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  Microserfs

  Douglas Coupland

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  They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them.  
  But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.

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  Holy Water - A Novel

  James P. Othmer

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  Henry Tuhoe is the quintessential twenty-first-century man. He has a vague, well-compensated job working for a multinational  conglomerate-but everyone around him is getting laid off as the company outsources everything it can to third-world countries. Henry has a beautiful wife-his college  sweetheart-and an idyllic new home in the leafy suburbs, complete with pool. But his wife won't let him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; he's seriously overleveraged on the mortgage; and no matter what chemicals he tries, the pool remains a corpselike shade of ghastly green. Then Henry's boss offers him a choice: go to the tiny, magical, about-to-be-globalized Kingdom of Galado to oversee the launch of a new customer-service call center for a boutique bottled water company the conglomerate has just acquired, or lose the job with no severance. Henry takes the transfer, more out of fecklessness than a sense of adventure. In Galado, a land both spiritual and corrupt, Henry wrestles with first-world moral conundrums, the life he left behind, the attention of a steroid-abusing, megalomaniacal monarch, and a woman intent on redeeming both his soul and her country. The result is a riveting piece of fiction of and for our times, blackly satirical, moving, and profound.

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  Until the Last Pickle

  Yuliya Patsay

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  Born to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and that Lenin was everyone’s benevolent grandpa.  After trading pickled herring and Soviet winters for San Francisco fog and year-round produce (the real American dream!) she found herself occupying two parallel universes: the first grounded in her Soviet roots and the second in her burgeoning ‘Amerikanskiye’ beliefs.Irreverent, nostalgic and vulnerable, Until the Last Pickle, is a memoir replete with remembrances, anecdotes, and exactly 18 recipes. It’s an exploration of identity and belonging — at once, deeply personal and broadly relatable — told through the lens of one family’s “totally average” immigration journey.

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  The Zen of Zombie - Better...

  Scott Kenemore

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  Do you struggle out of bed each morning and sway lifelessly across the room, mouth agape, arms hanging slack, murmuring unintelligibly? Well, take heart: you're not alone!  But these other staggering, limp, perpetually drowsy folks just happen to be zombies-and it turns out they can teach us a lot about enjoying life. And only here, in this book, will you learn their secrets to happiness.Zombies aren't afraid of life, so why should you be? Start living your life the undead way: through The Zen of Zombie!Be adaptable-zombies make the best of a situation.Count your blessings-a brain in the hand is worth two behind the hastily improvised zombie barricades.W.W.Z.D? (What Would Zombies Do?)Slow down! Another delicious brain is just around the corner.Speak only when necessary-when zombies talk, people listen.Zombies don't negotiate-neither should you.Plus a ninety-day guide to complete zombification!

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  Varied Types

  G.K. Chesterton

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  Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good-natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes.(Summary by Ray Clare)

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  Cajun Stories My Granpa Tole Me

  Tommy Joe Breaux

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  “Breaux is a genuine slice of Southern life. Like any good Southerner, he refuses to take himself too seriously. His humor is bound to cure what ails you.” —The Press-Register   Filled with stories inspired by the Cajun atmosphere, this volume captures the humorous elements of life and successfully blends them with interesting and animated characters. Tommy Joe Breaux fondly recalls the stories his grandpa told him and wanted a way to share them with others. By writing down these tales, he is saving part of his heritage as well as allowing readers to enjoy some Cajun humor.   Returning characters include Elmo and Marie, Poo Poo and Stinky, and greedy Doc Duplichan in this compilation of funny stories. Divided into twelve chapters, each group highlights a different aspect of the Cajun culture and people. Told in Cajun speech, Breaux gives readers a glimpse of the Louisiana countryside while commemorating the stories he gleaned from his grandpa.  “Tommy Joe’s funny-bone gumbo won’t give you heartburn—just a big belly laugh.” —Country America  “Tommy Joe Breaux’s Cajun humor always makes my day.” —WWL  “A warm and witty compilation of down-home stories from a master storyteller at the top of his form.” —Al Tainsky, The MS Beat

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