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  • Candide by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide

    The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate...
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  • The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose by Ocram, Marco
    Marco Ocram

    The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose

    "IT IS STAN," screamed the unhinged monk. "STAN HAS COME AMONGST US " "Stan?" cried the abbot and I in bewilderment. "Who is Stan?"I realized my mistake, and retyped the line."IT IS SATAN," screamed the unhinged monk. "SATAN HAS COME AMONST US "Mega-selling author,...
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  • Village: A Novel by Crawford, Stanley
    Stanley Crawford

    Village: A Novel

    This rollicking ride through a single day in the ill-fated village of San Marcos will leave you reeling with laughter, even as you cringe at the misadventures of the hapless Porter Clapp and his pitiable wife, Steph; the jaundiced On simo Moro and his...
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  • Sounding the Waters by Glickman, James
    James Glickman

    Sounding the Waters

    A novel of U.S. politics, clean and dirty, and the ways in which the specter of the past informs our every move. Ben Shamas, a gifted lawyer whose daughter's death in a boating accident has led him toward self-destruction, is tapped by a friend...
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  • A Confederacy of Hot Dogs by Paul, Christoph
    Christoph Paul

    A Confederacy of Hot Dogs

    Phil LoPresti hates everything except his girlfriend Missy, the band Swans, and Clive Barker (except for the film Nightbreed--he hates that film most of all). He channels his misanthropy into his poetry and art photography, but feels even more discouraged when no one buys...
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  • Alice's Bloody Adventures in Wonderland by Contreras, Raul Alberto
    Raul Alberto Contreras

    Alice's Bloody Adventures in Wonderland

    This satirical adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is a twisted retelling of an already absurdist vision of reality. Raul Contreras inspired artwork is an entertaining and modern take on familiar illustrations and the story is no children's bedtime story. In this twisted retelling...
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  • The Cursed Canoe by Bow, Frankie
    Frankie Bow

    The Cursed Canoe

    Professor Molly investigates a mysterious paddling accident and discovers it isn't just business majors who cheat to get what they want. Whether it's moving up in the college rankings or securing a seat in the big canoe race, some people will do whatever it...
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  • Welcome to Groove House by Meniketti, Jill
    Jill Meniketti

    Welcome to Groove House

    When rock's former biggest rebel loses everything, he's forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he'd burned his entire career. With a trashed comeback tour, creditors on his ass, no record deal, a health issue he doesn't even know...
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  • The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
    Ambrose Bierce

    The Devil's Dictionary

    A tongue-in-cheek dictionary by a master of comedy.Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 1523485027ISBN-13: 9781523485024Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2016Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.55d
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  • Don Quixote Volume 1 by Cervantes, Miguel De
    Miguel de Cervantes

    Don Quixote Volume 1

    Don Quixote (spelled "Quijote" in modern Spanish) is two separate volumes, now nearly always published as one, that cover the adventures of Don Quixote, also known as the knight or man of La Mancha, a hero who carries his enthusiasm and self-deception to unintentional...
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  • Candide by Voltaire by Fleming, William F.
    William F. Fleming

    Candide by Voltaire

    Candide by VoltaireBy VoltaireFULL ENGLISH TRANSLATIONIntroduction by Philip LittellWilliam F. FlemingCandide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for...
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  • Fast Money and French Ladies: Greek Crisis 2015 - A Satirical Novel by Myers, Paul A.
    Paul A. Myers

    Fast Money and French Ladies: Greek Crisis 2015 - A Satirical Novel

    June 2015 - The Greek prime minister calls for a referendum to reject the harsh austerity terms demanded by the European Union for a bailout of the crushed Greek economy. The EU cuts off the banks and Greeks line up at the ATMs to...
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  • Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited by Butler, Samuel
    Samuel Butler

    Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited

    "For the inconsistencies in the book, and I am aware that there are not a few, I must ask the indulgence of the reader. The blame, however, lies chiefly with the Erewhonians themselves, for they were really a very difficult people to understand." (Preface)...
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  • White Hats---Dark Hearts by Deroiste, Donach
    Donach Deroiste

    White Hats---Dark Hearts

    First -time Irish author, Donach DeRoiste uses a seamless blend of action, humor, romance and hard-hitting irreverent dialogue to highlight truths that many are afraid to tell and many more do not want to hear. The book illustrates that our natural inclination to defer...
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  • The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    The Way We Live Now

