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  • The Yodelling Detective: and the strange case of the missing lynx by McKenna, John
    John McKenna

    The Yodelling Detective: and the strange case of the missing lynx

    THE YODELLING DETECTIVE Set in West Lothian, Scotland, this is the story of Murdo Perigin-Smyth, and his wife Daphne. Murdo had been Chief Constable for an African republic, and Daphne had been a carer in the Lothians. As their story unfolds, you can follow...
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  • The Centre by Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha
    Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

    The Centre

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Choice - An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense "The most fascinating debut I've read in years--enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it...
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  • Death Watch by Fitch, Stona
    Stona Fitch

    Death Watch

    Coe Vessel, son of a legendary adman, lands the much-anticipated ad campaign of artist-provocateur Watanabe's latest creation, a mysterious watch called Cassius Seven. The enigmatic Watanabe claims the watch can kill its wearer. Convinced it's a high-art hoax, Coe and his team of renegade...
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  • A Touch of Jen by Morgan, Beth
    Beth Morgan

    A Touch of Jen

    A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." --Emily Temple, Literary Hub Remy...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). Sawyer also appears in...
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  • Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the na...
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  • The Valiant Little Tailor by Chevillard, Eric
    Eric Chevillard

    The Valiant Little Tailor

    The classic Grimms' fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you've never read it before "A creative take on storytelling, suggesting the potential in even the most familiar tale, with Chevillard riffing comfortably across subject-matters and stories old and new."--M. A.Orthofer, Complete Review...
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  • A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Sir Max
    Sir Max Beerbohm

    A Christmas Garland

    It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left...
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  • The Waves of Dissonance by Clark, Andrea
    Andrea Clark

    The Waves of Dissonance

    Dystopian (Sci-fi) Thriller with twists and turns!A vengeful scientist has been brainwashing New America's unsuspecting all-female society for years in an attempt to destroy her enemy--the man who took her newborn child eighteen years ago. But when the girl she believes to be her...
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  • Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition

    A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most influential of the 20th century--about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every...
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  • Vanity Fair: Unabridged edition by Thackeray, William Makepeace
    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Vanity Fair: Unabridged edition

    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The...
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  • Shark Season by Sinisterra, Simone
    Simone Sinisterra

    Shark Season

    A fast-moving, satirical and hilariously funny novel about one woman's fish-out-of-water adventures in the glamorous but vicious shark tank of cable TV news. Heather Scalzi wants to reach the top. Firmly concealing her own blue-collar origins, she climbs the ladder in Big Law by...
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  • The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious by Turker, Ron
    Ron Turker

    The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious

    What happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God's sake.Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Quixote, tilts his scalpel at the bloated underbelly of U.S. healthcare...
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  • Top 10 Ways To Kill A Nurse by Hudgins, Steve
    Steve Hudgins

    Top 10 Ways To Kill A Nurse

    Imagine the look on the nurse's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill a nurse, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some dark...
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  • Behold the Ape by Morrow, James
    James Morrow

    Behold the Ape

    An acerbic, entertaining caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin's brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood.When Sonya Orlova, a successful 1930s horror-film actress, crosses paths with a gorilla whose brain has been swapped for the frozen cerebrum of the late Charles Darwin, the two are...
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  • Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose
    Ambrose Bierce

    Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

    A certain Persian nobleman obtained from a cow gipsy a small oyster. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: "You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at...
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  • Lucky Stiff by Zito, Barbara Bellesi
    Barbara Bellesi Zito

    Lucky Stiff

    Barbara Bellesi Zito's debut novel is a darkly funny, quirky tale that will enchant, amuse, and get you thinking about modern values. Larry will win your heart as fast as he wins the lottery-in an instant. Larry Sortino is a lucky guy. Never mind...
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  • Search by Huneven, Michelle
    Michelle Huneven

    Search

    An NPR Best Book of 2022 "Delectable. . . Huneven treats us to a savory plot that blends spiritual yearnings with earthly pleasures. Forks out!" --Oprah Daily From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee,...
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  • The Mysterious Stranger: Illustrated by Wyeth, N. C.
    N. C. Wyeth

    The Mysterious Stranger: Illustrated

    The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from 1897 up until 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the...
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  • Catching Souls for Beelzebub by Haynes, Gordon
    Gordon Haynes

