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In this program, the audacious satirical puppet team of Roger Law and Peter Fluck take viewers on an intriguing tour of political and social satire through caricature. Ranging from James Gillray's lampooning of King George III to Ralph Steadman's savaging of Richard Nixon, the program illustrates how masters of caricature have shaped public opinion through the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, and puppetry. The work of Honore Daumier and archival...
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
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A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
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Krystal Heeling is the CEO of Verdant Corpora, a boutique wellness brand and, when she writes an email to her brand ambassadors, she doesn't pull her punches. "If I catch any of you appealing to the broke and not the woke, you will no longer represent our brand," she writes in one of her trademark missives. Holding tight to the reigns of the power Krystal wields in the world of supplements, detoxes and New Age therapies, she crisply and methodically...
10) Gripped
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Marky McCarren was just living his boring, everyday life... that is, until he lost his job, his TV started talking directly to him, and a program he didn't order started telling him how to live his life. When he's not following directions from the ominously named, "Your Personality is What's Holding You Back" group, he's just trying to meet a nice girl, take care of his cat, and "take care" of himself. This book will make you believe you're already...
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"No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth than the alluring, resourceful Becky Sharp, who ruthlessly clambers up the social ladder while her sweet, sentimental friend Amelia longs for her worthless soldier lover. As fortunes change, and battles are fought at home and abroad, who will survive?"--Book cover
13) Candide
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One of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. Witty, caustic skewering of romance, science, philosophy, religion, government - nearly all human ideals and institutions.
14) Amanda wakes up
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"The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down "A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who's had to navigate them backwards and in heels." --Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and author of Know I Am, but What Are You?...
15) Black no more
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"The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white--a new way to "solve the American race problem." Max leaps at the opportunity, and after a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, he becomes...
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The Wickman family move to Paris from London, following a fortuitous and perfectly timed offer from an eccentric stranger. Once there, their extraordinary run of good luck continues, until Fifi arrives in their lives. Fifi is smelly, unhygienic, antisocial and without doubt, the ugliest dog in the world. The only person able to love the dog is her indulgent and saintly neighbour, Madame Mal-Odour (who curiously lost her sense of smell in a freak accident...
17) World War T
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World War T is an uproarious political satire that imagines the "Zombie Trump-ocalypse" that never was.
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Magic, Dragons, Celebrity LARPing…
...and a sack full of meth ferrets.
Farnsworth and Diego are back, leading the newly appointed Division of Nerd Crime into the black heart of the regional Renaissance Festival where someone has stolen celebrity D&D gamer Vin Diesel's identity.
What happens at renfest stays at renfest… except for the crabs and nipple piercings.
Grab your chain-mail bikinis and roll for initiative.
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All Huck wants for Christmas is a revolution... and donuts. Vive la Revolution!
The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. If Huck Carp has anything to do about it, the next people's revolution will begin in the drive-thru of a sleepy donut shop in a working-class neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
It started as a single random act of kindness when an early morning customer paid forward the next person's order, and so did the next, and...
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It's about to get fugly ...
Kallie Grande-White never wanted to be a superhero, let alone a superhero who was known for sitting on her enemies. But after accidentally devouring her former-government-worker grandmother's radioactive doughnuts in a fit of sad rage, that's where Kallie found herself.
And now, the superhero schtick is nothing even close to the supermodel career Kallie longed for, but to make it worse, the Fat and Ugly Parade has come...