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  Three Men in a Boat

  Jerome K.

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  A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

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  Witze Witze Witze Hier Springt...

  Harald Heinrichs

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  Witze die die Leute zum Lachen bringen, aufgeteilt in dreizehn Kategorien von jeweils drei cbis fûnf oder sechs amûsanten Witzen. Zum Entspannen und zum Amûsieren. Ein Hórbuch das auf jeder Party nicht fehlen sollte

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  The Rum Shop

  Ed Teja

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  "A man oughta be able to walk home drunk without some damn fool running him off the road, you know."The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop, and though living in the Windward Islands in the Caribbean might be a little different than other places, maybe move at a slower place, the problems of life are pretty much the same as anywhere else. Still, it's a different kind of world. And here is a short story that peeks inside that world.

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  Stalking Throckmorton

  Gary F. Jones

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  Chris Throckmorton races a killer to find a treasure hidden by his great-grandfather.
  
  A lawyer hands Throckmorton an 82-year-old letter that claims his dying great-grandfather Otto Kessler stashed the family assets in an office under his brewery. Those assets could be worth $50 million or nothing in today's market. The village has demolished the brewery and buried the office.
  
  Murder victims are found in homes once owned by the Kessler's. The crooked village mayor and a con man learn of Otto's letter and force Throckmorton to make them partners. An inept crew slows the excavation to the office, and security cameras show the killer has visited the dig. Once in the office, the men find stock certificates in companies that went bankrupt between 1950 and 1990. His partners quit.
  
  Throckmorton finds another treasure in the office, but not the one Otto put there. To keep it, he must face the killer in the dark.

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  The Valley of Vision

  Henry Van Dyke

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  ”Why do you choose such a title as The Valley of Vision for your book” said my friend; “do you mean that one can see farther from the valley than from the mountain-top?” This question set me thinking, as every honest question ought to do. Here is the result of my thoughts, which you will take for what it is worth, if you care to read the book. The mountain-top is the place of outlook over the earth and the sea. But it is in the valley of suffering, endurance, and self-sacrifice that the deepest visions of the meaning of life come to us.I take the outcome of this Twentieth Century War as a victory over the mad illusion of world-domination which the Germans saw from the peak of their military power in 1914. The united force of the Allies has grown, through valley-visions of right and justice and human kindness, into an irresistible might before which the German “will to power” has gone down in ruin. (From the Preface)

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  Peanut Butter Puppies

  Greg Murray

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  An irresistible photo collection of 70 rescued puppies in expressions of peanut butter bliss. Each one-of-a-kind portrait is sure to make your day. Names, ages, and breed/mix accompany each portrait.

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