Satire
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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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Goddess
$17.99 Read moreAn entrancing novel about a wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
On a flight to New York at the end of her first book tour, up-and-comin
- Author: Hemming, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1487011113
- Language: English
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Derroche / Splurge
$19.95 Read more«Hay una notable precisi?n verbal y conceptual en los textos de Mar?a Sonia Cristoff. La justeza infalible que encuentran las palabras, tanto en sus cr?nicas como en sus novelas, parece suscitad… [more below]
- Series: Mapa de Las Lenguas
- Author: Cristoff, Mar?a Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 843974224X
- Language: Spanish
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Secret Rendezvous
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital…. [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375726543
- Language: English
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Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love
$25.95 Read moreA campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jign
- Author: Allende, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1636280358
- Language: English
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Add to cartThe immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly).
Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglo- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1609457226
- Language: English
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
$24.95 Add to cartFrom Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature’s most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz — in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books…. [more below]
- Author: Richler, Mordecai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0671028472
- Language: English
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
$18.99 Add to cart“Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on.” — Los Angeles Times
Named one of the year’s best novels by: Time – Salon.com – Los Angeles Times – NPR/Fresh Air – New West – Kansas City
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061916056
- Language: English
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free A.D. 1933-1940
$18.99 Add to cartWhat would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange a
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1513138596
- Language: English
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The Temps
$15.99 Add to cart*Named a Best SFF Book of 2022 by Book Riot*
They’re underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this danger
- Author: DeYoung, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684427606
- Language: English
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Pnin
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his f… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: April 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400041988
- Language: English
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
$29.95 Add to cartMaqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mutis, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0940322919
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers
$23.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the membe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 779
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967275
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers: Introduction by Peter Washington
$38.00 Add to cartIn this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into t
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375405488
- 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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Bad Eminence
$25.95 Read moreMeet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. T
- Author: Greer, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1913505340
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Stranger
$11.99 Add to cartThe Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain’s “dark” period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had … [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1573920398
- Language: English
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Lobster Wars
$27.95 Add to cartLobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire about what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they’re going to get famous and rich. But it’s never th
- Author: Greene, Mark E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638492
- Language: English
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The Deli Diaries
$19.95 Add to cartFresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents’ basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a “temporary” job as a deli clerk. Struggling to smile under the s
- Author: Weber, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1957607165
- Language: English
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Waiting for Al Gore
$19.00 Add to cartLenny Beibel, a wannabe journalist, travels to an international environmental conference in rural Vermont, in search of a story that will put him in the big leagues. He sure needs one.
There he meets R
- Author: Katz, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988721321
- Language: English
