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Two European siblings travel to New England to meet their American cousins in this classic satire. Henry James's short novel The Europeans, which made its debut in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, is the beloved tale of Eugenia Münster and her brother, Felix Young, who travel to Boston after having spent most of their lives in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. At the heart of the story rest the concerns that most intrigued the iconic author:...
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In the opening entry, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum," Bingo seeks help in persuading his wealthy guardian to accept his socially undesirable fiancee. Mabel the waitress is only the first in a succession of Bingo's romantic interests, which include a parson's niece, a Communist, and Bertie's own fiancee--among others. Eighteen connected stories trace Bingo and Bertie's shenanigans at home and abroad and introduce assorted Wooster relatives, from...
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"Let me serve others by giving a brief respite from routine thoughts. I lack the material wealth to build a hospital or library, but if my animal stories make you relax and chuckle instead of worrying about problems, then I have succeeded far beyond Jeff Bezos, for he has only his billions, but I have a new friend." - Aldek's Bestiary Preface.
Here you'll find the humorous plot twists and unusual characters of great fiction, but these tales...
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The exciting tale of two different kinds of Guineapigs, Rupert and Caramella, who become friends in the most interesting way and learn that it is important to accept others differences. There are some amusing events that bring two Guineapigs together and enjoy a party with Caramella's friends, who eat watermelon and other delicious food!
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"Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?" "I could not say, sir." That, in brief, is the essence of the relationship between aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his dryly superior valet, Jeeves. Originally published in The Strand magazine from 1918 to 1922 and later collected as The Inimitable Jeeves, these ten tales by comedic master P. G. Wodehouse abound in sparkling wit. "Scoring off Jeeves" recounts a lunch with Aunt Agatha ("A pretty...
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Around the Cul-de-sac is the debut short stories collection by emerging humor writer Christina De Paris. This book recounts the inner workings of Sydney Lagunilla, a kid growing up in the '90s who views trespassing on her neighbors' properties as doing them a favor. In this work of realistic fiction, the Central Florida native finds a way to skirt a standardized test worksheet, and in an above-ground pool, acts out the farewell floating door scene...
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Excerpt: ""Moral Statistician."-I don't want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards...
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In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five "miniatures" that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience, through the rear window. Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routines, doctor's appointments, gardening, mealtimes, of her eccentric yet...
9) Bear Stories
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Bear Stories is a collection of seventy-seven tales that are designed to be humorous while still speaking to larger issues and truths. This is a rich, multi-faceted manuscript that is designed to appeal to readers of all ages. Among his "Bear Stories," Shaffer delivers the unknown biography of Smokey the Bear, he celebrates the cleverness of Wilbear and Orville Bear as they take to the skies, and he reveals how the assistance of a bear helped result...
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Being Home: A Southwestern Almanac is a laugh out loud story collection made for radio featuring a collection of quirky characters shaped by the seasons, the desert landscape, and small town living, making audiences feel right at home in the Mimbres Valley. From Brandon Johnson's mystifying encounter with a coyote to Ernesto Puro Corazon's 6th grade drive to school with his abuela in his Chevy Impala SS, Claussen captures moments and people in astounding...
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Un recueil de chroniques complètement désopilantes, essentiellement sous forme de dialogues, portant sur le quotidien d'un père partageant la garde de ses quatre adolescents, doués d'un sens de l'humour mordant. Bienvenue dans l'univers de Patrick Straehl. «Le Vieux (le père): On va jouer dehors. Pitch (fille, 15 ans): Dehors ? Le Vieux: Ça se trouve de l'autre cté de la porte. U (garçon, 17 ans): On pourrait pas juste ouvrir les fenêtres...
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Feisbuqueo, luego existo de Angélica Santa Olaya, tercer número de la colección La nave insólita.
Las implicaciones sociales e identitarias de Facebook ya están siendo estudiadas desde distintas disciplinas, pero el acierto de este libro está en utilizar un medio de representación coherente y útil como señalización de lo acontecido: una brevedad literaria construida de silencios donde lo que no se dice llega a nuestros oídos como un grito...
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13) Being Home, Too
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Being Home, Too, the much-anticipated sequel to Claussen's debut short story collection Being Home: A southwestern Almanac, delivers several humorous made-for-radio stories. Painting a panorama of high desert living with zany characters riding out the seasons in the Mimbres Valley, this book will not disappoint. From Jimmy Dean's January polar plunge to Ratticus Finch's Christmas hoard, Claussen renders the magic and mystery of the Valley in a series...
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A fictional father writes letters to his college-aged daughter and son remembering events, large and small, from their family's past in the poignant and hilarious Lying to Children. This collection of sometimes outrageous, sometimes sad, often heartwarming interconnected vignettes features a delightful confessional celebration of family life told in stories from a dad's unique perspective. Centered around the untruths parents regularly tell their...
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This book contains seven of the most unusual short stories ever written.
In On the Road to Exile, a woman travels a thousand miles on her donkey, returning to the family she left a year earlier to find the only thing that has changed is her.
In The Accidental Transvestite, a man wants only to get in his ex-girlfriend's pants but once he has them on, he soon realizes he would do anything to get them off.
In How Much Further to Insanity?, a woman...
16) Once upon a Farm
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In this amusing collection of tales, Ellis Worth reminisces about not only his childhood on a Minnesota farm but also many other episodes in his life. These are not sentimental recollections; nor is this an anthology of first-person memoirs. The reminiscences are embedded within enjoyable stories about fictitious characters in equally fictitious settings. But, in accordance with Mark Twain's assertion "Write what you know," Ellis Worth wrote what...
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In Men I'm not Married To Dorothy Parker's famous wit is on full display as she describes nine men that she did not marry. Some of the descriptions are long and involved others are but a single line such as "Lloyd wears washable neckties."
Delightful and funny!
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By June, Philip's view of English Bay, what's left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to see what's out there. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to know what to do.
From one of Canada's most beloved personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver's West End neighborhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson's I...
19) Idiot Men
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With Strangers to Temptation, Things that Crash, Things that Fly, and The Hammerhead Chronicles, Scott Gould cemented his reputation as one of the most inventive, distinctive voices of Southern literature. In his latest collection, Idiot Men, he once again gathers a cast of unforgettable characters in eleven stories chock full of exceptional storylines and hilarious writing.
You'll meet a trucker driver whose wife flees to Jamaica with her lover,...
20) F*** My Brain!
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F*** My Brain! is a collection of absurd and surreal stories unlike anything you've read before, especially from a Norwegian author. Whether Amir considers himself a writer, filmmaker, or stand-up comedian remains to be seen, but he certainly has many irons in the fire and numerous thoughts swirling in his head. In this book, he takes you on an unforgettable journey, humorously sharing what it's like to grow up between two cultures. Finding one's...
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