 | Miss Lonelyhearts
Publication Date: October 15, 2010Set in New York during the Great Depression, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column — but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed to razor-edged shards by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into alcoholism and a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness. ...
 |  | Hot Sexy Banker Chicks
Publication Date: February 15, 2011So here I was in the middle of cows and cornfields.What possibly could be so difficult or interesting about banking in the "North Country?" Sure I was a little out of my element. After all I had worked for banks in San Francisco, New York and New Hampshire and I was prepared for anything. (So I thought.) Well, like it or not, I would soon find out and learn a thing or two along the way. ...
|  | The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby - with a new foreword by Graham Earnshaw (Tales of Old China)
Publication Date: January 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 9889987481 | ISBN-13: 978-9889987480This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia in those far-off days - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight. ...
|  | Addle
Publication Date: August 1, 1980Digby Durant’s savage satire on living in the country begins with Percival Moat nearly eating his missing brother’s finger, which has mysteriously found its way into a home-baked steak-and-kidney pie. Addle is that kind of place. This is the starting point for an incompetent and hilarious police investigation by the local force. Completely original, macabre, funny, and serious at the same time, Durrant’s Addle is a delight. ...
|  | The Undiscovered Country (Capuchin Classics)
Publication Date: December 1, 2010| Series: Capuchin Classics An experimental and brilliantly inventive tour de force, deserving all its comparisons to the work of Nabokov, Huxley, and Borges Cast in the form of an autobiography, this novel tells the story of the intimate relationship between the narrator, Julian, and his boyhood friend Charles Humphries, a brilliant but erratic young man who fascinates Julian with his strange dark looks and his superior sophistication. "Our lives were so close," confesses Julian, "that they are, to me, almost inextricable." And indeed, one of the ...
|  | The Man Who Killed Durruti (Read & Noir S.)
Publication Date: July 25, 2006| Series: Read & Noir S. A former policeman, now a Major in the Spanish Republican Army, is sent to Madrid to investigate the circumstances in which the legendary anarchist was killed. In his search for the truth he interviews the key witnesses and uncovers a number of contradictory accounts. Nobody tells the same story in quite the same way, but as an experienced police officer, he knows it is not inconceivable that they are all telling the truth. But it is also possible that some of them are lying, that some are trying to hide what they know, and more siniste...
|  | Metzabadiv Muratskanere (The Honorable Beggars) (Armenian Edition)
Publication Date: January 12, 2012Baronyan was an influential Ottoman Armenian writer, satirist, educator, and social figure in the 19th century. Born in Edirne, Paronian is widely acknowledged as the greatest Armenian satirist of all time, closely followed by Yervant Odian. Baronian's most famous work was the book Medzabadiv Muratsganner ("Honorable Beggars"), which parodies the almost beggar-like state of writers and publishers in that period. Baronian was also known for his biting, sarcastic criticisms of leading figures in the Armenian social circles of Istanbul; some of these critical c...
|  | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (The Writings of Mark Twain)
Publication Date: March 25, 2011| Series: The Writings of Mark Twain An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition With All Original Illustrations, To Include: How To Tell A Story - In Defense Of Harriet Shelley - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Traveling With A Reformer - Private History Of The 'Jumping Frog' Story - Mental Telegraphy Again - What Paul Bourget Thinks Of Us - The Invalid's Story -The Captain's Story - Stirring Times In Austria - Concerning The Jews - From The 'London Times' Of 1904 - At The Appetite Cure - In Memoriam - Mark Twain: A Biographical Sketch ...
|  | Yes Minister: Volume Five: Four BBC TV Episode Soundtracks
Publication Date: August 10, 2010| Series: Yes Minister The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters – Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey, and Bernard Wooley – made Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay’s satirical BBC comedy compulsive viewing. The strength of the writing makes these audios a joy to listen to. The program includes four previously unreleased episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire: The Official Visit; Equal Opportunities; The Challenge; and The Bed of Nails. ...
|  | La hora de todos & La fortuna con seso/ Time for All & The Fortune with Brains (Spanish Edition) (Clasicos Castalia / Castalia Classics)
Publication Date: June 30, 2009| Series: Clasicos Castalia / Castalia Classics (Book 300) En La hora de todos, Quevedo recrea, a partir de dos satiras de Luciano Zeus confundido y Zeus tragico , una reunion de heroes y dioses del Olimpo, modelando dos espacios distintos: el cielo y la tierra, comunicados por la intervencion de los dioses en los negocios humanos. Al llegar la hora de la verdad, quitada la mascara de las apariencias, los enganos y mentiras de los hombres se haran evidentes... ...
