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The Whyte Python World Tour : A Novel. by Kennedy, Travis.;
Rikki Thunder, drummer for hot new 80s metal band Whyte Python, is about to get it all: global fame, a dream girlfriend - and an unwitting role as an international spy. Raucously funny and refreshing, 'The Whyte Python World Tour' is a head-banger of a debut, steeped in 80s music culture nostalgia and international suspense.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION; FICTION / Satire; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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James A Novel [electronic resource] : by Everett, Percival.aut; CloudLibrary;
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER  • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg •  A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, and more. "Genius"—The Atlantic • "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own."—Chicago Tribune • "A provocative, enlightening literary work of art."—The Boston Globe • "Everett’s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful."—The New York Times When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.   Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Satire; Historical;
© 2024., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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The Greatest Possible Good : A Novel. by Brooks, Ben.;
'The Greatest Possible Good' is a funny and incisive novel about a wealthy family who are confident in their moral goodness - until the discovery that a traumatic yet transforming accident, their patriarch has secretly given all their money to charity, ruins their lives.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Satire;
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Endling : A Novel. by Reva, Maria.;
In this debut novel, Yeva is a Ukrainian biologist who is battling to save the country's snail species from extinction. To fund her work, she entertains Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing theyll find docile brides. Her sisters, Nastia and Solomiya, are also entangled in the marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator. So begins a journey of a lifetime: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. Maria Reva lives in New Westminster, BC.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / Siblings; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Satire;
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All You Can Kill [electronic resource] : by Malla, Pasha.aut; cloudLibrary;
White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat. Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a helicopter crash. After being welcomed by Jerome the robot, the intrepid imposters eagerly partake of the all-you-stomach buffet, the motivational speechifyings of self-help guru Brad Beard, and Professor Sayer's uncomfortably erotic couples counselling. But things quickly take an ominous turn when an excursion to a nearby deserted village reveals a guillotine and a haunted chapel. And then one of the retreaters is murdered and the real Dhaliwals show up. Accusations, counter-accusations, and counter-counter-accusations are made, until the whole retreat is caught up in a bizarre trial. In All You Can Kill, Pasha Malla, with his inimitable absurdist style, collides horror and humour into an utterly unforgettable satire. "Smart, hilarious, original, All You Can Kill is a feverish, one-of-a-kind, unhinged journey into the absurd shams of modern life. No one writes satire, or anything else, like Pasha Malla." – Iain Reid, author of We Spread "Malla is a fabulously gifted writer." – Publishers Weekly "I don’t really know how Malla gets away with what he does … but it is astounding to watch him do it." – The Rumpus
Subjects: Electronic books.; Black Humor; Satire; Absurdist;
© 2024., Coach House Books,
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The Author's Guide to Murder A Novel [electronic resource] : by Williams, Beatriz.aut; Willig, Lauren.aut; White, Karen.aut; King, Angus.nrt; Maarleveld, Saskia.nrt; Pressley, Brittany.nrt; Flanagan, Lisa.nrt; cloudLibrary;
""A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.” --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.  The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious.  Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?  A crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romance—this novel has it all, as only three bestselling authors can tell it! 
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Satire; Women Sleuths;
© 2024., HarperCollins,
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The Namaste Club : A Novel. by Elias, Asha.;
'The Namaste Club' is a hilarious send-up of the wellness industrial complex, rich ladies doing yoga, and all things fabulous and Florida. Just inland from Floridas Treasure Coast is the Namaste Club yoga centre, a place of reflection, release, and redemption - or at least, that's the sales pitch. This weekend, a new bunch of South Florida burnouts have arrived. Who will be living their best life? Who will get their comeuppance? From the author of 'Pink Glass Houses' (a RADD pick).Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Friendship; FICTION / Satire; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense; FICTION / Women;
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Long Island Compromise A Novel [electronic resource] : by Brodesser-Akner, Taffy.aut; cloudLibrary;
An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble “A big, juicy, wickedly funny social satire . . . probably the funniest book ever about generational family trauma.”—Oprah Daily “Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures. Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Satire;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. by Appel, Eric,film director.; Radcliffe, Daniel,actor.; Bader, Diedrich,actor.; Nicholson, Julianne,actor.; Miranda, Lin-Manuel,actor.; Wilson, Rainn,actor.; Lennon, Thomas,actor.; Shout Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Daniel Radcliffe, Diedrich Bader, Julianne Nicholson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rainn Wilson, Thomas LennonOriginally produced by Shout Studios in 2022.Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Musicals.; Biographical films.; Satire.;
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18 1/2. by Mirvish, Dan,film director.; Campbell, Bruce,actor.; Magaro, John,actor.; Cryer, Jon,actor.; Kind, Richard,actor.; Curtis-Hall, Vondie,actor.; Fitzgerald, Willa,actor.; MVD Entertainment Group (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Bruce Campbell, John Magaro, Jon Cryer, Richard Kind, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Willa FitzgeraldOriginally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 2021.In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18 ½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes. When the tapes are leaked to a reporter, they run afoul of hippies, swingers and nefarious forces.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Independent films.; Satire.; Political films.;
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