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Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble.

Winner of the Locus Award and CIBA Mark Twain grand prize, The Man Who Saw Seconds is a gripping speculative fiction thriller, blending absurdist satire and adrenaline-charged suspense, about a New York man who can see five seconds into the future—which changes his life forever; perfect for...

“A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.” —The 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 her previously...

Humor is healthy. Author & narrator Alfonso F.R. provides a vital tool for snapping millions out of hip-hop hypnosis, this audiobook. You’ve heard a disgusting hip-hop song today, haven’t you? The most pervasive poison in society is difficult to avoid.

The first Czech astronaunt navigates the perilf of deep space in this intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery. Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first...

Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, he’s never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look up. Then the sun explodes....

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....

Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare...

“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 transfixed by her voice. This is a book that looks at identity and...

"Metafísica de los tubos" cuenta los primeros tres años de vida de un ser obsesionado por el agua...

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school. Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked him fifteenth on...

“Here, at last, is someone doing something new.” —The New York Times “The style is George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh.” —The Guardian “The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest.” —Gary Shteyngart A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of...

“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—Observer Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine, filled with a...

A gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control....

With unforgettable characters, witty humor, and a unique concept, "A Universe Less Traveled" is essential for fans of alternate history and adventures in parallel worlds.

From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the...

Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest.....

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 of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s...

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination. Sayaka Murata has proven...

Una novela crítica, divertida y reflexiva sobre la adicción, el consumismo y la soledad de la sociedad norteamericana, desde una perspectiva de gran sabiduría y sentido del humor.

Harold, a middling literature professor at a liberal arts college, lives in a state of dissatisfaction and fear. His colleagues and students evoke nothing but disgust and disdain. None of them understand strength, power, and spiritual actualization like he does.

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....

Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the voice that reminds her of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three's Company....

One morning, upon waking from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself in his bed transformed into a monstrous vermin. With that sentence — one of the most famous in all of literature — Franz Kafka set in motion a text that would permanently alter how we understand fiction, the absurd, and the invisible machinery of family life. First published in 1915, The Metamorphosis tells the final days of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who single-handedly supports his family and who, after an inexplicable transformation, discovers that their love has very precise limits — the limits of ...

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 of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s...

An artificial intelligence developer struggles to find an employer who knows how to use his knowledge and intelligence. His life is also plagued by the memory of an older man who promised him love when he was still a teenager and instead betrayed his trust. His eventual success in the computer industry is again clouded by the psychotic manipulation of a married police commandant who promises love but delivers anguish and violence. Will he find peace and the joy of a true romantic partnership? Joseph F. Delgado is the author of novels such as Our Father Takes a Bride, That Other Plague, The ...

He is not imprisoned. He is not accused. He is not denied care. He is processed. In a world that believes certain histories are finished, one man remains. He insists on identifying as Palestinian. The system is patient. It offers food, shelter, medical care, and assistance. It offers alternatives. Regional. Former. Unspecified. Everything needed to move forward is available, except recognition. Because recognition would mean continuity. As files circulate and committees meet, his case becomes an anomaly. Not dangerous. Not urgent. Just incompatible. While the system delays, time does what ...

A tender, poetic journey through the seasons of a woman’s life — where love, loss, and renewal move out of rhythm with the world around her. Life rarely unfolds in time with the seasons. While spring promises new beginnings, she faces the loss of her mother. As summer blazes, her marriage unravels in the heat. In autumn, career and certainty fall away like leaves. And when winter comes, she sits alone beside the fire, learning to be warmed by memory rather than company.