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42) Lizard world
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press/The University of West Alabama
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages : geneological table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"'A certain noble earl had need of a handsome, young female carcass-- for which specimen I would be excellently paid provided it be fresh and that the feet were shapely and unblemished'...Thus begins the long association of a young medical doctor and his hilariously depraved American descendants with the notorious Earl of Griswold, a 17th-century libertine and connoisseur of smells whose discovery of an elixir in the Florida swamps will keep his evil...
43) Tuf voyaging
Author
Publisher
Baen Book
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Haviland Tuf is the galaxy's only perfectly fair and honest businessman who raises cats. How is it, in a world of the worst rogues, murderers, assassins, and thieves the galaxy has to offer, that he has a genuine Old Earth Ecological Corps seedship, the most powerful weapon in all of human space? Be glad he is honest.
45) Sugar and rum
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers--not to mention a lake monster--are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.
49) Footsucker
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"John McManus's long awaited short story collection encompasses the geographic limits of America, from trailers hidden in deep Southern woods to an Arkansas ranch converted into an elephant refuge. His lost-soul characters reel precariously between common anxiety and drug-enhanced paranoia, sober reality and fearsome hallucination. These nine masterpieces of twisted humor and pathos re-establish McManus as one of the most bracing voices of our time."--Provided...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holly Liddell has been stuck with crimped hair since 1987 when she agreed to let her boyfriend, Elton, turn her into a vampire. But when he ditches her at a gas station a few decades into their eternity together, she realizes that being young forever actually means working graveyard shifts at Taco Bell, sleeping in seedy motels, and being supernaturally compelled to follow your ex from town to town, at least until Holly meets Elton's other exes, who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Liam, a policeman and aspiring author, looks for inspiration to his best friend, Aldo, a hapless criminal with a knack for misfortunes who is trying to win back his ex-wife.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction, published by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A small Georgia town, filled with a curious assortment of losers, anticipates the promise of bizarre new possibilities with the upcoming rattlesnake hunt.
54) Find me: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Find Me is the story of a young woman reckoning with the ghosts of her past in a post-epidemic America"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this black comedy Jack attempts to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects--eight women lying in the bedroom just down the hall. Each woman (including his wife) tells a story drawn from five centuries of American myth and legend.
56) Sedating Elaine
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A black comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's hairbrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make some soup and finally get some peace and quiet."--
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.
58) Amnesia
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny--that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics. When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian woman. Has she declared cyber war on the United States...
60) Act of God
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady,...
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