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  • Dead Stars by Wagner, Bruce
    Bruce Wagner

    Dead Stars

    Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world's youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old that's undergone a...
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  • I'm Losing You by Wagner, Bruce
    Bruce Wagner

    I'm Losing You

    An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood. I'm Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and...
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  • True Failure by Higley, Alex
    Alex Higley

    True Failure

    A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories. Ben just lost his job, but he won't fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, he claims he's devoting his time to getting an appearance...
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  • Anizar by Armand, Louis
    Louis Armand

    Anizar

    Armand invites us into a funhouse of many hands. Jorge Amado kaleidoscopes with Manuel Puig & Cabrera Infante in this intramural reductio ad absurdum of bowdlerised caesars & rat-arsed revolutionaries & all the evolved flotsam of that ancient quarrel between poetry & the purgatorial...
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  • Betwixt and Between by Twitty, Steven Amory
    Steven Amory Twitty

    Betwixt and Between

    Johnny Marathon, CIA spy extraordinaire, awakens in New York City with no memory, only a soul-deep need to track down a woman he cannot remember but knows he loves. Cryptic clues, strange dreams and an annoying homeless man reveal to Johnny he is a...
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  • Lithopedion by Kaminskiy, T.
    T. Kaminskiy

    Lithopedion

    Lithopedion (from the Greek words lithos [stone] and paedion [child]) is a short novel that obscures the boundaries between philosophical fiction and psychological thriller. Taking place in Northern France during an unspecified era of time, it consists of two parts: an assemblage of hypothetical...
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  • Chronic Eros: The Lost Secrets of Love by Nosirrah, N.
    N. Nosirrah

    Chronic Eros: The Lost Secrets of Love

    A delusional memoir of the author's unrelenting investigation into the erotic, which many would consider absurdist satire but the few recognize as the deepest truth. Follow along with N. Nosirrah as he finds the flow of love in every encounter with the farcical characters...
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...
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  • The Godawful Misfortunes of Samson O'Christ by Lawrence, Michael
    Michael Lawrence

    The Godawful Misfortunes of Samson O'Christ

    When a bomb goes off under his bed, impoverished 23 year old philosophy graduate Samson O'Christ is blown out of his window above a joke shop in Cambridge, England. Waking from a coma four weeks later in Washington DC, he is given a mission...
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  • Tales of the Dusty Bucket: A Satire of Secondhand Americana by Fredrick, Jim
    Jim Fredrick

    Tales of the Dusty Bucket: A Satire of Secondhand Americana

    Most folks worldwide have visited a flea market, swap shop, or bazaar, but few take the time to get to know the variety of vendors peddling their lightly used or dubiously acquired inventory every weekend. At the Dusty Bucket, a self-described "androgynous pansexual with...
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  • The Most Famous Girl in the World by Hariri-Kia, Iman
    Iman Hariri-Kia

    The Most Famous Girl in the World

    Stars--they're just like us! Except much, much worse.Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phone lights up with a notification: Famed scam artist Poppy Hastings will be released from prison today.It's been two years since Rose--a first-generation Middle Eastern American, functional trainwreck, and reporter...
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  • The Collected Stories of Diane Williams by Williams, Diane
    Diane Williams

    The Collected Stories of Diane Williams

    Author: Diane WilliamsISBN-10: 1665134712ISBN-13: 9781665134712Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Format: CD
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  • Seven Cries of Delight: and Other Stories by Newton, Tom
    Tom Newton

    Seven Cries of Delight: and Other Stories

    Winner of Dactyl Foundation Literary Award 2019! "A unique and eccentric talent" -Dactyl ReviewReweirding the world.... This collection of twenty-four short stories explores unknown but vaguely familiar worlds. Charting the frontier between the real and the illusory, Seven Cries of Delight celebrates offbeat independent...
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  • Ghosts of the CN Tower by Charlton, Matti
    Matti Charlton

    Ghosts of the CN Tower

    Hilarious But Historically Inaccurate Content Warning: Please be advised that the writing contained within the following pages of this book are the bizarre and twisted ideas and imaginative concepts of a raving madperson (the author). This is a work of pure fiction, and the...
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  • Lesser Ruins by Haber, Mark
    Mark Haber

