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  The Misanthrope And Tartuffe

  Molière Molière

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  The Pulitzer Prize winner’s classic translations of Moliere’s comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy. 
   
  The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy prude and bigot through his claims of piety. This latter translation earned Wilbur a share of the Bollingen Translation Prize for his critically acclaimed work of this satiric take on religious hypocrisy. 
   
  In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance. 
   
  “Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere’s The Misanthrope brilliantly our own.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Richard Wilbur’s translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end.” —Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning poet Richard Eberhart

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  The Unconsoled

  Kazuo Ishiguro

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  From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. 
  The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.

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  Look At Me Now - A sassy...

  Simone Goodman

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  Gracie Porter’s life is in a tangle. Her television cookery show is flailing and her boyfriend’s affections are waning. It's time for a change… 
  Best friend Faith rescues her place on the small screen when she unwittingly lands them both starring roles in a steamy spin-off that becomes an instant hit.  The new show is more about relationships, sex and stonking big vegetables than cooking. Throw in a fluctuating crush on her surprisingly irresistible agent, Harry Hipgrave, an unlikely friendship with a pair of D-list models and a gossip journalist intent on making her life miserable, Grace wonders if becoming famous is all it’s cracked up to be? Romantic, utterly uplifting and poignant, perfect for the fans of Sophie Kinsella and Lucy Diamond. ## ** What readers are saying about Look At Me Now:** 
  'Funny, romantic, uplifting and really well written. I enjoyed reading this book.' 
  'I really enjoyed reading this and definitely had some LOL moments!' 
  'Funny, clever and super relatable. ' 
  'I didn’t want to put the book down!!' 
  'It’s romantic. It’s funny. It’s heart warming. It’s everything I want from a good chick-lit. ' 
  'The cast of characters are vividly written, and most avoid becoming stereotypical.' 
  'it’s always amusing or easy for the reader to feel connected to her.' 
  'This book is a delight from the beginning to the very end.'

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  Dirty Chinese - Everyday Slang...

  Matt Coleman, Edmund Backhouse

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  Foul your mouth—while expanding your Mandarin vocabulary—with a guide to the phrases that could get you a laugh . . . or a punch in the face. 
   
  Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:Cool slangFunny insultsExplicit sex termsRaw swear words 
   
  Dirty Chinese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of China:What’s up? Zenmeyàng?Fuck it, let’s party. Qù tama, zánmen chuqù feng ba.Who farted? Shéi fàng de pì?Wanna try doggy-style? Yàobù zánliar shìshì gou cào shì?Son of a bitch! Gouniángyang de!I’m getting smashed. Wo ganjué heduo le.I can’t eat this shit! Wo chi bù xià qù!

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  Hold the Line - One woman's...

  Kim Stephens

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  Navigating motherhood from the age of 18, Kim Stephens shelved her inner journo and embraced a life of media sales and sports marketing, working with some of the biggest sports brands globally, and locally, whilst pursuing her own ultra-running ambitions.
  Arguing vehemently against the possibility that she was running from her own truth, Covid-19 wiped out Kim's possibilities for continued escape.
  After three children, two divorces and a gradual sexual awakening, Kim found herself at 40-something virtually unemployed, with all the time in the world to write, sip gin and study a general response to one of the world's most draconian lockdowns.
  Her humorous observations of middle-class South African behaviour through the various levels of lockdown earned her a certain notoriety and a degree of viral success, and with that the courage to put it all into a book.
  Hold the Line tells the story of teenage pregnancy, the situational blindness of white South Africa, the disappointment of divorce and the deep joy found through true awakening.
  Stitched together with the lockdown writing that Kim penned for a growing base of followers, she shares a more in-depth life story with her usual candid self-deprecation.
  Written to rattle a few truths from within its readers, Hold the Line ends ironically as the world begins to follow a potential third World War via TikTok.

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  Hate Mail from Cheerleaders -...

  Rick Reilly

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  Each week, when Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn right to the last page because that's where to find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly took over SI's back page in 1998, and his column immediately attracted a devoted audience who helped make his 1990 book, The Life of Reilly, a New York Times bestseller. This new collection includes 100 of Reilly's favorite columns from the last six years, along with an introduction by Lance Armstrong. The title of the book signifies the strong reader response his columns typically generate (he wrote a column saying that cheerleading isn't a sport, and there was a light-hearted backlash). Alternately side-splitting and heart-warming, but always opinionated and provocative, this book brings together the best work by the best columnist in the business.

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