Browsing: Satire

After private investigator Dev lets messy artist Demarcus stay at his home, the man disappears. Can Dev figure out what’s really going on? A laugh-out-loud mystery for fans of Tim Dorsey!

“Insightfully important” (Booklist): While unpacking in her new apartment, Daphne stumbles upon her late mother’s high school yearbook. With the help of her neighbor, a documentary filmmaker, she begins to uncover a trove of long-buried secrets… “Funny, warm, sharp, smart, and full of love for family” (Library Journal).

“Essential” (Roxane Gay): From a prize-winning writer and National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree come short stories that are “quick to read and incredibly hard to forget” (Elle) — exploring a dark, often absurd world of racism, violence, and toxic consumerism. “An excitement and a wonder” (George Saunders).

A young ventriloquist finds an unlikely dummy, an elderly couple stages their own funeral, and Kafka joins Sartre for a night on the town in this “wickedly absurd” collection of short stories that “finds humanity in the darkest and most unexpected places” (Booklist).

A New York Times bestseller full of “scorching passion and sparkling repartee” (Library Journal): Rakish future duke Chase is the guardian to two orphaned girls. When he meets their governess, Alexandra, he’s determined to show her no-strings-attached pleasure — but will he get a lesson in love instead?