Satire
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Prater Violet
$22.00 Add to cart“Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.” —Diana Trilling
Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the fil- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535248
- Language: English
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Behold the Ape
$25.99 Add to cartAn acerbic, entertaining caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin’s brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
When Sonya Orlova, a successful 1930s horror-film actress, crosses paths with a gorilla whose br
- Author: Morrow, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 168057406X
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
$12.95 Add to cartMale, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid?e is the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s last and most … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554854
- Language: English
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Victor in the Rubble
$15.99 Add to cartVictor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down
- Author: Finley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2016
- ISBN10: 099725100X
- Language: English
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The Satyricon
$12.95 Add to cartThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Petronius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539219
- Language: English
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Old Enemies: A Satire
$16.00 Add to cartIn an America running on algorithms, outrage, and half-truths, ex-journalist Moses Shea is down on his luck. Blacklisted in New York, dumped by the only woman he ever loved, he has one skill that migh
- Author: Oser, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986315904
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Large Print Edition
$31.99 Add to cartLARGE PRINT EDITION. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, follows a young boy who goes by the name “Huck.” Raised under the roof of his drunken father while fearing for his life, Huck es
- Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1513137360
- Language: English
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Missy’s Twitch
$24.95 Add to cartHeiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming “climate apocalypse” and her fam
- Author: Pepper, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986262963
- Language: English
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Paradise Reclaimed
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. – “Full of an earthy poetry…a style wonderfully… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727582
- Language: English
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Monsignor Quixote
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes’ fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105523
- Language: English
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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
$20.00 Add to cartSinclair Lewis’s barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God’s Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacenc… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140189017
- Language: English
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Inappropriation
$19.99 Add to cart“This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.” — Emma Cline, author of The Girls
A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of ide
- Author: Freiman, Lexi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062699741
- Language: English
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One Potato
$17.99 Add to cartAn awkward but well-intentioned food scientist is forced to walk a crooked line between nature and technology when he is dispatched to South America to investigate his company’s possible role in a mys
- Author: McMahon, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1684427827
- Language: English
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Lump
$18.99 Read moreA dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.
Cat’s career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home
- Author: Whitlock, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1459751280
- Language: English
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The Lobster Heist
$14.94 Add to cartSometimes, you’ve just got to get the lobster.
Apart from his thankless job at Hot Dawgy Dawgs, Brooklyn’s best and worst hot dog joint, twenty-something Josh Cantillo doesn’t have much going on in his
- Author: McLaughlin, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1954158211
- Language: English
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Less
$39.00 Add to cartA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF TH… [more below]
- Series: The Arthur Less Books #1
- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0316529109
- Language: English
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Blueprints of the Afterlife
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “wickedly talented” (Boston Globe) and “darkly funny” (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.
It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is- Author: Boudinot, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0802170919
- Language: English
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The First Men in the Moon
$5.00 Read moreOf the enormous body of work produced by H. G. Wells — more than a book a year over the course of half a century — the early science fiction novels that first made him famous have proved to be the m
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 486414183
- 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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Blue Angel
$17.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose–now the major motion picture Submission
“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual haras
- Author: Prose, Francine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0060882034
- Language: English
