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  • Gourmet Rhapsody by Barbery, Muriel
    Muriel Barbery

    Gourmet Rhapsody

    A French food critic faces his mortality in an "entertaining and] witty" novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday). In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog,...
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  • I Am God by Sartori, Giacomo
    Giacomo Sartori

    I Am God

    Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori's I am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential crisis that ensues when he falls in love with a human. I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with the...
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  • The Official One and Only Imperial Wizard Approved KKK Hall of Fame Guidebook by Spain, George
    George Spain

    The Official One and Only Imperial Wizard Approved KKK Hall of Fame Guidebook

    Here, for the first time, you will: learn the true and glorious history of the Ku Klux Klan; you will see here-to-fore unpublished photographs of great Ku Kluxers and read their inspiring words; you will learn how to make your own cross athome; you...
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  • Tell-All by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Tell-All

    For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart--and boudoir. Soon,...
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  • A Clergyman's Daughter by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    A Clergyman's Daughter

    Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her...
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  • Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal by Kindall, Brian
    Brian Kindall

    Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal

    He fantasizes about saving damsels in distress and battling beasts. He'd better be careful what he wishes for... Will Kirby has hit his mid-life crisis at full speed. Once a rugged outdoorsman, he's now soft around the middle and trapped in the banality of...
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  • A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons: A Light-hearted Humorous Fantasy Adventure by Behrsin, Chris
    Chris Behrsin

    A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons: A Light-hearted Humorous Fantasy Adventure

    The unlikely duo who might just save the world Ben must be the hungriest cat ever... One moment, he was enjoying a breakfast of salmon trimmings in his home in South Wales. The next, he was teleported across time and space onto the cold...
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  • Presidential Conversations by Corey, George S.
    George S. Corey

    Presidential Conversations

    Presidential Conversations is a stunningly inventive political satire that imagines conversations between President Trump and 18 of his predecessors-from George Washington to Barack Obama. On the eve of the 2020 presidential election, Trump bonds with kindred spirit Andrew Jackson. He hitches a ride with...
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  • Evangellyfish by Wilson, Douglas
    Douglas Wilson

    Evangellyfish

    Evangellyfish is a ruthless, grimly amused, and above all honest look at one of the darkest corners in the western world. Douglas Wilson, a pastor of more than thirty years, paints a vivid and painful picture of evangelical boomchurch leadership . . . in...
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  • Death Canal by Hartnett, Michael
    Michael Hartnett

    Death Canal

    A Kardashian-like family and the early climate change movement are linked by a suspicious death 30 years ago.Artie Flanagan leaves his job as scriptwriter for Peepin' on the Pisanos to investigate three tragic accidents connected to the reality show matriarch Suzie Pisano. Backed by...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by John, Judith
    Judith John

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary...
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  • The Cuban Comedy by Medina, Pablo
    Pablo Medina

    The Cuban Comedy

    "A literary triumph." --NBC News A love story steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism, Medina has created a bold, funny narrative with an uncanny heroine at its core: Elena of Piedra Negra, Cuba. Piedra Negra is an isolated...
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  • Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan
    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional...
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  • The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    The Mysterious Stranger

    The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses.In this antireligious tale,...
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  • Frankissstein by Winterson, Jeanette
    Jeanette Winterson

    Frankissstein

    Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as "one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story...
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  • Paradise Reclaimed by Laxness, Halldor
    Halldor Laxness

    Paradise Reclaimed

    From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. - "Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality."...
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  • Black Mischief by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    Black Mischief

    "A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds...
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  • The Subject Steve by Lipsyte, Sam
    Sam Lipsyte

    Subject Steve

    The dazzling debut novel from the author of The Ask and Home Land, Sam Lipsyte's The Subject Steve is by turns manic, ebullient, and exquisitely deadpan--and belongs in the company with the master American satirists.Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in...
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  • Headlong by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Headlong

    An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught...
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  • Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michael Dirda by Fraser, George MacDonald
    George MacDonald Fraser

    Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michael Dirda

    Three of George MacDonald Fraser's incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman. Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was...
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  • Unusual Uses for Olive Oil by McCall Smith, Alexander
    Alexander McCall Smith

    Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

    Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due--a quest which has the tendency to go...
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  • Joseph Andrews/Shamela by Fielding, Henry
    Henry Fielding

    Joseph Andrews/Shamela

    SHAMELA is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques...
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  • The Female of the Species by Shriver, Lionel
    Lionel Shriver

    The Female of the Species

    "Shriver's debut is a 'literary' novel without an iota of pretentiousness. It reads with the grace of a well-written spy story, but conveys some of its author's early wisdom about what our humanity both demands of and grants us." --Washington PostThe first novel by...
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  • Kraft by Lüscher, Jonas
    Jonas L?cher

    Kraft

    Jonas L?cher, the author of Barbarian Spring--"a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis" (The New York Times Book Review)--returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize-winning, hilarious, and wicked novel...
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  • Some Trick by DeWitt, Helen
    Helen DeWitt

    Some Trick

    For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of...
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  • Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd

    At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit--the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories"--is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close...
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  • Bodily Harm by Atwood, Margaret
    Margaret Atwood

    Bodily Harm

    From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - By turns satiric, thrilling, and terrifying, Bodily Harm charts the dark currents of the lust for power--both sexual and political--as it builds to a devastating climax.Rennie Wilford is a journalist who writes...
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  • How the Ə Got Producted: A Love Story by Von S., N. K.
    N. K. Von S.

