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  The Revolt of the English Majors...

  G. B. Trudeau

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  This anthology from the acclaimed comic strip delves into the weirdness of America as it enters the twenty-first century, dot com, Dubya, and all. 
   
  Even challenging George “Dubya” Bush to a “pronunciation bee” can't save Uncle Duke's weird horse race for the White House. In the end, the former Ambassador passes out in a snowbank while the Cheney Administration kicks into high gear. Predictablistically, the new presidential syntax isn't the only thing that's tortured and strange.  
   
  Take myvulture.com, an Internet company born and born-again, worth $1 million or $500, depending on whether you ask the CEO or his mother; or look at Joanie Caucus as the turnover in Washington casts her career into play, if not into midlife crisis; or consider J.J. and Zeke, whose pay-per-view, online wedding yields mucho buzz but zero bucks—just like the rest of the Net. Yes, it's a Dubya Dubya Dubya world. Doonesbury just downloads it.

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  Butts tails and rumps

  Mikolaj Golachowski

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  Discover the fascinated mysteries of animals’ butts! Is a hippopotamus hiding a helicopter on its rear side? Or a penguin – a cannon? Why is baboon’s ass red, and why does a tapeworm have no ass at all? Why do dogs keep sniffing one another, and why wouldn’t cats ever stop licking their fur? And why does the roe flash its white rump? This book contains thirty exciting and funny stories of butts, tails and rumps narrated by a science promoter and a biologist in one. 
  Mikołaj Golachowski – PhD in Animal Ecology and Zoology, traveller, translator and polar explorer. When he’s not busy in the midst of Antarctic snow and ice, he lives in Warsaw and writes about animals and protecting the environment. Author of educational and popular science books. 
  Maria Mroux Bulikowska – illustrator working with children’s and adult books and magazines. Author of two books on Warsaw dialect. 
  Table of contents: 
  01 INTRODUCTION 
  02 THE BOMBARDIER BEETLE 
  03 THE HIPPO 
  04 THE HERRING 
  05 THE POLAR BEAR 
  06 THE PENGUIN 
  07 THE WOMBAT 
  08 THE DOG 
  09 THE CAT 
  10 THE PARAMECIUM 
  11 THE WEAVER 
  12 THE MAYFLY 
  13 THE DUCK 
  14 THE PEACOCK 
  15 THE ORCA 
  16 THE LIZARD 
  17 THE KANGAROO 
  18 THE WASP 
  19 THE SPIDER 
  20 THE SEAHORSE 
  21 THE FROG 
  22 THE ROE 
  23 THE LYNX 
  24 THE SCORPION 
  25 THE EARWIG 
  26 THE TAPEWORM 
  27 THE SNAKE 
  28 THE SKUNK 
  29 THE BABOON 
  30 THE SPIDER MONKEY 
  31 THE FIREFLY 
  Mikołaj Golachowski - Butts, tails and rumps 
  translated by Jarek Westermark 
  narrated by Sean Palmer 
  illustrations by Maria Mroux Bulikowska 
  Wydawnictwo Babaryba 
  www.babaryba.pl

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  The Ladies' Room Reader...

  Alicia Alvrez

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  "Full of Fascinating Fun Facts." -Chicago TribuneMore than 50,000 copies sold of The Ladies' Room Reader and every woman who discovered she needs to have sex at least 640 hours in her life to be considered average is waiting for more of Alicia Alvrez's insatiable thirst for facts about women, then and now! Back by popular demand, The Ladies' Room Reader Revisited picks up where its predecessor, the highly successful The Ladies' Room Reader, left off. In this wildly entertaining sequel, Alicia Alvrez provides even more fascinating female facts about women throughout history and from around the world. Discover and uncover that: September is the month with the highest birthrate. 80 percent of women think a vacation is the best way to rekindle romance. The divorce rate is 23 percent lower in cities with major league baseball teams than in those without. In ancient Egypt, between 3500 and 2500 b.c., the only career not open to women was judge.

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  Minus Me

  Mameve Medwed

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  Annie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich—their "nutritionally challenged continual source of income and marital harmony and local fame." But into their mostly charmed marriage comes a scary medical diagnosis for Annie—and the overwhelming challenge of finding a way to help Sam go on without her. Annie decides to leave Sam step-by-step instructions for a future without her and considers her own replacement in his heart and their bed. But her best-laid plans grind to a halt with the unexpected appearance of Ursula, Annie's Manhattan diva of a mother, who brings her own brand of chaos and disruption into their lives. Minus Me is a poignant and hilarious novel about the bonds of marriage, the burdens of maternal love, and the courage to face mortality.

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  Food of the Gods and How It Came...

  H. G. Wells

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  Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow!  As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the benefit of the Food of the Gods.  Surely nobody would dream of feeding such a thing to a human child… would they?In this little-known science fiction satire, Wells takes potshots at every member of society: scientists, ministers, charitable heiresses, revolutionaries, and everyone in between.  Yet in the end, Wells shows his faith both in humanity and its never-ceasing progress. - Summary by Catharine Eastman

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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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