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3) Ingenious
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"A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon"--from www.imdb.com.
6) Black buck
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A New York Times Bestseller
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
"Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy."
—Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys
"A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour...
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
"Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy."
—Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys
"A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour...
11) Winnebago man
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A young filmmaker goes in search of the RV salesman Jack Rebney's who in the '80s, was filmed during a profanity-strewn, on-the-job meltdown was captured on video and passed around on VHS tapes before exploding into an Internet phenomenon.
13) Bongu
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Tamil feature film. "Three ex-salesman plan the ultimate car heist"--From imdb.com.
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This richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way--and themselves--while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies amid the...
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Nunatak first fiction volume no. 50
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Molly MacGregor thinks she lives in the most unromantic region in the world, and she is named after one of literature's least romantic heroines, Moll Flanders. We follow Molly as she loves the wrong men and eventually finds the right one.
16) Guddu ki gun
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Hindi feature film. "This film follows the tale of a young Bihari salesman named Guddu, who is flirtatious by nature"--Container.
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"Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle-class that has long ceased to exist in North Americagarrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of the wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family unit is a fraudthe...
18) Harlem shuffle
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..."...
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..."...
19) Rocket Singh
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Hindi feature film. Harpreet Singh Bedi has just graduated, and his marks are, well, let's say a little embarrassing. But marks never stopped him from dreaming of an exciting and adventurous career.
20) Daawat-e-ishq
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Hindi feature film. Gullu, a Hyderabadi shoe-sales girl disillusioned with love because of her encounters with dowry-seeking men, fells in love with Taru, a Lucknowi cook who can charm anybody with the aroma and flavors of his biryani and kebabs.
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