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  • Somewhere East of Me by O'Keefe, Sean Vincent
    Sean Vincent O'Keefe

    Somewhere East of Me

    Somewhere East of MeDenver writer Jake Dustin is untethered from indolence when his estranged sister announces South Carolina is exhuming their mother. With no choice but to go, Jake embarks on a cross-country odyssey of uproarious absurdity and self-exploration during the strange days of...
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  • The Quietist by Gothard, Daniel
    Daniel Gothard

    The Quietist

    Dr Lanning, Catherine Stannard and Patrick Hawton are thrown together by a motorway tragedy. Dr Lanning is treating Catherine and Patrick for PTSD, the loss of their loved ones, their different approaches to feeling and dealing with survivor guilt. Through shared therapy sessions, Catherine...
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  • When the Museum Is Closed by Yagi, Emi
    Emi Yagi

    When the Museum Is Closed

    A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void Rika Horauchi's new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus-- in...
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  • 200 Monas by Saenz, Jan
    Jan Saenz

    200 Monas

    For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July-and the darker edge of Breaking Bad and Uncut Gems-comes a whip-smart, irresistible debut novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the...
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  • Addicted Animals A to Z by Miserendino, Sam
    Sam Miserendino

    Addicted Animals A to Z

    Join the Addicted Animals for a twisted and hilarious journey through the alphabet. From acid-dropping alpacas to zebras drinking Zinfandel, the ABCs will never be the same again. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you gave a hedgehog a highball or gave...
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    "Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested." - Franz Kafka, The Trial The Trial by Franz Kafka is the terrifying tale of Josef K. and his surreal arrest. Josef K., a respectable bank officer,...
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  • The Decadent Bestiary by Kunkel, Sam
    Sam Kunkel

    The Decadent Bestiary

    From the Golden Fly to the Wounded Lion, animal tales of decadence, mystery, and the uncanny. An original collection of animal stories and poems from fin-de-siècle England and France, selected, translated, and introduced by Jessica Gossling and Sam Kunkel. Bringing together works by forty...
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  • Nock Loose: Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons by Marlborough, Patrick
    Patrick Marlborough

    Nock Loose: Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons

    Joy is a gifted archer, a retired Olympian and former stuntwoman on a cult Japanese tokusatsu show. Raised by a feckless grifter, her home is Bodkins Point, a tiny country town which annually hosts an ultra-violent medieval festival called "Agincourt." There, the town and...
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  • Veni Vidi Venti by Shoales, Ian
    Ian Shoales

    Veni Vidi Venti

    Author: Ian ShoalesISBN-13: 9798887441641Publisher: PM PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 128Format: Paperback
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  • The Odyseey of Pooh by Sarkis, H. K.
    H. K. Sarkis

    The Odyseey of Pooh

    It's been a rather long time since Winnie-the-Pooh went on an adventure, and he's going to be on a rather exciting one. Pirates, swashbucklers, mice with guns, legally distinct entities, and more that you'll just have to read and find out for yourself. He's...
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  • The Hitch by Levine, Sara
    Sara Levine

    The Hitch

    "A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice."--New York Times From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of...
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  • The Copywriter by Poppick, Daniel
    Daniel Poppick

    The Copywriter

    A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense...
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  • City Attorney's Office: Book Two: The Land of Lollipops and Suckers by Stockwell, Christopher J.
    Christopher J. Stockwell

    City Attorney's Office: Book Two: The Land of Lollipops and Suckers

    In the second installment of his City Attorney's Office series Christopher J. Stockwell takes you through another satirical jaunt through the criminal justice of Seattle.Through antihero Ben, you will get a look behind the curtain of a busy prosecutor's office the way only a...
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  • Acts of God by Gill, Kanan
    Kanan Gill

    Acts of God

    The twenty-first-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.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...
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  • The Call to Celeste (Illustrated Edition) by Mayer, Joshua
    Joshua Mayer

    The Call to Celeste (Illustrated Edition)

    Tucked away on forlorn shores is the harbor town of Celeste, fogged by proxy, plagued by creatures of the abysmal sea. Fallen prey to the Leviathan, a terrible tale sank the town into infamy, and above all mystery. Our vessel, Eliza Marie, heeds the...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to the size of a mouse, or turn you into...
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  • The Castle by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Castle

    Trapped in a bureaucratic quagmire, K., a land surveyor, struggles to gain access to the mysterious, impenetrable Castle, a symbol of unassailable authority. His attempts are met with inexplicable delays, administrative hurdles, and a pervasive sense of alienation. Franz Kafka infuses his narrative with...
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  • BarnYard Heroes: The Havarti Travel Bureau Conspiracy or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cow Zombie Apocalypse by McAdams, Samuel A.
    Samuel A. McAdams

