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Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss Papa Baccala. But unfortunately for Kid Sally, murder pays poorly. He wants to make real dough, to get respect,...
42) I Can't Take It!
Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he's stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don't get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher's pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It's enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate scream: "I CAN'T TAKE IT!"
43) The Rosie Result
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began...
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are about to face their most important challenge.
Their ten-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?
The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force
44) First Lady
How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape — if only for a few days — so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect disguise . . . and she's just
...Lucy tries so hard to be good. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.
Dating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle. When she discovers a teen magazine from the 1970s, it sparks her imagination
..."It's a fun, frothy quintessentially British romcom about a certified chaos demon and a stern brunch daddy with a heart of gold faking a relationship."—New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert
AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH
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...Eloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine — a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love.
To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects an offer of marriage from the dashing, rakish Patrick Foakes in...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" — Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man
They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.
OK. It's time to stop messin' around . . . In this book, the One IS
...Man's best friend is turning out to be his worst enemy...
I have one chance to redeem my family name: take a rundown Miami Beach apartment building and turn it into luxury condos. Easy, right? Sure, if you're not faced with a bunch of angry neighbors—and smart and sassy building manager Riley Carson—who are all salty about me tearing down their precious dog park. Listen, I like dogs as much as the next guy, but this is
...From the moment Willa sat next to Ryder in class, she’s made it clear she hates his guts. Her reason is a mystery, but its outcome suits him fine. Willa Sutter is the feisty, tempting chaos he doesn’t need in his quiet, tidy life. She’s the next generation of women’s soccer. Wild hair. Bee-stung...
This darkly hilarious and "delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food" (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a "precise blend of desire, discomfort,...
56) 乡官
《乡官》以春江县东风乡党委副书记李子文等乡镇干部的工作、生活为主线，以东风乡中心工作为背景，生动地刻画了一群普通乡官的形象，揭示了乡镇经济社会发展中各种深层次矛盾，折射出现阶段乡镇的社会风貌，反映了乡镇干部的喜怒哀乐、成败得失，演绎了当代乡官的五味杂陈，传导出普通乡官在处置农村各种复杂问题时的艰难阵痛。作者胡水是一个地地道道的高安农家子弟、出生于上世纪六十年代初，高安伍桥人，曾多次在国家级、省级、市级报刊上发表短篇小说和散文，《乡官》是作者的长篇小说处女作。《乡官》是作者二十余年在乡镇政府部门工作所见所闻及酸甜苦辣、喜怒哀乐、与百姓同甘共苦等经历的写照。作者用朴素的语言、淳朴的情感、直观的表白、细腻的描写，客观地揭示了社会的真善美、邪与恶，再现了当代农村和谐的邻里关系、乡镇干部与农民和睦相处的生动情景，同时也展示出我国社会主义新农村建设发生的翻天覆地的变化和取得的丰硕成果。
...The Stench of Honolulu
Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read on!
Jack Handey's exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now....
58) 超級帶賽亞人
地球人平均六千年就會被造物主滅族一次，至今已經被滅族五次了，而帶賽星球人由於前五次的表現都比地球人出色，每次都僥倖躲過被滅族的命運。地球人的智慧跟帶賽星球人不相伯仲，所以帶賽星球人必須定期派臥底來地球，透過各種方式使地球人變成腦殘。
...An hour and a half outside Tucson, Arizona, The Commons is a luxury retirement community where no full-time resident under the age of fifty-five is permitted. Young professionals Seth and Alison Collier accept jobs there as a means of dealing (badly) with a recent loss. When a struggling resident, underwater on her mortgage and unable to relocate due to the nation's ongoing housing crisis, is discovered to be raising her grandson in secret, the
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