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  • An Astronomer in Love by Laurain, Antoine
    Antoine Laurain

    An Astronomer in Love

    LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024SHORLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD VIKING AWARD FOR FICTION 2024'Perfect for the poolside or sitting outside a caf馥acute; with a pastis and olives' The TimesPart swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in...
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  • They Will Claim That I Was Dead... by Frerichs, Florian
    Florian Frerichs

    They Will Claim That I Was Dead...

    After a serious car crash, Berlin loser Nico Pacinsky becomes increasingly delusional, believing that he is really Klaus Kinski. When he is contacted by a director pretending to be Werner Herzog, who wants to film the life of his best fiend with Nico in...
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  • Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling by Bruce, David
    David Bruce

    Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling

    This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy THE DEVIL IS AN ASS. People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. THE DEVIL IS AN ASS because human beings are so much better than...
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  • Refugee Wolf: Special Education Edition by Chen, Roy
    Roy Chen

    Refugee Wolf: Special Education Edition

    Big Bad Ben is a larrikin wolf and seeks refugee status on the Planet of Straw, the Planet of Sticks and the Planet of McSpaceMansions. Our anti-hero speaks Aussie slang and in this speculative, dystopian satire set in 2500 AD, Big Bad Ben hurtles...
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  • Query by Novikov, Zilla
    Zilla Novikov

    Query

    City planner by day, tired climate activist by day off, aspiring writer Zilla Novikov's query letters quickly devolve into a darkly funny exploration of her own psyche. As the rejections pile up, her novel blurbs and biographies grow increasingly unhinged, while Zilla discovers that...
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  • To the Chapel Perilous by Mitchison, Naomi
    Naomi Mitchison

    To the Chapel Perilous

    In his 1999 Introduction to the first reprint of this novel from 1955 - a year of the Cold War that began with the Baghdad Pact and ended with the official start of the Vietnam War - Raymond H. Thompson described Naomi Mitchison's contribution...
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  • Mondo POTUS: An American Love Story by Hoppe, David
    David Hoppe

    Mondo POTUS: An American Love Story

    A three-term President with five robotic ex-wives. The Constitution rebranded. A fresh water rebellion in the Midwest. A daughter named Luscious. Librarian Duke Mutz has hijacked the Presidential Library - an aircraft carrier making circles in the South Atlantic...Welcome to Mondo POTUS! A satire...
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  • Ben Jonson's Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling by Bruce, David
    David Bruce

    Ben Jonson's Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling

    This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's satiric masterpiece: "Volpone, or the Fox." Educate YourselfRead Like A Wolf EatsBe Excellent to Each OtherBooks Then, Books Now, Books Forever Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission...
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  • The Citadel of Bureaucracy by Mitchell, J. D.
    J. D. Mitchell

    The Citadel of Bureaucracy

    Part story, part game, this is a book in which YOU make all the decisions!The Citadel of Bureaucracy holds dark and dangerous perils for civil servants unprepared for its labyrinthine cubicle walls, but enter you must. The Albatross Pay System has shorted you, money's...
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  • Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives by Godfrey, Wallace
    Wallace Godfrey

    Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives

    For lovelorn Oscar, and pragmatic cold-hearted Larry, a beautiful Miami spring has suddenly turned very hot and humid- Two unlikely heroes. Two confounding mysteries. How did a $1,000 jewel encrusted Prada shoe end up under a dumpster in a back alley in a deserted...
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  • Ben Jonson's A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling by Bruce, David
    David Bruce

    Ben Jonson's A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling

    This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's A TALE OF A TALE in modern English. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much earlier. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate...
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  • Spring Fever by Legendre, Thomas
    Thomas Legendre

    Spring Fever

    Amanda Nigh has finally hit her stride. Working at HocusLocus, she recrafts digital content with viral potential while beta-testing radical new software and enjoying London nightlife. But then she discovers a strange story involving Craig Merleau, an American ice hockey player who talks like...
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  • To Kill A Unicorn by Palter, DC
    DC Palter

    To Kill A Unicorn

    At this Silicon Valley startup, murder is a feature, not a bug?S?rD?r is the hottest startup in Silicon Valley until one of the company's physicists disappears and hacker Ted Hara sets out to find his missing friend. Led by a glamorous young scientist and...
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  • Cars, Coffee, and a Slightly Used Casket by Hilton, K. C.
    K. C. Hilton

    Cars, Coffee, and a Slightly Used Casket

    Our favorite car dealer is back, kicking ass and taking names, and she's just as fabulous as ever.Julia Karr is a used car lot owner and she isn't expecting an invitation to the popularity pool. Her business is drowning with past due accounts, difficult...
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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 Leaning Tower by McNeill, Charles
    Charles McNeill

    The Leaning Tower

    In the sociology department at a southern university in the US, there lie several major groups of personality types. Their unique foibles and the activities they engage in all point to pitfalls endemic to such contexts. The consequences of these dynamics include unanticipated destructive...
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  • Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure by Munz, Michael G.
    Michael G. Munz

    Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure

    THE GODS ARE BACK. DID YOU MYTH THEM?You probably saw the press conference. Nine months ago, Zeus's murder catapulted the Greek gods back into public life. Now the whole pantheon revels in new temples, casinos, and media empires-except Apollo. An overachiever with a bursting...
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  • January 6th and the Millennial Horde by Lazris, Andy
    Andy Lazris

    January 6th and the Millennial Horde

    "I couldn't get enough of the intricate, thrilling plot of January 6th and theMillennial Horde.... e book's characters are the type you love and hate at the sametime, which reflects the sort of duality that exists in a situation involving bad deedscarried out by...
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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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  • It Just Happened by Joanou, Phil
    Phil Joanou

    It Just Happened

    Billy Burton is a strange boy. Or, at least, that's what everyone tells him. He lives inside his head; thinking and thinking and dreaming and scheming. But this year-1973-his twelfth year on earth, is like no other. He is constantly under threat from the...
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  • This Is Not My Bathing Suit: A Novel About Contemporary Artists and Fishermen by Agrafiotis, Peter
    Peter Agrafiotis

    This Is Not My Bathing Suit: A Novel About Contemporary Artists and Fishermen

    Resort-town tabloid reporter Alex Perkins, 33 and most happy hanging out on Northport's working waterfront, reluctantly covers local arts happenings. When he encounters an oddly attractive, bird's nest-haired, young woman, putting up posters for a performance piece depicting her bikinied-self striding down a beach,...
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  • Roar: American Master, the Oral Biography of Roger Orr by Wagner, Bruce
    Bruce Wagner

    Roar: American Master, the Oral Biography of Roger Orr

    A new novel by Hollywood's "master of satire." The myth of an epic, public life--its triumphs and tragedies--is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in...
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  • The Urban Legion by Agans, Dave
    Dave Agans

    The Urban Legion

    What if the Conspiracy concealed its crimes by calling them urban legends? As organic food critic Lynn Grady savors the duck p t , a phantom voice invades her head. A stranger appears, blocks the voice with an improvised tin-foil hat, and claims to...
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  • Whale by Myeong-Kwan, Cheon
    Cheon Myeong-Kwan

    Whale: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

    ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ** A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy--a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred Years of Solitude Whale is the English-language debut of a beloved and bestselling South Korean author, a...
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  • A Crude Tool for Self-Decapitation by Bujniewicz, Michael
    Michael Bujniewicz

    A Crude Tool for Self-Decapitation

    There's no shortage of novels that chronicle a character "coming of age." In fact, it seems like nearly every protagonist ever written finds themselves in some "defining" moment of their life whether it ends in success or failure. However, A Crude Tool for Self-Decapitation...
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  • Nobodies by Palmer, Liza
    Liza Palmer

    Nobodies

    "Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the SixCharmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies is a novel about failing but never losing the core of yourself, from a beloved...
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  • All About Earthlings: The Irreverent Musings of an Extraterrestrial Envoy by Gutman, W. E.
    W. E. Gutman

    All About Earthlings: The Irreverent Musings of an Extraterrestrial Envoy

    Aldous Huxley wrote: "If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion." One might infer from this remark that seeing ourselves as others see us - and acknowledging our very obvious imperfections...
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  • A House in the Hamptons by Nagy, Gloria
    Gloria Nagy

    A House in the Hamptons

    The Harts and the Jamiesons, two happy families who are best friends, love nothing more than kicking back for the summer in the Hamptons. But their apparently idyllic summer is disrupted when the dazzling golden girl whom both husbands adored in high school-and one...
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  • Black Empire by Schuyler, George S.
    George S. Schuyler

    Black Empire

    What would happen if Marcus Garvey had achieved his dreams by force? Satirizing of one of the most influential figures of twentieth century Black America, George S. Schuyler's Black Empire is a remarkable look into the complicated politics of race and class. After witnessing...
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  • The Misadventures of Slim O. Wittz, Soft-Boiled Detective by Mild, Rosemary
    Rosemary Mild

    The Misadventures of Slim O. Wittz, Soft-Boiled Detective

    You're searching for hardboiled private eyes? Go see Sam Shade, Flip Marlowe, or Mike Slammer. Should you desire a completely anal policeman, there's Adrian Schmonk. But if you're in need of a truly soft-boiled Private Investigator, you turn to me, Slim O. Wittz. I'm...
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  • Based on a True Story by Renzetti, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Renzetti

    Based on a True Story

    A delectable satirical novel about celebrity culture, journalism, truth, lies, consequences -- about the fictions we tell ourselves and the fictions we tell others.Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and...
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  • Last Days of Pompeii: Volume 1, Augurs by Hanson, Steve
    Steve Hanson

    Last Days of Pompeii: Volume 1, Augurs

    Manchester. An hourly paid lecturer in a university art school writes fiction and poetry. He steals tea bags, screws and other useful items to get by. As he struggles with tiredness, depression and the quality of his writing output, he experiences nightmares about his...
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  • To Kill A Unicorn by Palter, DC
    DC Palter

