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  • Acts of God by Gill, Kanan
    Kanan Gill

    Acts of God

    The 21st Century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill's debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence--with equal parts reverence and hilarity.In a post-nuclear future--beset by an endless winter, but free from borders, war, poverty,...
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  • Muscle Man by Castro, Jordan
    Jordan Castro

    Muscle Man

    A hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist Harold, a middling literature professor at a liberal arts college, lives in a state...
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  • A Void by Perec, Georges
    Georges Perec

    A Void

    A mind-bending mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User's Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verbal magician....
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  • *Your Actual Life May Vary by Lenhoff, Linda
    Linda Lenhoff

    *Your Actual Life May Vary

    Patty Grant, a faltering grad student in San Diego, learns that she needs to move out of her beloved rental with almost no notice. But she wonders: What should she do about the young child tied to a doghouse in a backyard down the...
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  • The Philosopher's Apprentice by Morrow, James
    James Morrow

    The Philosopher's Apprentice

    A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose gratefully accepts an offer no starving ethicist could refuse. He must travel to a private tropical island and tutor Londa Sabacthani, a beautiful, brilliant adolescent who has lost both her memory and her moral...
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  • Zone 23 by Hopkins, C. J.
    C. J. Hopkins

    Zone 23

    Author: C. J. HopkinsISBN-10: 1648211445ISBN-13: 9781648211447Publisher: Arcade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Pages: 504Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbs
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  • Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories by Chung, Bora
    Bora Chung

    Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories

    From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them,...
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  • The Tao of Apathy by Cannon, Thomas
    Thomas Cannon

    The Tao of Apathy

    Who are the employees of St Jude's Medical Center? You already know who they are. You work with them. Come take a madcap meeting with them anyway and see how and why they leave common sense behind as the new hospital administrator William Petty...
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  • Cärl Brüder Versus the Self-Publishing Apocalypse! by Holbrook, Russell
    Russell Holbrook

    Cärl Brüder Versus the Self-Publishing Apocalypse!

    We all know that self-publishing can be challenging, but for one writer, it's hell! Cärl Brüder was a young self-publishing guru, his name whispered in awe and admiration among hopeful writers. His webinars and courses were like golden tickets to the world of successful...
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  • The Tragedy by Kanonga, L?o Honor? Rivi?re
    L?o Honor? Rivi?re Kanonga

    The Tragedy

    Suspended between the indifferent gaze of the heavens and the mute earth beneath, Fran?ois, by his own hand, by the rope he himself had so meticulously knotted, met his end. Hanged in the desolate confines of his backyard, a few bleak hours before the...
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  • The Dish Pit by Miller, Greg
    Greg Miller

    The Dish Pit

    Danny spends his days wrist-deep in greasy water, scraping remnants of failed meals in the cramped backroom of a failing restaurant. The work is numbing, the pay insulting, and the fluorescent lights hum like a migraine waiting to happen. But in the monotony of...
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  • After Dinner Conversation Magazine by Aliperti, Cliff
    Cliff Aliperti

    After Dinner Conversation Magazine

    Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue...
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  • Game 5 by Meirose, Jim
    Jim Meirose

    Game 5

    "Jim Meirose's Game 5 is a xenonarratif on a "heemiotrilliac pole," a "sciaticatistical"kneeslj?panec on catawrit, a glitch in the antidialogical "kip't-kurrunga" which burrows into the necrosemynal "queak h ! !PID kaeuqs W gnilf ylf" with the "fununarialistical vi" of a "rekkaB-adnaK" on a "vitale...
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  • The Joyful Revolution by Melosh, Glenn
    Glenn Melosh

    The Joyful Revolution

    Growing up in Chicago, Ryder dreams he is a cowboy driving cattle along the sidewalk, while his father, Tom, is selling dreams on the street. Ryder faces an adolescence where his dreams crash and he loses his father to the justice system. It turns...
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  • The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian by Granell, E. F.
    E. F. Granell

    The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian

    Written by Galician surrealist artist and revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian is a picaresque, Cervantes-influenced allegory of the Spanish Civil War. Set against a cruel landscape peopled by generals, priests, conquistadors, poets, witches, and nuns, Tupinamba Indian embodies Granell's wartime...
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  • I, No Other by Paisley, Yarrow
    Yarrow Paisley

    I, No Other

    Rimbaud said, "I is an other." Not long after that, he was selling GUNS. Contra Rimbaud, I, No Other admits only I. In the hallowed "tradition" of the avant-garde, these stories unseat tradition. You may call them absurd, surreal, irreal, experimental, transgressive, dark, playful,...
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  • Father in My Name by Acosta, Bremer
    Bremer Acosta

    Father in My Name

    Author: Bremer AcostaISBN-13: 9798230019961Publisher: Bremer AcostaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2025Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
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  • Scorpion Ranch by Mellick, Carlton
    Carlton Mellick

