Fiction - Satire

Author: Shawn Wayne LanghansISBN-10: 4824136547ISBN-13: 9784824136541Publisher: Next ChapterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2026Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

The kidnap of a rebellious heiress leads Inspector Nightjar into a steampunk underworld of brain love, greed, and revolution. Can the Raven Method uncover the big Truth? What powers Thousand Tower City? Why are books telling unfamiliar stories? How cosy is anarchy? Steve Aylett...

The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed "rags-to-Rolex" life when her secretive past comes roaring into the spotlight--in this much-anticipated debut novel from Deesha Philyaw, author of the award-winning hit short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.From...

A Metaphysical Literary Fiction Novel of Seafood, Satire, and SurvivalIn the chaotic underworld of Lower Manhattan's culinary scene, Jim Herough Bois runs a seafood restaurant like no other-serving up insects, oysters, and existential dread with a side of dark humor. His restaurant, Herough, isn't...

Memories and Mementoes, loosely based on current events, is a wondrous Christmas story that focuses on a family devastated by a series of political, personal and psychosocial events that threaten their very existence.Henri, an environmentalist, is trying to establish a corridor for the safe...

If you bought this book to pass the bar exam, return it immediately-you're already disbarred from common sense.This is not legal advice. It's far more useful. It's a handbook for turning everyday profanity into polished, pompous, lawyer-approved savagery. Why say "shut the f*** up"...

In The Mad, originally published in Shona as Mapenzi and awarded the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Award, Mabasa's pen runs riot, using sarcasm, humor, and a disjointed writing style that gels with its troubled and unpredictable characters. Set in the second decade of Zimbabwe's...

The final novel by a titan of post-Soviet literature, this fantastical thriller about fakes and imposters in Russian history is both a rewrite of Greek myth and a spiritual sequel of sorts to The Brothers Karamazov. Vladimir Sharov was one of the most significant...

At a surreal desert festival that blends the bizarre with the intoxicating, Joni, a spoiled socialite, is drawn into a world where reality and fantasy blur. Surrounded by dazzling lights, eccentric characters, and relentless beats, she chases the ultimate thrill-only to find herself trapped...

Enter the deranged depths of one man's obsession with pigeon poop and its so-called connections to civilization. Amateur philosopher Robert Guano has dedicated his life to studying feces in all its forms, descending into madness in pursuit of unraveling its hidden truths. In this...

This book chronicles the systemic exploitation of Africans by her leaders through established institutions. These institutions are diverse (political, religious, financial, etc) but their aim is the same. These institutions were established through the support of foreign powers whose interest many of these institutions...

Dive into the hilariously chaotic world of "Tory Tea Party: A Whimsical Political Brew," where the stately passageways of British governance are flipped on their head in a wildly entertaining escapade within the esteemed walls of Parliament. Rally behind the lovably clumsy Prime Minister...

We can view Blevins as contemporary with Melville's Confidence Man. Or perhaps with Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives. Kathy Acker? Or, my favorite: B. Traven's The Death Ship with its motto above the entry to the engine room: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter...

Fiction. "Open MULTIFESTO anywhere, careful reader, and your feet will come unmoored from the ground, your liver will be eaten by hungry jackals, substituting for an eagle, and your eyes, feeding your brain phrases such as 'I am reading a book, ' will grow...

A planet in chaos, a leader in denial, and a woman who won't be owned.Planet Hy Man is a planet as pure as a baby's belly button until a spaceship arrives full of celibate men and women hungry for all things 'earthy'.They hurl themselves...

Airports are so much more than travel hubs. Every arrival and departure is the beginning or an end to a story. Love, separation, greed and addiction - From London to Los Angeles, Tokyo to Sydney, the drama unfolds. Dreams are shattered, problems solved and...

Peraphania is a lovely little land full of rolling hills where the five-lobed petals of purple hibiscus dot acres and acres of lush green grass as far as the eye can see. Inhabitants live side-by-side in sincere harmony with their neighbors. It's a faraway...

Now you see him, now you don't. But he sees you...Sure Jimmy Adamowski's a hero. He can move any earthly distance in the blink of an eye! He can move you too. He can move anyone. He can move a child running into oncoming...

"How did the great Trent Argent, celebrated entrepreneur and self-styled Community Troubleshooter, come to this?"Shady businessman Trent Argent has hit rock bottom. Forced to flee England when his exploitation of charities becomes public, he finds himself camping under a bridge in Geneva with a...

In George S. Schuyler's biting satire, "Black No More: Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940," questions of race and identity are thrust into sharp relief. This thought-provoking novel, a cornerstone of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Late Autumn, 2028. The War for Identity has begun! Philosophy and psychology converge in this taut political thriller from author Philip Wyeth.Re-elected President Eileen Jeffries-Lao intends to expand the Reparations program worldwide, but now meets resistance from unexpected sources. An aging man of great...

The globe-trotting misadventures of American Candide and his wingnut tutor, Dr. Pangloss, his totally hot BBW Cunegonde plus sundry suicide bombers, illuminati global warmers, insurance cults, sex-crazed illegal aliens and even the Senate Sub-Committee on Homeland Furnishings provides sufficient belly laughs to make exile,...

