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Vendor: Miguel Syjuco
I Was the President's Mistress!!
"Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country's most original and unflinching literary voice." --Salman Rushdie "It's a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author's reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out...- $20.00
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Vendor: Marc MC Donald
The Colonel Who Couldn't Remember
'Perfect for fans of 'A Man called Ove' by Fredrik Backman. Funny, moving, clever, mysterious and challenging, with a fabulous central character who always remains one strong-willed and whimsical man standing against the world.Dominic likes anonymity, his local Drumcondra park, his neighbour's cat, Boris,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Kevin L. Donihe
Papier-Mache Jesus
Kevin L Donihe is in the vanguard of a new type of brave and original writers that combine fun and childlike imagination with rich poignant themes. In his second collection, Papier Mache Jesus, Donihe's surreal wit and beautiful mind-bending imagination is on full display...- $15.99
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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 work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a...- $16.95
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Vendor: Rose M Colombo
Obamasaurus: The Legend of How the Judeo-Christian Dinosaur Nation Was Depopulated and Suffered Extinction
Obamasaurus is a fictional political satire relaunched with a new twist formerly published as the 2013 Irwin Award winning short story, Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Rednecks & Radicals. This political satire is written to remind free people who believe they were created by God and those...- $24.99
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Vendor: Scott Shibuya Brown
Story by Erasmus Yang
"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years." Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated journalist wannabe and...- $17.00
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Vendor: Mark Twain
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition With All Original Illustrations, To Include: How To Tell A Story - In Defense Of Harriet Shelley - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Traveling With A Reformer - Private History Of The 'Jumping Frog' Story - Mental Telegraphy Again -...- $13.77
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Vendor: Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels and a Modest Proposal
By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer,...- $5.99
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Vendor: I. Michael Grossman
The Accidental President: An Intergalactic Guide to Homo Sapiens
THE LAST MAN STANDING?Earth is in crisis. And the intergalactic managers who oversee all creatures of the Milky Way Galaxy are tasked to bottom-line man's usefulness. Should they let homo sapiens survive or watch them continue to their own destruction? To answer that, the...- $14.00
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Vendor: D'Ettut
Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelg舅gers
The 2 tomes, Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers and The Compleat OWL: The Forever Zeitgeist 1950-2050, have been created primarily for a reader-market who hasn't been born yet. Through the lens of satire they will read about the thoughts, beliefs and aspirations of those who...- $37.50
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Vendor: Gina Yates
Narcissus Nobody
The voice of disgraced love guru Brooks Nixon seems to haunt Hope Townsend, showing up at inopportune moments to deliver unwelcome commentary on her hapless romances. Brooks―who once doled out cliched dating advice to millions―fell out of favor with his fanbase when a life-altering...- $16.00
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Vendor: Bill Zaferos
Poison Pen
Poison Pen is the absurdist tale of redemption about a depressed game show host known for his cruel on-air insults and crude behavior. The story, as told by a misanthropic poison-pen-letter writer, offers an off-beat look at American culture while exploring themes of life,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Saki
The Unbearable Bassington
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro) and contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts all his mother's efforts...- $5.99
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Vendor: Joe Barrett
Semi-Gloss
"Funny as hell, brilliant dialogue, great characters who I just want to hang with forever and an air-tight story-line that thinks of every contingency and plans accordingly." -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Claire TrilogyWhat sucks about waking up next to a dead girl...- $21.95
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Vendor: Frederick James Whishaw
Uncle's Dream
First published in 1859, this novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is laced with deceit and greed. Maria and her daughter Zina decide to deceive an elderly and senile prince who comes to visit their town. The mother attempts to manipulate the prince into...- $10.20
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Vendor: Jim Knipfel
Blow-Off
Monster Stalks NYC When a local drunk is mugged near the toxic Gowanus Canal by "a hulking, hairy beast who smells really bad," Hank Kalabander thinks nothing of blaming the assault on the legendary Bigfoot. His sardonic crime blotter for The Hornet, a local...- $20.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Swift
The Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of English. Composed between...- $5.45
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Vendor: Edge Simon
In the Beginning
From the author of The End of the World is FlatThe Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs'Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror ofthis madness'. Gareth Roberts When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after along spell as an aid worker...- $17.99
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Vendor: Helen H. Gardener
A Thoughtless Yes
I have, this morning, read your review of "A Thoughtless Yes." I wish to thank you for the pleasant things said and also to make the connection-which I am surprised to see did not present itself to your mind-between the title and the burden...- $6.99
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Vendor: Michael Tolkin
The Return of the Player
In The Player, the Hollywood classic that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last $6 million, and broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His...- $17.00
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Vendor: Angus Ker
Operation Claymore
Buried secrets. Mystic symbols. Revolutionary action. Edinburgh is uneasy in the aftermath of the independence referendum. Relations between Holyrood and Westminster are poor, and a humiliating football result won't help. Hamish 'Hard' Knox, investigative journalist, craves adventure, so when his friends are kidnapped, he...- $13.99
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Vendor: Kyle Decker
Cannon Fodder: The Secret Lives of Henchmen
You've seen them in every action film. You've read about them in spy-thrillers. Their deaths are abrupt and often met with cheers. They are henchmen, the expendable underlings of super villains and crime lords. But even they have a story to tell...Author: Kyle DeckerISBN-10:...- $11.99
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Vendor: Chuck Palahniuk
Not Forever, But for Now
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over. Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up...- $26.99
