Satire
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The Nihilist’s Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society
$14.98 Add to cartThe perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst!
Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as,
- Author: Cheque, Tungyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Western Alliances
$29.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. Th
- Author: Barnhardt, Wilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250090008
- Language: English
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review
From the PEN/He
- Author: Fountain, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0060885610
- Language: English
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Vile Bodies
$18.99 Add to cart“A wickedly witty and iridescent novel” (Time) from one of England’s greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s.
In the yea- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216348
- Language: English
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Main Street
$7.95 Add to cartThe first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy c… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530985
- Language: English
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The Plague Dogs
$19.00 Add to cartThis modern-day classic is an unforgettable tale of fantasy and adventure, a powerful exploration of the limits of human cruelty and kindness. A “gripping … compelling tale of emotional force and hi… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1101970693
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$7.99 Add to cartOf all Dickens’s novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553211897
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$5.95 Add to cartOne of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a nove- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529715
- Language: English
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Decline and Fall
$18.99 Add to cartEvelyn Waugh’s “irresistible” first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeath- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216313
- Language: English
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Entitled: Life isn’t easy when you’re a book
$16.99 Add to cartEntitled is a love letter to books, travel and the people we meet along the way.
Life isn’t easy when you’re a book.
This charming, humorous, warm-hearted novel captures the extraordinary adventures of
- Author: Boyle, Cookie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1777353408
- Language: English
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Brave New Worlds
$19.99 Add to cartBrave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today’s most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegu… [more below]
- Author: Adams, John Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1597804541
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel
$13.00 Add to cartWhen J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437509
- Language: English
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Wel
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1594481520
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$11.00 Add to cart‘There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death’
Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wea
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437665
- Language: English
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The Blazing World
$18.99 Add to cartNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly‘s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of… [more below]
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1476747245
- Language: English
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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 Read moreA 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