    Augustus Melmotte is a foreign-born financier with a mysterious past. When he moves his business and his family to London, the city's upper crust begins buzzing with rumors about him, and a host of characters ultimately find their lives changed because of him. He...
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  • The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
    Ambrose Bierce

    The Devil's Dictionary

    The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical reference book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. A number of the definitions are accompanied...
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  • Gargantua, and His Son Pantagruel by Rabelais, Francois
    Francois Rabelais

    Gargantua, and His Son Pantagruel

    The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by Fran輟is Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father, Gargantua, and his son Pantagruel and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant,...
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  • Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's by Green, Jay Spencer
    Jay Spencer Green

    Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

    Darkly Funny, Desperate and Full of Rage, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's is a twisted, and picaresque tale, a transgressive black comedy like no other. Joe Chambers is a CIA operative working in Dublin. Assigned to an agency-backed publishing house, his problems include, but are...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Wilson, Angus
    Angus Wilson

    Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

    Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation....
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  • The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Merwin, W. S.
    W. S. Merwin

    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

    Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554,...
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  • How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Khair, Tabish
    Tabish Khair

    How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

    A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the...
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  • The Supreme Orchestra by Turgeon, David
    David Turgeon

    The Supreme Orchestra

    We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her age (older than she looks), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn are the things...
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  • Checkpoint by Albahari, David
    David Albahari

    Checkpoint

    From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be. Atop a hill, deep in the forest, an...
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  • Abrupt Mutations by Revol, Enrique Luis
    Enrique Luis Revol

    Abrupt Mutations

    Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of 1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian billionaire and aesthete equally revered and reviled by his...
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  • Sleazeland by Goodfellow, Cody
    Cody Goodfellow

    Sleazeland

    From two-time Wonderland Book Award-winning author, Cody Goodfellow, described as "one of the best writers of our generation" by grandmaster of horror Brian Keene, and "the Ellroy of speculative fiction " by acclaimed cult author Jeremey Robert Johnson, comes a novel of desperation and...
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  • Drunk Driving Champion by Hendrixson, Eric
    Eric Hendrixson

    Drunk Driving Champion

    "Outlandish fun. A descendant of Cannonball Run and It's a Mad Mad Mad World with every bit of the manic exuberance." -GARRETT COOK, Wonderland Book Award winning author of Time Pimp When a hundred drunk drivers line up for a cross-country competition, it will...
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  • Satan Burger (15th Anniversary Edition) by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Satan Burger (15th Anniversary Edition)

    When Satan Burger was first being passed around among teenage punks and fans of weird art and film, there was nothing else like it. A book of rebellious spirit that simplistically captured the postmodern malaise of a culture obsessed with consumerism. It quickly gained...
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  • Sweet Story by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Sweet Story

    Sally is an odd little girl. It's not because she dresses as if she's from the Edwardian era or spends most of her time playing with creepy talking dolls. It's because she chases rainbows as if they were butterflies. She believes that if she...
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  • The Tick People by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    The Tick People

    They call it Gloom Town, but that isn't its real name. It is a sad city, the saddest of cities, a place so utterly depressing that even their ales are brewed with the most sorrow-filled tears. They built it on the back of a...
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  • Village of the Mermaids by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Village of the Mermaids

    MERMAID mur-meyd] noun -- a rare species of fish evolved to resemble the appearance of a woman in order to attract male human prey. Mermaids are protected by the government under the Endangered Species Act, which means you aren't able to kill them even...
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  • Cybernetrix by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Cybernetrix

    A bizarro parody of the movie Tron. Technology has advanced to the level where electronic alternate worlds can actually be created and colonized by humans. The first such world to be developed was originally supposed to be based on the electronic world from the...
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  • Kill Ball by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Kill Ball

    In a city where everyone lives inside of plastic bubbles, there is no such thing as intimacy. A husband can no longer kiss his wife. A mother can no longer hug her children. To do this would mean instant death. Ever since the disease...
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  • Broken Piano for President by Wensink, Patrick
    Patrick Wensink

    Broken Piano for President

    The greatest political allegory since Animal Farm, written by the most fantastic-smelling author of our time. Ever drank too much and forgot what happened? Don't be embarrassed. Deshler Dean faces this problem every day of his life. Dean is far more brilliant and productive...
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  • Tumor Fruit by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Tumor Fruit

