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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sour Grapes by Rhodes, Dan
    Dan Rhodes

    Sour Grapes

    'Dan Rhodes is a true original' - Hilary Mantel When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes. But the villagers are not prepared...
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  • Glitterati by Langmead, Oliver K.
    Oliver K. Langmead

    Glitterati

    A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul's Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides...
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  • Flags Out Front: A Contrarian's Daydream by Wilson, Douglas
    Douglas Wilson

    Flags Out Front: A Contrarian's Daydream

    Readers of PG Wodehouse's Leave It to Psmith and Christopher Buckley's Thank You for Smoking will appreciate this lighthearted new satirical novel from the award-winning author of Evangellyfish (Best Fiction of 2012, Christianity Today).Tom Collins, mild-mannered president of a dwindling southern Bible college, becomes...
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  • Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbitt

    George Babbitt is a forty-six-year-old real estate broker. His job allows him to enjoy many commodities of the middle-class, and offers he and his family a place in an elevated social circle. With three kids, a loving wife, a steady job, and a fair...
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  • Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, William Makepeace
    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Barry Lyndon

    Eager to leave his humble beginnings, Redmond Barry, runs multiple scams, conning his way into the military and pursuing the fortune of a young widow.For every momentous achievement, he's riddled with a bittersweet result. Redmond Barry is born into a poor Irish family and...
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  • My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism by McGrath, Titania
    Titania McGrath

    My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism

    'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan 'Required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity's latest religion' Entertainment Focus After the success...
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  • A Song of Three Spirits by Pike, J. Zachary
    J. Zachary Pike

    A Song of Three Spirits

    When life gave Fenrir Goldson a second chance, he asked for a gift receipt. Mr. Goldson is filthy rich. He's also callous and cruel and hasn't got a festive bone in his ancient body. Naturally, he's due for a holiday haunting. When his business...
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  • The Terrible Thing That Happens by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    The Terrible Thing That Happens

    There is a grocery store. The last grocery store in the world. It stands alone in the middle of a vast wasteland that was once our world. The open sign is still illuminated, brightening the black landscape. It can be seen from miles away,...
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  • Funeral Platter: Stories by Ames, Greg
    Greg Ames

    Funeral Platter: Stories

    From the author of the award-winning novel Buffalo Lockjaw comes a powerful collection of darkly humorous short stories. A young girl uses a burnt log for her ventriloquist act; Franz Kafka and an unnamed narrator cruise a dive bar for women; a grieving couple...
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  • The Global War on Morris by Israel, Steve
    Steve Israel

    The Global War on Morris

    "Writing in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen" (The Washington Post), this jaundiced political satire was ripped from the headlines and penned by an author who's met the characters, heard the conversations, and seen the plot twists firsthand.Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living...
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  • And Another Thing... by Colfer, Eoin
    Eoin Colfer

    And Another Thing...

    An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . . Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has traveled the length, breadth,...
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  • The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Mutis, Alvaro
    Alvaro Mutis

    The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

    Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs...
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  • The Croquet Player by Wells, H. G.
    H. G. Wells

    The Croquet Player

    Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are...
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  • Crazy Cock by Miller, Henry
    Henry Miller

    Crazy Cock

    In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind -- at least temporarily -- his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that had sprung from his anguish over her love affair with a mysterious woman named Jean Kronski. Begun...
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  • Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Sedaris, Amy
    Amy Sedaris

    Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not

    Now in paperback, a hilarious, satirical look at a small town on the verge of extinction, from the comedic team behind Strangers with Candy. In his desperate search for a small town dying in America, intrepid journalist Russell Hokes stumbles upon a quarter-mile stretch...
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  • Vox by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Vox

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex--sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.Author: Nicholson BakerISBN-10: 0679742115ISBN-13: 9780679742111Publisher: Knopf...
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