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  Country of the Blind

  Christopher Brookmyre

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  The murder of a controversial Scottish media mogul ignites “a high-octane political thriller doused in stinging satire” (The Sunday Times).   Just when left-leaning journalist Jack Parlabane trades in his muckraking career for domestic quietude, the muck comes calling. Conservative tabloid tycoon Roland Voss, his wife, and their two ineffectual bodyguards have been found murdered at Voss’s country estate. An arrest has been made, the media is pouncing, and Parlabane smells a fix.   So does public defender Nicole Carrow. The pigeon is her former client, a harmless Robin Hood burglar now accused of breaking parole most spectacularly. But this is no simple frame-up. It’s a high-level conspiracy. Parlabane and Carrow are determined to do right—even as so many things are about to go wrong.   Jack Parlabane, the hero of Christopher Brookmyre’s acclaimed series returns—along with the author’s trademark “sassy, nasty fast style of . . . Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen” (The Guardian).   “Brookmyre . . . twists his plotlines, throws out terrific one-liners, piles up corpses and contrives narrow escapes with the impeccable timing of a Swiss watchmaker. If there’s a code for fulfilling the requirements of a witty crime caper, surely he’s cracked it.” —The New York Times   “A biting, violent, fiendishly funny story. . . for all lovers of hip, intelligent, action-packed crime thrillers.” —Booklist

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  First published in 1875, this classic excursion into Mark Twain's Mississippi River country will lighten your heart even today. The characters themselves – Tom's aunt Polly, his friends Becky and Huck, even Injun Joe – evoke nostalgia for a simpler, more rural lifestyle. Mark Twain describes a people, and a place, full of affection, wit, and adventure...where a dark summer night in a graveyard searching for black cats, or even getting lost during a cave exploration can be a truly exciting and fulfilling experience.

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  Loose Cannons - Devastating Dish...

  Autumn Stephens

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  From princesses to prostitutes to movie stars and supermodels, plus a few radicals and racecar drivers, Loose Cannons showcases hundreds of female movers-and-shakers, including Oprah Winfrey, Maria Callas, Michelle Pfeifer, and Catherine the Great, at their chatty, catty, and deliciously subversive best.From the book:"I'm the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." -Mae West"What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?" -Elizabeth Taylor

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  How to solve your problem? Crazy...

  BARAKATH

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  Fictional hilarious methods that will make you laugh.

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  The Pig Did It - A Novel

  Joseph Caldwell

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  An American in Ireland encounters mystery, romance—and an extremely disruptive pig: “Very funny . . . a payoff that is as unexpected as it is satisfying” (Publishers Weekly). Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference of the young lady in his writing class he had chosen to be his love. The pig will have none of that.Aaron’s aunt Kitty McCloud, a novelist, wants to get on with her bestselling business of correcting the classics, at the moment Jane Eyre, which in Kitty’s version will end with Rochester’s throwing himself from the tower, not the madwoman’s. The pig will have not a bit of that. What the pig eventually does is root up in Aunt Kitty’s vegetable garden evidence of a possible transgression that each of the novel’s three Irish characters is convinced the other probably benefited from. How this hilarious mystery is resolved in The Pig Did It—the first entry in Mr. Caldwell’s forthcoming Pig Trilogy—inspires both comic eloquence and a theatrically colorful canvas depicting the brooding Irish land and seascape.

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  Life Lessons from Your Dog

  Anthony Rubino

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  A collection of canine wisdom to put a smile on your face and wag in your tail . . .  
   
  If you love something, set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If it doesn’t come back, bark and bark and then bark and bark and just bark and bark and bark and bark and bark. 
   
  A fool and his half a sandwich are soon parted. 
   
  Berber carpets make pretty good butt scratchers. Persian rugs will do in a pinch if the pile is deep enough. But shag! Oh, shag is just a little slice of heaven. 
   
  Dogs live life with a joy and abandon most humans envy. This book of sayings and dog-isms will give you a glimpse into the canine psyche. It will amuse, and maybe inspire . . . no, probably just amuse anyone who loves dogs. Includes illustrations!

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