Hoby Tibbs, a forty-one-year-old hamburger cook, has a secret-he has the power to cure bad hamburger meat. His gift is timely-an epidemic of ptomaine poisoning has infected the hamburger parlors of the American Southwest that threatens to alter the eating habits of the entire...

Slaves is a continuing satire on the current U.S. political situation from the "plantation" to the White House.Author: s. a. Johnson,T. H. CooperISBN-10: 0692913947ISBN-13: 9780692913949Publisher: SlavesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2017Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Author: Audie HarrisonISBN-13: 9798993797601Publisher: Spine Bender PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2026Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

Author: Michael OreyISBN-13: 9798901741184Publisher: Atmosphere PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d

GIVING IT AWAYMalcolm Broyles is the spoiled son of a millionaire when he meets Janie. Janie is not too bright, but she enjoys introducing Malcolm to a variety of new sexual possibilities. Impulsively, he decides to marry her. And inspired by the book The...

"A glamorous, intriguing novel" (New York Times) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit.Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it's over....

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American author and poet of the American Renaissance period. In 1853, he serialized his short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" in two parts in Putnam's Magazine, then collected it in his 1856 work The Piazza...

"Brimming with humorous descriptions...flush with a variety of turning points, the story moves with speed through action scenes and lighthearted, entertaining ones." -Foreword Clarion ReviewsFounding fathers. Fathers. Daddy issues.Welcome to Mars.Mars has declared its independence from Earth. But building a country takes more than...

In this, Darryl Armstrong's first eclectic collection of short stories, you'll meet a diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique story. Encounter an angel without wings, an unlucky cat that saved a life, kids that will make you smile, and others who...

Art, ambition and desire collide when a struggling academic becomes entangled in the life and marriage of her literary idol. By day, Dr Ruth Morgan lectures on 'AI: the new frontier of storytelling' at East Toronto University. By night, she toils away at a...

From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity. Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black culture, and...

Life is a mess. A beautifully chaotic, utterly nonsensical mess. In Brutally Human: The Paradox of Existence, Ricky Firman gleefully explores the delicious contradictions that make us human, using biting irony to expose the absurdity of our attempts to "figure it all out."From the...

True love or easy money--which would you choose? Fresh out of grad school with her masters in philosophy, Anna is shocked when a career counselor tells her she has "no special skills." Desperate for work and financial independence, she accepts a thankless gig working...

This edition presents Books 4 and 5 of François Rabelais's masterpiece, "Pantagruel," translated into English. Rabelais, a towering figure of the French Renaissance, is celebrated for his exuberant prose, his satirical wit, and his profound humanism. "Pantagruel" follows the adventures of the giant Pantagruel...

When Victoria Seymour was elected Prime Minister, she had one simple agenda: end obesity to prepare the UK workforce for careers outside the European protectorate.In the wake of Brexit, Victoria moves into No. 10 Downing Street as the new leader of the United Kingdom....

Sit down and buckle up for a bizarre journey into madness. This is a collection of fifteen short stories, each designed, in its own unique way, to reveal something about the human experience and hit a nerve in the reader. Whether the life of...

As it goes, there are writers who can convey an original idea. There are writers who can describe environments in great detail. But every so often, a writer comes along who can transcend the information on the page to give the reader a unique...

Prepare for an outrageous, laugh-out-loud journey through the cosmos with God Is a Mortician, where extraterrestrial absurdity, political satire, and erotic humor collide in an irreverent sci-fi romp.Aliens from the planet Mortice have discovered a way to extract mental energy from Earth's semi-intelligent inhabitants,...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. William GladstoneThe year is 1924; the place is Chicago's Towertown, home to the city's...

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. Comprising 100 chapters, The Way...

]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 true fate....

In the halls of Congress, on the streets, in the media, the war on fast food is on. Tofu may be topical, but bacon is eternal. Bacon and Egg Man, Ken Wheaton's second novel, is a sly send-up of a politically correct food establishment,...

No one believed the town drunk when he claimed an extinct animal had awakened him in a bus shelter. Now he is leading a community revolt!This story goes back to the beginning of the funny Windy Mountain series.So although it's Book 6, feel free...

"The Spiritual Quixote; Or, the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose" is a satirical novel by Richard Graves, presented here in its second edition from 1774. This third volume continues the adventures of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, a character inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote, but...

Hilaire Belloc's "A Change in the Cabinet" offers a sharp and humorous look at the inner workings of British politics. This satirical novel dives into the machinations of the cabinet system, exploring its absurdities and potential for chaos with wit and incisive social commentary....

Step back into the vibrant social scene of 19th-century New York City with Robert W. Chambers' "The Adventures of a Modest Man." This engaging work of fiction offers a humorous and satirical glimpse into the manners and customs of the era's social elite. Through...

Step back in time to experience London's vibrant social life in A. P. Herbert's witty satire, "The House by the River." This humorous novel offers a delightful glimpse into the customs and manners of 20th-century London. Through sharp observations and clever prose, Herbert paints...