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  Monkey Business - A Flying...

  Gary McCoy, Glenn McCoy

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  Doesn't get better than this. . . . The world of the McCoy  brothers mirrors my own talking dogs at an AA meeting." --Whoopi Goldberg * Brothers Glenn and Gary McCoy, creators of The Flying McCoys, syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, deliver their high-wire act onto the printed page by rotating duties daily.These brothers are the real McCoy. Glenn and Gary take turns writing and drawing their own panels each day. Such a balancing of efforts ensures a fresh approach to each and every McCoy cartoon panel.* The brothers' delightfully absurd take on superheroes, office humor, huggable animals, and twisted relationships is the stuff of the New Yorker, Conan O'Brien, and Mad magazine combined.* Both Glenn and Gary have been honored for their cartooning talents by the National Cartoonists Society.

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  Man With One of Those Faces A...

  Caimh McDonnell

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  The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident.  
  The second time was deliberate.  
  Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history . . .  
  . . . or else they’ll be history.  
  A Man With One of Those Faces is the first book in Caimh McDonnell's Dublin Trilogy, which melds fast-paced action with a distinctly Irish acerbic wit.  
  Praise for A Man With One of Those Faces:  
  "One of the funniest crime books you could read." The Express 
  "A brilliant comedic thriller." The Irish Post  
  "It's just crying out to be made into a movie. The writing is whip-smart and funny." Books Ireland Magazine  
  "I was hooked by the end of the first page. Clever writing. Funny plot. Good characters." The Sun-Gazette 
  "Humorous crime at its finest. Droll, witty and highly entertaining. The writing is skilled and captivating." ***** Audiothing  
  "A masterclass... The prose and narrative is spot on. The characters inhabiting this hilarious, yet gripping story are just wonderful." ***** Strange Alliances  
  "A riotous read. Flipping easily between humour and terror so that I spent most of the book sat on the edge of my seat while chuckling." **** Cleopatra Loves Books  
  "Original, innovative, intelligent and laugh out loud funny." Maureen Carter, author of the Bev Morriss books  
  "If you like stories by Colin Bateman, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey and Janet Evanovich then you'll enjoy A Man With One of Those Faces." **** The View from the Blue House

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  The Sunny Side

  A.A. Milne

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  The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, especially Winnie The Pooh, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in Punch, to which he was a contributor and later Assistant Editor. The Sunny Side collects his columns for Punch, which include poems, essays and short stories, from 1912 to 1920. Wry, often satirical and always amusingly written, these pieces poke fun at topics from writing plays to lying about birdwatching. They vary greatly in length so there is something for everyone. (Summary by wikipedia and Phil Chenevert)

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  Great Eastern Land - A Novel

  D.J. Taylor

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  Past and present collide for a man on a mission to document a history that may or may not exist, in this ingenious novel by the acclaimed author of Derby Day Dr. Feelgood’s is a brothel overrun with fat, overindulged mice that lies at the western tip of a remote village somewhere in the Far East. It’s presided over by Mr. Mouzookseem, an illiterate Englishman with his own reasons for fleeing the family fold for a life of anonymity. This is the beginning—or is it the end?—of a story that weaves in and out of time as David Castell immortalizes Mouzookseem and others in his notebook.   A pragmatist whose father had his own ideas about what history can teach, David is a traveler of the mind and heart. Although he has been to exotic places, from Kashmir to the Russian steppe, he finds the domestic train from Paddington to Oxford hopelessly confounding—and the subject of an existential conversation. His musings unfold into a vivid tapestry of his own past, from his life as a student at Oxford to the women he loved and lusted after. As the stories and observations in David’s notebooks take shape, they become an allegory for life, death, and the distortions of memory.

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  Organizational Socialization...

  Captain Bossman, Josip Listes,...

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  This is a rhymed story is about onboarding new hires, told through the innocent eyes of a Suitcase's experience with a new employer. And yes, suitcases have a job to do. 
  What's the story with this Suitcase?  
  Just like all of the characters in our metaphor universe, this is another gender-ethnic-religious neutral metaphor. It's about your everyday goody two shoes, being enthusiastic about 1st day at work. That's when employees are at their peak motivation and their workplace mental health is fully charged. And yet so few employers get this onboarding journey right, transforming workplace wellness into workplace bullying. Our naive little Suitcase dreams of an ideal and textbook Onboarding process... You know, the one that stimulates your process of making sense in new surroundings and help you make new friends. But then, reality hits you in the face like Mike Tyson... 
  Where's the lesson?  
  We are all Suitcases in one way or another - with emotional baggage and luggage accumulated over time. This is the most relatable story ever told - because we have all experienced it personally. So we use this sentiment to illustrate how an ideal onboarding process should look like, relevant both for new hires, hiring managers, as well as your direct manager. Time to rethink how organizational socialization, integration and onboarding employees can be done better.

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  That's Not a Feeling - A Novel

  Dan Josefsson

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  This Whiting Award Winner is “a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut” (David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest).   A New York Times Editors’ Choice   Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen years old, and two failed suicide attempts, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of morning meds, candor meetings, and cartoon brunches—all run by adults who have yet to really come of age themselves.   The only person who comprehends the school’s many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and headmaster who is fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel. Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, in particular an intriguing but untrustworthy girl named Tidbit. More and more, Benjamin thinks about running away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be leaving behind . . .  

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