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Publisher
Panguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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It was past midnight when Nicola Berry, Earthling Ambassador and leader of the Space Brigade, received an urgent phone call. Shimlara from the planet Globagaskar was ringing with terrible news: her mother, father and little brother Squid had been kidnapped! They were being held captive on the Planet of Whimsy, the most beautiful planet in the universe, by the scaly inhabitants of Volcanomania. Now the members of the Space Brigade have to daringly...
2) The violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Language
English
Description
"In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans...
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"For fifty years, The Paris Review has published writings and interviews from the world's most brillant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a diverse and illuminating anthology, with the greatest writers of the last half-century writing on the greatest subjects. It is a unique collection of stories, poetry, thoughts, and observations on the themes of modern life both great and trivial, as well as a compendium of timeless insights...
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa Valley cult, where she believes she has found salvation. Willie Gutherie, the cigar-smoking, self-proclaimed California Kid, collides with Dancer in San Francisco, and the two join forces to liberate Jessica from the clutches of cult leader Fatin Satin Aspen. Willyce Kim's campy, women-centered Western novel is a celebration...
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English
Description
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era, from Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker to Woody Allen and Steve Martin. This anthology gathers together the funniest work of more than seventy contributors. Parodists take on not only...
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