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  • Oeconomicus A Treatise on the Science of the Household in the form of a Dialogue by Xenophon
    Xenophon

    Oeconomicus A Treatise on the Science of the Household in the form of a Dialogue

    Oeconomicus A Treatise on the Science of the Household in the form of a Dialogue Xenophon Xenophon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates.As an historian, Xenophon is known for recording the history of his time, the...
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  • A Modest Proposal First edition Illustrated by Jakobson, Artor
    Artor Jakobson

    A Modest Proposal First edition Illustrated

    "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public", commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published...
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  • Entering Fire by Ducornet, Rikki
    Rikki Ducornet

    Entering Fire

    This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens...
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  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, Francois
    Francois Rabelais

    Gargantua and Pantagruel

    Gargantua and Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. The text...
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  • Memoirs of a Jewish Vampire: 6,000 Years of Kvetching by Andresen, Russell
    Russell Andresen

    Memoirs of a Jewish Vampire: 6,000 Years of Kvetching

    Imagine being an immortal and knowing that you had to share your 6,000-year existence with your mother and grandmother. Imagine if you were forced to watch the follies of humanity while causing problems of your own with famous figures from history. Welcome to the...
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  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Leacock, Stephen
    Stephen Leacock

    Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

    This vintage book contains Stephen Leacock's 1912 sequence of stories, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town". Commonly hailed as being amongst the most important examples of humorous Canadian literature, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is set in Mariposa, a microcosm of Canadian society...
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  • Catch-22 by Heller, Joseph
    Joseph Heller

    Catch-22

    Fifty years after its original publication, "Catch-22 "remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by "Time, Newsweek, "the Modern Library, and the London "Observer."...
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  • Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by North, Ryan
    Ryan North

    Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

    The New York Times bestseller from the author of How to Invent Everything and To Be or Not To Be Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. In this choose-your-own-path...
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  • Being Woake by Cross, Jon
    Jon Cross

    Being Woake

    Meet Sebastian Woake: successful barrister, reluctant politician and a man struggling with political correctness.Newly elected onto the local district council, Woake's political career will lead him to contend with the challenges which are quangos, obnoxious Chinese delegations, rampaging bulls, pompous (and occasionally corrupt) councillors,...
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  • Relativity by Adams, Ben
    Ben Adams

    Relativity

    Harry Erickson believes he's disproven Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Dennis Drysdale is in love with a woman he knew from high school. Timothy Henderson wants to professionally play video games.When Harry accidentally burns his house down in a freak chicken Kiev accident, it...
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  • Bad Eminence by Greer, James
    James Greer

    Bad Eminence

    Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of...
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  • White Boy Shuffle by Beatty, Paul
    Paul Beatty

    White Boy Shuffle

    A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.--Los Angeles Times The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout Paul Beatty's...
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  • Murder By Theory: Two Tales from the Ivory Tower's Dark Side by Armstrong, Eve
    Eve Armstrong

    Murder By Theory: Two Tales from the Ivory Tower's Dark Side

    This debut duo of dark novellas casts a satirical floodlight on the gritty backstage of academia. "Competitive Edge" welcomes us to the unremarkable town of Arlington, home to the tepidly esteemed Arlington University. Here, the local news buzzes as residents receive anonymous notes of...
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  • Coming Up for Air by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    Coming Up for Air

    Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. George Orwell's paean to...
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  • Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous
    Aldous Huxley

    Mortal Coils

    Mortal Coils (1921) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Focused on themes of love, taboo, disillusionment, and the writing process, these four stories and one play illuminate the young writer's abundant wit and critical vision of life in twentieth...
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  • The Eighth Wonder of the World by Plevnes, Jordan
    Jordan Plevnes

    The Eighth Wonder of the World

    In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world. His protagonist Alexander Simsar, during the last 3.3 seconds of his life in Berlin...
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  • Hubris Towers: The Complete First Season by Hoard, Bill
    Bill Hoard

