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  • The Flutter of an Eyelid by Brinig, Myron
    Myron Brinig

    The Flutter of an Eyelid

    The Flutter of an Eyelid, originally published in 1933, is a vicious, and often quite funny, satire of Southern California's bohemian community in the 1920s by Jewish-American novelist Myron Brinig (1896-1991). Illustrated by Lynd Ward (1905-1985).Some of the novel's characters are loosely based on...
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  • Third Class Superhero by Yu, Charles
    Charles Yu

    Third Class Superhero

    Charles Yu experiments with form and genre to explore the stories we tell ourselves while navigating contemporary life. In "Third Class Superhero," a would- be good guy must come to terms with the darkness in his heart. A couple living in the Luxury Car...
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  • This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Cantero, Edgar
    Edgar Cantero

    This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

    "Joss Whedon...can't possibly write All The Things That Are Kind Of Like This. So hallelujah that Edgar Cantero - a Barcelona native whose first language is Spanish, but who spits pop-culture in English like the savviest geek in, say, Sheboygan posting on Tumblr -...
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  • Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, Mikhail
    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally...
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  • Adequate Yearly Progress by Elden, Roxanna
    Roxanna Elden

    Adequate Yearly Progress

    A debut novel told with humor, intelligence, and heart, a "funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace...reminiscent of the TV show The Office but set in an urban high school" (The Washington Post), perfect for fans of Tom Perrotta and Laurie Gelman....
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  • The Forgotten Lake Secession by Brown, Chuck
    Chuck Brown

    The Forgotten Lake Secession

    Wherever Cass Baird's career in academia has taken her, her soul's compass has always pointed to Forgotten Lake, her childhood home in northern Minnesota. When her parent's marriage goes on the rocks that sense of home is threatened and she is drawn back, hoping...
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  • Fake Like Me by Bourland, Barbara
    Barbara Bourland

    Fake Like Me

    From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise...
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  • Broken Glass by Mabanckou, Alain
    Alain Mabanckou

    Broken Glass

    An irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering. In Republic of the Congo, in the...
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  • Snobs by Fellowes, Julian
    Julian Fellowes

    Snobs

    Julian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel, Snobs, a wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors. "The English,...
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  • The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by Burroughs, William S.
    William S. Burroughs

    The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

    A total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines by writing and fixing our life scripts, Burroughs' original "cut-up" book was itself rewritten in three different forms. This new edition of The Soft Machine clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history...
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  • Teenager by Smith, Bud
    Bud Smith

    Teenager

    AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the "backbone of this...
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  • Black No More by Schuyler, George S.
    George S. Schuyler

    Black No More

    First published in 1931, "Black No More" is a clever and important satirical novel by George S. Schuyler which was written during the creative time of the Harlem Renaissance. This humorous and insightful work explores what would happen if blackness could be erased and...
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  • Loathe Thy Neighbor by Hunter, Teagan
    Teagan Hunter

    Loathe Thy Neighbor

    Don't fall for your enemy...especially when he's your new roommate. Dean Evans is the worst.Not only does the devil in disguise steal my pie on a regular basis, he also lives in the apartment right. Next. Door.I see him all the time. At the...
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  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov by Leskov, Nikolai
    Nikolai Leskov

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov

    A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story. Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative...
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  • And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America by Turtledove, Harry
    Harry Turtledove

    And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America

    The most relevant science fiction release of 2020 by three award-winning authors "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."-- First Corinthians...
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  • The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail
    Mikhail Bulgakov

    The Master and Margarita

    This edition (Classic Wisdom Reprint) is non-censored, based on a samizdat version and translated in Russia by an unknown translator. Widely held as one of the best novels of the 20th century the book depicts a story in a story, a manuscript of a...
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  • The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by McCall Smith, Alexander
    Alexander McCall Smith

    The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

    Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 2The 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...
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  • Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Oliver Twist

    This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved...
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  • Grunts by Gentle, Mary
    Mary Gentle

    Grunts

    An orc is a fireplug of a fighting machine made of muscle, hide, talon, and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humor. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt--the much abused foot soldier in the Horde of...
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  • The Warden: And the Two Heroines of Plumplington by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    The Warden: And the Two Heroines of Plumplington

    'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign...
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  • Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
    Aldous Huxley

    Crome Yellow

    Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley's debut novel, satirizes the society of England's intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content,...
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  • The Loved One by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    The Loved One

    "The Loved One is not only satire at its most ferocious. It is a macabre frolic filled with laughter and ingenious devices. It is devilishly clever, impishly amusing." - The New York Times, 1948.A sad irony of life: People pay thousands to bury a...
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  • Cosmopolis by Delillo, Don
    Don Delillo

    Cosmopolis

    Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America's most celebrated writers. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times...
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  • The Suitcase by Dovlatov, Sergei
    Sergei Dovlatov

    The Suitcase

    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects--the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn-out suitcase, take...
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  • Westall '66: The Final Truth by Rinkel, Erik
    Erik Rinkel

    Westall '66: The Final Truth

    6 April, 1966, and Westall High School was visited by an unidentified flying object, in full view of hundreds of adult and child witnesses. Much of what was observed was rubbished and mocked at the time. It was an uncaring and harsh period. After...
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  • Ben Shapiro: Best Quotes by Byrne, Oliver
    Oliver Byrne

    Ben Shapiro: Best Quotes

    Those among us brave enough to walk steadily toward the frontier of political discourse, regardless of the army we choose to fight for, will have heard of the legend that is Benjamin Aaron Shapiro. His voice of reason cuts through the constant bombardment of...
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  • Middle England by Coe, Jonathan
    Jonathan Coe

