 | Babbitt
Publication Date: February 11, 2012| ISBN-10: 1781390843 | ISBN-13: 978-1781390849| Edition: Reprint Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a critique of American culture, society, and behaviour, it challenges conformity and "the American Dream". Middle-aged George F. Babbitt, a property developer is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, with whom he has three children. Despite all his professional success and nice family, Babbitt believes he is living a dull, staid, middle-class life. He starts search...
 |  | The ballerina who blew up the bank
Publication Date: March 28, 2012What would you do if you worked in a European bank based in Vienna, a bank so mediocre and dull it made a tax return seem exciting by comparison? Would you slip back in your chair and take up hobbies? Lose your mind, gamble recklessly? Antonia Strang, a beautiful ex-ballerina, makes another choice. She is recruited by a shadowy anti-corporate group to entice a computer programmer into sabotaging the European payments system. Her goal is to up-end the fat-cat banksters and roll back globalisation. But can she hold it together, or will her lurid sexual exploits ...
|  | The Battle of the Books (Oneworld Classics Gift Editions)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Swift's satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors, and between authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients," who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns," who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, this work shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, var...
|  | Bad Advice: Life Coaching from a Blithering Idiot
Publication Date: September 4, 2012This sequel to "Who Sh*t in My Zen Garden?" features Jackson Holiday as an advice columnist where he tackles everything from dating and sex to spiritual well-being and world affairs. There are also chapters on basic life skills, friendship and, of course, douchebag avoidance. ...
|  | Armageddon Skills
Publication Date: March 14, 2011Armageddon Skills, follows the misguided journey of Virgil, a 23 year old Austin psychedelic barista and James, his 33 year old alcoholic manager. Assuming that an attack on the city of Austin, Texas is indeed the start of Armageddon, and citing a whole slew of impetuous reasons as to why it must be so, James and Virgil set off to Colorado to retrieve James’ son, Zane. As their journey progresses, the fine line between reality and narcotic fantasy forces James and Virgil to make a decision that could ultimately end their internecine relationship. Meetin...
|  | Bonk & Hedz: a cave man ... and woman ... story
Publication Date: June 19, 2011Bonk and his mate Hedz are an ordinary caveman and cavewoman struggling with the everyday existence that comes when one's place in the food chain isn't all that clear.If creating fire, dodging volcano eruptions and outrunning saber tooth tigers isn’t stressing enough, their efforts at daily survival are interrupted when a strange little caveman named Lob arrives in the village. Lob convinces their leader, Chief Wug, that a neighboring tribe is amassing weapons of mass destruction in preparation for an assault on their village.As Lob gains more influence ...
|  | The Battle of the Books
Publication Date: January 8, 2010| ISBN-10: 1143179080 | ISBN-13: 978-1143179082This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfectio...
|  | Bend Sinister
Publication Date: December 20, 2010The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modernclassic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay,it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a policestate. Professor Adam Krug, the country’s foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader ofthe Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and...
|  | Babbitt
Publication Date: April 22, 2012| ISBN-10: 1475240449 | ISBN-13: 978-1475240443Babbitt is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt is one of Lewis’s most well known novels and was influential in the decision to award him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930. If Sinclair Lewis's first widely acclaimed novel, Main Street, sought to shatter early twentieth-century romanticizations o...
|  | Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Publication Date: June 14, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477663762 | ISBN-13: 978-1477663769"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short work by the American novelist Herman Melville. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. An increase in business leads the narrator to advertise for a third scrivener, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby. At first, Bartleby appears to be a boon to the practice, as he produces a large volume of high-...
|  | Blood & Treasure
Publication Date: October 24, 2011A hundred years after they first came under Julius Caesar, the Roman legions again set foot on Britannia. Caudacus Commenticius and his fellow legionaries of the Second Augusta spearhead the invasion launched by the Emperor Claudius. All goes well at first, and a series of military victories soon subdues the islanders. Despite his defeat, the enemy chieftain Caratacus escapes the invaders and flees to the west. Then the bitter winter sets in. Money and supplies become short. Though promised an early return to Rome, the legions are not brought home. The follo...
|  | Bill Smith Goes to College
Publication Date: August 11, 2012Those who have attended college know that it is a life-changing event. The university experience is an adventure, one that embodies the summit of our highest hopes and the pit of our deepest fears. This strange tale is a fantasy about one young man’s college experience. His convoluted quest weaves a path through unforeseen challenges and surprising test scores. Oh, and the characters! Who could be more enticing in a novel than droning teachers andpaper-shuffling administrative bureaucrats? Yes. Now you get the picture. Enduring endless lectures in crow...
|  | Average Jones
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. Happily, his otherwise commonplace face was relieved by the one unfailing characteristic of composite photographs, large, deep-set and thoughtful eyes. Otherwise he would have...
|  | The Average American Marriage: A Novel
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|  | Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (New Canadian Library)
Release Date: August 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 0771094094 | ISBN-13: 978-0771094095Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness and bite. An undisputed comic masterpiece, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich reveals a depth of compassionate criticism rare in Leacock’s writings.From the Paperba...
|  | The Biting Age
Publication Date: September 23, 2006This is a new, humorous collection of short pieces by Pakistani writer Ernest Dempsey, with an introduction by satirist M. Stefan Strozier.This unique collection is full of wit and subtlety.The reader will be enthralled, entertained, and excited by this excellent writer's talents.A World Audience book.World Audience (www.worldaudience.org) is a new publisher, dedicated to artistic excellence, and one that focuses on the development of individual writers. ...
|  | Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)
Release Date: March 15, 2013| Series: Global African Voices This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased...
|  | At The City Gate
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|  | Anyone Whose Heart's been Had
Publication Date: September 2, 2011Sex, love and marriage are up for grabs when the women of Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had attempt to take control of their destiny--for better or worse--and end up as dinner guests at the legendary Valerie Hotel one fateful evening. "What does getting married have to offer you that you havenʼt already got?" famed feminist Muffy Griggslet Hart challenges the other guests at power-table thirty-four in this multi‑generational love story set in the politically‑correct nineties. Ted Randlerʼs novel is a dark comedy of fifteen disparate ch...
|  | Bestseller
Publication Date: September 1, 2012The Devil Wears Prada of the book publishing world, this biting satire is a trenchant portrait of the contemporary obsession with success, celebrity, and fameJim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles Randall, the eccentric founder and managing director of Tetragon Press, a small independent publisher that has managed to survive for 30 years in ...
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