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Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the three novels collected in this Library of America volume, Mark Twain turned his comic genius to a period that fascinated and repelled him in equal measure: medieval and Renaissance Europe...Categorized as:
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![It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor]()
It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt would take a miracle for Jessica to live a normal life. Miracles happen when you least expect them. And if you’re Jessica McCloud, God’s only begotten daughter, they happen when you least want them. Is an uneventful senior year of high school too much for Jessica to hope for? Yes. Yes it is... -
![Saint Peter Takes a Holiday, or It’s About Time by Mark Cain]()
Saint Peter Takes a Holiday, or It’s About Time by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when Heaven’s hardest working saint is forced to take a vacation?In SAINT PETER TAKES A HOLIDAY, OR IT’S ABOUT TIME, a reluctant Simon Peter heads for Aruba and a week in the sun. There, he encounters danger, romance, intrigue … and of course comedy. Magic, miracles, sunbathing and golf, they all happen in this tropical adventure... -
![The Good Part by Sophie Cousens]()
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBy the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll...Categorized as:
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![New Teeth by Simon Rich]()
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
![Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington]()
Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world... -
![Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories by Saki]()
Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories by Saki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H.H. Munro (his pseudonym is from FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) satirized the social conventions, cruelty and foolishness of the Edwardian era with a highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness, often overlaid with a mood of horror... -
![The Nightly Disease by Max Booth III]()
The Nightly Disease by Max Booth III
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSleep is just a myth created by mattress salesmen.Isaac, a night auditor of a hotel somewhere in the surreal void of Texas, is sick and tired of his guests. When he clocks in at night, he’s hoping for a nice, quiet eight hours of Netflix-bingeing and occasional masturbation. What he doesn’t want to do is fetch anybody extra towels or dive face-first into somebody’s clogged toilet... -
![Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. by Jeremy Leven]()
Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. by Jeremy Leven
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlas, poor Satan. He's not happy. No one seems to like or understand him; people have got him all wrong. And his relationship with God is a hostile one. Unloved and misunderstood, he's come back to Earth in search of a psychotherapist; he's prepared- if cured- to deliver the all-important Great Answer... -
![Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo]()
Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool . • "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy... -
![Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders]()
Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the... -
![Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender]()
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review Aimee Bender s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms... -
![The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Howard Mittelmark]()
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Howard Mittelmark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings* The Mysterious Stranger * Fable* Hunting the Deceitful Turkey * The McWilliamses and the Burglar... -
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![Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari, Federico Maggioni]()
Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari, Federico Maggioni
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorism—in the grand tradition of Exupéry’s The Little PrinceWhen we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed with 24 life-threatening ailments—one for each of the 24 banks he owns... -
![Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber]()
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJames Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift.. -
![The Thrill Of The Grass by W.P. Kinsella]()
The Thrill Of The Grass by W.P. Kinsella
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W. P. Kinsella. Lovers of the game and lovers of fine writing will thrill to the range of the eleven stories that make up this new collection... -
![Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer]()
Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRock yawned. "Gotta get moving," Rock said. A couple of hundred million years went by. A rock is always slow to take action. A rock watches an oak grow from a sapling to a towering tree, and it's a flash and a dazzle in the mind of a rock. What was that? Rock thinks. Or maybe, Huh?That's how Zod Wallop starts... -
![Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa]()
Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . A god isn't worthA drop of water in the hell of his goodImagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake himIn his storehouse of belladonna,Tiger hornets, & snakebites... -
![The Big-Ass Witch by Gary Jonas]()
The Big-Ass Witch by Gary Jonas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife sucks. My old man makes me work for a big-ass witch named Lakesha so I can learn magic and help people. My first gig turns out to be an abduction, which sounds like a job for law enforcement, not a half-assed wizard like yours truly. Just my luck though – it’s a ghost that’s been snatched, which is right in my wheelhouse... -
![Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman]()
Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before... -
![Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHAT are the dangers of getting directions from a fairy tale frog? WHERE do archangels go to kick back and relax? HOW can a garden gnome mend a broken heart? WHO is the last person you’d expect to visit you at Christmas? WHY shouldn’t you let Satan organise your funeral? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the authors of the... -
![The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley]()
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley... -
![The Seventh Day by Yu Hua]()
The Seventh Day by Yu Hua
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Brothers and To a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China. Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country... -
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![The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs]()
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFor more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld—a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space... -
![The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits]()
The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman)... -
![We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann]()
We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”—David Rollow, Boston Sunday GlobeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination... -
