Category: Humor Satire

By Cameron Pierce

ISBN-10: 193638308X

ISBN-13: 9781936383085

A demented fairy story a few pickle, a pancake, and the apocalypse. it's Gaston Glew's 16th unhappy Day - the 16th anniversary of the saddest day of his lifestyles: his day of beginning - and his mom and dad have simply devoted suicide. bored to death with the unhappiness of Pickled Planet, Gaston Glew builds a rocket send and blasts off into outer house, hoping to flee his briny destiny. in the meantime, on Pancake Island, Fanny Fod, the main appealing pancake lady on the earth, nurses a mystery unhappiness as she guards the starting place of all happiness: the mysterious Cuddlywumpus. while Gaston's rocket send crash-lands within the sea of maple syrup that surrounds Pancake Island, not anything will ever be an analogous for him, or for Fanny Fod. Captain Pickle says: "Unchain your self from this briny destiny, oh pickled prisoner, and browse Cameron Pierce's The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island: A Tragedy for those that consume Food!"

By Meg Cabot

ISBN-10: 0060525134

ISBN-13: 9780060525132

ISBN-10: 0061550779

ISBN-13: 9780061550775

Existence is fairly rosy for plus-size ex-pop megastar grew to become Assistant Dormitory Director and someday sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is eventually relocating out. She nonetheless yearns for her sizzling landlord, Cooper Cartwright, yet her courting with "rebound beau," energetic vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is greater than passable. better of all, not anyone has died in recent times in "Death Dorm," the aptly nicknamed pupil place of abode that Heather assistant-directs. in fact each silver lining finally has a few black cloud connected. And whilst the most recent murdered corpse to mess up her jurisdiction seems to be her quite unlovable boss, Heather unearths herself at the shortlist of leading suspects—along with the rabble-rousing boyfriend of her high-strung pupil assistant and an indecently good-looking younger campus minister who is been accused of taking liberties with definite ladies' choir individuals. With reputation beckoning her again into convey enterprise (as the celebrity of a brand new childrens' show!) it is a particularly undesirable time to get wrapped up in one other murder. Plus Tad's been operating himself as much as ask her an immense query, which Heather's unsure she has a solution for . . .

By Eileen Cook

ISBN-10: 1429591307

ISBN-13: 9781429591300

By John Carroll Dolan

ISBN-10: 0975397044

ISBN-13: 9780975397046

You will giggle. you will cry. you will consider indignant, ecstatic, scared, unhappy. enlightened. you are going to consider the disturbingly-awesome, poor glory of. lifestyles. there's not anything extra interesting than a determined, craving, misanthropic. humanist. For whilst he is performed with you within the purgatory of friendly Hell you will think braver, wiser extra alive and purifier than you have ever been. None of which, in fact, he meant. simply ensure you ask him to not take his footwear off.

By Jane Collier

ISBN-10: 019151716X

ISBN-13: 9780191517167

ISBN-10: 1429487178

ISBN-13: 9781429487177

An Essay at the paintings of Ingeniously Tormenting is the 1st English booklet at the craft of nagging. A bitingly humorous social satire, it's also an suggestion e-book, a guide of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. The artwork offers a desirable glimpse into eighteenth-century way of life, the therapy of servants and dependants and the mentioning of youngsters, and is an exciting precursor to the paintings of Jane Austen. - ;'Now the game begins!'. An Essay at the artwork of Ingeniously Tormenting is the 1st English publication at the craft of nagging. A bitingly humorous social satire, it's also an suggestion e-book, a. Read more...

By Wolfgang Tarnowski

ISBN-10: 3788604247

ISBN-13: 9783788604240

By Christopher Buckley

ISBN-10: 0140249281

ISBN-13: 9780140249286

Finally, a White condominium memory that draws no punches! Herbert Wadlough, own assistant to President N. Tucker (TNT), deals his distinct and totally self-serving within view of the old years 1989-1993 of the ill-fated Tucker management, within which he performed this sort of an important function. From the inauguration crisis—when President Reagan refused to vacate the White House—to the epochal battle on Bermuda, to the fragile negotiations (sexual, for the main half) among the President and his First woman, Wadlough supplies an account that's open, sincere, and hilarious.  
 
“This is the simplest piece of yank political satire in years.”—The Cleveland simple Dealer
 
“This is an excellent satire.... A witty, very humorous, elaborate spoof. Buckley supplies new aspiring to the word “He’ll by no means paintings back in politics.’”—Bob Woodward

By Adam Sachs

ISBN-10: 1682450155

ISBN-13: 9781682450154

A son gets an inheritance from his father and attempts to cast off it ahead of it destroys him. Inherited Disorders tells this elemental tale in over a hundred hilarious, witty variations.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Inherited Disorders is a rueful, absurd, and perpetually wonderful examine a such a lot severe subject—the perpetually vexed family among fathers and sons. In 100 and seventeen smart, surreal vignettes, Sachs lays naked the petty rivalries, thwarted affection, and mutual bafflement that experience characterised the filial bond because the days of Davidic kings. A philosopher’s son kills his father and explains his aphorisms to dying. A father bequeaths to his son his jacket, deodorant, and political views. England’s most renowned medium turns into possessed by way of the spirit of his skeptical father—who questions, in entrance of the state, his son’s collection of occupation. A Czech pianist amputates his arms one after the other to thwart his father, who won't cease composing concertos for him. A nineteenth-century Italian nobleman wills his ill-conceived flying contraption—incapable of exact flight—to his baby son. In West Hollywood, an aspiring screenwriter needs to deal with the judgmental visage of his father, a revered public highbrow whose frozen head, in actual fact dissatisfied in him, he retains in his freezer. Keenly creative, yet painfully popular, those unusually smooth tales sign the arriving of a super new comedian voice—and clean wish for fathers and sons internationally.

By Paul La Farge

ISBN-10: 0374194319

ISBN-13: 9780374194314

A decade after the booklet of Haussmann, or the excellence, his acclaimed novel approximately nineteenth-century Paris, Paul l. a. Farge turns his mind's eye to the United States on the sunrise of the twenty-first century.In September 2000, a tender programmer comes domestic from a fes­tival within the Nevada barren region and learns that his grandfather has died, and that he has to come to Thebes, a city that is so remoted that its population have their very own language, with a purpose to fresh out the home the place his kinfolk lived for 5 generations. whereas he’s there, he runs into Yesim, a Turkish American girl whom he enjoyed as a baby, and starts off a romance during which prior and current are dangerously burdened. while, he recalls San Francisco within the wild years of the net increase, and mourns the lack of Swan, a madman who can have been the one individual to appreciate what was once taking place to town, and to the world.Luminous Airplanes has a unique shape: the radical, entire in itself, is observed by means of a web “immersive text,” which maintains the tale and enhances it. approximately ten years within the making, l. a. Farge’s bold new paintings considers huge worlds and small ones, love, mem­ory, relations, flying machines, dance track, and the tip of the realm.

By Janice Rossen (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0312000901

ISBN-13: 9780312000905

ISBN-10: 1349188689

ISBN-13: 9781349188680

ISBN-10: 1349188700

ISBN-13: 9781349188703