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1) Random
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower's facade....
2) Sock
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality--magician Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Topping 330 pounds and saddled with a systolic blood pressure reading over 200, he found himself at a dangerous crossroads: approaching his sixtieth birthday, he needed a drastic lifestyle change if he...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
11) The aristocrats
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is old burlesque and too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"What will no doubt become popular airport reading for stranded passengers . . . another eminently practical, enjoyable survival guide." —Publishers Weekly
If you have to leave home, TAKE THIS BOOK! The team that brought you the bestselling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook now helps you navigate the perils of travel. Learn what to do when the tarantula crawls up your leg, the riptide pulls you out to sea, the...
If you have to leave home, TAKE THIS BOOK! The team that brought you the bestselling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook now helps you navigate the perils of travel. Learn what to do when the tarantula crawls up your leg, the riptide pulls you out to sea, the...
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the creative process behind the visual arts of painting and drawing. David Hockney, whose work spans painting, drawing, book illustrations, photo-collage and set design shows how modern artists play with perspective, illusions of depth and the vanishing point. Artist Wayne Tiebaud shows how volume, shape and movement can transform a simple line into art. Artist Robert Gil de Montes shows how his reliance on color and imagination in his...
14) An honest liar
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An Honest Liar tells the story of the world-famous magician, escape artist and enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. He devised intricate invesigations exposing the 'miracles' of psychics, faith healers and con-artists. A master deceiver who came out of the the closet [at] 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos. But when a shocking...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Deadpool goes Hollywood, he's sure to bring his wall-crawling bud along for the ride--after all, Spidey is no stranger to selling out! In the proud DP tradition, a "lost" issue of Amazing Spider-Man flashes us back to one of our pun-happy pair's earliest meetings! Then, Spidey and Deadpool meet Penn and Teller, for reals, in a tale penned by Penn himself! When both our heroes are alone for the holidays, that means they're the only ones who can...
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