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Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writing about the Cultural Revolution’s impact on his life and those around him. Finally, alone and humbled, Wang Er must come to terms with the banality of his own existence.

This is a two book collection. Tales From Behind the Counter: Angeline has been working at Kyle's General Store for five years. She has seen it all: Crazy, stupid, and even mean customers torment her on a daily basis. She has worked in over five different departments with stories for each. Mina's Department Store Stories: The customer is not always right! If you have ever worked retail, then this is the audiobook for you, department store style. The customers are crazy and the situations are hilarious.

Nach dreimaliger Ankündigung ist er in dieser Folge des Hörmagazins endlich wirklich zu Gast: Hardy Burmeier. Gemeinsam mit Torsten Gaitzsch und Moritz Hürtgen spricht er über Millionen von Schriftarten, alle TITANIC-Rubriken und warum er "fürs Heft" immer wieder seinen nackten Po in die Kamera hält.

Mallory’s Manly Methods is a comedic novel about a blundering young professional. Kevin Mallory is such an accomplished liar he has convinced himself he has an almost average life. He tries to use his exceptional skill at prevarication to hang onto his job without doing any work, win the love of his co-worker without recognizing who she really is, take advantage of the young Black man who moves in next door, and manipulate the police and the courts into accepting his warped idea of justice.

It's March 2020, and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.

Join me on a witty romp through subdivision living. A River To My People is a collection of short stories about life in the suburbs and the funny and infuriating antics, behaviors, rules, and regulations of community life. While every neighborhood is unique, people are people, and you are going to bump into many of the same types: the gossip, the penny-pincher, the blowhard, the maverick, and all the rest. Our subdivision is no exception to the rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Every story is true, only the names have been changed to be more ridiculous.

Imagine James and the Giant Peach, only instead of a giant peach it's a genetic abomination, an unholy hulk of agonized flesh that should not be...and instead of a small boy sharing a jolly adventure with a group of anthropomorphic insects, there is a mindless killing machine on a nightmare voyage through an ecological hell with a group of horrifying freaks! Torture in the name of science! A plastic island inhabited by mutant sea monkeys! Pollution kaiju! A retelling of a beloved children's classic sure to have the original author spinning in his grave!

Sam DuChamp, un mediocre scrittore di spy stories, ispirandosi al classico di Cervantes crea un personaggio di nome Quichotte: un gentile commesso viaggiatore ossessionato dalla televisione che si innamora in modo impossibile di una star della TV. Insieme al figlio (immaginario), Sancho, Quichotte si lancia in un picaresco viaggio attraverso tutta l'America per mostrarsi degno della mano della amata, e fronteggia coraggiosamente i tragicomici pericoli di un'epoca in cui "tutto può succedere".

A zany twist on the Southern Gothic, Ballad of Jasmine Wills is a wild and heartfelt tale of abduction and revenge, body shaming and media fame. Lee Rozelle’s debut novel is the story of overweight banker Jasmine and her kidnapper, the enigmatic reality TV mastermind Preston Price. Trapped inside an egg-shaped studio in the secluded backwoods, Jasmine is tortured with haute cuisine, brainwashed with self-help videos, and badgered with cardio exercise routines for her growing mass of livestream fans.

Framed as a reference work of humorous “entries” that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country’s foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible.

Everywhere Sara Javed goes—online or outside—everyone is shouting about something. Couldn't they all just shut up? One day she takes her own advice. At first people don't understand her silence and are politely confused at best. But the last thing Sara could anticipate is becoming the figurehead of a global movement that splits society in two. The Silent Movement sparks outrage in its opposers. Global structures start to shift. And the lives of those closest to Sara—as well as strangers inspired by her act—begin to unravel.

Lo que comenzó como un intercambio lúdico de correspondencia entre Eloy Urroz y Jorge Volpi germinó en este extraordinario volumen que incluye Herir tu fiera carne y Sanar tu piel amarga, dos relatos anti-solemnes, más bien humorísticos, que satirizan el género romántico a la vez que tienden una trampa para exponer sus mecanismos. Dos breves obras maestras que develan las fantasías sentimentales y reavivan los inconvenientes de los triángulos amorosos.

Russia, 1907. Vladimir Durov has a prized pig he has trained for the circus. Dorov loves to make people laugh at his pig’s crazy antics. But he finds that when his pig performs for the recently widowed circus owner, Natasha, the most he can get is a smile. Desperate to capture her heart, the rough-hewn trainer comes up with a dangerous scheme to impress the woman he has come to love. As the circus travels to Germany in pursuit of more paying customers, Durov decides to dress his prized pig as the war-mongering Kaiser himself.

Aliester Crewley is the most famous magickian in America thanks to his defeat of the demigod Brittany Spears. But, being in the public eye has serious downsides, as Aliester is about to find out. In this outrageous sequel to Kenny G Must Die!!, the author who brought you the Zombie John Coltrane introduces a whole new menagerie of unlikely weirdness, including: Gnome Chomsky, Darth Cheney, the levitation of the Pentagon, goats, child celebrity conspiracies, Yog Sothoth, and the freaky fashion choice known as Necropants. It's the most fun you can have with your Necropants on!

Since mankind first climbed down from the trees, we have looked out to the stars. We looked outward, wondering what secrets to our existence are out there. Professor John Spanks is about to discover the biggest secret the universe has. John has his world turned upside down when he discovers that all this time, we were looking the wrong way!

Ashley is an ambitious young woman on a quest to gain admission to a top law school and become a successful attorney. She has studied long and hard to ace the LSAT when tragedy strikes. A virus has caused a plague that canceled the LSAT, and no one knows what the format will be in the future. Now more anxious than ever, how will Ashley defeat the LSAT and finally go on to law school? And what does all of this have to do with toilet paper?

Four Finn Briscoe adventures: 1) Smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts as a wild and wide-eyed Amherst College freshman from Missouri. 2) Three hippies are on a road trip from Missouri to Florida when their car blows up in Atlanta. They crash at the Salvation Army while looking for a $100 set of wheels, but can they keep the pet clownfish alive? 3) Finn and friends get construction jobs with a bunch of prisoners on daytime work release—who corrupts who? 4) Finn comes back to Missouri and gets work on the Mississippi River.

Return to America’s most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship—AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism.

The legendary ironic insightful classic by Voltaire, considered the greatest artistic genius of his era. Introducing the legendary, best-of-all-possible-worlds Pangloss. A whirlwind trip around the globe with irony, wit, insight, genius, and more at each stop.

Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious—perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters—not because she wants to but because it’s the right thing to do—does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider. Then, during a mimosa-soaked Sunday brunch, she meets her boyfriend’s alluring mother, Millie. As they begin spending time together, getting pedicures and drinking martinis, Cara becomes hooked on Millie and this new freedom from the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century.