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  • Make America Beautiful Again by Bancroft, Bo
    Bo Bancroft

    Make America Beautiful Again

    "A nimble political satire that should appeal to Americans of every stripe...reminiscent of books by Christopher Buckley, the author of Thank You for Smoking (1994)" - Kirkus Reviews Suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree, baffling law enforcement as the only targets are...
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  • You Might Feel a Little Prick by Leder, Reuben
    Reuben Leder

    You Might Feel a Little Prick

    A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital-a decaying relic built before the first pandemic-and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count of incompetents, frauds, and crooks...
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  • And Another Thing...: Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three by Colfer, Eoin
    Eoin Colfer

    And Another Thing...: Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three

    And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be...
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  • Portuguese Irregular Verbs by McCall Smith, Alexander
    Alexander McCall Smith

    Portuguese Irregular Verbs

    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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  • Candide by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide

    Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is...
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  • Coming Up for Air by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    Coming Up for Air

    From George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.George "Tubby" Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman,...
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  • Marshlands by Gide, Andre
    Andre Gide

    Marshlands

    A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andr Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist...
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  • Our Mutual Friend: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Our Mutual Friend: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

    Charles Dickens's last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend" is the story of "Noddy" Boffin, a common clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman" after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, "Our Mutual Friend" is a...
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  • Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 by Schuyler, George S.
    George S. Schuyler

    Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940

    2015 Reprint of 1931 Printing. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This celebrated Picaresque novel is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations. Schuyler targets both the KKK and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both an...
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  • The Pickwick Papers: Introduction by Peter Washington by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    The Pickwick Papers: Introduction by Peter Washington

    In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club:...
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  • Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K.
    Jerome K. Jerome

    Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel

    When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary...
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  • Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Lakhous, Amara
    Amara Lakhous

    Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

    The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly). Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the...
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  • Letters from the Earth by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Letters from the Earth

    An unabridged, unaltered edition, to include the Prologue, and all 11 Letters with footnotes -Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1603865683ISBN-13: 9781603865685Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2013Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.09d
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  • Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane
    Jane Austen

    Northanger Abbey

    In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger...
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  • Entitled: Life isn't easy when you're a book by Boyle, Cookie
    Cookie Boyle

    Entitled: Life isn't easy when you're a book

    Entitled is a love letter to books, travel and the people we meet along the way.Life isn't easy when you're a book.This charming, humorous, warm-hearted novel captures the extraordinary adventures of an extraordinary book. Entitled is told from the perspective of a book as...
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  • The Agents by Courtois, Grégoire
    Gr馮oire Courtois

    The Agents

    Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Tron, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novel The agents don't know what they're agents of, but they're very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in...
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  • Fka USA by King, Reed
    Reed King

    Fka USA

    Reed King's amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams's A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Indie Next Pick for JulyBest of June: io9,...
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  • The Complete Little World of Don Camillo by Dudgeon, Piers
    Piers Dudgeon

    The Complete Little World of Don Camillo

    Reading The Little World of Don Camillo is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy's widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of characters who...
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  • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Melville, Herman
    Herman Melville

    Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

    Bartleby, the Scrivener is the short story by Herman Melville now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.Author: Herman MelvilleISBN-10: 1480255416ISBN-13: 9781480255418Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2012Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d
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  • A Terrible Country by Gessen, Keith
    Keith Gessen

    A Terrible Country

    "Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country."--Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be...
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  • Myra Breckinridge by Vidal, Gore
    Gore Vidal

    Myra Breckinridge

    The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction by Camille Paglia "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever...
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  • Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, the Trick Top Hat, & the Homing Pigeons by Wilson, Robert A.
    Robert A. Wilson

    Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, the Trick Top Hat, & the Homing Pigeons

    The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.Author: Robert A. WilsonISBN-10: 0440500702ISBN-13:...
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  • Scoop by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    Scoop

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times). Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself...
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  • Where the Vile Things Are: A Study in Sex, Revenge, Deceit, and Affluenza by James, Marcus
    Marcus James

    Where the Vile Things Are: A Study in Sex, Revenge, Deceit, and Affluenza

    Set against the backdrop of San Francisco during the presidential elections, we follow Nathan Valmont and Oliver Merteuil as they set out on their respective paths of conquest and revenge in this daring and imaginatively faithful but no-less transgressive adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos'...
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  • The Great Cyprus Think Tank by Lockridge, Larry
    Larry Lockridge

    The Great Cyprus Think Tank

    The Great Cyprus Think Tank is narrated by Bart Beasley, a dejected Canadian author of cultural memoirs who yearns to return to Cyprus, where he spent his youth and where he might shake off his ennui. He forms a think tank of renowned but...
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  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Braithwaite, Oyinkan
    Oyinkan Braithwaite

    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERFINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead,...
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  • Lucky You by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Lucky You

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Witty...colorful...entertaining." - New York Times Book Review JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big-$28 million, to be exact. And she has great plans for her...
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  • The Financial Lives of the Poets by Walter, Jess
    Jess Walter

