Absurdist

Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldrá, una vez más....

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all....

Uniquely humorous and deeply profound, Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of a 1960s third grader during a single day in class....

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet, causing another man to die in his place.

FonoLibro, el líder en audiolibros en español, celebra los 400 años de la obra mas importante y universal de nuestra lengua Las Aventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha....

One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of....

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life....

In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout-and potential jail time?

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 existence....

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter, anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes....

Melvin Levin is a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, he was until he received a mysterious death threat in the mail....

A darkly thrilling take on the fashion world - and soon to be a major television series on E! - #FashionVictim is Heathers meets The Devil Wears Prada....

An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery....

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who’s promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.

Anthony Marra’s The Lion’s Den is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be listened to in a single setting....

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

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....

A parallel universe. South Texas. Narcotics are legal, and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous heads, and filtered animals - species of animals brought back from extinction to clothe, feed, and generally amuse the very wealthy....

Jonathan Abernathy is a self-proclaimed loser . . . he’s behind on his debts, has no prospects, no friends, and no ambitions. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he’s found his big break....

What would you do if you discovered that you were disappearing? Not physically, but a piece at a time: all tangible evidence that you exist as a person—beginning with your driver's license, bank accounts and your birth certificate....

A blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter’s fresh, pointed debut explores a strange new world in the wake of a benign alien invasion....

Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture....

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—Y/N is a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction....

Rule #1 for your first job... do not fall for your Billionaire Boss! My dream job in the big city came with a brooding billionaire, Christian ...

Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and witty.

Jenlena and Daphne are two aimless humanities grads living in a crumbling Montreal when animals besiege cities and towns across the world, terrorizing their human residents. Though shocking, the threat is quickly neutralized when the animals are killed en masse for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena is transformed, shaking off her characteristic passivity to capitalize on other people’s heartbreak and grief by selling plants that have come to replace pets, and impersonating dogs for pay.

From New York Times Bestselling Author, HP Mallory (co-author of the bestselling Haven Hollow series), comes a brand new paranormal women’s fiction series! An irreverent, sexy, and hysterical romp through the tarot… KATE: After inheriting my aunt’s crappy castle in the rinky dink town of Maplewood, Vermont, my life will never be the same again. I’m not even slightly exaggerating. So why the pity party? Well, first off, I’m now a celestial guardian (called a Daughter of the Moon) and prior to moving here, I didn't even read my horoscope. Second, I’m the caretaker of a talking ...

Have you ever wondered what Big foot does on his day off? Or were hippies really about peace and love? Why are there really so many junked cars in the south? Well sit down and find out about this and more. This is a collection of stories that take place in the world of Harold Hatch cryptid liaison. From magical mishaps to aliens abducting hobos.

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet, causing another man to die in his place. Government agencies become aware of Preble's gift, a manhunt ensues, and their ambitions shift from law enforcement to military R&D. Preble will do whatever it takes to protect his family, but as events spiral out of control, he must weigh the cost of his gift against the loss of his humanity.

Jenlena and her best friend Daphne are two humanities grads in their early 20s, trying to find their way in a society that has just eradicated all animals for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena transforms from an aspiring poet to a gig worker, capitalizing on other people’s grief by selling house plants that have come to replace pets and cosplaying as dogs for pay. Meanwhile Daphne, a once-promising student, flounders in a deep depression, smoking weed and ditching work to hang out with her once famous, now canceled boyfriend.

If the part of you that caused self-doubt had a face, would you recognize it? If your tendency to self-destruct had a name, would you know it? Told with humor, empathy and a driving narrative, Mountain Lion Blues by Adam Greenfield is a surreal, dark comedy about the obstacles we place in our way that keep us from the love, success and well-being we've been taught since childhood are ours to expect. Part absurdist love story and part existential noir, Mountain Lion Blues speaks to the mountain lion-sized hole in all of us.

In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout—and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world's biggest problems to "eradicate forever."

Are you a Law & Order Junkie? Then take the challenge. Read each chapter. Find the evidence. Solve the case. Become a Couch Detective.

The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.

He's the Silver-fox Billionaire CEO who pushes my limits and ignites my desires. I'm his assistant, his secret, and the one woman he can't resist. Balancing his advances with job security tests my resolve. Despite his tough exterior, his vulnerabilities draw me closer. When danger strikes, Trent becomes my protector, whisking me away from my troubles. Despite his wealth and influence, I fear the forbidden love growing between us. But can love flourish in a world where we're worlds apart? His charm broke my resistance, leading to a passionate encounter with lasting repercussions. A startling...

Protecting my daughter becomes intertwined with shielding Ana from looming danger. She's unraveling my guarded world, making me feel things I never expected. My life was under control. A successful CEO, running a billion-dollar empire and raising my daughter alone. Chaos erupted after my best friend died and my crazy ex-fiancé came back to town. I need to keep it together while fighting for custody of my daughter. Ana, my sexy young assistant, is the last person I should be getting close to, but I'm drawn to her in ways I can't comprehend. We're entangled in a love that's forbidden, ...

Rule #1 for your first job... do not fall for your Billionaire Boss! My dream job in the big city came with a brooding billionaire, Christian Kincaid. Despite his harshness, he is captivating. His gruff demeanor hides a man who fiercely protects his daughter. Our stolen kiss revealed our attraction is undeniable, but it's off-limits. As our enemies collaborate, looming danger threatens to break down everything. My guarded heart was shattered by my single dad boss. Fate intervened and we can't deny our feelings any longer. Now I want to wake up in his arms every morning and be the mommy that...

The Earth is my Ant Farm, The Creational School gave it to me but I'm a bit bored with it now. A bigger boy threw a rock at it in the classroom and wiped out all my dinosaurs, I liked them. Now I'm stuck with the ants and they like to multiply. I have a favourite Ant, his name is Derek. This is about him, he likes to travel. He doesn't know how but I will tell him one day.

As Rose Andrews steps into the world of flight attendants, she's thrilled to be part of an airborne family she never knew she needed. But amidst the camaraderie, an unexpected attraction takes flight, entangling her heart in unexpected turbulence.

Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself?