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Social worker Taylor Diaz has a problem. At a Catholic convent on the Gulf Coast a young resident named Mary is pregnant and may be able to have an abortion under Florida law as the victim of a sex crime. Mother Superior is insisting it's a miracle – and that the girl is still a virgin.
Publicity from Taylor's court case creates a media hurricane. Using it to jockey for the GOP Presidential candidacy, the Governor has friends in high places,...
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Allegorical fiction in the Orwellian tradition!
Welcome to the extraordinary City Zoo, where the animals have driven the people out and created a veritable nation of animals-a republic, if they can keep it. Their great experiment has been a resounding success-but when Gus the gilded elephant challenges Balthazar the revered donkey for the high office of Animal Zookeeper, the monkeys in the media go ape. Now the fairy tale news threatens everything...
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Russian meddling in U.S. elections looks amateurish compared to what the Chinese are planning for 2032. Such is the backdrop of a new satirical work, called "The Mandate of Heaven," in which the Chinese government strikes at America's Achilles' heel. The result is a rollicking story, both serious and silly, that reads like a blending of Fahrenheit 451, Mary Poppins, and 30 Rock . . . in other words, a portrayal of America's New Normal.Join Bert Alfred,...
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According to ancient Jewish folklore, Lillith is the first woman. Being uncontrollable, she was replaced by Eve, but she lived on in order to wreak confusion and mayhem with her secret association of C.U.N.T. agents. When she gets Barry Bonds, a womanizer, in her sights, it seems nothing can save him, until he runs into Lillith's daughter. Together they learn what it means to survive, and to live.
5) Assassins
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Could the English and the Scots ever be at war with each other again? Based in London and in Edinburgh, this apocalyptic version of 21st Century UK politics has more dirty tricks than you could shake a stick at. Brexit and political in-fighting in Westminster and in Holyrood collide into a series of events that make a war between these two proud nations inevitable. Post Brexit, and the Scots voice their frustration, complaining that most Scots had...
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Fausto und Mefist, die Hexen und der Brocken werden im 1. Kapitel dieses Bandes zu den fiktiven Akteuren der deutschen Wiedervereinigung! Sind Satiren heutzutage eine Textgattung, um noch Aufmerksamkeitswirkung zu erzielen? Eine Zeit der gesundheitspolitischen Herausforderungen und gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche wird global sichtbar. Eine Seuche in der Welt und die Suche nach einem Impfstoff! Die Perspektiven von Millionen Bürgern ändern sich grundlegend,...
7) Identities
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Thomas Stazyk's irreverent debut, Identities, objectively explores how individuals' constructed identities determine their worldview and examines the contemporary issues of materialism, corporate greed, and personal identity with startling clarity.Dave Locke just got the call all executives in corporate America dread: the company is going in a different direction, thanks for all of your hard work, but we don't need you any longer. His sense of self...
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"The Sound of Sirens" is a humorous tale told by the primary character Mike Chandler a recently retired business executive, who after a long stressful career found peace and solace playing on his computer and/or watching television. His wife Helen feels isolated in their large suburban home where her social life has all but disappeared as a result of their life long friends relocating to various retirement communities around the country. Mike is dead...
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A short story about a little girl from St. Paul, MN who wanted to make America great again upon seeing the definitive photographic evidence taken on November 8, 2016 at 536PM CST that proved Donald Trump was destined to be the next President of the United States. A little girl, who ended up changing her mind thanks to a General and a dog.American. Defined. B'Kausi Sdso
10) Letitia Unbound
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Can a queen ever retire? Letitia, Queen of Melloria, is stuck in the aspic of a job-for-life, but that doesn't stop her dreaming of a restful retirement in the Caribbean. She schemes to undermine Princess Dawna of Bulimia, her son Crown Prince Catheter's bride, whose natural beauty and unstoppable crowd appeal set her teeth on edge and drive her to distraction. Meanwhile, the stuffy, tradition-bound regime of her husband, King Godfrey, is about to...
11) Detour Dimension
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The Detour Dimension's Ron Sterling meets Hot Dog Man Frank Weener before boarding a bus to hometown Binghamton.
Weener's at the wheel and his "Fried Chicken" serves as Ron's reading material for the ride.
Interspersed with "real" events on the journey (stopping at Stuckey's, leaving it to Beaver, removing Haystacks Calhoun from a phone booth, getting dimensionally discombobulated with Mr. Spark of "Free Enterprise," etc.) are the "fictional"...
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The fourth story in the Lost Forest series sees life in the forest being as unpredictable as ever...Once there was a time when after breakfast there was nothing... Nothing except the stork being chased, nothing except a tiger falling from the sky, nothing except two tree monkeys discussing tea... Oh, a tiger falling from the sky?"My name is Typhon-the-Tiger and I am the last of the great Greek tigers." And so begins not so much an adventure but a...
14) Trainingslager
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Verkatert erwacht Holger »Holle« Schneise in den österreichischen Alpen: Wie jeden Sommer ist der Reporter des Boulevardblatts Berliner Bote ins Trainingslager von Bertha HSC gereist, um über den größten und erfolglosesten Fußballklub der Hauptstadt zu berichten. Ein Alptraum für Schneise, der harte Arbeit ebenso verabscheut wie den Medienwandel in seiner Männerwelt, in der es nur noch um schnelle Klicks geht statt um echten Journalismus....
15) The Morning Dove
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The Morning Dove is a madcap satire set in a small beach town. When an early morning small fire breaks out in a vacant theater, Mabel, the town gossip, starts a chain of events that has local, state, and federal governments in a state of panic. The fire is a catalyst for Mabel's colorful imagination. As the hysteria spreads, some of the politicians use the news reporters to promote their personal agendas. Not one to shy from the spotlight, Mabel seems...
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In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers-one white, one Black-living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning.
De'Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia-a...
17) Elmington
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No good deed goes unpunished in a willfully blind, technocratic society.
Gordon Gray, a retired librarian, only wishes to chain smoke, read twentieth-century novels by dead white men, and at the time of his choosing, shuffle off his mortal coil. Everyone from his thanatophobic doctor to his New Age neighbour has an opinion on what Gordon should want and how he should be treated. When his daughter Martha arrives from the West Coast, she finds...
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Candide, Voltaire's magnum opus, is a matchless satirical take-down of religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged Candide, a young man enraptured of his facile mentor Pangloss, experiences the hardships and injustices of life, forcing him to abandon the naïve notion that "all is for the best" in favor of a practical determination that life is best lived "cultivating...
20) To Laugh For
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From the author of Imaginary Me and SIAOPE comes a book that asks the question: What if there was a world without humor and someone discovers it?Meet Jerry Stinson. He's an accountant. He has a roommate named Carl. Carl doesn't work. Jerry does. Until suddenly Jerry doesn't.Then Jerry discovers something unexpected. Unexpected with consequences. His brain tells him to say words that when spoken cause others to react in a never-before-seen way. It's...