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Lo incontriamo da ragazzino mentre "scarpagna" verso le Bisacconi (le scuole elementari del paese). Sono gli anni '50 e mentre ruba in una vigna un grappolo di schizzozibibbo, Lupetto, così lo chiamano, vede un uomo alto, con una barba immensa e un vecchio cane. È una divinità pagana, sporca come un letamaio, che gli regala una facoltà meravigliosa: un orologio interno, un orobilogio, che gli consentirà di correre avanti nel tempo.

WELCOME TO THE GREAT GAME. You didn’t just pick up a book. You triggered a side quest. Inside these pages are pocket universes stitched together with chaos, caffeine, and the kind of questions you usually ask at 3 a.m. when your Wi-Fi’s out and you’re staring at the ceiling. You’ll meet cursed wanderers who turn paperwork into holy rituals, gods who treat the multiverse like their personal TikTok, and algorithms trying to understand why humans cry over dog videos. This isn’t just a story collection—it’s a playground for anyone who’s ever wanted to poke the universe and see ...

Happy works a dead-end job at the amusement park, biding his time and saving money for a clandestine journey to Europe, where he'll finally land a breakout role. After a nightmarish passage to Italy, Happy still manages to find relief in food and fantasy, even as he is forced into ever-worsening work conditions over a debt he allegedly accrued in transit. But his daydreams grow increasingly at odds with his bleak reality, one shared by so many migrant workers.

Laugh out loud funny! The “West Texas Folks” Series is a satirical, historical saga encompassing three generations of three families from West Texas from the turn of the Twentieth Century to present day. Told with the raw humor of the many characters that include: Grandma Jessie Belle; a flamboyant grandmotherly prostitute who achieved success in her profession of “running the girls” at the local truck stop. Amos; a shrewd and uneducated pioneer of cocaine trafficking that paved the route to the American northeast by networking through the brothels and truck stops up the Mississippi...

✶ Somehow I Got Lost Along the Way ✶ A Side Quest from the Pocket Universe of the Great Game This isn’t the main storyline. This is the secret passage. The detour you weren’t supposed to find. The cosmic margin notes that refused to stay quiet. Somehow I Got Lost Along the Way is a collection of reflections, dialogues, confessions, and tangled myth-fragments from the Pocket Universe of the Great Game—the same vast, layered world explored in the Gate of Aesir series. Here, the rules of the Game twist. Gods trade bets on mortal choices. Emotion itself becomes currency. And ...

En Galerna nunca pasa nada. O eso decían… Hasta que volvió Anisín, cuarentón desempleado y galernino de pura cepa. Recién regresado de una odisea absurda por las Rías Baixas y furioso por un bando municipal que prohíbe los excrementos de perro, decide meterse en política. ¿El resultado? Una candidatura disparatada con un partido que se llama A.N.O., una campaña improvisada entre borracheras, conspiraciones de chigre, caciques seniles, periodistas pesados y rivales aún más bobos que él. Escrita con humor feroz, ritmo endiablado y mucho acento astur, Rediós es una sátira ...

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

This is the story of how A.I. Theoretically Rachel survives in San Francisco and Oakland, helped by other half-A.I. half-humans including Doreen Thing, Vivian Oblivion, and Dead Leslie. They are the Neutrino Girls, anarchistic hackers and squatters empowered by artificial intelligence. Vicious psychiatrist Doctor Cube created these A.I. hybrids in a San Francisco mental hospital. Some of the Neutrino Girls escape and are swallowed by the streets, prostitution, poverty, America's failed Afghanistan War, and the wildness of rogue A.I. Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based American journalist,...

Nowhereness in the World is the English translation of the third volume in the ambitious pentalogy titled The World in Nowhereness (Serbian: Svet u nigdini), originally penned in Serbian. While the third book shares the overarching title of the entire series, this particular edition is differentiated by using Nowhereness in the World (Serbian: Nigdina u svetu). This differentiation specifically refers to the second part of the third book, thereby helping the readers understand the structure of the pentalogy and minimizing any potential confusion. The book blends poetry and prose, so-called ...

Meet Altonio, a housecat with a strategist’s mind and a dictator’s instincts. With her loyal—but chaotic—crew at her side, she rules her brownstone’s backyard kingdom with equal parts grit and grace. There’s Morty, an ambitious alley rat with too much to prove; BABST, a preening pigeon nursing a bruised wing and ego; and Cocktail Hour, her steadfast shiba inu lieutenant.

