Fiction - Satire

Between Paradise and Hell is a literary and satirical novel about Adelin Jean, a man driven by an almost irresistible need to build, repair, organize, and help others. From the rural landscape of Chateau to the crowded neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince and, eventually, the unforgiving...

Between Paradise and Hell is a literary and satirical novel about Adelin Jean, a man driven by an almost irresistible need to build, repair, organize, and help others. From the rural landscape of Chateau to the crowded neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince and, eventually, the unforgiving...

If you created your own afterlife, would it be any good? When a mild-mannered political junkie who's fed up with the state of his city accidentally chokes to death, he somehow lives on...inside the city he created on his computer, quickly discovering he didn't...

From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes NEWPHORIA!, a playful yet biting dystopian satire about what happens if we get the future we deserve. It's 2075 and time once again for the annual Senecan Games, a fight-to-the-death tournament in which the sinful...

69 Ways to NOT Become an Old Grumpy LadyGetting older is inevitable. Becoming grumpy is optional.Let's be honest: getting older comes with a few surprises. Your body occasionally makes noises you didn't authorize, technology seems to change every five minutes, your children have somehow...

Author: Philip RothISBN-10: 0063508494ISBN-13: 9780063508491Publisher: Mariner Books ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2027Pages: 192Format: Paperback

Willoughby Burns never wanted to save the world.He just wanted to survive one more faculty meeting. Burned out after twenty-five years at Louisiana's perpetually-dysfunctional Picayune State University, the redneck collegeprofessor is counting the days until retirement. His biggest problems .re impossible adminiistrators, political nonsense,...

A simple sea voyage becomes the beginning of an extraordinary journey beyond the limits of imagination.Shipwrecked, abandoned, and carried to lands unknown, Lemuel Gulliver encounters remarkable civilizations unlike any found upon ordinary maps. From kingdoms where he is a giant among tiny people to...

From two-time Leacock Medal winner and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a slim parable of a novel that imagines a world where literature rules--and one humble writer discovers that success can be the strangest fiction of all. What if novelists were the new rock...

You're wondering if the Angel of Death is real. I am.You're reading this and saying to yourself, "Yeah, right. A book written by an Angel in Heaven. No way." One day you'll find out I'm telling the truth. On that day, I'll get the...

Seven gay men. One impossibly rare bird. Absolutely no chance of staying out of trouble.The Rainbow Warblers have a simple Saturday routine: wake up obscenely early, argue about binoculars, misidentify at least one bird, and recover over brunch.Elliot has checklists. Oliver has contingency plans....

We Lived on Tinned TunaLiturgies, Dashboards and Other Paranormal Phenomena of the Startup Economy Startups are beautiful. Until the language arrives.In the beginning, there are people: tired, hopeful, slightly underpaid, still human. Then come the rituals.Alignment. Ownership. Visibility. Resilience. Dashboards. War rooms. Kickoffs. Values...

It's 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck...A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He's built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But...

When God is knocked into a coma by a giant box of frosted cornflakes, all Hell literally breaks loose.In the spiritually over-caffeinated bubble of Boulder, Colorado, a gay atheist barista named Slinger is already struggling with the usual modern crises: existential dread, romantic confusion,...

Jacques is a deeply troubled penguin who claims to be French. Against the pleas of his friends and family, he sets sail on an iceberg floating to France.Peter, an American living in Paris, is infatuated with a beautiful waitress named Estelle, who he assumes...

Melanie Swanson takes a break from city life and finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery in the tiny village of Stoneybrook. Together, with the help of bungling detective, Bob 'Sherlock' Harris, and a few friends she makes along the way, she uncovers crimes...

In "Green Acre," the spirited and determined William Barger, a farmer with a dream, declares his farm a sovereign nation, independent from the United States. Embracing his newfound autonomy, William drafts a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence, proudly notifying the government...

Everything is fine.It just doesn't look like it.Dan has a plan.He just hasn't started it yet.After a series of completely reasonable decisions-losing his job, his marriage, and most of his stability-Dan finds himself in a temporary situation. One that is, by all accounts, under...

