Have you ever cried while laughing or laughed while crying?
Underrated books with undercooked humor. Unrepentant souls and soulless intellectuals rejoice or cry. Not for hollow heads only hollow people
Some literary examples include The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch, and more contemporaneously The Ask, Sam Lipsyte.
The club drink of choice:
A shot in the dark.
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Black Coffee and Black Humor
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Secrets My Mothers Kept Rebecca Tucker Austin Nobel is preparing for a summer trip to France, which includes obtaining a passport. However, when she receives her birth certificate in the mail with the wrong name on it, she uncovers that she was adopted, something her parents had kept secret from everyone. Austin pursues more information about her... |
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A Year of Living Kindly Donna Cameron Being kind is something most of us do when it’s easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don’t feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that’s also when it’s most needed; that’s when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore civility in our personal and... |
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Turn Within Vibha Sharma People think that they cannot have spiritual life if they have to become successful in their professional and personal life. This thinking is far from reality. The reality is you enjoy your life more when you connected with the spirit inside, your formless self, your eternal self. A 'missing link' that everybody is... |
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La vita bugiarda degli adulti Elena Ferrante Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta malvagia adolescente. Ma le cose stanno proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto, dopo quello felice dell'infanzia, oscilla tra due Napoli... |
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The Chameleon Shuffle Jere Krakoff After languishing in The Depository for Foundlings and other Discarded Children, Leonard Zweig is adopted by staunch Conservative lawyer Milton and pious Liberal lawyer Miriam Zweig. When the Zweigs launch a secret program to indoctrinate Leonard in... |
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Heart in Dixie Nicholas Bouler A new political novel, for America's new politics. In 1972 a segregationist southern governor ran in the Democratic Presidential primaries, before dropping out of the race. Primaries had been held in 15 states. He had won five. Heart in Dixie is a fictional description of the movement that began... |
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Forgotten Ellis Island Lorie Conway "How rare it is to find an absolutely fascinating story that has never been told," wrote noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about Forgotten Ellis Island. The book tells the lost story of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital that saved tens of thousands of lives as immigrants flooded onto Ellis... |
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Wages of Empire Michael J. Cooper In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor. Filled with such... |
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A Chance Beginning: Shadow's Fire Book 1 Christopher Patterson Erik is content farming for his family for the rest of his life, while his brother and cousin can't think of a worse fate. For different reasons, they leave the life they know behind. Soon, their world crashes down around them as they realize it is cruel, brutal, selfish, and violent. Now, they must not only rely on one another, but... |
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Chronicles of an African Mallu Manjusha Sunil This entertaining read describes the upbringing of a first generation Indian-African, narrating the experiences of a Malayalee who grew up in different parts of Africa. A crash course on Malayalees and insights into some of their typical attributes, traits and prejudices gives the book a unique essence. An endogamous group... |
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Summary of the Mueller Report Thomas E. Patterson An abridged version of the Mueller Report intended for those who don't have the time to read the 448-page full report. This version, which is a fourth of the length, uses the exact words of the Mueller Report to relate the key findings of the Special Counsel's investigation... |
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Jane Digby's Diary C.R. Hurst Bright, beautiful, and bold, Jane Digby led a remarkable life. Born to privilege in 1807 at Dorset, England, she soon scandalized Europe with her reckless pursuit of of freedom. She sacrificed home, family, and respectability for her passions. Kings, princes, barons, brigands, lords, and sheikhs were among her lovers. A gifted artist and musician, as well... |
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Mother Mother Jessica O'Dwyer Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted at work, while her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julie's curatorial chops. And Julie's young son, Juan, may never recover from trauma... |
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Breathe for Me Donna B. Comeaux Robert Aaron Jaeger no longer has the emotional fight to outlast his grief. Less than a month ago, his wife and four-year-old daughter were in a terrible accident on the downtown streets of Seattle. The four-year-old came away with scratches. His wife, Christina, succumbed to her injuries. Under the disguise of rafting through the Glenwood... |
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The Watsons Rose Servitova Emma Watson returns to her family home after fourteen years with her wealthy and indulgent aunt. Now more refined than her siblings, Emma is shocked by her sisters' flagrant and desperate attempts to ensnare a husband. To the surprise of the neighbourhood, Emma immediately attracts the attention... |
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Unexpected Enemy Tim Cagle After years of heartbreaking infertility, Ann Sorenson finally conceives through in-vitro fertilization. The joy of conception is overwhelming. Then, nature intervenes when she delivers a baby several weeks premature. Joy turns to confrontation as everyone knows this... |
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