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• Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World

  Waddell, Mark

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  Colin is a low-level employee at Dark Enterprises, a Hell-like multinational corporation solving the world’s most difficult problems in deeply questionable ways. The only problem is, he’s pretty sure he’s about to be terminated. Like, terminated.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Successful Failure

  Lessons I Learned Flat on My Face

  Fredericks, Kevin (Comedian)

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  New York Times bestselling author and viral stand-up star Kevin Fredericks (aka KevOnStage) turns his most cringe-worthy moments into comedy gold, sharing how the most embarrassing failures of his life put him on the path to success. As a kid,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Automatic Noodle

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food -- the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Human History on Drugs

  An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence

  Kelly, Sam (Samuel Ezra),

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  A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical TikToker with nearly 100K followers) Sam Kelly Did…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That's How They Get You

  An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

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  A critic explores the paradox of finding community in “the dozens” while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated “Green Book” but for public toilets. All…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cornelius

  the Merry Life of a Wretched Dog

  Torices, Marc, 1989-

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  Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone's jokes. When his friend Alspacka is kidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotional ordeal, upending Cornelius’s life. Torn between his desire to be a writer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whyte Python World Tour

  a Novel

  Kennedy, Travis,

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  It’s Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good - even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint store and playing with a band that’s going nowhere. But when he gets a shot to join L.A.’s hottest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If Wishes Were Retail

  Habershaw, Auston, 1979-

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  Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall. It’d help if the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anima Rising

  a Novel

  Moore, Christopher, 1957-

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  Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride

  a Novel

  Leitch, Will,

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  Lloyd McNeil has served as an officer with the Atlanta Police Department for 20 years while being a devoted father to his teenage son. But then he learns the worst possible He has learned he has an inoperable brain tumor, and he has only months…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Were Real

  a Novel

  Gregory, Daryl,

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  JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it’s the perfect time for one last a week-long bus tour of North America’s Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Giggle

  a Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously

  DeSorbo, Paige,

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  Finding joy and laughter in the mundane can be challenging at times, but Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo have mastered the art of not taking life too seriously. Brought together under the bright lights of reality television, these best friends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Moon Hits Your Eye

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  When the Moon inexplicably turns to cheese, humanity grapples with the absurd transformation through the perspectives of astronauts, billionaires, professors, and everyday people, confronting faith, science and survival over a single surreal lunar…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Subpar Planet

  the World's Most Celebrated Landmarks & Their Most Disappointed Visitors

  Share, Amber,

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  New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Subpar Parks Amber Share takes us around the globe to celebrate the world’s greatest wonders alongside hysterical reviews from their harshest critics. In this follow-up to Subpar Parks, which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oh No, Not The Home

  Observations and Confessions of a Grandmother in Transition

  Rowe, Peggy,

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  In Oh, No, Not “The Home,” eighty-three-year-old Peggy decides the time has finally come to move into a senior living facility with her husband, John, who follows his beloved bride . . . grudgingly. Once ensconced in "The Home," however, John…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

  a Novel

  Pargin, Jason, 1975-

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  Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Bill

  Hirsch, Alex, 1985-

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  Did you miss him? Admit it, you missed him. The demon that terrorized Gravity Falls is back from the great beyond to finally tell his side of the story in The Book of Bill, written by none other than Bill Cipher himself. Inside, Bill sheds light…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Margo's Got Money Troubles

  a Novel

  Thorpe, Rufi,

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  As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roctogenarians

  Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs

  Rocca, Mo,

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  Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Age Disgracefully

  Pooley, Clare,

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  The quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next door to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.