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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
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Hark! A Vagrant
by Kate Beaton
Presents humorous takes on history, literature, and popular culture, with commentaries on such historical figures as Nikola Tesla, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Napoleon
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Big Trouble
by Dave Barry
The humorist offers a fiction debut that describes the lives of the troubled denizens of Coconut Grove, including a career-threatened adman, an alcoholic embezzler dodging a couple of hit men, and their dysfunctional families
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The Wangs vs. The World
by Jade Chang
A wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China
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Highfire
by Eoin Colfer
Burned out by the days of yore and passing his time in the Louisiana bayou watching Flashdance, a vodka-drinking dragon endures unexpected misadventures when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run.
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. Reprint.
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
by Fannie Flagg
A coming-of-age story set on the Gulf Coast follows the adventures and misadventures of Daisy Fay, a straight-shooting girl with an eye for the bizarre, from a lonely eleven-year-old girl to the unlikely winner of the Miss Mississippi contest six years later.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life
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Welcome to Night Vale : a novel
by Joseph Fink
Handed a message by a mysterious man, a young pawn shop owner embarks on a psychologically dangerous mystery that entangles her in the life of the local PTA treasurer, who helplessly watches her son's growing obsession with his absent father
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Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
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Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
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Nancy : A Comic Collection
by Olivia Jaimes
In 2018, Olivia Jaimes became the first woman to write and illustrate the classic comic strip Nancy. Her fresh, irreverent take on the classic comic strip has become a sensation with readers and has earned praise from dozens of media outlets, several of which have named it the best comic of the year.Book Annotation
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
George, William, and J. agree on one thing. They're overworked and need a rest. A week on "the rolling deep" -- they decide -- may be just the thing! So off they go with Montmorency, the dog, anticipating the joys of long, lazy days during a glorious Victorian summer. What happens to these bungling bachelors on a two-week rowing excursion up the Thames provides fodder for one of the best-known classics of English humor.
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes
by Alexander McCall Smith
Tasked with their Swedish police department's most unusual cases, lead detective Ulf Varg and his colorful associates investigate a bizarre stabbing, a missing imaginary boyfriend, and a haunted spa
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
by Ryan North
As if settling into life on campus wasn't hard enough, Doreen Green, better known as Squirrel Girl, has to deal with Kraven the Hunter arriving on campus and Galactus heading towards Earth.
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Equal Rites : a novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
A dying wizard hopes to pass his wisdom on to the eighth son of an eighth son, but when the child comes out female, the future of magic could be in jeopardy
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Trust No Aunty
by Maria Qamar
In a funny, illustrated “survival guide” to dealing with overbearing “Aunties,” the author, otherwise known as Hatecopy on Instagram, draws on her experience in a South Asian immigrant family to provide an abundance of advice designed to help readers manage Aunty meddling and encourage them to follow their passions no matter what.
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Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
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Dear Committee Members
by Julie Schumacher
Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at a small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's would-be opus while writing wryly comic, passive-aggressive letters to students and colleagues.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
When her talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
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Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
A band of human musicians, dancers, and roadies have been chosen to represent Earth on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of their species lies in their ability to rock.
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John Dies at the End
by David Wong
A full-length tale based on the cult online serial by the editor-in-chief of Cracked.com finds an increasing number of people changed into threatening inhuman creatures by a hallucinogen, a situation that places the fate of the world in the hands of a pair of anti-heroes.
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Separation Anxiety
by Laura Zigman
A once-promising children’s book writer navigates the humbling realities of middle age and dysfunctional family life while pursuing well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous changes.
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