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Somewhere people act normal--but not in the Downy Mount Mobile Home Park, where recently widowed Marfa Bacot lives with her mother-in-law, Lulu, who cleans from hell to breakfast and has her make-up tattooed on so she's always ready for the rapture.

Desperate to complete the last chapter of his law thesis on workplace dynamics for women to secure his tenure, Professor Stanley Hopkins stumbles on an old close college friend, Donald Johansson, who has plenty of female employees. The problem is that Donald is a porn video king. Taking his wife to California’s seedy city of Burbank to help with taping interviews, Stanley realizes he is in way over his head the moment a leading porn star is brutally killed in Donald’s office during a party.

A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child.

A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an intergalactic exchange program to learn how to become human. To live here, the traveler must study and understand our inclinations for seeing people as distinct beings - the nature of gender, and at the heart of identity, the word I. At once funny and serious, Journal from Ellipsia offers a starkly objective view on our own humanity.

Dawn is still in love with Hank, who dumped her for Christine - and they're living together now. Then Mike Blitsky - proprietor of a transvestite escort service - bursts into Dawn's life when she becomes the editor of a tell-all memoir he's writing to pay for his legal defense. Unbeknownst to Dawn, Hank is Mike's lawyer, defending him against charges of running a male prostitution ring. With everyone working at cross purposes, the result is a modern day comedy of errors that doesn't wind up until the wedding bouquet goes flying in the final scene.

The Devil gives Norman Reeves an ill-fated mission he has no choice but to accept: Find the center of Eden and reverse the Fall of Man. Thrust into a place called Creation, Norman's task is plagued by unimaginable people and events. He must unravel impossible clues to free the Three Trees and keep himself out of Hell at the same time. On this surreal and humorous journey, Norman discovers many things better left unknown: the shocking secret lives of people close to him and the other unthinkable reason he was brought here.

Domesticity and creativity wrestle in these hilariously skewed tales of postmodern family life.

The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus’s existing work in humor. The author weighs in on his childhood, everyday life, and outdoor tales with his typical exaggerated commentary that will elicit a belly laugh from all types of listeners. Read about the antics of Patrick’s friends Rancid Crabtree and Retch Sweeney in such stories as “Shaping Up for the Hunt” and “Bear Hunters”, and much more!

Morgan Beale is a pop icon - and hates every second of it. He begins adapting the latest best seller, The Chihuahua in the Blue Prada Bag, into a blockbuster movie just before his celebutante wife starts remodeling their Hollywood home, driving Beale to a hotel. Dodging the paparazzi one morning on his way to Starbucks, he spots his writing partner, Luke, who has been dead for over a decade, and who is staring into a mysterious hole in the ground....

Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce. Her mother is estranged, her father is ill, her brother and stepbrother are emotionally distant and growing restless, and all the while, her tight-lipped and depressed husband is pressing her to have a baby. Full of barbed dialogue and macabre, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics and the awkward social dances performed daily, this novel depicts those who feel permanently out of place.

Steve thought to cut in on the source of blackmail money that Dingo Stark was paying the boys who wanted to COLOR HIM GAY, but his hatred took him too far. As his screams drift through the still air, it's up to the debonair secret agent Jackie Holmes, that Man from C.A.M.P., to arrive in time to save the day!

Bakar Puran is a biography of all those bachelor guys who leave their homes for cities like Delhi and become a part of the city. This book contains stories of every bachelor who fell in love, did stupid things and discussed India's foreign policy at the neighbourhood tea stall. Bakar Puran is the past, present and future of those bachelors which will always be the same. The language and style have the realism of a bachelor pad. Here, there is no garb of elitism in expression. Whatever it is, it just is.

Amy Miller gets dumped on her wedding day and everyone knows it's for the best. Except for Amy. When her best friend treats Amy to a little retail therapy and convinces her to treat herself to an extravagantly priced but adorable pair of shoes that purportedly once belonged to a siren of the silver screen, she balks at first, but their allure soon wears her down. Once they are hers, everything in her life starts to change. A new romance blossoms, but things may not be what they seem.

Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P., is at it again, this time surrounding himself with the most outrageous crime-fighting team ever assembled: THE GAY DOGS.

Queens, hustlers, and strippers help out, with many coffee breaks scattered along the way to pursue their favorite sports. Will the purloined pooches bite the dust? It's C.A.M.P. versus B.U.T.C.H., as Jackie Holmes and his furry friends race to a bone-gnawing climax!

(K)ein Boss zum Verlieben. Eine dumme Wette, eine junge, schöne Bankerbin und ein knallharter Manager! Das sind die Zutaten für eine witzig-leichte Liebesgeschichte aus der Feder der Bestsellerautorin Clannon Miller und ihrer Tochter Emilia Mahler. Nach einer Wette schmuggelt sich Lea unter falschem Namen in ihre eigene Bank ein. Sie will ihrer Mutter beweisen, dass sie die Bank, die sie geerbt hat, auch führen kann. In der Abteilung von Heinrich Wolf steigt sie als kleine, unbedeutende Juristin ein.

The best-selling author of A Chip Off the Old Black, Black is the New Green, and many more is black for another round of gut-busting stories and essays. This time round, Arthur Black turns his critical eye and warped funny bone to the world beyond Salt Spring Island, lambasting the amateur ballplayer who sued because the sun was in his eyes, the craze for blood sports and our anachronistic fetish for suits and ties.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas muss in ihrem neuesten Fall ausgerechnet an einer Privatschule mit dem dubiosen Namen "Sarah Child Academy" ermitteln. Dort wurde in der Mittagspause ein junger Geschichtslehrer tot aufgefunden. In seinem Blut entdeckt man Spuren eines tödlichen Giftes. Hat ihn seine frisch Angetraute auf dem Gewissen? Oder hatte er Feinde in der Schule? Und was wissen die Schüler? Die Leiche des Lehrers ist aber nicht Eves einziges Problem.

Eine persönliche Nachricht, eine tote Prostituierte und ein Tatort, der kaum blutiger sein könnte: Lieutenant Eve Dallas verfolgt einen Killer durch die Straßen von New York, der die Handschrift der brutalsten Serienmörder der Geschichte kopiert. Schnell wird klar, dass die Polizistin diesmal direkt im Fadenkreuz des Täters steht. Eine atemlose Hetzjagd beginnt, die Eve bis in die höchsten Kreise der Reichen und Mächtigen führt. Eve und der Mörder sind beide Jäger und Gejagte zugleich.

Following a cancer diagnosis, 40-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto faces a shutdown and he meets with the condominium developers ready to take it over - including a foul-mouthed young Chinese entrepreneur and Wende, his ex-girlfriend from graduate school - Prin hears the voice of God.

An old house, a new lover, a fresh life for Dominick - or will the faith-driven doom it all? The past just won't go away. Dominick likes to idle there in history's comfortable remove, but when his mother dies and he meets the half sister he never knew he had, the past becomes more personal - and the present more dangerous. Dominick's perpetual peregrinations are interrupted by a visit to his newfound sibling's historic Hudson Valley estate, which is also home to a Wiccan coven.