    The Financial Lives of the Poets

    "Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on." -- Los Angeles TimesNamed one of the year's best novels by: Time - Salon.com - Los Angeles Times - NPR/Fresh Air - New West - Kansas City Star - St. Louis Post-DispatchA comic and heartfelt...
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  • Should We Stay or Should We Go by Shriver, Lionel
    Lionel Shriver

    Should We Stay or Should We Go

    "When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen...
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  • The Flying None by Goodfellow, Cody
    Cody Goodfellow

    The Flying None

    Gala Murowski wasn't really looking for God when she joined her local nunnery, but when an ecstatic out-of-body experience sets her spinning through a godless cosmos, she becomes an avenging angel on a rogue crusade against the hypocrites who prey on the innocent in...
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  • The Hard Side of the Moon by Spencer, Hugh A. D.
    Hugh A. D. Spencer

    The Hard Side of the Moon

    In southern Alberta in the late 1970s, Matthew Bishop has a pretty decent life. Sure, he doesn't have a girlfriend, but he has all the science fiction books a monthly mail order subscription can bring him, a collection of Canadian synth rock on vinyl,...
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  • The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment by Eggers, Dave
    Dave Eggers

    The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment

    A savage satire of a United States in the throes of insanity, this hilarious novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Circle tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it...
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  • The Alteration by Amis, Kingsley
    Kingsley Amis

    The Alteration

    BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is "one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence" (Philip K. Dick).In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the...
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  • Fatale by Manchette, Jean-Patrick
    Jean-Patrick Manchette

    Fatale

    A New York Review Books OriginalWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there's no question that Aim e is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she's set her eyes on a backwater burg--where, while posing...
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  • Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    Dead Souls

    An NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up...
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  • Love and Other Pranks by Vigorito, Tony
    Tony Vigorito

    Love and Other Pranks

    "Love and Other Pranks may be the single wildest novel I've ever read. It rings the cosmic gong on so many levels, turns so many stereotypes inside out, one scarcely knows what to do but hold on and enjoy the ride. And enjoy it...
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  • Gulliver's Travels: Introduction by Pat Rogers by Swift, Jonathan
    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver's Travels: Introduction by Pat Rogers

    (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.Author: Jonathan SwiftISBN-10: 0679405453ISBN-13: 9780679405450Publisher:...
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  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Richler, Mordecai
    Mordecai Richler

    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books. Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal --...
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  • Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    Dead Souls

    A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner...
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  • e by Beaumont, Matt
    Matt Beaumont

    e

    Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departmentsre: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know... Set in a London ad agency desperate to land a coveted big account, e follows the bureaucratic bungling, cutthroat maneuvers,...
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  • Holy Cow by Duchovny, David
    David Duchovny

    Holy Cow

    A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forget Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and...
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  • Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Hard Times

    The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of...
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  • A School Inspector Calls: But Who is the Fool in the School? by Malone, Chris
    Chris Malone

    A School Inspector Calls: But Who is the Fool in the School?

    Two primary schools face each other across the river; one outstanding, the other inclusive.At precisely 8am, Margaret Jones' hire car draws up outside Marsh Street Primary. The beleaguered inspector is being quality assured by two senior colleagues who defend the outdated inspectorate with vigour.Jill...
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  • Lolly Willowes: or the Loving Huntsman by Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes: or the Loving Huntsman

    Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners incorporating elements of fantasy. It is the story of a middle-aged spinster who moves to a country village to escape her controlling relatives and takes up the practice of witchcraft. The novel opens at the turn...
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  • Lower Education by Swotty, Meander
    Meander Swotty

    Lower Education

    A Tale of Passion, Perseverance, and Missing MeatloafDr. Robert Chudinski, an idealistic academic, is fresh out of his doctoral program, when he accepts a position at Eastern Wisconsin University. Dr. Chudinski believes he will finally have the opportunity to change the world "one student...
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  • Wag & Scally in White House Skuldoggery by Von Dennis, Baron
    Baron Von Dennis

    Wag & Scally in White House Skuldoggery

    Wag & Scally in White House Skuldoggery is a non-PC(R) rated adventure that takes place between the United Kingdog and the United States of Ameridog, and includes an array of conspiracies - such as the Kennedy assassination; the dark side of the moon; the...
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  • The Last Smoker on Earth: and the End of Literature by Dillon-Malone, Basil
    Basil Dillon-Malone

    The Last Smoker on Earth: and the End of Literature

    All great writers in history were smokers but now smoking had been banned globally effective New Year's Day 2009. The Act of Cessation was launched during the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations with dire implications because of the rampant rumor of Obama...
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  • Black Lives Rising by Ameke, Chiatulah
    Chiatulah Ameke

    Black Lives Rising

    In 33 intertwined/separate flash fiction stories, Chiatulah Ameke accomplishes the rare feat of extending the conversations of racial inequity, inequality, and their horror of a not-so-distant cousin, racism itself. Set in the backdrop of a seemingly too-close reality, some in the present and some...
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  • Thoughts for Thots by McVittie, Brody
    Brody McVittie

    Thoughts for Thots

    This is aimed at That Hoe Over There; the THOT community more concerned with social media clout than advancing their standing through more conventional (read: antiquated) means.This is for the subsect of society that embraces bikini selfies indoors, the behind-a-paywall earners that are building...
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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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