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  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  Essays inspired by the renowned nineteenth-century writer’s time at a Boston boardinghouse.   These philosophical essays, enlivened by a number of poems, draw upon Oliver Wendell Holmes’s time spent as a young man at the table with his fellow boarders—the professor, the divinity student, and the schoolmistress, as well as the landlady—in the thriving cultural hub of Boston. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s, they reflect on topics ranging from the nature of conversation to the surprising benefits of old age—filled with the flavor of historical New England, and often sharpened with wonderful comic flair.   Featured poems include “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” “The Chambered Nautilus,” “Contentment,” and “The Living Temple.”

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  The Ultimate Bucket List - 50...

  Dixe Wills

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  ** THE ONLY BOOK MORE RIDICULOUS THAN 2020 **
  'It's BUCKETLICIOUS! I command you to enjoy this book' Lord Buckethead
  
  The Battle of Hastings, where Harold's penchant for wearing on his head an upturned bucket rather than the standard issue helmet was to prove his undoing; the invention of the wheel, which occurred when a gentleman in Mesopotamia stumbled upon a bucket and watched transfixed as it rolled across the floor; the foundation of Rome: Romulus, Remus and a bucket - the rest is history.
  
  Unchanged in design over millennia, the humble bucket possesses a versatility unmatched in the history of human invention. It is the unobtrusive onlooker, the fly on the wall sat in quiet contemplation at all great turning points in world history.
  
  Detailing 50 buckets that were present at great moments in history, Guardian travel writer and author of Tiny Castles and Tiny Histories, Dixe Wills, describes each event through their sage and unblinking gaze. It's time to start ticking some buckets off your list.

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  Pass the Sour Cream - Given a...

  Bradley Charbonneau

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  I had been in Asia just over two months--something like ten weeks, or if you’re counting days, about seventy days.  
  Of course, if you’re counting meals, like I was, think about two hundred and ten.  
  Add iodine-purified water, a permanent layer of dust on my tongue, and let's just say I couldn't always hold down what I did eat.  
  Food was becoming my meaning, my passion, my existence.  
  I dreamt up meals in my head: leafy salads, steak, anything without rice and noodles.  
  Sure, rice and noodles are great, but try them for seventy days, three meals a day--try anything for that long.  
  I wanted food from home.  
  Besides, just before coming to Asia, I'd spent six months in Africa eating things that were beige, bland, and beaten.  
  Oh yes, Asian food had sounded exotic and adventurous, but at this point given a choice between a baked potato and the Great Wall of China... 
  Pass the sour cream.

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  The Invoice - A Novel

  Jonas Karlsson

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  Hilarious, profound, and achingly true to life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of a hero you won't soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and a movie in his treasured, small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the largest bill in the entire country.What is the price of a cherished memory? How much would you pay for a beautiful summer day? How will our carefree idealist, who is content with so little and has no chance of paying it back, find a way out of this mess? All these questions pull you through The Invoice and prove once again that Jonas Karlsson is simply a master of entertaining, intelligent, and life-affirming work.

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  Irene in Indianapolis

  Chastity Veldt

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  Yoga and Sriracha will never be the same… 
  Jake Nilsen recently injured his back, he said, running with a friend. Yoga studio owner Irene Jennings said she has a few exercises she can teach him to help loosen him up and make him more flexible. 
  But her interest in Jake is more than just physical exercise. She wants to get a little more personal and see if he can help her with a few problems of her own.

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  How to Be a Villain - Evil...

  Neil Zawacki

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  Jumpstart your evil enterprise with this deviously clever step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness. 
   
  Villains may never win, but they sure have more fun. Who doesn’t want to hatch a master plan for world domination or set up an evil hideout? In How to Be a Villain, Neil Zawacki answers all the most urgent questions: Should I go with a black or red theme? Do I invest in an army of winged monkeys or ninja warriors? And should I learn to play the pipe organ or just get a weird cat?  
   
  Whether readers choose to pursue a career as a Criminal Mastermind, Mad Scientist, Corporate Bastard, or just a Wanna-be Evil Genius, they are sure to find plenty of tips for getting started. Cheaper than attending the annual Bad Guy Conference and way more fun than being good, How to Be a Villain is guaranteed to elicit deep-throated evil laughs across the land.

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