Satire
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The Threat
$28.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429692
- Language: English
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Rebelión En La Granja / Animal Farm
$13.95 Add to cartUn rotundo alegato a favor de la libertad y en contra el totalitarismo.
Esta s tira de la Revoluci n Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito- Series: Contemporanea (Debolsillo)
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 8499890954
- Language: Spanish
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
$18.00 Add to cart“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”–San Francisco Chronicle
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the Unit- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334230
- Language: English
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Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cart“Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.” –Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Morning Edition
The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever wr- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Gibbons, Stella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039598
- Language: English
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The Recognitions
$29.95 Add to cartA postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century.
The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything tha- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374668
- Language: English
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No One Left to Come Looking for You
$16.99 Add to cartA darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City.
Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and ha- Author: Lipsyte, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501146130
- Language: English
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
$17.00 Add to cartI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a ri- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26, 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975275
- Language: English
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Exalted
$27.00 Add to cart“A brutally funny and observant ride through astrology culture, love, and self-discovery.” –NYLON’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022
“A depressed Millennial astrologist, a self-hating lesbian with a rag
- Author: Dorn, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: June 7, 2022
- ISBN10: 1951213483
- Language: English
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Black No More
$16.00 Add to cartThe landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”–for fans of the Oscar-nominated film American Fiction
A Penguin Classic It’s New Year’s Day 1933- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143131885
- Language: English
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Mistletoe Malice
$15.95 Add to cartA dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
“Literary comfort and- Author: Farrell, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0571378269
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Requirement
$18.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly aw… [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0525432612
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$14.99 Add to cartA young woman comes of age and realizes that life is not a Gothic novel.
A timeless classic, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the ninet- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 1, 2017
- ISBN10: 162686974X
- Language: English
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A Touch of Jen
$18.99 Add to cartA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, “bananas good” story (Carmen Maria Machado).
“Um, holy shit…This novel
- Author: Morgan, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670427X
- Language: English
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The Crying of Lot 49
$16.99 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
“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 s
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 006091307X
- Language: English
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee
$16.00 Add to cartThomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of
- Author: Brussig, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878993
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$14.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story.
David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turn- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0307947173
- Language: English
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Standing Heavy
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize – Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize – One of The Walrus‘ Best Fall Books of 2023
A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #42
- Author: Gauz’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1771966009
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs
$26.95 Add to cartOver twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as “a writer without limits” (Karen Russell) and “a stone-cold genius” (Jenny Offill), Millet makes
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021462
- Language: English
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The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
$24.95 Add to cartIn this comic parody, Ray Almaviva is minding his own business when the FBI wrongly accuses him of fomenting insurrection. Before they can nab him, he and Ilsa Guilford-Schlitz, an avid researcher, ar
- Author: Moseley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1936487527
- Language: English
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Noir
$18.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this za
- Author: Moore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 62433997
- Language: English