|  | Murder, Mortarboards & Mackerel: An Academic Mystery
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Ben Messing, a professor in the English department at Oakham College, has been murdered. Every one of his colleagues is a suspect. But whodunit?! This novel charts the intrigues of the faculty members of the English department at Oakham College as they attempt to solve the murder mystery, as they entangle themselves in a complex, convoluted series of (mis)adventures, where the solution to the mystery could result in yet another murder. Either a satirical farce or a farcical satire, this send up of the English department is part murder mystery, part literary nove...
|  | Marvellous Hairy
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1926617088 | ISBN-13: 978-1926617084Hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you're a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Freudian mythology and guilt-free sex, turning into a monkey has its upsides. Nick Motbot may be evolving as a novelist, but his friends aren't too sure about his DNA at least, not since Gargantuan Enterprises started experimenting with it. And once they figure out what's happening to him, they decide to set things right. Marvellous Hairy is a satirical novel about a ...
|  | Waiting For An Open Bed
Publication Date: April 27, 2011Sunnyvale Mental Rehab in Fermonga, Ohio decided to fund a written collage of in-patient work. Dennis Latham, a former Sunnyvale resident, completed a dangerous mental quest to bring this strange and psychotic funny volume to print. Mr. Latham, Bill Gump, Coochie Butler, and others give bizarre views on unanswered questions (Ask The Genius and Smart Guy With A Big Old Brain), write questionable novels (Excerpts From Books You'll Never Read), poetry (Homer VanCleish), several short stories, a radio play (The Bump), unique social views, college Cliff Notes (Moby...
|  | The Trouble with Mental Wellness: A Novel
Publication Date: February 9, 2004| ISBN-10: 1882593820 | ISBN-13: 978-1882593828With a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, the author demonstrates the humanity of his odd-ball characters. His portrayal of a city neighborhood in transition also gives the story a distinctive sense of place. ...
|  | King, Queen, Knave
Publication Date: December 5, 2010This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Pe...
|  | Susan Slutt, Girl Shamus
Publication Date: May 27, 2011Who's the world-famous girl sleuth who solves all sorts of queer mysteries with the help of a butch tomboy, her feminine friend, and two boy detectives named Frank and Joe? If you guessed "Nancy Drew," you're wrong! Meet Susan Slutt, the hottest schoolgirl shamus since the invention of jalapeno-flavored edible underwear. In this collection of cases, Susan gets down and dirty while investigating a messy "Fracas at the Fudge Factory." She travels to Switzerland to join "The Search for the World's Biggest Icehole," where she faces another puzzle: Is that a snake in...
|  | Permelia Lyttle's Guide to the End of the World
Publication Date: April 23, 2012Luray Flitch is a neurotic, pill-popping recluse who discovers a prophetic Victorian diary, only to learn that the end of the world is just around the corner. With his trusty dog, Jason, Luray ventures out to warn the world that the end is near, but people keep trying to steal the diary. Written a century before by British clairvoyant Permelia Lyttle, the diary hides many other secrets: a murder mystery and Permelia's strange life in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, where she was forced to give psychic readings to the power elite of her day. Prophecies unite...
|  | Mis supermachos 3 / My Macho Men 3 (Spanish Edition)
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|  | IT'S IN THE WATER and Other Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Fifteen science fiction, real-life drama, satire, and children's stories to touch your heart, amaze, and scare you. Compared with Michael Creighton and Isaac Asimov, Hull uses science and real life experience to wend his tales with a twist. Whether you are an end of the world or a happy ending fan, you will find it here. Even the children's stories are edgy real. ...
|  | Seeing Double
Release Date: August 22, 2006All is not well in the West African State of Niagra. The General---the Unique Miracle of the Century---has banned all but country and western music; a giant statue of Elvis desecrates the sacred Amuz Rock; street children are terrorized by the General's disposal units, and someone is conducting experiments on unwitting Evangelical Christians. In Xanadu, Bob Marley, the sign painter, draws portraits that are more real than the real, more human than human, and longs for the mother stolen from him by Idi Amin Ogwu.The nation rejoices when idealistic young army offic...
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