Satire
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Mermaids in Paradise
$15.95 Add 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
$16.00 Add 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
$21.99 Add 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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Broken Glass
$16.95 Read 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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Glyph
$17.00 Add 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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Taming the Divine Heron
$17.95 Read 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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The Information
$25.67 Read 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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Oliver Twist
$13.00 Read moreThis 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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Man, Underground
$18.95 Read 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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Sharp Teeth
$14.99 Add 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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Should We Stay or Should We Go
$16.99 Read 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
$23.00 Add 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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Road Dogs: A Suspenseful Mystery
$19.99 Add 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
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A Feeding Frenzy in Washington
$14.95 Add to cartA rollicking tale of Washington lobbying that will have you in stitches and make you think twice about our government.
Filled with a cast of characters only found in our nation’s capital, A Feeding Fre
- Author: Franlkin, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1733444440
- Language: English
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The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
$27.99 Read more“From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes–for the better, for the worse, for the … [more below]
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 006286811X
- Language: English
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The Ten Percent Thief
$16.99 Read moreThe paperback edition of the bold, bitingly satirical near-future 2023 mosaic novel.
Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, wher- Author: Lakshminarayan, Lavanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1837860777
- Language: English
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The Maltese Iguana
$18.99 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: 336
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063240637
- Language: English
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Old Masters: A Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartIn this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher–who fears Reger’… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043916
- Language: English
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Back to Blood
$30.99 Add to cartA big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay — with officer Nestor Camacho on board — To- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0316036331
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Read more“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
