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  On the Ball - Amazing sports...

  Alf Alderson

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  Whether you're a FOOTBALL fan, a PADEL pro, a TENNIS aficionado or a CRICKET enthusiast, you'll love this fascinating collection of *more than 200* sports facts.
  
  Did you know...
  
  A standard basketball has about 4,118 'pebbles' on its outer surface?
  
  All Major League Baseball umpires must wear black underwear in case their trousers split?
  
  Padel was invented by a Mexican businessman in the 1960s?
  
  Like the sound of these facts and want to know more? Then On the Ball is essential reading. Featuring obscure, unbelievable, intriguing and engaging facts about some of the world's most popular ball sports, discover more than 200 fascinating nuggets of information on the sports, the balls, the players, the history and more.
  
  Find out why the number of dimples on a golf ball can make you a better player, what the fastest recorded serve is in a tennis match and who is the world's highest-earning ball player. All this makes this miscellany a must-have for any sports trivia fans.

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  The April Fool

  Artemas J R Broyles

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  What happens when a free-spirited, dad joke-loving, college girl meets a staid, reclusive, mildly obsessive-compulsive businessman? Hilarity and Chaos reign of course! 
  A punny and absurd romantic comedy.

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  The Life and Opinions of...

  Laurence Sterne

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  Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a wildly unconventional novel renowned for its digressive narrative style, humor, and philosophical musings. The story, told in a series of loosely connected chapters, follows the life of Tristram Shandy, a gentleman who narrates his own life story. 
  The novel is famous for its unique structure and tone. Sterne often veers off on tangents, discussing everything from the philosophy of noses to the nature of time. These digressions, while seemingly irrelevant, contribute to the novel's overall charm and depth.

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  Model Behavior

  Jay McInerney

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  Connor McKnight, former acolyte of film, Zen, and Japanese literature, is not unaware that these avocations are wildly different from his present occupation as a fledgling celebrity journalist. Meanwhile, his longtime girlfriend, the fashion model Philomena, seems curiously remote and soon decamps for the West Coast. Then there's the sister with whom he shared a flamboyantly addled childhood and his best friend, a monkishly neurotic and militantly vegetarian writer. Connor' s anxieties can scarcely be assuaged by his trio of flirting obsessions— a gorgeous stripper, a screenplay in progress, and the nature of a meaningful future. With the holidays fast approaching— and a female admirer stalking him by email— Connor gropes his hapless, hilarious way toward not so much salvation as self-preservation.

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  The Odyssey

  Laura Williams

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  Ingrid works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner where she spends her days reorganizing the gift-shop shelves and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the aisles. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship, wasting the hours aimlessly following tourists around, drinking the local alcohol, and buying clothes she never intends to wear again. It’s not a bad life. At least, it distracts her from thinking about the other life—the other person—she left behind five years ago.
  
  But then one day Ingrid’s selected by the ship’s enigmatic captain and (ill-informed) wabi-sabi devotee, Keith, for his mentorship program. Encouraging her to reflect on past mistakes and her desperation to remain lost at sea, he pushes her further than she ever thought possible. But as her friendships and professional life onboard steadily fall apart, she must ask herself an important question: how do you know when you’ve gone too far? 
  
  Utterly original, mischievous, and thought-provoking, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of consumer capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests to find something to believe in. It’s a voyage that will lead our heroine all the way home—although she will do almost anything to avoid getting there.

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  The Lost Language of Oysters

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's charming and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series 
   
  Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professor--he is the author of the highly-regarded work of scholarship, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. His eminence in language studies is widely respected, albeit rarely acknowledged by his colleague, Professor Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer, the writer of a far less important book on the subjunctive. Their rivalry bubbles under the surface, but is quick to come into the open if something unusual disturbs the calm waters of the institute in Regensburg where they both work. 
   
  One such event is the arrival of two visiting scholars from New Orleans. These ladies, Professor Pom Pom Boisseau and her friend, Professor Alice Martinique, are experts in the Provençal language and avid bikers. When they choose to make a dramatic entrance atop large, noisy motorbikes, Unterholzer is shocked, but von Igelfeld is rather taken with Pom Pom. In fact, he is very taken with her. 
   
  Everyone can foresee this infatuation leading to disappointment, if not worse. But for von Igelfeld, disasters often arrive in twos and threes. Von Igelfeld may suffer humiliation after humiliation, but at the end of it all is the promise of a visit to Louisiana, where important research on communication among oysters is underway...

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