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  • Year of the Bear by Chesters, Jay
    Jay Chesters

    Year of the Bear

    In a world where you can be anything, be a bear.Year of the Bear's short stories weave together social commentary with folklore, fairy tale, fantasy, and science fiction to entertain, challenge, and sometimes frighten readers. A lawyer navigates a most unusual Tinder date; a...
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  • Rubble of Rubles by Novakovich, Josip
    Josip Novakovich

    Rubble of Rubles

    From Man Booker International Prize finalist Josip Novakovich comes a satiric novel with teeth--a tale of Russia in the early aughts, perfect for fans of Dostoevsky and Gary Shteyngart.In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment banker with Eastern European...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Marta Maszkiewicz) by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Marta Maszkiewicz)

    This complete and unabridged edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes: 12 unique illustrationsIntroduction explaining how the story came to beBiography of the author containing little known factsAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly referred to as "Alice in Wonderland") is considered to be one of...
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  • The Castle and The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Castle and The Trial

    The Castle: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties....
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  • The Life and Times of Hieronymus Aloysis Ziege: By Hi Ziege, Edited and Introduced by John Bruni by Bruni, John
    John Bruni

    The Life and Times of Hieronymus Aloysis Ziege: By Hi Ziege, Edited and Introduced by John Bruni

    You think you know the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you don't. Hi Ziege is a man who thought he was wasting his life until he discovered that he could do so much more by joining the Discovery Corps from such a nameless place...
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  • Radio Dark by Hinton, Shane
    Shane Hinton

    Radio Dark

    "Shane Hinton has a hold on a post-apocalyptic setting in a way that would make the author of the Book of Revelation proud." -GEORGE SINGLETON, author of Staff PicksA mysterious condition sweeps the country, leaving its victims in a catatonic state. The power grid...
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  • All Back Full by Lopez, Robert
    Robert Lopez

    All Back Full

    Act One: At a kitchen table, a husband and wife discuss the news, nudists, and lie to each other about the ways they no longer connect. Act Two: At a kitchen table, a man and his friend discuss the weather, the state of public...
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  • Letters From Inside: The Best of Mike Maggio by Maggio, Mike
    Mike Maggio

    Letters From Inside: The Best of Mike Maggio

    A woman sacrifices her children to save herself in an act of desperation. A political prisoner succumbs to his worst fears in a struggle to survive. A politician disappears in the midst of a reelection campaign only to be replaced by a cockroach who...
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  • The Man Called Covid-19: The greatest Magician by Restituyo, Elena
    Elena Restituyo

    The Man Called Covid-19: The greatest Magician

    The Chino called Covid-19 is a man who develops magicians' skills and concentrates his skill in making others' dreams come true. Chino's popularity expanded to other countries through social media and by mouth to mouth of others, to the point that people of different...
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  • Hell of Hosanna by Langton, Kip
    Kip Langton

    Hell of Hosanna

    Imagine the Empire State Building removed from New York City. Imagine that building reconstructed brick-by-brick on your father's private island-the trappings of the past stolen from the public to indulge unfettered hypocrisy. This is James's defeated and ravaged landscape when his father, Fep Anglish,...
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  • Hell of Hosanna by Langton, Kip
    Kip Langton

    Hell of Hosanna

    Imagine the Empire State Building removed from New York City. Imagine that building reconstructed brick-by-brick on your father's private island-the trappings of the past stolen from the public to indulge unfettered hypocrisy. This is James's defeated and ravaged landscape when his father, Fep Anglish,...
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  • Osiris with a Trombone Across the Seam of Insubstance by Semilian, Julian
    Julian Semilian

    Osiris with a Trombone Across the Seam of Insubstance

    A fast march of words on a spree to derail the restrictions and constrictions of their meanings; ok, so maybe not a howl, but a cry of freedom, harkening and heartening the thought of an escape from the Manacles of Utility and the iron...
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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 Man Who Would Be King by Chapple, Addison J.
    Addison J. Chapple

    The Man Who Would Be King

    Fans of Dumb and Dumber and Forrest Gump will love this "hilarious" book. (Screencraft) "A hilarious and quick read. If you're a fan of absurdist humor this is the book for you." --Tyson Harvey, Amazon reviewer They're not exactly the A-Team... Benjamin was never...
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  • The Mean Reds by Bridges, Dale
    Dale Bridges

