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Michael Holland is a grim reaper working the worst beat in the worst town. Michael's best friend is a pot-smoking tooth fairy, his boss is the angel of death, his psychiatrist can read his mind, and he counts bogeymen, demons, and clones as his acquaintances.
His nine-to-five is a succession of stupidity, clearing up the remains of the latest Darwin Award winner or dealing with the detritus of some apocalyptic clerical error, and it only seems to...
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"Steven Boykey Sidley is an award-winning and multi-shortlisted novelist. His first novel, Entanglement won the UJ Debut Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and MNet Literary Award in South Africa. His second novel, Stepping Out was shortlisted for the UJ Main Fiction Award. Imperfect Solo is his third novel, and has been longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa and selected for Le Grand Livre...
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A magnet for trouble. A dubious destiny. His quest for true love could succeed if only his moral compass didn't point South.
The American West, 1850. Former French dandy Didier Rain's weakness for saloon girls, money, and whiskey keep derailing his plan to join the pantheon of epic poets. So, when he's approached by holy men claiming he's part of a prophecy, he agrees to transport an infant bride for a soul-selling sum of $30,000. But to fulfill...
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The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist...
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They say knowledge is power. For newly minted PhD Rowena Halley, all her book learning isn't enough to keep her safe. She'll have to rely on her Moscow-honed street smarts instead. Get the first four books in the Doctor Rowena Halley series and three bonus companion novellas in one boxed set! "Brilliantly-written and highly entertaining, a must read..." The Prairies Book Review "A charming blend of academic inspection and social commentary that weaves...
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From the twisted and ridiculous mind of Nick James comes a comedically dark film-noir inspired play involving liquor, love, murder, betrayal, and the ultimate quest to sleep off a hangover. Jakes is a combination of TV's Sawyer from LOST and Chandler from Friends. He doesn't care what you think of him. All he cares about is drinking, sleeping off his hangover, and then drinking some more. Evita is a stereotypical femme fatale, who uses men and looks...
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"A couple tries to rekindle their relationship through a romantic weekend getaway . . . but everything goes awry. . . . Dark and extremely funny." -Scots Magazine
Struggling with their marriage, midlife empty-nesters Colleen and Andrew plan to spend a week in an isolated cottage-just the two of them. But with a landlord named Wolf who lives next door and won't leave them alone, the couple start to feel like there are three people in their...
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"Taking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days in the lives of Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpected--a dark comedy that is ultimately a deeply romantic love story, one which takes place on infinite planes but ends in a single chord"--
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A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist. This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers,...
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