Fiction - Satire

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." -George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo...

Coming as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale from "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald). Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the...

Author: John Wayne ComunaleISBN-10: 1639510680ISBN-13: 9781639510689Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2019Pages: 339Format: Paperback

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's...

They say Bradshaw's crazy just because he talks to his cat and eats roadkill. They say that's why he was kicked out of MIT. He knows better, but he's not saying. Now he's come across a Government secret, a super weapon. Who can he...

Genetically mutated former agents of the Bureau of Clown Intelligence battle the freaky beauties of the Barely Legal Squad. Erotic death rays, politics, cream pie facials and duct tape play complete the fun, from the author of Thee Order of Unholy Flesh and the...

A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history's most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As...

A hilarious parody of the movie, "Jurassic Park," complete with stage directions suitable for mounting your own production or staged reading. (Production rights available separately.)Author: John RobisonISBN-10: 1096561980ISBN-13: 9781096561989Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Prepare to embark on a thrilling comedic adventure seen through the booze-blurred eyes of Keesey Cypher, a government-trained killer with an ill-fated abundance of classified memories who has since resigned himself to a regrettable existence, sipping away his tainted past. It is this powerful...

A dream to return to happier days. An oath to serve and protect. A promise to reclaim what was lost. Can we seize the future by returning to the past, or will it come back to haunt us? My name is Buck Williams. Not...

Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals...

Lucifer Eve and Adam is a sweet, delightful, love-story romp through the Garden of Eden. Inspired by the incredible Mark Twain's Eve's Diary, this "absolutely true" and "completely honest" fantasy of Creation transforms the dark and distorted myth of the subordination of women and...

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit's for pledges. Tiffany's on the hunt for something more. Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her...

Every businessperson wants their business to succeed, and this is no different for Death.The lack of World Wars, medical intervention and soap may have been great for humanity but they have caused significant issues for Death and his business. Humans just don't seem to...

The second novel in Pitol's Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic translated by George Henson. Taming the Divine Heron tells the semi-autobiographical story of a novelist working on...

Coinman is one of life's victims, the receiver of subtle bullying in an office environment and thinly disguised control in his own home, but remains true to his desire to be polite and accepting of how he is treated by everyone. Then an incident...

Setting the Record Straight: A Compleat History of the Alternate States of America tells the story of our country's history, from the time that Christopher Columbus set sail with his three ships, right up to, and even beyond our time in the twenty-first century....

Coming of age can be an adventure. No one knows this better than William James Tillit, an abandoned child from east Texas raised by his loving aunt and uncle, devout evangelical siblings who are determined to do their best by their young nephew. Will...

I am a perfectly functional adult.So why is it so hard to get a date? When my father decided last year that I wouldn't receive my inheritance until I am in a stable relationship, I let the ever-important deadline slip through the cracks.Why bother...

Welcome to The Shipley Hotel, where the perky and attentive staff provides the gold standard in artificial concern and comfort to all the colorful characters who pass through its polished brass revolving door and find themselves in The Lobby. Practically engineered for eavesdropping, San...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." --New York Times Book Review When the...

"AT ONCE A PLAYFUL BRAINTEASER ABOUT GEOMETRY, A POINTED SATIRE OF VICTORIAN MANNERS-AND A STRANGELY COMPELLING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE." - The Wall Street JournalAuthor: Edwin A. AbbottISBN-10: 1722503688ISBN-13: 9781722503680Publisher: G&D MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w...

In the cubicle building blocks of American industry, April of 2009 brought workers little more than meeting requests to pull them away from barely hidden job searches and online gambling losses on their 401Ks. Product Wave, Ltd., a global software company headquartered in Massachusetts,...

A failed career. A disillusioned wife. A suspect engine. Serious headaches, in no particular order. But life is about to go from bad to worse for Guy Hastings. Drafted to sort out his dead lawyer uncle's affairs, he soon becomes embroiled in a web...

The Christmas Rabbit is an adult satire on the commercialization and corruption of the two main Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter. It tells the tale of how Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny came to be and how they were subsequently were conned and...

Hollywood claims to love equal opportunity and multicultural diversity. Development executive Diana D agen thinks the studio's hiring is based more on ageism, sexism, and nepotism. And so, surrounded by followers of Wicca, astrology, Native American shamans, telephone psychics, UFO prophets, a channeled warlord...

