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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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