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Search results: Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional humorous or satirical books
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by
Pierre
Bayard
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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| The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as a survivors guide to life in the chattering classes. |
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Beat the Reaper
: A Novel
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Josh
Bazell
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2009
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Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital; Pietro "Bearclaw" Brwna is a hitman for the mob.
And Nicholas LoBrutto, Dr. Brown's new patient who has three months to live, has a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brwna might - just might - be the same person ... |
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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
: A Novel
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Nicholas
Drayson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 10 Sep 2009
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| A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smiths Ladies Detective series does for Botswana |
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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E
Lockhart
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 25 Aug 2009
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| Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way. |
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This Is Where I Leave You
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Jonathan
Tropper
Hardcover: 6 Aug 2009
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| A riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bindwhether we like it or not. |
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
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Colin
Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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| In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village. |
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Play Dead
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David
Rosenfelt
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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| Attorney Andy Carpenter loves dogs, especially his own beloved Tara. When Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder, it will take all the tricks he knows to convince a jury to take canine testimony seriously. |
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K Blows Top
: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
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Peter
Carlson
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America |
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