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Vendor: Mark Helprin
Memoir from Antproof Case
From the bestselling author of A Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War comes a work of astounding prose. Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy with memories of a place that no longer exists to tell the story...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Merry Tales
"To no writer can the term 'American' more justly be applied than to the humorist whose Merry Tales are here presented."-Editor's Note, Merry Tales (1892) Merry Tales (1892) is a collection of seven humorous short stories written by Mark Twain in his quintessential satirical...- $28.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless...- $5.25
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Vendor: Colin Heston
Fault Lines
A series of 29 short stories inspired by the vicissitudes of punishment in all its forms, its deliverers and recipients. Its universality across cultures and at every level of social life from the kitchen to the battlefield never ceases to amaze. The stories unveil...- $29.99
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Vendor: Thomas H. Carry
Privilege
"A thoroughly entertaining, spring-loaded tale of one man's lethal remedy for middle-age boredom."-Kirkus Starred ReviewNamed to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2020.Professor Daniel Waite is in a funk. He has a brilliant wife, tenure at the fabled University, and is well liked by colleagues...- $12.95
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Vendor: George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results....- $17.99
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Vendor: Mark Twain
King Leopold's Soliloquy
Dear, dear, when the soft-hearts get hold of thing like that missionary's contribution they completely lose their tranquility they speak profanely and reproach Heaven for allowing such a find to live. Meaning me . They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over...- $12.99
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Vendor: Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated Edition)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The...- $9.40
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Vendor: Neal Bialostosky
What Do You Think, Mr. Collins?
Dreamscapes, androids, an acid trip, corrupt media, immigrants, racists, progressives, a terrorist attack, a magical owl, the Chinese mafia, and an enlightening walk through the Garden of Eden, all set right in this distant Paradise. In a far away parallel universe, on a planet...- $13.95
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Vendor: Kristy Deetz
The Singular Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy
An inspired collection of intriguing paintings by Kristy Deetz, accompanied by charming and satirical stories by Edward S. Louis. Join the shape-shifting Rabbit, along with his best friend and astute sidekick Kitty Boy (both close friends of The Artist) as they venture into a...- $35.99
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Vendor: Nicholas Bernardi
QAnon A thru Z: My Baby's First Conspiracy Theories
The early 2020s were a heck of a ride. QAnon A thru Z illustrates some of the more exciting conspiracy theories and the best alternative facts from our alt friends and family all in alphabetical order! There's no better way to teach your baby...- $12.99
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Vendor: Mike Canestaro
Big Trouble in Jackass Flats
Slim Goodbody came to Jackass Flats seeking turmeric, and perhaps a little adventure. He didn't know he'd find love, and a run-in with a posse of insane clowns. It's not your typical historical western romance, it's hysterical western romance.Author: Mike CanestaroISBN-10: 1692376071ISBN-13: 9781692376079Publisher: Independently...- $8.94
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Vendor: Jakub K. Rucinski
No Brakes: A modern novella
Revolt, rebirth and retribution - a nameless, laid-off hermit ventures through the highways encircling the Mojave Desert. Why? To retrieve Nathan Lez, of course, a charismatic leader preaching a religion of fervent discipline. There is little time to pause and take a breath. The...- $9.99
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Vendor: Fiona Vigo Marshall
The the House of Marvellous Books
Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor...- $15.95
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Vendor: Iwanna Twainbee
Eternal Questions: A Maybe Interesting List: A Maybe Interesting List
Iwanna, the only thing eternal about these questions is damnation.-Dante AlighieriIwanna, you have too many references to the hand of god, the great wisdom traditions, etc., etc., etc. You are a boob, Iwanna. THERE IS NO GOD. GOT IT? NONE!-Friedrich Nietzsche, a None not...- $16.99
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Witty and Buoyant Comedy of Manners - A Captivating Satire of Victorian society
Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not...- $13.97
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Vendor: Harold Fickett
Holy Fool
What do you do when life loses its plot? When the story you thought you were living has become a shamble? When the faith you believed informed your story has turned into, it would appear, the means of its destruction? It might also be...- $20.00
