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  Everything Abridged

  Dennard Dayle

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  Best Books of 2022 - The New Yorker“Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative, like the best modernist literature, Everything Abridged is a powerful celebration of flaw and failure. It’s a book that revels in the timelessness of obsolescence and the freedom of powerlessness. Dayle’s a genre-shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain. This refreshingly original and powerfully funny collection is a debut to remember.” —Paul Beatty, New York Times bestselling author of The Sellout  For readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politicsFramed as a reference work of humorous “entries” that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country’s foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war.These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bent—about being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and more—are interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity.

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  The Incredibly True Story of...

  Josip Listes, Antonio Sadaric,...

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  Have you ever felt like you were juggling more hats at work than a statue in the Hall of Heroes? You are not alone. 
  Captain Bossman's The Incredibly True Story of Personal Branding and the Different Hats We Wear is a funny, rhymed voyage through the ups and downs of professional life. 
  You see, our hero is no ordinary mentor; Captain Bossman is a gender-neutral, ethnic-neutral, and religious-neutral statue who has seen it all. This statue, based on the experiences of real-life professionals, represents the art of personal branding, wearing multiple hats with each new challenge. 
  This isn't your average personal branding book. There are no stale LinkedIn advice or dull résumé instructions here! 
  Instead, Captain Bossman uses quirky comedy and witty rhymes to help you rethink how you portray yourself at work—whether you're drafting a CV, applying for a new job, or simply attempting to obtain recognized for your talents. Captain Bossman demonstrates that every experience and hat we wear in our working life contributes to our personal brand's story. Your personal brand is always changing, whether it's via mentorship, problem-solving, or taking on jobs that no one else wants. It's about striking the right balance between self-promotion and remaining real to yourself—without overselling it. 
  So, what is the takeaway? This entertaining, rhymed story reminds us that personal branding is more than just flashy resumes and numerous LinkedIn updates. It's about embracing your various experiences, understanding your worth, and conveying your professional narrative in a way that is both authentic and memorable. After all, you're a human brand, and your narrative should be conveyed with the same imagination as a superhero's origin story. 
  Add The Incredibly True Story of Personal Branding and the Different Hats We Wear to your cart now to see how your professional story may become a cult classic.

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  Where The Ley Lines Meet - Final...

  Tom McCaffrey

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  The Claire Trilogy taught us the meaning of family and loyalty in every sense of those words through the bonding of Claire the Mule and her family of mystical misfits under the most trying of circumstances. 
   
   
   
  Its prequel, Finding Jimmy Moran, introduced the world to the magical young boy who grows into the man that leads Claire's family across the galaxy. 
   
   
   
  Where The Ley Lines Meet is what happens when the mystical misfits and their alien brethren are recalled to earth to reunite and save the world. 
   
   
   
  The storylines and characters the fans have come to love in the prior four books reappear in this continuation and conclusion of The Claire Saga. Or is it?

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  Map Addict: The Bestselling Tale...

  Mike Parker

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  'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' 
  Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song. 
  There are some fine, dry tomes out there about the history and development of cartography: this is not one of them. Map Addict mixes wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps. In Map Addict, we learn the location of what has officially been named by the OS as the most boring square kilometre in the land; we visit the town fractured into dozens of little parcels of land split between two different countries and trek around many other weird borders of Britain and Europe; we test the theories that the new city of Milton Keynes was built to a pagan alignment and that women can't read maps. Combining history, travel, politics, memoir and oblique observation in a highly readable, and often very funny, style, Mike Parker confesses how his own impressive map collection was founded on a virulent teenage shoplifting habit, ponders how a good leftie can be so gung-ho about British cartographic imperialism and wages a one-man war against the moronic blandishments of the Sat Nav age. 
  Mike Parker's Map Addict is a non-fiction book that combines science, humour, and travelogues to provide a unique perspective on geography and culture. His essays are both historical and social, making this a popular choice among readers. 
  For fans of Tom Bullough (Sarn Helen), Gavin Ortlund (Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't), Tim Hannigan (The Granite Kingdom), Chloe Dalton (Raising Hare), and Samantha Harvey (The Shapeless Unease). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Thanksgiving House Swap The: A...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  What should have been a perfect home exchange—a cozy cottage for a luxury penthouse—turns into a nightmare when the neighbors start dying. Now stranded in a strange town, teacher Ben Carter discovers the previous tenant left behind more than just spare keys: they left a killer's attention and a mystery dating back to the town's founding Thanksgiving.

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  Reggie's Guide to Social Climbing

  Reggie Blackrock Road

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  Do you know how to pronounce turbot? Is it lemon or lime in a gin and tonic? What do you wear to a barbecue? Is it ever okay to shop in Lidl?
  
  
  Reggie has all the answers to help you climb the social ladder.
  
  
  A beautifully spoken billionaire, Reggie is president of COCI (The Captains of Cork Industry) and owner of a 6.2 million euro mansion on the Blackrock Road. (In Cork, not the frankly shabby one they have up in Dublin.)
  
  
  It's one social climbing nugget after another, laid out in 24 simple steps, so even you should be able to follow it. (No offence.)

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