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Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons...

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. In the fading days of...

Lou comes in singing and banging something. Lou had a birthday party for Aunt May last night. Bud says tomorrow is April Fools' Day. Bud wants Sam to help capture Ingrid the international spy.

In which our intrepid correspondent speaks of the President speaking about the unspeakable.