Satire

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without their tormentors, have been put to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. As for the colonists, it takes all sorts to give up the comforts of home and make new lives on the infernal frontier.

Truth is stranger than fiction. In this wickedly funny sequel to the Arabian Nights, Edgar Allan Poe lets Scheherazade embark on a thousand-and-second night, spinning the untold final adventures of Sinbad. Sea monsters with blazing eyes, islands built by tiny engineers, forests of stone, rivers...

He spent six months looking for the beautiful, bookish girl who dropped a patch. Finding her was the easy part. Logan I grip too hard. My pitch. My family. Even the memory of Georgie, the girl I met six months ago at a Spring Training fan event. The girl with the dimpled smile, the coffee-shop...

Nothing: When Nothing Becomes Something by Takezo Art and Susan Ogden Benting, narrated by Ernesto Garcia and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a witty, thought-provoking satirical audiobook that explores consumer culture, modern marketing, public perception, and the surprising...

I have traveled around the Sun 88 times. That’s quite a distance. In fact, if you do the math—and I have—it adds up to approximately 51.4 billion miles. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly 14 times the average distance from Earth to Pluto, or enough distance to travel to our Moon...

What happens when classic characters outlive their copyright… and someone decides that's unacceptable? Meet the Executor: a man tasked with "protecting culture" by eliminating anything that slips into the public domain. Armed with absolute certainty, questionable logic, and a trench coat...

Edwin Lark works in a quiet corner of a system built to finish things.At the Office of Unresolved Matters, his job isn’t to solve problems—it’s to hold them. Letters never sent. Conversations that ended too soon. Decisions that don’t sit right.But a new initiative changes everything.The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have survived Delhi, but Tokyo is a whole new adventure—and Doug is determined to do things properly this time. He has laminated the maps, studied the instructions, and learned the most important Japanese sentence he can think of: “I...

One overlooked clerk. One diary. A mind coming apart. Experience Nikolai Gogol's psychological classic through a human-narrated performance by Luke Meinier Dalofin—not a synthetic AI voice. A low-ranking government clerk begins recording everyday frustrations, workplace humiliations, and his...

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It's a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon. When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair-until...

Murder’s never in season. Especially in Rome. When a senator’s son is found dead at a prestigious Imperial fashion symposium—impaled on a decorative gladius while modelling ceremonial undergarments—the Empire erupts in scandal. To keep the affair quiet, the investigation is handed to a...

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place.ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and—according to ZAC—a man on the verge of something significant.His wife Suzanne has heard this before.ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...

Kirkus Reviews says: GET IT.The Trump era, retold as scripture.The Book of Don is a deadpan, mock-biblical chronicle of Donald Trump, television, power, politics, and America’s talent for turning spectacle into belief.From Queens to Manhattan, from The Apprentice to the White House, from the...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

As irreverent as it is amusingly insightful, Cinephilia is the world’s only transgressive work of satirical fiction that involves both cat strangling AND ninjas. The characters are as hilarious as they are absurd and persons of every potential gender, race, and creed are welcome to laugh...

Why do Brits say “I’m fine” when they are absolutely not fine? Why can a queue jumper inspire more silent fury than an actual crime? And why is putting the kettle on considered an appropriate response to almost every crisis?Brits Don’t Do Drama: We Just Complain About Everything Quietly...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

When a brutal alien invasion turns out to be a galaxy-wide reality TV show, Chad Jenkins, a broken man given wolverine-like regeneration must team up with an android, a sasquatch, and a teen tentacle abomination in order to save humanity from enslavement.Humanity isn’t just expected to survive...

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

A runaway goat, a fearless six-year-old, and a roomful of empire-builders collide in Simla, where a child’s plainspoken wisdom exposes the blind spots of British bureaucracy. When Tods—idol of bazaar porters and servants—bursts into the Viceregal Lodge in pursuit of his pet, he also...

From the bestselling author of I’m Afraid of Men comes a propulsive and chilling novel for the post-#MeToo era, set in an isolationist state where one woman’s death sparks a movement that could liberate women or destroy them all. When Sarah Munroe is sexually assaulted on her university...

The struggling firm of Twigg & Dersingham is brought to riches—and ruin—in this kaleidoscopic portrait of late 1920s London from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters. On a grim sidestreet of the City of London called Angel Pavement, the office of Twigg &...

A children’s party. A disputed teddy bear. An astonishing shortage of grown-up behavior. When little Ede Andros grabs another child’s toy at a suburban gathering, a small scuffle becomes a very adult affair. Wounded pride fuels sharp remarks, neighborly smiles give way to insults, and two...

Gnot Normal woke up dead.At least, that was his first assessment.His second was that being dead involved considerably more mud than expected.Now he’s stranded on Anachronia, a world where time is broken, neighboring towns belong to different centuries, and reality has an alarming habit of...

What if the solution to sexual harassment, assault, and the endless exhausting games of desire was simply... turning it off? Sarah Chen didn't set out to change the world. She was just a thirty-two-year-old HR consultant in Palo Alto, tired of her married boss photographing her feet under the...