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  Movie Rogue - 'I haven't read a...

  William Coles

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  'I haven't read a funnier book all year' The Wall Street Journal 
  The world’s hottest movie couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, are enduring a year-long film shoot with the world’s most pernickety film director, Stanley Kubrick. Unfortunately the super-secret film set of Eyes Wide Shut has been invaded by Kubrick’s worst nightmare: Kim the tabloid reporter, complete with his trusty spy-pen camera. 
  Based on a true story, Movie Rogue details how in 1996 a Sun reporter became an extra on one of the most searingly graphic scenes in movie history. Along the way – it’s said – he also befriended both Tom Cruise and Kubrick. But this reporter is so much more than a mere scum-sucking tabloid hack. He is also a matchmaker, and with a wave of Kim’s pixie dust, even the most far-fetched couples can fall in love.

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  All-Night Pharmacy - A Novel

  Ruth Madievsky

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  On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator has always been under the spell of the alluring and rebellious Debbie and, despite her own hesitations, she has always said yes to nights like these. That is, until Debbie disappears. 
   
   
   
  Falling deeper into the life she cultivated with her sister, our narrator gets a job as an emergency room secretary where she steals pills to sell on the side. Cue Sasha, a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet Union who arrives at the hospital claiming to be a psychic tasked with acting as the narrator's spiritual guide. The nature of this relationship evolves and blurs, a kaleidoscope of friendship, sex, mysticism, and ambiguous power dynamics. 
   
   
   
  With prose pulsing like a neon sign, All-Night Pharmacy is an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be. As she attempts sobriety and sexual embodiment, she must decide whether to search for her estranged sister, or allow her to remain a relic of the past.

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  The Gen X Handbook for Middle...

  Lisa De Pasquale

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  Lisa De Pasquale's The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age is your mixtape of practical and humorous advice for Gen Xers navigating their journey through aging, health, career, and family in a world dictated by the "Me" generations. 
   
  The first wave of latchkey kids is turning sixty. This book is the CliffsNotes for aging gracefully. You'll learn how to maximize your prime years for health, success, and human fulfillment in a culture that expected us to be cynical slackers. 
   
  In this book, you'll discover: how to topple the generational food pyramids; the ideal workout for your movie montage makeover; how to lose 170 pounds—the easy way; biohacking tips for non-billionaires; self-care for the generation who pretends not to care; what to pack in your plastic surgery bug out bag; how to wear old band tees without looking old; how to stop being "Work Mommy"; the secret to raising resilient kids and grandkids; setting up your Gen X safe space at social events; choosing your retirement adventure. 
   
  Slip on your Ray-Bans and start living your best life. Or whatever.

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  Would You Ask My Husband That? -...

  Kathleen Whyman

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  She's wearing the pants in this family. And washing everyone else's too...  When Sarah's husband, Will, is unexpectedly fired, her first reaction is shock. Then she gets a call offering her his old job. On principle, she should turn it down. But their young family needs the money and Sarah can't help feeling like her career has taken a backseat all these years. Now it is her turn to shine. Overnight, Sarah and Will trade places. She's now the departmental director commuting into the city five days a week and answering client calls on the weekend. He's doing the school run and the laundry. Or at least trying to. They've always said they are equal partners, so this should be simple right? Wrong. This change was supposed to be the making of them as a family, but as Sarah fights for her chance to have it all, she might end up losing everything... A totally hilarious and honest look at juggling family, marriage and careers. Fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Kristen Bailey and Sophie Kinsella will be absolutely hooked from the very first page.

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  The Lightning-Rod Man

  Herman Melville

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  A man sits at his hearth as thunder shakes the mountains. Then—a knock. A stranger steps in, soaked and shivering, armed not with warmth or need, but with polished copper and an urgent offer. He doesn't sell comfort. He sells protection—against the very sky.
  The Lightning-Rod Man is Herman Melville at his most compact and cunning. This sharply drawn tale uses one room, one storm, and two voices to stage a quiet war between reason and fear, independence and submission, belief and the glittering promise of safety. It's a sales pitch wrapped in a sermon, disguised as a fable.
  Melville's dry wit and subtle irony crackle beneath the thunder. The visitor's obsession with bolts and conductors, with calculated distances and copper rods, is more than technical fuss—it's a worldview, a business model, a quiet tyranny cloaked in science. The narrator's resistance is equally symbolic: a choice to remain unshielded, to risk being struck, rather than surrender to fear disguised as logic.
  Short, strange, and simmering with tension, this story feels oddly modern. It speaks to every moment we're asked to buy into anxiety, to protect ourselves from what might happen, if only we pay the right price. Whether you read it as allegory, satire, or subtle horror, The Lightning-Rod Man still hums with electric relevance.

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  Jonathan Swift's A Modest...

  Jonathan Swift

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  "A Modest Proposal" is author Jonathan Swift's infamous and shocking satirical essay in which he suggests that the plight of the poor in Ireland could be eased if they simply agreed to sell their children to the elites of society to be used as food.   
  Swift, disgusted by the apparent disdain and apathy exhibited by the ruling classes over the sufferings of the poor in Ireland used this essay to lampoon and attack the Protestant leaders, whose anti-Catholic policies were causing hardship and famine in his own country. A classic use of Juvenalian satire (wherein the objects of the satire are made to appear monstrous and heartless), "A Modest Proposal" has become such a famous treatise that the title itself has become a synonym for such satire today.   
  Swift's brilliant and hard-hitting essay is presented here in its original and unabridged format and includes a brief biography of Jonathan Swift.

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