    The Mean Reds

    Sam Drift is a college dropout who spends his days smoking pot, writing movie reviews, wallowing in the betrayal of the only girl he ever loved, and watching old noir flicks with his beloved cat, Audrey Hepburn. Life is perfect. But when Sam's editor...
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  • Life Ceremony: Stories by Murata, Sayaka
    Sayaka Murata

    Life Ceremony: Stories

    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever...
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  • The Lunar Wolves by Davenport, K. E.
    K. E. Davenport

    The Lunar Wolves

    After Mina's departure, Maude throws herself into solving a puzzle that she's certain will give her the answers she longs for regarding her daughter's disappearance. In the meantime, Bob finds himself at odds with those who've taken charge of the new city. He does...
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  • As If She Had a Say: Stories by Fliss, Jennifer
    Jennifer Fliss

    As If She Had a Say: Stories

    A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform--or not perform--the roles society prescribes to us based on our various points of identity? As If...
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  • Saint Gredible by Panzica, Joe
    Joe Panzica

    Saint Gredible and Her Fat Dad's Mass

    Gretty has more clutching at her than her mom's knapsacked ashes. Her legacy includes a web of stories: some from grandfathers who survived the Holocaust and some from parents who didn't. These stories are woven by living cultures and deadly traumas so much deeper...
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  • Not Anywhere, Just Not by Sparling, Ken
    Ken Sparling

    Not Anywhere, Just Not

    Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish-style novel.The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the...
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  • Wax by Hogan, Padraig
    Padraig Hogan

    Wax

    "A subtly existential collection in which each story defracts, complicates, compliments, and magnifies the others. Intense and satisfying, and very painfully human" -Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell and Song for the Unraveling of the World"Short-titled and tightly tense, each...
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  • The Book of Webs by Kohn, Jesse
    Jesse Kohn

    The Book of Webs

    Word spreads from one recovering self-inflicted eye surgery patient to the next of a mystical book capable of overturning the Burlingtonian empire. Captivating and devious, the book of webs is constructed out of misremembered fragments, conflicting histories, and secrets whispered in the darkness. The...
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  • Internal Rhyme by Cassidy, Thomas M.
    Thomas M. Cassidy

    Internal Rhyme

    The reader will find in this volume a series of practical and popular discourses, delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, treating upon the evils of the day, giving a clear and full exposition of said evels, and suggesting the remedies by which they may be...
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  • Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

    The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what's truly important in life.Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai...
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  • Rock Gods & Messy Monsters by Hatz, Diane
    Diane Hatz

    Rock Gods & Messy Monsters

    "Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (...in a 1990s record company!)Aliens hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex's dream job has turned into a nightmare.What should she do?It's the 1990s....
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  • Invention Is a Mother by Brownell, Rob
    Rob Brownell

    Invention Is a Mother

    "Invention Is a Mother is a sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. It made me laugh in despair and laugh in joy. I loved it."-Will...
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  • Fact Check and More Probing Tales by Hanna, James
    James Hanna

    Fact Check and More Probing Tales

    Fact Check and More Probing Tales is the third anthology of previously-published short stories by award-winning James Hanna. Stories range from an air-headed farm boy who is adopted by a beautiful bird that squawks "Fact check" whenever the boy gets into an untenable situation...
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  • Consume by Hogan, Kourtnea
    Kourtnea Hogan

    Consume

    "A grim spiral of honest body horror that's full of surprises. Kourtnea Hogan leads you across a teenage wasteland, lulling you in with tenderness before shocking you out of your skin." - Hailey Piper, author of Queen of TeethFirst-time author Kourtnea Hogan delivers a...
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  • Murder at San Miguel by Wilson, Danee
    Danee Wilson

    Murder at San Miguel

    Archaeological illustrator, Beatrix Forster, accompanies her husband, retired archaeology professor, William Forster, to excavate the cemetery at San Miguel in Excelsis, an isolated medieval sanctuary in the mountains of northern Spain. Bill's former student, now a priest in Navarre, has enticed them out of...
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  • Last Days of Pompeii: Volume 1, Augurs by Hanson, Steve
    Steve Hanson

    Last Days of Pompeii: Volume 1, Augurs

    Manchester. An hourly paid lecturer in a university art school writes fiction and poetry. He steals tea bags, screws and other useful items to get by. As he struggles with tiredness, depression and the quality of his writing output, he experiences nightmares about his...
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  • My Manservant and Me by Guibert, Hervé
    Hervé Guibert

    My Manservant and Me

    A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers.My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author of...
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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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  • The Appetite Factory by Gingerich, Jon
    Jon Gingerich

