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  • The High Road by Fallis, Terry
    Terry Fallis

    The High Road

    This deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped...
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  • Frankland by Whorton, James
    James Whorton

    Frankland

    With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who...
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  • The Civil Servant's Notebook by Wang, Xiaofang
    Xiaofang Wang

    The Civil Servant's Notebook

    Dongzhou City needs a new Mayor. Government corridors are awash with rumor and subterfuge as the local Communist Party mandarins go through the motions of selecting a candidate. Dangerous factions begin to form around the two contenders, Liu Yihe and Peng Guoliang. Devious plots,...
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  • Fuck You, Your Honor by Chambers, Craig
    Craig Chambers

    Fuck You, Your Honor

    F*ck You, Your Honor is a satirical literary novel about a low-end attorney and real estate broker who is ordered by a judge to write a book to save his law license.Attorney Darwyn "Wyn" VanWye is down on his luck. He squats in a...
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  • The Goddess of Pigland by Zecca, Mario
    Mario Zecca

    The Goddess of Pigland

    Forenk, the unlucky son of pig farmers, shamed into leaving home as an outcast, begins an odyssey to uncover his destiny as the last mortal capable of fathering divine beings. Along the way he meets his guardians and companions, erotic angels and slightly deranged...
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  • Elvis Presley, CIA Assassin by Rausch, Andy
    Andy Rausch

    Elvis Presley, CIA Assassin

    "I can guarantee you. Read this book and you'll never look at Elvis the same way again " -- Douglas Brode, author of Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture. In 1970, singer Elvis Presley secretly met with President Richard Nixon. This new comedic novel imagines...
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  • Checking Out of the Hotel Euthanasia by Graham, Gerard
    Gerard Graham

    Checking Out of the Hotel Euthanasia

    Checking Out of the Hotel Euthanasia is a fictional satirical novel about assisted dying. The Hotel Euthanasia welcomes you through the its splendid doors for a life changing stay. We just can't promise you won't die of laughter before it's time to leave.Checking Out...
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  • Oblomov: Introduction by Richard Freeborn by Goncharov, Ivan
    Ivan Goncharov

    Oblomov: Introduction by Richard Freeborn

    AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC. Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece--a magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed--brilliantly employs humor to explore the absurdities and injustices of an outmoded social order. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a good-hearted nobleman...
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  • Utopia by More, Thomas
    Thomas More

    Utopia

    This vintage book contains Thomas Moore's 1516 novel, "Utopia". A fantastic work of political philosophy, it centres on a fictional island and its religions, culture, and politics - a model for an ideal political system. This book is highly recommended for fans of utopian...
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  • Rarity from the Hollow by Eggleton, Robert
    Robert Eggleton

    Rarity from the Hollow

    Lacy Dawn's father relives the never-ending Gulf War, her mother's teeth are rotting out, and her best friend is murdered by the meanest daddy on Earth. Life in the hollow is hard. She has one advantage - an android was inserted into her life...
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  • This Is How It Really Sounds by Cohen, Stuart Archer
    Stuart Archer Cohen

    This Is How It Really Sounds

    "A smart, wide-ranging novel . . . a timely and provocative story about money, cultural power, and identity in the digital age." --Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers In the lurid nightclubs of modern Shanghai, infamous expat financier Peter Harrington is suddenly confronted by...
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  • Blondes by Schultz, Emily
    Emily Schultz

    Blondes

    The Blondes on NPR's Best Books of 2015 list and a Bookpage Best Book of 2015 "Emily Schultz is my new hero." --Stephen King The Blondes is a hilarious and whip-smart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde...
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  • The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days by Frazier, Ian
    Ian Frazier

    Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

    A hilarious--and delightfully profane--novel about the daily frustrations of family life Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination....
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  • Luminous Airplanes by La Farge, Paul
    Paul La Farge

    Luminous Airplanes

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Luminous Airplanes.In September 2000,...
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  • Lucia in London & Mapp and Lucia: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by Benson, E. F.
    E. F. Benson

