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Jeeves and Wooster volume 2
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My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse is a collection of comedic work featuring three of Wodehouse's famous characters. Bertie is an idle rich man, who is always ready to help his friends. However, he would never be able to do so without the help of his odd but intelligent valet, Jeeves. Said to be the prototype for Bertie, Reggie Pepper is also rich Englishman dedicated to assisting his friends, however, unlike Bertie, he often has to act as the brains...
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Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down chairs were separated, the potato masher custody settled, and Keeper moved to Providence to work with his best friend...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
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"A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
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Two friends-who still live with their parents, are resolutely kind, and like to read and play board games-discover that they are not considered “normal” and struggle to protect their concept of what's meaningful in life.
5) Cicatriz
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
576 pages
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Simon Sax podría ser un tipo afortunado. Es joven, listo y está punto de convertirse en multimillonario si vende su gran invento, un asombroso algoritmo a una multinacional. Y, sin embargo, se siente solo. Su éxito contrasta con sus nulas habilidades sociales. Hasta que un día entra en una web de contactos donde se enamora perdidamente de Irina, con la inexperiencia y la pasión de un adolescente a pesar de los miles de kilómetros que los separan....
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Andrew's been feeling stuck. For years he's worked a thankless public health job, searching for the next of kin of those who die alone. Luckily, he goes home to a loving family every night. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Then he meets Peggy. A misunderstanding has left Andrew trapped in his own white lie and his lonely apartment. When new employee Peggy breezes into the office like a breath of fresh air, she makes Andrew feel truly...
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Much to Bertie's astonishment, The Times has announced his engagement to the beautiful Bobbie Wickham. To add to the confusion, Uncle Tom's antique silver cow-creamer is missing; Kipper Herring has libeled his former headmaster; and British psychiatrist Sir Roderick Glossop is posing as a butler. As always, it takes the unflappable Jeeves to sort everything out.
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Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 15
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With help from Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman, Bertie Wooster contrives to help a friend escape from a designing woman.
9) Work song
Author
Series
Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
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In 1919, itinerant schoolteacher Morrie Morgan journeys to Butte in the hopes of making his fortune in copper mining but finds instead a rich assortment of local characters before an encounter with a former student leads to a violent union uprising.
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Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
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Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
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"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2008], p1998, 2006
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But there is man's work to do and, with Jeeves at his side, how can Bertie fail?
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Pub. Date
2009
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Sophie Heller's family emigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before World War II began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails by accident, the Heller family is blamed. A teacher from the local high school comes to Sophie's rescue, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.
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