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Vendor: Francois Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by...- $20.24
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Vendor: Allegra Hyde
The Last Catastrophe: Stories
A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change. "Climate fiction does not owe readers hope, but through humor and humanity Hyde manages to present a harsh reality without descending into despair, offering a space for...- $17.00
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Vendor: John McKenna
The Yodelling Detective: and the strange case of the missing lynx
THE YODELLING DETECTIVE Set in West Lothian, Scotland, this is the story of Murdo Perigin-Smyth, and his wife Daphne. Murdo had been Chief Constable for an African republic, and Daphne had been a carer in the Lothians. As their story unfolds, you can follow...- $7.60
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Vendor: 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...- $28.00
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Vendor: Stona Fitch
Death Watch
Coe Vessel, son of a legendary adman, lands the much-anticipated ad campaign of artist-provocateur Watanabe's latest creation, a mysterious watch called Cassius Seven. The enigmatic Watanabe claims the watch can kill its wearer. Convinced it's a high-art hoax, Coe and his team of renegade...- $18.95
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Vendor: Beth Morgan
A Touch of Jen
A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." --Emily Temple, Literary Hub Remy...- $18.99
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Vendor: Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). Sawyer also appears in...- $6.99
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Vendor: Voltaire
Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the na...- $17.00
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Vendor: Eric Chevillard
The Valiant Little Tailor
The classic Grimms' fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you've never read it before "A creative take on storytelling, suggesting the potential in even the most familiar tale, with Chevillard riffing comfortably across subject-matters and stories old and new."--M. A.Orthofer, Complete Review...- $18.00
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Vendor: Sir Max Beerbohm
A Christmas Garland
It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left...- $6.99
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Vendor: Andrea Clark
The Waves of Dissonance
Dystopian (Sci-fi) Thriller with twists and turns!A vengeful scientist has been brainwashing New America's unsuspecting all-female society for years in an attempt to destroy her enemy--the man who took her newborn child eighteen years ago. But when the girl she believes to be her...- $16.78
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Vendor: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition
A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most influential of the 20th century--about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every...- $22.00
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Vendor: William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: Unabridged edition
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The...- $18.50
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Vendor: Simone Sinisterra
Shark Season
A fast-moving, satirical and hilariously funny novel about one woman's fish-out-of-water adventures in the glamorous but vicious shark tank of cable TV news. Heather Scalzi wants to reach the top. Firmly concealing her own blue-collar origins, she climbs the ladder in Big Law by...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ron Turker
The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious
What happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God's sake.Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Quixote, tilts his scalpel at the bloated underbelly of U.S. healthcare...- $17.95
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Vendor: Steve Hudgins
Top 10 Ways To Kill A Nurse
Imagine the look on the nurse's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill a nurse, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some dark...- $6.99
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Vendor: James Morrow
Behold the Ape
An acerbic, entertaining caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin's brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood.When Sonya Orlova, a successful 1930s horror-film actress, crosses paths with a gorilla whose brain has been swapped for the frozen cerebrum of the late Charles Darwin, the two are...- $32.99
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Vendor: Ambrose Bierce
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
A certain Persian nobleman obtained from a cow gipsy a small oyster. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: "You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at...- $7.49
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Vendor: Barbara Bellesi Zito
Lucky Stiff
Barbara Bellesi Zito's debut novel is a darkly funny, quirky tale that will enchant, amuse, and get you thinking about modern values. Larry will win your heart as fast as he wins the lottery-in an instant. Larry Sortino is a lucky guy. Never mind...- $15.99
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Vendor: Michelle Huneven
Search
An NPR Best Book of 2022 "Delectable. . . Huneven treats us to a savory plot that blends spiritual yearnings with earthly pleasures. Forks out!" --Oprah Daily From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee,...- $18.00
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Vendor: N. C. Wyeth
The Mysterious Stranger: Illustrated
The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from 1897 up until 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the...- $23.99
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Vendor: Gordon Haynes
Catching Souls for Beelzebub
Debut author Gordon Haynes pens a comedic fantasy that stretches readers' imaginations while leaving them in stitches. Catching Souls for Beelzebub pits an average joe against otherworldly beings and teases with the possibility that our beleaguered hero may have found the love of his...- $15.99
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Vendor: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Us&them
Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son--still missing but not presumed dead yet--to return from...- $20.00
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Vendor: Morty Shallman
The Tyranny of Desire
Meet Puchy Mushkin, the hero of this "fast-paced phantasmagoric satire of a debauched contemporary LA..." (1) who "vows to live a life devoid of want..." (2) while thrusting himself into "the wildest situations and transgressions in a carnivalesque Los Angeles." (2)This novel is "often...- $29.95
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Vendor: Margaret Kennedy
The Feast
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." --Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster....- $18.00
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Vendor: Mat Johnson
Invisible Things
A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:...- $18.00
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Vendor: C. M. Brophy
DIRTY WEATHER & other Nome stories
These gripping, dark and funny character driven short stories depict the crazy people who inhabit the under water gold mining world of Nome Alaska. With sardonic wit and unique voice author C.M. Brophy describes in 14 short stories the madness at the end of...- $13.00
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