Dark Humor

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. 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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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. "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...

"Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beverly JenkinsBelle Palmer is finally freeSeparated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until...

DescriptionThe Book of African Proverbs collects over 1, 200 of the best, most profound and illuminating proverbs from Africa, its nations and its ...

Sinister sorcery. Gallows humor. A queer romance so glorious it could be right out of fae legend itself. Master of One is a fantasy unlike any othe...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kim Dower's fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave, death has never felt so alive Alluring titles to haunting last lin...

DescriptionHarper Voyager Trade Paperback OriginalThe Compton Crook award-winning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling sta...

Reducere. "A modern masterpiece." -- BookPage Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, "Best Crime Novel of the Year" "As daring in execution as imagination, ...

Reducere. The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subje...

Reducere. From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 1...

Reducere. Released in celebration of Mother Teresa's canonization on September 4, 2016.I Loved Jesus in the Night is one priest's compelling account of meeti...

DescriptionDuckworth's parents think he is a difficult child, so when a snake slides right up and swallows him whole, his parents don't believe him...

DescriptionInspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair i...

Description"Superb characters, sparkling dialogue, and a gripping, terrifying plot, plus flashes of humor to boot; JoAnn Chaney's What You Don't Kn...

Reducere. "Poso Wells is ironic, audacious, and fierce. But what is it, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality o...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardIn this comprehensive collection of Ellie Schoenfeld's poems, ..".one finds a tenderness mixed with bewilderment, ...

DescriptionDesperate as Guts, the Black Swordsman, has been to reunite with his former captain and lover, the now-mad Casca, he's quickly learning ...

Reducere. Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cy...

Reducere. From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark en...

Reducere. ``With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang di...

Reducere. DescriptionOur love songs have no shadows. We dare not acknowledge the deep love that can coexist with loss. But in this timely and timeless collec...

Reducere. The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost loves and pop music romances, Hollywood heartthrob...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kentaro MiuraBerserk has conquered the worlds of manga and anime, and now comes the essential roadmap to the sprawling Bers...

Reducere. Dan Rupley has 24 hours to survive a cursed killer gun and get his dead fianc e back. What could go wrong? "Perfect for Stephen King fans. It's a t...

DescriptionDeep within the nightmare realm of Casca's dreams, Schierke and Farnese battle endless horrors to reach the dark secret that has impriso...

DescriptionA man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolve...

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imagi...

Life might be no joke right now--but laughter is on the way.There are two kinds of laughter. One is hollow hilarity that masks pain far too deep fo...

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, div...

DescriptionRiga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that ti...

Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard's plays have ear...

Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia's debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language...

Reducere. Twelve stories, fraught with an unapologetic voice of firsthand experience, that pry the lock off of the addiction, fanaticism, violence, and fear ...

You're stupid. Ugly. Too short, tall, skinny, fat, dark, light, slow. You'll never amount to much. You don't measure up. You're not good enough. I ...