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This & That May 2020 WE ALL COULD USE A CHUCKLE PREPARE TO LAUGH All titles available as ebooks in Hoopla or ELibrary NJ
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsChronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
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The Bromance Book Club
by Lyssa Kay Adams
To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source — a secret romance-reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.
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The Sellout by Paul BeattyAfter his down-trodden hometown is removed from the map of California to save the state further embarrassment, a young man undertakes a course of action to draw attention to the town, resulting in a racially charged trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
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The Wangs vs. the World by Jade ChangA wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China.
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Good Omens by Neil GaimanThe world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
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Less by Andrew Sean GreerReceiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Catch-22 by Joseph HellerPresents the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase.
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Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesYoung widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.
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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanEnvisioning a quality-time summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that viciously competes against other wealthy families and strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleWhen her talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
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The Rosie Project by Graeme C SimsionA socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.
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This colorful travelogue is a compilation of the newspaper articles Twain wrote while on a cruise to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land with other American tourists in 1867. His account frequently uses humor to describe the people and places he visits, although this becomes highly satiric at times.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie WillisNed Henry shuttles between the 1940s and the twenty-first century while researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron interested in rebuilding it until the time continuum is disrupted.
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Nothing to See Here by Kevin WilsonA moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability.
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My Man Jeeves by P. G. WodehouseBeloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who comes to the rescue whenever the hapless Bertie Wooster falls into trouble.
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The Princess Bride by William GoldmanA classic swashbuckling romance retells the tale of a drunken swordsman and a gentle giant who come to the aid of Westley, a handsome farm boy, and Buttercup, a princess in dire need of rescue from the evil schemers surrounding her.
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Lamb by Christopher MooreA bold, hilarious, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus life, told from the perspective of Biff, Christ's childhood best buddy.
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Pet Friendly by Sue PethickInheriting his late uncle's sweet-natured dog, a successful app designer reluctantly agrees to his girlfriend's ultimatum that he give the dog away before running into a childhood friend who the dog helps during a riotous paranormal conference of ghost-hunters.
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAn obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt.
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Separation Anxiety by Laura ZigmanA once-promising children’s book writer navigates the humbling realities of middle age and dysfunctional family life while pursuing well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous changes.
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