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  The Groves of Academe - A Novel

  Mary McCarthy

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  A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job—and enact righteous revenge—in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years
  
  Henry Mulcahy's future is in question. An instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, an institute of higher learning renowned for its progressive approach to education, he has just received word that he will not be teaching next semester. He strongly suspects that his dismissal has been engineered by his nemesis, the college president, who Henry believes resents his superior skills as an educator. Or perhaps he is being targeted by the government in this Cold War era, now that Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt is in full swing, especially since Henry's dedication to independent thinking is, he believes, renowned. Whatever the case, Henry Mulcahy wants justice—and vengeance—and he will not go quietly without a fight. But the battle might expose too much of Henry's true nature . . .
  
  
  Witty and biting, Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe is a deliciously pointed satire of the world of higher education and its petty despots, tiny wars, and internal politics.
  
  
  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author's estate.

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  Nailed It

  J.R. Ripley

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  What happens when South Florida’s most unscrupulous real estate salesman meets South Florida’s biggest con artist? And what happens when they meet on the roof of the Florida mansion belonging to the world’s most ruthless scrap dealer? Who knows? But sparks are bound to fly, especially with that hurricane coming straight at them. Another fast-paced Todd Jones comic thriller/caper by bestselling author JR Ripley!

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  Man Who Was Thursday The: A...

  G.K. Chesterton

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  In the quiet suburbs of Edwardian London, a chance conversation at sunset ignites a chain of events that quickly spirals beyond logic and expectation. Gabriel Syme, a poet with a fierce belief in law and order, is drawn into the shadowy world of political extremism when he infiltrates a council of anarchists whose members conceal their true identities behind code names and masks. 
  As Syme ascends deeper into the organization, each apparent revelation collapses into a greater mystery. Allies and enemies blur. Certainty erodes. What begins as a pursuit of order becomes a waking dream where reason is tested, authority is inverted, and the meaning of rebellion itself is called into question. 
  Written with sharp wit, philosophical daring, and a sense of mounting unreality, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is not merely a political satire or a mystery—it is a meditation on fear, faith, and the fragile structures that hold civilization together. Chesterton’s most enigmatic novel unfolds like a dream that refuses to explain itself, leaving listeners suspended between laughter and unease long after the final words fade. 
  Narrated with clarity and controlled intensity by Christopher Mireider, this performance preserves the novel’s intellectual tension and surreal momentum, bringing Chesterton’s nightmare vividly to life.

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  Frog and Toad Make History [A...

  Jennie Egerdie

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  Friendship is timeless, as Frog and Toad prove in this parody that invites readers to follow along and laugh as these classic characters are reimagined throughout world history from the author of Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best.     With tender-hearted humor, author Jennie Egerdie transports us away from the chaotic present day with her latest parody, Frog and Toad Make History. She channels charms of Arnold Lobel’s iconic duo as she posits how they’d react to moments throughout history, starting as cave amphibians and continuing through ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, and more. Together, they arrive just a little too late to take in the sights of the Roman Empire. And of course Toad of panics during the Salem Witch Trials, spotting witchcraft everywhere. When newfangled telephones arrive on the scene, Frog can’t help but think he’s doing a great service to his friend by having one installed in Toad’s home.      Through these stories, it becomes clear that though the past may have been simpler times, they were no less chaotic. The key to getting by is approaching each new day with warmth, kindness, just a little bit of silliness, and—of course—having a best friend at your side.

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  Souls Who Meet Each Other

  Patrizia Luraschi

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  When we speak of Souls meeting, we refer to that particular interconnectedness that binds two or more souls with one purpose in life: that of meeting and evolving together along the path of spiritual evolution. The Twin Souls are stimulated and helped in the path of spiritual growth, one comes to the rescue of the other, precisely because in the first place, they have so many goals to achieve in their life together, create their existence as a couple, as a family and as people who will give a good example to their friends and to all those around them. We live in the Age of Awareness and everything that happens, has its own reason of being, nothing belongs to chance; therefore, our reunions, our meetings, also belong to this. For example, the question many people ask is, "Why do Soul Mates exist?". Surely the Twin Souls are not an invention of who knows who, but they are actually a reality concerning Being, understood as a spiritual being of course. We can define our soul as "complete", but we are on this planet, life after life, with certain characteristics that affect the person, so the affinity that fits between the Twin Souls helps them in their relationship. But not only does affinity become part of these two people, there must also be a common reality about everything that concerns them and what follows. A meeting between Twin Souls is that moment in which an individual becomes aware that the known person is an important and fundamental part of his existence. Then, there is "chemistry" between two people and in the chapter we will explain this chemistry in what it consists, how it is born and what it creates between two souls that meet. Physical attraction only? You will read it. I will also bring to your knowledge "The Mental love", a kind of love that is born as an attraction between two souls who respect each other, working together in their relationship. Knowledge of the soul amalgamated with many aspects that will be alive for life. Something very different from the "Soul mates", who attract, feel, for eternity. Here is a real and mutual love lived during this life.

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  The Book of Squiddly Light

  Karima Vargas Bushnell

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  Halycon Sage is back! As the eccentric citizens of Dry Creek Gulch happily organize a peaceful, post-technological society, big sparkly blue Squidren are rapidly approaching Earth! These telepathic, time-traveling, dimension-hopping Squids have plans for us-as do the suddenly sentient Nanobots and a Shadowy Man who preys on human weakness: shifting dimensions, eccentric aliens, and batty earthlings. Love, hope, courage, and acceptance-but there is danger! 
   
  The Book of Squidly Light is a space western and a post-apocalyptic story: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Metafiction. It's also Book Two of The Sage Chronicles following The Way Beyond: The Life and Times of Halycon Sage, which introduces the world-famous yet compulsively anonymous founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature. 
   
  In Book Two, we return to the desert town of Dry Creek Gulch and re-encounter old friends: confused genius Alexander Preisczech and his mysterious wife Jenny, former gangsters Ratbone and Wolf, Iraqi pilot Muhammad Abdurraheem Hussein and family, the intrepid Ruby Echevaria and many more, including Sage's TV-watching, motel-sleeping horse No-Name Stupid. We meet a few enemies of all sentient beings as well. The goal-again, and always-is to unite across cultural and intergalactic barriers to save the earth and the wider universe from the dangers that threaten them, even after the first supposed End of the World. 
   
  The Book of Squidly Light takes everything deeper. It's written in layers and levels, and like the metaphysical system of the Squidren, it contains various threads: life in a post-apocalyptic desert town, multicultural people and cross-cultural or cross-species romances, the thoughts and behaviors of space aliens, suddenly sentient nanobots, rituals both holy and unholy, poetry written by cats and horses, and even a few Secrets of the Universe. It's also a critique of some life-denying attitudes that threaten us all.

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