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  • The Satirical Letters Of St Jerome by Jerome, St
    St Jerome

    The Satirical Letters Of St Jerome

    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,...
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  • The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear by Stevens, Stuart
    Stuart Stevens

    The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear

    It's election season, and this year New Orleans--hot, sticky, squalid--is hosting the Republican National Convention. J. D. Callahan is a political operative backing an unpopular centrist candidate, the sitting vice president, Hilda Smith. Enter Armstrong George, a "dangerous lunatic" of a populist rival whose...
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  • Enemies of Peace by Williams, M. K.
    M. K. Williams

    Enemies of Peace

    How far would you go to achieve the "American Dream?"Timothy and Cynthia Lawson are on their way to having it all. But when they move into their dream home on an idyllic cul-du-sac they soon start to realize that not everything is as it...
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  • Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan
    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver's Travels

    Following ship surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, Jonathan Swift's satire, Gulliver's Travels, is a humorous critique of the darker aspects of human nature. During his voyage, Gulliver visits four islands, each more bizarre and fantastical that the last. From tiny people to giants, from majestic horses...
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  • The Men Can't Be Saved by Purkert, Ben
    Ben Purkert

    The Men Can't Be Saved

    Now in paperback, a knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? "Blistering . . . Mad Men ambition meets an epic, existential meltdown." --VANITY FAIR, 20 Best Books of 2023 "[Purkert is] a sharply funny...
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  • G.O.D.: Galactic Order of Demonstration by Glin, Amy Nanette
    Amy Nanette Glin

    G.O.D.: Galactic Order of Demonstration

    You would think that Lord of the Galactic Order of Demonstration (G.O.D.) would know everything. He's speechless when he finds out he doesn't. It turns out his son, Chip, who was Jesus in a previous life, never distributed G.O.D.'s Book of Laws to the...
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  • The Daydreams by Hankin, Laura
    Laura Hankin

    The Daydreams

    A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s--and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption or destroy them all for good. Back in 2004, The...
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  • The Art of Social War by Wing, Jodi
    Jodi Wing

    The Art of Social War

    New York career woman Stacey Knight marries James Makepeace just as she learns he's been offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run a major Hollywood studio. There's one catch: they must relocate to Los Angeles. Will Stacey be lost in translation, or will her hard-earned...
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  • The Winshaw Legacy: The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up! by Coe, Jonathan
    Jonathan Coe

    The Winshaw Legacy: The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up!

    If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England--and is certainly the vilest. A tour de force of menace, malicious comedy,...
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  • Jennifer Government by Barry, Max
    Max Barry

    Jennifer Government

    A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total...
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  • The Murder After the Night Before by Brent, Katy
    Katy Brent

    The Murder After the Night Before

    'A whip-smart whodunnit, this will keep you guessing' Red 'A fast-paced thriller with clever twists' Bella Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she was murdered.I've woken up with the...
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  • Rejection: Fiction by Tulathimutte, Tony
    Tony Tulathimutte

    Rejection: Fiction

    "Rejection is unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one--not you, not me. Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesFrom the Whiting and O. Henry-winning author of Private Citizens...
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  • Against Nature by Huysmans, Joris Karl
    Joris Karl Huysmans

    Against Nature

    Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes an eccentric reclusive aesthete and antihero who...
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  • A New America: The First Novel of the Alt-Right! by Stone, Mike
    Mike Stone

    A New America: The First Novel of the Alt-Right!

    Don't look now, but it's 2016 all over again. Marxist-spouting professors. Tolerant liberals refusing to be tolerant. Angry protesters beating motorists and appropriating their cars in the name of "justice." Is this hell? No, it's Los Angeles. On the most divisive day of the...
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  • How to Be Good by Hornby, Nick
    Nick Hornby

    How to Be Good

    A wise and hilarious novel morality and what it means to be a "goof person" from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like you, Funny Girl and High Fidelity. A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a...
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  • The Lady Author Murder Society by Williams, Beatriz
    Beatriz Williams

    The Author's Guide to Murder

    Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite...
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  • If I Close My Eyes by Fama, Ben
    Ben Fama

    If I Close My Eyes

    In a debut novel as emotionally raw as it is uncanny, a tragic love story unfolds against the complicated backdrop of Hollywood's elite, where the line between reality and fantasy blurs under the modern tension of the civilian and celebrity worlds.Deathwish and Fantasy author...
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  • The Ten Percent Thief by Lakshminarayan, Lavanya
    Lavanya Lakshminarayan

    The Ten Percent Thief

    The paperback edition of the bold, bitingly satirical near-future 2023 mosaic novel. Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image,...
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  • Wild Card: He Can Cure The Common Cold - But Can He Stay Alive? by Colman, Barry
    Barry Colman

    Wild Card: He Can Cure The Common Cold - But Can He Stay Alive?

