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The Bluff by Emma St. Clair
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's hard to be professional when you hate and are attracted to your boss in equal measure... -
![The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer]()
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRevised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is written by three Americans, with no qualifications worth speaking of. The playtext is reproduced here with footnotes which will be of no help to anyone and a letter from the authors to the Queen... -
![The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov]()
The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe name The Little Golden Calf comes from the Bible, the Book of Exodus 32:1-4 Delighted applause from both sides of the Atlantic greeted the first publication of this comic clasic about Soviet life in the early years after the Revolution. Social changes then were so drastic and came so thick and fast that even most Russians were confused...Categorized as:
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![The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov]()
The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R...Categorized as:
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![Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, Frances Fisher]()
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, Frances Fisher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWithin the walls of Truvy's beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon "home" that they share.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, Amy Pietz, Brittany Snow, and Jocelyn Towne... -
![What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski]()
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s... -
![Avah Maldita by simplychummy, Karen Ramirez]()
Avah Maldita by simplychummy, Karen Ramirez
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Avah Chen is living large, and she is always in charge. She finds herself in good company of her fabulous friends in high places and unexpected ones from around the corner. You would think there's no stopping this little fierce maldita dahil tila nasa kanya na ang lahat - magarang bahay, matagumpay na negosyo at iba pang karangyaan... -
![Noises Off by Michael Frayn]()
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNoises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour... -
![Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan]()
Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA...Categorized as:
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![B. Proudew by Irena Dousková]()
B. Proudew by Irena Dousková
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHelena Součková, an eight-year-old schoolgirl in a small provincial town, deals not only with the uniquely dismal side of life in communist Czechoslovakia, but also with more than a few universal issues, like death, school dinners, guilt, obtuse teachers, betrayal, love, Jewishness, annoying little brothers, almost absent fathers, cruel classmates, bogus adults, eerie daydreams and nightmares... -
![Si by Bob Ong]()
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... -
![Stumbling Into Forever by Molly O'Hare]()
Stumbling Into Forever by Molly O'Hare
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContinue Holly and Ben’s story in Stumbling Into Forever Life would be boring without some chaos thrown in, right? Surprisingly enough, that was Holly and Lord Waffles' specialty... -
![Dirty Stranger by Cassie-Ann L. Miller]()
Dirty Stranger by Cassie-Ann L. Miller
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIslaI'm paying alimony to my idiot ex-husband, my business hardly makes enough to keep the lights on and I'm literally holding my car together with duct tape. Scratch that, I'm holding my life together with duct tape. So I won't go on a date with the mysterious, new-in-town barista who makes my morning soy hazelnut lattee just the way I like it.. -
![My Kind of Perfect by Hannah Ellis]()
My Kind of Perfect by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlternate cover edition of ASIN B01G79NXGKPeople-pleaser Marie has a lot to contend with: • Her fiancé Brian is a workaholic who mysteriously snubs his family • Her best friend Grace is being demanding and unreasonable • Her wedding plans are non-existent • She’s accidentally acquired a personal trainer Despite all this, Marie manages to stay upbeat... -
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![Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle]()
Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsT. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, and exuberance... -
![Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean]()
Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling author and radio storytelling sensation Stuart McLean revisits the heartwarming and hilarious friends from his iconic Vinyl Cafe.Dave and his wife Morley would no doubt tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a compilation tape of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings, and muddle... -
![The Carrot by Virginia Gray]()
The Carrot by Virginia Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if the perfect job was dangled right in front of you? The only catch: Fix an unfixable problem—oh, and it’s in the middle of nowhere. Would you leave your friends, your lover, your world? Would you sacrifice your reputation and your pride? Would you sell your very soul? Susan Wade has designed a fabulous future for herself... -
![Two Last First Dates by Kate O'Keeffe]()
Two Last First Dates by Kate O'Keeffe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPaige Miller has given up on love. She might have agreed to a pact with her best friends to go on her One Last First Date, but she's done it and it ended in total disaster—for Paige. She always chooses the wrong guys, and they don't choose her. So, what's the point in trying? Her friends disagree. They offer to take the difficulty out of the search and find Mr. Right for her... -
![Four Last First Dates by Kate O'Keeffe]()
Four Last First Dates by Kate O'Keeffe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBailey De Luca may have agreed to a pact to marry the next guy she dates, but so far it's all come to nothing. She doesn't want to admit it but she's desperate and dateless. Everywhere Bailey looks people are in love, one of her friends is even getting married...Categorized as:
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![Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell]()
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama... -
![Haute Couture by Joslyn Westbrook]()
Haute Couture by Joslyn Westbrook
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBreaking News: Mr. Right Is Always Mr. Wrong... Lauren Blake, fashionista extraordinaire, has what almost every woman wants: Glamour. Fortune. Prestige. Plus a new driver who she finds terribly annoying, despite his good looks. As the creator of the popular clothing line she's worked years to build, Lauren's got no time for love... -
![You're an Animal, Viskovitz! by Alessandro Boffa]()
You're an Animal, Viskovitz! by Alessandro Boffa
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Italy, a wildly modern riff on Ovid’s Metamorphoses—a whirlwind of ironic fables in which the central hero, Viskovitz, continually changes identities in pursuit of his one true love... -
![One Last First Date by Kate O'Keeffe]()
One Last First Date by Kate O'Keeffe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCassie Dunhill and her friends make a pact to marry the next guy they each date. What could possibly go wrong? Cassie Dunhill is sick of dating. It’s been ten years and it’s time, time to find The One. It’s either that or buy a fetching habit and veil and abandon the whole thing. But Cassie believes in love, and she’s not ready to give up yet... -
