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  • The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce by Joshi, S. T.
    S. T. Joshi

    The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

    Ambrose Bierce was a well-known and highly admired journalist, short story writer, and satirist. After distinguished Civil War service, Bierce became a journalist, and in 1887 he became a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's Sunday Examiner. His work for the San Francisco Examiner made...
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  • You Will Win The Future by Smid, Arthur
    Arthur Smid

    You Will Win The Future

    ENTERING THE FINAL FRONTIER of economic mobility, Shane scores a job in tech. They merge a massively multi-player online video game with an investment fund to buy up property after the Cascadia earthquake. The founders are betting on disaster and as Shane gets exposed...
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  • THIS is America?!! - A European Expat in the USA by Claay, Jonathan
    Jonathan Claay

    THIS is America?!! - A European Expat in the USA

    Did you hear the story about the European who moved to America? America: that potpourri of modern dysfunctionalia... ...that sticky, spicy, simmering crawfish gumbo of a society... ...where a half-white man can become the first black president. America: love it or leave it... or...
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  • George A. Fowler

    About My Dad, Who Could Fly: A Novel of China's Northwest

    About My Dad, Who Could Fly: A Novel of China's Northwest is the first book of Lu Tao's "Silver City Trilogy" whose novels cover three distinct periods during the years from 1949 to 2000 in the fictional Silver City, a place not unlike Lanzhou,...
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  • Liu Zhenyun

    I Did Not Kill My Husband

    Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China. With its one-child policy, it's a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the second child is born. "Once the baby has...
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  • Uncle's Dream by Whishaw, Frederick
    Frederick Whishaw

    Uncle's Dream

    In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The...
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  • Spiders in the sun by Cadwaladr, E. M.
    E. M. Cadwaladr

    Spiders in the sun

    The adventures of a young boy who is not Huck Finn. Also, a dystopian novel set in the imaginably near future, and exhibiting a roughly equal contempt for everyone's favorite utopian ideologies. Or, if that sounds a bit dense, how about a gentler, kinder...
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  • A May Night by Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol

    A May Night

    This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1831 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A May Night' is a short story about a young man and his love for a girl named Hanna. His father...
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  • Danger Dan: TV Is Not Real Life - But It Is for This Guy. Danger Dan, Purveyor of Puns, Punches and Pudge, Lives in Character. by Clabby, Bram
    Bram Clabby

    Danger Dan: TV Is Not Real Life - But It Is for This Guy. Danger Dan, Purveyor of Puns, Punches and Pudge, Lives in Character.

    TV is not real life-but it is for this guy. Danger Dan, fantasy action hero and purveyor of puns, punches and pudge, has been a Saturday Morning cartoon star for years. Now he lives in-character even when the cameras aren't rolling. But when an...
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  • Moxie's Problem by Hank, Quense
    Quense Hank

    Moxie's Problem

    Do you enjoy untypical coming-of-age stories? Well, you won't find one more untypical than Moxie's Problem. Moxie is an obnoxious, teen-age princess who has never been outside her father's castle. Until now. The real world is quite different and she struggles to come to...
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  • Beddington Place by Marx, Eve
    Eve Marx

    Beddington Place

    Beddington Place: Watch Your Back, Cover Your Tracks is a dark comedy that takes place in the Hollywood-East fictional town of Beddington. Paige Turner, a freelance celebrity journalist, is on assignment for Hello magazine, where she becomes "embedded" in a combat zone of rumor...
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  • Let Me Liberate You by Davis, Andie
    Andie Davis

    Let Me Liberate You

    A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.Dark, lanky, and bald, New York-raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if...
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  • The Children of Jocasta by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    The Children of Jocasta

    "Reinterprets two of Sophocles' Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful."--The New Yorker"A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources,...
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  • Sucker by Hornsby, Daniel
    Daniel Hornsby

    Sucker

    Succession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the...
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...
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  • Office Politics by Sheed, Wilfrid
    Wilfrid Sheed

    Office Politics

    "A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim." --Elaine Dundy Ever since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when...
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  • All You Can Kill by Malla, Pasha
    Pasha Malla

