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When a mad dentist steals people's teeth, Miss Lamp comes to town. When Miss Lamp comes to town, she stays in Room 32 of the Peachland Hotel. As she waits for a wellcrafted grilled cheese sandwich - with pickle on the side, of course - and a bowl of tomato soup, she drifts back to her past, picking and pocketing, her memories along the way.

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Chinua Achebe meets Graham Greene in this satirical and heartrending novel about the damage wrought by American imperialism.

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Missouri is the first English translation of German novelist Christine Wunnicke: an earnest, violent, yet achingly beautiful love story between an English poet and a feral, young outlaw set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest.

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Relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.

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Relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.

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A contemporary family drama in which adult children lose jobs, divorce, and move back home with mom and chaos ensues.

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A review of Modern Love and Other Tall Tales

With prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are not quite so "tall" as the title might suggest; in fact, their distinction lies in the way they negotiate

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A fast-moving Hollywood satirical adventure and deeply revelatorylove story with a comprehensive look at the reality of producing a TVseries.

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The stories in 'Monkey Girl' unveil the humour and horror in the ordinary situations of modern day life that usually pass unnoticed.

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The life of William Morris and the music of Bjork - could they be the materials for a modern opera The Inner West Creative Mime Atelier thinks so. As their project unfolds, it intersects the lives of the narrator, his gradchild, his daughter Gracie and her intended spouse. A new book from author of Helen Garner and the Meaning of Everything,

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Camus meets Orhan Pamuk, via Freud, in this existentialist novel by the father of Turkish modernism.

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A Haitian immigrant in the US tries to stay emotionally afloat after the 2010 Haitian earthquake rips her family apart.

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A young man travels to Trinidad to reconnect with a transgender parent, uncovering the complex realities of love and family.

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Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with an outrageous lie.

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The third collection of Robert Munsch's popular stories - zany, contemporary and reflecting a jaunty belief in the power of children. Includes Stephanie's Ponytail, Angela's Airplane, Jonathan Cleaned Up Then He Heard a Sound, Show and Tell, A Promise is a Promise. Five stories for ages 4-7.

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Vanessa Henman, a British writer, is attending a Pan-African Writers' Conference in Uganda. She decides to pay her former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. A hilarious comedy of cultural errors.

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A brave and exquisitely written dystopian fantasy from celebrated novelist Moris Farhi MBE. This good old-fashioned tale of good triumphing over evil is a must read for fans of Vladimir Nabokov (Ada or Ardor); Salman Rushdie (The Moor's Last Sigh); Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude)

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"You'd need a fairy godmother too if you and your stepsister's boyfriend were in love"--Front jacket flap.

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A boy grows up an outsider in the midst of his part-Indonesian family. They are mocked for their "yellow skin", and he has to endure his father's brutality. Years later, he discovers that his father's cruelty stems from the experience of torture in a concentration camp, and begins to accept him.

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Ten connected stories about life in Poland that straddle the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession.