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The Morning Dove is a madcap satire set in a small beach town. When an early morning small fire breaks out in a vacant theater, Mabel, the town gossip, starts a chain of events that has local, state, and federal governments in a state of panic. The fire...

It's not a novel. It's a Lifestyle.IN DUE TIME BEGINS OUTSIDE a Philadelphia courthouse when Ryan Coleman is kidnapped and delivered to a luxury yacht off the coast of Florida, where his billionaire mentor, Randy Hollis, has decided that Ryan will...

For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The...

They call it Gloom Town, but that isn't its real name. It is a sad city, the saddest of cities, a place so utterly depressing that even their ales are brewed with the most sorrow-filled tears. They built it on the back of a colossal mountain-sized...

If they don't act fast, they'll never get out alive...Eight desperate castaways find themselves stranded on a mysterious deserted island. They are surrounded by poisonous blue plants and an ocean made of acid. Strange creatures lurk in the shadows. The...

In the halls of Congress, on the streets, in the media, the war on fast food is on. Tofu may be topical, but bacon is eternal. Bacon and Egg Man, Ken Wheaton’s second novel, is a sly send-up of a politically correct food establishment, where...

Can we talk to the trees? Well over the years people have tried, One Singer sang to them but they didn't answer. A Prince talked to them and was thought to be barmy. Here a Human not only talks to trees and plants but also creatures who have a lot of...

It is 1917 and the sun never sets on the British Empire. Less than three miles from London lies a town that is not the recipient of British benevolence or the blessings of the royal sun. Living in the forgotten, disconnected, and rotten appendage of...

<p><strong><em>Orlando</em> is one of Virginia Woolf's most-celebrated works. A cornerstone in feminist literature, the novel explores the complexities of gender, identity, sexuality, and self-discovery...

This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in the late 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Baron Trigault's Vengeance' is one of Gaboriau's novels of crime and mystery...

In a California devoid of authenticity, Cole Brooski loses his sanity after eating his 1,248th Ascos Taco. Once society gets word of his condition - known as the taco psychosis - excitement spreads across the land. And a justified excitement at that: for...

Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of Art and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Bury me in Valletta, a stand-alone sequel to Cairo Mon Amour, brings back Pierre Farag and his ex-movie star wife Zouzou Paris in another sizzling spy thriller.London, 1975. Student Emma Stonehouse is about to prove she's got the guts to be a...

ONE DAY, YOU'RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY ... THE NEXT DAY, YOU'RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR.What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris finds herself in this predicament when the company she...

2024 International Book Awards, Humor/Comedy/Satire - FinalistA reading festival for children and former children.A family's celebration of the Dog Moon is prolonged indefinitely by a deadly Evil Cloud. To pass the time, they decide to tell stories each...

Join cousins Billy Bathwater and Jack Nerdstrom and their friends as they vie for supremacy of the suburbs against the villainous Shadee Fella and his team of cohorts. Once Upon a Time in the Burbs...For Billy and Jack, a simple day at a convention turns...

Happy Sweet Sixteen, Candy Lee Fessler! Your momma is about to surprise you with the gift that keeps on giving. She's convinced her scheme to kidnap the star player on the high school football team, who also happens to be from the richest family in Burnt...

Das kuriose Roadmovie gegen Rechts und Ausländerfeindlichkeit!Ausgangspunkt des Buchs ist die Rückkehr zweier Diktatoren auf die Erde und erstreckt sich im Laufe der Geschichte über eine ehrliche Freundschaft bis hin zum gemeinsamen Kampf gegen Rechts...

Planet H Man has toppled under the coup of the century and Mex must choose. Will she settled for her retirement fund or politicians too young to take seriously?Planet Hyman is at a lost as their new and callous leader takes a sabbatical, she has found...

Fiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. Four days before the 2016 Presidential Election, disgraced teacher Scott Bonneville foils a mass shooting at the Pizza Galley Family Fun Center by shooting the would-be perpetrator. He is...

 There is a problem with life.It's ending. All of it. Everywhere.The sort of people who know about these things think, on balance, that something should be done about it. The good news is that the head of planet Arcadia's Zooming Division, General...

In this satirical and somewhat insane lament about the fall of traditional journalism into an abyss of news without facts, Special Investigative Reporter Jock Stewart specializes in tracking down Junction City’s inept and corrupt movers and shakers...

I’m the President, by Donald Thump was written by George A.M. Heroux, although it pretends to be written by a fictional President who has to deal with all the issues currently confronting the real President, Donald Trump. President Thump writes his...

The Memoir of the Minotaur is the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades’ domain. This book is a satire for readers unafraid of a...

Un jeune cadre en entreprise doit conduire un projet sous la direction d'un vieux briscard. Peu à peu, « l’Ancien » initie son jeunot à l'art de la survie en milieu bureaucratique... et le récit vaut le...

For over 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 genre fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most...

Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don't seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own experiences...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

stanislav, the young polish plumber, was a clear-eyed and foul-mouthed satirist who first came to prominence in 2007 on the political website order-order, where he was, for a couple of years, a prolific contributor to the comments arena. The author...

The planet is becoming increasingly uninhabitable thanks to escalating climate change, dwindling resources, and the anarchy resulting from the breakup of the World Federation. Humanity faces a dilemma: which way to escape total disaster? There are two...

Barney thinks his life is under control. His life has other ideas.Barney Conroy is on a roll. He’s a business owner, a father, and a fiancé, and he only has to see his therapist once a week. The transition from Old Barney to New Barney is...

"Quirky and intriguing" - Katie Fforde.Love  Aimée Bender? Then enjoy a wry smile with these satirical stories. Women of all ages, from Jess aged sixteen insistent on a date with good legs, to Bellissima who...

We've all had bad days, but nothing compares to Trip Torrent's. PR director of the luxury cruise ship Climax of Dreams, he awakens to the discovery that the ship's owners have donated it to house 4,000 squabbling refugees. Then, at a...

A pilgrimage and road-trip of unusual dimensions.Follow me, Jonny Rowe, on a wild goose-chase from Ireland to the USA with my American grandfather's remains in my red birthday balloon. I use 'remains' in the loosest sense of the word: my grandfather, 45,...

Das leise Ticken von Friedpark, das in der Nacht zum Leben erwachte, die wunderliche Vertrautheit der Stimmen an diesem seltsamen Ort, schienen magisch und unwirklich. Die Bewohner hatten keine Existenz außer der, die sie sich selbst verliehen. Herr...

Une vie paisible, discrète, même terne, ne me fait pas peur. Et j'ai presque réussi à vivre une telle vie. Je n'ai pas bâti le viaduc de Millau, je n'ai pas conçu l'Airbus A380. Je n'ai pas été élu Président de la République. J'ai même su ne produire...

“IT IS STAN,” screamed the unhinged monk. “STAN HAS COME AMONGST US!”“Stan?” cried the abbot and I in bewilderment. “Who is Stan?”I realized my mistake, and retyped the line.“IT IS SATAN,”...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847) was a French artist and satirist who was known by his pseudonym, J. J. Grandville. Un Autre Monde (Another World), published in 1844, was a highly original work, its surreal illustrations veering from...

Melody Baker is torn.Torn between a career as a PhD in English and her survival job as a parlor maid. Torn between her loyalty to her Congressman father and to the Colonel, her billionaire employer who is running for US Senate — for the opposing...

Ken Miller is having a bad run of luck. After torpedoing his career as a campaign manager, he drives through tiny Erie, Colorado, when a homeless beagle named Jake causes a series of mishaps that lands him in jail. Ken is granted bail on two conditions:...

Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon are back for another irreverent, liberal, twisty, time travel comedy! This time they have Noah’s Ark and Ronald Reagan in their sights.Where would you go on a time travel vacation?At the conclusion of their last...

A dystopian punk rock fairy tale.Princess is the heiress to the Presidency of America, but she has a dark secret - a deep love of metal, punk, and ska - all illegal contraband under the new ultra-conservative government.  When her secret stash of...

Kevin L Donihe is in the vanguard of a new type of brave and original writers that combine fun and childlike imagination with rich poignant themes. In his second collection, Papier Mache Jesus, Donihe's surreal wit and beautiful mind-bending...