The Sovereignty of Simon: A Modern-Day Candide "We must cultivate our garden." In the 18th century, Voltaire's Candide survived earthquakes, inquisitions, and the relentless "optimism" of a world that refused to acknowledge its own rot. In the 21st century, Simon is facing a far...

Harold Kramer - publisher, visionary, debtor - is in urgent need of a bestseller. A book big enough to save Bright Quill Press from collapse. With fourteen days on the clock, and a ruthless investor breathing down his neck, he does what any desperate...

Janet Wackson is not the problem.At least that's what Janet believes.Her husband leaves.Her friends agree with her.The universe sends signs.The Flying Monkeys confirm her suspicions.The Complaint Department remains fully operational.And somewhere between a burlesque class, an English course she isn't qualified to teach, a...

More silly biblical ramblings from conversations I've had with chat gpt continued comedyAuthor: Nyx Briarvale,Jade Louise FosterISBN-13: 9798186047919Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

The Devil needs a vacation. Hell needs a temp. Henry's got nothing better to do.There's a lot of paperwork involved, most of it done in red marker. Back home, a dancer has gone missing, and a dying friend needs one last favor from the...

Gerald has never successfully completed anything in his whole life. And just when he realizes there is no hope left-that life has lost all meaning-something completely unexpected happens!Author: Jackson de AndradeISBN-13: 9798185717646Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2026Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

The Animals Formed a Union One Monday morning, every animal on Earth stops obeying. Dogs refuse walks without contracts. Cats declare homes to be independent feline territories. Horses abandon carriages and racetracks. Bears block highways, dolphins close shipping lanes, and raccoons take over waste...

Howard Pressman was supposed to be a respectable scientist.Instead, after one late-night shopping spiral and a series of deeply questionable historical purchases, he accidentally creates Washulysses Lincgarfeagon the First - a clone made from presidential DNA, mysterious contamination, and enough ambition to frighten a...

The Law No Longer Protects Men; It Consumes ThemAre you tired of explaining your innocence while they rewrite history?Do you know how much a single lie costs your wallet, your children, and your reputation?Are you ready to stop apologizing for existing and start enforcing...

My name is Frank Grayling. I live in this small apartment at the western end of the fourth largest city in North America. Not a terribly important detail given the nature of the facts I am about to set down here. But should this...

When Menike Achchi returns from Colombo, she brings home more than biscuits, sunglasses, and stories. She brings noise-the warm, fearless kind that pulls a distracted family away from separate rooms, glowing screens, silent worries, and carefully hidden loneliness. With sharp jokes, inconvenient honesty, and...

The Mirror is a Lie: Why Your Best Self is Just a PerformanceAre you tired of being loved for your aesthetics but dismissed for your mind?Does your partner pay for your lifestyle but blame you for the drama?Why does every "self-care" ritual leave you...

In the opening seconds of the cosmic ballet, Dog created the universe.And it's been going downhill ever since.What happens when the entities meantto bring about Armageddon decide theyactually quite like human things?Like movies, milkshakes, and weekend trips to Amsterdam?They go to the pub, obviouslyWarning:...

The Classroom Is a Cult: How SEL Turns Your Children Into Compliant, Fragile, Emotionally Illiterate SubjectsAre you watching your son's critical thinking dissolve into therapeutic self-absorption while his grades inflate?Do you wonder why your daughter's confidence is being traded for a fragile identity dependent...

Are you a serial symptom googler, a Web MD enthusiast maybe a constant worrywart?Congratulations. This book is probably about you.The Hypochondriac's ABC's a wonderfully unnecessary guide on the inner workings of catastrophizers' minds everywhere.Journey from A to Z as common sense runs screaming from...

He desperately needs a driving licence to get out of unemployment, but he fails his test. So he kidnaps the examiner.Because this isn't just about passing a test. This is about life or death.Just like driving, right?A brutal, satirical examination of modern survival, asking...

