Books like 'Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present'
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The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script by Frank Darabont, Stephen King
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison, follows the complex twenty-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common—except friendship... -
![Lords and Ladies by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Lords and Ladies by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's Midsummer Night – no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there's more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down.Unfortunately there's usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place – to keep things out. Things who want to make mischief and play havoc with the natural order... -
![Die Känguru-Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling]()
Die Känguru-Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSensation, Sensation: Archäologen haben in einem Geheimfach in Marc-Uwes Schreibtisch neue Geschichten vom Känguru und seinem Kleinkünstler gefunden! Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Känguru-Chroniken. Triologie bleibt Triologie. Aber ein anständiger Kleinkünstler hat natürlich eine Zugabe vorbereitet... -
![A Cow Called Boy by C. Everard Palmer]()
A Cow Called Boy by C. Everard Palmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA story of Josh's fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher's greedy hands... -
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![Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe]()
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOffering all the qualities of his general bestselling fiction, this is Tom Sharpe's blazing satire of South African apartheid, companion to Indecent Exposure... -
![Goodnight Bush by Erich Origen, Gan Golan]()
Goodnight Bush by Erich Origen, Gan Golan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brilliant parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon, built around the coming end of the worst presidency ever.Goodnight Bush: An Unauthorized Parody is a hilarious and poignant visual requiem for the Bush administration. In it we see a childlike George W. Bush tucked safely away in the confines of his own room with all of the toys he's willfully destroyed, abused, or defaced... -
![Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates... -
![Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You & The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang]()
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You & The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You" is a black comedy about Catholicism."An Actor's Nightmare" is also a black comedy; a one-hander. An unprepared actor in an unnamed play is forced to take the place of a leading actor... -
![Three of a Kind by Rubix Cube 89201]()
Three of a Kind by Rubix Cube 89201
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe perspective of the 3M when they first met Naomi... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
![November by David Mamet]()
November by David Mamet
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Mamet's Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief.It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent... -
![O scrisoare pierdută by Ion Luca Caragiale]()
O scrisoare pierdută by Ion Luca Caragiale
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsO scrisoare pierdută (Romanian for "A Lost Letter") is a play by Ion Luca Caragiale. It premiered in 1884, and arguably represents the high point of his career... -
![Tres sombreros de copa by Miguel Mihura]()
Tres sombreros de copa by Miguel Mihura
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne of the most significant plays of contemporary Spanish literature. "Tres sombreros de copa" breaks the mold of Spanish theatre in the 50s with a new type of humor, one that is bittersweet. This play, which was first performed twenty years after being written, tells the story of a modest public official who gets a chance to change his dull and sad life... -
![Greegs & Ladders by Zack Mitchell, Danny Mendlow]()
Greegs & Ladders by Zack Mitchell, Danny Mendlow
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGreegs & Ladders is a wildly exciting tale of three oddball characters romping around space and time. Equal parts social satire and fun loving adventure, Greegs promises laughs, a few mildly intelligent and/or interesting observations, & several run-on sentences... -
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![They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley]()
They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese... -
![Number 10 by Sue Townsend]()
Number 10 by Sue Townsend
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdward Clare, PM of England, doesn’t know the price of a liter of milk. Worse, he’s admitted it on national television. The public that ushered him to a landslide election has turned against him. Edward decides the only way to get closer to the men and women on the street is to travel the country dressed in drag... -
![Bajarse al moro (Las 25 mejores obras del teatro español) by José Luis Alonso de Santos]()
Bajarse al moro (Las 25 mejores obras del teatro español) by José Luis Alonso de Santos
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBajarse al moro, de José Luis Alonso de Santos (Valladolid, 1942), es la obra de teatro emblemática de los 80, los años de la “movida” madrileña; en ella se reflejan los conflictos de los jóvenes de aquella época y su manera de resolverlos a golpe de nuevas y arriesgadas experiencias vitales... -
![Maid-sama! Vol. 07 by Hiro Fujiwara]()
Maid-sama! Vol. 07 by Hiro Fujiwara
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's Sweet Day at Café Maid Latte! Usui is responsible for preparing the pastries for a tasting contest. Misaki disguised herself to participate incognito in this contest to help Erika. Indeed, one of the customers was in the lead to win the jackpot to be able to spend the day with it! Miss luck for Misaki, Hinata, his childhood friend, is also in the game... -
![Maid-sama! Vol. 08 by Hiro Fujiwara]()
Maid-sama! Vol. 08 by Hiro Fujiwara
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhat will the uptight class president do when the sexy bad boy finds out she works at a maid cafe! More hilarious shenanigans unfold, when the uptight class president moonlights at a maid... -
![Homestuck Book Two by Andrew Hussie]()
Homestuck Book Two by Andrew Hussie
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBook 2 contains the complete SECOND act, with author notes on each page... -
![Maid-sama! Vol. 09 by Hiro Fujiwara]()
Maid-sama! Vol. 09 by Hiro Fujiwara
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLibrarian's Note: The English edition of this volume was cancelled due to Tokyopop closing its North American operations... -
![Homestuck Book Three by Andrew Hussie]()
Homestuck Book Three by Andrew Hussie
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCompilation of Homestuck Act 3... -
![Skip and Loafer, Vol. 1 by Misaki Takamatsu, Nicole Frasik]()
Skip and Loafer, Vol. 1 by Misaki Takamatsu, Nicole Frasik
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA Cheerful Country Mouse!Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She’s got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she’s massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers... -
!['Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Meadow Rump 'n Roll by Berkeley Breathed]()
'Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Meadow Rump 'n Roll by Berkeley Breathed
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings... -
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![会長はメイド様! 17 by Hiro Fujiwara, 藤原ヒロ]()
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![Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed]()
Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith the release of this Bloom County book and the Billy and the Boingers Theme Song, chosen from the most bone-shaking, kidney-curdling entries from rock bands nationwide, Springsteen and Van Halen will become as distant a memory as Michael Jackson. 300 black-and-white and 44 color comic strips... -
![Mafalda 2 by Quino]()
Mafalda 2 by Quino
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado (pen name Quino). The strip features a girl named Mafalda (5 years old at the time of the comic's creation) who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the world as it is. The brilliance of Mafalda lies foremost in the quirkiness of this little girl... -
![Azumanga Daioh, Vol. 2 by Kiyohiko Azuma, あずま きよひこ]()
Azumanga Daioh, Vol. 2 by Kiyohiko Azuma, あずま きよひこ
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIt's not manga, it's Azumanga (and it's smart, fun and totally addictive)! Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma (hence the name), Azumanga Daioh is strongly character driven, telling the story of a group of high-school girls and their hilarious daily tribulations... -
![Azumanga Daioh Vol. 3 by Kiyohiko Azuma]()
Azumanga Daioh Vol. 3 by Kiyohiko Azuma
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe girls enter their senior year and Miss Yukari speaks ill of Tomo in the third volume of Azumanga Daioh! This volume marks the return of the sports meet, where Sakaki, Osaka, Kagura and the others compete in categories like the three-legged race and beanbag tossing, while Chiyo-chan races to find an idiot for the scavenger hunt.. -
![Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 9 by Mika Yamamori]()
Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 9 by Mika Yamamori
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSuzume has moved to Tokyo and is living with her uncle. Spring arrives, and Suzume and her classmates are now second-year students. There’s just one problem—all the first-year girls are obsessed with Mamura. Suzume and her friends come up with a plan to make Suzume his fake girlfriend, but Mamura is conflicted...
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