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By: Vonnegut, Kurt
Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Relentlessly fun to read.”–Dave Eggers – A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction
In this series of perfectly re- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385343728
- Language: English
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By: Evelyn Waugh
Scoop
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a “thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny” satire of the journalism business (New York Times).
Lord Copper, new- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216372
- Language: English
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture
$9.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom one of the great voices in the history of American literature, a witty and fantastical satire about aging, and the inspiration for the 2008 blockbuster film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
F- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1416556052
- Language: English
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By: Nawaz, Zarqa
Jameela Green Ruins Everything
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Nawaz, Zarqa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063271605
- Language: English
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By: Carl Hiaasen
Native Tongue
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartNow reissued–one of the most beloved novels by the New York Times bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Ke… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 09 2005
- ISBN10: 044669570X
- Language: English
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By: Murugan, Perumal
The Story of a Goat
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
From one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surpris
- Author: Murugan, Perumal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147518
- Language: English
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By: Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAt the center of Martin Chuzzlewit–the novel Angus Wilson called “one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories”–is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he sus
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 988
- Publish Date: March 20 1995
- ISBN10: 067943884X
- Language: English
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By: Millet, Lydia
Mermaids in Paradise
$15.95PaperbackAdd 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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Multiple Choice
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartA “brilliant, innovative, beautiful” (The Guardian) book from the acclaimed author of Chilean Poet
“Dazzling . . . a work of parody, but also of poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF- Author: Zambra, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 143109197
- Language: English
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Against Nature
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartJoris-Karl Huysmans’s cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe
A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abando- Author: Huysmans, Joris Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787661
- Language: English
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By: Alain Mabanckou
Broken Glass
$16.95PaperbackRead moreAn irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgott… [more below]
- Author: Mabanckou, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1593763077
- Language: English
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By: Percival Everett
Glyph
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as “both a treatise and a romp”
Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib–but they don’t include st- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976670
- Language: English
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By: Pitol, Sergio
Taming the Divine Heron
$17.95PaperbackRead moreThe second novel in Pitol’s Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.
From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic transl
- Author: Pitol, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052765
- Language: English
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By: Amis, Martin
The Information
$25.67PaperbackRead moreFame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal—they’re all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one wri… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679735739
- Language: English
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By: Dickens, Charles
Oliver Twist
$13.00PaperbackAdd to cartThis darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.
One of the most swiftly moving and unified o- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0307947181
- Language: English
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By: Hummel, Mark
Man, Underground
$18.95PaperbackRead moreAs neighborhoods have grown up around the subterranean home of the narrator of Man, Underground, the city has initiated a review of his dwelling. Intent on ignoring the review process, his life is int… [more below]
- Author: Hummel, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646033884
- Language: English
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By: Barlow, Toby
Sharp Teeth
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Barlow’s imagery is magnificent . . . [A] kooky combo of grit, goofiness, and gusto . . . demonstrates that fantasy . . . may just be the place to find true exuberance and stylistic innovation.” — L
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Barlow, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0061430242
- Language: English
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By: Lionel Shriver
Should We Stay or Should We Go
$16.99PaperbackRead more“When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a re… [more below]
- Author: Shriver, Lionel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 63094258
- Language: English
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Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, the Trick Top Hat, & the Homing Pigeons
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world–a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that m… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 10 1988
- ISBN10: 0440500702
- Language: English
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By: Elmore Leonard
Road Dogs: A Suspenseful Mystery
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”
–Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River“You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061985708
- Language: English















