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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.
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The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
℗2014.
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English
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"This satirical look at the state of the post-post-feminist world follows the friendship between ironically detached Ann-Marie and her supremely serious second wave mentor Steph. Hilarious and unapologetic, this novel illuminates how, no matter what they do, young women are condemned for their sexual desires, career choices, and everyday philosophies"--
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--From publisher description.
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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One year after the president has plunged the world into nuclear war, a journalist takes refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. On assignment, she documents internet humor at the end of the world, hoping along the way to find the final resting place of her wife and daughter. What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and twitter jokes in an archive of the internet's remnants, are references to an enigmatic figure known only as Birdcrash,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November 22, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted the world into an entirely new stratosphere. It was the second big bang. In this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are torn apart by post-war's new normal. We see Lucille Ball's bizarre interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she...
10) Elmer Gantry
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New American Library
Pub. Date
1957-.
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English
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Elmer Gantry, a golden-tongued evangelist, who rises to power within his church- a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality and ruthless self-indulgence. This work has been called the most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.
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