenty-year marriage they had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids. Throw in a global pandemic and her idea of what the end of a marriage should look and feel like was flipped even further on its head. 
  This originally dark and caustic exploration turned into a more empathetic exercise, as she worked to understand what this relationship meant and why marriage matters so much. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition, she sifted through her past—how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, and divorce. And she dug back into the history of her marriage — how she and her future ex-husband had met, what it felt like to be madly in love, how they had changed over time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they still owed one another. 
  But You Seemed So Happy is a time capsule of sorts. It’s about getting older and repeatedly dying on the hill of being wiser, only to discover you were never all that dumb to begin with. It’s an honest, intimate biography of a marriage, from its heady, idealistic, and easy beginnings to it slowly coming apart and finally to its evolution into something completely unexpected. As she probes what it means when everyone assumes you’re happy as long as you’re still married, Harrington skewers engagement photos, Gen X singularity, small-town busybodies, and the casual way we make life-altering decisions when we’re young. Ultimately, this moving and funny memoir in essays is a vulnerable and irreverent act of forgiveness—of ourselves, our partners, and the relationships that have run their course but will always hold profound and permanent meaning in our lives.

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  Murdering Mr Edwards - Tales...

  Shawn L. Bird

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  One obnoxious English teacher. 12 tales of his death. 
  Norton Edwards, English department head, is the reigning despot in Canterbury High.  
  This year, his colleagues have had enough.  
  This year, they're getting rid of Mr. Edwards. 
  In this collection of darkly tongue-in-cheek stories, Mr. Edwards dies, tale after tale. 
  “A clever, funny and totally engaging noir-vella! Loved it!” ~Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander 
  “If you have never, ever considered murdering someone, then you have never worked in a high school.” ~Scott Anderson, school principal 
  “If you’ve ever taught in a high school, attended a high school, or even driven past a high school, you will enjoy Murdering Mr. Edwards.” ~Chris McMahen, teacher-librarian, author of Box of Shocks, Tabloidology, & Klutzhood 
  Nominated for a 2019 Arthur Ellis Crime Writing Award: The Lou Allin Memorial Best Crime Novella prize.  

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  Aunty Acid's Guide to Love

  Ged Backland

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  In this collection from the hit webcomic, the pink-haired, sassy senior shares some witty words on love, sex, and marriage. “The trouble with women today is that they get all excited about nothing...and then marry him.” “If absence makes the heart grow fonder, some people I know haven’t been gone freakin’ long enough.” Created to give “the crazy old lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from ten blocks away, the feisty Aunty Acid is here to share her thoughts and feelings on all things romantic. With her long-suffering husband, Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything. Aunty Acid is created by Ged Backland and is brought to life by the team at the Backland Studio in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in Northern England. Their other properties include the widely successful Scarlett & Crimson series.

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