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Diary ng Panget by HaveYouSeenThisGirL
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMahirap at panget si Girl tapos magnet siya ng mga poging mayayaman na boys? YES! Cliché? YES! So what makes this book special? This story has made a lot of people online laugh, as in hagalpak talaga with matching headbang pa! This is Eya's diary, a girl who believes she's ugly and will meet Cross Sandford, the most annoying nilalang ever... -
I Heart Forever by Lindsey Kelk
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinter in Manhattan…and someone’s keeping a secret. The day her husband Alex picks up a backpack and goes travelling, Angela Clark promises to stay out of trouble... -
Holt by Scarlett Avery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s a new client, so how did we go from hello to Fifty Shades of Grey in a New York minute?The first time I met him, his arresting blue eyes were enough to make me lose my head. But of course, I kept it together.I’m a professional and fooling around with a client is a recipe for disaster.Holt Christensen is off limits... -
The Chronicles of Audy: 4R by Orizuka
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHai. Namaku Audy. Umurku 22 tahun. Hidupku tadinya biasa-biasa saja, sampai kedua orangtuaku jatuh bangkrut karena ditipu. Aku hanya tinggal selangkah lagi menuju gelar sarjanaku. Selangkah lagi! Tapi kedua orangtuaku rupanya tega merusak momen itu. Jadi sekarang, di sinilah aku berada. Di rumah aneh yang dihuni oleh 4 bersaudara yang sama anehnya: Regan, Romeo, Rex dan Rafael... -
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Si by Bob Ong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Maari bang malaman ang iyong pangalan?""Victoria""Kailan kita masisilayan, Victoria?""Sa iyong... -
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
All in the Timing by David Ives
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet... -
Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA couple adopts a depressed hedgehog; a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl's imaginary friend; a woman kidnaps her ex-husband's turtle; a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein's Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real... -
Milea: Suara Dari Dilan by Pidi Baiq
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“Dilan memberi penggambaran lain dari sebuah penaklukan cinta & bagaimana indahnya cinta sederhana anak zaman dahulu.” @refaniris“Cuma satu yang kuinginkan, aku ingin cowok seperti Dilan.” @_SLovaFC“Dilan brengsek! Dia selalu tahu caranya menjadi pusat perhatian, bahkan ketika jadi buku, setiap serinya selalu ditunggu.” @Tedy_Pensil“Membaca Dilan itu seperti jatuh cinta lagi, lagi, dan lagi... -
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 2 by Yuki Yaku
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFumiya Tomozaki's opinion on the game of "real life" has been changing ever since he met Aoi Hinami and began training with her-it may not be the greatest, but at least it doesn't suck. Meanwhile, student elections are coming up, and obviously, Hinami will be running for student council president... -
Harvey by Mary Chase
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend Harvey, a six and a half foot rabbit, to guests at a dinner party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family, from future embarrassment... -
ময়ূরাক্ষী by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsময়ূরাক্ষী নদীকে একবারই আমি স্বপ্নে দেখি। নদীটা আমার মনের ভেতর পুরোপুরি গাঁথা হয়ে যায়। অবাক হয়ে লক্ষ করি কোথাও বসে একটু চেষ্টা করলেই নদীটা আমি দেখতে পাই। তারজন্যে আমাকে কোনো কষ্ট করতে হয় না। চোখ বন্ধ করতে হয় না, কিছু না। একবার নদীটা বের করে আনতে পারলে সময় কাটানো কোনো সমস্যা নয়। ঘন্টার পর ঘন্টা আমি নদীর তীরে হাঁটি। নদীর হিম শীতল জলে পা ডুবিয়ে বসি। শরীর জুড়িয়ে যায়। ঘূঘুর ডাকে চোখ ভিজে... -
Almost, Maine by John Cariani
