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  100 Things the Simpsons Fans...

  Allie Goertz, Julia Prescott

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  Most fans of The Simpsons can distinguish Lenny from Carl without checking their hands. But only real fans recall the Eastern European equivalent of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, know the name of Barney Gumble's submission to the Springfield Film Festival, and have road tripped to the World's Fair in Knoxville. 100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans, whether you comprehend at a Ralph Wiggum or Lisa Simpson level. Allie Goertz and Julia Prescott have collected every essential piece of Simpsons knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and have ranked them all from 1 to 100 in this entertaining book, which was just discarded from the shelves of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.

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  My Favorite Husband

  Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh,...

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  My Favorite Husband starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper (Liz and George Cugat in early episodes). The couple lived at 321 Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls, and were billed as two people who live together and like it.

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  Irish Rogues and Rascals – From...

  Joseph McArdle

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  Irish history is littered with rogues, larger-than-life characters who range from cheeky scamps to vicious chancers. In Irish Rogues and Rascals, Joseph MacArdle looks at some of the most notorious Irishmen to find out just exactly what a 'rogue' is.
  
  Is it a dastardly knave, a cheeky rascal or a devilish trickster? Is it a lovable scamp or is it someone who is charming and delightful but with a bit of mischievousness and sauciness thrown into the mix as well? Whatever the answer, the fascinating collection of Irish rogues in Joseph McArdle's hilarious book Irish Rogues and Rascals embraces vicious chancers at one extreme and lovable imps at the other.
  
  These Irish rogues and rascals range from Myler Magrath, a sixteenth-century character who loved wine, women and money – and who was both Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor and Protestant Archbishop of Cashel at the same time through to Tiger Roche, the infamous eighteenth-century rake and duellist who drank and fought his way from Ireland to Cape Town.
  
  They include more modern figures such as Paul Singer, a fraudster who tricked countless people out of their hard-earned money in the 1950s, and Des Traynor, the mastermind of Irish tax evasion schemes for much of the late twentieth century , and not forgetting the most accomplished political rogue of modern times, Charles J. Haughey.
  
  Joseph McArdle writes with affection about his colourful rogues, usually seeing more to admire in their cleverness and brazenness than to deplore in the results of their conduct. His rogues may not always be honourable – but they usually are fun and their stories make compelling reading.
  Irish Rogues and Rascals: Table of Contents
  Preface
  
  - The spinning bishop: Myler Magrath
  - Eighteenth-century rogues: Garrett Byrne, James Strange, John M'Naghtan
  - Fighting Fitzgerald: George Robert Fitzgerald
  - This wicked prelate: Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry
  - Tiger Roche and the giant wheel
  - The jewels in the crowns: Colonel Blood and Francis Shackleton
  - The Sinn Fein irreconcilable: Robert Erskine Childers
  - Speak some good of the dead: John DeLorean
  - The deadly charmer: James H. Lehman
  - The man with the golden touch: Paul Singer
  - Tear him for his bad verses: Francis Stuart
  - The tribunal rogues: Charles Haughey, Des Traynor, Patrick Gallagher, Ray Burke, Liam Lawlor

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  WLT: A Radio Romance

  Garrison Keillor

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  See what WLT was "really like" before it became the radio station featured in the Robert Altman film. 
  In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plunge into radio by founding Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next 25 years, the "Friendly Neighbor" station produces a dazzling—not to mention, odd—array of shows and stars. 
  Brilliantly weaving together the real lives and radio lives of his characters, Garrison Keillor has given us a comic, poignant, and slightly steamy novel, full of romance, intrigue, tough business, and loose living.

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  The Legend of Pedestrio

  Abner Serd

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  Gather 'round, folks! Let me spin you a yarn concerning a stolen hat, a backcountry tracker, and a legendary nomad who wanders the Earth by day and the sky at night. 
  The tracker is my friend Vern. You'll like him, though he's a mite shy. Tell you true, I don't recall the last time he showed his face Town Side. He's more at home roaming Wild Side - those wild spaces out beyond where the last trail ends. Still and all, from the moment we discovered that impossible footprint in the swaddle, I reckon Vern just had to meet the man who made it. Vern knows more about swaddle bushes and slick-fingered hornswoggles than anyone I know, but he can't talk to the rocks, the birds, and the trees the way Pedestrio can. 
  'Course, tracking Pedestrio brought us to the attention of the Old Ones, and that's when the adventure turned perilous. The Old Ones can rain fireballs down from the sky. They can erase the world, if They want to. You think the Great Empty Desert made itself? But Vern doesn't quit, and me... well, I really wanted that hat back. 
  Yes indeed, Wild Side is a land full of stories - but beware the tales that unexpectedly come to life.

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  Passing Tales

  R. C. Waldun

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  From going on a not-so-ideal date to accidentally downing a carton of raw bacon, alongside attempts of dealing with dyslexia at the post office, Passing Tales is a collection of vignettes and short stories that exposes everyday life as a breeding ground for absurd encounters and hearty chuckles. 
  Vignettes: 
  1: Maybe I Should Follow The Tracks 
  2: Just Another Day At The Post Office 
  3: Jesus Loves You 
  4: A Bike Ride Down Swanston's 
  5: Soviet Days 
  6: A (First World Problem) Horror Story 
  7: Men's Handkerchiefs 
  Stories 
  8: The F.U. Burger 
  9: You're In Trouble 
  10: There's Another Me Out There

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