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American Thighs
$23.95 Add to cartPushcart Prize Award-winning author Elizabeth Ellen’s American Thighs tells the darkly comedic story of a thirty-one-year-old former child star’s journey from Hollywood to Elkheart, Indiana, experienc
- Author: Ellen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1960988352
- Language: English
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The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls
$18.00 Read moreIn the house on the hill, there lives a vampire. But not of the sexy, mysterious, or sparkling kind. The vampire Gideon prefers to drink nearly expired blood from the local morgue while watching over
- Author: Katz, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1941360203
- Language: English
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Snobs
$18.00 Add to cartJulian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel
- Author: Fellowes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250020360
- Language: English
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Anxious People Gente Ansiosa (Spanish Edition)
$18.99 Add to cartAhora una serie de Netflix que se emitirá el 29 de diciembre de 2021!
Un robo a un banco con toma de rehenes. Una escalera llena de policÃas a punto de asaltar un apartamento. Llegar a esto fue sor
- Author: Backman, Fredrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0062980580
- Language: Spanish
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My Weil
$18.99 Read more“Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition.” – Publishers Weekly
A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are- Author: Iyer, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890601
- Language: English
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Rumors of Her Death
$16.99 Read more“Donellan gets readers to root for an unsavory lead in this funny, off-kilter thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
In this kaleidoscopic psychological thriller, a man haunted by his girlfriend’s suicide dons
- Author: Donellan, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1728273110
- Language: English
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I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
$17.95 Read moreNow a new feature film available on Netflix!
Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize
The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Bar
- Author: Villalobos, Juan Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1911508482
- Language: English
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This Was Not the Plan
$19.99 Add to cartThis Was Not the Plan starts out as a funny and sharply observed campus novel and then deepens into a thought-provoking examination of the complicated and always thorny politics of abortion. Daphne Uv
- Author: Uviller, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1662948174
- Language: English
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The Book of Losman
$15.95 Add to cartMeet Daniel Losman– an American in Copenhagen, translating books and living a solitary existence. His longtime girlfriend has left him, and the only highlights in his life are encounters with an offb… [more below]
- Author: Semmel, K. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1951631374
- Language: English
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The Maltese Iguana
$34.00 Add to cartSerge 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
- Series: Serge Storms #26
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297264
- Language: English
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The Nightly Disease
$18.95 Add to cartSleep is just a myth created by mattress salesmen. Isaac, a night auditor of a hotel somewhere in the surreal void of Texas, is sick and tired of his guests. When he clocks in at night, he’s hoping fo
- Author: Booth, Max, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 194372024X
- Language: English
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Headlong
$25.99 Add to cartAn unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.
Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-hi- Series: Bestselling Backlist
- Author: Frayn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267460
- Language: English
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Reputation
$23.99 Add to cartThree brothers, Whammy, Zeke and Benny, are becoming adults in the present-day world of miserably unhappy, scheming, badly-coifed, fashion-felon social justice warriors. The boys must protect their re
- Author: Jones, Barton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: November 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989234110
- Language: English
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A New Life
$26.99 Add to cart“An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud’s funniest and most embracing novel.” –Jonathan Lethem
In A New Life, Bernard Malamud–generally thought of as a distinctly New York- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529493
- Language: English
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The Nanny Diaries
$24.00 Add to cartWritten by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries deftly punctures the glamour of Manhattan’s upper class.
Now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson and L- Author: McLaughlin, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0312291639
- Language: English
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The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories
$29.99 Add to cartA daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).
Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny wo
- Author: Gelman, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0063315971
- Language: English
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Xcrmntmntn
$14.95 Add to cartWhen a pile of sh*t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a journey up a cosmic mountain of excrement with the director and his film crew as they ascend into madn
- Author: Hilbert, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1943720819
- Language: English
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South of No North
$19.99 Add to cartSouth of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31, 2002
- ISBN10: 0876851898
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$9.95 Read moreSet during the Roaring Twenties, this witty social satire of the Jazz Age was a runaway bestseller in 1925. Written in diary form, the story follows the escapades of gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee a… [more below]
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0486850730
- Language: English
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The Novelist
$24.00 Read moreBrisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a rare new talent: an author highly attuned to the traditions he is working wit… [more below]
- Author: Castro, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767137
- Language: English
