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1261) Lie, lie again: a novel
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"All three women who live at 1054 Mockingbird Lane have secrets... and with a body at the bottom of their apartment building's staircase, those secrets need to stay buried. Sylvia Webb has a plan. And a potential Mr. Right. He's sweet, simple, and dependably clueless about what she's up to. The only thing unpredictable about him is his needy ex-girlfriend, who is this close to shattering Sylvia's dreams. But Sylvia's not going to let that happen....
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Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.
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In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.
1264) Falling into the mob
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After falling in love with a mobster's daughter he met on a commuter train, law abiding Phil Vail becomes a crime boss in her family, but has to reconsider his position when an old friend, an ex-CEO, decides to run for president.
After falling in love with a mobster's daughter he met on a commuter train, law abiding speechwriter Phil Vail becomes a crime boss in her family. He has to reconsider his position when an old friend, an ex-CEO, decides...
1265) Hell was full
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A group of raccoons gnaw on God's severed head; a man brags to his friend about driving a Transformer out of its own funeral; a toaster revolts against its master. These are just some of the scenes in the pitch-black world of Hell was Full, the popular webcomic that blends the bleak and the absurd into a delcious dadaist cocktail.
1266) Bad thoughts: stories
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"An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and compulsive irreverence, explores the most surreal and inadmissible fantasies of contemporary women. In her startlingly funny debut collection, Nada Alic portrays characters compelled by an inner agitation-a deep desire to know themselves beyond their prescribed social roles of wife, artist, woman, friend. Bad Thoughts journeys inside the subterranean...
1268) 8 heads in a duffel bag
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Hit man Tommy Spinelli has 24 hours to deliver a bag of 8 "former associates" to an angry mob boss in San Diego. But when Charlie, a fellow passenger on his flight, mistakenly takes the bag, the heads go to Baja. When Charlie discovers the bag's horrific contents, he desperately tries to get the bag back to the border.
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The enigmatic Dr. Fischer is a millionaire, student of human nature, practical joker, and party giver. His parties are famous or perhaps nortorious for they are part of his experiment to see how far the very, very rich will go to satisfy their greed. His guest risk not only humiliation at his hands, but death.
1273) Monster in a box
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This long-awaited monologue by Gray has been performed to the applause of sell-out crowds and the accolades of critics in New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Appearing here in book form for the first time, with a new afterword, Monster in a Box will be released as a feature film in 1992.
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"From the creators of the hugely popular Instagram comic War and Peas, this offbeat four-panel comic features a dark, fairy-tale aesthetic and a twist ending each time. War and Peas: Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers combine twisted humor with a beloved cast of characters including the grim reaper (seen here as an unintentionally lethal man of leisure), a robot in hopelessly in love with his scientist creator, and a promiscuous yet self-assured witch....
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"Niespokojni ludzie to zakręcona komedia o dramacie zakładników pojmanych w trakcie oglądania mieszkania na sprzedaż. Kiedy po nieudanym napadzie na bank zamaskowana jednostka z bronią w ręku wbiega do wystawionego na sprzedaż mieszkania, z przerażeniem odkrywa, że właśnie przez przypadek wydłużyła listę swoich przewinień o wzięcie zakładników. I to, jak się szybko okazuje, najgorszych zakładników, jakich świat widział. Bo...
1278) The murderer
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"Quiet, reserved, painfully shy, Galton Flood arrives in the Guyanese township of Linden haunted by the death of his domineering mother. There he meets Gemma Burrowes, a vibrant young woman eager to escape the confines of her father's boarding house. They marry and make a home in the anonymous sprawl of Georgetown, Galton's native city, where Gemma starts to realize that there is something very wrong with this match, and with Galton himself."--
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