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  Johnny Two Kebabs - The Prequel

  Johnny Two Kebabs

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  An Extraordinary Event:  
  On 15th June 2011, an extraordinary event took place in Brixton, south London. An Irishman ingested two doner kebabs in 1 minute 59 seconds after already having consumed 13 pints of lager.  
  Now, for the first time, the true story of the events leading up to this feat is recounted by the protagonist, "Johnny Two Kebabs."   
  In this "prequel" he relates the truth about his exploits and how he became London's "conscious vigilante."  
  This is the story of Johnny Two Kebabs. 

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  The US of EH? - How Canada...

  Rob Sorensen, Kerry Colburn

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  “Uncovers evidence of covert Canadian usurpation . . .Thankfully, Colburn has some tips on identifying these stealthy yet tidy marauders in our midst.” —Seattle Weekly 
   
  Canadians are peaceable, friendly, unassuming, and adorable. They’re also secretly in control of nearly every aspect of life in the Southernmost Canadian territory known as the United States.  
   
  This hilarious illustrated compendium of real facts and wild assertions traces a vast, maple-leaf conspiracy that plays up Canada’s self-effacing second fiddle image to the U.S. while it creates and clandestinely controls nearly everything Americans hold dear, from Superman to basketball to William Shatner to macaroni and cheese.  
   
  With everyday life in the U.S. already as much as 70% Canadian, and our music, movies, and TV shows filled with subliminal pro-Canadian messages, the authors of So, You Want to Be Canadian reveal that in actuality, you already are. 
   
  “The premise is that Canadians have gotten their overly polite (and no doubt well groomed) mitts on everything. The U.S. of Eh? includes lists of many Canadian things—hotties, music, actors, inventions—as well as lots of general silliness about the ‘maple leaf conspiracy.’” —January Magazine

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  Le Glitch

  Philip Ogley

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  Jean Marc Bulot is the Mayor of Crêpe, a French village a million miles from nowhere. Where you can’t even get a baguette, let alone a beer. His only real companions: an alcoholic ex-miner, a pedantic village secretary, a 92-year-old retired school teacher, and an idle janitor. It's the stuff of nightmares. Only this is real. Welcome to Crêpe. Then one day a car arrives. And another. Then another. All lost. All hungry. All in need of a drink. Suddenly everyone is coming to Crêpe. But why?

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  Tropic of Orange

  Karen Tei Yamashita

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  Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, it's a symphony conducted from an overpass, grandiose, comic, and as diverse as the city itself—from an author who has received the California Book Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, among other literary honors.

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  Passing Tales

  R. C. Waldun

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  From going on a not-so-ideal date to accidentally downing a carton of raw bacon, alongside attempts of dealing with dyslexia at the post office, Passing Tales is a collection of vignettes and short stories that exposes everyday life as a breeding ground for absurd encounters and hearty chuckles. 
  Vignettes: 
  1: Maybe I Should Follow The Tracks 
  2: Just Another Day At The Post Office 
  3: Jesus Loves You 
  4: A Bike Ride Down Swanston's 
  5: Soviet Days 
  6: A (First World Problem) Horror Story 
  7: Men's Handkerchiefs 
  Stories 
  8: The F.U. Burger 
  9: You're In Trouble 
  10: There's Another Me Out There

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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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