    Lesser Ruins

    From the author of Reinhardt's Garden and Saint Sebastian's Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession. Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life's work--a book that will stand as a towering cathedral to Michel...
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  • Toxicity by Booth, Max, III
    Max III Booth

    Toxicity

    When Maddox Kane is released from prison, he has no idea what the world has become. His ex-wife's hooked up with a heroin addict, his daughter's busy burying dead bodies behind drugstores, and his brother's being held prisoner by an abusive prostitute. Plus, apparently,...
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  • The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    The Prophet and the Idiot

    Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn the fading days...
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  • City of Mann by Coulter, L. Ross
    L. Ross Coulter

    City of Mann

    The Great Sentient Cities.Unmatched in intellect. . . Unparalleled in size. . . Unsure.On the planet of the Sentient Cities, City of Mann is by all accounts an ordinary city. Leaving his home for Epicurea where he gets his first job as an intern...
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  • Cartoons by Schluter, Kit
    Kit Schluter

    Cartoons

    Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales."The true surrealist is unblinking, convulsive, and cheerfully open to the mysterious flow, into their texts, of mythic and archetypal elements operating beyond their conscious...
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  • A Centimeter Across the Earth by M, Samuel
    Samuel M

    A Centimeter Across the Earth

    An unnamed young soldier has grown cold and unfeeling after being entrenched in war for over two years. Now at last they are at the end of their tour, ready to move on. Their experience on the battlefield as led them to develop a...
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  • The Trial: Introduction by George Steiner by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial: Introduction by George Steiner

    The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K--one of the twentieth century's master parables from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir The Trial reflects the...
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  • How to Successfully Kidnap Strangers by Booth, Max, III
    Max III Booth

    How to Successfully Kidnap Strangers

    1. Do not respond to bad reviews.2. If you must respond to bad reviews, please do not kidnap the reviewer.3. If you must kidnap the reviewer, do not kidnap him in a public area.4. If there are witnesses, do not also kidnap them.5. If...
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  • The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by Morrow, James
    James Morrow

    The Asylum of Dr. Caligari

    "No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a great example--Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of 'dreams, ' the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing."--Jeffrey Ford, author of A...
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  • Aawt: An Adventure With Time by Monroe, Theodore K.
    Theodore K. Monroe

    Aawt: An Adventure With Time

    I can never catch a break! All I want is to live a normal life, to be a normal guy in a normal world. But I wouldn't be so lucky. Though I'm going through the woes of a regular school life, complete with nerdy...
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  • Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories by Gelman, Brett
    Brett Gelman

    Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories

    A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are...
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  • Overstaying by Koch, Ariane
    Ariane Koch

    Overstaying

    Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch's Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force. "I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial--a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms,...
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  • The Shift by Cambau, Augustin
    Augustin Cambau

    The Shift

    Author: Augustin CambauISBN-10: 1916376770ISBN-13: 9781916376779Publisher: Hyperidean PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2024Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d
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  • The Doom Magnetic Trilogy by Pauley, William, III
    William III Pauley

    The Doom Magnetic Trilogy

    CHORIZO, NEVADA is filled with the grittiest of men and the filthiest of women--the perfect place for a man chockful of secrets to hide. But one fateful day, his past catches up to him... A Japanese assassin, with a cue-ball for an eye, invades...
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  • Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories by Gelman, Brett
    Brett Gelman

    Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories

    A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are...
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  • The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    The Prophet and the Idiot

    Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn the fading days...
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  • Mouth by Hull, Joshua
    Joshua Hull

    Mouth

    Author: Joshua HullISBN-10: 1959790021ISBN-13: 9781959790020Publisher: Tenebrous PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2024Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
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  • Beep by Roorbach, Bill
    Bill Roorbach

    Beep

    In the tradition of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures, an ebullient, funny--and hugely original-- novel about the friendship between a brilliant young girl and a perceptive squirrel monkey, the power of youth, and the way forward for a planet in crisis. In this...
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  • The Collected Stories of Diane Williams by Williams, Diane
    Diane Williams

    The Collected Stories of Diane Williams

    Author: Diane WilliamsISBN-10: 1665134704ISBN-13: 9781665134705Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Format: MP3 CD
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  • The Further Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Stein, Ross
    Ross Stein

