Happy Little Books
Discover the Happy Little Books curated collection, blending humor, history, and fiction for a thought-provoking read. Featuring Victor Gischler's Suicide Squeeze, Katha Pollitt's Virginity Or Death!, and Alice Walker's Meridian, this list explores joy through diverse, compelling narratives. Find your next uplifting book today.
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Suicide Squeeze
by Victor Gischler
The Edgar Award-nominated author of Gun Monkeys delivers an adrenaline rush of a novel that features a special appearance by Joe DiMaggio. The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store–in one of the stupidest insurance scams in history. Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring cross-country odyssey–and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he ends up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing.
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The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda
by Post, Jerrold M.
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Virginity Or Death!
by Katha Pollitt
Collection of Pollitt's columns in the Nation aboyt political, social and cultural trends in the United States.
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Meridian
by Alice Walker
Meridian is a poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves. Meridian Hill, a courageous young activist, creates peace and understanding by dedicating herself heart and soul to her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity, and that of all her people.
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The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang
Attempts to analyze the degree to which the Japanese imperial government and its militaristic culture fostered in the Japanese soldier a total disregard for human life.
