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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It
JAMES GEARY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." -- Stephen FryMuch more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place.... |
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Dunbar: William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel
Edward St. Aubyn · Hogarth Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic dramaHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest... |
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Fake Plastic Love: A Novel
Kimberley Tait · Flatiron Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Prepare yourself for a daring, unsparing takedown of millennial Manhattan, trick by glossy trick." -- Beatriz WilliamsWe are a bifurcated generation, the Romantics versus the Realists: those who prefer transistor radios to Bose sound systems, scuffed ocean liner trunks to gleaming... |
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Adjustment Day: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.Adjustment Day,... |
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Bad: A Novel
CHLO ESPOSITO · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Alvina is a character that readers won't soon forget--funny, fierce, and fabulous."--BOOKLIST (starred review) Stealing her sister's life was only the beginning. Alvie Knightly flees Sicily for a suite at the Ritz after her not-so-playful sibling rivalry ends in murder.... |
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American by Day
Derek B. Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother SHE KNEW IT WAS A WEIRD PLACE. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies,... |
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Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel
Janet Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 317
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos · Dangerous Books
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Riding the Iron Curtain
Tim Moore · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Tim Moore and a rickety metal steed are back together -- riding the entirety of the Iron Curtain, where history, mechanical failures, physical endurance, and humor come together for "the Bill Bryson on two wheels." Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour... |
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