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  The 7 Habits of Highly Defective...

  Cathy Crimmins

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  Better than CliffsNotes, funnier than Monarch Notes, and shorter than the originals—comes a hilarious spoof of the blockbuster hits you love, not to mention many books you've come to despise. From the authors of the bestselling Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans is a parody that lampoons all the popular books you'd ever want to read—or not! Included are: "The Fridges of Marin County": A hip California housewife finds brief happiness in the arms of an Iowa refrigerator. "Embarrassed by the Light": A guide for people who are self-conscious about near-death experiences. "A Year in Pompeii": Fond pre-Vesuvius anecdotes and recollections. "Iron Tom": Help your neutered cat regain his masculinity. "The 7 Habits of Highly Defective People": Annoying strategies for getting what you want. "Listening to Pringles": A psychologist/grocer chronicles his experience in treating depressive patients with prescription junk food. And more!

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  The Red Hat Society's Laugh...

  Sue Ellen Cooper

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  The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Red Hat Society® is a collection of the RHS members' most memorably funny and touching stories. It's chicken soup for the Red Hat soul 
  Life begins at 50! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. In THE RED HAT SOCIETY®'S LAUGH LINES, Sue Ellen Cooper and the women of the RHS celebrate the life experiences that have made them who they are today. Over the years, they've accumulated well-earned laugh lines and cry lines from wonderfully funny, incredibly moving stories that will warm listeners' hearts and touch their souls. There is so much more to each of these women than a purple outfit and a red hat. This audio program is a collection of the most amusing and poignant stories that they want to share with their sisters. With contributions from members across the country, this collection is bound to thrill all Red Hatters-and those who soon will be.

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  Ripped Tide

  Lance Carney

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  "Hello, I'm a pharmacist. Perhaps I can be of assistance."After the death of his fiancee due to medical errors, hospital pharmacist Daniel O'Dwyer escapes to Oak Island, North Carolina. The only things on his mind are fresh sea air, fresh seafood, Fat Tire Amber Ale, and the avoidance of any type of healthcare institution. But fate and jellyfish draw him back, and reluctantly, he agrees to go undercover to combat narcotic drug diversion at nearby Boiling Grove Community Hospital.With minimal assistance from Willie, his socially imbalanced sidekick, Daniel must navigate through dangerous situations and wild characters, including a brawny redneck with a Bob Marley tattoo; a foreign physician with batlike qualities; and a lackluster human resources director with a penchant for mai tais and Ebenezer Scrooge.

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  Calling All Irregulars

  Len Bakerloo

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  You want to read this book if you care about the news, how it is reported, how it is used, how it is misused, or what it means.
  
   
  You can use this book in a classroom on civics, journalism, or business.
  
   
  Or you can read this book as a confection... an enjoyable way of passing the time.
  
   
  Here is the surface plot (but, like the news, you'll have to read it, think about it, and do a little digging to find what is below the surface:
  
   
  More than 100 years ago Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson learned the secret of eternal life. This explains how they were able to fight crimes and pursue justice for more than a century without seeming to age.
  
   
  By 1982 people had stopped caring about learning the truth. Without consulting clients, Holmes transformed himself into a hedge fund manager making rich people richer, and Dr. Watson became a speech writer for many of the world's most influential people.
  
   
  They assumed new identities and for three decades they lived separate lives as they became wealthy beyond measure. However, they began to age rapidly and in the fall of 2015 Holmes rented 221b Baker Street where he hoped to live out his final days. They reunited just as Holmes was about to apply the “seven percent solution” to his problems. But then a cryptic message arrived that sent the pair on their final adventure.
  
   
  Now their time is running out. In Calling All Irregulars they ask their trusty band of misfits to join the battle for truth and justice against the news media under the influence of the evil Professor Moriarty, who only cares about page views and profits.
  
   
  This book includes more than 45 puzzles that you can solve. Some are so easy that they will take only a few minutes and others might require dozens of people to collaborate for weeks or longer. Instructions are provided for how you can follow the progress of your fellow "Irregulars" as you become a consulting detective just like Sherlock Holmes.
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  Northanger Abbey

  Jane Austen

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  Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death - well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings - and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Not in Front of the Corgis -...

  Brian Hoey

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  The Windsors are England's most famous family, but what are they really like when they're out of the public gaze? Behind closed doors in every Royal residence, from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, there are two families - one upstairs and one down - and nobody knows a Royal quite like a Royal servant, intimately acquainted as they are with every quirk, foible and eccentricity. And there are a fair few! This is the inside story of the Royal Family through the eyes of those who know them best, a sneak peek behind the ermine-trimmed curtains to reveal what they really get up to in their spare time. Are they just like us? Or are they are a world apart? Here are the answers to everything we've ever wondered about the Royals: which programmes does the Queen watch on TV? What music did the Queen Mother listen to? Who can drive and who can't? What is it like to attend a dinner party thrown by Charles and Camilla? Who are the most popular (and most unpopular!) Royals to work for and why? Not in Front of the Corgis is the real Upstairs Downstairs - a unique and fascinating collection of all the secrets you ever wanted to know about the Royal Family.

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