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  Shmucks

  Seymour Blicker

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  The time: an entire night in Montreal. The place: a narrow alley where two stubborn drivers come to a preposterous impasse. The cast: a marvelous blend of misfits—Pelzic, the immigrant cabdriver whose ambition is to pull a retzic (bonanza) by throwing himself against moving vehicles and thereby milking some insurance company; Levin, the real estate fat cat whose tenants are pinpricking him mad with inane complaints; a tipsy millionaire; and a girl or two. The book: Shmucks, a brutally sardonic, brilliantly funny novel of confrontation and alienation.

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  My Favorite Husband: Is There A...

  Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh,...

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  Adolescent Sally Hopkins can't get a date for the party, so Liz volunteers husband George. As we look in on the Coopers this morning, something new has been added. There is a moving van in front of the house next door, but of course the new neighbors don’t interest Liz Cooper in the least…

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  The Stiletto

  Jack Treby

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  His dad was a legend. He doesn't have a clue. 
  Everyone has heard of the Stiletto, the infamous assassin who strikes without warning. He has been running rings around the police for years. But nobody has the slightest idea who he really is. 
  Eric Primrose has more important concerns. He is about to get married and there is a baby on the way. A chance meeting with his dad up in London puts a spanner in the works, however, when his father accidentally chokes to death on an olive. Jonathan Primrose, it transpires, is not the dull businessman Eric has always believed him to be. In fact, he is the Stiletto and his premature death has wrong-footed a whole host of sinister forces. The veteran hit man was midway through an assignment and it looks like Eric may have to step in and complete the job. 
  Someone has mistaken him for his father and, unless Eric does exactly as he is told, he may never see his fiancée or his unborn child again…

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  How Not to Become a Little Old Lady

  Mary McHugh

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  You can be little. You can be old. You can be a lady. But you don’t have to be a little old lady!   We’ve all seen her, hunched forward, her hair tucked neatly under a plastic rain bonnet. She’s clutching expired coupons, or discussing her latest health problems over lunch. She’s a little old lady . . . and she's coming your way at 2 mph.    Little old ladies have elastic waistbands on all their slacks. They save rubber bands, remember fifteen-cent McDonald’s hamburgers, and have never seen a public rest room that was clean enough.  How Not to Become a Little Old Lady is for any woman who is proud to have escaped little old ladyhood—or those in danger of slipping into it. Lighthearted and affectionately funny, it also includes charming illustrations from Adrienne Hartman.

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  The Means - A Novel

  Amy Fusselman

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  "The Means is such a fast-paced, breezy comedic novel that you may find yourself surprised that Fusselman deftly and directly leads you to existential dilemmas and the absurdity of capitalism and striving for more." – The Millions 
  Shelly Means, a stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing in life she really wants: a beach house in the Hamptons. Surely, once she has her beach house, Shelly will at last feel at peace, in control, and content. It might be a very small house, and it might be in the least-fancy part of the Hamptons, but Shelly is hell-bent on achieving this idea of paradise.  
  But what should be a simple real estate transaction quickly goes awry as Shelly’s new neighbors disapprove of her proposed shipping container house at the same time that her spouse George’s lucrative work as a VoiceOver artist dries up. When George wants to cancel the beach house, Shelly goes deeper down the rabbit hole of capitalism: it’s an investment property! It's a community! It’s a place for their children to thrive! And, for a woman whose labor has buoyed her family for years, this beach house might just be Shelly’s last stand. 
  The debut novel from “one of our best interrogators of how we live now, and how we should live” (Dave Eggers), The Means is a comedy about the suffering inherent in desire, capitalist delusion, and the value of unpaid labor. 
  "With its deadpan absurdity, pithy prose and moral je ne sais quoi, Fusselman's latest will appeal to fans of Marcy Dermansky....With its satire of the particular hypocrisy of the Hamptons, including homeowners associations, graft, and garbage and recycling practices, Maria Semple....We may be entering a golden age of the comic novel, surely one of the best possible outcomes of this desperate moment in history." – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  The Far Too Personal Trainer

  Ben Holder

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  Ben Holder is a man who embodies qualities that many women fantasise about – charisma, youth, athleticism, and incredibly good looks.Immersed in a complicated lifestyle, where women often find themselves overshadowed by their husband’s flashy cars, to quote Ben:“There’s a lot of married women who feel their husbands are more interested in their fast cars than their wives. I start to train them, their confidence builds, and they begin to feel better about themselves. Then one thing leads to another…”But short-term gratification is only one side of Ben’s complex story, the other is a man with a broken heart.Ben longs to forge a genuine connection and knows he needs to grow up. Believing he’s a changed man, Ben is put to the ultimate test when an old flame arrives back in town. Can Ben resist the temptation, or will he revert to his old ways?

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