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  The Setup Man - A Forbidden...

  Kate Watson

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  She's fake dating the wrong guy. Enter Mr. Right. 
   
  Scottie 
   
  I've spent my whole life cleaning up after Jake Rodgers—the bad boy of Major League Baseball. So when his latest PR disaster threatens to send him to the minors, agreeing to fake date him feels noble. Temporary. Manageable. 
   
  Then hot young pitcher Lucas Fischer shows up—with coffee I didn’t ask for and a smile that doesn’t quit—and suddenly none of it feels manageable anymore. Especially when I’m assigned to be his handler. 
   
  Now I'm pretending to be in love with the guy I've never wanted while trying not to fall for the one I can't have. 
   
  Lucas 
   
  I've been bringing Scottie Quinn coffee for ten months. I've never once guessed her order wrong–no small feat, considering the woman orders coffee based on vibes. 
   
  I've also never once told her that I know she's fake-dating Jake Rodgers, that she deserves better, or that I'm in love with her. I'm a patient guy. I can wait. What I can't do is watch her disappear to make everyone else comfortable. 
   
  But Jake and I are on the same team now, and our GM has one ironclad rule: no clubhouse drama. 
   
  Easy enough. All I have to do is keep showing up until she stops pretending… without blowing up both our careers. 
   
  Yeah. Maybe I’m not that patient after all. 
   
  The Setup Man is a swoony, closed-door sports romcom with fake dating, workplace romance, banter, forbidden feelings, black cat/golden retriever vibes, and a deliciously slow burn—all with no explicit content. Books in the Catching Feelings series standalone and can be read in any order.

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  Two Old Fools in Turmoil - Old...

  Victoria Twead

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  When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. 
  A fresh new face joins the cast of familiar characters but the return of a bad penny may be more than some can handle. What does the future hold for the Spanish village of El Hoyo and the two old fools?

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  Mistletoes - A Christmas Mystery...

  Yvonne Vincent

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  It’s almost Christmas and, in a ballroom just beyond the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town, the most important event of the year is taking place – the Foxtrot Oscars. Mrs Hubbard’s whole senior citizenship has been building towards the moment she and her Douglas take the Over Sixties Swingers Cup. What could possibly go wrong, dearies? 
   
  When the Losers Club friends arrive to cheer the couple on, they expect a weekend of shopping, dancing and binge-watching all the TV programmes they can’t get back home. Instead, they find Mrs Hubbard missing and blood on the dancefloor. 
   
  With the city gridlocked and the police unable to reach them, it is up to Losers Club to investigate. Why would someone snatch the village shopkeeper? And what does it have to do with the contents of Mrs Hubbard’s third biggest handbag? 
   
  Helped by friends old and new, the Losers follow the trail through Edinburgh’s darkest places to solve a Jacobite mystery locked in time.

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  A Modern Gay Christmas Carol...

  Rod Mandelli

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  The holiday classic has never been quite this fabulous! It's now the gayest Christmas story ever told. This modern gay adaptation of A Christmas Carol is filled with humor, dirty double entendres, and just the right amount of "Bah, humpstud!" 
  This irreverent parody starts off with miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge refusing to let his underpaid, under-appreciated employee Bob Cratchit turn up the heat in the drafty office on Christmas Eve, pointing out that there are other ways for Bob to keep warm and keep his job at the same time! The fun continues from there with new twists on all your favorite classic characters and situations. Enjoy an all gay cast of characters along with the familiar structure, lines of classic dialogue, and the overall story of redemption you remember from the original. 
  Listen to A Modern Gay Christmas Carol Parody - you'll have a dickens of a time!

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  Directions to Servants

  Jonathan Swift

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  Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift is a brilliantly humorous and unconventional satire that turns everyday household instruction into a sharp commentary on human behavior and social hierarchy. Written in the early eighteenth century and published after Swift's death, this witty work presents a series of mock instructions supposedly intended to guide servants in their duties.
  
  At first glance, the book appears to be a practical manual offering advice on how servants should perform their tasks. Yet Swift cleverly reverses expectations by presenting guidance that encourages laziness, carelessness, and cunning tricks designed to avoid work while maintaining the appearance of obedience. Through exaggerated examples and absurd instructions, the book humorously exposes the misunderstandings, frustrations, and small battles that often existed between masters and their household staff.
  
  Swift's satire shines in the way he imitates the tone of instructional guides while subtly revealing the flaws of both servants and their employers. The supposed "advice" includes humorous strategies for delaying tasks, misplacing items, misinterpreting orders, and shifting blame—transforming ordinary domestic situations into scenes of comic absurdity.
  
  Beyond its humor, Directions to Servants offers readers a fascinating glimpse into domestic life in eighteenth-century households. The work reflects the routines, expectations, and social relationships that shaped daily life during the period, while also highlighting the universal human tendencies toward laziness, mischief, and clever self-preservation.
  
  Swift's playful style and sharp observational wit make this book both entertaining and insightful. By focusing on the ordinary world of household service rather than grand political or philosophical debates, he demonstrates that satire can flourish even in the smallest details of daily life.
  
  Lighthearted yet perceptive, Directions to Servants stands as a delightful example of Jonathan Swift's comic genius—transforming a simple instruction manual into a lively and enduring piece of social satire.

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  Old Masters - Comedy

  Carl Skoggard

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  For over thirty years, Herr Reger, music critic, has sat on the same bench in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum every second day except Mondays, contemplating Tintoretto's Man With A White Beard. Not because he loves it—Reger is a hater. But because this painting alone withstands his dogged campaign to find the fatal flaw in every work of art in the world-renowned institution. Meanwhile, nothing and no-one is safe from his darts and arrows. Austria, Heidegger, public toilets, the Viennese, even art itself come under sustained fire. (The critic does, however, approve of the museum’s excellent climate control and the bench he regularly inhabits—his home away from home.)  
   
  Our would-be protagonist freely admits his reliance on a pair of sock puppets who echo his every opinion, no matter how perverse. On the day everything in the novel takes place (Bernhard’s novel attempts to obey the classical unities) Herr Reger’s shadowy friend Atzbacher will arrive precisely one hour in advance of their rendezvous—to spy on him from a place of concealment. Why this should be is never explained—although Atzbacher does let fall in passing that Herr Reger is his “thought director.”  Irrsigler, a dim museum attendant of fascist sensibilities, serves as  Reger’s inside man at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and parrots the critic faithfully without any clue about what he’s saying. An AI idiot savant avant la lettre.     
   
  All the chanting and ranting slyly conveys the author’s own bad-boy claims—that every masterpiece is a failure, every genius a fraud, and every so-called "old master" merely a state-employed decorator. Could this really be a love letter disguised as a demolition? The exaltation of a disappointment that refuses to die a decent death? Maybe so and then again, maybe not.

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