    BarnYard Heroes: The Havarti Travel Bureau Conspiracy or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cow Zombie Apocalypse

    Author: Samuel A. McAdamsISBN-10: 1963968050ISBN-13: 9781963968057Publisher: 21st Century AbsurdistLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2025Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.91d
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  • The Franchiser by Elkin, Stanley
    Stanley Elkin

    The Franchiser

    A tragicomic journey across America as one man attempts to create a fast food empire, and a legacy to leave behind.From the prolific and peerless Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser follows Ben Flesh--one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America...
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  • The Best of Lewis Carroll: Three Titles by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    The Best of Lewis Carroll: Three Titles

    This edition of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll comprises Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There along with Sir John Tenniel's whole original black-and-white illustrations. Carroll's dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass...
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  • Weepers by Mendelsund, Peter
    Peter Mendelsund

    Weepers

    Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services, and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country as...
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  • Smash & Grab by Jarman, Mark Anthony
    Mark Anthony Jarman

    Smash & Grab

    "A Canadian master of the form."--Gregory Cowles, New York TimesTwo men who belong to are part of a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. A woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. A former military policeman, a...
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  • Prometheus for Breakfast: A Darkly Absurd Tale of Death, the Afterlife, and the End of Everything by Tilde, Jack
    Jack Tilde

    Prometheus for Breakfast: A Darkly Absurd Tale of Death, the Afterlife, and the End of Everything

    In the beginning, GOD created the Earth-a profound statement unless you know that by "GOD," I mean the General Observable Dimension corporation, and by "Earth," I refer to their immensely profitable simulation known as human existence.Among GOD's lesser-known creations is Richard, a nobody to...
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  • Sin and Zen by Stribling, S. W.
    S. W. Stribling

    Sin and Zen

    Will Strief has just fallen from the sky... Literally. He is no angel. He is a parachutist for the infamous French Foreign Legion, or he was until one bad jump leaves him shattered: physically, mentally, and spiritually. After a life in the military, jumping...
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  • Lunacy: A Maximalist Nightmare by Garguilo, Jorin
    Jorin Garguilo

    Lunacy: A Maximalist Nightmare

    A father tries his best to unburden his daughter. A doctor risks it all to have a major scientific breakthrough. Fast food workers excel at the food prep routine. A pack of werewolves unleashes a destructive force so terrible it puts all of humanity...
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  • Dancing With Delirium: The Woodhill Park Experience by Bennett, Jack H.
    Jack H. Bennett

    Dancing With Delirium: The Woodhill Park Experience

    Dancing with Delirium is the perfect companion piece for an afternoon of yearning, staring wistfully out over the river in forlorn rigidity. Or a reminder of a happier time immersed in profundity at your last music festival or concert. Or something fun to read...
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  • Reel to Real by Maxim, Jim
    Jim Maxim

    Reel to Real

    A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find himself...
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  • Bring The Jubilee by Moore, Ward
    Ward Moore

    Bring The Jubilee

    Step into a world where history takes a thrilling turn in Ward Moore's "Bring the Jubilee," a masterpiece that has captivated imaginations for generations. Once lost to time, this extraordinary novel is now reborn, lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions for today's and...
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  • The Universe by Matzdorff, Mike
    Mike Matzdorff

    The Universe

    Author: Mike MatzdorffISBN-10: 1967309019ISBN-13: 9781967309016Publisher: Green Crow PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d
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  • Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories by Bernhard, Thomas
    Thomas Bernhard

    Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories

    These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time. Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern literature, he was a young writer testing the limits of form and subject....
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  • The Endless Week by Vazquez, Laura
    Laura Vazquez

    The Endless Week

    From the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age. Like Beckett's novels or Kafka's stranger tales, The Endless Week is a work...
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  • Love in the Time of Fridges by Scott, Tim
    Tim Scott

    Love in the Time of Fridges

    Tim Scott's Outrageous Fortune marked the debut of one of the most wildly inventive writers to hit the sci-fi scene in years. Now he returns with a hilarious yet poignant novel of love, loss, and itinerant appliances."New Seattle Health and Safety. Do not die...
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  • How to Make Sure You Never Get Reincarnated on Planet Earth Ever Again by Holtz, Ronel
    Ronel Holtz

    How to Make Sure You Never Get Reincarnated on Planet Earth Ever Again

    Author: Ronel HoltzISBN-13: 9798230579267Publisher: Ronel HoltzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2025Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d
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  • Nine Stray Shots by Soto, Jm
    Jm Soto