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Vendor: P. R. Infidel
Tales of American Idiocy
"Soon the humans will all wear muzzles and be chained to their homes by their great glowing boxes!" This announcement by Chester stopped the meeting of the pets of Sunnyside Street cold. Not that they were surprised by the neighborhood conspiracy cat. Chester was...- $12.49
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Vendor: Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting.Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man...- $33.95
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Vendor: Nick Spalding
Old Boys
In this hilarious and heartfelt story from the bestselling author of Dry Hard, Will hasn't seen his rock-star dad for thirty years. But now he's back for an encore...Will Fairweather is getting old. His back aches, his bowels misbehave if he eats spicy food...- $26.99
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Vendor: Leonid Andreyev
Satan's Diary
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 - 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jordan Young
Pests
From the twisted minds of Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Studios, Jordan Young, and Regina Katz comes... PESTS A titanic story about Phil, a down and out underdog exterminator, and the freak accident that changed his life. Phil decides during his convalescence that he will...- $20.00
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Vendor: Hichem Karoui
The Invisible Bride
An Unexpected Twist: 'The Invisible Bride' is the 6th volume in the hilarious satirical series 'The Morning of the Mogul.' This unique story takes a surprising and unexpected twist when Bassam imitates Haj Mukhtar, who pretends his wife is a Jinni, and marries an...- $10.99
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Vendor: Aldous Huxley
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms...- $17.95
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Vendor: Lexi Freiman
The Book of Ayn
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and...- $27.00
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Vendor: Gilbert Sorrentino
Mulligan Stew
Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress....- $18.95
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Vendor: Mark Axelrod
Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey
A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a small-town English professor.The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey is a kind of post-modern May-December black comedy about the 60ish, cancer-stricken Oxford educated, Irish English literature professor, Malcolm Malarkey who falls in love with the...- $16.95
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Vendor: M. T. Bass
In the Black, 1965-1969: A Satire of the Sixties
"In the Black is Ayn Rand on drugs" John Galt "If you can remember anything about the Sixties, you weren't really there." Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane If ever a period in American history deserved the Catch-22 treatment, it is the decade you either love...- $18.99
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Vendor: Annie Wood
Dandy Day
Dandy Day is a thirty-five year old free-spirited, commitment-phobic, Venice Boardwalk roller skating waitress. When Dandy is suddenly dumped by her therapist, right when they were on the brink of figuring out why her relationships last only a whopping three months, Dandy decides to...- $14.95
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Vendor: Harold Fickett
Holy Fool
What do you do when life loses its plot? When the story you thought you were living has become a shamble? When the faith you believed informed your story has turned into, it would appear, the means of its destruction? It might also be...- $34.00
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Vendor: R. Scott Cornwell
#ScaryWhiteFemales
Wokeness.In a bygone decade it was known as political correctness. A 20th Century prophet coined the term newspeak. What is, isn't; and what isn't, is. A societal game of make-believe, where participants walk on egg shells, and self-censor in hushed tones for fear of...- $24.99
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Vendor: Thomas More
Utopia
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting...- $15.99
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Vendor: R. Scott Cornwell
#ScaryWhiteFemales
Wokeness.In a bygone decade it was known as political correctness. A 20th Century prophet coined the term newspeak. What is, isn't; and what isn't, is. A societal game of make-believe, where participants walk on egg shells, and self-censor in hushed tones for fear of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Garrett C. Murch
Ezzy's Education
At Ebbing High School in southwestern Maine, two narcissists are vying for student body president. Patriot Party candidate, Trunk Langston, promises to 'Make Ebbing High School Great Again' while Justice Party candidate, Lucinda Barron, promises to 'ban toxic masculinity.' The candidates are ruthlessly pursuing...- $16.99
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Vendor: Sydney W. Joshua
Dear Mommy's Boss: A Kid's Perspective of the Corporate Workplace
