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  • The Bizarro Starter Kit (Red) by Carr, Brian Allen
    Brian Allen Carr

    The Bizarro Starter Kit (Red)

    There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as...
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  • Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (Loa #324): Boston Adventure / The Mountain Lion / The Catherine Wheel by Stafford, Jean
    Jean Stafford

    Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (Loa #324): Boston Adventure / The Mountain Lion / The Catherine Wheel

    For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire and psychological portraiture Jean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, Boston Adventure became...
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  • Take a Girl Like You by Amis, Kingsley
    Kingsley Amis

    Take a Girl Like You

    Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squalor--emotional, material, sexual, you name it--of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in...
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  • Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Rezzori, Gregor Von
    Gregor Von Rezzori

    Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories

    The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a...
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  • English, August: An Indian Story by Chatterjee, Upamanyu
    Upamanyu Chatterjee

    English, August: An Indian Story

    Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, "the hottest town in India,"...
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  • Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G.
    P. G. Wodehouse

    Right Ho, Jeeves

    First published in the "Saturday Evening Post" from December of 1933 to January 1934, "Right Ho, Jeeves" is P. G. Wodehouse's second full-length novel, following "Thank You, Jeeves", featuring his beloved characters Bertie Wooster and his highly capable valet, Jeeves. At the outset we...
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  • Das beste von Nikolai Gogol: Die toten Seelen + Taras Bulba + Petersburger Novellen: Die Nase + Das Porträt + Der Mantel + Der Newskij-Prospekt + A by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    Das beste von Nikolai Gogol: Die toten Seelen + Taras Bulba + Petersburger Novellen: Die Nase + Das Portr舩 + Der Mantel + Der Newskij-Prospekt + A

    Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) war ein russischer Schriftsteller. Im Jahr 1831 lernte Gogol den Dichter Alexander Puschkin kennen, der ihm den Weg in die russische Literatur wies. Puschkin wurde ihm Freund und F rderer. So regte Puschkin an, den Revisor und Die toten Seelen zu...
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  • Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G.
    P. G. Wodehouse

    Right Ho, Jeeves

    Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela. In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with Madeline Bassett. (Excerpt from...
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  • Lateral Thinking by Schwartz, Dave
    Dave Schwartz

    Lateral Thinking

    Clever wordplay intertwines with hilarious satire throughout this bathroom reader-style humour collection. Lateral Thinking will enlighten you on a wide range of topics. You'll probably laugh aloud as you learn about a variety of topics ranging from smokers as the solution to national security...
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  • The Fables of Ivan Krylov by Krylov, Ivan
    Ivan Krylov

    The Fables of Ivan Krylov

    Ivan Krylov has been loved by Russian people for two hundred years for his Fables, works in which he gently satirizes the manifold weaknesses and failings of human beings, especially figures of authority, while at the same time praising and holding up for emulation...
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  • Evelina: With Introduction by Austin Dobson, and Hugh Thomson's 81 Classic Illustrations (Aziloth Books) by Burney, Frances
    Frances Burney

    Evelina: With Introduction by Austin Dobson, and Hugh Thomson's 81 Classic Illustrations (Aziloth Books)

    Frances Burney was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 17th June 1752, the third of Charles and Elspeth Burney's six children. A precocious child, at 10 years old Frances was already showing a talent for 'scribbling' (as she called her writing). Her father encouraged...
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  • Four Galt Novels: Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees, The Provost, The Entail by Galt, John
    John Galt

    Four Galt Novels: Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees, The Provost, The Entail

    John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - published in 2001 by the Saltire Society in Edinburgh - which brought together the three early works 'Annals of the...
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  • The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock by Pope, Alexander
    Alexander Pope

    The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock

    When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about...
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  • The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
    Juvenal

    The Sixteen Satires

    Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, is one of the greatest satirists and moralists in history. His works, of which sixteen are preserved, are scathing and unapologetic in their presentment of Rome and its citizens. Juvenal is also revered as a social historian for...
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  • Peraphania: A Modern Allegory by Chinn, Deborah Stewart
    Deborah Stewart Chinn

