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  The Lonely Heart Attack Club...

  J C Williams

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  The hilarious sequel to the best-selling, feel-good comedy 
  The third book in the series, "The Lonely Heart Attack Club Project VIP" is now available!'After reading the first book I hoped for the same or better. I wasn't disappointed'A brilliant book so well written, it wraps you up in the characters and with the twists and comedy moments you never want to put it down. Fantastic!!!''This sequel is every bit as funny as the first book and covers a serious subject in a very lighthearted way, and you can't help getting swept along in Jack's well-meaning but usually hapless exploits 
  Jack, Emma and the gang from the Lonely Heart Attack Club (Isle of Man branch) are back... 
  For their next challenge, how will they surpass a World Record attempt? Get their members to compete in an Olympic Games for the elderly, of course! The ‘Wrinkly Olympics’ is a feel-good, heart-warming story that’s sublimely funny. 
  The old folk have been in training, but will the ‘Silver Sprinters’ walk away with a gold medal?

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  The Art of Listening to the Heart

  James Kenyon

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  In this memoir collection, retired veterinarian James Kenyon recalls his days in veterinary practice. From heartwarming to heartbreaking and everything in between, Kenyon writes of his care for beloved family pets, livestock, and their human caretakers. His memories illustrate a true devotion and love for veterinary work, as well as a passion for people and local history. Each chapter relates a specific memory of working with a quirky, loyal, and loveable animal, as well as the quirky, loyal, and lovable humans who owned them. The work offers not just insight into the work of a veterinarian, but to human nature and the manner in which people relate to and care for each other, as well as their animals. 

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  The Mezzanine - A Novel

  Nicholson Baker

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  A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).   In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry.   Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences.   “A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New York Times   “Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” —The Seattle Times   “Among the year’s best.” —The Boston Globe   “Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review   “Wonderfully readable, in fact gripping, with surprising bursts of recognition, humor and wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World

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  Divorce Islamic Style

  Amara Lakhous

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  Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in this “whimsical and at times heartbreaking look” at the Muslim communities of Rome (The New York Times).  
   
  The Italian secret service believes that a group of Muslim immigrants is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover in Rome’s Egyptian neighborhood, Viale Marconi, to infiltrate the group. Posing as a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a job and a place to sleep, Christian soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant whose arranged marriage is anything but fulfilling. While Christian attempts in vain to uncover terrorist activity, Sofia is on another kind of secret mission—in defiance of a husband who forbids her to work. 
   
  In alternating voices, Algerian-born Italian author Amara Lakhous examines the commonplaces and stereotypes of life in modern, multicultural Italy. Divorce Islamic Style mixes the rational and the absurd as it depicts the conflicts and contradictions of today's globalized world.

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  21st Century Dodos: A Collection...

  Steve Stack

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  A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction. 
  We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects. 
  Until now, that is. 
  Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction. 
  Some of them have vanished already. 
  Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo… 
  …all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane. 
  This humorous book by Steve Stack is a top-rated journey that bids adieu to the best of our past. 21st Century Dodos is a delightful blend of nostalgia and irreverence, a must-read for those who appreciate the charm of the bygone era. 
  For fans of Robert Sellers (Raising Laughter)

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  Fresh for '01 You Suckas

  Aaron McGruder

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  The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather in the suburbs. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the "hood" and apply it to life in the 'burbs. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers who've applauded McGruder's unapologetic and humorous approach to race. In this second collection of Boondocks cartoons, readers can get another look at this innovative strip.

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