    Catching Souls for Beelzebub

    Debut author Gordon Haynes pens a comedic fantasy that stretches readers' imaginations while leaving them in stitches. Catching Souls for Beelzebub pits an average joe against otherworldly beings and teases with the possibility that our beleaguered hero may have found the love of his...
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  • Us&them by Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih
    Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

    Us&them

    Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son--still missing but not presumed dead yet--to return from...
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  • The Tyranny of Desire by Shallman, Morty
    Morty Shallman

    The Tyranny of Desire

    Meet Puchy Mushkin, the hero of this "fast-paced phantasmagoric satire of a debauched contemporary LA..." (1) who "vows to live a life devoid of want..." (2) while thrusting himself into "the wildest situations and transgressions in a carnivalesque Los Angeles." (2)This novel is "often...
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  • The Feast by Kennedy, Margaret
    Margaret Kennedy

    The Feast

    "Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." --Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster....
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  • Invisible Things by Johnson, Mat
    Mat Johnson

    Invisible Things

    A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:...
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  • DIRTY WEATHER & other Nome stories by Brophy, C. M.
    C. M. Brophy

    DIRTY WEATHER & other Nome stories

    These gripping, dark and funny character driven short stories depict the crazy people who inhabit the under water gold mining world of Nome Alaska. With sardonic wit and unique voice author C.M. Brophy describes in 14 short stories the madness at the end of...
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  • Oh, Gulliver!: Mary Burton-Gulliver's Diary and Her Memoir of Gulliver's Travels by Netz, Erga
    Erga Netz

    Oh, Gulliver!: Mary Burton-Gulliver's Diary and Her Memoir of Gulliver's Travels

    What really happened to Gulliver during his famous travels? And what did his wife do in the meantime?In this fun, satirical work, Mary Burton-Gulliver recounts her life as a "widow-of-the-sea" and the events that her husband (using the pseudonym "Jonathan Swift") didn't dare to...
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  • The General and the Frogs by Hassan, Mirghani
    Mirghani Hassan

    The General and the Frogs

    In a Sub-Saharan African country vulnerable to the whims of its dyslexic and tyrannical ruler, a young man named Abdulmoneim Ghoriesh, enrols in the country's famed university, laden with the scars of a recent family tragedy. On his first night on campus, as he...
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  • Autobiography of a Cad by Macdonell, A. G.
    A. G. Macdonell

    Autobiography of a Cad

    This vintage book contains A. G. Macdonell's 1938 novel, "The Autobiography of a Cad". Written as a memoir of the life of Edward Fox-Ingleby, it spans from with his earliest memories of his family's estate and his time at Eton and Oxford, to his...
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  • Turn, Magic Wheel by Powell, Dawn
    Dawn Powell

    Turn, Magic Wheel

    Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen's betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New...
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  • How I Won a Nobel Prize by Taranto, Julius
    Julius Taranto

    How I Won a Nobel Prize

    Named One of the Best Books of the Year by VOGUE and VOX A "very funny, very good" (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute,...
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  • The Mysterious Portrait by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    The Mysterious Portrait

    This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Mysterious Portrait' is a short story about a penniless artist who discovers a magical painting in art shop. The painting...
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  • The Men Can't Be Saved by Purkert, Ben
    Ben Purkert

    The Men Can't Be Saved

    * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! * "Blistering . . . Mad Men ambition meets an epic, existential meltdown." --VANITY FAIR, 20 Best Books of 2023 "[Purkert is] a sharply...
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  • Mapp and Lucia by Benson, E. F.
    E. F. Benson

    Mapp and Lucia

    A brilliant and subtle comedy on the social rivalries of a small village between the wars. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small village of Riseholme. A beautifully written and sharply observed comedy, exploring...
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  • Monday Starts on Saturday by Strugatsky, Arkady
    Arkady Strugatsky

    Monday Starts on Saturday

    Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy.The adventures...
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  • The Freedom of Will by Clatterbaugh, Kenneth
    Kenneth Clatterbaugh

    The Freedom of Will

    Coming of age can be an adventure. No one knows this better than William James Tillit, an abandoned child from east Texas raised by his loving aunt and uncle, devout evangelical siblings who are determined to do their best by their young nephew. Will...
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  • The Survivalists by Cauley, Kashana
    Kashana Cauley

