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  • The Shift by Cambau, Augustin
    Augustin Cambau

    The Shift

    Confused and unwell, alone in a faraway land, through blind luck, and as suddenly as one moment changes to another, an ordinary man is confronted by a serene epiphany. Unsure of its mysterious origins, he returns to Paris indelibly marked and foolishly flees to...
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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

    Screenwriter Joshua Hull (Glorious) makes his longform prose debut!After a stranger leaves him a secluded property, drifter Rusty finds himself the caretaker of a massive, tooth-filled mouth in the ground...and it's hungry. His situation is complicated by Abigail, a wannabe filmmaker who stumbles on...
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  • Beep by Roorbach, Bill
    Bill Roorbach

    Beep

    An ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who--with the help of a brilliant young girl-- forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.​ In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet...
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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 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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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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  • 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

    "I would go to Hades and back for you." An easy thing to say. A much harder thing to really mean. In an ancient Greek world of monsters and legends and gods, Doug wants to make it on his own without the influence of...
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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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  • Gringos by Portis, Charles
    Charles Portis

    Gringos

    Charles Portis's Gringos is a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a...
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did...
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  • "13+1" by Shawn, Rock
    Rock Shawn

    "13+1"

    SynopsisBook 13+1 is a unique book written in its own genre, which does not resemble any other books I have read before. It may seem chaotic in the beginning, but as the reader advances, it becomes coherent and interconnected.The main challenge in writing a...
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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 set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.In the fading...
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  • Harold by Wright, Steven
    Steven Wright

    Harold

    A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school. Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked...
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  • Ten by Emar, Juan
    Juan Emar

    Ten

    A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palem, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his court--which is itself contained in a demonic gemstone the size...
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  • Half-Lives by Schmeidler, Lynn
    Lynn Schmeidler

    Half-Lives

    A playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations. Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of...
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  • Invisible Bridges: Stories by Dragan, Richard
    Richard Dragan

    Invisible Bridges: Stories

    Both Eerie and Subversive Invisible Bridges explores the oddness behind human decisions and desires.Readers of psychological fiction and stream-of-consciousness narratives will enjoy this eclectic and compelling short story collection by author Richard Dragan. Anchored by the acclaimed title story, "The Builder of Invisible Bridges,"...
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  • The Dog of the North by McKenzie, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth McKenzie

    The Dog of the North

    * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction * "I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving...
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  • Be Prepared to Die by Fiero, Jonathan
    Jonathan Fiero

    Be Prepared to Die

    They tell us the journey is the destination. It is not. It's the other way... The destination is where the journey takes place. That destination, it is escape from The White Curtain. In order to live the life we want, we must have the...
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  • Vengeful Hank and Other Shortweird Stories by St Pierre, Marcel
    Marcel St Pierre

    Vengeful Hank and Other Shortweird Stories

    A time-travel prototype lands in a Viking village. A horse-riding fiddler crab reveals his secret. A despotic tyrant is confronted by a penguin. Each story is "an imaginative gem... funny, charming, surprising" (Don Ferguson, Royal Canadian Air Farce) with a writing style that's "tight,...
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  • Cliché and Wind Go Hitchhiking: and Other Shortweird Stories by St Pierre, Marcel
    Marcel St Pierre

    Cliché and Wind Go Hitchhiking: and Other Shortweird Stories

    A mystical snow wizard offers his neighbour a chance at eternal life. A grizzly waiting tables reconsiders his life choices. A Manitobe misanthrope reaches for the stars. Two hitchhikers turn an introverted man's life upside down. A bee witnesses a plot by four inept...
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    *"For fans of Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This (2021). An off-kilter, hauntingly hilarious debut novel." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] bonkers story . . . Despite the sobering material, this is a hoot." --Publishers Weekly In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike...
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  • The Pope Moves to Manyberries by Donnell, Alan
    Alan Donnell

    The Pope Moves to Manyberries

    The Pope walks out of the Vatican and into the rest of the world. He quickly becomes more famous than he ever was, and sightings of the Pope are reported across the globe including The Last Ranchman bar in Manyberries, a village in the...
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  • The Threat by Stein, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Stein

    The Threat

    Dripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein's story explores what happens when the only way you can live is by feeling like you might die.Author: Nathaniel SteinISBN-10: 1684429692ISBN-13: 9781684429691Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Calm Down and Panic: Book One - The Boots of Wrath by Swinford, Steven James
    Steven James Swinford

    Calm Down and Panic: Book One - The Boots of Wrath

    Adam, a big-city slicker from the East has his life upheaved when an infamous outlaw steals his dog. Adam journeys West and then some, with the help of a legendary bounty hunter known as The Boots of Wrath. However, things take a... and I...
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  • It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by de Marcken, Anne
    Anne de Marcken

    It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

    This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she...
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  • Plastic Space House by Taff, John F. D.
    John F. D. Taff

    Plastic Space House

    "Welcome to Taff's nightmare. An entire novel seemingly set at that outer rim Lovecraft so deeply feared. Here plot makes room for philosophy without losing the beat, and the imagination does its work in the blackness of deepest outer space." -Josh Malerman, New York...
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  • Curse of the Cob Man by Ottone, Robert P.
    Robert P. Ottone

    Curse of the Cob Man

    Curse of the Cob Man is written like one of the old Italian horror movies! Blood! Gore! A giant killer corn cob on the rampage! This fast paced Bloody Bones Horror novel will entertain you until the bitter and climatic ending! You might even...
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  • The Threat by Stein, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Stein

    The Threat

    Dripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein's story explores what happens when the only way you can live is by feeling like you might die.Author: Nathaniel SteinISBN-10: 1684429706ISBN-13: 9781684429707Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Boinking Bizarro by Morrison, Chandler
    Chandler Morrison

    Boinking Bizarro

    Author: Chandler MorrisonISBN-10: 1639510281ISBN-13: 9781639510283Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2020Pages: 200Format: Paperback
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  • Don't Mind Me by Coughlan, Brian
    Brian Coughlan

    Don't Mind Me

    The short stories in Brian Coughlan's Don't Mind Me dig deep into what it means to live in an increasingly connected, but isolated modern world that demands far more than we can possibly hope to provide. A couple with financial problems encounter an over-bearing...
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  • Y/N by Yi, Esther
    Esther Yi

    Y/N

    Finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeNew York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023New York Times 2023 Critics' PickNew Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read)NPR Best Book of 2023TIME Must-Read Book of 2023Bookshop.org Best Book of 2023Chicago Public Library...
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  • The Thing in the Snow by Adams, Sean
    Sean Adams

    The Thing in the Snow

    From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel--equal parts satire and psychological thriller--that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age of endless distraction. At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits...
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  • Never Craven Was the Raven by White, Michael Anthony
    Michael Anthony White

    Never Craven Was the Raven

    Amidst an otherwise routine blink, you have just caught glimpse of a curious and unfamiliar binding - one that promises only to lead you gradually off the wayside.Its destination: past the charming whims of poetic joviality into the snarky silhouette of an umbral fowl.Author:...
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  • The Book of God by Banan, Ultan
    Ultan Banan

    The Book of God

    God has lost the plot. He spends his days Sweeney-like in the trees killing birds, or crawling through the bushes to watch humans at their rut. His only companion and sole remaining attendant, a withered and tortured scribe, chronicles the Lord's descent into madness...
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  • Medieval in La by Paul, Jim
    Jim Paul

    Medieval in La

    Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a "delightful...humorous" book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every "sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put" (New Yorker).Author: Jim PaulISBN-10: 0156005379ISBN-13: 9780156005371Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage:...
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