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  • Have Sister Will Travel

    Claire Reynolds is completely content to spend her summer in her pajamas, stuffing her face and sulking on her couch. After all, her husband did just leave her for a younger woman. But Claire's sister, Dr. Meg Campbell, has another plan in mind. Meg sister-naps Claire and they begin a summer on a remote island off the coast of Georgia. When the plans get derailed Claire will have to get creative ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kipps

    The Story of a Simple Soul

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, the perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and it was his own favourite work. ... Read more

    $3.55 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE WHEELS OF CHANCE

    by H. G. Wells ...
    The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat. In 1922 it was adapted into a silent film The Wheels of Chance directed by Harold M. Shaw. ... Read more

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  • The History of Mr. Polly

    by H. G. Wells ...
    The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells's early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. Mr. Polly's most ... Read more

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  • Bealby: A Holiday

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Bealby: A Holiday is a comic novel by H. G. Wells. Bealby is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the nouveau riche couple renting Shonts is entertaining ... Read more

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  • The Beetle Leg: Novel

    by John Hawkes ...
    After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life.The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ponder Heart

    by Eudora Welty ...
    **“**A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times).Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

    Translated by Jacques Barzun ...
    Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas—an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France—is as relevant today as ever.Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the “right thinking” swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Coming Up for Air

    by George Orwell ...
    An insurance salesman desperately tries to recapture his youth in this “charming” comic novel by the iconic British author (The New York Times).George Bowling is having a crisis. Not a loud, unsightly one, but a small, desperate one. His days are occupied by an unfulfilling insurance job; his nights spent worrying about his mortgage, marriage, expanding waistline, and what seems to be a certain ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death on the Installment Plan

    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night.Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Perfect Vacuum

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Ingenious essays from “a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory” (The New York Times Book Review).In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been published—or even ... Read more

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  • Lost in REM

    Reverie Short Stories, #1

    Series Book 1 - Reverie Short Stories
    Definately a 'dream fantasy' gone wild.This one novelette has gained me more kudos and notoriety than any other, being reprinted countless times. It has spawned many other stories and films; a pop group; and has been used in medical discussions when oneiromancy ever raises its head.When it appeared over three decades ago, it seemed to break new ground. Fan mail poured in from as far away as Japan ... Read more

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  • End Zone

    by Don DeLillo ...
    The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The SilenceAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mr. Palomar

    by Italo Calvino ...
    A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities.In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous ... Read more

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  • The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

    Series Book 2 - Cat Who...
    Jim Qwilleran and his cat Koko get a taste of trouble in the second mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series.Jim Qwilleran isn’t exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he’s supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses when ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Montezuma's Revenge

    Series Book 1 - Tony Hawkin
    When the voice of authority calls, Tony Hawkin assumes there is a glitch. After all, why would the nation possibly require the services of a man who runs the gift shop in the FBI building? But there's no mistake, and soon Tony finds himself in the middle of Mexico, pursued by a ruthless killer, and hot on the trail of a priceless work of art. He has to find the painting, determine its authenticity ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Queen Victoria's Revenge

    Series Book 2 - Tony Hawkin
    Tony Hawkin wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an attache case with two million dollars inside, and stuffed aboard a hijacked DC-10, bound for Scotland, where he's being chased through the countryside by the hijackers, Scots patriots, a crazy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Double Whammy

    by Carl Hiaasen ...
    Series series Skink Series
    “Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dieter

    by Susan Sussman ...
    Barbara Avers has it all, a high-power attorney/politician husband, great kids, beautiful home -- and a two pack a day cigarette habit. Suddenly, her best friend dies and Barbara honors their lifelong friendship by flinging away her last carton of cigarettes. Instantly, like Alice down the rabbit hole, the once skinny Barbara hurtles headlong into the alternate universe of hips and thighs, weight ... Read more

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  • Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

    Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan:Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through the country’s rural waterways—a book “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye

    by Florence King ...
    In this collection of essays, Florence King confirms her position as one of the wittiest social critics now writing-and certainly the most uninhibited. Nothing escapes her withering gaze, from our greatest national institution ("Democrazy"), to the cult of Helpism ("Does Your Child Taste Salty?"), to the rules of historical romance writing ("Sex and the Saxon Churl"). If caring 'n' compassion are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Are Still Married

    Stories and Letters

    “Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World“Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you’re never quite sure where you are…. [His] writing has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lake Wobegon Days

    “Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” -The New York Times“A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Leaving Home

    In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. ... Read more

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