    If they don't act fast, they'll never get out alive... Eight desperate castaways find themselves stranded on a mysterious deserted island. They are surrounded by poisonous blue plants and an ocean made of acid. Strange creatures lurk in the shadows. The ghostly sound of...
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  • The Egg Man by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    The Egg Man

    It is a survival of the fittest world where humans reproduce like insects, children are the property of corporations, and having a ten-foot brain is a grotesque sexual fetish. Lincoln has just been released into the world by the Georges Organization, a corporation that...
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  • Ultra Fuckers by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Ultra Fuckers

    Welcome to Suburban Hell... Tony dreads the idea of going to his wife's company dinner party in Eagle Hills; the new upper-middleclass gated community that just popped up outside of Scottsdale, AZ. He hates these Southwest-style planned suburban neighborhoods. All of the streets look...
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  • The Handsome Squirm by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    The Handsome Squirm

    A tale of marriage, child-rearing, and vaginas that eat people. A man is arrested in the middle of the night. He doesn't know why. He doesn't remember committing any crime. The cops drop him off in a small community in the middle of the...
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  • Villainy Victorious: Mission Earth Volume 9 by Hubbard, L. Ron
    L. Ron Hubbard

    Mission Earth Volume 9: Villainy Victorious

    Earth is rising in the House of Voltar . . . And there'll be hell to pay That's right. The invasion is on . . . and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't...
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  • Disaster: Mission Earth Volume 8 by Hubbard, L. Ron
    L. Ron Hubbard

    Mission Earth Volume 8: Disaster

    Who is the true master of disaster? Earthlings: prepare for the shock of your lives Global warming . . . reversed.The energy crisis . . . over. The greatest problem on Earth . . . solved.Saving the world is never easy, and for Heller,...
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  • Voyage of Vengeance: Mission Earth Volume 7 by Hubbard, L. Ron
    L. Ron Hubbard

    Mission Earth Volume 7: Voyage of Vengeance

    The end is near The Voltarian terrorists have won Earth is history But don't believe everything you read. Or hear. Or see. Because the road to victory is paved with bad intentions--and lies, betrayal and deception are all in play. So who are the...
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  • In the Memorial Room by Frame, Janet
    Janet Frame

    In the Memorial Room

    Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship--a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial...
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  • The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón by Gamerro, Carlos
    Carlos Gamerro

    The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

    1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlán, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Perón in all ninety-two offices of Argentina's leading construction company, Tamerlán &...
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  • Diddle by Staniforth, Daniel
    Daniel Staniforth

    Diddle

    Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of...
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  • Isleworth Madonna by De Moresco, Anton
    Anton De Moresco

    Isleworth Madonna

    Anton de Moresco's whodunnit, set in the strange, cloistered environment of the University of Isleworth, will be a revelation to all those unfamiliar with Britain's oldest university and the area of West London which houses its ancient campus. Professor Gerrish Gray realises that his...
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  • The Wicked Pavilion by Powell, Dawn
    Dawn Powell

    The Wicked Pavilion

    The "Wicked Pavilion" of the title is the Caf Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another's reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from...
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  • Rameau's Nephew by Diderot, Denis
    Denis Diderot

    Rameau's Nephew

    18th Century Frenchman Diderot uses a fictional conversation between two men to criticize those who argued against the Enlightenment. As his prior works of political opinion had caused his imprisonment, Diderot was especially careful to craft "Rameau's Nephew" in such a way to not...
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  • The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, Tobias
    Tobias Smollett

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

    Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and his family's journey across England and Scotland. From the gouty hypochondriac squire eager to take...
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  • Pantagruel and Gargantua by Rabelais, François
    Fran輟is Rabelais

    Pantagruel and Gargantua

    With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his...
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  • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks...
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  • Christ's Entry Into Brussels by Verhulst, Dimitri
    Dimitri Verhulst

    Christ's Entry Into Brussels

    It is announced that Jesus Christ is to visit Belgium in a few weeks time, on its national day, the 21st of July. Coincidentally, our narrator's mother dies and his marriage ends. Feeling very low, and fluctuating between resentment, irony and cynicism, he reports...
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