It seems every time I am at a party I end up in the group of people who say they just can’t finish the piece of cake they are nibbling on. “It’s too rich”, “This piece of cake is just too big” or “I just can NEVER finish a whole piece of cake”. So I lie. I lie and lie and lie. “Me to!” I say as I turn and walk away to fake grabbing my drink, but really I just scarf the cake down like a champion cake eater, and go for seconds while no one is looking, then eat as much cake as I had when I left the group so it looks like I am working on the same piece when I return to the cake nibbling guests. Boom! Like a Pro!
Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut Series)
Kurt Vonnegut
Genre: Satire | Humor & Entertainment | Humor & Satire | Literary Fiction
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Eugene Debs Hartke (named after the famous early 20th century Socialist working class leader) describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut’s bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device–a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
Debs (and Vonnegut) see academia just as imprisoning as the corrupt penal system and they regard politics as the furnishing and marketing of lies. Debs, already disillusioned by circumstance, quickly tracks his way toward resignation and then fury. As warden and prisoner, Debs (and the reader) come to understand that the roles are interchangeable; as a professor jailed for “”radical”” statements in the classroom reported by a reactionary student, he comes to see the folly of all regulation. The “”hocus pocus”” of the novel’s title does not describe only the jolting reversals and seemingly motiveless circumstance which attend Debs’ disillusion and suffering, but also describe the political, social, and economic system of a country built upon can’t, and upon the franchising of lies.
At 68, Vonnegut had not only abandoned the sentiment and cracked optimism manifest in Slaughterhouse-Five, he had abandoned any belief in the system or faith for its recovery. This novel is another in a long series of farewells to the farmland funeral rites of childhood.
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Desired to Death (The Empty Nest Can Be Murder)
J. M. Maison
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction
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The empty nest can be murder!
Just ask stay-at-home mom Maggie True whose daughter has just left for college—leaving Maggie with a burning question for her husband Joe: “Now what am I going to do with the rest of my life?”
Never in her wildest dreams does small-town Maggie imagine the answer will come in the form of a middle-of-the-night call for help from an estranged friend who has just been arrested for the lurid murder of a much-younger lover: A.J. Traverso, AKA Tattoo Boy—a sexy kickboxing instructor who had captured the fancy of all the women in Halfway Bay, Maine.
But solving this mystery will be no walk in the dog park. For below the surface of her sleepy coastal town, resides a dark world of secret lusts and desires that Maggie has never imagined. And when an anonymous tip to the police suggests that happily-married Maggie was involved with A.J. Traverso, the investigation becomes more than just a curiosity. For Maggie True, the solution to the mystery of what to do with the rest of her life—and the identity of the cold-blooded killer—might be closer than she thinks…
For anyone who has ever faced a life transition and wondered “What next?” Desired to Death answers with an irresistible mix of suspense and intrigue, humor and heart.
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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (A Niki Slobodian Novel: Book 3)
J.L.Murray
Genre: Horror | Fantasy
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The worlds are out of balance. The Creator is missing. And the war between Heaven and Hell has begun.
Niki Slobodian came back, but there were side effects. She is filled with a strange power no one seems to be able to explain. Not even Sam. She is also plagued with strange visions whenever she touches anyone. This does nothing but complicate the fact that she may be the reason for the war raging in the streets of her own city. A war that could mean the end of humanity.
Niki has always done whatever she had to for the people she loves, but this time is different. With carnage escalating and the people she cares for in danger, Niki and Sam must work together to save what is left of the world they both love. And with a psychotic archangel trying to assume the post of the Creator, with one slim chance to right the balance, the odds are against them.
Nothing is ever easy for a Slobodian. Not even stopping a war that could unmake the world.
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Light To Valhalla
Melissa Lynne Blue
Genre: Romance
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Charlotte Rawlings has been over the moon in love with her husband since the age of five.Such shouldn’t be a problem except that he is married to his military career not to her.When Alexander Rawlings, the Marquis Coverstone, suddenly returns home, intent upon making amends, the desire to realize her greatest dream and make their marriage more than “in name only” is a delicious temptation.However, she cannot help but doubt his intentions.For years the dowager marchioness has petitioned for her son’s discharge from service, and when a close family friend informs Charlotte that Alex will in fact be discharged if he doesn’t produce an heir, her suspicions are confirmed.
Wounded in battle and accused of murder, Alex, returns to London a half step ahead of raucous scandal and powerful enemies set on ruining him.When his wife is taken hostage and held for ransom,Alex knows past sins have caught up with him, and concern for his own safety falls by the wayside when he realizes Charlotte has become the target of his enemy’s revenge.Intent upon protecting his wife, Alex works to assuage her doubts and quickly realizes that he will not settle for simple surrender… he will only be satisfied once he wins her heart.But as rumors of infidelity and murder drag Alex and Charlotte into a dangerous mire their tenuous bond threatens to snap.Can the bonds of trust be renewed or will those intent upon revenge and destroying the young marquis succeed?
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Dead Light District (A Sasha Jackson Mystery) (Sasha Jackson Mysteries)
Jill Edmondson
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction
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As open minded as she is, private investigator Sasha Jackson feels out of place when her latest case plunges her into the world of commercial sex.A classy madame has hired Sasha to find a missing Mexican hooker, which seems easy enough at first.
Sasha figures out why the hooker ran away but has no idea where she is running to.Besides, how fast can anyone run in stiletto heels?It isn’t until the next body turns up that Sasha realizes why the hooker must choose between fight and flight, and why the choice is so difficult.
Sasha tests her moral compass as she tries to understand the sex trade and what someone will do in a moment of desperation.She is even willing to look the other way, but then Sasha realizes her ass is incredibly hot and the killer is incredibly cold.
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