Black Humor
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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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When We Were Friends
$16.99 Read more“Holly Bourne’s unique voice immediately invites you in and you can’t look away. Gritty, funny and poignant.” –Beth O’Leary, author of The Flatshare
In this darkly funny novel, two women reunite afte- Author: Bourne, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311295
- 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 Tyranny of Desire
$29.95 Add to cartMeet 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
- Author: Shallman, Morty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986354804
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$16.00 Add to cartAlternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Am lie Nothomb’s Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up
- Author: Nothomb, Amelie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0312288573
- Language: English
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Return to Sullivans Island
$19.99 Add to cart“Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.”
–Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of TidesIn Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Ca
- Series: Sullivans Island Sequel
- Author: Frank, Dorothea Benton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0061988332
- Language: English
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The Throwback Special
$21.99 Add to cartHere is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called “the most shocking play in NFL history” and the Washington Redskins dubbed the “Throwback
- Author: Bachelder, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353788
- Language: English
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To Live and Die in Dixie: A Mystery Novel
$16.99 Add to cart“Bright and sassy.” — New York Times Book Review
The second entry in the thoroughly original and witty series about Callahan Garrity in which the cleaning lady cum sleuth runs afoul of right-wing radi
- Series: Callahan Garrity #2
- Author: Andrews, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0062195093
- Language: English
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Good Behaviour
$17.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Booker Prize
A wickedly funny satire of Irish society after WWI, featuring “delicious and deleterious accounts of illicit sex and wild high jinks, and a mother-daughter duo who c… [more below]- Author: Keane, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 168137529X
- Language: English
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the n
- Author: Evison, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1616203153
- Language: English
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Naked Came the Florida Man
$18.99 Add to cart“Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey’s gonzo crime caper.” -The New York Times Book Review
The “compulsiv
- Series: Serge Storms #23
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062795945
- Language: English
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The Suitcase
$15.95 Add to cartSergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects–the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from th… [more below]
- Author: Dovlatov, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437335
- Language: English
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The Ginger Man
$18.00 Add to cartFirst published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy’s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. … [more below]
- Author: Donleavy, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144667
- Language: English
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A Fairy Tale of New York
$17.00 Add to cartA Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in Ne… [more below]
- Series: Donleavy, J. P.
- Author: Donleavy, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0871132648
- Language: English
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Tropic of Stupid
$15.99 Add to cartEmbarking on a Sunshine State road trip to meet long-lost family members, Serge Storms discovers that he may be related to a notorious serial killer before encountering a park ranger with her own myst… [more below]
- Series: Serge Storms #24
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062967517
- Language: English
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The Original Meerkat and Other Shortweird Stories
$14.99 Add to cartA sentient pineapple goes on a date. A seance summons a party guest who just won’t leave. A popular mayor is also his small towns’ most prolific arsonist. These are the everyday problems in the offbea
- Author: St Pierre, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1777845122
- Language: English
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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award-winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the App… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1451648227
- Language: English
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Fly Already: Stories
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a “genius” (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection.
“There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because thes- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 039957302X
- Language: English
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The Hammerhead Chronicles
$21.99 Add to cartThe latest novel from critically acclaimed Southern storyteller Scott Gould, The Hammerhead Chronicles explores the effects of grief, racism, homophobia, revenge, love, and loss on an oddball cast of
- Author: Gould, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1940771773
- Language: English
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Offlining
$14.99 Add to cartOfflining (noun): giving up the online world for reality, where the graphics aren’t great, nobody can fly, and everything hurts.
Jerusalem Pix virtually lives in the virtual worlds he loves until his
- Author: Weinstein, G. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1960562010
- Language: English
