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  Enough Rope

  Dorothy Parker

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  “If I abstain from fun and such, / I'll probably amount to much, / But I shall stay the way I am, / Because I do not give a damn.” 
    
  American poet Dorothy Parker lived a life of heartache and hardship, but her writing became her weapon to fight back. She refused to temper her strong opinions, even at the cost of her editorial position at Vanity Fair. Parker continued to write—unfiltered and unapologetic—and found solidarity in community with other writers. Enough Rope was Parker’s first volume of poetry, featuring poems originally published in Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Parker’s poetry has galvanized generations of strong-willed women, and the fire in her voice burns strong even a century after the first publication.

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  Death of a Mystery Guest

  Alex Coombs

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  Charlie Hunter does not like Christmas, especially the lead into it -- cooking endless servings of Christmas dinner. So when she is asked by Graeme Strickland, Michelin-starred chef, egomaniac and friend, to help out in a hotel restaurant in Edinburgh’s New Town, for a fortnight, she accepts with alacrity. The Head Chef, David Jenkins, is a very old friend of Strickland’s, and the job entails covering temporarily for a sous chef position, while Strickland provides cover for Charlie, gratis, in the Old Forge Café. 
   
  She is scheduled to be there for a fortnight. But Charlie arrives in Edinburgh just in time to discover David Jenkins being stretchered out. An autopsy reveals the Chef has been poisoned with mushrooms. Was it an accident or a murder attempt? It looks like Charlie may be doing a rather different job…

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  No Ordinary Hate

  Whitney Dineen, Melanie Summers

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  Life in Hollywood is easy to hate . . .  
   
   
   
  According to Hollywood insiders, Harper and Brett Kennedy have the perfect family life—an image that has been carefully cultivated by an army of PR experts at Galaxy Studios. The truth is, their relationship has been on the rocks since Brett cheated when Harper was pregnant with their youngest child. Four years later, he's still cheating, but this time with the nanny. 
   
   
   
  When the tabloids find out, a media frenzy ensues, all but making Harper and her kids prisoners in their Pacific Palisades mansion. Needing time out of the spotlight to regroup, Harper rents a cabin in the last place the press or anyone else would ever think to look for her—Gamble, Alaska. 
   
   
   
  There, she finds peace, solitude, and Digger McKenzie. Will the gruff lodge owner, who goes out of his way to make Harper feel like she doesn't belong, realize he's about to miss out on his one chance at happiness? Will Harper's kids adjust to small-town life and heal from the chaos of their parents' separation? Will Harper learn how to shoot a bear?

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  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis -...

  Max Shulman

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  Riotous tales of the college playboy-next-door—the basis for the iconic television show. “Shulman’s creation was born a sitcom hero” (The A.V. Club). Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered—sometimes he’s as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject he should be studying, Dobie always has a girl on his mind.   In “Love Is a Fallacy,” Shulman’s best-known short story that to this day is taught in writing classes and English survey courses as an archetypal example of the genre, Dobie finds the perfect bride-to-be. She’s beautiful and gracious, but not too smart—a flaw that he sets out to fix, with the most hilarious and ironic of consequences. In “The Unlucky Winner,” Dobie and Clothilde Ellingboe cut corners in class to make more time for their dates. But after an impossible English assignment sends the couple deep into the stacks to plagiarize an obscure essay, Dobie finds himself in a ridiculous bind. And in “She Shall Have Music,” Dobie can’t focus on his duties as circulation manager for the college humor magazine because his girlfriend, Pansy, has been shipped off to New York by her purple-faced father. The desperate Romeo hatches a plan to save the magazine and visit his girl, but a series of bad decisions and a Lithuanian wedding band threaten to ruin everything.

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  How I Almost Stopped the...

  Auntie Establishment

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  Dax Biggins releases a demon, Abigor–the demon of war from a dybbuk box to increase his TikTok views. When Abigor returns to Hell, he discovers it's changed dramatically, and there's now a Committee of Warfare! Not known for being a team-player, Satan decides to give Abigor an impossible task...stop the Inauguration of Tony Drump, a man so evil that his power will cause over population of Hell resulting in some of it's nastier citizens to escape... And if that happens, then God will end everything, everywhere. 
  Can the Demon of War persuade Tony Drump to sacrifice his presidency in order to prevent the annihilation of life? Probably not...it's Drump, after all. 
  This book is a parody of ridiculousness and should not be taken seriously.

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  Celebrity Image and the New...

  Alice Jackson

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  In an era where pop stars are more than performers, they are also brands, icons, and political actors. Celebrity, Image, and the New Politics of Pop offers a groundbreaking look into the cultural power of one of the most influential figures of our time: Ariana Grande. 
  Drawing on cultural criticism, media theory, and feminist analysis, this book examines how Grande has strategically crafted her image to navigate and challenge the evolving landscapes of celebrity, gender politics, and digital culture. From her early Nickelodeon days to her transformation into a global feminist symbol, Grande's rise is more than a success story; it's a case study in how pop stardom operates in the 21st century. 
  Whether she's using social media to bypass traditional media gatekeepers or reclaiming agency over her body and voice, Grande embodies a new kind of celebrity, one that blurs the lines between personal branding and political influence, performance and authenticity. 
  For readers fascinated by pop culture, media studies, feminism, or the artistry and ambition behind one of today's biggest stars, this book is an essential and eye-opening read.

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