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Come Knocking
$27.99 Add to cartWHEN A GROUNDBREAKING THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE GOES HORRIBLY WRONG, A DEADLY NIGHT REVEALS THE DARK CONSEQUENCES OF BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND REALITY
When Come Knocking came to Los Ange- Author: Bockoven, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 151078344X
- Language: English
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I Hate Fairyland Volume 8: Happy End Game
$16.99 Add to cartThe Fairyland adventures continue in the eighth volume of the wildly hilarious and bestselling series!
The end of all MUFFIN FLUFFERS! Gert saved Fairyland from a monster infestation and is being cele- Series: I Hate Fairyland
- Author: Young, Skottie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1534332154
- Language: English
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Absurdistan
$21.00 Add to cart“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hel… [more below]
- Author: Shteyngart, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0812971671
- Language: English
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Happiness and Love
$27.00 Add to cartOne of New York Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends–an- Author: Dubno, Zoe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 166806295X
- Language: English
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Where Are You Really from: Stories
$29.00 Add to cart“Delicious, confessional, shocking, and poignant–it’s impossible to put this masterful book down.” –Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa
“Chou is the rare writer who can serve up dark t- Author: Hsieh Chou, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593298381
- Language: English
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Mood Swings
$17.00 Add to cart“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603126
- Language: English
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Who Is Rich?
$20.00 Add to cartA provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called “paradise”–the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat
Includes an excl… [more below]- Author: Klam, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0812987535
- Language: English
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Optional Practical Training
$17.00 Add to cartAn elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America
Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young India- Author: Sunder, Shubha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 164445324X
- Language: English
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I See You’ve Called in Dead
$27.99 Add to cartThe Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story.
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Ye
- Author: Kenney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Arsonist
$19.95 Add to cartAre there any chances left for a man who helped stoke the flames of a global financial meltdown and then reaped the rewards?
When Cal Minor strikes bottom-losing his home, career, wonderful wife, and c
- Author: Coulson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Divine Farce
$14.95 Add to cart“A Dante/Beckett reduction of human struggle to its lowest common denominator.”–Michael Mirolla, author of The Formal Logic of Emotion and Berlin
“One of the most original and thought-provoking storie
- Series: Leaplit
- Author: Graziano, Michael S. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935248049
- Language: English
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Animal Farm: Introduction by Julian Symons
$22.00 Add to cartOne of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories.
This account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 25 1993
- ISBN10: 0679420398
- Language: English
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Milk and Catfish: A Novel about Rumors and Deer Hunting and Rumors about Deer Hunting
$18.95 Add to cartWhy do people subscribe to crazy conspiracy theories, distrust the government and refuse to get vaccinated against deadly diseases? What could possibly lead American citizens to attack the U.S. Capito
- Author: Taaffe, Thule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Killer Potential
$28.99 Add to cart“Fierce, fun, wild, and enraging. A deeply accomplished debut.” –Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark
Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat th
- Author: Deitch, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063356481
- Language: English
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Deadpan
$16.95 Read moreDeadpan follows the misadventures of a vaguely antisemitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day transformed into the world’s most popular Jewish comedian. Steeped in magical realism, the na
- Author: Walter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Castle Faggot
$15.95 Add to cartA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.
Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet,
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: McCormack, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1635901375
- Language: English
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Leverage
$28.99 Add to cartFor readers of Percival Everett and viewers of Industry, a hotshot hedge fund employee must risk everything to save his job–and his life–in this timely and darkly funny thriller about race, power, a… [more below]
- Author: Gowani, Amran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 166807642X
- Language: English
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Money: A Suicide Note
$19.00 Add to cartNamed one of Time‘s 100 best novels in the English language, Money is “savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock” (The Washington Post).
Including a new introdu- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250359430
- Language: English
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
$17.99 Add to cartA pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell’s social commentary on capitalism’s constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring write… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0156468999
- Language: English
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The Living and the Rest
$22.00 Add to cart“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and you’ve got Jos? Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal’s next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of Matches
A thrilling tale that considers- Author: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1962770206
- Language: English
