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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Imagined Homecoming of Icarus Isakov by Wiley, Steve
    Steve Wiley

    The Imagined Homecoming of Icarus Isakov

    A homecoming tale unlike any other, The Imagined Homecoming of Icarus Isakov recounts the fantastical return home of goblin anti-hero and puckish narrator, Icarus Isakov.When Icarus receives a mysterious letter from the long-lost girl next door, he returns to the ghost town of his...
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  • Vhs by Campanioni, Chris
    Chris Campanioni

    Vhs

    Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth.While collecting the scattered stories...
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  • Bury My Heart With A Keyboard: A Collection by Morris, Jacy
    Jacy Morris

    Bury My Heart With A Keyboard: A Collection

    Jacy Morris' collection is an assault on Indigenous identity and stereotypes, an exploration of what it means to be Indigenous in a world where identity is commercialized and weaponized. 13 stories of the past, present, and future, all exploring different aspects of our world....
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  • Dreamscape 2020 by Rask, Erik
    Erik Rask

    Dreamscape 2020

    Author: Erik RaskISBN-13: 9798893166644Publisher: Selfpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2024Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.24d
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  • The Orphean by Antonelli, David
    David Antonelli

    The Orphean

    A YouTube men's fragrance and fashion influencer wanders across an unfamiliar city to meet his estranged daughter on the 'day of his eternal damnation'.On his way, he encounters a host of unsettling experiences and strange characters including 'the cloud lady' an elderly woman with...
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  • Five Minutes From Chaos: A hilarious satire of academia, love, and modern life by Downs, William Missouri
    William Missouri Downs

    Five Minutes From Chaos: A hilarious satire of academia, love, and modern life

    Funny, fast-moving, and thought-provoking, Five Minutes from Chaos tells the story of Charlie Neb, a philosophy professor who spends his days lecturing to anxiety-filled frat boys and cheerleaders.One day he tells a joke and is canceled. The problem is that neither he nor his...
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  • Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024-1984 by Barwin, Gary
    Gary Barwin

    Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024-1984

    A new collection of stories by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984-2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin's...
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  • Deep Fried by Doyon, Mark
    Mark Doyon

    Deep Fried

    Author: Mark DoyonISBN-13: 9798985035360Publisher: Wampus MultimediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
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  • Walker by Pasternack, Sam
    Sam Pasternack

    Walker

    Author: Sam PasternackISBN-10: 1954158297ISBN-13: 9781954158290Publisher: Humorist BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2024Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
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  • Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by McGhee, Molly
    Molly McGhee

    Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

    Author: Molly McGheeISBN-10: 1662602707ISBN-13: 9781662602702Publisher: Astra HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 304Format: Paperback
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  • Agonies by Faulkner, Ben
    Ben Faulkner

    Agonies

    In the tradition of Albert Camus, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai, the archetype of the savage young man at the precipice returns in Ben Faulkner's hypnotic debut, The Agonies. Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of...
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  • The Academy of Reality by Putnam, Steve
    Steve Putnam

    The Academy of Reality

    A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits, lab's birdseed expenses, and pigeons' ping pong scores....
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  • Force Majeure by Wagner, Bruce
    Bruce Wagner

    Force Majeure

    Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of Hollywood's twisted class system that proved Bruce Wagner was not just an...
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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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  • Jackpot. by Sears, Ian
    Ian Sears

    Jackpot.

    Destitute in the desert, Jos? is resigned to a life of solitude and poetry until one day the bank comes knocking. Left with almost nothing, Jos? decides to honor his late Mama's wishes and travels to America to make it big. After a chance...
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  • How the Dead Dream by Millet, Lydia
    Lydia Millet

    How the Dead Dream

    A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out-of-the-closet father After his mother's suicide attempt and...
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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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