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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 2
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English
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The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger-and deadlier-things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man. Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat,...
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A humorous look at marriage by the American columnist and humourist Erma Bombeck, the author of The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank, Motherhood, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home and Family: The Ties that Bind...and Gag. Her insights on marriage, metamorphoses, traditional family roles, and parent/child relationships are now only amusing, but sometimes quite poignant and serious. They also serve as a window into the...
3) Strip tease
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A South Florida topless dancer joins forces with a cop in order to uncover blackmail among government officials.
4) Gump & Co
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English
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The job-hunting adventures of an unemployed widower with a daughter to support. He is Forrest Gump whose adventures range from selling encyclopedias to discovering New Coke, to the Gulf War during which he captures Saddam Hussein.
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Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The foreclosure crisis has taken a huge bite out of the local real estate market, where rows of homes sit unsold and forsaken - but not empty. A group of squatters,...
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