    Hubris Towers: The Complete First Season

    "Luxury living at Hubris Towers: Isn't it time you get what you really deserve?" Comedy of manners meets comedy of errors in this madcap series for fans of Fawlty Towers and P. G. Wodehouse. When Jimmy Acorn applies to become the new concierge at...
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  • Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, Mikhail
    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Heart of a Dog

    I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire...
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  • The Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
    George Grossmith

    The Diary of a Nobody

    The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books...
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  • Mrs Clay: The Austen Expert's Companion to 'Persuasion' by Rossellini, Dorothea-Sofia
    Dorothea-Sofia Rossellini

    Mrs Clay: The Austen Expert's Companion to 'Persuasion'

    An unusual comedy, blending modern wit and nineteenth-century story-telling with a serious reassessment of Austen's final novel, Persuasion.Like any decent nineteenth-century novel, Mrs Clay delivers vividly-drawn characters to like and loathe, pauses for moral reflection, and a satisfying Wildean conclusion: "The good end happily,...
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  • Mallory's Manly Methods by Keech, Thomas
    Thomas Keech

    Mallory's Manly Methods

    Mallory's Manly Methods is a comic adventure story about a Customer Service Representative for a cable company who hates customers, looks down on women, and fears Blacks. When his actual life experiences conflict with his prejudices, he makes his own unique attempts at self-improvement,...
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  • Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    Candide, Voltaire's magnum opus, is a matchless satirical take-down of religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged Candide, a young man enraptured of his facile mentor Pangloss, experiences the hardships and injustices of life, forcing him...
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  • The Minister Primarily by Killens, John Oliver
    John Oliver Killens

    The Minister Primarily

    A major literary event--the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers,...
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  • Happy Mutant Baby Pills PB by Stahl, Jerry
    Jerry Stahl

    Happy Mutant Baby Pills PB

    Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"--sometimes by just saying them really fast...
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  • The Domino Men by Barnes, Jonathan
    Jonathan Barnes

    The Domino Men

    In an earlier century, Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain, signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious, inhuman entity. Now, generations later, the bill has finally come due. . . . An amiable, unambitious London file clerk, Henry Lamb leads an...
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  • The Henchman Training Academy 2: Expansion by Urban, L. K.
    L. K. Urban

    The Henchman Training Academy 2: Expansion

    The Henchman Training Academy, now there's a good idea.After Matt's latest screw-up, the Henchman Training Academy seems to be the best idea he's had to date since being employed as a Henchman-and his saving grace, keeping his spot on the DMF Team . ....
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  • Legendarium by Summers, Kevin G.
    Kevin G. Summers

    Legendarium

    In every generation, certain writers are chosen to be protectors of The Legendarium, a metaphysical library that exists at the nexus of the multiverse. Inside this library are doorways that lead to every world ever created in literature. There are forces of evil constantly...
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  • Legendarium: The Wrath of Bob by Summers, Kevin G.
    Kevin G. Summers

    Legendarium: The Wrath of Bob

    Three years ago, the Legendarium, a metaphysical library at the nexus of the multiverse in which is stored every book ever written in the history of the world, was threatened with utter destruction, but two unlikely and unqualified heroes stood up to save it....
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  • A Wish For Jo: A fabulous, feel-good romantic comedy with a hint of magic! by Davis, Audrey
    Audrey Davis

    A Wish For Jo: A fabulous, feel-good romantic comedy with a hint of magic!

    When magic's in the air, anything is possible...Jo Milligan's café - A Bit of Crumpet - is her pride and joy. But icing cakes and baking pastries in the sleepy Scottish village of Cranley isn't hitting the sweet spot.Jo longs for some excitement in...
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  • The Survivalists by Cauley, Kashana
    Kashana Cauley

    The Survivalists

    Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA Phenomenal Book Club Pick "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...
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  • No Paws Left Behind by Huxley, C. S.
    C. S. Huxley

    No Paws Left Behind

    Afghanistan falls, and Americans and their animals are left behind. After some owners flee and others are beheaded, fourteen animals journey from Kabul toward freedom under the banner of No Paws Left Behind, led by BB the Tibetan Mastiff, Rae the Afghan hound, their...
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  • Victor in Trouble by Finley, Alex
    Alex Finley

