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En un país muy lejano donde un dictador había llegado a someter a su propio pueblo hasta el punto de llegar a la hambruna, apareció un activista que comenzó a luchar contra el régimen empleando las redes sociales y ocultándose detrás de una máscara para no ser identificado.Creó una campaña virtual contra los autócratas, con el lema: ¡métanle un clavo en la cabeza a los dictadores, con cianuro y, eso los convertiría en héroes nacionales!.Su...
2) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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With an abundance of hilarious household tips, Leave Your Dishes in the Sink is here to teach you how to look like you're doing the most by doing less.
Most home economics books share the same guidance: "the best way of doing things." In a world of Instagram-worthy homes and Pinterest-perfect meals, sometimes the best way of doing things feels unattainable. Leave Your Dishes in the Sink teaches you how to work with life's most relatable habits to...
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A mind-bending collection of 70 puzzles from the New Scientist published in book form for the first time. You'll find puzzles and problems drawn from real-life situations, games with intriguing strategies, and puzzles with such creative and whimsical storylines that they need to be explained to be believed.With the solutions you'll read the untold back stories behind the puzzles, and a fascinating exploration of related puzzles and mathematical ideas....
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This book contains seven of the most unusual short stories ever written.
In On the Road to Exile, a woman travels a thousand miles on her donkey, returning to the family she left a year earlier to find the only thing that has changed is her.
In The Accidental Transvestite, a man wants only to get in his ex-girlfriend's pants but once he has them on, he soon realizes he would do anything to get them off.
In How Much Further to Insanity?, a woman...
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F stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. Celebrating the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to, F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that...
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"Hope", one must have it, for, without hope, what else is there? "Cockroachalisms, Life Lessons Learned On My Journey Through Life", allow the guru of wellness that is Xavier Cockroachal Damon to lead you down the path of happiness with life lessons only he could teach. "Motel Hell", the place where lost souls dwell. "Climb from Hell", Supustrus is trying to rescue himself and his wife by escaping hell. Will they make it? "Gus Versus the Evil Gods",...
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Bienvenidos al mundo de mamá...
A papá le gustan los artilugios; al pequeño Peter y a la pequeña Jane les gusta provocar incendios, intentar matarse el uno al otro y hacer que mamá tenga que tomarse unas copas; y lo que necesita mamá es tomarse un descanso y desconectar...
Mamá ha cumplido 39 años. Lo que ve ante sí es un deprimente futuro lleno de invitaciones a asistir a clases avanzadas de yoga, y de educadísimos clubes de lectura donde...
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A decent snicker has extraordinary long-haul impacts. At the point when you begin to snicker, it doesn't simply relieve your burden intellectually, it incites actual changes in your body. Chuckling can animate numerous organs. Chuckling upgrades your admission of oxygen-rich air animates your heart, lungs, and muscles, and expands the endorphins that are delivered by your mind. Giggling can likewise invigorate course and help muscle unwinding, the...
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Tom was living a normal life. He had a girlfriend that would soon move in with him, a group of loyal friends that played boardgames with him, and a good job that he didn't hate and paid well. Nothing lasts forever, though, especially good things. One day, he died changing a light bulb. And then, he got up again.What will he do, being the world's first zombie? How will he keep himself hidden? And how will he manage the fact that he can see dead people?...
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Here it is, the book you've been longing for... The ULTIMATE "Yo' Mama" Joke Book! Includes: Over 250 Yo' Mama Jokes Brand-New Jokes by Guy A. De Marco Get the upper hand in a Yo' Mama Joke contest Rule the playground (or water cooler, if you're an older kid) Alarm people around you as you laugh out loud Spew drinks from your nose at passers-byGet your copy today!
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Chris Benson looks up to his older brother. In fact, everyone looks up to Chris's older brother. Most have no choice when they're lying on their stomachs in the middle of Barclays bank. But when Gavin Benson gets sent down for 15 years, the somewhat unprofessional trio of Chris, Sid and Vince are left without a ringleader. As if Chris hasn't got enough problems, his adulterous partner Debbie is spending money faster than he can steal it, his sexually...
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Dog and Cat probably are friends, but they'll never admit it in public. Living in the same house, they have similar interests, such as bodgering in the garage or gardening when the weather is fine.
They could watch it for hours, offering critical advice and being in the way. They really do enjoy any mistakes or clangers which may happen.
Their best mates are a gang of unruly hedgehogs who live in the garden shed, however there is a bunch of blackbirds...
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Seven Plays. "Off With the Head", an absurdist styled comedy about what is, quite likely, the absolute worst king in history. In "Dung", a full length play, Roger and Pith are supposed to go out but they can't because someone is outside the door. Eventually, the someone leaves and Pith says now they should go out. Roger says if they do, and make just one wrong step it will land them in a someplace worse. They do go out. Do they make that one wrong...
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The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to chat, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realize that they've all survived rape-and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle becomes the Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. They declare open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
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Here it is, the book you've been longing for... The ULTIMATE Blonde Joke Book! Includes: Over 250 Blonde Jokes Brand-New Jokes by Guy A. De Marco Get the upper hand in a Blonde Joke contest Rule the playground (or water cooler, if you're an older kid) Alarm people around you as you laugh out loud Spew drinks from your nose at passers-byGet your copy today!
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This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published early in the 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Old Man of the Sea' is one of the author's short stories. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority...
19) Dawn
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Dawn is the story of the man as he crawls through his, quote, life, close quote, through what he sees as an ever ugly world, encountering characters along the way, all of whom he very much wishes he had never encountered at all...except for one. The book begins with the man awaking on a beach, unsure of where he is. The man eventually finds his way back home, only to find he in no way knows the people inside and recognizes none of the belongings within...
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¿Qué tienen en común un taxista llorón, una mujer dejada por wasap, un aprendiz de ladrón y una camarera aspirante a actriz? Que a todos ellos les va a cambiar la vida. En un solo día, y gracias a un sobre de azúcar.
Si alguna vez has sentido que el destino ha sacado la patita y ha confabulado en tu contra, prepárate porque este libro es para ti.
La popular guionista Marta González de Vega crea, a través del humor, esta adictiva historia...
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