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In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to come by. Supermarket stock clerks Pedro and Marques spend their days unloading trucks, restocking shelves, and dreaming of a better life, of breaking the cycle of poverty that has afflicted their families and their community. Well-acquainted with the drug dealers in their neighborhood and seeing an opportunity to earn a little extra cash, they decide to start a weed-dealing operation.

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th-century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country, and comprising some of the greatest comic characters in British literature. First published in 1749, it was an instant success and has gone on to become a classic of its genre. Quite simply, there has never been anything like it.

Craig Plummer, a sculptor once known in New York art circles as DeBris, lost his creative spark after experiencing a series of tragedies, culminating with the death of his first wife, Carol Javal, a successful fashion model. Now remarried, Craig is secretly consumed with guilt over his role in Carol’s death. Unfolding in NYC in the month prior to Kurt Cobain’s suicide in early April of 1994, and culminating in a Seattle overcome with grief over of the rock star’s sudden death, Dressing Stone transports you into the mind of an artist.

A Modern picaresque novel following the exploits of Don Kehoe; a drunk, wife-beater and hack, as his life disintegrates around him. A whirlwind ride through the social underbelly, backside, and dark alleyways of Dublin City. A haze of beer-infected ribaldry and fornication that The Ginger Man himself would appreciate. Don Kehoe is a failing journalist with a thirst for beer and women and a propensity to use his fists when words would suffice. As Don's life disintegrates around him and his dreams of permanent paying employment slips slowly away, and his woman turfs him out on the streets of ...

A Coward in Modern China is a travel comedy, crime caper and adventure - based on the escapades of bogus professor Robert Runworth. Its first line is: “This is the story of a knowing scoundrel, and of what became of him.” Set largely in contemporary Beijing, and partly in California, it is raunchy and mischievous in its plot and action. Yet the pages are also classically stylish; and historically detailed in their account of life in China today. The book is always entertaining, by its exotic setting and fascinating insights as much as its farcical humor. Here is a good old-fashioned ...

After the baseball season ends, ambidextrous relief pitcher Lefty Gallagher is sent to bring a Czech javelin thrower from behind the Iron Curtain. Leaving Cleveland, Lefty meets a zany cast of characters when he travels from Paris to Prague and back again.

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.

Second edition: In this contemporary picaresque story oftentimes told with biting sarcasm and as an unforgiving commentary on LGBTQ society, the queer narrator is born to an undistinguished family in a small town in Minnesota. He moves to the big city to pursue a better life through higher education, in an environment more accepting of his sexual orientation. Along the way he experiences more emotional failures than triumphs, especially in his quest for a romantic relationship with a friend of the bosom—while searching in less lofty parts of the male anatomy. After all his labors, he ...

This is the story of the celebrated Pickwick Club. The members are to report to the club on their journeys, adventures, and observations of characters and manners. Dickens creates a vivid picture of England in taking his characters along the nostalgic highways and byways of this majestic isle. This remarkable first novel made Dickens famous and has remained one of the world's best-known works.

Volume 2 continues our story by picking up with the flight of Sophia from her father, Squire Western, and continues the journey of Tom as he ponders his future on the road to London. In a series of tightly constructed plot twists and turns, Tom and Sophia end up at the same inn, unbeknownst to one another. Meanwhile, a plethora of new characters are introduced.

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager’s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer, The Caribbean Adventures: Volume 1: Deirdre, the Wanderer, A modern picaresque; 10th, ‘Pyfrom Road’ edition, April 2025 - Part ONE In Books 1...

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager’s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer, The Caribbean Adventures: Volume 1: Deirdre, the Wanderer, A modern picaresque; 10th, ‘Pyfrom Road’ edition, April 2025 - Part TWO In Books 5...

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager’s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer, The Caribbean Adventures: Volume 1: Deirdre, the Wanderer, A modern picaresque; 10th, ‘Pyfrom Road’ edition, April 2025 - Part THREE In Books...

Tom Jones is greatly admired not only for the meticulous craft with which it was written, but also for its humor, objectivity and penetrating psychological depth. It is without a doubt one of the great contributions to the English novel, and as such will always maintain a place of honor in world literature. Through the minute examination of the motives of his characters, Henry Fielding revealed many universal truths about human nature.