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Jonathan Ames
Full Series List in Order
Doll
1 - A Man Named Doll (Apr-2021)2 - The Wheel of Doll (Sep-2022)
3 - Karma Doll (Jan-2025)
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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The Extra Man
- Aug-1998
- / Action Adventure
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Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involvi...
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My Less Than Secret Life
- Jun-2002
- / Literary
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My Less Than Secret Life is the companion volume to Jonathan Ames's first memoirish endeavor, "the mildly perverted and wildly amusing" (Vanity Fair) What's Not to Love? This collection of the cult author's fiction and essays includes Ames's public d...
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Wake Up, Sir!
- Jul-2004
- / General Fiction
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From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse.Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with...
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What's not to love?
- Dec-2007
- / General Fiction
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Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problemsâ€"and the genesis of this hilarious bookâ€"can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s...
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The Alcoholic
- Sep-2009
- / General Fiction
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In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere . . . comes the tale of Jonathan A., a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic-and of course, entirely fictional-novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-...
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Bored to Death: A Noir-Otic Story
- Oct-2009
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The basis for the HBO® Original Series starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Ted Danson, Bored to Death is a Raymond Chandleresque tale of a struggling Brooklyn writer -- curiously named Jonathan Ames -- who, i...
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You Were Never Really Here
- Jan-2013
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Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance. Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, hi...
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A Man Named Doll
- Apr-2021
- / Thriller
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From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles. Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private ...
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The Wheel of Doll
- Sep-2022
- / General Fiction
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In this second installment of a series characterized by "offbeat humor and unflinching violence" (NTYBR), the eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case; "Hard-boiled PI fiction set in the present doesn’...
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Karma Doll
- Jan-2025
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In this darkly humorous detective story, plagued by death on his conscience, Happy Doll has committed himself to a simple, spiritual life; that is, until a tragic and brutal murder forces his hand and sets him back on the bloody path of retribution a...
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