Fiction - Satire

Continuing the story started in The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Barton's newest novel finds college basketball coach Richard Janus in an unlikely position: he has recently become the interim rector of Urban University, the woefully underfunded public college of Choctaw, Alkansea. When Choctaw is...

Until his death in 2008, David Foster Wallace was one of the most prodigiously talented and original young writers in America, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures like...

Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's "most nearly perfect work," and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer,...

Full text.First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and...

Trumpula is a modern reimagining of the Dracula tale. The story follows the dark history of Count Trumpula, a bloodthirsty four-hundred-year-old swirly-haired orange-skinned vampire just elected president of the US, and the small band of heroes determined to stop him and his army of...

She Knows What You Wore Last Summer.Meet Oksana Volkov. She's one of the world's most famous supermodels. Statuesque...Dazzling...Fabulous...... and extremely hot-tempered. She's spent her thirties clawing her way to the top. Now, she's struggling to cling to the middle. Oksana is journalist Joy Attwood's...

When a leftwing activist from the Nixon era morphs into a conservative writer of political incorrectness, can she ever escape the evil eye of Big Brother? Political winds may shift but some things never change. If you pull on the dragon's tail, you'd best...

A funny and touching novel that breaks the bounds of satire and magical realism. Derek Severs is a popular talk radio host beloved by millions for his fiery opinions and unflinching moral judgments. When a scandal threatens to bring down everything he's built for...

Private Detective Jack Hamma's estranged father is dyingJack tells him about his involvement in theLondon Supermarket Bombingthe Malaysian Train Hijackand how he was hijacked by a beautiful woman.Author: Anthony E. ThorogoodISBN-10: 1535283874ISBN-13: 9781535283878Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2016Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Satire: humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc. (Merriam/Webster)If ever there was a time that government deserved to be satirized, it is 2016. If you think reality has gone crazy, wait until you see how Candidate Jim...

Introducing: FlawedThe Penny Detective SeriesJohn Tallon JonesThe Penny Detective Series has been designed to be read in any order.The PlotPrivate detective Morris Shannon is hired to find a missing girl and is plunged into a brutal murder investigation in this classic British whodunit. Morris...

Eros is a poodle puppy, born in rural New Jersey. He is a prodigy when it comes to questions, although his prodigiousness ends when it comes to answers-for now. As just a puppy, there is much to learn before Eros can enter the wild,...

Introducing: The Penny Detective Books Three & FourThe Penny Detective SeriesJohn Tallon JonesThe Penny Detective Series has been designed to be read in any order.Book 1 An Evening with Max ClimaxBumbling Merseyside Private Investigator Morris Shannon is on the trail of a murderer in...

"With Morris and Shoddy you are guaranteed a spellbinding story packed with believable characters and an unexpected ending...........This is such a great read." Morris Shannon and his partner Shoddy are once again involved in an action adventure case around the decaying streets of Merseyside...

Professor Harold Berwyn has just been brutally murdered but graduate creative writing student Skip Gershwin is too self-absorbed to care. His chief preoccupations are finding a girlfriend and becoming a famous American poet. When he meets Gudrun Frege, a brilliant Austrian au pair, it...

Not just fantasy, but a unique blend of 'clear-minded surrealism' and mischievous earthy satire, directed to achieve a powerful end...Philip Goddard wrote five novels from 1990 to 1993, and Three Blind Executioners is the last of these. He was at that time gestating as...

Not just fantasy, but a unique blend of 'clear-minded surrealism' and mischievous earthy satire, directed to achieve a powerful end...Philip Goddard wrote five novels from 1990 to 1993, and The Awful Destiny of Physalia Gorgon is the third of these. He was at that...

Not just fantasy, but a unique blend of 'clear-minded surrealism' and mischievous earthy satire, directed to achieve a powerful end...Philip Goddard wrote five novels from 1990 to 1993, and The Hunting-Down of Michael Maus is the first of these. He approached his literary works...

A book for people who laugh at things people aren't supposed to laugh at! Discover what happens in tiny, rural North Fork, CT--pop. 2000--after Wall Street causes a total US financial meltdown.Soon there are no Connecticut police since they walk off the job after...

America one hundred years from now has become entirely ruled by a harsh system of wealth, which has destroyed democracy and turned citizens into products of "citizen farms." Darkly comical and tapped in to today's politics, this story imagines a rebellion starting in the...

Author: Stephen BlumISBN-10: 151445081XISBN-13: 9781514450819Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2016Pages: 54Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

The Cords of Vanity (1920) is a comic romance novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where the laws of chivalry and honor continue to hold sway in postbellum South, The Cords of Vanity is included in...

Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances (1921) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances...

Originally published in 1895, a dying man instructs his son to reject their family fortune because of its evil origins and his grandfather's unsavory past. Yet, his son is enamored by the riches and its potential for good. John Calvert was a successful engineer...

In this fantasy satirical dramedy screenplay about prohibition and war, the wealthiest couple in the United States - humble Washington-state apple orchardists Hope and Albert Arthur - make a liquid food supplement from apples, called Confidence, that secretly fuels the confidence of America's leading...