    How the Ə Got Producted: A Love Story

    A childhood trauma leaves N. emotionally stalled but yearning for connection. When she meets a seductive but damaged young attorney, she falls hard, overlooking his technology vendetta, fear of intimacy, and dark past. But their affair ends abruptly, sending N. on a quest to...
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  • Best Class You Never Had by Cullen, Jim
    Jim Cullen

    Best Class You Never Had

    A classroom of skeptical students and their charismatic teacher make a foray into the nation's past. The characters are fictive; the history--most importantly, the vision of history, grounded in a dying but immortal dream--is real. History teacher Kevin Lee is retiring from Seneca Falls...
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  • At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by McCall Smith, Alexander
    Alexander McCall Smith

    At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

    Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.Readers who fell...
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  • Red Russia by Thompson, T. a.
    T. a. Thompson

    Red Russia

    Among the many things Peter doesn't know, he doesn't know he's an archetype, the Prince of Coins incarnate. He doesn't know his fianc is a fortune teller either. He doesn't know Russian culture, politics, or language, but he does know American business. And he...
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  • Differently Morphous by Croshaw, Yahtzee
    Yahtzee Croshaw

    Differently Morphous

    Differently Morphous is the latest and greatest tale to emerge from the mind of writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Jam, Will Save the Galaxy for Food). A magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is...
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  • The Informers by Ellis, Bret Easton
    Bret Easton Ellis

    The Informers

    From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. - "Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern...
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  • The Inspector General by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    The Inspector General

    Considered the high point of Gogol's writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, The Inspector General skewers the stupidity, greed, and venality of Russian provincial officials. When it is announced that the Inspector General is coming to visit incognito, Anton, the...
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  • Candide by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide

    Young Candide is ejected from his idyllic life in a protected castle and finds himself encountering wild adventures and harsh trials that put to the test his teacher's claim that we live in the best of all possible worlds.Honest and simple to a fault,...
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  • A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure by Scace, Wayne M.
    Wayne M. Scace

    A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure

    Not another adventure! Against all odds, Ben the Bengal cat defeated the demon dragon and sent it back to the Seventh Dimension. Consequently, Ben's nemesis, the evil warlock Astravar is ever so slightly miffed. That demon dragon was meant to take over the realm...
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  • Santa Monica by Lucas, Cassidy
    Cassidy Lucas

    Santa Monica

    A debut novel in the vein of Liane Moriarty and Tom Perrotta, about dark secrets brought to life after the mysterious death of a handsome and charismatic trainer to the elite women in Santa Monica.On the western edge of Los Angeles is the gorgeous...
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  • Lucky You by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Lucky You

    A Florida woman wins millions in the lottery only to have her ticket stolen.Author: Carl HiaasenISBN-10: 0446695653ISBN-13: 9780446695657Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.30d
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  • Against Nature by Huysmans, Joris Karl
    Joris Karl Huysmans

    Against Nature

    Joris-Karl Huysmans's cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo CuffeA celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abandon, and the aesthetics of artifice, Against Nature brings us the nineteenth-century rebel Jean Des...
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  • Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Swift, Jonathan
    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

    Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery," remarked Alexander Pope when Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful...
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  • Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide: Or Optimism

    Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpieceWith its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the...
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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic. Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to...
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  • Mayhem At The Museum by Watts, Regina
    Regina Watts

    Mayhem At The Museum

    Scientific progress goes splat!Luther Watson is an anxious boy. His best friend, Paine, assures him that he has no reason to be, but what could Paine know of anxiety? No bipedal wolf capable of disguising itself as a stuffed animal has anything to worry...
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  • A Sick Gray Laugh by Cushing, Nicole
    Nicole Cushing

    A Sick Gray Laugh

    Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire authorial brand, showcased in such titles as The Girl with the Gun in Her Mouth, Leather Noose, and The Breath Curse, has been built on the hopeless phantasmagoric visions...
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  • The Prince and the Pauper by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparks the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin...
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  • John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick by Updike, John
    John Updike

    John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick

    The third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wickedly funny satires set in the charged realms of sex, politics, and family. The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of...
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  • Imaginary Magnitude by Lem, Stanislaw
    Stanislaw Lem

    Imaginary Magnitude

    These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his...
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  • The Bostonians by James, Henry
    Henry James

    The Bostonians

    'There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death' Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her...
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  • Thank You for Smoking by Buckley, Christopher
    Christopher Buckley

    Thank You for Smoking

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He's a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco...
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  • The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by Burroughs, William S.
    William S. Burroughs

    The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text

    As this new edition reveals, the cultural reach of The Ticket That Exploded has expanded with the viral logic of Burroughs's multimedia methods, recycling itself into our digital environment. A last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and...
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