    Peraphania: A Modern Allegory

    Peraphania is a lovely little land full of rolling hills where the five-lobed petals of purple hibiscus dot acres and acres of lush green grass as far as the eye can see. Inhabitants live side-by-side in sincere harmony with their neighbors. It's a faraway...
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  • Clean Time: the True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton by Gwin, Ben
    Ben Gwin

    Clean Time: the True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton

    "Ben Gwin writes like F. Scott Fitzgerald high on meth and Clean Time is The Great Gatsbyfor a generation that thinks fame is the answer to every question." -LORI JAKIELA, Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker"A vivid portrait of life in the...
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  • A Way With Murder by Jagger, R. J.
    R. J. Jagger

    A Way With Murder

    In a throwback to the literary era of Mike Hammer and Shell Scott, Denver private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where the women are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. So when...
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  • The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

    Charles Dickens's first novel, "The Pickwick Papers" revolves around the novel's main character and founder of The Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick and his suggestion that he and other "Pickwickians" travel to locations outside of London and report their findings. A sequence of loosely related...
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  • The Motion of the Body Through Space by Shriver, Lionel
    Lionel Shriver

    The Motion of the Body Through Space

    In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.After an ignominious early retirement,...
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  • Utopia by More, Thomas
    Thomas More

    Utopia

    A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term utopia was created from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic...
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  • Lost for Words by St Aubyn, Edward
    Edward St Aubyn

    Lost for Words

    A SCABROUSLY FUNNY AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT SATIRE OF THE LITERARY WORLD FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a...
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  • Freaks I've Met by Jans, Donald Henry
    Donald Henry Jans

    Freaks I've Met

    Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Jack heads for Southern California. Dreams are a dime a dozen in the City of Angels....
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  • Deja vu All Over Again by Brill, Larry
    Larry Brill

    Deja vu All Over Again

    At 55, Nate Evans is a washed up Hollywood screenwriter whose life has gone to hell in a hand basket he climbed in to by dumping his high school sweetheart 40 years ago. When he learns Julie Cooper is widowed and working at their...
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  • The Patterer by Brill, Larry
    Larry Brill

    The Patterer

    Larry Brill takes a step back-back in time that is-to imagine what today's TV news would have looked like if it had been invented back in the days of Charles Dickens. The result is a hilarious romp through jolly old England, following the misadventures...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the American Nation by Larsen, Eric
    Eric Larsen

    The Decline and Fall of the American Nation

    More than a century has passed since the collapse and extinction of the American Nation, that massive and unprecedented catastrophe brought about equally by arsonists' flames and by massive, long-term, internal decay. As everyone knows, the full history of this once-great nation's doom was...
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  • I Am Bill Gates' Dog by Zygmont, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Zygmont

    I Am Bill Gates' Dog

    A smart, funny novel that laughs at aristocrats and strivers, but celebrates the quiet nobility found in ordinary creatures. We once knew Bill Gates as a plundering businessman who became the richest guy alive. Today he's a noisy philanthropist. Let's pretend that, in between...
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  • Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe by Ellis, M. Henderson
    M. Henderson Ellis

    Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe

    Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Caf tells the story of John Shirting, a socially inept, quiet young American who has left his country for mysterious reasons and, in a fast-changing capital of Eastern Europe, resolves to recreate one aspect of society in...
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  • Time Is Irreverent 2: Jesus Christ, Not Again! by Essen, Marty
    Marty Essen

    Time Is Irreverent 2: Jesus Christ, Not Again!

    Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon are back for another irreverent, liberal, twisty, time-travel comedy This time they have Jesus Christ, the actual guy, on their side.The timeline correction Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon accomplished in their first episode was successful. . . . Or...
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  • Carnal Prayer Mat by Yu, Li
    Li Yu

    Carnal Prayer Mat

    In the 300 years since its initial publication, Li Yu's book has been widely read in China, where it is recognized as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys the distinction of being a banned-in-Beijing classic.Author: Li YuISBN-10: 0824817982ISBN-13: 9780824817985Publisher: University of Hawaii...
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  • The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    The Pickwick Papers

    Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief....
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  • Blue Movie by Southern, Terry
    Terry Southern

    Blue Movie

    A hilarious, wildly erotic, and biting satire of Hollywood, Blue Movie tells the story of King B., an Oscar-winning director who's determined to shoot the dirtiest and most expensive X-rated movie ever made; Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the...
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  • Still Holding by Wagner, Bruce
    Bruce Wagner

    Still Holding

    Bruce Wagner has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, in each of his novels, dissected and sometimes disemboweled Hollywood excess. In his most ambitious book to date, Still Holding, Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11...
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  • Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy by Mishra, Pawan
    Pawan Mishra

    Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

    Coinman is one of life's victims, the receiver of subtle bullying in an office environment and thinly disguised control in his own home, but remains true to his desire to be polite and accepting of how he is treated by everyone. Then an incident...
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  • My Christian Penis by Tyler, R.
    R. Tyler

    My Christian Penis

    The classic tale of a boy and his sentient, fundamentalist penis. Manfred is not quite Westboro Baptist Church crazy, but he's close. He's also casually racist, incessantly demanding, and has a puddle-deep understanding of his professed religion. And Sam Meyers can't get away, because...
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  • Dear Money by McPhee, Martha
    Martha McPhee

    Dear Money

    In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy...
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  • E Squared by Beaumont, Matt
    Matt Beaumont

    E Squared

    Hijinks galore among the deliriously funny ad men and women in this electronic epistolary novel e's wickedly hilarious crew from the Miller Shanks Ad Agency is back with more office shenanigans. The staff has moved on to Meerkat360, a sleek and self-consciously hip boutique...
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  • They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Buckley, Christopher
    Christopher Buckley

    They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

    In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation,...
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  • Honey for the Bears by Burgess, Anthony
    Anthony Burgess

    Honey for the Bears

    A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins...
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  • The Right to an Answer by Burgess, Anthony
    Anthony Burgess

    The Right to an Answer

    The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in...
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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting...
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  • Our Gang by Roth, Philip
    Philip Roth

    Our Gang

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. - "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" --The New York Times Book Review In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth...
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  • The Mystic Masseur by Naipaul, V. S.
    V. S. Naipaul

    The Mystic Masseur

    The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. "No one else ... seems able to employ prose...
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  • Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy by Fielding, Helen
    Helen Fielding

    Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy: A Goodreads Reader's Choice

    Move over, Bridget Jones's diary: She's back, and this time she's texting and tweeting. . . Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget's life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting, online dating, wildly morphing dress...
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  • Betrayals by Palliser, Charles
    Charles Palliser

    Betrayals

    At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated...
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  • Cause Celeb by Fielding, Helen
    Helen Fielding

    Cause Celeb

    Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee...
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  • The Warden by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    The Warden

    The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities...
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  • The Average American Marriage by Kultgen, Chad
    Chad Kultgen

    The Average American Marriage

    The Average American Marriage, the long-awaited sequel to Chad Kultgen's much debated, always controversial The Average American Male, is a matter-of-fact foray into the male mind and sexual fantasy.Now married with children, Kultgen's lewd and sex-obsessed narrator once again offers up his deep (and...
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  • Fool by Moore, Christopher
    Christopher Moore

    Fool

    "Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students." --Dallas Morning NewsFool--the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore--is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare's King Lear...as seen through the...
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  • Celebrity Chekhov by Greenman, Ben
    Ben Greenman

    Celebrity Chekhov

    New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or Kardashian). Thought-provoking and funny, these wryly re-imagined tales will...
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  • Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too) by Frazier, Ian
    Ian Frazier

    Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too)

    Selected and introduced by the incomparable Ian Frazier, Humor Me delivers a bumper crop of hilarity from the funniest writers at work today, with proceeds from its sales going to 826 National--the Dave Eggers-founded nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations across the...
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