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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. First published in 1920, Potterism is a powerful satire about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled during the First World War and the 1920s to balance the truth and what would sell. While Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy and wants more than society will let her have.

Surrounded by rednecks, misfits, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson the reluctant heir of an alcoholic squirrel-sculpting grandmother – and Sarah McKay – a commune-reared “hippie-by-association” – search for self and community in 1989 rural Mendocino County, California. The dying logging industry is colliding with the economic rise of wineries, tourism, and the unregulated marijuana trade in The Emerald Triangle.

Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy—a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. The novel opens as Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas. He reconnects with his band as they prepare to record and tour their second album, and is given his first taste of a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future.

I’ve rebuilt my father’s media company with hard work and determination, but my single status leaves me on the outs with the one businessman I need to get close to. A little white lie and I’m suddenly in love, head over heels. Now I need to find a fake girlfriend, someone to keep up appearances without any emotions. When I find my mother’s fiery assistant in a compromising position, it’s the perfect opportunity to get what I want: a girlfriend for business appearances, without any feelings involved. I won’t let the fact that I’m wildly attracted to the petite redhead get in my way.

Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.

Stetson Jeff returns to the United States in pursuit of the mysterious A.S.P. The gang turns out to be more dangerous than even Stetson Jeff could imagine, so he flees Philadelphia and finds refuge among the Amish in Paradise, Pennsylvania. More kickboxing, bad guys and low-speed chases ensue (think forklift vs. horse and buggy). With a nod to Harrison Ford's "The Witness" and plenty of other 80s tropes, Stetson Jeff, now changing hats as often as an Amish family goes to church, is in serious trouble, but he'll find his way through.

Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985.

Meet Clem Elliot. Part-time BBC clerk. Wife to Ryan. Mother to twins, Jack and Stan. For nearly twenty years, life for Clem is cushty. Until suddenly, it’s not. So what does she do? She runs away to the Greek islands to join a sailing circus, of course. Here, she masters tricks with staple guns, goats and the very fanciable, but unscrupulous womaniser, Captain Red.

The novel's hero, Waheed Saif, suffers from poverty and comes up with a crazy idea to get rich. He starts with 5-star hotels, impersonating a wealthy person so that he can form strong relationships, and carries out small frauds that enable him to spend enjoyable days. Will he succeed in this?

Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success.

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.

Дідько на дзвіниці — сатирична новела Едгара Аллана По. Вперше була опублікована в 1839 році.В ізольованому містечку під назвою Vondervotteimittiss (дивно-котра-це-година) пунктуальні мешканці, здається, не хвилюються лише годинниками та капустою. Цей методичний, нудний і тихий район спустошений приходом диявольської фігури, що грає на великій скрипці, яка спускається прямо з пагорба, заходить у дзвіницю, жорстоко нападає на дзвіницю й дзвонить на тринадцяту годину, доводить до жаху мешканців міста.

Я (Романтика) — психологічна новела українського письменника Миколи Хвильового, ідеєю якої є фатальна невідповідність між ідеалами революції та методами їх досягнення, засудження більшовицького революційного фанатизму; світ врятує любов, усепрощення.Автор зобразив антигуманний руйнівний характер громадянської війни й революції, що призвели до зречення власного «Я», протиборства добра і зла в душі головного героя, його роздвоєності: "Я — чекіст, але і людина".психологічна новела, боротьба між добром і злом, гуманізмом і фанатизмом, прихильність ідеям революції, боротьба за волю, любов, усепрощення

Я (Романтика) та Іван Іванович Миколи Хвильового — це психологічні твори, присвячені темі комуністичного правління в Україні. Герой новели Я (Романтика) заглушив особистий біль кулеметною чергою, але як бути, коли твоєю жертвою стає власна матір? Життя на межі божевілля, на межі людських можливостей, сумління і обов'язку — такою є багатопланова структура новели М. Хвильового Я (Романтика). У повісті Іван Іванович автор майстерно використовує прийоми сатири і сарказму, зображуючи абсурдну політику ідеологічного режиму.психологічна новела, боротьба між добром і злом, гуманізмом і фанатизмом, прихильність ідеям революції, боротьба за волю

Мартин Боруля Івана Карпенка-Карого — сатирично-гумористична п'єса на соціально-побутову тематику. Боруля — заможний селянин, який з усіх сил прагне входити до дворянських кіл. Своїй дочці Марисі він забороняє займатися важкою працею і водитися з простим людом — тепер вона має бути панянкою. Та чи принесуть панські примхи щастя дівчині, яка щиро кохає простого юнака? Етичні цінності проти умовностей та рангів — таким є основний конфлікт п'єси І. Карпенка-Карого Мартин Боруля.трагікомедія, соціально-побутова трагікомедія, соціально-психологічна комедія, бюрократизм, викриття хабарництва, п'єса, сатира, гумор

Іван Іванович Миколи Хвильового — сатиричне оповідання, в якому автор викриває патетику революції і пристосуванців, які вдають із себе щирих партійних діячів.Микола Хвильовий (справжнє ім'я Микола Фітільов) — талановитий український письменник, майстер психологічної новели з елементами романтизму та імпресіонізму.сатирична новела, боротьба між добром і злом, гуманізмом і фанатизмом, прихильністю ідеям революції, боротьба за волю

Indie director Will Stone is summoned to Metamount Studios with an offer to reboot a massive franchise. There's only one problem: He's rebooting a movie that hasn't been released yet.

Rian Morris, despite his small stature, is one of the best bodyguards in the business. Only problem; nobody will hire him due to a former client being murdered on his watch. Depression, addiction, and the weight of the world come close to ending him, but then he receives a visit from a former colleague. This friend offers him a high-risk job protecting one of history’s most controversial authors—Ayn Rand.

In this uproarious satire, the author takes you on a wild ride through the pristine yet perilous paradise of the Gulf Islands, where entitled tourists run amok and chaos reigns supreme. From mistaking local wildlife for exotic pets to attempting to haggle with Mother Nature herself, these city slickers stumble through one laugh-out-loud escapade after another, leaving locals shaking their heads in disbelief.