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The Oddfather

By Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

Mafia Mia!

You’ll be swept along by this breathless story of the Provolone Family—its lust and lechery, its diabolical enemies, its heart-stopping gang wars and automobile chases—into a world where betrayal is the order of the day and kinky sex the order of the night.

You’ll never forget the members of this illustrious family: Don Guido Provolone, the big cheese himself; Fungi the Fornicator, his eldest son; Carmine the Cretin, his middle son; Nicholas the Sensitive, youngest in the family; and an unbelievable assortment of relatives and hired hands.

Here is an intimate look into the innermost workings of a Mafia menagerie—men of wild appetites and primitive instincts.

Here is the Mafia that the bestselling Godfather legend only hinted at—madness in all its colorful blood and tomato sauce surreality.

If you don’t die laughing (or at least chuckle and smile a lot) the two authors promise to help arrange your upcoming funeral.

List Price: $9.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
128 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404421
ISBN-10: 1936404427
BISAC: Fiction / Humorous

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Jonathan Segal Chicken

By Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

Sure, you know about chicken soup, but do you know about a souped-up chicken?

Jonathan Segal Chicken was just another piece of kosher poultry, but he decided he wanted something more. He wanted to fly, and fly he did, on adventures that take him out into the world… and beyond.

This classic parody from the 1970s is now available again in this newly redesigned edition.

“It is a witty and bitchy book, which amply repays the time and trouble which were once taken with its more serious and less significant forbear.” – The Spectator (UK)

List Price: $9.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
128 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404438
ISBN-10: 1936404435
BISAC: Humor / Form / Parodies

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The Exerciser

by Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire.

A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVIL
This book has it all: the diets, the devil, witch-craft, religion, and one man’s struggle to save his wife from the horrors of her own rapidly in-creasing bulk. Only the most extreme measures will save his beloved wife. Week after week she grows fatter and fatter, without benefit of knife and fork. Who can help her? When all else has failed, he must call in the powerful high priest of physical fitness and sensible eating—Romaine LeLane, The Exerciser!

List Price: $12.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
148 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404445
ISBN-10: 1936404443
BISAC: Humor / Form / Parodies

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Huck Finn and the Zombie Jim

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered the greatest American novel, but it has long faced two problems in reaching new readers: a distasteful racial slur, and the lack of the sort of genre elements that draw in today’s young readers. Here we offer you the full text of the book, with just a single word change allowing us to bring you exciting passages like:

Strange zombies would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder.

I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a zombie to argue. So I quit.

Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and every window along the road was full of women’s heads, and there was zombie boys in every tree…

So Tom turns to the zombie, which was looking wild and distressed, and says, kind of severe: “What do you reckon’s the matter with you, anyway?”

“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a zombie.”

List Price: $11.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
254 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1499359107
ISBN-10: 1499359101
BISAC: Fiction / Literary

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1741

In the years before America was a nation, ships were bringing a steady stream of immigrants to New York. Some were fleeing their homeland, others were seeking their fortune, many arrived in chains. In this quickly growing city, tensions mounted, fires began burning, and accusations flew.

By the time it was over, dozens would be dead – at the hands of the government.

This is a tale of desire and hope, of despair and tragedy. Grounding his story in true events, Robert Mayer (author of the acclaimed historical drama The Origin Of Sorrow) brings to life searingly vivid characters, showing how their lives intertwine with each other and with the fears and passions of the day. By humanizing major events and showing the tensions of race and class that drive them, Mayer gives us a novel that is ripped from the headlines of colonial America yet still echoes in the headlines of today.

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
ISBN-13: 978-1936404513
ISBN-10: 1936404516
BISAC: Fiction / Historical / General

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