    Scorpion Ranch

    For over 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 genre fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and...
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  • Alien Nation by King, Raymond
    Raymond King

    Alien Nation

    A Clockwork Orange meets Akira in this visceral dystopian satire, where a meek android must infiltrate a society that worships sadism-or be erased.In the Utopia of Anthem, everyone wants to be a psychopath.For eighteen-year-old Jason Freeman, that dream has always seemed out of reach....
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  • Cyan Waters: A Story From the Poolrooms by Melonio, Antonio
    Antonio Melonio

    Cyan Waters: A Story From the Poolrooms

    Author: Antonio MelonioISBN-13: 9798227308504Publisher: Baltic BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2025Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d
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  • Off the Wall - Fantastical Fiction, Fractured Fairy Tales, and Friendly Phantoms by Breezeel, Gary
    Gary Breezeel

    Off the Wall - Fantastical Fiction, Fractured Fairy Tales, and Friendly Phantoms

    A debut collection of quirky pieces written for contests and challenges. This is a treasure trove of short stories featuring animals with human-like characteristics, fractured fairy tales and legends, ghosts, magic, supernatural phenomena, and a taste of history as it never was. This collection...
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    "Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it's an 'internet novel.' But it's also so much more than that. And isn't that lovely, to find a book that transcends its buzzwords? Isn't it beautiful for...
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  • Dwelling by Hunt Kivel, Emily
    Emily Hunt Kivel

    Dwelling

    A dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and home--from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again. The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie's mother...
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  • Take It Personally by Hopple, Claire
    Claire Hopple

    Take It Personally

    In Take It Personally, Tori, the lead singer of a local rock band, takes on an amateur private investigator job where she spies on a famous diarist. Are the published diaries authentic or fabricated? As she uncovers the mystery alongside her psychic roommate, her...
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  • Familiar by Shipp, Jeremy C.
    Jeremy C. Shipp

    Familiar

    Two sisters hunt down killers and collect body parts, all the while complicating their lives with volatile magics, bizarre visions, and a mysterious mouth in the wall that may or may not be altogether trustworthy.Author: Jeremy C. ShippISBN-10: 1963801024ISBN-13: 9781963801026Publisher: Ghoulish BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2024Pages:...
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  • Life a User's Manual by Perec, Georges
    Georges Perec

    Life a User's Manual

    "One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."--Boston Globe Structured around a single moment in time -- 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975...
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  • Party at Jefferson's by Bautista, J. S.
    J. S. Bautista

    Party at Jefferson's

    YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED AT JEFFERSON'S. 10 PARTYGOERS, 24 HOURS. "A JAW-DROPPING SATIRE OF THE COLLEGIATE PARTY EXPERIENCE." Baker, Columbus, and John spread their clown costumes across the bed like they were preparing for war. Oversized polka-dot ties, rainbow suspenders, and greasepaint smeared...
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  • The Mopinomicon by Satva, Bodie
    Bodie Satva

    The Mopinomicon

    The Mopinomicon is a surreal, hilarious journey through enlightenment, cosmic battles, and self-acceptance. Join the narrator and a wild cast of characters-including aliens, elephants, and even you-as they face the universe's ultimate challenges with humor and heart. Prepare for mind-bending adventures, absurdity, and unexpected...
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  • California Bound and Gagged: Fear and loathing in San-Dementia by Carrier, Marc Luc
    Marc Luc Carrier

    California Bound and Gagged: Fear and loathing in San-Dementia

    Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of Art and Antiquities in...
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  • Night Hunting by Sun, Liaohong
    Liaohong Sun

    Night Hunting

    The museum of a university lost several boxes of butterfly specimen, then a night watcher was hired to guard the museum in night. One specimen each of polar bear and gorilla were added to the museum. About two weeks after the specimen were left...
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  • Little Guts by Gislason, Lor
    Lor Gislason

    Little Guts

    Author: Lor GislasonISBN-10: 1738909778ISBN-13: 9781738909773Publisher: Little Ghosts BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2024Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d
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  • Space Pew Pew by Badurina, David
    David Badurina

    Space Pew Pew

    SPACE PEW PEW is a story about friendship, loyalty, and camaraderie set in the unforgiving expanse of the universe! Alex (a charming, underachieving smuggler) and his best buddy Toshiro (a sarcastic android) piss off a Euclidian arms dealer and end up as major players...
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  • The Gods Give My Donkey Wings by Barr, James
    James Barr

    The Gods Give My Donkey Wings

    Embark on a journey with a humble packman and his loyal donkey as they pass through the mountaintop town known as the Thorpe. In this captivating tale of adventure and discovery, they bear witness to the peculiar events unfolding within the confines of this...
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  • Vanishing World by Murata, Sayaka
    Sayaka Murata

    Vanishing World

    From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial inseminationSayaka Murata has proven...
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  • FamilyMan by Brown, Jug
    Jug Brown