    Victor in Trouble

    When case officer Victor Caro arrives in Rome for his retirement tour, he and his family anticipate a three-year joy ride filled with good food, even better wine, and all the cultural wonders the Eternal City has to offer. But when Russia's intelligence services...
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  • The Holy F*cking Bible: According to Matt Shaw by Shaw, Matt
    Matt Shaw

    The Holy F*cking Bible: According to Matt Shaw

    The Holy Bible, according to Matt Shaw. Taking the popular stories from the Bible and giving them a horror twist; this book is not intended to be used as a way of preaching your beliefs. God would probably frown down upon such usage, but...
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  • The Lemon by Boyd, S. E.
    S. E. Boyd

    The Lemon

    Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor "[T]his poised and playful debut novel is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine. . . . As tart as 'artisanal citrus, ' as sharp as a chef's knife, The Lemon is...
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  • St. Famous by Dee, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dee

    St. Famous

    Abducted by Victor Hartley in the middle of a riot, aspiring writer Paul Soloway becomes a reluctant hero at the center of a racial maelstrom. By the author of The Liberty Campaign.Author: Jonathan DeeISBN-10: 038550750XISBN-13: 9780385507509Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2002Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight:...
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  • Poles Apart by Fovarge, Oscar
    Oscar Fovarge

    Poles Apart

    In the Malvoir Valley, a little-known corner of England, an elderly woman wills her landed estate to her middle-aged niece and rich, Californian husband, instead of passing it to her grandson. In need of even more cash to fund their lifestyles, the new landowners...
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  • The Basic Eight by Handler, Daniel
    Daniel Handler

    The Basic Eight

    Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all....
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  • Enfilade by Seeley, James
    James Seeley

    Enfilade

    The story of Enfilade takes place in less than twenty- four hours. However, the gist of this shaggy dog story coveys a lot more. It is the tale of a naive second lieutenant's first day in Vietnam. There is a lot for the young...
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  • Enfilade by Seeley, James
    James Seeley

    Enfilade

    The story of Enfilade takes place in less than twenty- four hours. However, the gist of this shaggy dog story coveys a lot more. It is the tale of a naive second lieutenant's first day in Vietnam. There is a lot for the young...
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  • Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Deadeye Dick

    "The master at his quirky, provocative best."--Cosmopolitan Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors--a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a...
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  • The Immortal King Rao by Vara, Vauhini
    Vauhini Vara

    The Immortal King Rao

    In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy--literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving...
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  • The Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe, Tom
    Tom Wolfe

    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) "A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy."...
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  • Excellent Women by Pym, Barbara
    Barbara Pym

    Excellent Women

    "The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury,...
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  • My Days of Dark Green Euphoria by Copenhaver, A. E.
    A. E. Copenhaver

    My Days of Dark Green Euphoria

    Love, lies, and eco-anxiety - an irresistible satire about finding balance in a chaotic worldThirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious-perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry...
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  • The Best of the Bonnet by Unger, Andrew
    Andrew Unger

    The Best of the Bonnet

    Since its debut, the internet's most trusted source for Mennonite satire has drawn the attention of everyone from the Canadian Prairies to the high-rises of New York, keeping readers laughing with hundreds of hysterical headlines and tongue-in-cheek editorials where (almost) no topic is off-limits....
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  • Fox 8: A Story by Saunders, George
    George Saunders

    Fox 8: A Story

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world--featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox 8 has always been known as...
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  • Double Whammy by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Double Whammy

    "Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife" (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R. J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye,...
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  • Oreo by Ross, Fran
    Fran Ross

    Oreo

    Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a...
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  • Vernon Subutex 1 by Despentes, Virginie
    Virginie Despentes

    Vernon Subutex 1

    From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex--short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex? Vernon Subutex was...
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  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

    " Vonnegut] at his wildest best."--The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater--drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation--is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God...
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