    Michael Kough finds a cure for the common cold. Suddenly every crook, crime boss and corrupt politician wants to steal the secret in this witty, entertaining, satirical medical thriller.Michael Kough is an Australian virologist and degenerate loser who accidentally discovers a cure for the...
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  • Sir Middling U by Crowley, Kevin
    Kevin Crowley

    Sir Middling U

    A cheeky tale of campus folly! Things aren't going well for James Duffy. The beleaguered communications director of Sir Richard Middling University is struggling to do the right thing while navigating the quirks and minefields of campus politics. The odds are against him and...
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  • Mustang To Paducah by Ramos y. Sanchez, Raul
    Raul Ramos y. Sanchez

    Mustang To Paducah

    It's 1969. A spur-of-the-moment road trip. A borrowed car. A dubious destination. Two flaky hippies. What could possibly go wrong? Everything.Cruiser and Peanut, two aimless Miami stoners, are returning a car for a tourist from Kentucky who's gone romping on his new lover's yacht....
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  • 27 Thoughts on Being a Villain by Sivart, Travis I.
    Travis I. Sivart

    27 Thoughts on Being a Villain

    Ever desire to be a dastardly deliverer of doom and destiny? Ever crave the adoration of goons, henchmen, and minions? Ever wanted people to swoon at the mention of your name or give a grim grin of gratuitous glee? Well, then this is the...
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  • Art Town by Dietz, Chris
    Chris Dietz

    Art Town

    Sodom and Gomorrah have nothing on Art Town! This post-psychedelic Peyton Place, part Cannery Row, part Soho, seethes in its hiccough of off the grid murder & mayhem. Has Modern Art prepped us for obliteration? Can Art Town continue to breathe its readings &...
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  • The Warden by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    The Warden

    In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with...
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  • Not The Plus One: A laugh out loud romantic comedy by Henderson, Belle
    Belle Henderson

    Not The Plus One: A laugh out loud romantic comedy

    Tilly's got her invite, now this single mum needs a plus one. But she's far too busy parenting her little girl, stopping her mum from over injecting her face with filler, and playing happy families with her pompous coffee-fuelled ex. Oh yeah, and there's...
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  • Death of Immortality by King, Sky
    Sky King

    Death of Immortality

    Hi, I'm Eric Williams, 58 years old, okay 63, maybe a little older. I've been told by a super secret(black) organization that I have all the genetic markers I need for them to make me immortal. Can you say one million dollars? A likely...
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  • Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture by Perdue, Tito
    Tito Perdue

    Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture

    This is the story of Benjamin Reuben, a junior member of a large and highly uneducated family lodged in one of the more sterile regions of Alabama. Before The Great War (1914-1918), he acquired a woman and a parcel of farmland through forced marriage....
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  • Busy Monsters by Giraldi, William
    William Giraldi

    Busy Monsters

    Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very...
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  • Men Behaving Badly by O'Leary, Tim
    Tim O'Leary

    Men Behaving Badly

    O'Leary's new collection is a frank, unflinching follow-up to 2017's successful DICK CHENEY SHOT ME IN THE FACE. Here O'Leary does the impossible: dive into the psyches of the most destructive men- a stalker, a Klansman, public shooters-- and creates narratives that neither rationalize,...
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  • His Monkey Wife: Or, Married to a Chimp by Collier, John
    John Collier

    His Monkey Wife: Or, Married to a Chimp

    "A work of genius"--The Boston Globe"From the first sentence of the novel the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician...[Collier] casts a spell and he does so always with a smile."--Paul Theroux"A wayward masterpiece...Whatever this volume has cost you,...
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  • The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Perec, Georges
    Georges Perec

    The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

    Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come...
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  • The Rebel Angels by Davies, Robertson
    Robertson Davies

    The Rebel Angels

    The first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. "[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe's more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed."--Kirkus Reviews Davies weaves together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder,...
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  • Missy's Twitch by Pepper, Jon
    Jon Pepper