    All You Can Kill

    White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat.Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, inadvertently find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating a couple, the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a helicopter crash....
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  • The New Austerities by Perdue, Tito
    Tito Perdue

    The New Austerities

    First published in 1994, Tito Perdue's The New Austerities returns from Standard American Publishing."The New Austerities continues Tito Perdue's saga of his alter ego: librophile, insomniac, and misanthrope Lee Pefley. The book begins with Lee and his wife Judy, now in middle age, living...
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  • Yellow Ribbon: Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 11, Second Edition by Faricy, Mike
    Mike Faricy

    Yellow Ribbon: Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 11, Second Edition

    Author: Mike FaricyISBN-10: 1962080110ISBN-13: 9781962080118Publisher: Mjf PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2023Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.61d
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  • I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley by Vernon, Thom
    Thom Vernon

    I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley

    In this dark comedy taking place over twenty-four hours, a blizzard pummels Toronto as a beloved high school teacher coerces his teenage student to assist in his violent suicide forcing the student, his best friend, the friend's bulimic mom, and a down-low cop to...
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  • Meatheads Say the Realest Things: A Satirical (Short) Novel of the Last Bro by Fleming, Colin
    Colin Fleming

    Meatheads Say the Realest Things: A Satirical (Short) Novel of the Last Bro

    Meet Chad, a full-fledged Boston meathead-and gym-buff social misfit-whose shaky grasp of reality is anchored mainly by his unswerving loyalty to the New England Patriots. In Chad's world, routine encounters with the fixtures of Beantown life-from the Boston Symphony and the Bunker Hill Monument...
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  • The Scandal Plan: Or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife by Folman, Bill
    Bill Folman

    The Scandal Plan: Or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife

    With only a few months until Election Day, presidential- hopeful Senator Ben Phillips is getting battered in the polls and his staff is getting desperate. Smart, capable, fair, and honest, Phillips is the perfect man for the job--but he bores the voting public because...
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  • Zero Sum Conclusion by Lopinski, Thomas
    Thomas Lopinski

    Zero Sum Conclusion

    In a world reshaped by the seismic events of the Second Civil War of 2033, where chaos reigns and uncertainty looms, Zero Sum Conclusion challenges perceptions and ignites conversations. Set against the backdrop where crime, greed, and political discord grip the nation, Zero Sum...
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  • The Arsonist by Coulson, Ken
    Ken Coulson

    The Arsonist

    Are there any chances left for a man who helped stoke the flames of a global financial meltdown and then reaped the rewards?When Cal Minor strikes bottom-losing his home, career, wonderful wife, and children-redemption appears at the elite Atlas Corp led by the corporate...
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  • The Arsonist by Coulson, Ken
    Ken Coulson

    The Arsonist

    Are there any chances left for a man who helped stoke the flames of a global financial meltdown and then reaped the rewards?When Cal Minor strikes bottom-losing his home, career, wonderful wife, and children-redemption appears at the elite Atlas Corp led by the corporate...
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  • The Magic Mountain by Mann, Thomas
    Thomas Mann

    The Magic Mountain

    In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. "The Magic Mountain"...
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  • The Centre by Siddiqi, Ayesha Manazir
    Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

    The Centre

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Choice - An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense "The most fascinating debut I've read in years--enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it...
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  • Into the Bush by Weichsel, J. Manfred
    J. Manfred Weichsel

    Into the Bush

    After the overwhelmingly successful premiere of Jungle Jitters, Jennifer, the leader of the Action Girls, is eager to make another jungle adventure movie, and she asks her regular scribe, J. Manfred Weichsel, to write it.His pitch? A three-hundred-mile-long giantess named Patty McGloop lies eternally...
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  • After the Workshop: A Memoir by Jack Hercules Sheahan by McNally, John
    John McNally

    After the Workshop: A Memoir by Jack Hercules Sheahan

    Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer's block in this "ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities" (Kirkus Reviews). You graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a short story published in...
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  • Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbitt

    THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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