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  • Fathermucker

    A Novel

    by Greg Olear ...
    “All kinds of funny—raucously, wickedly, sweetly, saucily, surprisingly, profanely funny…a wonderful novel.”—Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets“Deft and funny, true and real. If you read one book this year, read this one.”—Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climber’s HandbookSenior editor at the online literary magazine The Nervous Breakdown and author of Totally Killer, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Totally Killer

    A Novel

    by Greg Olear ...
    A young woman's temp job leads her into a winding and deadly conspiracy in this acclaimed satirical thriller set in 1990s NYC.It was 1991, the era of grunge music, slackers, and Prozac. Taylor Schmidt had just arrived in the Big Apple—twenty-three, single, and jobless. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment Agency she found the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend. But perfection has its price . . . ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rough Beast

    by Greg Olear ...
    Who is the real Donald Trump? A serial liar with long ties to both organized crime and the Kremlin. A corrupt demagogue whom most historians consider the worst U.S. president of all time. And, most urgently, a vengeful wannabe dictator whose re-election would end American democracy. In this short and necessary volume, Dirty Rubles author Greg Olear presents the facts about FPOTUS: who he is, what ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • EMPRESS

    The Secret History of Anna K

    by Greg Olear ...
    In 2016, construction workers in Istanbul made a remarkable discovery. Sealed in a lead pot twelve feet underground was a lost manuscript by the Byzantine princess and historian Anna Komnene-an intimate account of the royals who held sway in Constantinople in the High Middle Ages. This is the first English translation of the Anekdota, or Secret History, of Anna Komnene (1083-1153). Not since the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Age of Unreality

    by Greg Olear ...
    In these 15 moving essays, LA Times bestselling author Greg Olear explores how the literary wisdom of George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Milan Kundera, Dorothy Thompson, and other poets, novelists, screenwriters, journalists, critics, and historians can help us live through the Trump Redux, without sacrificing joy or losing hope.In these 15 moving essays, LA Times bestselling author Greg Olear ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Success Stories of a Failure Analyst

    The Life of Franklin St. John

    by Greg Olear ...
    MY FATHER-IN-LAW WAS BORN IN 1938, in a house without a toilet, in a flyspeck of a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His grandfathers were both lumberjacks. His father was a plowman. If anything was expected of Franklin St. John at all, it was that he would follow one of those two career paths. Instead, through more quirks of fate that can quickly be recounted, he became, of all things, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Life After Life

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    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Confessions of Young Nero

    The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history.Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar’s imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Moth Presents: All These Wonders

    True Stories About Facing the Unknown

    Edited by Catherine Burns ...
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    ***“*Wonderful." *—*Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesCelebrating the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stages**Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All These Wonders features ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Going There

    by Katie Couric ...
    This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Augustus

    by John Williams ...
    WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDBy the Author of StonerIn Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in ... Read more

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  • The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

    The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases

    by Tom Heehler ...
    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is designed to help you improve your communication skills by expanding your vocabulary.The book includes over 200 words, arranged in easy-to-use categories, such as "positive emotions," "negative emotions," "intellectual terms," and "descriptive terms." Each entry includes a definition, synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples.The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is particularly ... Read more

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