Dark Humor

Reducere. "The Dark Dark reads like a feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this ...

DescriptionIvan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backf...

Reducere. How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing hi...

Reducere. The highway became the Red Sea.We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.You drove; I looked at you with love.--from "Storm"One of the most gi...

DescriptionThe flesh-eating inhabitants of a parallel world have come to our Earth, aiming to spread their virus in a full-scale biological invasio...

DescriptionWhat saves us as children through the dark confusion of loss and abuse? What offers us light and rescue as we live past the memory of be...

Reducere. This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be importa...

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New IntroductionFirst published in 1993, Th...

Reducere. "Wait until the full moon rises, sit at the bank and play a beautiful tune. Then you will see what happens." Giant beanstalks, trickster cats, magi...

Reducere. The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild p...

Reducere. DescriptionMcDonough's latest collection is fiercely unapologetic, transforming mundane moments into witty and provocative insights that closely ex...

Reducere. Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he ow...

Reducere. Fantasy. Mystery. Action. Humor. Parents, teachers, and librarians will no longer have to push kids to read--"The Berinfell Prophesies" will engage...

Reducere. DescriptionIf want to discover how people with dark personalities work and understand how you can protect yourself against their deceptive and dang...

Reducere. The Arena and the Coliseum are long gone . . . but they left behind some great Cavs stories The Cleveland Arena is long gone. It was dark and decre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Naomi AldermanOne of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington ...

Reducere. Most people likely know of Mother Teresa's great faithfulness to God's call as she started her ministry to the poor in Calcutta. But at the time, f...

Reducere. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbrok...

Reducere. Heather Siegel was six years old when her mother disappeared, sending her father into a tailspin that took Heather and her siblings down with him--...

Hiking in the great outdoors, catching fish, watching the stars come out at night--camping is fun. Until it's time to sleep. Then, Lucy wonders, wh...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonya HurleyCharlotte Usher, a.k.a. ghostgirl, discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what she expected when she's forced...

Reducere. The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halld r Laxness's most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend ...

Reducere. A sci-fi debut by Lyra Thorsson with the grittiness of Jessica Jones, but the humor of FireflyAll Rebecca wants in life is to sail through space in...

Reducere. Take the ride of your life with this dangerous romance overflowing with dark humor, intense heat, and tangible angst--the second spinoff novel afte...

Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Aut...

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanit...

Reducere. LOVE IS THE ONLY SHOCKING ACT LEFTWe all know horror. It's in our face every day. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destru...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a distress plea goes up from the isolated planet Minfar, Resistance heroes Rey, Poe and Rose hear the call Together they will face ...

Reducere. Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make ...

Reducere. Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government--and in the heart. This wry tale fo...

Description"When the Klan Comes to Pasadena, Intimidation Takes a New Form in DARK SPIRITS, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan" The Ku Klux ...

Reducere. "A gothic masterpiece."--Better Read Than Dead Set in seventeenth-century France--a country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened...

" A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spyin...

Reducere. "This is a very unruly book, in the best sense of the word . . . This] book will not have an easy life, but rather a long one, as the anger in it i...

Reducere. Hay muchas cosas que pueden dar miedo a un ni o. El protagonista de esta historia tiene miedo a perderse, a estar solo en el bosque, a las criatura...

Reducere. Lawless Justice. . . In the town of Bannet, Doss Edding, son of a wealthy land baron, led the cold-blooded Half Moon Gang on a spree of theft and m...

Reducere. Michigan's past has a more sinister side than what's commonly displayed on roadside historical markers. In Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of the P...

Reducere. One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by t...

Reducere. Your hero is not the most important character in your book. Your villain is. Are you fed up of drowning in two-dimensional villains? Frustrated wit...

Reducere. Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduct...

Reducere. ``The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition.``--The New York Times Joseph Keckler's ...

Reducere. With the same vicious imagination, blood-dark humor, and ferocious narrative energy of his bestselling novel The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan now del...

Reducere. In the 1970s and '80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few ...

Reducere. Think marriage means happily-ever-after? Think again... Selina and Lottie are complete opposites. Where Selina is poised but prudish, Lottie is qui...

Reducere. DescriptionA robbery in Scotland might not seem like an unusual background for a crime novel--until it's put into the hands of one of the U.K.'s le...

Poetry. Afterword by Mar a Negroni. Translated by Rebekah Smith. Susana Th non (1935-1991) is a key poet of the '60s generation in Argentina. In OV...

Reducere. Scottsdale's favorite investigator, Laura Black, returns in a thrilling new romantic mystery. In her latest adventure, Laura's on the hunt for a cl...

A young girl finds a clever way to keep her favorite things--and people--close to her forever in Memory Jars, from Caldecott Honoree Vera Brosgol. ...

A young slime scientist is surprised when her latest creation comes to life in Frankenslime, a funny and clever picture book twist on Frankenstein....

Reducere. Austin's semi-autobiographical, linked story collection follows the misadventures of Avery Colt as he struggles to survive in North St. Louis along...

Reducere. ``A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance`` (VOYA, starred review). A teen who is half-god, half-human must ...

Reducere. In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever-if you can make the grade. In Clarges, everyone competes for the ultimate prize of immortal...

Reducere. There's no denying destiny . . . For too long, Benjamin Reese has masked his deadly skills and temper with loyalty and humor. A vampire-demon hybri...

Reducere. A GUTSY ROBBERY Several million bucks, stolen from the mob... A PERFECT FRAME All caught on video, with no chance of redemption... A RED HOT RECIPE...

Ben Shippers doesn't have much use for school, friends, or pretty much anyone except his smartass sister, but he does harbor a secret passion: Tras...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A literary crime thriller with "a clever plot that always surprises, told with dark humor and dry wit" (The New York Ti...

Reducere. San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the YearBoston Globe's "Best Fiction of 2014"Roxane Gay's Top Ten Books of the Year An Amazon Best Short St...

Reducere. Jordan Peele's celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America "Blending race-sav...

In M.S. Harkness' (Tinderella) second graphic novel, she weaves in and out of non-relationships, drug dealing, and sex work with the subtlety of a ...

Reducere. In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them. Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o' War is rarely dull as h...

Reducere. THE CULT NOVEL RETURNS! "The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar... It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacu...

Reducere. It is 1941. While the war of chaos rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continue...

Reducere. The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signe...

Reducere. Description"In The Radiant Midnight you will find not merely abstract ideas about the essence of darkness or how to go about facing it. You will al...

Reducere. Just when William is ready to fall asleep in his cozy cabin, there is a tap on his window. A chilly chipmunk asks to stay, and Will scooches over i...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy... When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cu...

Reducere. An easy-to-read survival guide for those struggling under the relentless weight of postpartum depression. Written by a mother who understands exact...

It's like Uber, but for slaying monsters Lana is a monster hunter. She kills vampires, werewolves, demons and all the other terrifying creatures of...

Reducere. Description"It's easy to recognize Ocker as a future master of madness after this thrilling haunted house trip."--Fangoria Magazine Felix Allsey is...

Reducere. This winning debut picture book from Mexican artist Flavia Z. Drago about finding the courage to make friends is perfect for the spooky season -- o...