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  Sun City A Hilariously Addictive...

  Matthew Minson

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  A Heart Warming Recipe for Fun 
  Take one old farmer, a salacious genius chef named Betty Crocker, a former CIA operative turned counterculture warrior, a mob boss in witness protection and a 14-year-old boy and girl who just want to make movies. Add a coven of clog dancing Wiccans, a corrupt corporation, and a pack of feral hogs. Mix in a cache of hyper-engineered government pot seed and bake to perfection in the Texas heat. What do you get? A delectable dish called Sun City, a positively addictive story of love and rebellion that proves- any time is the right time to come of age.

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  Let There Be Laughter - A...

  Michael Krasny

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  From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture. 
  Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. 
  ""What’s Jewish Alzheimer’s?"" 
  ""You forget everything but the grudges."" 
  ""You must be so proud. Your daughter is the President of the United States!"" 
  ""Yes. But her brother is a doctor!"" 
  ""Isn’t Jewish humor masochistic?"" 
  ""No. And if I hear that one more time I am going to kill myself."" 
  With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and form of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish. 
  Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.

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  The Great Man Theory

  Teddy Wayne

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  Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. Shockingly, others aren't very receptive to Paul's scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father's terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul's disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world's wrongs and gives himself a more significant place in it.

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  Wellmania - Extreme...

  Brigid Delaney

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  Bridget Jones meets AJ Jacobs in Wellmania, an in-depth, laugh-out-loud exploration of the best and worst of the wellness industry. 
   
   
   
  Cold-pressed juices, "clean" eating, colonic vacations, mindfulness apps, and Paleo: health-care trends and miracle diets seem to be more plentiful each year. But do any of these tactics actually work? What does "wellness" even mean? 
   
   
   
  In Wellmania, longtime journalist Brigid Delaney tackles the good, the bad, and the just-a-little-ridiculous of the wellness industry, using herself as the guinea pig. Starting with a brutal 101-day fast, she leaves behind her thirty-something-year-old lifestyle of late-night parties and all-day hangovers to test the things that are supposed to make us healthy and whole: yoga classes, meditation, CBT, Balinese healing, silent retreats, group psychotherapy, and more. Writing with self-deprecating wit and refreshing honesty, she sorts through the fads and expensive hype to find out what actually works, while asking, What does all this say about us? Is total wellness even possible? And why do you start to smell so bad when you haven't eaten in seven days? According to comedian Judith Lucy, the result is "bloody entertaining" and "leaves you wondering whether you want to do yoga or get mindlessly drunk and despair at the state of the world."

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  The Private Papers of Henry...

  George Gissing

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  The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing is a reflective, semi-autobiographical work that delves into the life and musings of a retired author living in quiet solitude. Through a series of personal essays and diary entries, Ryecroft contemplates his modest successes, literary ambitions, and the struggles of a writer’s life marked by financial hardship and unfulfilled dreams. Now in comfortable retirement, he finds solace in books, nature, and introspection, cherishing the simple joys of independence and self-sufficiency. Gissing uses Ryecroft’s voice to explore themes of artistic integrity, the tension between commerce and creativity, and the bittersweet passage of time. The work is both a meditation on life’s regrets and triumphs and a celebration of intellectual freedom. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft offers a poignant, understated glimpse into the mind of a writer reconciled with his past, yearning for beauty, and finding peace in life’s twilight.

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  Dude Interrupted - G-Man Next...

  Andrea Smith

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  G-Man Next Generation Books can all be read as stand-alones. 
  Bryce Slater is eighteen. He's a bad boy hottie who has his pick of chicks. He parties a bit.  
  Smokes a little dope now and then. Likes the occasional random hook-up. So what?  
  He's determined NOT to follow in his father's FBI footsteps. 
  Avery Sinclair is nineteen. She's in college, and during the summer she works on her  
  grandparents' horse stables and race track as team leader. She takes her work seriously.  
  Her future is in equine operations. She has no time for slackers on her team.  
  But thanks to her uncle doing a favor for a friend, Avery ends up with Bryce Slater for the summer. 
  "Slater the Slacker" soon becomes Avery's pet name for him, but damn if she isn't determined to whip  
  him into shape. And while doing so, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. But he's so not her type! 
  Bryce Slater quickly gets on the bad side of his new boss, saucy little half-pint Avery Sinclair.  
  She's a sexy little spitfire who is determined to break his spirit. But in the process, Bryce finds himself  
  inexplicably drawn to her. But she's so not his type. 
  What started out to be a summer of tough love punishment, turns into something both Bryce and Avery never expected. Just as things are heating up, a blast from Bryce's past threatens the fragility of his new found relationship with Avery. 
  ADULT CONTENT 18+

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