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Presidential Follies On Ice by Alex Charns

Deliberately excessive, occasionally rambling, and often sharply funny.  In this anarchic hockey fantasia, civil liberties attorney and longtime beer-league player Charns imagines a 3-on-3 showdown against Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Justice Samuel Alito that escalates into a broadside against…
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Hex the Patriarchy & Heal the Patriarchy by Lilith Rising

A fierce, genre-defying blend of memoir, magical realism, and biting social commentary.  Rising’s compelling novel lays bare the harrowing realities of medical gaslighting, patriarchal oppression, and societal neglect. Lilith contracts pinworms—an experience exacerbated by dismissive doctors, unsupportive loved ones, and…
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Witcracker: More Frayd then Hurt by D.E. Ring

Rich, sharp, and deeply provocative; a laugh riot. Ring’s latest novel is a razor-sharp satire that dissects the absurdities of modern life, blending biting wit with incisive social commentary. The Gregory family, once prosperous, now finds solace in leasing their…
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Make America Beautiful Again by Bo Bancroft

A dense literary satire tightly entwined with a tense mystery… Irresistible. Bancroft delivers an intoxicating mixture of wit, whacky satire, intriguing mystery, and political intrigue in his marvelous debut. A suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree along Georgia’s…
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Surrender by Wayne Allen Drake

Intelligent, provocative, and dense… A must-read. Drake skillfully captures the mood and voice of contemporary youth and their interpersonal connections and concerns in his engrossing debut. Twenty-two-year-old Adam Lankershim has never felt lucky in his life, especially with episodes of…