Black Humor
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The Threat
$17.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429706
- Language: English
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Go Lightly
$18.99 Add to cart“Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s writing is sharp and funny and humane. A passionate chronicler of the ridiculous–in people, in society, in sex–Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth
- Author: Lee-Kennedy, Brydie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063338025
- Language: English
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Happy Never After: A Callahan Garrity Mystery
$17.99 Add to cart“Callahan and her cohort of continuing characters…are great company…If Happy Never After were a song, we’d be dancing in the streets.” — San Jose Mercury News
In the fourth installment of Andrews’
- Series: Callahan Garrity #4
- Author: Andrews, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0062195115
- 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
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As You Were
$16.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize – Winner of the 2021 Kate O’Brien Award – Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer Award
Sin饌d Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with
- Author: Feeney, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 177196443X
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat
$9.99 Add to cartWhile they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing–working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends d
- Series: Mint Editions (Humorous and Satirical Narratives)
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513267469
- Language: English
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Binstead’s Safari
$15.95 Add to cartAfter getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (“she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself”), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic pill, is transformed–and, upon… [more below]
- Author: Ingalls, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228460
- Language: English
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Mermaids in Paradise
$15.95 Add to cartIn this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip–our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband–befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. A
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351726
- Language: English
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Pest
$18.95 Add to cartPest presents the bizarre events that lead a new, parallel life for a man named Chalo as a wild yak living in the Himalayas.
Chalo the man is recruited by a latter day prophet named Grant to design an
- Author: Cisco, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904308
- Language: English
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Identitti
$27.00 Read more“Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out.”
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known bl
–Olivia Craighead, The New York Times- Author: Sanyal, Mithu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601298
- Language: English
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The Brotherhood of the Grape
$18.99 Add to cartHenry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry’s tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0876857268
- Language: English
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Clownfish Blues
$18.99 Add to cartA (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey.
If you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. S
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 006242923X
- Language: English
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
$15.99 Add to cartThe only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance–Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
In 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a li
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061651125
- Language: English
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Tripticks
$17.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in Three and Passages: a declaration of independence from all expectations
- Author: Quin, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1913505405
- Language: English
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Please Be Advised
$19.99 Add to cartPlease Be Advised is award-winning author Christine Sneed’s bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21st century. Mixing cultural critique and formal inventiveness with wicked laughs an
- Author: Sneed, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985376265
- Language: English
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The Maltese Iguana
$18.99 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: 336
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063240637
- Language: English
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Foul Play
$14.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1989 by Berkley under the pseudonym Steffie Hall.
- Author: Evanovich, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0061713287
- Language: English
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The Bad Angel Brothers
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother–a powerful law
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063374447
- Language: English
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No Sunscreen for the Dead
$18.99 Add to cartA USA Today Bestseller
The Sunshine State’s most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) king of may
- Series: Serge Storms #22
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062795899
- Language: English
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Comemadre
$16.95 Add to cartLiterary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.
- Author: Larraquy, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1566895154
- Language: English
