Fiction - Satire

For five long years I didn't know my cat could turn into a vampire.That means I've spent five long years squishing little black toe beans, participating in all-night cuddles, and calling a full-grown man my itty bitty stinky kitty baby.When my near-death experience forces...

Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable, and their lineage and background decidedly...

William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William's wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter....

Are we masters of or servants to our own human nature? This illustrated, short novel presents a satire on human nature. "Human nature" are two words that are used often, but what exactly do they mean? This work explores, in narrative form, that mysterious...

Let there be adulting.Post-collegiate life in Austin, Texas, is going as well as Jessica McCloud had expected, meaning it's exhausting and lonely and she's mega broke. If she's ever going to get her business off the ground, though, she needs to get her ass...

Bartleby the Scrivener explores the theme of isolation in American life and the workplace through actual physical loneliness and mental loneliness. Although all of the characters at the office are related by being co-workers, Bartleby is the only one whose name is known to...

"A Modest Proposal", reprinted here, was written over 300 years ago by Jonathan Swift, outspoken voice of the 18th century, and author of "Gulliver's Travels." In his humorous essay, Swift wrote against the British elite's disdain for the starving Irish children, who were then...

Written in the style of short tweet like prose, Starbucks Ate My Lobster follows the life of a group of friends in April 2013, written through the eyes of a disillusioned lawyer turned writer, taking a sabbatical to finish his novel. The novella has...

If you are bothered by greenwashing, baffled by eco-denialism, and bewildered by our seemingly inexorable march toward global environmental catastrophe, this book is for you. In a not-so-distant future, in a world ravaged by climate change and invasive pests, humanity still chooses self-deception over...

A gangster drama, NOTHING DRIES QUICKER THAN TEARS. Forty-year-old Norman Delmar ordered a bullet that killed his father. Not once, but twice. A counterfeit son. The string between mother and son broke like a kite.In a Chaplin-esque satire about a casino robbery and the...

Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism. Denounced as...

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. - From the "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime...

An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage). Helen is one...

MOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE - There's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer...

Buckle up for this darkly comedic ride through the blood-splattered lay-bys of rural England. Trying to get his life back on track, Adam unwittingly gets a job with a bunch of ruthless fruit gangsters hell-bent on expansion. As he navigates a treacherous landscape teeming...

Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his...

Cameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world's largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in tow, he must sidestep corporate politics, avoid the certifiably-insane and...

Sometimes, you've just got to get the lobster.Apart from his thankless job at Hot Dawgy Dawgs, Brooklyn's best and worst hot dog joint, twenty-something Josh Cantillo doesn't have much going on in his life. Unless you count his never-ending quest to find his lobsterman...

In the tradition of James Joyce's Dubliners, Murray Edmond brings us Aucklanders, short stories that celebrate lives lived in New Zealand's biggest city. Through different time-settings, and narrative styles, the tales are variously entertaining, funny, satirical, reflective and tragic. Sometimes they are a little...

The end of the world has begun. If I were you, I'd take my valuable time and attention elsewhere.As you well know, Earth is running low on kindness and shame and air. Why put yourself in the shoes of others when, surely, you recognize...

Digging Around the Pandemic: The SwiftPad Extinction, the riveting and concluding volume of the SwiftPad Trilogy, follows the last months of an election in a country that balances precariously on the knife edge of Civil War. After the Insurgency's defeat of the Incumbent's storm...

2nd Edition: Unleashed -The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking CLub - Part 2 Four months after the disappearance of Tom Hudd from a leafy Savannah neighborhood, the members of an afternoon cocktail and dog walking club ponder his whereabouts; despite one of them knowing his...

This volume contains Jerome Klapka Jerome's 1919 novel, "All Roads Lead to Calvary". The story revolves around a fisherman MP who gives up his career and mistress when his lowly wife consumes poison. An intriguing and masterful piece of literature, "All Roads Lead to...

Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for "authentic experiences" who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the globe in search of true experiences that he's never...

Lorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling "ice rats"--bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze--one of the dirtiest, most unpleasant jobs imaginable. And thanks to a bet between influencers, a sociology student's...

Next time you go to your favorite coffee shop and you have money in your wallet to pay for a latte, pick the oldest looking note (if you're lucky enough to have several) and wonder for a second which hands have touched it, at...

