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1066 And All That
by W. C. Sellar, R.J. Yeatman

ISBN 1850891796 (1-85089-179-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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Since its publication in October of 1930, this classic spoof on textbook history has sold four million copies worldwide and has itself become a part of humor history. This anniversary edition is a celebration of this uproarious satire's lingering appeal and is enhanced by brilliant new drawings by cartoonist Stephen Appleby. [via]
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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carrol

ISBN 193365208X (1-933652-08-X)
Softcover, Bed Book

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll, Kathy Mitchell

ISBN 0307671119 (0-307-67111-9)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice in Wonderland Classic Library
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Hugh Haughton

ISBN 0141439769 (0-14-143976-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll, Jenny Thorne

ISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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Aventuras De Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas /alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 9590804489 (959-08-0448-9)
Softcover, Gente Nueva Editorial

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Nueva edición en español del famoso libro de Lewis Carroll. [via]
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A Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore

ISBN 0060590289 (0-06-059028-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
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Eachtrai Eilise I DTir Na NIontas
by Lewis Carroll, Nicholas Williams, John Tenniel

ISBN 1904808018 (1-904808-01-8)
Softcover, Coisceim

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England, England
by Julian Barnes

ISBN 0375705503 (0-375-70550-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Imagine being able to visit England--all of England--in a single weekend. Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall, Harrods, Manchester United Football Club, the Tower of London, and even the Royal Family all within easy distance of the each other, accessible, and, best of all, each one living up to an idealized version of itself. This fantasy Britain is the very real (and some would say very cynical) vision of Sir Jack Pitman, a monumentally egomaniacal mogul with a more than passing resemblance to modern-day buccaneers Sir Rupert Murdoch or Robert Maxwell: "'We are not talking theme park,' he began. 'We are not talking heritage centre. We are not talking Disneyland, World's Fair, Festival of Britain, Legoland or Parc Asterix.'" No indeed; Sir Jack proposes nothing less than to offer "the thing itself," a re-creation of everything that adds up to England in the hearts and minds of tourists looking for an "authentic" experience. But where to locate such an enterprise? As Sir Jack points out,
England, as the mighty William and many others have observed, is an island. Therefore, if we are serious, if we are seeking to offer the thing itself, we in turn must go in search of a precious whatsit set in a silver doodah.
Soon the perfect whatsit is found: the Isle of Wight; and a small army of Sir Jack's forces are sent to lay siege to it. Swept up in the mayhem are Martha Cochrane, a thirtysomething consultant teetering on the verge of embittered middle age, and Paul Harrison, a younger man looking for an anchor in the world. The two first find each other, then trip over a skeleton in Sir Jack's closet that might prove useful to their careers but disastrous to their relationship. In the course of constructing this mad package-tour dystopia, Julian Barnes has a terrific time skewering postmodernism, the British, the press, the government, celebrity, and big business. At the same time his very funny novel offers a provocative meditation on the nature of identity, both individual and national, as the lines between the replica and the thing itself begin to blur. Readers of Barnes have learned to expect the unexpected, and once again he more than lives up to the promise in England, England. But then, that was only to be expected. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War
by Jaroslav Hasek

ISBN 1585004286 (1-58500-428-6)
Softcover, Authorhouse

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Some writers so capture the soul and spirit of a people that they are identified with them forever after. In England, it was Charles Dickens, in the United States, it was Mark Twain. For the Slavic nations, and to some extent for all Central Europeans, it is the Czech writer, Jaroslav Hasek.
Hasek's most important work was centered around a Czech soldier's experiences in World War One. It's actual title is The Fateful Adventures of The Good Soldier Svejk during the World War, but it is known by tens of millions of Central Europeans as simply, The Good Soldier Svejk. This monumental, humorous work is acknowledged as ". . . one of the greatest masterpieces of satirical writing" by no less a standard and exalted reference than the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The book's central character is a quintessential, working-class citizen-soldier, often abused by the fates and the forces of the Austrian empire. In both civilian and military life, Svejk lives by his wits. His chief ploy is to appear witless to those in authority. In fact, he is fond of pointing out that he has been certified to be an imbecile by an official military medical commission. Consequently, he reasons, he cannot be held responsible for his sometimes questionable actions because he's a certified nitwit!
Yet, Svejk is not a coward, nor is he indolent. He is drafted back into the army as cannon fodder to die for an Emperor he despises. His method of subverting the Austrian Empire is to carry out his orders to an absurd conclusion. His is an inspired resistance. He holds the foreign authorities, and their Czech fellow travelers, accountable for their ridiculous platitudes and pseudo-patriotic blather. [via]
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Good Soldier Schweik
by Hasek Jaroslav