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Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out only its head; a guy brings a girl home with him for the first time only to find that his best friend has pissed on his doorstep; a young man graduates from Magician School but soon discovers that he can't do everything; two drunk students do battle with a pavement and win; someone has a mother and a girlfriend who hate each other's...Categorized as:
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The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s time for a w(h)ine‘Oh, for f*ck’s sake’ muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her... -
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life...Categorized as:
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The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A... -
হিমুর হাতে কয়েকটি নীলপদ্ম by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লিখা কিছু কথা‘যাবার আগে আপনি বলে যাবেন আপনি কে? আমি বললাম,‘মারিয়া আমি কেউ না। I am Nobody... -
Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKen and Chris have found their host Charley, a prominent Government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his ear lobe! Len and Claire arrive, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems... -
A Hundred Billion Ghost Stories by D.M. Sinclair
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man who lost his own body. The world's worst detective. Sugar frosted cereal. And every ghost ever.The ghosts of every human who ever died just became visible. And they seem like they're going to hang around, maybe forever. If you had a chance to try out being one of them for a while, would you take it?Ryan Matney did. It didn't go well. Now he wants his body back... -
Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsهذه مسرحيه، وإذا أردتم دقه الوصف فهى مأساه هزليه؛ انقلاب فاضل يزيح ديكتاتوريه فاسده من الطريق، ثم يقتلون المتمرد، وترسخ الديكتاتوريه الجديده أقدامها... -
The Motherfucker With the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bobby Cannavale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAddiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you’d call the ingredients for a side-splitting comedy. Yet Steven Adly Guiguis has created a profane, hilarious masterpiece that earned a "hatful" of theatrical accolades in 2011, including a Drama Desk award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for Bobby Cannavale... -
Wish You Were Here by Victoria Connelly
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSun, sea and secrets…A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella’s tantrums and diva-like demands are a fair price to pay for crystal-clear waters, blue skies and white clifftop villas... -
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas by James Patterson, Tad Safran
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMove over, Dickens—America’s favorite storyteller has written a modern Christmas story for the ages. Every year at Christmastime, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people... -
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Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Weirds have always been a little off, but not one of them ever suspected that they'd been cursed by their grandmother. At the moment of the births of her five grandchildren Annie Weird gave each one a special power. Richard, the oldest, always keeps safe; Abba always has hope; Lucy is never lost and Kent can beat anyone in a fight. As for Angie, she always forgives, instantly... -
Meet Clara Andrews by Lacey London
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Clara Andrews a totally vacuous girl with a hangover... With a love of designer brands, a fantastic job at Suave, the latest big name to rock the shoe industry and the world’s greatest best friend, she thought she had it all. That is until a chance meeting introduces her to the most handsome man alive... -
হিমু by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsহিমু আমার প্রিয় চরিত্রের একটি। যখন হিমুকে নিয়ে কিছু লিখি- নিজেকে হিমু মনে হয়, একধরণের ঘোর অনুভব করি। এই ব্যাপারটা অন্য কোনো লেখার সময় তেমন করে ঘটে না। হিমুকে নিয়ে আমার প্রথম লেখা ময়ূরাক্ষি। ময়ূরাক্ষি লেখার সময় ব্যাপারটা প্রথম লক্ষ করি। দ্বিতীয়বার লিখলাম দরজার ওপাশে। তখনো একই ব্যাপার। কেন এরকম হয়? মানুষ হিসেবে আমি যুক্তিবাদী। হিমুর যুক্তিহীন, রহস্যময় জগৎ একজন যুক্তিবাদীকে কেন আকর্ষণ করবে? আমার... -
