Books That Sound Interesting Part 11

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Lamb

by Christopher Moore

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows …
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A Dirty Job

by Christopher Moore

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind …
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Bloodsucking Fiends

by Christopher Moore

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman …
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Coyote Blue

by Christopher Moore

From Christopher Moore, author of Fluke, comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption. As a boy growing …
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

by Christopher Moore

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly …
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international …
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Immortality

by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind …
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Slowness

by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. …
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Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris …
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Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

“Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—People Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack …
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Another Roadside Attraction

by Tom Robbins

“Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as …
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward

by Tom Robbins

Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York …
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

by Tom Robbins

“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, …
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Skinny Legs and All

by Tom Robbins

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, …
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

by Tom Robbins

Get ready for “the ride of your life” (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial …
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

by Tom Robbins

“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. …
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Villa Incognito

by Tom Robbins

Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women …
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The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

by Amos Tutuola

The ghosts live in the center of the jungle and this tells of what happens to the mortals who venture into the world of the …
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the BuendĂ­a family.
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The Good Soldier Svejk

 

Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War