Fiction - Satire

2nd Edition: Unleashed -The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking CLub - Part 2 Four months after the disappearance of Tom Hudd from a leafy Savannah neighborhood, the members of an afternoon cocktail and dog walking club ponder his whereabouts; despite one of them knowing his...

This volume contains Jerome Klapka Jerome's 1919 novel, "All Roads Lead to Calvary". The story revolves around a fisherman MP who gives up his career and mistress when his lowly wife consumes poison. An intriguing and masterful piece of literature, "All Roads Lead to...

Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for "authentic experiences" who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the globe in search of true experiences that he's never...

Lorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling "ice rats"--bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze--one of the dirtiest, most unpleasant jobs imaginable. And thanks to a bet between influencers, a sociology student's...

Next time you go to your favorite coffee shop and you have money in your wallet to pay for a latte, pick the oldest looking note (if you're lucky enough to have several) and wonder for a second which hands have touched it, at...

I love three things in this world more than life itself: 1. My family and housemates (both current and former)2. Musicals3. My best friend, Eric MoodyThe first two are no surprise to anyone who knows me.The third is a secret I'll carry to my...

My next-door neighbor, Ryan Rosche, is pretty much the perfect guy.He's a freaking doctor, for one.Humble...Mature (Did I mention he's eleven years older than me?) ...And flat-out gorgeous.If only he wasn't also ... my boss.Look, if I wasn't the nanny to his nieces, I'd...

Author: David T. IsaakISBN-10: 1958840211ISBN-13: 9781958840214Publisher: Utamatzi Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles...

Written in A/B rhyme scheme, The Pallid Express follows a young man on a journey of exploration through the absurdity, the complexity, the lies, and the truth of this reality. Embark on a captivating adventure alongside a young boy named Elbert. Disenchanted with the...

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates, holds a mind-numbing job at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and has a chronic inability to make up...

Possessed of the four "Cs"-right Color, right Class and right aCCent-attorney Bob McKenzie has lived comfortably in the States for so long he has to remind himself he's still Canadian. But when taken briefly into custody on an immigration technicality his destiny intersects with...

The award-winning writer of White Tears and Blue Ruin takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and na?e, Arjun spends his days...

We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second...

A revolution is under way at a once sleepy New England bank. Forty-five-year-old Frances Fitzgibbons has gone from sweet-tempered loan officer to insatiable force of nature almost overnight. Suddenly she's brazenly seducing the high-school drum major, taking over her boss's office, firing anyone who...

Sylvester Stallone finds himself burdened by the task of writing the screenplay, 'Stayin' Alive'. A dark figure appears that claims to be able to help him create a masterpiece. Sly questions his sanity, but something larger seems to be invested in the future of...

Bathos Crippling ennui Mind-numbing drudgery Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is so depressed he's on the brink of suicide....

A MODEST PROPOSAL For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country,
and for making them beneficial to the publick. by Jonathan Swift 1729Author: Jonathan SwiftISBN-10: 1480261181ISBN-13: 9781480261181Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2012Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize:...

The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers visit him every year, asking for money.He helms the engine room of the modern academy:...

These Awkward Girls are going to have you laughing for days!Pink BitsDid you know the medical term for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft?My name is Reagan, and spouting random facts like this one at inopportune moments is my affliction. I'm chronically awkward, socially...

Private Investigator Dev Haskell has finally got it made! Beautiful Kerri seems to have fallen for him. She even left Dev a note. Apparently, she just needs a little help finding her sister. Unfortunately, it turns out both women are involved with notorious Russian...

Skirt-chasing, wise-cracking, dysfunctional Private Investigator Dev Haskell leaves his usual stool at the Spot Bar to take on what looks like a cakewalk job: keep ice cream mogul Mr. Swirlee alive. Turns out Mr. Swirlee is anything but a cakewalk... He's a ruthless "entrepreneur"...