Teeth is a wicked, politically incorrect satire about stout, horse-faced Miriam Potts and her balding obese, thirty-something son Hans. In 1979, this pair of self-righteous bigots flees from ethnically challenged Camden, New Jersey to tiny, time-warped, segregationist Gumball, Georgia in search of the kind...

Cybele Moondragon is an unemployed English graduate student who is disillusioned with her life and tired of being in debt. She decides to resurrect a matriarchal cult based on the pagan goddess Cybele in order to make a lot of money and empower men...

Author: Sead MahmutefendicISBN-10: 1499091613ISBN-13: 9781499091618Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2014Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

A secret Commando mission is ambushedJack runs for his life.There is a court martialJack is discharged from the armyLater at a party he meets a beautiful womanThe same beautiful woman who had Jack kicked out of the army.Reluctantly Jack is sent on another missionThis...

After suffering an ignoble end, one man endeavors to write the first true and humble memoir in order to save humanity from destruction and restore order to the universe. The only problem? He's dead. Frustrated by a brief and confusing life, Joshua Cochran (a...

Wunderwear Woman is different. She is not anorexic, muscled and hardbodied. She doesn't collapse at the sight of Kryptonite, or turn into a fly or spider, nor does she fly in the air or run up walls. Some might say she just blunders in...

As before Wunderwear Woman is different. She is not anorexic, muscled and hardbodied. She doesn't collapse at the sight of Kryptonite, or turn into a fly or spider, nor does she fly in the air or run up walls to destroy two hundred opponents...

Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a pristine piece of rural real estate.The local trust fund kids vow to protect their cud-chewing way of life,...

A noble experiment in animal self-rule has ended badly. After the animals rebelled and overthrew the owner of a small farm in England, the pigs seized all power at the farm and terrorized the other animals more harshly than their human owner ever had....

"Please come back," Molly wrote every evening to her husband who had left her with two young children for a job in Saudi Arabia. That was before she fell into San Francisco's real estate frenzy, discovered the heady excitement of making money and met...

Every Quest has to have a sorcerer, an elf, a warrior, special effects ... and most of all, a sequel. So in the wacky stand-alone sequel to The Adventures of Guy, Guy and his college buddies Knob and Thurman take on a new quest......

In an endeavour to write a book that captures the very essence of Englishness, a young Scot finds himself in 1920s England. To this end, he finds himself in typical English situations and circumstances, including participation in rural sports, international diplomacy, weekend trips to...

This vintage book contains A. G. Macdonell's 1934 novel, "How Like an Angel". This intelligent and intriguing novel is highly recommended for fans of Macdonell's work, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. A. G. Macdonell (1895-1941) was a Scottish...

Lucia returns in the second instalment of E. F. Benson's classic series. Here we find Lucia battling here way to the top of the social ladder in the small village of Tilling, Miss Mapp, Lucia's nemesis will not let that happen with out a...

One of the rare mysteries from the pen of E. F. Benson, set in a bustling solicitor's office in Edwardian England, we meet the clients and lawyers that gossip, slander and backstab to get ahead. This classic novel, originally published in 1908, is being...

The way we flirt, sleep, eat, talk, drive, even walk in the street, all has metamorphosed because of one little device: smartphones. A satire about textoholics, involving two best friends, a successful entrepreneur, a mysterious artist and a challenging 60 day bet ...Author: Sara...

"Faint Tappings at the Wrong Window" is a picaresque or 'road' novel, set in and between Sydney, Adelaide and Nimbin, a small town in Northern New South Wales that became the centre of the counter-culture after the Aquarius Festival in 1973. The novel shows...

Colin and Izzy Griggs' traditional farming way of life is under threat from red tape from Brussels and Whitehall. Taking inspiration from a doughnut, Colin sets up a "Hole Farming Business". His first job is to supply 18 holes for the newly refurbished golf...

In the grand tradition of "My Secret Life" and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn," this palimpsest of a book, woven into a narrative from the secret journals of more than fifty years of the life of Bill Dingel, becomes a...

"The Black Worm spills the truth they didn't want you to hear.; there is a conspiracy to keep us in a permanent state of ugliness and humiliation. The Black Worm cuts up association lines and the syntax of mind control and lets us see...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

It's not every day a group of jumpsuited crooners roll into Windy Mountain-especially ones with suspicious minds and surprisingly good detective instincts.When a garden ornament goes missing, the new owners of the Windy Mountain Tasmanian Tiger Museum are faced with an escalating puzzle.The clues...

The former mayor chooses the most inconvenient time to disappear. Two bungling octogenarians are forced to become detectives when they're supposed to be planning a trip to research family history.They don't even like James Northan, who was born with a silver spoon in his...

One of the great works of Western literature, Voltaire's Candide is a picaresque tale with profound philosophical underpinnings. Its plot, which sees the eponymous hero experience one calamity after another, elegantly delineates Voltaire's belief that no matter what may befall us, 'all is for...