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Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the
seriocomic story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in
the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger and US
Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man
who knows no mercy and who does not know exactly who he is chasing
as there is no apparent motive and virtually no clues. It
encompasses themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily
contemporary as this morning's headlines.
The slightly ridiculous tragicomic odyssey of one Joe Perk, a young
man alone: inarticulate, simple-hearted and naive; a humble
coffee-jerk with a unique talent, as he travels from small town
Oklahoma to New York City in order to realize his dream: to become
a world champion coffee barista. Along the way he stumbles in and
out of the lives of Cliff, his cruel half-brother who delights in
stealing Joe's girls; Miguel, a farmhand with a secret bean;
Cappuccino, the lovely coffee shop owner in love and in trouble; a
crazed homeless man who drives an office chair, quotes movie
dialogue and wants to kill Joe; Lou, the diner-owner with dyslexia;
Graydon Froth, a coffee mogul with a serious inferiority complex;
Macchiato, reigning barista champ and prize chump; and Shakes, the
mysterious man who imparts to Joe a secret knowledge that will
possibly make him a star.
A very influential New York City pop culture guru finds himself
running for his life after his review of a mob-owned restaurant
makes it the most popular, hippest place in town.
A rich playboy gets mixed-up with a depraved gambling club and
finds himself in over his head with debt. In order to save himself
he's forced to commit a series of horrible crimes.
A teenage boy runs away from a small Alabama town to Manhattan in
order to live out his dad's rock 'n' roll dreams - and then he
discovers a few of his own.
True tales from, and about, rock 'n' roll including the
outrageously true, never-before-told, event that accidentally
sparked the greatest rock rumor of all time: "Paul Is Dead."
Customer Service Manager Bob Thomassoulo gets more than he
bargained for when he decides to go to Mexico and take revenge on
the man who took his job in this absurd tale of revenge, gold lust,
friendship, classic rock and political revolution.
The unbelievably comedic adventure of an unlikely friendship
between a budding poetic genius, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and
"England's Worst Poet" Colin Millaney. Set in 1919, it asks the
question "What happens when a book of verse by England's worst poet
accidentally becomes a runaway best-seller in America?"
When a gold coin heist turns out badly a pair of idiotic crooks
hook-up with some moronic thieves (and a movie star) in order to
steal the secret KFC chicken recipe. Along the way they reveal
(among many other things) the connection between Gilligan's Island
and the devil, what Salman Rushdie and Elvis have in common with
Col. Sanders, why Betty was never a vitamin and what Bootsy Collins
does in his spare time. It also deal with the whole "why did the
chicken cross the road" conundrum.
Sex, drugs, scandals, murder, suicides and President Warren G.
Harding. THE BLOVIATOR is a satirical novel, "a fiction fueled by
fact," based on the true, last (and unbelievably bizarre) 6 months
in the life of America's 29th President. THE BLOVIATOR is an epic,
a massive and sprawling work - it is history as absurdity, as if it
were being filtered through a cracked prism - but the prism is not
cracked as most of the story told is based on fact.
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Ice (Paperback)
Jim Yoakum
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R237
Discovery Miles 2 370
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A mild-mannered, small town barber steals a valuable necklace on a
whim and then undergoes intense psychological turmoil as an
insurance investigator turns the heat up on him. He ends up on the
run and with the blood of multiple murder victims on his hands - or
does he? Every piece may not fit as you might expect in this
story-puzzle.
One night in a London pub in the 1990's I ran into a man who
claimed to be the actor Michael Caine. The man said (in a thick
Cockney accent): "'ere mate, if yer buy me a beer I will recite the
bloomin' 'oole of Franz Kafka's classic tale of alienation,
'Metamorphosis, ' also known as 'Die Verwandlung.' If, however, yer
chose not ter ffen I shall kick yer in the bleedin' balls." As I
value my balls very much I agreed... And so here is Kafka's
'Metamorphosis, ' as retold by a man in a pub who looked like, and
who said that he was, Michael Caine. He may have been Michael
Caine, I don't know, it was hard to tell. The pub was really dark
and well, I'd had a few pints.
A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the
middle of political intrigue on the island of Costa San Rica when
he's sent there to save the agency's banana account.
The year is 2020. Can the President of the United States of
America, and the President of the United Blue States of America,
come together in order stop a giant asteroid before it destroys
Earth in one month's time? Who is the mysterious Doctor Apophis?
What is the "S.U.R.," and why is the President of the USA
determined to defend it at all costs? What the hell is the Canadian
army doing in North Dakota, and why does HRH Queen Kate of England
want to wage war with the USA? And what is... "The Myoshi Effect"?
The behind-the-scenes story of how the Monty Python television
series was created, comprised of material taken directly from the
archives of founder-member Graham Chapman and written by the US
Curator of the Graham Chapman Archives.
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