Dorjar Opashe: দরজার ওপাশে by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লিখা কথাঃতার ডাক নাম হিমু। ভালো নাম হিমালয়। বাবা আগ্রহ করে হিলাময় নাম রেখেছিলেন যেন বড় হয়ে সে হিমালয়ের মতো হয়- বিশাল ও বিস্তৃত, কিন্তু ধরা ছোঁয়ার বাইরে নয়। হাত দিয়ে স্পর্শ করা যায়। ইচ্ছে করলে তিনি ছেলের নাম সমুদ্র রাখতে পারতেন। সমুদ্র বিশাল এবং বিস্তৃত। সমুদ্রকে হাত দিয় স্পর্শ করা যায়। তার চেয়েও বড় কথা, সমুদ্র আকাশের ছায়া পড়ে। কিন্তু তিনি সমুদ্র নাম না রেখে রাখলেন... -
Tales of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Elle Medina's three-year engagement spectacularly self-destructs, she flees home to Santa Barbara to heal and regroup. Determined to create a new life that is better for her than her old one, Elle decides she needs to: 1. Get a good job 2. Find a nice apartment 3. Find an adequate boyfriend. But this proves to be more challenging than she expected... -
Welcome to My World by Miranda Dickinson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA travel agent who longs to travel. An intrepid explorer who just wants to find a place to call home. And a Big Idea that changes everything!. Close your eyes and imagine the world is your oyster! And now imagine never seeing it. Welcome to Harriet Langton's world. All her life she's dreamt of travelling the globe - fate always got in the way... -
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man’s strange and ordinary attempts to exist.Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He’s estranged from his adoptive family...Categorized as:
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I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCath Murphy, second-grade teacher, was feeling awkward and foolish, but she also felt this: quirky, cocky, small, funny, wicked and extremely blonde. As her mother liked to say, all meetings with new people, even locksmiths or seven-year-olds, can make you a little afraid. She was about to meet her new class and she had just met the new teacher: Warren Woodford... -
Headgames by Nick Earls
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrank and Philby meet at university. Frank is the king of cool and dysfunctionally libidinous. Philby is nervous, nerdy and dysfunctionally insecure. Somehow, they form a team, and go about chasing girls, passing their degrees and surviving many a green drink experience.The hilarious misadventures of Frank and Philby are just part of what lies between the covers of Headgames... -
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Fairish by Esti Kinasih
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Lo pura-pura jadi pacar gue ya, Rish? Biar gue nggak dikerubutin cewek-cewek centil itu." pinta Davi. "Tapi... konsekuensinya. Dav." ujar Irish pelan. "Elo punya cowok?" Kali ini ganti Davi yang tersentak kaget. "Atau... lagi ada yang elo suka?" Irish buru-buru geleng kepala. "Bukan gitu. Kalo mereka nyangka kita beneran..." "Biarin aja. Bagus malah!" Davi menggenggam kedua tangan Irish... -
Tender Hooks by Moni Mohsin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Glamorous girly fiction evolves into Chanel-clad satire" India... -
Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia... -
9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Penguin published What a Carve Up! in 1994, Jonathan Coe's lasting fame was assured. There followed a string of widely acclaimed novels that together chart the changing social fabric of Britain over the last thirty years. This publication brings together several uncollected pieces of fiction and non-fiction, some of which never before published in the UK, from the master of comedy and pathos... -
Oksimoron by Isman H. Suryaman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOksimoron: n Ling, frase yang terdiri dari dua unsur yang bertolak belakang. _______________________________ Alan dan Rine adalah pasangan muda yang berusaha membuktikan bahwa pernikahan bahagia bukanlah oksimoron. Konsekuensinya, mereka juga harus berjuang untuk menghadapi berbagai unsur bertolak belakang, seperti mertua dan kerukunan, tetangga dan kewarasan, hingga kehamilan dan aborsi... -
