Born and raised in the tiny town of Braggsville, Georgia, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley. A disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends who descend on Braggsville...
Satire
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Author:Johnson, T. GeronimoSummary: -
Author:STEWART, CalSummary:"Folks at home said I'd be buncoed or have my pockets picked fore I'd bin here mor'n half an hour; wall, I fooled 'em a little bit, I wuz here three days afore they buncoed me. I spose as how there are a good...
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Author:PRATCHETT, TerrySummary:Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was a long time ago, but if Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, he's going to...
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Author:Sparks, EdwardSummary:Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate...
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Author:Eppel, JohnSummary:A satirical novel about life in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo, with cults and muti murders, and the exploitation of the poor and powerless by the rich and powerful.
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Author:Eppel, JohnSummary:A hilarious send-up of Enid Blyton adventure stories. It mocks fundamentalism, racism and pseudo-intellectuality. The novel asks, in the most unlikely manner, for reconciliation among the blighted peoples of Zimbabwe.
- Author:Walter, JessSummary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of...
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Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love when a mathematics teacher, stirred by Shakespeare's play, falls for a young beauty.
- Author:Nothomb, AmélieSummary:
« Monsieur Haneda était le supérieur de monsieur Omochi, qui était le supérieur de monsieur Saito, qui était le supérieur de mademoiselle Mori, qui était ma supérieure. Et moi, je n'étais la supérieure de personne. On...
- Author:Kreuter, AaronSummary:
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions:...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of loosely-related adventures. Its...
- Author:GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
A wickedly incisive contemporary satire which undermines political correctness and modern mores.
- Author:Greentree, LeslieSummary:
Award-winning author Leslie Greentree presents fourteen short stories in this dark, often funny, deeply compelling collection that asks how we locate, create, and avoid meaning in our lives. These are stories about people and...
- Author:Rayner, Mark A.Summary:
"Marvellous Hairy is a top pick for any humorous fiction collection, highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review "Mark A. Rayner is an author with a fantastical sense of humor and a dangerous imagination." --The Next Best Book Club So...
- Author:Daigneault, Claude, Jalette, JocelynSummary:
Ce titre m’a été rappelé par mon séjour de deux ans et demi à Toronto au début des années 1960. Certains collègues anglophones faisaient de l’ironie en m’appelant « French-Canuck ». C’est ainsi que j’ai francisé ce terme pour en faire...
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Author:Croshaw, YahtzeeSummary:We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably. But no one expected the end to be quite so... sticky... or strawberry scented. Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Zero...
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Author:Swift, JonathanSummary:Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters with the crude...
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Author:Wallace, David FosterSummary:From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson, over-televised game show hosts, and late-night comedians, to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism,...
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Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets
Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling...
- Author:Maharaj, RabindranathSummary:
A heartrending novel about one man's search for meaning in a difficult life A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his wife's ambitions, an old man with a broken heart… As...
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