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  Three Men on the Bummel

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany. 
  This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd tales and Jerome's comments on the German people and their way of life. 
  (Published in 1914. Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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  The Cowgirl's Guide to Life

  Texas Bix Bender, Gladiola Montana

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  Straight talk from the lassoin’ lady—from knowing the best time to hold your tongue to using the right bait when you’re fishing for compliments. 
   
  This sassy cowgirl and her sidekick cowboy partner capture the feminine perspective on life. This common-sense wisdom in humorous form is all about living and loving. Women will laugh about it—from the boardroom to the suburban book club. Gems include:“It is better to be a widower’s second wife than his first.”“If you’re fixin’ to get yourself a good stallion, don’t go lookin’ in the donkey corral.”“High steppers give bumpy rides.”“If you’ve done it, it ain’t braggin’.”“Always say ‘please’ when you tell somebody to shut up.”

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  Dead Souls

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth.

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  Showbiz - A Novel

  Jason Anderson

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  A comedian’s career is ended after a presidential assassination, and a journalist tries to track him down decades later, in this darkly humorous novel.    In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian’s uncanny impression of the president made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy’s career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to solve.   Nearly twenty-five years later, Nathan Grant, an ambitious young journalist, discovers the trail Jimmy cut through the entertainment netherworld. He soon comes to realize that this forgotten court jester may have played a very serious part in the country’s favorite conspiracy theory. His strange and increasingly dangerous odyssey takes him from a dingy New York record store to the showrooms of Las Vegas, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, and even a dinner theatre in Niagara Falls, in a dark comedy about the cost of fame, the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the rest of the joke goes.   “A weird and hilarious trek through American faux-history.” —Richard Scrimger, author of Mystical Rose   “An amazing feat of invention and imagining. In the alternate reality of Showbiz, things are funny, touching, and very true.” —Paul Quarrington, author of King Leary

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  Journeyman - A Novel

  Erskine Caldwell

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  The classic American novel of a philandering, murderous preacher from the national bestselling author of God’s Little Acre.    When preacher Semon Dye moves into the tiny Georgia town of Rocky Comfort, many of its citizens welcome him. After all, the only church in town is being used to store fertilizer. But sermons aren’t the first thing on the mind of the tall, magnetic, and utterly dissolute man. Other callings take priority: women, whiskey, gambling, and hiding from the law. Even as he seduces wives, cheats at cards, and provokes old feuds, Dye manages to cast a dark spell over all the people in Rocky Comfort.   Journeyman is a wicked send-up of religious fervor by an American master of dark political satire. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.

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  #LoveMUTTS - A MUTTS Treasury

  Patrick McDonnell

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  Enjoy the fun & laughs with everyone’s favorite Jack Russell & tuxedo cat pals, along with all their friends, in this comic strip treasury. 
   
  In MUTTS, Patrick McDonnell strikes a delicate balance between lighthearted fun and responsible social commentary through the exploits of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat. 
   
  Earl and Mooch, along with supporting sidekicks Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby, humorously approach a range of subjects—from napping and daydreaming to summer vacations and Christmas anticipations—in addition to tackling important issues like responsible pet ownership, animal shelters, and saving our endangered species.

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