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  The Darwin Awards II - a new...

  Wendy Northcutt

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  The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection commemorates those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be!
   
  
   
  Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes.
   
  These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory!
   
  
   
  Don't miss the other volumes of the Darwin Awards.

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  Grabbing A Slice Of "Minnesota...

  Lucas LaMont

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  Minnesota has a code, don't cha know? 
  Knowing this code is essential for living in the state famous for an accent only the Coen Brothers could replicate. But if you only focused on the accents in Fargo, you might have missed the nuance. 
  After all, there has to be some reason Minnesotans live in a state where winter lasts six months out of the year. What is it? We call it "Minnesota Nice." It permeates all aspects of life, including the way we talk, what we eat, how we entertain guests, the way we practice our faith, and how we enjoy the great outdoors. 
  Do you want to know more—or better yet, know someone in your life who should? Grab a copy today so you can have something to set your coffee mug on. Plus, it's thick enough you'll really annihilate that fly that won't stop buzzing around.

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  A Masterful Revenge - The...

  Thomas Corfield

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  The villain’s a poet, the weapon is verse, and the whole world’s a stage. 
  The Ar’dath-Irr’s final act is nearly complete — and the applause will be apocalyptic. 
  Oscar Teabag-Dooven, once a Velvet Paw, is all that stands between a fractured universe and total obliteration. 
  But Oscar wanted to be a poet, not a hero, not a destroyer, and certainly not the most loathed animal on the planet. After his avant-garde recital triggers mass death, suspicious reincarnations and catastrophic misunderstandings involving curry, he’s the only one left to blame. 
  With his reputation in ruins and a war effort rising, Oscar and a huge cast must navigate a broken world filled with inverted corpses, bureaucratic panic and a vengeful poet-dog whose power defies life itself. Revenge seems like the only reasonable response. But in a world where hugs are abolished and poetry causes mass casualties, reason is a dangerous thing. 
  Joined by armies and navies orchestrated under Operation Fluffy Cloud, Oscar must confront his greatest fear: that this entire war might just be about him. 
  This is the climax of the Morigan Tetralogy: where poetry bends worlds and the end of everything smells faintly of cinnamon and petrol. 
  “Highly likely they take longer to read than they do to write.” - Gary, Freelance Impregnator. 
    
  “While reading this I was transported elsewhere, although I was on a bus at the time.” - Karen Dubonis, Breeder. 
    
  “I am literally lost for words, though not nearly as lost as the author.” - Stamford Black, Designer.

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  On the Greenwich Line

  Shady Lewis

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  'I was riveted and charmed by this funny, humane and poignant novel. It's written in a voice that is as ardent as it is sensitive, one marked by history and yet managing to remain beautifully unruly and independent.'
  – Hisham Matar, author of My Friends and The Return
  
  In an East London housing office, a frustrated local government employee spends his days trying to figure out what the latest policy announcement means for both himself and the migrants he works with every day. As a favour to a friend, he finds himself roped into organizing the funeral of Ghiyath, a young Syrian refugee. But it is not until his life collides with Ghiyath's death that he realises just how much he has in common with those who've fallen through the cracks.
  
  Told with a wry cynicism and deadpan wit, On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary England. This is a story about systemic failure and human courage, and about London and its many lost souls.

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  Knocked Down - A High-Risk Memoir

  Aileen Weintraub

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  A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. 
   
   
   
  Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying "I do," she's pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. 
   
    
   
  As her husband's farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. Will she stay or will she once again run away from it all? 
   
     
   
  Knocked Down is an emotionally charged roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.

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  The Story of St Vespaluus

  Saki Saki

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  In The Story of St. Vespaluus by Saki, the narrative unfolds in a whimsical and satirical tone, set in a time of religious conflict between Pagans and Christians. The tale centers around the young and charming Prince Vespaluus, who defies his Pagan king uncle by embracing Christianity, much to the king's dismay.As Vespaluus navigates the treacherous waters of court politics, he faces a series of absurd punishments for his beliefs, culminating in a bizarre execution plan involving royal bees.

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