The Mother, the Daughter, and the Ghost pleasantly tramples all expectations.Bo is called to agony. She flees her mom for the tranquility of cave life, only to confront a flock of inquisitive, senile nuns pleading for a savior.Her companion, the ghost, is an unstable...

For twenty-three years, Sumanadasa has stood near a busy Colombo bus stand selling lottery tickets-and offering ordinary people a few minutes of hope. Known as Sweep Mahattaya, he understands the dreams hidden behind unpaid bills, leaking roofs, medical expenses, family responsibilities, and tired working...

The empire may have fallen, but the battle for everyday decency has just moved online.Welcome to the new front lines of British society. The Great British Divide: The Modern Era is a tactical dispatch from the silent, high-stakes psychological warfare masquerading as your daily...

One man. One coward's heart. One impossible chance to finally become someone else.A married civil servant boards a train back to the coastal Andalusian city he once fled, ostensibly to testify at a trial, but really to chase a fantasy he has nursed for...

His name is Ponce, Terrence Ponce-Welsh debonair, dramatist, and connoisseur of the finer things in life, especially martinis and cricket. His true passions are drinking and donning the whites for Northcowl Cricket Club, preferably at the same time.But when his father-in-law, the conniving Bevan...

Chaos Under the Chandelier. Espionage Under the Radar.Lord Elpus is in a slump. Caught between the crushing weight of ancestral expectations and a sudden, paralyzing crisis of confidence, the master of Beamore is struggling to find his footing. But when a shadow department in...

Four women arrive at the same Austin march carrying different burdens: unpaid bills, unreliable transportation, institutional pressure, caregiving demands, and the quiet fear that asking for help means they have failed.Mari, Talia, Denise, and Grace do not become friends because life gives them time....

Superheros, scientists, movie monsters, businessmen, animals, Death, and even the Pope himself, fall victim to Randy McIlwaine's twisted sense of humor in his hilarious cartoon collection, "Breaking the Scorn Barrier." Wickedly funny, it'll keep you laughing from beginning to end. About the Artist: Randy...

Bout ye. Welcome to the ultimate East Belfast cultural survival test. Step back into a 1980s July where a forty-foot bonfire on the Newtownards Road is just standard neighbourhood central heating, and the thumping of Lambeg drums is vibrating the fillings right out of...

The Smile and the Abyss brings together four stories that shift between raw humor and disguised melancholy.From a small village where nothing ever happens to a washed-up actress desperate for an audience; from political illusions that turned into bureaucracy to Christmases soaked in failure...

**The Pregnant Man** is a funny, heartwarming, and deeply emotional short novel about one ordinary husband whose careless joke turns into the most impossible lesson of his life. Ethan Miller believes he understands women, marriage, family, and fatherhood - at least enough to make...

Every learner has a story. Every instructor needs Maltesers. Five days. Eleven pupils. Three broken cars. One kamikaze pigeon. And a rapidly disappearing box of Emotional Support Maltesers. Lena Driver has made a decision: survive one final week behind the dual controls, hand in...

A comedic mystery set in the small, backwoods town of Little Crick, Indiana, a place where everyone knows your business, and nothing is ever as simple as it seems. The book follows a series of misadventures involving the town's quirky residents as they come...

A single mom. A seven-foot alien nanny. The most terrifying childcare in New York City.Marissa Feldman needs a nanny before maternity leave ends. What she gets is Clisheria: a seven-foot alien warrior in a tailored blazer who sings battle lullabies, terrifies muggers, fixes elevators...

Book 4: Retro-AmnesiaA look at a near-future where the world has completely run out of original ideas and nostalgia has become an even greater yawn than it already is. Vinyl records making a comeback? You gotta be kidding. This one features a roadside florist...

Book 8: Mirror Alignment CompleteZander Grey is back in the lion's den, bloated with cash from selling out like an André Rieu with Korean electric guitars, but a hack author has turned his messy private life into a best-selling bio-epic. In this meta-fictional sequel,...