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  My Life: The Sitcom - Second...

  Chadd Allan Wheat

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  Welcome to My Life: The Sitcom, featuring the panderings and ponderings of Yours Truly, Chadd Wheat. 
    
  Believe it or not, many of you have actually asked for this book. I don't know if you intend on using it for the bottom of the birdcage, evidence in impending legal actions, or simply as a guide to living frivolously. Whatever the case, I hope you enjoy it. 
    
  I started writing My Life: The Sitcom in 2002. Most of my articles, as published in The Lebanon Reporter and elsewhere, are my direct observations on the craziness that surrounds my life. Nearly all the events contained herein are actually true, with the names sometimes changed to protect the ignorant. 
    
  People often ask me where I get the inspiration to write my ludicrous columns. After rubbing my chin and looking sage, I usually say something like, "by consuming too much reality television, caffeine and other borderline hallucinogens. 
    
  Ha, ha! Just kidding, local law enforcement! As a matter of fact, I never watch reality television!

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  Mr Darcy and the Girl Next Door...

  Alix James

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  Darcy's got the wealth and wit, but Elizabeth's heart is already spoken for. Cue the romance and shenanigans, because the game of love is about to get serious. 
  **Elizabeth Bennet** 
  It was supposed to be simple: come back to Derbyshire, see childhood friends, maybe fall in love. But that was before I realized George Darcy, the boy I’d set my heart on when I was just thirteen, was engaged to Lady Lucilla. 
  Things I didn't expect this week: 
  1. Realizing I still had feelings for George. (Old habits die hard.) 
  2. Being warned off by his oh-so-serious older brother. (As if I’d listen!) 
  3. Finding myself in the middle of a love square? Love rhombus? Whatever it’s called. 
  4. Being oddly drawn to the older Darcy brother. (His eyes... that's all I’m saying.) 
  5. Being the unintentional wrench in a seemingly perfect engagement. 
  6. Participating in the wittiest banter battles of my life. (With Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome, no less.) 
  7. Maybe... just maybe... reconsidering where my heart truly lies. 
  **Fitzwilliam Darcy** 
  I pride myself on being the responsible Darcy. But responsibility gets a tad complicated when Elizabeth Bennet storms back into our lives. 
  This week’s unforeseen complications: 
  1. Trying to keep my wayward brother, George, on the straight and narrow. (Impossible.) 
  2. Watching Elizabeth, with her sparkling eyes and razor-sharp wit, aim for George’s heart. (Torture.) 
  3. Reminding myself I'm trying to keep her away for George’s own good. (A lie I keep telling myself.) 
  4. Finding it increasingly challenging to keep my distance. (Why does she have to be so... captivating?) 
  5. Becoming entangled in a mess of love, loyalty, and longing. 
  6. Wishing, for the first time in my life, that I wasn’t the responsible one. 
  7. Realizing that perhaps it's my heart that's at stake in this unexpected game of romance.

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  In the Clouds - The Impressions...

  Sarah Bernhardt

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  In 1878 Gustave Flaubert looked on in horror as his publisher picked up a manuscript from the mysterious stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and published it in place of a new edition of his latest work, and watched it go on to become an instant bestseller, achieving international fame.
  Narrated by a chair in a hot-air balloon, In the Clouds is a light-hearted, humorous tale that follows a character reminiscent of Bernhardt through the skies above Paris. Sadly the story sunk into obscurity, lying out of print in the English language for much of the twentieth century. Featuring the original illustrations by Georges Clairin, and in a fresh edit of the first English translation, this edition seeks to bring the tale to a new generation of readers.

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  The World Record Book of Racist...

  Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

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  A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other’s nerves, have different perspectives and lives—especially when we consider how we've grown up in different generations. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn’t gone anywhere.From her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or in her Late Night with Seth Meyers segments, Amber is no stranger to finding the funny wherever she looks. With equal parts heart and humor, she and her sister Lacey Lamar shared some of the eye-opening and outrageous experiences Lacey had faced in Nebraska in their first book. Now, the dynamic duo makes it clear—Lacey isn’t the only one in the family with ridiculous encounters to share! Amber and Lacey have many more uproarious stories, both from their own lives and the entire Ruffin family.Recounting the wildest tales of racism from their parents, their siblings, and Amber’s nieces and nephews, this intergenerational look at ludicrous (but all too believable) everyday racism as experienced across age, gender, and appearance will have you gasping with shock and laughter in turn. Validating for anyone who has first-hand experience, and revealing for anyone who doesn’t, Amber and Lacey’s next book helps us all find the absurdity in the pervasive frustrations of racism. Illuminating and packed with love and laughter, this is a must-read for just about everyone.

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  Yankee Doodle Dixie - A Novel

  Lisa Patton

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  “Yankee Doodle Dixie oozes Southern charm . . . Reading this book is like sipping a peach daiquiri on your best friend’s porch.” —Karen White, New York Times–bestselling authorLisa Patton won the hearts of readers with her book Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter which became a sleeper-success. Building on a smashing debut, Lisa's poised to go to the next level—because whether in Vermont snow or in Memphis heat, Dixie heroine Leelee Satterfield is never too far from misadventure, calamity . . . and ultimately, love.Having watched her life turn into a nor'easter, thirty-four-year-old Leelee Satterfield is back home in the South, ready to pick up where she left off. But that's a task easier said than done . . . Leelee's a single mom, still dreaming of the Vermonter who stole her heart. Accompanied by her three best friends who pepper her with advice, nudging and peach daiquiris, Leelee opens another restaurant and learns she has to prove herself yet again. Filled with heart and humor, women's fiction fans will delight in this novel.“Southern to the core . . . funny to the bone. Lisa Patton’s new novel proves that we can go home again, and in many cases we should.” —Fannie Flagg,New York Times–bestselling author“Not a beat missed when we head below the Mason-Dixon Line . . . Lisa Patton’s voice leaves us laughing, crying, and definitely wanting more!” —Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen“This eagerly awaited sequel is sure to please fans of the author’s first novel as well as fans of women’s fiction writers like Adriana Trigiani and Fannie Flagg.” —Library Journal

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  Yoga

  Emmanuel Carrère

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  Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he’s also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga.
  
  Four days later, there’s a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work-in-progress falters. His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites―between self-destruction and self-control, sanity and madness, elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live.
  
  This is a book about one man’s desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. Loving, humorous, harrowing and profound, Yoga hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are.

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