    The Appetite Factory

    A crisis counselor at a failing Madison Avenue PR firm who suffers from a rare psychological disorder that compels him to eat inanimate objects finds himself in a crisis of his own when a disgruntled client employee discovers his secret and blackmails him into...
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  • Sommelier of Deformity by Yetto, Nick
    Nick Yetto

    Sommelier of Deformity

    "I'm a connoisseur of the unwanted; a sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved. I am forever chased by the shadow of my ugliness. In darkness, no shadow remains, and it's all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be...
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  • The Vicar's Knickers by Ditrich, Vince R.
    Vince R. Ditrich

    The Vicar's Knickers

    Tony Vicar is setting his sights on new (mis)adventures in this laugh-out-loud follow-up to The Liquor Vicar.Tony Vicar, now an internationally known celebrity -- due to greatly exaggerated news reports of his nearly miraculous powers -- has turned his attention to renovating his recently...
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  • The Archaeology of Yog-Sothoth: The Kathu Journals out of Lovecraft's Providence, Vol 3 by Moldenhauer, August
    August Moldenhauer

    The Archaeology of Yog-Sothoth: The Kathu Journals out of Lovecraft's Providence, Vol 3

    The Archeology of Yog-Sothoth is the third and final book of the Kathu Journals Out of Lovecraft's Providence series. The most preternatural details are revealed from a forensic study of elements of the physical Kathu Journals notebooks and their construction. What emerges is the...
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  • We Must Save Jepson!: (A Novella) by Petersen, Mark
    Mark Petersen

    We Must Save Jepson!: (A Novella)

    Cannibals and lions and murder - oh my Intrepid librarian H. R. Huxtable and his column of misfits are out to save Jepson's beleaguered British outpost in central Africa-battling rock-strewn rivers, bloody jungle, hungry cannibals, and each other. His toad-witted captains are slaves to...
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  • Carnality by Wolff, Lina
    Lina Wolff

    Carnality

    In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to...
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  • Cheap Havens by Folsom, B. T.
    B. T. Folsom

    Cheap Havens

    Clashing social circles. Frenzied creations and bizarre inventions shared in workshops, rooftops, back alleys, house parties, and overstuffed conference rooms. Deep-set fears and doubts of the future, laid out with unlikely terms of endearment and funky flows of consciousness.Follow Li through a gallery of...
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  • The Appetite Factory by Gingerich, Jon
    Jon Gingerich

    The Appetite Factory

    An all-too-familiar dystopia where public perception precedes reality and our identities are defined by what we consume.As head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose reputations have been ruined by scandal. But...
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  • God in a Can by Scotellaro, Robert
    Robert Scotellaro

    God in a Can

    God in a Can is a collection of flash and micro fictions that looks at life through a surreal, and often humorous lens, at various societal behaviors, perceptions at a slant, and unusual scenarios. Paradoxically, the underpinnings, at the core, can be very real...
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  • Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow by Heroux, Jason
    Jason Heroux

    Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow

    In Jason Heroux's disquieting third novel, Owen lives an enjoyable suburban life with his wife, Lila, until a knock at the door brings him face-to-face with a past he didn't know he had. The sudden revelation forces him to reconsider where he's from, what...
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  • Tales of Unspeakable Taste by Bruni, John
    John Bruni

    Tales of Unspeakable Taste

    For fans of the deranged, the utterly weird, and most certainly the unspeakable... Bizarro Pulp Press brings you a buffet of curdled imagination and warped creativity of John Bruni. 21 stories ranging from monstrous genitalia and violent retirees, GG Allin, and Jesus Christ. Brian...
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  • Daughter (Waiting for Her Drunk Father to Return from the Men's Room) by Leyner, Mark
    Mark Leyner

    Daughter (Waiting for Her Drunk Father to Return from the Men's Room)

    A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an...
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  • The Eighth Wonder of the World by Plevnes, Jordan
    Jordan Plevnes

    The Eighth Wonder of the World

    In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world. His protagonist Alexander Simsar, during the last 3.3 seconds of his life in Berlin...
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  • Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, Mikhail
    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Heart of a Dog

    I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire...
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  • Milkshake by Dahlke, Travis
    Travis Dahlke

    Milkshake

    "A man's face hangs in the heat outside my aunt's car. Years ago, before I was born, it was my face. In the here and now of this aspen-green pearl Toyota Camry, woozy from the hot Sprite fumes, I am a mulch dealer reincarnate."Under...
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  • Let No One Sleep by Millás, Juan José
    Juan José Millás

    Let No One Sleep

    An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains...
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