Wise-cracking, back-slapping, sideways-thinking Private Investigator Dev Haskell is in the middle of dissipating a lover's quarrel with his newest gorgeous knife-wielding female conquest when he gets a call. Members of KRAZ, a radio station that considers itself "the voice of America's future," need protection...

Are you tired of hearing, "Oh, you must start a family, have children?" Then "Fuck Them Kids, Get a Cat" is your sassy retort! Dive into this irreverent guide that celebrates cat parenting with an unparalleled wit, hilarity, and unabashed joy. If the traditional...

This book is a satire which politely rips open the ugly underbelly of the Trump presidency. It is presented in the style of The Prophet, the beloved book of 26 prose/poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran. Putitive author, Carkan Moil, although convicted of Alzheimer's Disease...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast...

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....Author: Daniel HandlerISBN-10: 006093817XISBN-13: 9780060938178Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.29h x 5.45w...

As neighborhoods have grown up around the subterranean home of the narrator of Man, Underground, the city has initiated a review of his dwelling. Intent on ignoring the review process, his life is interrupted by a seventeen-year-old punk-inspired, Honor's student. Every bit as eccentric...

A tech start-up and their cutthroat consultants will stop at nothing to realize their dream of filling the skies of America's cities with flying cars...and their opposition is equally determined to bring that dream crashing down. Dozens of start-up tech companies are forming each...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame David...

Humankind is in danger. The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great...

Independence period timer, in his work using sensationalist novel principles. Sensational themes, sudden plot turns, pathetic philosophical digressions - these are the main engines Rozukas novels, most of them will never go without forthright eroticism. Eccentric mix of genres and prunes language of these...

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the whimsical and satirical world of "Gulliver's Travels." Join Lemuel Gulliver as he encounters bizarre civilizations and larger-than-life beings in a quest that challenges his perception of humanity and society. In the land of Lilliput, Gulliver finds himself...

On Capitol Hill, they work you to death. Cameron Leann is new to Washington, D.C. An Iowa farm boy without a penny to his name, Cam has joined a group of affluent junior staffers working for a powerful cohort of U.S. Senators known as...

Private Investigator Dev Haskell stumbles into the famed Tutti Frutti in search of an illegal gambling operation. Instead he finds a bondage club run by the mobster D'Angelo brothers, more murder and action than he ever dreamed of, and Candi: devilishly compelling Candi. The...

Collected Tales: Fables and Parables in Search of a Moral contains 230-plus contemporary satirical fables, parables, revisions of myths, and passing observations on the present state of homo sapiens. The tales focus on psychological, social, political, spiritual, aesthetic, and philosophical themes, but the "moral"...

From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale...

When Francine Ephesians Didwell loses the love of her life, she is forced to reconnect with her estranged family. She's led two lives up until now, one with her troubled religious family, and another of emancipated rebellion with her lover. Adrift, Francine relocates to...

Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey.After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow - The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy...

Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis - Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award - One of The Millions Most Anticipated Titles of 2024 - One of Kirkus Reviews' Twenty Books You Can Read in a Weekend - One of the Boston Globe's Anticipated...

"A delightful romp, chock-full of wonderfully bonkers ideas." C.K. (Caimh) McDonnell, best-selling author of the Stranger Times and Bunny McGarry series."If Spike Milligan and Terry Pratchett had ever got round to a collaboration it might read like OverLondon." Heide Goody, best-selling author of the...

These are the stories of the employees at a truck stop. Some of them make enough to live it up but none of them make enough to live large. When you dig deeper, you may find tales as old as the marketplace of ideas:...

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...

Never before published, Moggerhanger is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, A Start in Life and Life Goes On, were published...

Can too much love be fatal? You are about to find out in this exquisite psychological drama between the owner of a pawnshop and his wife. The narrator's marriage started out cordially enough, but his miserly and reserved ways are taxing to his young...

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,...

Ever sent your brother's best friend a video expressing your undying love for him? While hopped up on pain meds?No? Just me then?Once I knew this girl who sent a video of herself to her brother's best friend... while she was hopped up on...