    The Survivalists

    "A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on those...
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  • The Magic Mountain by Mann, Thomas
    Thomas Mann

    The Magic Mountain

    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's story of an unassuming, undistinguished young engineer named Hans Castorp who sits on the balcony of a sanatorium, wrapped in his blanket, thermometer in his mouth, naively but earnestly pondering the meaning of...
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  • Animal Farm by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party...
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  • The Wandering Princess Comes Back by Villari, Dominic
    Dominic Villari

    The Wandering Princess Comes Back

    The time has comes for Savanah the Wandering Princess and her friends to return home to lands of the Cinder Mountains. They plan to sail a newly acquired ship up the Serpentine River to the edge of the Dark Forest in their own kingdom....
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  • Swimming with Ghosts by Brafman, Michelle
    Michelle Brafman

    Swimming with Ghosts

    From the acclaimed author of Washing the Dead and Bertrand Court comes a satirical and chilling, yet deeply-sensitive, tale that captures the ethos and ruin of children's competitive swimming, where parents must face the haunting spirits of their own tumultuous upbringings or risk losing...
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  • No Gun Intended by Rutledge, Mario
    Mario Rutledge

    No Gun Intended

    No Gun Intended follows seventeen-year-old Ian Moss, who, after years of homeschooling, is encouraged by his mother and his therapist to attend his final year of high school in person to prepare him for college and adulthood. Though excited to embark on this new...
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  • Sister Liberty by Hill, Gregory
    Gregory Hill

    Sister Liberty

    Their American Dream was simply to survive. They managed considerably more than that.With its cast of obedient romantics, mystical nutbags, and adorable cynics, Sister Liberty is the rollicking, thunderous introductory volume to The Stables Family Chronicles.In 1885, murderous circumstances force two lesbian widows and...
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  • The Cockroach by McEwan, Ian
    Ian McEwan

    The Cockroach

    A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England.That morning, Jim Sams, clever...
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  • Maybe It's About Time by Boss, Neil
    Neil Boss

    Maybe It's About Time

    Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession.Claire Halford's...
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  • Miracle on 42nd Street by Allan, Andrew
    Andrew Allan

    Miracle on 42nd Street

    'Twas the week before Christmas, New York City, '86.A killer is lurking, slashing hookers and tricks...Special's a working girl trying to scratch out a living on 42nd Street, the sleaziest strip in America. No pimp, no problem-she can handle herself. But when her friend...
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  • It Was Just Another Day in America by Ginsberg, Ryan David
    Ryan David Ginsberg

    It Was Just Another Day in America

    Introducing "It Was Just Another Day in America," a thought-provoking book by Ryan David Ginsberg that explores a range of issues facing America today. Through eight short stories and a series of powerful poems, the author provides commentary on topics such as abortion rights,...
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  • The Torrents of Spring (Read & Co. Classics Edition);With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation ' by Hemingway, Ernest
    Ernest Hemingway

    The Torrents of Spring (Read & Co. Classics Edition);With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation '

    Ernest Hemingway's first piece of long-form literature, The Torrents of Spring, is a satirical novella that the great American author wrote in just ten days and is a rare early example of his work. Set in small-town America in Northern Michigan, The Torrents of...
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  • Nakadai by Zupp, Walker
    Walker Zupp

    Nakadai

    Twickley, England - when Hiroshi Nakadai is studying for his PhD in Linguistics he comes into contact with a powerful and evil force... His supervisor, Professor Mutton, has been enslaved by The Great Word: an intergalactic beinghell-bent on conquering the world. When Nakadai becomes...
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  • No Gifts, Please by Shanahan, Bridget
    Bridget Shanahan

    No Gifts, Please

    Fun facts about Florida's Knabb College: The president is doing 'shrooms, a VP is embezzling to buy Disney collectibles and gators are eating the occasional donor.Claire Murray hides out in the left-brain comfort zone of the library, denying the gifts of a girlhood spent...
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  • The Royal Riposte: What If William and Kate Shared Their Truths With Oprah? by Wandsworth, Kitty
    Kitty Wandsworth

    The Royal Riposte: What If William and Kate Shared Their Truths With Oprah?

    It would never happen - or so we think - but is it really that unlikely? We live in a world where Netflix makes lavish dramas about the current royal family, whilst Prince Harry and Meghan continue to indulge us with tell-all interviews, articles,...
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