![The Nose by Catherine Cowan, Nikolai Gogol]()
The Nose by Catherine Cowan, Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter disappearing from the Deputy Inspector's face, his nose shows up around town before returning to its proper place... -
![The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor]()
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Rafi Zabor's PEN-Faulkner Award-winning novel opens, the Bear shuffles and jigs with a chain through his nose, rolling in the gutter, letting his partner wrestle him to the ground for the crowd's enjoyment. But as soon becomes clear, this is no ordinary dancing bear. "I mean, dance is all right, even street dance... -
![O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno, Lidia Yuknavitch]()
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno, Lidia Yuknavitch
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, O Fallen Angel , is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis—and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family—now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch... -
![The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt]()
The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo fantastic comic fantasies - MY HERO and WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF? - reissued with brilliant new cover style.This omnibus brings together two of Tom Holt's best-loved stories. In My Hero, Jane thinks writing novels is a piece of cake. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself... -
![Few Are Chosen: K'Barthan Series, Part 1 by M.T. McGuire]()
Few Are Chosen: K'Barthan Series, Part 1 by M.T. McGuire
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFew Are Chosen, K'Barthan Series: Part 1 Meet The Pan of Hamgee: coward, unwilling adventurer and, by some miracle, K’Barth’s longest surviving outlaw. He just wants a quiet life so working as getaway driver is probably a bad career move. Then he falls in love at first sight with a woman he hasn't even met who comes from an alternative reality. That’s when things really begin to get complicated... -
![Escape From Samsara by Nicky Blue]()
Escape From Samsara by Nicky Blue
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe thinks he’s a deadly ninja. He's not. He’s Barry Harris and he still lives with his mum. Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life’s not done with throwing him curveballs. A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime... -
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![See You in Paradise by J. Robert Lennon]()
See You in Paradise by J. Robert Lennon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life... -
![The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue) by Steve Aylett, Bradley Sands]()
The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue) by Steve Aylett, Bradley Sands
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now... -
![Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty]()
Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA depressed adult guy. A dreaming, running enthusiast girl. A father who wants to be a superhero. A mother who keeps a cat on her head. A brother who thinks he can fly. The Amazing Dr. Blast. A giant orange trampoline. A treehouse called Zerostrata. A quirky romance by author Andersen Prunty.. -
![Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves]()
Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMr. Good is one of 85 much loved Mr. Men and Little Miss characters... -
![Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable by Peter Ustinov]()
Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable by Peter Ustinov
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAn increasingly decrepit God and a merely ill-tempered Satan are reconciled and attempt a mission to Earth, where their misadventures point up the comedy and tragedy of modern life... -
![Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young]()
Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLying on a riverbank on a lazy summer’s afternoon – 23rd June 2016, to be precise – Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where up is down, black is white, experts are fools and fools are experts.. -
![Rubik by Elizabeth Tan]()
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dead aren’t really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members of fan-fiction forums. Digital ghosts move and connect us: we feel we know people we have only seen online just as corporations masquerade as familiar friends... -
![Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III]()
Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIrving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case of culture shock. He's not prepared for Kynaria's mushroom cities, fungus-like citizens, or the giant insect wildlife... -
![Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy by Osamu Dazai]()
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy by Osamu Dazai
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBlue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and prose stylists, Osamu Dazai. Not the typical romantic fantasies so often seen in Japanese writing, filled with water sprites and vengeful ghosts, these stories are a mixture of fantastic allegory, slightly skewed fables, and affecting romantic tales... -
![Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs by Aristophanes]()
Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs by Aristophanes
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations... -
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![The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie]()
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective: Beattiesque...Categorized as:
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![Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier]()
Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWeaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away... -
![The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson]()
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light.Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world... -
![American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics by Roland Merullo]()
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics by Roland Merullo
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Into a country divided by partisan politics, into a world turn by hatred and war, at a time when it seems that everyone and no one has a solution to the problems that plague humankind, there suddenly appears someone who can rise above the madness, someone with knowledge and power, someone with a finely tuned sense of the ridiculous - someone, in short, who can make it right... -
![American Desert by Percival Everett]()
American Desert by Percival Everett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPart parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desert is the story of Theodore Street, a college professor on the brink of committing suicide. When the decision is taken out of his hands--he's hit by a car and his head is severed from his body--he must come to terms with himself... -
![The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) by Carlton Mellick III, Andre Duza]()
The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) by Carlton Mellick III, Andre Duza
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now...
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