I love three things in this world more than life itself: 1. My family and housemates (both current and former)2. Musicals3. My best friend, Eric MoodyThe first two are no surprise to anyone who knows me.The third is a secret I'll carry to my...

My next-door neighbor, Ryan Rosche, is pretty much the perfect guy.He's a freaking doctor, for one.Humble...Mature (Did I mention he's eleven years older than me?) ...And flat-out gorgeous.If only he wasn't also ... my boss.Look, if I wasn't the nanny to his nieces, I'd...

Author: David T. IsaakISBN-10: 1958840211ISBN-13: 9781958840214Publisher: Utamatzi Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles...

Written in A/B rhyme scheme, The Pallid Express follows a young man on a journey of exploration through the absurdity, the complexity, the lies, and the truth of this reality. Embark on a captivating adventure alongside a young boy named Elbert. Disenchanted with the...

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates, holds a mind-numbing job at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and has a chronic inability to make up...

Possessed of the four "Cs"-right Color, right Class and right aCCent-attorney Bob McKenzie has lived comfortably in the States for so long he has to remind himself he's still Canadian. But when taken briefly into custody on an immigration technicality his destiny intersects with...

The award-winning writer of White Tears and Blue Ruin takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and na?e, Arjun spends his days...

We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second...

A revolution is under way at a once sleepy New England bank. Forty-five-year-old Frances Fitzgibbons has gone from sweet-tempered loan officer to insatiable force of nature almost overnight. Suddenly she's brazenly seducing the high-school drum major, taking over her boss's office, firing anyone who...

Sylvester Stallone finds himself burdened by the task of writing the screenplay, 'Stayin' Alive'. A dark figure appears that claims to be able to help him create a masterpiece. Sly questions his sanity, but something larger seems to be invested in the future of...

Bathos Crippling ennui Mind-numbing drudgery Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is so depressed he's on the brink of suicide....

A MODEST PROPOSAL For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country,
and for making them beneficial to the publick. by Jonathan Swift 1729Author: Jonathan SwiftISBN-10: 1480261181ISBN-13: 9781480261181Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2012Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize:...

The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers visit him every year, asking for money.He helms the engine room of the modern academy:...

These Awkward Girls are going to have you laughing for days!Pink BitsDid you know the medical term for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft?My name is Reagan, and spouting random facts like this one at inopportune moments is my affliction. I'm chronically awkward, socially...

Private Investigator Dev Haskell has finally got it made! Beautiful Kerri seems to have fallen for him. She even left Dev a note. Apparently, she just needs a little help finding her sister. Unfortunately, it turns out both women are involved with notorious Russian...

Skirt-chasing, wise-cracking, dysfunctional Private Investigator Dev Haskell leaves his usual stool at the Spot Bar to take on what looks like a cakewalk job: keep ice cream mogul Mr. Swirlee alive. Turns out Mr. Swirlee is anything but a cakewalk... He's a ruthless "entrepreneur"...

Wise-cracking, back-slapping, sideways-thinking Private Investigator Dev Haskell is in the middle of dissipating a lover's quarrel with his newest gorgeous knife-wielding female conquest when he gets a call. Members of KRAZ, a radio station that considers itself "the voice of America's future," need protection...

Are you tired of hearing, "Oh, you must start a family, have children?" Then "Fuck Them Kids, Get a Cat" is your sassy retort! Dive into this irreverent guide that celebrates cat parenting with an unparalleled wit, hilarity, and unabashed joy. If the traditional...

This book is a satire which politely rips open the ugly underbelly of the Trump presidency. It is presented in the style of The Prophet, the beloved book of 26 prose/poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran. Putitive author, Carkan Moil, although convicted of Alzheimer's Disease...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast...

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....Author: Daniel HandlerISBN-10: 006093817XISBN-13: 9780060938178Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.29h x 5.45w...

As neighborhoods have grown up around the subterranean home of the narrator of Man, Underground, the city has initiated a review of his dwelling. Intent on ignoring the review process, his life is interrupted by a seventeen-year-old punk-inspired, Honor's student. Every bit as eccentric...

A tech start-up and their cutthroat consultants will stop at nothing to realize their dream of filling the skies of America's cities with flying cars...and their opposition is equally determined to bring that dream crashing down. Dozens of start-up tech companies are forming each...