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  The Indian valley Johnson

  O. Henry

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  A poignant tale of May/December love. Perhaps a bit heart warming too. You decide.

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  Cheer Up Jay Ritchie

  Jay Ritchie

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  Ritchie discovers and obstructs truths, like the difficulty of being at the bar and being a lilac bush simultaneously.
  I bought tear-resistant pants
  
  just in case
  
  
  
  I'm not
  
  
  
  a good guy underneath it all,
  
  being honest in discreet doses
  
  to underpaid retail employees.
  
  
  
  With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails - the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and aphoristic delivery create a work that is personable yet elevated, witty, and honest.

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  Psychology of Final Fantasy The:...

  PhD Anthony Bean

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  "No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew." - Lulu, Final Fantasy X. 
  From its initial release in 1987, Final Fantasy has gone on to become one of the most beloved series of role-playing games in history. With narratives revolving around grandiose stories of good versus evil, Final Fantasy has allowed us, as players, to witness heroic battles, experience hard-won victories, and create treasured friendships for almost 40 years. 
  The Psychology of Final Fantasy guides gamers on a real-world quest of self-discovery so that they can surpass their own limit break. And, as part of this examination, psychologists, clinicians, video game researchers, professors, and enthusiasts who love this franchise ask:How does the storyline in Final Fantasy grab and keep our attention for so many hours of gameplay?Why do the symbols in the game, such as crystals, magic, and weapons, hold meaning about our own psychological inner workings?What are the feminine warrior and archetypes found in the game and how are they living in all of our everyday lives?How does playing Final Fantasy connect us with a larger sense of spiritual guidance as to who we are?Why is it that, by creating a group, we become whole more than we do when playing as individuals?How do the musical interludes affect our psyche and push us to become better versions of ourselves? 
  Think you know Final Fantasy? The Psychology of Final Fantasy explores how the game resonates with a player's psychological drive toward an emotional sense of wholeness, bonding, and completion as they take part in this epic quest.

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  Love in Infant Monkeys

  Lydia Millet

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  Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants?all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. In this critically acclaimed collection, Lydia Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in wildly inventive stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales.

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  The Mighty Manligator - How to...

  Patrick E. McLean

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  The Parsec-Award Winning How to Succeed in Evil series has sold over 10,000 copies, garnered 200+ positive reviews on Amazon and had over 53,000+ podiobooks downloads. 
  "It's Like Terry Pratchett writing Batman" 
  "Think Hitchhiker's Guide to Superheroes" 
  When an on-the-job accident kills his crew and transforms a hard-working plumber into the Mighty Manligator, Evil Efficiency Consultants, Topper, Edwin and Agnes struggle to help the half-man, half-alligator use his newfound powers to make money saving the city from disaster, reunite with his family and elude the claws of the Lynx (Read: Half-assed, Trust Fund Batman). 
  Will the Manligator have what it takes to abandon his cold-blooded path of revenge and learn How to Succeed in Evil? 
  How to Succeed in Evil is the continuing saga of Edwin Windsor and Associates, Evil Efficiency consultants, who strive, against all odds, to make their megalo- and ego-manicial clients more villainous and profitable. If you've ever wonder why villains make such bad choices. If you think a loving satire of both superheroes and consulting is long-overdue, this is the series for you.

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  The Fortunes of Philippa

  Angela Brazil

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  The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boarding school at the age of 10, finding the English culture, school life and climate confronting. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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