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  Getting Your Groove Back - The...

  Amy Hall

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  Feeling old instead of bold? Reinvigorate your life and recapture your groove with smart tips, clever exercises, and a big dose of humor . . . 
   
  Do you sometimes feel like you’re just a shell of the fun-loving, vivacious person you once were? A creature of habit? An underachiever who hasn’t quite lived up to her potential? This collection of tips and exercises for women who want to get their groove back can inspire you to get your career, relationships, and sense of self back on track… 
   
  At the office: A tried-but-true confidence builder moves from the bedroom to the office: Wear really sexy underwear not only on third dates, but also to any dreaded presentation you must give.  
   
  In relationships: Save the money you set aside for the obligatory birthday gift for the friend with whom you are no longer close. Spend it on yourself instead. Go buy a decadent box of chocolate-dipped strawberries and celebrate your ability to move on from the past. Besides, the hussy never returned that favorite belt of yours she borrowed.  
   
  Within the inner self: Stop beating yourself up because you’re not what you said you’d become when you were a little girl. Just because you didn’t get an Olympic gold medal or become an ambassador to the UN doesn’t mean you’re a failure!

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  Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

  Fabio Bartolomei

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  A raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. “A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny” (The Daily Beast, “This Week’s Hot Reads”). 
   
  Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples. 
   
  Their misconceived endeavor would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money, things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance. 
   
  A “miraculous” Italian comedy that will have readers laughing out loud, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei’s vivid debut. 
   
  “An entertaining and humorous debut.” —La Repubblica 
   
  “A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile.” —Internazionale 
   
  “Left the kind of smile on my face that doesn’t go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis.” —Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno

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  Fowl Play - A Novel in Three Acts

  Steven Leigh Morris

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  In Fowl Play, author Steven Leigh Morris weaves his two great passions in life: the theater and barnyard poultry. As print media crumbles around him, veteran Los Angeles theater critic Seth Jacobson hatches a flock of chickens and negotiates a fragile pact with his neighbors (and his sanity) to house them in the garden of his Hollywood condominium. In the throes of personal and professional erosion (Seth’s Russian wife has left California for her homeland, apparently never to return), Seth clings to his three hens and one noisy aggressive rooster as if they are family and objects of his unyielding devotion. In this complex fantasy and comedic microcosm of global conflict, all creatures (some with wit, some with wings), seek refuge in an acrimonious and often violent world.

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  The Confession of a Child of the...

  Thomas Rogers

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  Finalist for the National Book Award: A witty novel of coming of age during wartime in AmericaIn the words of its “author,” Samuel Heather, the Confession is a “comical historical pastoral” that chronicles the struggles of growing up the son of a Midwestern bishop. (“My father’s daily work was to be a father. It was excruciating.”) Samuel escapes Missouri to attend Harvard, where he gets himself expelled for exploding a footbridge over the Charles River. He is soon sent to fight in Korea and lands in a prison camp. Samuel’s picaresque coming of age—by turns both funny and poignant—is truly the tale of “a child of the century.”

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  Lake Wobegon USA: Fertility

  Garrison Keillor

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  These News from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Fertility includes "The Krebsbachs' Vacation," "Prophet," "The Six Labors of Father Wilmer," and "Fertility."

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  Mystery Mike’s - A Pyrrhic...

  Anthony Lain, Matthew Woodward

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  Art, a 29 year old scuba rep from Indiana, is floating through life, rudderless and apathetic. One day, when he leaves work in order to avoid an office birthday party, he stumbles across a sign for Mystery Mike’s Bookstore. What was first mere curiosity grows into an obsession when threatening notes and mind warping illusions prevent Art from finding the damn place. 
    
   Art impulsively disregards his responsibilities at work and home to get to the bottom of the mystical bookstore. He soon teams up with Lenny, a Middle-aged Granite State Schlub and his celebrity dog, Schubert, who were former clients of the store before being shut off from access right when they needed it most.  
    
  Schubert is dying and Lenny is desperate to keep him alive. Lenny is also wracked with guilt that Schubert's illness might be a side effect of the training knowledge obtained from Mystery Mike's. During their search, the team encounters some peculiar people, including a brash cult leader, a ventriloquist couple with a supernatural secret, and angelic super race of humans with ulterior motives. Some will become friends, some will become enemies, but everyone seems to be in it for themselves. What are they willing to do to solve their problems and possibly save all of humanity to boot? 

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