    Missy's Twitch

    Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming "climate apocalypse" and her family's role in it. She develops an involuntary twitch, a conversion disorder that...
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  • Tempest Tost by Davies, Robertson
    Robertson Davies

    Tempest Tost

    "With a sure comic touch, Davies assembles his cast of characters and lets them make fools of themselves . . . in the best Shakespearean tradition."--The Emerald City Book Review Weaving a tapestry of wonderfully developed characters, smoldering rivalries, and witty satire, Robertson Davies...
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  • Lyre of Orpheus by Davies, Robertson
    Robertson Davies

    Lyre of Orpheus

    "The final Cornish Trilogy novel from an author who "tells terrific stories that twist around and double back on themselves in surprising ways" (The New York Times). There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of...
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  • The Grand Design by Dos Passos, John
    John Dos Passos

    The Grand Design

    John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric...
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  • H. M. Pulham, Esquire by Marquand, John P.
    John P. Marquand

    H. M. Pulham, Esquire

    A Harvard reunion prompts a Boston Brahmin's search for meaning in this comedy of manners by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Point of No Return. In preparation for the twenty-fifth reunion of his class at Harvard, Harry Pulham is asked to collect...
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  • Bless Me, Father by Boyd, Neil
    Neil Boyd

    Bless Me, Father

    The inspiration for the hit London Weekend Television series of the same name, this is one confessional you'll want to make a point of visiting Young Neil Boyd has just finished divinity school and has been newly ordained as a priest. His first post?...
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  • The Book Censor's Library by Al-Essa, Bothayna
    Bothayna Al-Essa

    The Book Censor's Library

    A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book...
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  • Rates of Exchange by Bradbury, Malcolm
    Malcolm Bradbury

    Rates of Exchange

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: In this comedic novel, an English professor collides with disaster at the peak of the Cold War Shortly after his plane first grazes the tarmac in the eastern European nation of Slaka, Dr. Angus Petworth is beset by...
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  • The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books by Dresner, Hal
    Hal Dresner

    The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books

    This the comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment...
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  • Irrational Numbers: Stories by Silverberg, Robert
    Robert Silverberg

    Irrational Numbers: Stories

    Stories that "belong to a world that has been shaped not only by Asimov and Heinlein but also by Borges, Pynchon and Barthelme" (The New York Times). In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much of his work, author George Alec Effinger straddles the line between...
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  • A Mixture of Frailties by Davies, Robertson
    Robertson Davies

    A Mixture of Frailties

    The "first-rate . . . abundantly funny" conclusion to the Salterton Trilogy, following Leaven of Malice and Tempest-Tost (The New York Times). Louisa Bridgetower, the imposing Salterton matron, has died. The substantial income from her estate is to be used to send an unmarried...
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  • Everyone Says That at the End of the World by Egerton, Owen
    Owen Egerton

    Everyone Says That at the End of the World

    In this "often riotous, ultimately moving Cat's Cradle for our time," a Texas couple prepares for the apocalypse (Kirkus Reviews). In Austin, Milton and Rica are expecting their first child. It's four days and counting. Not for the baby. But for the end of...
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  • Cuts by Bradbury, Malcolm
    Malcolm Bradbury

    Cuts

    Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous--and hilarious--effect The year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government have trickled down to university...
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  • Primitive People by Prose, Francine
    Francine Prose

    Primitive People

    Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardshipsSimone has gotten used to living in fear. After years of dictatorship, Haiti has sunk into chaos, and death is ever present. But it isn't...
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  • The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K.
    G. K. Chesterton

    The Ball and the Cross

    This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1909. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his...
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  • War of the Worlds by Dubya, Jay
    Jay Dubya

    War of the Worlds

    War of the Worlds is adult satirical literature featuring adult language and adult situations. The setting is Maybury Hill, a suburb of London, England, around 1894, just before the turn of a new century, and also, right during the exciting advances of modern science...
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  • Set for Life by Ewell, Andrew
    Andrew Ewell

    Set for Life

    A wryly funny and moving novel that captures the complexities of marriage, art, friendship, and the fictions we create in order to become the people we wish to be. A creative writing professor at a third-tier college in upstate New York is on his...
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  • The Spare and The Heir by Wood, James D.
    James D. Wood

    The Spare and The Heir

    "You're either a foolhardy maniac or a more than capable liar. Either way, you sound eminently suited for this kind of work."When penniless Londoner Christopher lands a job in tourism as a tour manager, with zero qualifications, he quickly realises he has bitten off...
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