ISBN 0848800982 (0-8488-0098-2)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Good Soldier Schweik
by Jaroslav Hasek

ISBN 0451518942 (0-451-51894-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the War
by Jaroslav Hasek, Cecil Parrott, Josef Lada

ISBN 0434313750 (0-434-31375-0)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science & Technology Books

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Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War. [via]
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War
by Jaroslav Hasek, Josef Lada, Cecil Parrott

ISBN 0140449914 (0-14-044991-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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Introduction and translation by Cecil Parrott [via]
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Heart of a Dog
by Mirra Ginsburg, Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN 0394623800 (0-394-62380-0)
Softcover, Grove Press

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This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
by Wolfgang Iser

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy
by Sterne

ISBN 014024204X (0-14-024204-X)
Softcover, Penguin Uk

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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The comic masterpiece Tristram Shandy is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.

@ACockAndBallsStory Ive just been born, and I had a tragic accident. A windowpane fell on me, and flattened my dic NOSE. My nose! That was almost embarrassing.

Chapter XIX: I dont feel like tweeting today.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Lawrence Sterne

ISBN 1846376262 (1-84637-626-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex Laurence Sterne s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne the most liberated spirit of all time . [via]
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Motel of the Mysteries
by David Macaulay

ISBN 0395284244 (0-395-28424-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The Mouse That Roared
by Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley

ISBN 0316938726 (0-316-93872-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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The Mouse That Roared
by Leonard Wibberley

ISBN 1568582498 (1-56858-249-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated

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The basis of the 1959 film starring Peter Sellers, this classic cold war satire-cum-parable-cum-political farce was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post almost 50 years ago, appearing under the title The Day New York Was Invaded. At the time, the U.S. was afraid of a nuclear attack by Russia the idea of an attack by a small country was so absurd as to seem comical. Wibberley's tiny European nation is furious about unfair U.S. trading practices, so they send an army to invade New York City, march up Broadway, and accidentally capture the world's newest and most destructive bomb. Then they have to figure out what to do with it. A whimsical cross between Kubrick and Kafka, The Mouse That Roared is a quirky classic of world literature, a poignant tale of political morality, and a hilarious, ultimately triumphant portrait of international relations from the perspective of the little guy.
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The Onion Ad Nauseum: Complete New Archives
by Robert Siegel, Tim Harrod, Mike Loew, Todd Hanson, Carol Kolb, John Krewson, Maria Schneider, Joe Garden, Chris Karwowski, Rich Dahm

ISBN 1400047242 (1-4000-4724-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Only Begotten Daughter
by James Morrow

ISBN 0156002434 (0-15-600243-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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Murray Katz, the celibate keeper of an abandoned lighthouse near Atlantic City, has been blessed with a daughter conceived of his own seed and a holy ovum. Like her half brother Jesus, Julie Katz can walk on water, heal the blind, and raise the dead. But being the Messiah isn't easy, and Julie, bewildered by her role in the divine scheme of things, is tempted by the Devil and challenged by neo- Christian zealots in this lively odyssey through Hell and New Jersey. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. [via]
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Parliament of Whores
by P. J. O'Rourke

ISBN 0871134551 (0-87113-455-1)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

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If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it. Parliament of Whores is the humorist's howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of National Lampoon, nothing is out of bounds for O'Rourke. Speaking of the fabled "football"--that satchel that follows the president around 24/7--the author doubts there are really launch codes in there at all--nothing but "a copy of Penthouse and a pint bottle of Hiram Walker--a Penthouse from back in the seventies, when Penthouse was really dirty, I'll bet."
Parliament of Whores is perfect for anyone who longs to cultivate an entertaining brand of cynicism, to be "a lone voice--not crying in the wilderness, thank you, but chortling in the rec room." O'Rourke is a master at making you laugh in spite of the better angels of your nature, and the only negative thing to be said about this tour de force is that his flamethrower brand of satire leaves nothing in its wake--certainly not the suggestion of an improvement. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Government
by P. J. O'Rourke, Andrew Ferguson