    Middle England

    A comedy for our times" (The Guardian), Middle England is a piercing and provocative novel about a country in crisis. From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by...
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  • George Orwell - The two masterpieces: Animal Farm - 1984 by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    George Orwell - The two masterpieces: Animal Farm - 1984

    George Orwell holds a unique place in contemporary English literature. He used facts and his own observation and when there was no actual reporting to be done, invention took over, as in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his clear vision, realistic deduction and...
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  • The Letter Killers Club by Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
    Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

    The Letter Killers Club

    A New York Review Books Original The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described "conceivers" who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor...
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  • Oscar and Lucinda by Carey, Peter
    Peter Carey

    Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

    The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of...
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  • The Information by Amis, Martin
    Martin Amis

    The Information

    Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer? "Satirical and tender, funny and disturbing...wonderful." --The New York...
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  • Night of Camp David by Knebel, Fletcher
    Fletcher Knebel

    Night of Camp David

    "What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?" Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, "A little too plausible for comfort." How can one man...
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  • The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Joseph, Manu
    Manu Joseph

    The Illicit Happiness of Other People

    The PEN Open Book Award called Manu Joseph "that rare bird who can wildly entertain his readers as forcefully as he moves them." In The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Joseph brilliantly brings his talents to the story of an Indian Christian family living...
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  • Bimbos of the Death Sun by McCrumb, Sharyn
    Sharyn McCrumb

    Bimbos of the Death Sun

    "Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller." *Mary Higgins Clark WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD "Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today's novelists." *San Diego Union-Tribune For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken...
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  • This One Is Mine by Semple, Maria
    Maria Semple

    This One Is Mine

    Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life -- except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little...
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  • The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Melville, Herman
    Herman Melville

    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

    Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid鑞e is the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. About the Series:...
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  • The Groves of Academe by McCarthy, Mary
    Mary McCarthy

    The Groves of Academe

    Henry Mulcahy, a literature instructor at progressive Jocelyn College, is informed that his appointment will not be continued. Convinced he is disliked by the president of Jocelyn because of his abilities as a teacher and his independence of mass opinion, Mulcahy believes he is...
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  • Collected Fables by Thurber, James
    James Thurber

    Collected Fables

    "James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." -- Neil GaimanJames Thurber has been...
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  • Winds of Change: (and a whisper) by Field, Edward P. G.
    Edward P. G. Field

    Winds of Change: (and a whisper)

    "In the tradition of Stephen Leacock and C.S. Lewis . . . Your writings are thoughtful, educational, and entertaining and carry relevant messages to people living in challenging times." -Dr. James Lunney, MP (retired)"Deep, thought provoking, and powerful! NEEDS to be told!" -Dr. Joan...
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  • The Great Man Theory by Wayne, Teddy
    Teddy Wayne

    The Great Man Theory

    "At its finest, a worthy successor to those seriocomic novels of Bellow." -Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Esquire, LitHub, Publisher's Lunch, Dandelion Chandelier, and Chicago Review of Books From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author...
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  • The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton, G.
    G. Chesterton

    The Man Who Was Thursday

    "If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler's Notebooks or The Man Who Was Thursday, by Chesterton."- Roger Mifflin (Christopher Morley), The Haunted Bookshop"It is all a huge joke, a quite absurd and laughable fantasy...
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  • The Great American Novel by Williams, William Carlos
    William Carlos Williams

    The Experimental Novel

    The Great American Novel (1923) is an experimental novel by William Carlos Williams. Although he is predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his career. In the defining decade of Modernism, Williams sought to try his hand...
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  • The Transformation Book by Pessoa, Fernando
    Fernando Pessoa

    The Transformation Book

    The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during Pessoa's lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great social and cultural transformation in Portugal,...
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  • War with the Newts by Capek, Karel
    Karel Capek

    War with the Newts

    2017 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. With a New Introduction by Lewis Gannett. Originally published in Czech in 1936 and in English in 1937, this is the author's prophetic and stirring novel about...
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  • Drugs by Helton, J. R.
    J. R. Helton

    Drugs

    A modern homage to William S. Burrough's classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man's life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, "J. R. Helton really speaks to me--starkly honest, darkly...
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  • The Angry Buddhist by Greenland, Seth
    Seth Greenland

    The Angry Buddhist

    From the author of I Regret Everything comes this "great novel. It's satirical, it's political, it's sexual. All the things that I love dearly" (Larry David, creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld). Seth Greenland's timely novel is a smart and darkly amusing dissection...
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  • The Prince and the Pauper by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Mark Twain's first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social justice. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful...
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  • Rookie Noir: 12 Short Stories About 2 Short Detectives by Rada, David
    David Rada

    Rookie Noir: 12 Short Stories About 2 Short Detectives

    Every large city has its dark alleys, run down warehouses, and dens of dubious virtue. A city's skyline, landscape and neighborhoods are but the basic colors of a much more interesting tapestry of life. Woven within it all are its citizens who add to...
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  • Kisses in the Nederends by Hau'ofa, Epeli
    Epeli Hau'ofa

    Kisses in the Nederends

    In the best Rabelaisian tradition, this brilliant satire weaves a tale of improbabilities around the seat of the last great taboo. Oilei Bomboki wakes one morning with an excruciating pain that sends him anxiously searching for a cure. Unsuccessful treatments at the hands of...
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  • The Great Stupidity by Lazris, Andy
    Andy Lazris

    The Great Stupidity

    "The Great Stupidity" is a witty work of fiction that offers a satirical look at an historic public health crisis. Author Andy Lazris transports readers back in time as the Black Death strikes a small village in France. Village leaders send off a blacksmith's...
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