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(0)Paul Enns Wiebe
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One evening Father Alazon Lustlieb appears on a popular evening talk show to announce that he has received a series of revelations. Several God-sent angels, he reports, instructed him to find and translate a set of twelve scrolls, then choose four disciples to help him interpret these scriptures-the Bear Lake Scrolls-and establish the Church of the Comic Spirit.
The Scrolls, the original versions of some of the more famous Biblical stories, form...
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A defrocked New England minister attends a San Francisco convention learning how to sell life insurance to seminarians. He accidentally encounters an old friend from seminary days who has been reduced to selling trinkets. On three consecutive days, the two have discussions in which they progressively reveal their most personal secrets to one another.
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A comic sendup of twelve Bible stories. Father Alazon Lustlieb claims to have had revelations from On High telling him to find and translate the Bear Lake Scrolls and to start The Church of the Comic Spirit. The scrolls include a film script ("Miss Holy Land," starring Abraham and Sarah), the diary of Moses, and the transcript of a basketball game between the David and Goliath teams.
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This book is selection of my work as an author since the time I quit my tenured position as a university professor to become an independent writer. The selection includes both fictional books and a lone nonfiction piece, which is about the remarkable achievements of a friend who has maintained a menagerie of turtles for half a century. All these animals are conversant with the English language; some even write poetry. Many will read the nonfictional...
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Rosemary Lombard has maintained a private turtle lab for nearly half a century, first in Bloomington Indiana, then in Chicago, then Milwaukee, later in the Bay Area, and now in Hillsboro, Oregon. To my knowledge, only she and I have ever played Scrabble with a turtle-in my case, an Eastern box turtle named Diode. I've encountered many skeptics who have severe reservations about this claim. I've also met many more who are more than just skeptical;...
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Pope Dun the Incredible revives the recipe for the picaresque novel. Take a charming rogue of low estate; flavor with a menagerie of bizarre companions; put this comic hero in a dozen absurd situations; establish him as pope. Then serve as an outsize farce that makes the scandals of priests and their fondness for altar boys, to say nothing of cardinals and their fondness for confidentiality, look like copy for a slow-news day.
This novel flays...
7) Turtle Talk
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Rose Lombard's turtles, with her aid and like Asian elephants with their mahouts, can draw pictures of themselves, then bow before the camera; they can search a dictionary; they can spell their names on a computer; and above all, they can "read-write," using a large homemade word-board to which they guide Rose and nose out the words, letters, and phrases to tell her whatever is on their minds. They have exchanged a large tranche of emails with me.
Evidence...
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Growing up in a Mennonite family in Inverness, Idaho back in the forties and fifties, John Reisender is perplexed. Why had Great-grandma been married in a Muslim mosque way hell and gone out in the wilds of Central Asia? With a Dickensian cast of characters brimming with eccentrics, Crazy Were We in the Head hilariously and often movingly chronicles a singular American boyhood.
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Like the legendary Walter Mitty, Ed Budwieser has an active inner life, which is inhabited by visions of enjoying the company of younger and more beautiful women than his wife Mildred, who tries without success to be his reality principle. He is easily abetted by his bright young pastor, whose idea of an Eleventh Commandment is "If it feels good, do it." When Mildred grows tired of Ed's antics, she seeks comfort from her dentist and boss Dr. Digby,...