Satire
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Black Empire
$23.00 Add to cartA pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial… [more below]
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137077
- Language: English
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Our Country Friends
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK – ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York … [more below]
- Author: Shteyngart, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 198485514X
- Language: English
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Homo Zapiens
$24.00 Add to cartThe collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job… [more below]
- Author: Pelevin, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001813
- Language: English
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Gourmet Rhapsody
$16.00 Add to cartA French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining and] witty” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday).
In the heart of Paris, in the same p- Author: Barbery, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1933372958
- Language: English
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Empty Theatre: A Novel: Or the Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of
$20.00 Add to cartA wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.
History knows them as King Ludwig II of- Author: Jemc, Jac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250872189
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist: Introduction by Michael Slater
$30.00 Add to cartOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, howev
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417249
- Language: English
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier
“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0525541330
- Language: English
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Hits and Misses: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartA hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer’s real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social med… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316468886
- Language: English
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Monday Starts on Saturday
$17.99 Add to cartSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who… [more below]
- Author: Strugatsky, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1613739230
- Language: English
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The English Experience
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow – The bestselling … [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593860748
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$6.00 Add to cartGreat classic by preeminent prose satirist of the English language, written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail. An enchanting fantasy for children; for adults, a witty parody of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292738
- Language: English
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Cosmopolis
$18.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers.
It is an April day in the year 20- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: April 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244257
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$9.95 Add to cartSet 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
$53.27 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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Then We Came to the End
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)
No one knows- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 031601639X
- Language: English
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The Very Nice Box
$17.99 Add to cart“A quirky, deeply satisfying, whip-smart debut that critiques corporate culture and male entitlement while also offering a heartfelt look at how to work through grief. Meticulously constructed and tru
- Author: Gleichman, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0358697506
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend: Introduction by Andrew Sanders
$34.00 Read moreWhen John Harmon–who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him–is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of dece
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0679420282
- Language: English
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
$18.99 Add to cartCalled “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in … [more below]
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822784
- 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 Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
$15.00 Add to cartThis award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.
Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggr- Author: Habiby, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1623717027
- Language: English
