Satire
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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 Read moreMaqroll 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
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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