Looking for a way to hint to your boss that perhaps it's time to cut you some slack in the childcare department? Or perhaps you've been searching for a way to thank your accommodating boss because they've shown that they "get it". Dear Mommy's...- $30.49
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Vendor: Iv疣 Repila
The Ally
In this unexpectedly hilarious social novel, a misguided thirty-something tries to beat his girlfriend at her own game: becoming the ultimate feministWhen he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt--whom he's never read--our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought.Determined...- $31.95
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Vendor: Kevin L. Donihe
Musclebound Mario
Marcus is a socially awkward, steroid-ridden bodybuilder who happens to be the biggest fan of the first Super Mario Bros.game...ever. His toilet seat lifts to reveal a Mario head. A picture of Shigeru Miyamoto, the inventor of the game, sits atop his TV. Now,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Debbie Ann Ice
Dead Fish
It's 20 -a changed yet still complacent America-and Lorraine Mulderon is mad. She's mad that dying fish litter the shores of her small Connecticut coastal town. She's mad other birds seem to be dying, possibly indirectly related to fish deaths. She's still mad about...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lauren Edmondson
Wedding of the Season
It's the wedding of the season, and all of Newport is abuzz in this delightful, witty novel about two modern-day society families and the summer wedding that has the whole town talking...Despite its beauty, Newport is a place Cass Coventry would prefer to forget....- $46.99
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Vendor: Carlton III Mellick
Fishy-Fleshed
Was Jesus actually a time-traveler from the future? The citizens of Ocean City believe this could be the case. Their world has become so technologically advanced that everyone now possesses the ability to walk on water, cure diseases, multiply food, and raise the dead......- $14.99
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Vendor: Robin Yeatman
Bookworm
"Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones--that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman's story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can...- $41.99
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn
Chesterton's The Flying Inn is a story of adventure that will capture both new readers and old fans. In this England, a "progressive" political party has pushed in a new prohibition era, where the rich can buy alcohol at a steep price for "medicinal"...- $22.95
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Vendor: Montesquieu
Persian Letters
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Br de et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 - 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation...- $33.95
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Vendor: Raymond Benson
The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way
For Scott Hatcher, a former television writer turned struggling novelist with a failing marriage to boot, social-distancing and mask-wearing feel like fitting additions to his already surreal life.When his wife Marie and neighbor John Bergman disappear in the middle of the raging COVID-19 pandemic,...- $36.95
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Vendor: Chris Rodell
Evan & Elle in Heaven & Hell: A Long Distance Social Media Afterlife Love Story
Have you ever loved so hard you'd forgive every sin?Misguided admirers have long declared "Romeo & Juliet" a "timeless" love story. In fact, true timelessness can only be achieved in the places where time itself is off the clock.This is the story of Evan...- $16.99
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Vendor: Daniel M. Kimmel
Shh! It's a Secret: A Novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide
2014 COMPTON CROOK AWARD FINALIST. The Brogardi appeared out of nowhere, and -- telegraphing their peaceful intentions -- they landed in the middle of nowhere: New York State's Catskills Mountains resorts. It was an alien invasion, of the most peaceful, friendly kind. But there...- $14.99
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Vendor: Kingsley Amis
Girl, 20
Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation, was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s.Amis's antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a...- $36.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man
The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man was seen...- $21.21
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Vendor: Jason a. Holt
Fighter Fred and the Wombat Wilderness
Fighter Fred has faced the Dungeon of Doom, and he returns a changed man. Twilight is a changed elf. And Mak-Thar-- Oh boy. Mak-Thar has really changed. Maybe they should try to change him back. All it will take is a heroic quest through...- $20.00
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Vendor: Kingsley Amis
The Green Man
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, "I honestly can't see why everybody who isn't a child, everybody who's theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn't spend all his time thinking about it. It's...- $36.95
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