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  It Could Be Worse You Could Be Me

  Ariel Leve

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  “Ariel Leve is the love child of David Sedaris and Fran Leibowitz. An original and funny voice…. Insightful and sharp.” — Joan Rivers “Ariel Leve is brilliant and funny and the only other person I know without an oven. Buy this book and keep it close.” — Bill Nighy “Funny, smart, delightfully cranky”(AJ Jacobs) Ariel Leve’s Sunday Times Magazine (London) column “Cassandra” moves to book form. It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me offers a humorously bleak perspective on life’s potential to turn out badly… and Ariel’s innate ability to put the black cloud into the silver lining. This is a book for schadenfreude aficionados; for readers who identify with Cassandra’s slogan, “worrying is my yoga”; and for fans of Seinfeld, Ugly Betty, Sex & the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Sedaris, Woody Allen, and New Yorker cartoons.

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  Miss Susie with the Magical...

  Anne-Lene Bleken

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  In this fourth story about Miss Susie with the Magical Sunglasses, she tells us about the time she fell in love with Prince Pomeroy. It was a terrible mistake, and she still doesn't understand how such a charming male cat could turn into such an impolite and cheeky creature without her doing anything.www.annelenebleken.dkwww.munay.no

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  Instant Genius: Smart Mouths

  Commons The Knowledge

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  The smartest and funniest quotations of all time, artfully arranged into witty—and surprising—categories. Every page will entertain, educate, and delight.Uncle John’s dedicated team of quotationeers have scoured the worlds of entertainment, history, literature, politics, sports, and more to bring you this unique collection of utterances that bear repeating. From silly to profound, from Aristotle to Mr. T, you’ll discover insights on such topics as love, sex, conspiracies, boredom, cheese, juggling, and the true meaning of belly-button lint.Here are but a few of the thousands of morsels awaiting you:“Weaseling out of things is good. It’s what separates us from the other animals . . . except the weasel.” —Homer Simpson“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” —Gordie Howe“In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it’s a fact.” —Marlene Dietrich“With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and sixty.” —Jack Nicholson“It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘as pretty as an airport’ appear.” —Douglas Adams“If it’s called USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? Bam! Busted!” —Stephen Colbert“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” —Phyllis Diller

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  The Dystopian Detective Agency

  Danny Whitehead

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  Bryunsville, 2063. When gumshoe detective, Daxon Steele, finds he’s ankle deep in more than a chewed up wad, he quickly uncovers a sinister plot that sets out to exploit and destroy not just the skink-pushers who hide in the shadows of the Flatpack District, not just the poor guys, gals and others shaking their hips at Shooters & Hooters Club, but the entire population of Bryunsville.  
  Will Dax overcome his prejudice and accept Gaz, a former stripper-bot, as his partner? 
  Can he resist the machinations of Mrs. Axler, a dame hot enough to boil even the most hardened private dick? 
  Will Bryunsville crumble to cooperate greed, or is there a spark of hope left in these sordid streets? Tune into this ensemble cast, sci-fi-meets-film-noir comedy audiobook, The Dystopian Detective Agency, to find out! 

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  How to Rob an Armored Car - A Novel

  Iain Levison

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  A comical crime caper about three stoners with a plan: “By turns funny, sad, and insightful” (Booklist).   In a dying Pennsylvania coal town, three friends are looking for a way out. Mitch is a rebellious malcontent whose bad attitude gets him fired from a chain big box store. Doug can identify any pill by sight and any eighties rock song by the first three notes, but doesn’t understand credit scores. Kevin got married and had a kid too soon and is now on parole after serving jail time for growing marijuana.   The three of them dabble in petty crime and believe they have a talent for it. They start by stealing a high-definition TV. Then they set their sights on bigger scores. But things are about to get out of hand . . .   “An honest and humorous romp through lower middle-class frustration.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Reuben Reuben - A Novel

  Peter De Vries

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  Suburban absurdity meets good old American despair in this acclaimed novel by “the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic” (Kingsley Amis). 
   
  Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate cast of characters.  
   
  A corruptible chicken farmer fearful for the fate of his beloved town, a womanizing poet from Wales (Dylan Thomas in disguise), and a hapless British poet-cum-actor-and-agent all take turns as narrator, revealing different, even conflicting views. But alcoholism, sexism, small-mindedness, and calamity challenge the high spirits of De Vries’s well-read suburbanites. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.

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