The wife of Britain's greatest living novelist hears terrible screams coming from his study. She knows there are two people from his past who want to kill him. As she runs from the grounds of their country estate into their manor house to confront...

What would happen if Marcus Garvey had achieved his dreams by force? Satirizing one of the most influential figures of twentieth century Black America, George S. Schuyler's Black Empire is a remarkable look into the complicated politics of race and class. After witnessing a...

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result...

Alexis's long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood. Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andr Alexis's sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human...

This early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the prolific English critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and verse, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), it is a futuristic novel set in 1984 in a London...

London, 1975. The Sex Pistols do their first gig at the Marquee. Death Race 2000 and Rollerball are on at the cinema. The first Macdonald's has just opened. And women are banned from wearing trousers in the office. Meet Dave Maudling, editor of The...

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story...

In 2076, the sprawling Baby Boom generation is down to one last survivor, 111-year-old Martin McCrae. The distinction earns McCrae a suite at a New York City museum where contestants pay a small fee to spend fifteen minutes with him as part of an...

The Earth is a different place after the continental convergence, but teenage girls are facing the same social challenges while transitioning from high school and into the real world where magic and science now co-exist.Kristen is skipping school and coping with the loss of...

The nefarious Dope Gang has robbed the Wonder City First National Bank!In a world where the line between super and supervillain blurs with televised news, two lost souls are caught in a bank-heist blunder. Crimson Justice-the most powerful super on the planet, endorsed by...

Real estate development is a risky undertaking and can be fraught with complexities. With so many factors playing into the uncertain success or failure of real estate development, when you mix hubris, inflated egos, greed, and a false sense of reality with market trends,...

This book contains psychedelic cats. Some mildly psychedelic, some more psychedelic.Within these pages, they recite poetry.Occasionally, some will insult you.This is a book for people who like cats.Author: J. F. StretchingtonISBN-10: 8847420733ISBN-13: 9798847420730Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2022Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

In the continuing escapades of the terrible trickster in the twenty-first century, Coyote takes a while to be reassembled by his faithful friends, but as the butt of jokes or focus of revenge he is still the center of attention and trickery in a...

The Zombie Survival Guide for the 99%. Okay, you've read survival guides, you've got your guns, ammo and bottled water stored away in your cellar. But, there's one thing you didn't factor into your 'plan'. Statistics prove; by week three you'll probably be a...

Mike Laycock is a seasoned political operative who has spent years working behind the scenes for the Prime Minister, Christopher Wayne. But when damning allegations of corruption surface, Christopher calls for a Federal Election. Knowing he has one chance to do the right thing,...

The Drum Wars is a guide to the ancient Maya world as it collides with the 21st century. Past and present intersect at an offbeat hotel near the famed jungle ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. In this steamy landscape, American archaeologists, besieged Indians,...

In this haute couture-noir novel, T/James Reagan, author of Famous For Nothing, provides his post-Empire vision of the New York fashion scene.Reagan's novel explores all of the taboo subjects plaguing the fashion industry- racism, underage models, eating disorders, pervy photographers, human trafficking, unfair payment...

"Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages...

A mysterious illness is about to splinter an unsuspecting family ... An expos jam-packed with love, lust, debauchery and greed unfolds when disease collides with healthcare profiteers and physician indifference in Conversations for Paco. Inspired by a true account, Conversations for Paco juxtaposes the...

Dancing to Mozart is a satire of Hollywood values and fantasies, Latin American dictatorships, Da Vinci Code conspirators, movie violence, magical realism, televangelists, mixed wrestling, extreme cosmetic surgery, and a host of other sensational idiocies that thrive on 21st century self-delusion. This whimsical contemporary...

This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Dancing Partner' is a short story about the scarcity of young men as dancing dancing partners and a creepy...

The avid Trump loving evangelical, Angelica Donaldson has been diagnosed with a form of bone cancer. Her surgeon, Dr Nigel Johnson has recommended a quadruple amputation to save her life. With such a radical treatment, many of her family and friends disagree with the...

Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol OatesBeet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate,...

The year is 2400. Half a century ago the Earth War was fought between the Alliance of Free Survivalists and the last remaining members of the Swashbucklers Guild, led by secret agent Q. The planet was saved after great struggle and at terrible cost....