    To Kill A Unicorn

    At this Silicon Valley startup, murder is a feature, not a bug... S?rD?r is the hottest startup in Silicon Valley until one of the company's physicists disappears and hacker Ted Hara sets out to find his missing friend. Led by a glamorous young scientist...
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  • Rebecca, Not Becky by Platt, Christine
    Christine Platt

    Rebecca, Not Becky

    In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning. De'Andrea...
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  • The Twinkling Ruination by Christiansen, John C.
    John C. Christiansen

    The Twinkling Ruination

    Meet the happiest, smartest, and sweetest kid of them all He'd gladly bicycle across town to give you his last nickel if it might help you to that extra scoop of ice cream. But as much as he cares about you, me, and well,...
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  • The Lives of Things by Saramago, Jose
    Jose Saramago

    The Lives of Things

    A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifsAuthor: Jose SaramagoISBN-10: 1781680868ISBN-13: 9781781680865Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
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  • Whole Lot of Hullabaloo: A Twenty-First Century Campus Phantasmagoria by Fried, Christopher
    Christopher Fried

    Whole Lot of Hullabaloo: A Twenty-First Century Campus Phantasmagoria

    It's Fall 2011, and Troy Thomas, a sophomore at Central Ohio University, is living a normal college life with his best friend, Ian Mueller, a top lacrosse player. One night, however, Troy's best friend arrives at an off-campus costume party dressed as a Miami...
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  • England, Their England by Macdonell, A. G.
    A. G. Macdonell

    England, Their England

    In an endeavor to write a book that captures the very essence of Englishness, a young Scot finds himself in 1920s England. To this end, he finds himself in typical English situations and circumstances, including participation in rural sports, international diplomacy, weekend trips to...
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  • The Wormhole in San Carlos by Wilson, Martin
    Martin Wilson

    The Wormhole in San Carlos

    Man playing at God ... it's never turned out well.Many scientists believe the mathematical reasoning used by Einstein to support his theory of general relativity allows for the presence of black holes and wormholes. Black holes are now widely accepted as real phenomena; wormholes...
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  • Payback by Tomlinson, John C.
    John C. Tomlinson

    Payback

    It's 1941. War in the United States has not yet begun, but a personal war on the USS Jupiter has been brewing for several months.Vincent Perelli is a lowly seaman who is fed up with Captain Wilkinson's treatment of the crew, especially himself and...
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  • Televangelist by Johnson, Ron
    Ron Johnson

    Televangelist

    Wearing a tailored suit and holding a bible, Bart Baxter walks out of prison with one goal in mind--to make money and lots of it. Follow along as Bart exploits religion and manipulates his followers for personal gain. Question your own moral code as...
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  • Zoon Garden: The Decline of a Nation by O'Donnell, Jordan
    Jordan O'Donnell

    Zoon Garden: The Decline of a Nation

    Jordan O'Donnell's debut novel strikes the heart of the American public. This timely allegory and poignant social critique tells the story of Clarendon Zoo and the dogmatic wolf and sheep tribes that trigger its downfall. When the mysterious zookeeper of Clarendon Zoo grants his...
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  • The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, Tobias
    Tobias Smollett

    The Adventures of Roderick Random

    Roderick Random's story is a classic rambunctious tale of rags and riches, set in the mid-eighteenth century.Roderick's father goes mad soon after he is born, in grief at his beloved wife's death. Roderick is cast into life as a virtual orphan, tumbles through a...
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  • Florida Retirement Is Murder by Courtney, Kris
    Kris Courtney

    Florida Retirement Is Murder

    FLORIDA RETIREMENT IS MURDERSnowbirds do more than just Flock"Stewart Johnson had worked hard his entire life to reach retirement. However, his Golden Years would prove to be more of a challenge than he anticipated after his wife passed away. Seeking to find peace of...
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  • Dorothy and the Giant Peach: A Trumpian Adventure in Oz by Nomen, Calamum
    Calamum Nomen

    Dorothy and the Giant Peach: A Trumpian Adventure in Oz

    As President of the United State of America, Donald J. Trump has dealt with numerous threats to his beloved country, such as election fraud, trade wars and witch hunts, oh my Now, President Trump takes on his most ominous foes and goes head-to-head with...
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  • Joseph Andrews by Fielding, Henry
    Henry Fielding

    Joseph Andrews

    A new edition of a satire on Richardson's PAMELA, featuring the character of Parson Adams. With explanatory notes by A R Humphreys.Author: Henry FieldingISBN-10: 0393002748ISBN-13: 9780393002744Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1958Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 7.71h x 5.06w x 0.77d
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  • Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbitt

    When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis's place as one...
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  • Know Your Beholder by Rapp, Adam
    Adam Rapp

    Know Your Beholder

    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's...
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  • Puerto Paz by Reese, Jefferey J.
    Jefferey J. Reese

    Puerto Paz

    We live in an increasingly polarizing landscape of political extremism. Liberal versus Conservative. Freedom versus order. What if that divide caused the United States to split into two countries and four extremist cultures?Marcus Coleman lives in a world where, decades earlier, exactly that happened....
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  • Size Zero by Mangin, Abigail
    Abigail Mangin

    Size Zero

    "A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style." - Kirkus ReviewsCondom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin...
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