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  The Adulterants

  Joe Dunthorne

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  For fans of Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, and Mark Haddon, The Adulterants is a piercingly funny—and cringingly poignant—take on how hard it is to grow up and how hard it is when you don't. 
   
    
   
  Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. He has never committed adultery with his actual body. He has never been caught up in a riot, nor arrested, nor tagged by the state, nor become an international hate-figure. Not until the summer of 2011, when discontent is rising on the streets and within his marriage. Ray has noticed none of this. Not yet. 
   
   
   
  The Adulterants would be a coming-of-age story if its protagonist could only forget that he is thirty-three years old. Throughout a series of escalating catastrophes, our deadpan antihero keeps up a merciless mental commentary on the foibles and failings of those around him, and the vicissitudes of modern urban life: internet trolls, buy-to-let landlords, open marriages, and the threat posed by more sensitive men. But the wonder of The Adulterants is how we feel ourselves rooting for Ray even as we acknowledge that he deserves everything he gets.

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  Home is Where the Heart Lands -...

  Richie Wolfe

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  Richie Wolfe leads us on a road trip through the United States that you will never forget. We follow his haphazard adventures rolling state by state across this vast country. He discovers the kindness of humanity one stranger at a time, while contemplating the meaning of existence. These stories will inspire you to get lost and rethink the way you prepare for traveling.

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  The Back Of Beyond - Travel Tales

  Dominic Ryan

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  Travelling is something most of us do perfectly well. It often involves a stroll in the park or sojourn in the sun. 
  Dominic Ryan, for reasons unfamiliar with common sense, is more likely to find himself facing down charging hippos on the Zambezi or tracking angry Namibian cheetahs in a vintage aeroplane. 
  There is little in the way of logic in his backpack as he tumbles into a war zone in Ukraine or tries to save a Malaysian rainforest by chasing bats. 
  Is The Back of Beyond a memoir, travelogue or cry for help? It’s all of the above and by turns fascinating and funny, thrilling and thoughtful. 
  As a wise genie probably once said, wandering and wondering are the same worthy pursuit: it’s just one has an ‘ah!’ and the other an ‘oh!’. 
  If you dare venture to The Back of Beyond, gird your khaki-clad loins for an abundance of both . . . and even the occasional ‘ooh’!

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  Space Team: The Guns of Nana Joan

  Barry J. Hutchison

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  The galaxy is at war, and Space Team just can't seem to stay out of trouble. 
  Following one close-call too many, the team hides out on a tiny backwater moon, hoping the hostilities between Zertex and the Symmorium will all just blow over. 
  But when first officer Loren's brother is taken prisoner and sentenced to death by the Symmorium, Cal and the others must make a choice - a choice that could spell the end of Space Team forever... 
  Packed with space battles, giant robots, and a dangerously obese man being sponged down with soup, The Guns of Nana Joan is the hilarious fifth book in the Space Team saga, and the perfect jumping on point for new readers.

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  The Funny Business

  Kevin J. Anderson

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  Sometimes you just want to be silly.   #1 Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is known for his grand science fiction sagas, his epic fantasies, his fast-paced adventures, or his steampunk Clockwork chronicles.   But Kevin J. Anderson also has a lighter side. You’ll laugh so hard, brains will come out your nose.   What happens when—   A wimpy, henpecked man finds an enchanted loincloth that turns him into a real jungle Ape Man?   A stranded alien uses his advanced technology to fool audiences as a stage magician?   A frustrated monster-movie actor uses a gypsy witch’s special makeup to turn into a real werewolf when the cameras start to roll?   A group of heavy-metal fans finds a spell on the internet to raise their favorite dead rock star from the grave for a final encore?   A vampire, just minding his own business, wakes from his coffin to find he’s being stalked through his own castle by an over-enthusiastic vampire hunter?   A futuristic law firm uses time travel as a legal loophole to win their client’s case?   Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. takes on the Boogeyman for a client, or is hired out to save a sacrificial Aztec Christmas turkey?   These twenty stories cover a range of slapstick, subtle, short-short, and groaner humor. The Funny Business also includes for the very first time the scripts of the hilarious comic miniseries Grumpy Old Monsters, never before published.   Beware—silliness ahead. Open the book, and prepare to snicker!

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  Everyone became poor

  BARAKATH

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  Unusual black humor story with many unexpected incidents.

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