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$30.00 Read moreA 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: 272
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0316316121
- Language: English
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Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller from the author of How to Invent Everything and To Be or Not To Be
Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It’s Shakespeare as you’- Author: North, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1101983302
- Language: English
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
$10.99 Add to cartThe definitive edition of a cult classic by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones.
Imagine that all fantasy novels–the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic–are set in the same place. That p- Author: Jones, Diana Wynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0142407224
- Language: English
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Double Whammy
$20.00 Add to cart“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl H… [more below]
- Series: Skink
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0593334752
- Language: English
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Day of the Oprichnik
$18.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Fiction Books of 2011
“Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia’s greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best . . . A joy to read–more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, an- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533105
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
$8.99 Add to cart“Practically every word reflects a prescient, bitingly precise critique of contemporary human folly, of economic and environmental inequities and absurdities.” — The Horn Book (starred review)
Now a- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0763699500
- Language: English
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Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions
$13.00 Add to cartA “romance in many dimensions” that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory
A Penguin Classic A work that continues to pose provocative qu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Abbott, Edwin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014043531X
- Language: English
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Lightning Rods
$16.95 Add to cartDescribed as “the most well-executed literary sex comedy” of our time by Salon.com, and “a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic” by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel th… [more below]
- Author: DeWitt, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220346
- Language: English
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My Year Abroad
$17.00 Add to cartINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire “A manifesto to happiness–the one found when you stop running from who you a- Author: Lee, Chang-Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1594634580
- Language: English
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Company of Foos
$15.99 Add to cartCameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world’s largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in t
- Author: Davidson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891450431
- Language: English
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Invisible Things
$19.00 Add to cartA sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists
LONGLISTED FOR- Author: Johnson, Mat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0593229274
- Language: English
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The Crying of Lot 49
$19.99 Add to cart“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas,
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062334417
- Language: English
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Submission
$19.00 Add to cartA controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France‘s most famous living literary figure
It’s 2022. Fran ois is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University an- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1250097347
- Language: English
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Lobster Wars
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638476
- Language: English
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Timequake
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat’s Cradle.
At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0425164349
- Language: English
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Jock Blocked
$21.32 Add to cartShe can’t let him score…
Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don’t mess with what’s working. And what’s working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of hi
- Author: Grant, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1940517850
- Language: English
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Seating Arrangements
$16.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – The irresistible story of a summer New England wedding weekend gone awry–a deliciously biting satirical glimpse into the lives of th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shipstead, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307743950
- Language: English
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Pnin
$17.00 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: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: June 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723412
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat’s Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions
$45.00 Add to cartLike Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can b… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: June 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1598530984
- Language: English