    Nine Stray Shots

    In these nine short stories, absurdity undermines the foundations of reality until there is no turning back: A boy gets trapped between the walls of a building. / Five friends establish a new country inside their apartment and set out to defend it with...
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  • The Game Is Afoot: A Shadow Holmes and Watson Mystery by Raymond, David
    David Raymond

    The Game Is Afoot: A Shadow Holmes and Watson Mystery

    Forbidden from pursuing her calling, Shadow Holmes, the great-granddaughter of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older-and smarter-brother, works for her father selling real estate in Miami. To compound matters, Shadow has no idea her father is the director of The Bee, a clandestine British spy agency,...
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  • Reel to Real by Maxim, Jim
    Jim Maxim

    Reel to Real

    A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find himself...
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  • The Apocalypse Pipe by August, Aaron Echoes
    Aaron Echoes August

    The Apocalypse Pipe

    The Apocalypse Pipe is a unique and varied collection of poems and stories by author Aaron Echoes August. Much of the work in this collection revolves around the struggles of complex individuals existing within the often-suffocating parameters of the human condition. Characters in these...
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    "Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' From this gripping first sentence, The Trial, by Franz Kafka, is a darkly humorous, somewhat terrifying narrative of an ordeal faced by Josephy K.,...
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  • An Interview with Michael Martone by Baker, Matt
    Matt Baker

    An Interview with Michael Martone

    Author: Matt BakerISBN-10: 1949344452ISBN-13: 9781949344455Publisher: Bull City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 160Format: Paperback
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  • The Worm by Bailey, Shawn
    Shawn Bailey

    The Worm

    The Worm is a carnival of body horror and existential satire that will make you laugh, squirm, and question your own reality.When Tad Gruber discovers a parasite lurking in the most intimate depths of his body, his life unravels into a tale of grotesque...
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  • Acts of God by Gill, Kanan
    Kanan Gill

    Acts of God

    The twenty-first-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.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...
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  • Tanuja Ramachandran: Hunter-Seeker by Sivasubramanian, Kumar
    Kumar Sivasubramanian

    Tanuja Ramachandran: Hunter-Seeker

    Forged in tragedy, fueled by vengeance, crippled by narcolepsy When Tanuja Ramachandran's husband and children were murdered, she was transformed into an instrument of retribution against the criminal underworld. Now, years later, she is a devastating weapon, honed and armed to the teeth, and...
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  • The Amazing Twin Chicken Freedom Fighters by Sole, Zephaniah
    Zephaniah Sole

    The Amazing Twin Chicken Freedom Fighters

    The war between the agents of the Worldview Freedom Fighters and the minions of the mysterious Hip Gnosis spills into our reality when Jake and Joy, two lost and broken souls, wake up one day in chicken suits they can't remove and learn they...
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  • Grasping, Letting Go by Carlin, Jack
    Jack Carlin

    Grasping, Letting Go

    Richard Hazzard is in free fall.He is on the verge of something. If he could only figure out what... Drifting through Los Angeles on the night he was supposed to be married, Richard is searching for the truth and running from it. He remains...
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  • We Live Here Now by Rose, C. D.
    C. D. Rose

    We Live Here Now

    DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, and beauty and commerce . . . When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people...
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  • Evans Of The Earth-Guard by Hamilton, Edmond
    Edmond Hamilton

    Evans Of The Earth-Guard

    Author: Edmond HamiltonISBN-10: 9369059989ISBN-13: 9789369059980Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    The Trial (German: Der Process, later Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by...
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  • Polimony by Lawrence, A. B.
    A. B. Lawrence

    Polimony

    Simon is a painter that hasn't painted in a while. Unable to escape the shadow of his vice, he seeks refuge in the releasing warmth of alcohol and the company of his muse, Polimony. Things change as he builds the courage to court his...
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  • The Red Light Starts Blinking by Kane, Jonathon
    Jonathon Kane

    The Red Light Starts Blinking

    Jonathon Kane's debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.Against the backdrop of Australia's simultaneously lush and desolate Blue Mountains, a series of men are set adrift. Displaced...
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  • The Magic Kingdom by Elkin, Stanley
    Stanley Elkin

    The Magic Kingdom

    Brimming with Elkin's comic brilliance and singular wordplay, The Magic Kingdom tells the story of Eddy Bale, who, determined to learn from the ghastly experience of his son's long, drawn-out death, decides to give seven terminally ill children a dream vacation before they die.Abandoned...
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