![The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien]()
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs... -
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![Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad]()
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA pop-saturated epic novel about the second man on the moon, and the quiet thirty-year-old gardener who idolizes him. A story of unconventional psychiatry, the Faroe Islands, amateur boat building, and the journey across the space that divides us from other people: a journey as remote and dangerous as the trip to the moon itself... -
![Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau]()
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms... -
![Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo]()
Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool . • "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy... -
![Smooches by Susan Renee]()
Smooches by Susan Renee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI made one of those dream board things while hanging out with my best friends. You know, the kind that are made with pictures ripped from magazines with special notes about your life goals or biggest wishes. (Mine of course, is covered in glitter!) As a single mom, it’s hard to put my dreams and goals first, but I made my list. 1. Finally finish my degree 2. Learn how to cook new recipes. 3... -
![The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello]()
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one...Categorized as:
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![Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret]()
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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![Meet Mr. Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Meet Mr. Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Mulliner collectionIn the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs...Categorized as:
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![Peas, Carrots and an Aston Martin: A hilarious and heart-warming modern family comedy novel by Hannah M. Lynn]()
Peas, Carrots and an Aston Martin: A hilarious and heart-warming modern family comedy novel by Hannah M. Lynn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEric Sibley has it all; great job, big house, beautiful family. Even when his estranged father dies, Eric can’t help but dream about the luxuries he’ll spend his inheritance on. Unfortunately, Eric’s late father, had other ideas... -
![Descent of Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle]()
Descent of Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, T.C. Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimp; a Norse poet overcomes bard-block; collectors compete to snare the ancient Aztec beer can, Quetzacoatl Lite; and Lassie abandons Timmy for a randy coyote... -
![Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus]()
Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions...Categorized as:
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![The Harpole Report by J.L. Carr]()
The Harpole Report by J.L. Carr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Harpole Report is the third novel by J. L. Carr, published in 1972. The novel tells the story mostly in the form of a school log book kept by George Harpole, temporary Head Teacher of the Church of England primary school of "Tampling St. Nicholas". Like all of Carr's novels, it is grounded in personal experience... -
![Love's Labors Tossed: Trust and the Final Fling by Robert Farrell Smith]()
Love's Labors Tossed: Trust and the Final Fling by Robert Farrell Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn book three of Robert Farrell Smith’s critically acclaimed comic trilogy, Trust and Grace head back to Thelma’s Way in the days leading up to their wedding. But things have run amuck in Thelma’s Way. Because it doesn’t appear on any official maps, county planners are constructing a dam that threatens to turn the backwater town into nothing but backwater... -
![Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army - to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread...Categorized as:
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![The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature]()
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... -
![Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction from Ireland. No 1 Bestseller... -
![Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene]()
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA morally complex and mature work from a modern masterIn this later novel by Graham Greene—featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage...Categorized as:
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![The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard]()
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage written by her husband Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie... -
![Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk]()
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise.It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper...Categorized as:
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![One Brother Shy by Terry Fallis]()
One Brother Shy by Terry Fallis
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and author of The Best Laid Plans, comes a new story about a man tormented by an event from his youth, and the journey he finds himself on to heal and to learn who he is.Few people know the real Alex MacAskill... -
![Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers]()
Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future...Categorized as:
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![See Bride Run! by Charlotte Hughes]()
See Bride Run! by Charlotte Hughes
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAtlanta’s billionaire heiress Annie Hartford has been under her father’s thumb her entire life. At 29, he is now forcing her to marry a man she doesn’t love in front of 600 guests. With only moments to spare, she hijacks the family limo, which breaks down in small town Pinckney, Georgia... -
![The Trouble with Flirting by Rachel Morgan]()
The Trouble with Flirting by Rachel Morgan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLabelled a nerd for most of high school, Livi sees her first year of university as a chance to redefine herself. She can finally enter the popular crowd and maybe even land herself a super hot boyfriend. But Livi’s about to discover that the price of popularity may be more than she’s willing to pay, and that what — and who — she wants most has always been right in front of her... -
![Lo que somos ahora by May Sarton]()
Lo que somos ahora by May Sarton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA novel in the form of a diary, this story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and is then moved by her brother to a nursing home. Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory... -
![Quelqu'un pour qui trembler by Gilles Legardinier]()
Quelqu'un pour qui trembler by Gilles Legardinier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLa seule chose qui compte, c'est d'avoir quelqu'un pour qui espérer mieux. L'essentiel, c'est d'avoir quelqu'un pour qui trembler. Pour soigner ceux que l'on oublie trop souvent, Thomas a vécu des années dans un village perdu en Inde. Lorsqu'il apprend que la femme qu'il a autrefois quittée a eu une fille de lui, ses certitudes vacillent... -
![Small World by David Lodge]()
Small World by David Lodge
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPhilip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge’s satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air... -
![The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOften called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound...
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