Unplugged by Joe Barrett - PPPPP

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Unplugged by Joe Barrett - PPPPP

On the cusp of building the most ultramodern daily-tech enabled apartment building known to man and moving into its penthouse with his impossibly gorgeous Ivy-league educated fiancé, multi-millionaire app entrepreneur Dan Johnson does what we all would do. He halts construction on his apartment, fills it up with dome tents and pillow forts, dumps his drop-dead gorgeous ladyfriend, renounces technology, and for all intents and purposes, unplugs from society.

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Managed Care by Joe Barrett - PPPPP

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Managed Care by Joe Barrett - PPPPP

Frank Johnson is 33 years old, yet he lives in a managed care facility. There’s nothing wrong with him physically, he’s there on principle. His grandfather passed away just before he was scheduled to move into the facility, and because the owner won’t refund the money, Frank is exploiting a loophole to make damn sure that he gets his money’s worth.

This absurd situation is taken up a notch when he meets a pair of middle school students through their social outreach program. Elroy is an orphan with a stutter, and

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - PP

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - PP

John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He is known for such masterpieces as East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve seen multiple productions of Of Mice and Men and have read The Grapes of Wrath and absolutely loved both.

John Steinbeck is not well known for writing comedy. Nor should he be.

The setting for this book is a small neighborhood near Cannery Row in Monterery,

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Superfudge by Judy Blume - PPP

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Superfudge by Judy Blume - PPP

When your inner child tells you to revisit the past by reading one of your favorite books from elementary school, tell your inner child to shut the fuck up.

In hindsight, I’m hoping that Lil Johnny Box was just duped by the exhilarating title; that he didn’t pay much attention to the actual content of the book, or maybe didn’t even read it, but that he found the title so irresistibly hilarious and mouth-watering that he just thought it was one of his favorite books. Damn you, Judy Blume! You cruel temptress! Damn you to the 7th Circle of Hell!

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Flash for Freedom (The Flashman Papers, Book 3) by George MacDonald Fraser - PPPP

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Flash for Freedom (The Flashman Papers, Book 3) by George MacDonald Fraser - PPPP

Flash for Freedom is the third book in a series of twelve comprising the memoirs of a fictional Brit making his way through actual historical events beginning in the early-mid 19th century.

Harry Flashman, our favorite cowardly yet narcissistic psychopath, is at it again in the third installation of this magnificent series.

After a card game goes awry, Flashy is forced to flee London and is launched on an

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