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"Behold the wisdom of Lord Birthday: a tiny mustachioed king who is as insightful as he is ridiculous. His bite-sized illustrations capture the inherent comedy of being human, and his guidance appeals to anyone who is striving against the odds, believing in both the absurdity and necessity of hope. How to Appear Normal at Social Events is an oddly cheering book of illustrated lists. Largely based on Lord Birthday's popular Instagram account, the book...
2) The harpy
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
3) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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Die Verwandlung ist ein Meisterwerk der Literatur, das der körperlichen und emotionalen Verwandlung von Gregor Samsa, einem jungen Handelsreisenden, nachspürt, der eines Tages als riesiges Insekt erwacht. Gefangen in seiner neuen Gestalt, sieht sich Gregor mit der Isolation und Ablehnung durch seine eigene Familie konfrontiert, die zwar von ihm abhängig ist, sich jedoch vor seinem neuen Aussehen entsetzt. Durch diese schockierende Metamorphose...
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Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature.
The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel.
The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)-and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery-and...
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Three short Sci-Fi stories from Award-winning author Michael Lynes.
The Dust Bunny - Aliens have invaded Professor Ford's bedroom and they have a big problem...
Above All Seems Desolate - Life takes second chances...
The END - All Things Considered - Creation never felt so wrong.
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It's OK if you don't get on with your neighbors over the road. But, what if you and they have some shared, unsavory history? And, what's it like when it's only your house and their house in the same deserted street?
Maybe, one day, they decide to take revenge on you. Then what?
Meet Japser and Jantine. Meet Marc and Marcella. Two lovely young couples on the surface. But, the wrongs of past behaviors bubble away and eventually come to a boiling point...
11) Epistles of hell
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A tale that spans millions of years in the blurry fight of good and evil. The dividing lines tend to disappear.
13) Coming to Reason
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Carrie has committed to an inter-species engagement with Trent, her billionaire boss. Presently, he is eighty percent dreamboat and twenty percent nightmare. When he fires her, so they can become a 'normal couple' everything heads south. Providing her a stark contrast, her new boss, Dan Marshal, is everything a woman could want. But for Carrie, her heart is taken, and thus, the path to reason remains long and arduous. When her relationship with Trent...
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Esta novela-disparate es un atentado terrorista contra la dictadura de lo políticamente correcto. Aquí no hay eufemismos. Las cosas son lo que son. Un enano, una gorda, un homosexual, un negro y un extranjero viven presos de sus estúpidos rencores. Liderados por un psicólogo sin escrúpulos ejecutarán la venganza que promete reparar sus cerebros podridos por el rechazo. Una fiesta de horror y violencia. Pero no por eso deja de ser una fiesta....
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"Reflejos en la Arena Lunar" es un exquisito libro de poesía que transcurre entre las lenguas árabe y español, creando un paisaje lírico que fusiona la realidad terrestre con la perspectiva cósmica. Escrito bajo la fascinante premisa de contemplar el Sahara desde los Mares de la Tranquilidad en la Luna, la obra nos sumerge en un viaje poético que trasciende fronteras. Con un lenguaje rico y evocador, el autor nos transporta a un universo donde...
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Zeek found the first piece of eggshell in his High Country omelette. Don Bronco's more concerned about this than he is.Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell explores the roots of creativity and inspiration. A triptych of sorts. As if Italo Calvino had written Stranger Than Fiction. Familiar and unique, funny and maddening. You'll come away questioning your day to day, seeing your own story in a whole new light. "Half what-the-hell-did-I-just read, half...
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A true hors d'oeuvre, this literary short story is one of the shortest ever published. It is the narration of an unexpected death, of an abrupt, absurd and frustrating stop, of a final point in Russian roulette. A story above all of nothingness and blank pages, the simultaneous end of a narrator, a hero, a reader, a book, the extinction of an entire universe. It is, in a way, a literary abortion. The reader is advised that this book contains a dedication,...
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Can an academic find love and happiness in the field?
The world of academia sees him as an expert on potatoes, but now that he's trying to solve a real world problem, the challenges he faces require real action, even farming. Can he rise to the occasion. Will he find true love in the potato patch, and more importantly can he do it without losing the thread of interlocking Rubaiyat in the process? The combination of hard work and great poetic sensibilities...
20) Fiends
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Was my troubled head to be the frequent theater of horrors for a malicious being?The absurdity of it all went clean through me like a draft emanating from the beating wings of Lucifer.In response I laughed out aloud. An insane chuckle that burrowed into the night with demonic urgency.My lament was purely comical. I was shaking my fist at the skies, imploring a deaf deity to dance to my song. "How so you fool?" I queried myself laughing some more.By...
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