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41) Brenda's Owl
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Teaching English to non-native-speaker adults tends to focus on standard topics like business, shopping and travel. Brenda's Owl rings the changes with 24 short, whimsical stories about the oddball side of life in an ordinary English garden. With patterns, phrases and idioms that are current and useful in dozens of everyday conversational contexts, this book is easy to teach and fun to study!
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Stacie, Tiffany and Yadira hope to shut down their rental house and get back their security deposit before leaving town, but first they have to fix the gaping hole in the adobe wall and rid themselves of unwanted graduation "presents," both the result of an uproarious final party. This comic co-ed romp will keep you chuckling.
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Sweet natured and as dumb as a bag of hammers, Sepp Gregory parlayed his six-pack abs and broken heart into overnight success on the insanely popular "reality-based" television show Sex Cribs. Now, People magazine's "sexiest man alive" is touring the country with his bestselling debut novel, a barely fictionalized memoir he neither wrote nor read. He's signing books shirtless, so no one cares-aside from struggling novelist and bastion of intellectualism,...
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The part-observed anatomy of a man who, without question, is a revered local Glasgow Godfather. Well! That's what they all know this self-made man as.
We may judge his justified reasoning and that of his diverse cohorts as we observe their continuing operations from the city streets to behind the wall at 81, the avenue number of Barlinnie Prison.
The man himself is known to all by the name of 'Bulldog.' In 1968, there were 3,501,564 global births,...
45) Fool's Gold
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Greed saves a man from having an overly pious, hypocritical vicar as a father-in-law.
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Have you ever wondered if America could witness a Presidential candidate who truly understands the challenges of everyday life? Can someone break free from the shackles of politics as usual to make a real difference? In "What Happened to the Herd," Mark Yeager presents a captivating, fictitious account of events that just might bring about an unprecedented political transformation.
Meet Jane McQueen, a resilient single mom who excels at juggling...
48) God of Drunks
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During a stag dinner, a married man makes a startling confession.
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La novela más divertida del autor más inclasificable.
Christopher Moore es el mejor exponente de la llamada "Ficción absurda", un movimiento literario que se caracteriza por cultivar el humor absurdo y los argumentos imposibles. Los títulos de Moore son auténticos fenómenos de ventas en los Estados Unidos y han convocado a una legión de fans muy activos e implicados.
En "Almas de segunda mano", Charlie Asher, uno de los personajes más emblemáticos...
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THE F**KING IDIOT . . .Vlad Wieckowski has seen better days. With only the clothes on his back, he's out of money, out of luck, and out of gas.CONFRONTS THE EVIL PINT-SIZED BASTARD . . .That little sh*t Henry Winkle is at it again, and this time he's got warehouses full of toxic gas at his disposal. Can anyone stop his evil plot to gas the world?AND GETS F**KED OVER BY A MYSTERIOUS DIPSH*T AGENT . . .By his letter he is known.W.W for Wacky. W for...
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At only six years old the only thing Alexis worries about is inventing new games and having fun with his dog Sultan in the city of Mobile. His whole world crumbles when he falls into the hands of two enigmatic characters. His disappearance unleashes an exciting process where events unfold at neck breaking pace. Peter and The Collector embark on a wild search while the clock ticks away. Will they find him before nightfall?
This story is a sequel...
54) About Face
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Takayama Kouji's college life is not going as smoothly as planned. Home on a leave of absence because of his father's failing health, Kouji ends up missing the entire spring semester of his junior year to help run the family business. When his younger brother gets accepted to college on a baseball scholarship, Kouji makes the tough decision to return home permanently for his senior year.That means going back to New York to finish his junior year a...
55) Hood 2 Good
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Hood 2 Good is a fictional but inspirational story about resilience, loyalty, survival, and encouragement. Unfortunately, life is harder and more challenging for some. The people in this story were exposed to dangerous, dire situations early in their lives because they grew up in a downtrodden area of the city. A Good Samaritan who was determined to live a better life never wavered from this goal. One day the Good Samaritan rescued two little girls...
56) Purely by Luck
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The prequel to Chaotic Butterfly. Sakurai Yuuichi and his best friend, Takayama Kouji, don't see eye to eye sometimes about whether which groups make it in Midareteku Entertainment is all due to luck or not. Along with bandmates Tsukioka and Kurosawa, their unit's future might depend on what they decide together. Also contains the short story "Incognito," starring 5*STAR's Tsukioka and Adachi.
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Cuff College of Transgression and Pathology, Oxford.
The quiet of the evening is shattered by the discovery of a Body In The Library.
The police are Baffled. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the College, breaking every rule of the whodunit genre, follows a trail of arcane clues that leads him to Botswana and Mma Delicious Ontoast.
His investigations then take him to Sweden and Burt Colander; to Edinburgh, where he is grudgingly helped by DI John...
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The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman might be the most irresponsible book written since The Bible. And a bible it is, in its own right, for the billions of men alive today who have no clue how to behave in public or private situations.Drawing from literally thousands of his countless private journals and personal scribblings, author Sir Gentleman Brock LaBorde, Esquire, this century's self-proclaimed Master of Social Etiquette, painstakingly...
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Joe Buck, un joven e ingenuo tejano, decide dejar atrás un pasado sin salida y encontrar una vida rebosante de glamour en Nueva York. La ciudad, por supuesto, resulta ser un lugar mucho más difícil de conquistar de lo que esperaba, y pronto ve comprometido su sueño. La dura caída de Buck a la realidad y su relación con un estafador callejero lisiado, Ratso, forman el núcleo emocional de la novela, y la improbable pareja es uno de los retratos...
60) Flying the Nest
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Lonely millennial Chad MacEwan can't seem to get it together. While his boomer Uncle Martin sails through his twilight years with a full social calendar, Chad's weekly highpoint is dutifully visiting Martin at the Eldernest Assisted Living Lodge. Maybe his uncle's magnetism and way with the ladies will rub off on him, or perhaps Chad will one day gain enough courage to strike up conversation with the woman who works in the cafeteria.
It's not only...
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