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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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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while...
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  • Wave IX by Garnier, Jean-Paul L.
    Jean-Paul L. Garnier

    Wave IX

    A tribute to the fictitious magazine Wave IX from J.G. Ballard's 1961 short story "Studio 5, The Stars." In the fictious version of the magazine Ballard predicts the rise of machine generated poetry; and in this real-world version of Wave IX the current debacle...
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  • Raindrop Memories: 29 Stories Where Reality Bends in Subtle Ways by Carpenter, Harmony
    Harmony Carpenter

    Raindrop Memories: 29 Stories Where Reality Bends in Subtle Ways

    This enchanting collection features 29 stories where reality bends in subtle and unexpected ways, inviting readers to explore a world infused with magic and wonder. Each tale is a gentle reminder that the extraordinary can exist within the everyday, creating a tapestry of experiences...
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  • Baron Wenckheim?s Homecoming by Krasznahorkai, L?szl?
    L?szl? Krasznahorkai

    Baron Wenckheim?s Homecoming

    Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...
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  • Not Another 80s Horror Novel by McDonough, Sean
    Sean McDonough

    Not Another 80s Horror Novel

    Ruby King believed that the move would be a good thing. She thought the quiet mountain town would be the perfect place to live with her husband, her children, and her absolutely massive knockers. But that was before she learned about the abandoned church...
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  • The Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Metamorphosis & Other Stories

    Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa...
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  • Realistic Fiction by Solomonik, Anton
    Anton Solomonik

    Realistic Fiction

    "Outrageously funny."--Paul HardingFinally, a book for men!Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like: Stealing porn magazines?Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience?Crossdressing as a woman?Attending Gnostic Mass?Running for government office?Then this is a book for...
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  • Piglet by Hazell, Lottie
    Lottie Hazell

    Piglet

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Belletrist Book Club Pick 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....
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  • Miriam and Loki or Wit Against the World by Smith, Brian
    Brian Smith

    Miriam and Loki or Wit Against the World

    Author: Brian SmithISBN-13: 9798227227201Publisher: Bjs BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
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  • Deadfall by Balfour, B. J.
    B. J. Balfour

    Deadfall

    Author: B. J. BalfourISBN-13: 9798989850259Publisher: Scribbling GargoyleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2024Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.64d
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  • Happy by Baljeet Basra, Celina
    Celina Baljeet Basra

    Happy

    Author: Celina Baljeet BasraISBN-10: 1662602731ISBN-13: 9781662602733Publisher: Astra HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
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  • The Glass Guitar by Riggan, Marshall
    Marshall Riggan

    The Glass Guitar

    Author: Marshall RigganISBN-10: 1957851546ISBN-13: 9781957851549Publisher: Penmore Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2024Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
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  • My Man Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G.
    P. G. Wodehouse

    My Man Jeeves

    Author: P. G. WodehouseISBN-13: 9798330472338Publisher: Natal Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d
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  • Tides by Mesce, Bill
    Bill Mesce

    Tides

    Author: Bill MesceISBN-10: 1965059082ISBN-13: 9781965059081Publisher: Liminal BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d
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  • Blob: A Love Story by Su, Maggie
    Maggie Su

    Blob: A Love Story

    "There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the man of her dreams, and I was...
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  • Weepers by Mendelsund, Peter
    Peter Mendelsund

    Weepers

    A messianic tale about a group of professional mourners--a darkly funny novel of grief, mourning, and mystery from the author of The Delivery. Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He's a card-carrying member of Local 312, an eccentric union of mourners, hired for...
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  • Autocorrect: Stories by Keret, Etgar
    Etgar Keret

    Autocorrect: Stories

    From one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls "Genius," a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning. Etgar Keret is the world's most famous living Israeli writer, known for...
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  • My Sister from the Black Lagoon: A Novel of My Life by Fox, Laurie
    Laurie Fox

    My Sister from the Black Lagoon: A Novel of My Life

    "I was born into a mentally ill family. My sister was the officially crazy one, but really we were all nuts." So begins My Sister from the Black Lagoon, Laurie Fox's incandescent novel of growing up absurd. Lorna Person's tale is wrested from the...
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