ISBN 0802139701 (0-8021-3970-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it. Parliament of Whores is the humorist's howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of National Lampoon, nothing is out of bounds for O'Rourke. Speaking of the fabled "football"--that satchel that follows the president around 24/7--the author doubts there are really launch codes in there at all--nothing but "a copy of Penthouse and a pint bottle of Hiram Walker--a Penthouse from back in the seventies, when Penthouse was really dirty, I'll bet."
Parliament of Whores is perfect for anyone who longs to cultivate an entertaining brand of cynicism, to be "a lone voice--not crying in the wilderness, thank you, but chortling in the rec room." O'Rourke is a master at making you laugh in spite of the better angels of your nature, and the only negative thing to be said about this tour de force is that his flamethrower brand of satire leaves nothing in its wake--certainly not the suggestion of an improvement. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook
by Frederick C. Crews

ISBN 0226120589 (0-226-12058-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. [via]
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Syrup
by Maxx Barry

ISBN 0140291873 (0-14-029187-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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An over-the-top debut about a young wannabe buzzmaker who will do almost anything to get ahead and get a date, for fans who laughed out loud at Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding.

He's young, he's in LA, and he's trying to carve a path in the most powerful, corrupt, and insane industry in the world: marketing. So when Scat (you don't get far in this business as plain old Michael) is hit with a million-dollar idea for a new soda, he teams up with 6, a woman whose cold-blooded political skill is the perfect counterbalance for his naivete. While she knows all the angles, her own angles leave Scat sleepless. Together, can they hold on to the idea when the stakes are seven figures? Or will success remain one knife in the back away?

Outrageously funny, smart, and hip, Syrup is a one-gulp adventure through the sticky worlds of corporate and sexual politics. In the book everyone will want to read this summer, Maxx (ne Max) Barry delivers a pitch-perfect sendup of our obsession with having it all. Self-absorbed and hilarious, Syrup is a Bright Lights, Big City for the late 90s. [via]
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Ten Sixty-Six and All That
by Sellar

ISBN 0525470255 (0-525-47025-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

ISBN 3895084638 (3-89508-463-8)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne, Howard Anderson

ISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The Truth with Jokes
by Al Franken

ISBN 0452287677 (0-452-28767-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Shiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ISBN 8426102670 (84-261-0267-0)
Hardcover, Juventud

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Nueva edición en español del famoso libro de Lewis Carroll. [via]
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Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carrol, John Tenniol

ISBN 8431625864 (84-316-2586-4)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.

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Spanish book. [via]
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Alicia Pais De Las Maravillas
by Disney, Walt Disney Company

ISBN 958041615X (958-04-1615-X)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA

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Este libro relata la maravillosa historia de Alicia en el país de las maravillas. La longitud y el lenguaje de estos textos son adecuados para quienes ya están familiarizados con la lectura y para quienes buscan relatos divertidos. [via]
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Aventuras De Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas
by Lewis Carroll, Eduardo Stilman, John Tenniel

ISBN 9875503851 (987-550-385-1)
Hardcover, Longseller S.A.

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Las Aventuras De Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas / Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland, 1865
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 848916343X (84-89163-43-X)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones

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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer / The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
by Julia Daroqui, Not Available, Santos Martinez Koch

ISBN 950110012X (950-11-0012-X)
Hardcover, Editorial Sigmar S.A.C.I.

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Impresor, piloto de un vapor en el Mississippi, soldado confederado, buscador de metales preciosos, periodista e infatigable conferenciante, MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) llego a ser el escritor mas popular de su pais y un mordaz observador de sus contemporaneos. Tejidas en torno a la evocacion de la infancia del autor a orillas del Gran Rio, el Mississippi, LAS AVENTURAS DE TOM SAWYER es una de las mas conseguidas imagenes de ese mundo de suenos, injusticias, rebeldias e ilusiones de la edad que precede a la responsabilidad y al escepticismo. [via]
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Vida Y Opiniones Del Caballero Tristram Shandy / The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 8437605032 (84-376-0503-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Alice in Wunderland
by Lewis, Lewis Carroll

ISBN 3499207338 (3-499-20733-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Alice ist ein etwa zehnjähriges Mädchen, das sich über ein sprechendes weißes Kaninchen wundert, das auch noch eine Uhr bei sich hat. Neugierig folgt sie dem Tier in dessen Bau und gerät in ein unterirdisches Wunderland. Einmal wächst Alice bis weit über die Baumkronen hinaus. Auf die Größe eines Pilzes geschrumpft, erlebt Alice mit Fabeltieren und Spielkarten ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen und kommt aus dem Staunen nicht mehr heraus. [via]
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