    Lucia in London & Mapp and Lucia: The Mapp & Lucia Novels

    E. F. Benson's beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. The third and fourth novels in the series, Lucia in London (1927) and...
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  • The Prince and the Pauper by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Mark Twain's satiric novel about two boys who trade places in Tudor England--written "for young people of all ages"--was his first foray into historical fiction. Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper brings together Tom Canty, an impoverished urchin who lives with his...
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  • Jacobites by Name: Third time lucky by Rassleagh, Sean T.
    Sean T. Rassleagh

    Jacobites by Name: Third time lucky

    Edinburgh 2025. Six years after Brexit. The New Georgian wing of the Tories is in firm control and determined to take the UK back to the 1700s.To avert a second independence referendum Westminster have appointed a Viceroy to run Scotland. Thousands of police from...
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  • Cars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet: Julia Karr by Hilton, K. C.
    K. C. Hilton

    Cars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet: Julia Karr

    If you deal with customers day after day who drive you insane, give you reasons to drink alcohol, or make you want to quit your job, this book is definitley for you. And maybe a few of your friends. Rest assured, you are not...
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  • The Retroactivist by Ragolia, Nate
    Nate Ragolia

    The Retroactivist

    It's 2087. Mankind has eradicated war, poverty, and jobs. Robots now perform all work. Humans live free to strive for pure happiness and aesthetic perfection. Everyone except for Reid Rosales. Unhappy with joy, unfulfilled by satisfaction, in the throes of a creative slump, Reid...
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  • The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    The Pickwick Papers

    The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good...
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  • The Impressionist by Kunzru, Hari
    Hari Kunzru

    The Impressionist

    From the author of White Tears and Blue Ruin, this bestselling, award-winning novel of a young man's journey explores what it means to be Indian or English, black or white, and every degree that lies between. Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become...
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  • The Academy by Little, Bentley
    Bentley Little

    The Academy

    "Master of the macabre" Bentley Little offers a new lesson in fear with this terrifying horror novel. With a promise of more freedom and a chance to get out from under the thumb of a reactionary school board, the teachers of Tyler High have...
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  • The Assistants by Perri, Camille
    Camille Perri

    The Assistants

    "Ocean's Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada" (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they've finally had enough... Rule #1: All important men have assistants. Rule #2: Men rule the world. Still. Rule...
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  • Adjustment Day by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Adjustment Day

    People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. Adjustment Day, the author's first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work...
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  • Sugar and Rum by Unsworth, Barry
    Barry Unsworth

    Sugar and Rum

    Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with varying degrees of literary talent. Caught up in a series of bizarre...
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  • Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbitt

    In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt,...
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  • From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Gilvarry, Alex
    Alex Gilvarry

    From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

    The critically acclaimed debut from Alex Gilvarry, a darkly comic love letter to New York, told through the eyes of Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, glamour junkie, Guant疣amo detainee.Alex Gilvarry's widely acclaimed first novel is the story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York...
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  • A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven by Drakulic, Slavenka
    Slavenka Drakulic

    A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven

    A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular...
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  • The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again by Roberts, A. R. R. R.
    A. R. R. R. Roberts

    The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again

    Bingo Grabbins is a soddit who enjoys a comfortable life (apart from his feet, of course). But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandef, and a company of bizarrely Welsh dwarves drag him away on an adventure. They have a plot to raid...
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  • Back to Blood by Wolfe, Tom
    Tom Wolfe

    Back to Blood

    A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into...
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  • A Hole in Texas by Wouk, Herman
    Herman Wouk

    A Hole in Texas

    With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when...
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  • Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Hanif, Mohammed
    Mohammed Hanif

    Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

    Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found in the most unlikely places. The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what...
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  • The Final Weekend: A Stoned Tale by Cassidy, Neal
    Neal Cassidy

    The Final Weekend: A Stoned Tale

    In the last days before the real world, six college friends prepare to take a bow in epic fashion. After Sunday there's just Harry, the future business owner; Justin, the medical intern; Trent, the hapless wanderer; and Clarence, soon to don the badge and...
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  • Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage: Two Novels by Aleshkovsky, Yuz
    Yuz Aleshkovsky

    Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage: Two Novels

    Among contemporary Russian writers, Yuz Aleshkovsky stands out for his vivid imagination, his mixing of realism and fantasy, and his virtuosic use of the rich tradition of Russian obscene language. These two novels, written in the 1970s, display Aleshkovsky's linguistic gifts and keen observations...
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  • The Portable Voltaire by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    The Portable Voltaire

    Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.Author: VoltaireISBN-10: 0140150412ISBN-13: 9780140150414Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/1977Pages: 576Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.79h x 5.05w x 1.14d
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  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
    Laurence Sterne

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    Sterne's utterly original novel--the meandering, maddening "autobiography" of one of literature's oldest comic characters, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy Doomed to become the "sport of fortune" by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to...
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  • Inappropriation by Freiman, Lexi
    Lexi Freiman

    Inappropriation

    "This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment." -- Emma Cline, author of The GirlsA wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politicsStarting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old...
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  • Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that...
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  • A Clockwork Orange Low Price CD by Burgess, Anthony
    Anthony Burgess

    A Clockwork Orange Low Price CD

    A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that...
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  • Sad Desk Salad by Grose, Jessica
    Jessica Grose

    Sad Desk Salad

    As a former editor for popular websites, including Slate and Jezebel, Jessica Grose intimately understands the realities of life in the blogosphere--and she employs this knowledge to hilarious effect in her edgy and timely debut novel, Sad Desk Salad. Grose's story of a savvy...
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  • This Beautiful Life by Schulman, Helen
    Helen Schulman

    This Beautiful Life

    "ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping, potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily, dilemma, and consequence. . . . I read this book with white-knuckledurgency, and I finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Theevents of...
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  • Totally Killer by Olear, Greg
    Greg Olear

    Totally Killer

    "Smart, unexpected, and wonderfully savage in its humor. Totally Killer nails, without mercy, the mood and minutiae of a weary America at the end of the 20th century."--Brad Listi, author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder. Debut novelist Greg Olear gets nostalgic for a recently bygone...
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  • Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire by Konstantinou, Lee
    Lee Konstantinou

    Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire

    The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East--now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer Caliph Fred--is in an uproar after an...
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  • Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up by Tuck, Lily
    Lily Tuck

    Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up

    Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered...
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  • A Changed Man by Prose, Francine
    Francine Prose

    A Changed Man

    "Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature. . . . We are allowed to enter the moral dilemmas of fascinating characters whose emotional lives are strung out by the same human frailties, secrets and insecurities we all share."...
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  • Ostrich Country by Nobbs, David
    David Nobbs

    Ostrich Country

    ' " A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests," said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.' Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he foreseen the outcome of his hasty decision to abandon the career...
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  • The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way by Benson, Raymond
    Raymond Benson

    The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way

    2022 FOREWORD INDIES Book Award Finalist! From internationally acclaimed and best-selling author RAYMOND BENSON comes a wry and darkly comedic work in which a quaint suburb of Chicago finds itself rocked by more than just the uncertainties of 2020. Perfect for fans of Celeste...
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  • Heart Sutra by Lianke, Yan
    Yan Lianke

    Heart Sutra

    From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National...
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  • From G to Pg to R to X by Bird, Stephen C.
    Stephen C. Bird

    From G to Pg to R to X

    Sunnie and Brother mourn Mother; an apparition visits Sunnie. Mother appears in Sunnie's disturbing dreams; Sunnie meets Momma Leg, a vicious dominatrix ... Comedy writer Pamm Demmyck is the boss; she just wants to write jokes. Her partner Remmy Dessyvyr has principles; she fights...
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  • The Ally by Repila, Iván
    Iv疣 Repila

    The Ally

    In this unexpectedly hilarious social novel, a misguided thirty-something tries to beat his girlfriend at her own game: becoming the ultimate feministWhen he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt--whom he's never read--our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought.Determined...
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