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Doomed

Chuck Palahniuk

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed ...

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Published: Jul 2014

Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk

"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes…Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk’s strongest book." ―Greg Berkman, Seattle TimesShe’s a fashion model who has everything...

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Published: Sep 1999

French Rhapsody

Antoine Laurain

Praise for The Red Notebook:"An endearing love story written in beautifully poetic prose. It is an enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been, and most importantly, the persistence of cu...

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Published: Oct 2016

A Tale of a Tub (Dover Thrift Edition...

Jonathan Swift

Published anonymously in 1704, this prose satire by the author of Gulliver's Travels presents a story of three brothers, each symbolizing a Christian sect, and an unrelated series of digressions. The "tale" portion centers on Peter, ...

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Published: Jan 2018

Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal

The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new...

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Published: May 2019

Double Whammy (Skink Series)

Carl Hiaasen

"Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife" (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R. J. Decker, ...

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Published: Mar 1989

The Last One Out: A Novel

Victor Adams

Follow Victor Adams' hilarious dystopian satire of American life. From a disastrous Disneyland Selfi-Park to tongue twisting corporate sloganeering and 'investment ready' lawsuits. You'll wonder where fiction stops and reality starts....

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Published: Oct 2020

Patricia Wants to Cuddle: A Novel

Samantha Allen

One of the Best Books of 2022 NPR • Them • Lit Hub • CrimeReads • Book Riot • Chicago Review of Books “A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy fo...

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Published: May 2023

Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy

L. Frank Baum

Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishi...

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Published: Nov 2023

Arts & Entertainments

Christopher Beha

Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously witty, and ultimately tender, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and...

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Published: Jul 2014

Hell Made Easy (The Trilogy from Hell...

Lisa Boero

Good help is hard to find these days, even for someone as powerful as the horned and hooved, gloriously evil, master of the universe Mephistopheles. Having gone to the trouble of writing a manual on how to serve the Dark Lord in every...

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Published: Apr 2015

Desire or Defense: An Enemies-to-Love...

Leah Brunner

I'm not the hero in this story. I'm the villain... The notoriously angry, grouchy, D.C. Eagles defenseman that just can't keep his temper in check. The temper that leads to a fifteen game suspension from the NHL. As if that's not b...

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Published: Apr 2023

Holy Fool

Kenneth Butler

Sissy St. Hilaire wakes up in Vermont to learn that her millionaire husband, George, is in a coma after a car accident. George recovers, but he is not the same – he is kinder, smarter, and stunningly serene. George has always been a...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Final Weekend: A Stoned Tale

Neal Cassidy

In the last days before the real world, six college friends prepare to take a bow in epic fashion. After Sunday there's just Harry, the future business owner; Justin, the medical intern; Trent, the hapless wanderer; and Clarence, soon...

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Published: Jul 2019

An Authentic Derivative: A Novel

Caleb Coy

Indie rocker Garrett Sedgwick is a reclusive artist struggling to assert his identity to a sectarian fan base. Cynical graphic artist Neil Oberlin is given the task of sketching Sedgwick's next album cover. However, proximity to the ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Iterating Grace: Heartfelt Wisdom and...

Koons Crooks

What is this tiny book? Who is this Koons Crooks?With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people wer...

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Published: Dec 2015

Existentially Challenged (Deda Files,...

Yahtzee Croshaw

In Existentially Challenged, the sequel to Differently Morphous, the men and women of the Department of Extradimensional Affairs continue their struggle to uncover the motives of the Ancients under the ever-present threat of death, in...

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Published: Jan 2023

Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash (Jac...

Yahtzee Croshaw

Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash is the follow up tale to Will Save the Galaxy for Foodfrom the mind of writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Jam, Differently Morphous). With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains complete...

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Published: Nov 2020

Saddam's Parrot

Jim Currie

SHOCK AND AWE Mischief is on the wing and perhaps deliverance for a flock of San Francisco, fringe-dwelling creatives. A precocious and rebellious African grey parrot lands on the shoulder of an elephant whisperer and begins to spout...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Possessed (the Devils)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till latelywrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absence of literary skill to beginmy story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biog...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Shriving Place

Brian Patrick Edwards

Simon, a father of three and husband to the love of his life, can't stand it any longer. Where is Justice to be found in a world of cover-ups and payoffs? Are monsters to go unpunished? He will see Justice returned, by his own hands i...

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Published: Dec 2020

Victor in the Jungle

Alex Finley

Case officer Victor Caro is back, and he's brought the whole family along this time. On assignment in South America with his wife and young son, Victor must break up an alliance between one country's charismatic autocrat and a narco-t...

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Published: Jun 2019

Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Satirical N...

Gustave Flaubert

Bouvard et Pecuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomee Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pecuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament. They meet one hot summer day in 1838 by t...

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Published: Apr 2019

Figgered: Donald Trump Jr.

Ben Fletcher

This book is going to be a book that will probably change your life as you know it forever.No. This book will be a book that will change your life as you know it forever. That's right. Forever.This is going to be the book that will c...

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Published: Nov 2019

Living

Henry Green

A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working classLiving is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the work...

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Published: Mar 2017

Satire Today

Richard Heagy

SATIRE Today is for the entertainment and enjoyment of those who still have a sense of humor. In our post-modern post-Brexit post-world-economic-crisis world it seems it’s all about shortages and deficiencies, isn’t it? Water, foo...

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Published: Apr 2019

The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic No...

Ernest Hemingway

Written in ten days, The Torrents of Spring was a satirical treatment of pretentious writers. Hemingway submitted the manuscript early in December 1925, and it was rejected by the end of the month. Finally, in January 1926, Max Perkin...

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Published: Jan 2022

Drunk Driving Champion

Eric Hendrixson

"Outlandish fun. A descendant of "Cannonball Run" and "It's a Mad Mad Mad World" with every bit of the manic exuberance." -GARRETT COOK, Wonderland Book Award winning author of "Time Pimp" When ...

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Published: Apr 2016

Native Tongue

Carl Hiaasen

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages ...

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Published: May 2005

Nature Girl

Carl Hiaasen

Passionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in humility...

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Published: Oct 2007
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