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What do readers say about Let's Pretend This Never Happened?
self deprecating humor disturbing and hilarious hilarious and outlandish high-energy and high-dramaThe #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.
"Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate."-O, The Oprah Magazine
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream wa... More details on Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Call me Ishmael. I won’t answer to it, because it’s not my name, but it’s much more agreeable than most of the things I’ve been called. “Call me ‘that-weird-chick-who-says-“fuck”-a-lot’” is probably m...
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What do readers say about Bonk?
informative and witty humorous and informative entertaining and informative folksy, jokey toneA New York Times Bestseller
"Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It's compulsively readable." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
InBonk ?the best-selling author ofStiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on t... More details on Bonk
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What do readers say about Running with Scissors?
coming of age memoir shallow & almost banal disturbing but compelling witty, funny, and bizarreThe #1 New York Times Bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Now a Major Motion Picture
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorth... More details on Running with Scissors
Y MOTHER IS STANDING IN FRONT OF THE BATHROOM MIRror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Naté, Dippity Do and the waxy sweetness of lipstick. Her white, handgunshaped blow-dryer is lying on top of ...
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What do readers say about Bumped?
disturbing and funny fast-paced writing style tongue firmly in cheek the pregnancy epidemicA virus has swept the world, making everyone over the age of eighteen infertile. Teenagers are now the most prized members of society, and would-be parents desperately bid for "conception contracts" with the prettiest, healthiest, and smartest girls-... More details on Bumped
Free from neggy eyes, I could act just like the fat and happy models in the commercials. I could shout, I could shimmy, I could show off every pound of my, um, abundant awesomeness. Such gushing doesn...
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What do readers say about Snuff?
the porn industry the adult film industry easy to read book record breaking gang-bangsIn the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for... More details on Snuff
One dude stood allafternoon at the buffet wearing just his boxers, licking the orange dust off barbecued potato chips. Next to him, a dude was scooping into the onion dip and licking the dip off the c...
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What do readers say about Cruddy?
intense and disturbing a harrowing, gritty novel the plot defies synopsis dark coming-of-age taleOn a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write.
Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the au... More details on Cruddy
The Turtle said, “Would you ladies like to join me in New Orleans? Would you like to experience the malodor of the sad drunk’s urine in Pirate’s Alley? Would you care to gaze upon the House of the Ris...
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What do readers say about Pretend I'm Dead?
weird, disturbing, and funny novel in stories nature based nonfiction an absolute riotNAMED A BEST BOOK of the YEAR by O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, REFINERY 29, and KIRKUS REVIEWS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
A "wondrous," (O, The Oprah Magazine) "scathingly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) debut from Whiting Awa... More details on Pretend I'm Dead
FOR MONTHS HE WAS JUST A NUMBER TO HER: SHE COUNTED HIS dirties, he dropped them in the bucket, she recorded the number on the clipboard, and he moved down the line. Another pelican mired in oil, worn...
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What do readers say about Night Music?
very lovecraftian tale the range and diversity delicate and slightly chilling short fictionFans of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and NOCTURNES will be delighted with this superbly crafted collection - with two award-winning stories - of the supernatural from John Connolly.
A decade after NOCTURNES first terrified and delighted readers, John Con... More details on Night Music
He worked for the housing department of a minor English council, with the job title of Closed Accounts Registrar. His task, from year to year, entailed compiling a list of those who had either relinqu...
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What do readers say about Milkman?
big complicated sentences dense and requires concentration a complex fable stilted and formalIn this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother... More details on Milkman
The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died. He had been shot by one of the state hit squads and I did not care ...
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What do readers say about All Quiet On the Orient Express?
light and gentle men and their work pure concentrated mills small town lifeMagnus Mills’s first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a “comic wonder.” His second novel, All Quiet on the Orient Express, is an equally edgy blend of high-grade comedy and low-grade paranoia.
With insidiously beguiling... More details on All Quiet On the Orient Express
I’d been wondering when he would come to collect the rent. Several times in the past few days he’d gone round calling on everyone else, but for some reason he kept leaving me out. Now, on the sixth mo...
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