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“jasper gibson”

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  • A Bright Moon for Fools

    A Novel

    by Jasper Gibson ...
    Very funny, very unpleasant, and very moving.” -Michael PalinHarry Christmas is unable to cope with the death of his wife and has been bouncing from one bad decision to the next. After a terrifying assault by the son of a woman he has conned, he makes up his mind to leave the country. Now Harry Christmas is on the run.On a mission to track down his wife’s ancestral village, Christmas arrives in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    And the Christmas Pageant That Went Awry

    by Gary F. Jones ...
    When Wisconsin veterinarian Doc dies, his family learns that to inherit his fortune, they must decipher the cryptic codicil he added to his will---"Take Doofus squirrel-fishing." And they can only do that by talking to Doc's friends, reading the memoir Doc wrote of a Christmas season decades earlier, searching through Doc's correspondence, and discovering clues around them.Humor abounds as this ... Read more

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  • #TIL: Today I Learned

    Hilarious, Entertaining, and Educational Trivia

    by Stephen Spignesi ...
    From Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth, movies and music to politics and biology, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Spignesi compiles five hundred facts in this addictive bathroom reader trivia book.From history and science to sports and literature, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Spignesi offers eye-opening trivia in 500 facts inspired by the viral social media acronym TIL used on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Astonishing Anniversaries of James and David, Part One

    by M J Dees ...
    Twins growing up together. One is incredibly lucky, the other astonishingly unlucky. One content, the other always striving for more. But will either of them manage to cope with all the obstacles which life throws at them? The Astonishing Anniversaries of James and David is as much a nostalgic romp through 70s, 80s and 90s England as it is a shocking and occasionally tragic comedy."Once I started, ... Read more

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  • The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill

    A Novel

    by James Charlesworth ...
    ****ONE OF POPSUGAR'S “10 BOOKS BY DEBUT AUTHORS TO WATCH IN 2019”**From a powerful new literary voice, a sweeping epic of one family and the destructive power of the American Dream**All their lives, the children of George Benjamin Hill have fought to escape the shadow of their father, a dust-bowl orphan, self-made millionaire in bedrock American capitalism (fast food and oil), and destroyer of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Collected Fables

    by James Thurber ...
    "These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious." — Saturday Review of Literature"These fables are as cogent and necessary today as they were before and after the Great War when Thurber's plainspoken, satiric fables provided a way to speak out in an era of political suspiciousness, false hopes, and mistrust. These fables are, ... Read more

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  • ShelfLife

    by Barrie Seppings ...
    If you could be someone else, who would you choose? Twenty-somethings Trent, Shanti and Gavin launch a start-up that allows almost anyone to rent a stranger's life for a week.Not their apartment.Not their car.Their entire life.The trio risk everything they own to build what they believe will become the Airbnb of lifestyles, but nothing prepares them for the ride that follows as they chase fame, ... Read more

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  • The Haircutter

    A Novel

    by Dana Thompson ...
    Born in the small town of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, The Haircutter—or H.C.— murders an enigmatic “Jenny” and flees to the glittering anonymity of New York City. Eight years later, after a series of odd jobs and lonely meals, H.C. is charged with driving a wolf from New York back to Wyoming, where it was captured for use in a conceptual art show. While back out West, he has a chance encounter with the ... Read more

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  • Forever After

    A Dark Comedy

    by David Jester ...
    Michael Holland is a grim reaper working the worst beat in the worst town. Michael’s best friend is a pot-smoking tooth fairy, his boss is the angel of death, his psychiatrist can read his mind, and he counts bogeymen, demons, and clones as his acquaintances.His nine-to-five is a succession of stupidity, clearing up the remains of the latest Darwin Award winner or dealing with the detritus of some ... Read more

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  • Employees Gone Wild

    Crazy (and True!) Stories of Office Misbehavior, and What You Can Learn From the Mistakes of Others

    by Richard Burton ...
    Hilarious and hair-rising true tales of office debauchery from the lawyer who gets paid to clean up the mess.Try to imagine the following workplace scenarios: two employees having hot and heavy sex in an open cubicle in full view of their coworkers. A boss conducting a business meeting while wearing nothing but a strategically-placed towel. Employees using Craigslist to arrange sexual trysts with ... Read more

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  • Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

    A Novel

    by Mo Yan ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    One of the Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureIdeal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar worksWritten by today’s most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelistMo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero—or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • It's All Relative

    Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memoir)

    by Wade Rouse ...
    How come the only thing my family tree ever grows is nuts?Wade Rouse attempts to answer that question in his blisteringly funny new memoir by looking at the yearly celebrations that unite us all and bring out the very best and worst in our nearest and dearest.Family is truly the only gift that keeps on giving—namely, the gifts of dysfunction and eccentricity—and Wade Rouse’s family has been ... Read more

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