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  Cocaine

  Pitigrilli

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  A new translation of the Italian novelist’s cautionary comedy of excess and despair in 1920s Paris—“this little romp is always a pleasurable one” (Publishers Weekly).  Paris, 1920s. The City of Light is a dizzy and decadent bohemia for Tito Arnaudi, a young Italian medical student turned bon vivant journalist. To escape the moralizing of his Italian hometown—or perhaps it was merely a whim—Tito got on a train to Paris without so much as a letter of introduction. Soon enough, he finds employment inventing lurid scandals and gruesome deaths to newspapers. But his own life becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he acquires three demanding mistresses.   Elegant, witty, and wicked, Pitigrilli’s classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and captures the lure of a bygone era even as it charts the comical tragedy of a young man’s downfall. The novel’s descriptions of sex and drug use prompted church authorities to place Cocaine on a list of forbidden books, while filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote a screenplay based on the tale. Even today, Cocaine retains its venomous bite.

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  "S" Is for Stupid - An...

  Leland Gregory

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  An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of Stupid History!  * A doctor’s actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active.  * “Shooting Reported at Firing Range” —The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006  * Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees. —The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 5, 2001  From absurd 911 calls to presidential philosophizing and foolish felons, Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. This best-of collection features fifty percent new material and fifty percent fan favorites, arranged alphabetically by topic. And because the stories Gregory chronicles are just that unbelievable, each anecdote, quote, or factoid is presented with relevant background information, including its verified news source.

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  Wha Bohked in the Aspadeestra? -...

  Norman Watson

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  Strap on yir seatbelts for a brah an' bumpy ride alang eviry twist an' turn o' the Dundonese dehelict.
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  The Good Soldier Schweik

  Jaroslav Hašek

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  The rollicking humorous ribald story of soldiers in World War 1 carrying on and living and dying in war, worthy of Catch 22 fame. Translated from German into modern American English with a simplification of place names as well as people's names to not distract the American listener from unfamiliar names & places and stay focused on the story itself. 

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  The Book of Ferret - Episodes 1...

  Madison Doll

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  Ferret is a pint-sized bogan from The Hawkesbury, on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. He's unemployed and he's a loser.  
  One day, he discovers that he's got two long-lost brothers and that he's heir to tens of millions of dollars. He also finds out that the pheromone wipes in the vending machine at the local pub really do drive women wild. 
  During the course of his adventures Ferret uses the pheromone wipes to good advantage. 
  She has also produced two albums of offensive songs by ‘Ferret and the Pheromones’. 
  She lives alone in Windsor N.S.W. and has no friends.

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  You Might Be a Zombie and Other...

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