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  Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story...

  Herman Melville

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  In the shadowy chambers of a Wall Street law office, a quiet copyist named Bartleby enters the scene—and refuses to leave. Hired for his precision and calm demeanor, Bartleby soon begins replying to every request with the haunting refrain: "I would prefer not to." 
  As his passive resistance deepens into total withdrawal, the lawyer who employs him becomes increasingly baffled, then obsessed. Melville’s classic novella is both darkly comic and deeply unsettling—a prescient meditation on alienation, mental health, and the silent revolt against the machinery of modern life. 
  Cover Photo by ShonEjai: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-brick-wall-1227515/

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  A mischievous young boy named Tom Sawyer lives a carefree life filled with adventure in the small town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. From clever schemes to thrilling escapades, Tom navigates the complexities of childhood while encountering friendship, love, and even danger. His world is filled with pirates, treasure hunts, and the mysterious allure of the Mississippi River.

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  The Book Censor's Library - A Novel

  Bothayna Al-Essa

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  FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024 
   
   
   
  A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. 
   
   
   
  The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish—allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture. 
   
   
   
  Reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees, Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell's 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The Book Censor's Library is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.

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  The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole...

  Sue Townsend

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  The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 is the seventh book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. 
   
  Monday January 3, 2000 
   
  So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother . . . I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head . . . I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan . . . 
   
  The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour's first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success ever-elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose. 
   
  But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror . . . 
   
  'An achingly funny anti-hero' DAILY MAIL 
   
  'One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries bring a smile to the face' SCOTSMAN

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  A Handyman Can't Fix The...

  Joshua B Coleman

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  Thirty years ago, The Wasteland Star showed up and nearly destroyed the world. Paul, a traveling handyman, now struggles to survive the insanity of this devolved world. He’d much rather live the simple life. 
  But the simple life is hard to come by when he mistakenly introduces himself as the most hated person in the known world, a person known for destroying entire towns, a person known only as The Handyman. He manages to find a few allies, but Gearhead isn’t buying Paul’s supposed good-guy facade. Can Paul avoid the noose that awaits him, or will this Handyman mishap haunt him for the rest of his life, short as it could be? 
  An engaging cast of characters and outrageous moments await, while the serious dark depths of The Wasteland are given their proper dues. Paul just wants to be normal, but The Wasteland ain’t normal, kid.

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  How to provoke a person?

  BARAKATH

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  Fictional and funny ways to provoke a person.

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