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The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonas Jonasson
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedSweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times... -
Grow Up by Ben Brooks
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWho says youth is wasted on the young?One thing I have learned from being alive for seventeen years is that people like to touch things very much.Things that people like to touch: Vaginas. Expensive things in shops. Jelly that is not ready to eat yet. Cigarette lighters. Necks. Dead Things. Dogs. Piercings. Toddlers' cheeks. Each other's knees. People also like to touch death... -
The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn endearing, often outrageous blend of fable, tall tale, and page-turner, The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama -- the fictional town immortalized in Daniel Wallace's Big Fish -- whose reputation is based on the long-ago abundance of watermelons. Thomas Rider knows almost nothing about his parents, only that his mother died the day he was born in Ashland... -
একজন হিমু কয়েকটি ঝিঁ ঝিঁ পোকা by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsহিমু কখনো জটিল পরিস্থিতিতে পড়ে না। ছোটখাট ঝামেলায় সে পড়ে। সেই সব ঝামেলা তাকে স্পর্শও করেনা। সে অনেকটা হাঁসের মত। ঝাড়া দিল গা থেকে ঝামেলা পানির মত ঝরে পড়ল।আমার খুব দেখার শখ বড় ঝামেলায় পড়লে সে কী করে। কাজেই হিমুর জন্য বড় ধরণের একটা সমস্যা আমি তৈরি করেছি। এবং খুব আগ্রহ নিয়ে তার কান্ড-কারখানা সেখছি।হুমায়ূন আহমেদনুহাশ পল্লী,... -
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My Idea of Fun by Will Self
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"High-energy, high-caloric prose. . . a wonderfully rich and wicked novel" ( The New York Times Book Review). Will Self's first novel, about a man selling his soul to the devil, is violent, hilarious, outrageous, and, above all, completely original...Categorized as:
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হিমু রিমান্ডে by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লেখা কিছু কথাদুপুরে হেভি খাওয়াদাওয়া হলো। খালু সাহেব অফিসে যান নি। সবাই মিলে একসঙ্গে খাওয়া। শুনলাম কয়েকদিন ধরেই তিনি অফিসে যাচ্ছেন না। তাঁর যে শরীর খারাপ তাও না। তবে চোখে ভরসা হারানো দৃষ্টি। হড়বড় করে অকারণে কথা বলে যাচ্ছেন। পৃথিবীর সবচে’স্বদু খাবার কী- এই বিষয়ে দীর্ঘ বক্তৃতা দিলেন। তাঁর মতে হরিয়াল পাখির মাংস পৃথিবীর সবচে’স্বাদু খাবার। কারণ এই পাখি বটফল খায়, মাছ খায় না। হরিয়াল... -
হলুদ হিমু কালো র্যাব by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লিখা কথাঃআমার নতুন অবস্থান বর্ণনা করি। আমি হাতলবিহীন কাঠের চেয়ারে বসে আছি। নড়াচড়া করতে পারছি না। আমার হাত পেছনের দিকে বাঁধা।বজ্র আঁটুনি। ফস্কা গিরোর কোনো কারবারই নেই। টনটন ব্যাথা শুরু হয়েছে। আমর সামনে ব সেক্রেটারিয়েট টেবিলের মতো টেবিল। টেবিলের ওপাশে তিন জন বসে আছেন। মাঝখানে যিানি আছেন তাঁর হাতে চেঙ্গিস খানের বই।তিনি অতি মনোযোগে বইটি দেখছেন। বইটার বেতর সাংকেতিক কিছু আছে কিনা ধরার... -
Ο Ιούδας φιλούσε υπέροχα by Μάιρα Παπαθανασοπούλου
Rated: 2.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings«... Η αντίθεση χαρακτήρισε τη σχέση μας απ' την αρχή. Τον ερωτεύτηκα με την πρώτη ματιά. Εκείνος δε μου έριξε ούτε δεύτερη. Στην επόμενή μας συνάντηση στάθηκα πιο τυχερή, Αρχίσαμε να βγαίνουμε. Για την ακρίβεια, "τα φτιάξαμε". Επέμενα στο ασφαλές σεξ. Αντιδρούσε στη θέα του προφυλακτικού. Για κείνον ήταν σαν να έτρωγε το σοκολατάκι με το περιτύλιγμα. Έμεινα έγκυος στα δεκαοχτώ... -
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... -
The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh
Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife of thirteen years, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. Convinced that 'lust is the true foundation of love', he embarks on an audacious plan: he will advertise for paid lady companions to share his bed and his life. Thus begins his journey of easy, unbridled sexuality in the company of some remarkable women...
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