    The Further Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    It's 2024 and three-hundred-year-old Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron von Munchausen sits in a bar enjoying a glass of wine over a plate of kippers. The legendary spinner of tall tales and self-proclaimed "ambassador of the irrational" has just completed a whirlwind tour of America....
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  • The Nihilist's Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society by Cheque, Tungyn
    Tungyn Cheque

    The Nihilist's Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society

    The perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst! Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as, "I don't care because nothing really matters." This attitude has served him exceedingly...
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  • In Absurdia by Whalan, Glenn
    Glenn Whalan

    In Absurdia

    "Reality is a story we tell ourselves. Change the story and you change reality."Middle-aged Funboy is God. Claimed by many, he suffers an identity disorder and self-medicates with spirits, pills and cheeseburgers. Alone in a cheap room he reflects on a favorite incarnation, or...
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  • Hidden Faces by Dali, Salvador
    Salvador Dali

    Hidden Faces

    The only novel by the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealist painter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in the years preceding World War II "The book is so full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian...
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  • Enemies of Peace by Williams, M. K.
    M. K. Williams

    Enemies of Peace

    How far would you go to achieve the "American Dream?"Timothy and Cynthia Lawson are on their way to having it all. But when they move into their dream home on an idyllic cul-du-sac they soon start to realize that not everything is as it...
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  • Piglet by Hazell, Lottie
    Lottie Hazell

    Piglet

    An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites--and the truth about having it all Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely,...
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  • The First Lady Escapes: Flotus Flees the White House by Speeks, Verity
    Verity Speeks

    The First Lady Escapes: Flotus Flees the White House

    President Rex Funck is a loutish, lying old bully whose affairs have deeply hurt his stunning wife Natalia, a former model from Slovakia. Now he wants to get her pregnant so voters will see him as a macho stud and re-elect him in a...
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  • Pink Whales by Shukla, Sara
    Sara Shukla

    Pink Whales

    Falling in with the cool moms of her preppy New England town might upend one woman's life, in a sparkling and sharp-witted novel about marriage, escape, and deceptively tidy little lives.Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal...
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  • Pink Whales by Shukla, Sara
    Sara Shukla

    Pink Whales

    Falling in with the cool moms of her preppy New England town might upend one woman's life, in a sparkling and sharp-witted novel about marriage, escape, and deceptively tidy little lives.Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal...
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  • Greatest Works of Charles Dickens, Vol.1 by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Greatest Works of Charles Dickens, Vol.1

    Among the widely read and cherished writings of Charles Dickens are three works that stand out from the rest. They are timeless, and their characters are immortalized in people's imaginations, and they carry a palpable sense of the writer himself in the pages. Portraying...
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  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, Jerome K.
    Jerome K. Jerome

    Three Men in a Boat

    The classic and timeless humorous story, Three Men in a Boat, begins with the eponymous three men sitting around discussing the different needs in their lives. Our heroes come to the conclusion that they are indeed overworked and that a vacation is in order....
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  • Night Shift: Stories by Kolm, Ron
    Ron Kolm

    Night Shift: Stories

    "Ron Kolm is an American original and Night Shift is a testament to a life lived in the margins which is where the real action has always been. Wise, ribald, human, unexpectedly soulful, these stories have the grit and rhythm of real life as...
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  • Jimi Hendrix Live in LVIV by Kurkov, Andrey
    Andrey Kurkov

    Jimi Hendrix Live in LVIV

    "A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns."--ObserverLonglisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine,...
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  • Mysterious Setting by Abe, Kazushige
    Kazushige Abe

    Mysterious Setting

    A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star "Abe's superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting literature." -- Kotaru Isaka, author of Bullet Train This surreal, twisty...
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  • The Twelve Trials of Doug by Brundage, Jeremy
    Jeremy Brundage

    The Twelve Trials of Doug

    Author: Jeremy BrundageISBN-10: 1951445554ISBN-13: 9781951445553Publisher: Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2024Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
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  • Intangience: The Lighter Side of Weird by Barr, M. Kari
    M. Kari Barr

    Intangience: The Lighter Side of Weird

    lntangiece: The Lighter Side of Weird strives to offer relevant nonsense to entertain and occasionally bring insight into what it means to be Human. We adore whimsy. In our debut issue, we explore Personification through short stories and poetry. You will find the thoughts...
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  • Homo Zapiens by Pelevin, Victor
    Victor Pelevin

    Homo Zapiens

    The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he...
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