    FamilyMan

    As the sequel to The Hand Off continues eleven years later, Leo Newman, the FamilyMan, struggles through his world plagued by nightmares that lead him incrementally closer to the truth. As an unlikely group of functionaries struggles against the dominant DineBai Corporation, Leo grapples...
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  • Metamorphosis & Some Other Stories. (Heathen Edition) by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    Metamorphosis & Some Other Stories. (Heathen Edition)

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a prolific German-speaking Bohemian author based in Prague, now widely regarded as one of the principal literary figures of the 20th century. His stories, infused with acute realism and the absurdly fantastic, often feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre, surrealistic predicaments...
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  • S.N.A.F.U. - A Medical Satire by Kent, Brian D.
    Brian D. Kent

    S.N.A.F.U. - A Medical Satire

    S.N.A.F.U. is the satirical fictional story of Snaford University Jewish Hospital which explores the changing dynamics that have had a profound effect on the practice of medicine. As the acronym SNAFU implies, chaos and confusion abound.Nothing is the way it seems. Some may consider...
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  • Acid Taste: Excavating the Homesick's Blues by Galindo, ?milie
    ?milie Galindo

    Acid Taste: Excavating the Homesick's Blues

    Acid Taste: Excavating the Homesick's Blues is a utopian story in a wildly experimental package. Emma, Gab, Mo, and Ash are absent-mindedly riding the quotidian conveyor belt. Until one acid spiked Friday night, when Nora decides to take her friends down the spiral phone...
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  • One, None, and a Hundred Grand by Pirandello, Luigi
    Luigi Pirandello

    One, None, and a Hundred Grand

    A hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. When Vitangelo Moscarda's wife tells him his nose leans slightly to the right, his entire world swings off kilter. Loafing about,...
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  • The Audacity by Chapman, Ryan
    Ryan Chapman

    The Audacity

    Author: Ryan ChapmanISBN-10: 1641296798ISBN-13: 9781641296793Publisher: Soho PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs
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  • Space Pew Pew by Badurina, David
    David Badurina

    Space Pew Pew

    SPACE PEW PEW is a story about friendship, loyalty, and camaraderie set in the unforgiving expanse of the universe! Alex (a charming, underachieving smuggler) and his best buddy Toshiro (a sarcastic android) piss off a Euclidian arms dealer and end up as major players...
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  • Plastic by Guild, Scott
    Scott Guild

    Plastic

    For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. "A stunningly brilliant novel. One of those books that will follow you...
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  • Just A Collection of Poems With No Overarching or Related Themes or Story by Hagerty, Orrie
    Orrie Hagerty

    Just A Collection of Poems With No Overarching or Related Themes or Story

    Author: Orrie HagertyISBN-13: 9798230219507Publisher: Orrie HagertyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2024Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d
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  • Doorbusters by Holbrook, Russell
    Russell Holbrook

    Doorbusters

    Author: Russell HolbrookISBN-13: 9798227089427Publisher: Splatterpiece PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2024Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d
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  • Remembering Dismembrance: A Critical Compendium by Krause, Daniel Takeshi
    Daniel Takeshi Krause

    Remembering Dismembrance: A Critical Compendium

    Quirky, cerebral, exquisitely tortuous, Daniel Takeshi's first novel, Remembering Dismembrance, takes the form of a compendium of critical responses to a novel titled, Dismembrance, and advertises itself as a "second synchronic snapshot of discourse in action...claiming its place as not just the leading anthology...
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  • The Wooden Hens by Messinese, Raffaele
    Raffaele Messinese

    The Wooden Hens

    The stories in this collection retrace my personal history of literary fascinations and unexpressed emotions, which arose from them over decades, while in me grew the suggestions inspired by the stories of Lovecraft, Poe, Borges, Calvino, Kafka, Musil and various other authors of the...
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  • Out of the Ashes by Group, Bingham Writing
    Bingham Writing Group

    Out of the Ashes

    A selection of short stories and poems written by members of theBingham Writing Group. The stories are as varied in content as the writers are inpersonality, making this an eclectic and intriguing read.Have you always wanted to write? We are an informal and friendly...
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  • Nadja by Breton, Andr?
    Andr? Breton

    Nadja

    A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life. The most renowned of all surrealist literary works,...
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  • Southern Truths by Anderson Wa, K. G.
    K. G. Anderson Wa

    Southern Truths

    The South is many things.An attitude.An illusion.A culture.But most of all it is the apex of denial.Denial of actual history.Denial of the creation of false history.The fall into truth will be long and hard.But, the South will still survive.And probably forget it ever fell...
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  • Blob: A Love Story by Su, Maggie
    Maggie Su

    Blob: A Love Story

    A humorous and deeply moving novel in the vein of Bunny and Convenience Store Woman about a young woman who tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriendThe daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother, Vi Liu has never quite fit...
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