A DANCING HEART IS A TRUE DELIGHT — IT’S YOURS ! A clever, funny and heart-warming adventure, featuring: a walking mountain with a lofty attitude. a living flame’s bashful romance. an alluring water woman with a sea-thru agenda. and a bellicose country-twanging, very large bag of wind who can sing his way through anything. - Four nature spirits who really need Dargo to pay attention! This story is a whole lot of heart-felt fun, that has been likened to The Wizard of Oz. It really IS something completely different that’s sure to make you smile! Dargo Eco Hero is a Literary Titan Gold...

Sarah Olmes es una inspectora de policía con una increíble capacidad de deducción… que solo ha servido para ganarse la enemistad de toda la comisaría. Desterrada a un despacho sin ventanas —y sin futuro—, se plantea si debería dimitir y dedicarse a repartir propaganda. Hasta que su comisario, el inaguantable José Demás, se deshace de ella enviándola a un nuevo, y en apariencia resuelto, caso: el accidente de un célebre cocinero durante la décima edición del International Competition for Torreznos Unique from Soria.

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 ...

Table of Contents Introduction – 3 Synopsis - 6 Meursault as Hero and Martyr – 10 A Comparison with Pascual Duarte – 12 Why I Feel Sorry for Meursault - 15 Why I Don’t Think that Meursault is a Hero – 18 Conclusion - 21 References - 23 If anyone asks yours truly, “What’s your favorite book ever?”, the answer for me is easy: Albert Camus’s The Stranger. I’ve read a little about the book’s author who tragically died at at a young age in a traffic accident in 1960. Even so, I can’t say that I really know or understand this man. Put another way, I can’t say that ...

The only adaptation that powerfully reimagines Albert Camus's The Stranger! When you feel unsupported by those around you, as if the world is singling you out for blame, When you find yourself wanting to condemn your own immorality, That's when you need this book.

John hosted the first Xmas party on December 19th, the day before the dorm officially kicked everyone out. Rob, John, Mark, Vincent and Connie Franks from the 6th floor crowded into John's room and watched the first tape that his dad ever produced. It starred a big dick heroin addict, too strung out to make it in Los Angeles alongside three zombies – one male, one female and one too decomposed to tell. The male zombie was ramming into the indeterminate. The camera moved to the heroin porn star. The drug pasted his skin to his muscles. He wore his bleached hair long. The three zombies ...

Dive into the mythic in Jonah’s Map of the Whale and Other Poems, a daring and dazzling collection from Anthony Doyle (author of Hibernaculum). In the submerged world of Flounder— part everyman, part flatfish—shipwrecked longing, philosophical wit, and lyrical precision converge. Doyle’s sea-born metaphors shimmer with heartbreak, absurdity, and revelation across the tide pools of memory and myth. From underwater boathouses to data-streamed cubicles, Doyle threads ancient voices through postmodern pulses. Featuring Flounder, Blundra, Alex Iden Gray, and more, this collection drifts ...

"Il fu Mattia Pascal", il romanzo più famoso e amato di Pirandello, scritto nel 1903, ruota attorno al tema dell'individualità e dell'introspezione. Il bibliotecario Mattia Pascal fugge da un matrimonio infelice a Montecarlo, dove riesce a vincere una discreta somma. Tornando a casa scopre dal giornale di essere morto. Subito si inventa un'altra identità, convinto di poter cambiare vita, ma inesorabilmente si ritroverà prigioniero delle convenzioni e delle regole cui ha tentato di sottrarsi.

Unmask the World Stage: A Journey Through Media Fakery and Psyops (IPS Deprogram Book 2) Step into The Hollow Moon Diner, where secrets hum like neon and truth hides in plain sight. Join Tim and Jack—two sharp-eyed outsiders with wings, scales, and a knack for unraveling lies—as they dissect a world engineered to deceive. From viral stabbings to crowdfunded chaos, every headline is a psyop, every narrative a trap. Based on the electrifying 5/6/25 IPS Morning Deprogram transcript, this AI-crafted tale rips the veil off media manipulation, exposing Disease X as a mind virus, Mr. Beast as ...

Huesudo es un huesero que suele cargar su camioneta con restos de vacas de las carnicerías. Tiene una manera peculiar de hablar y filosofar sobre la vida en su país, Argentina. Siempre trabaja acompañado del Negro, amigo que siempre le espera para cobrar por su trabajo... y el Guacho, que cobra in situ sus honorarios de ser fiel en la cuesta de la vida. Cuento escrito con mucho lunfardo rioplatense, si usted no pertenece al cono sur, Argentina o Uruguay, es posible que no entienda mucho de la jerga cotidiana originada por la fusión (y deformación) de oleadas de inmigrantes llegadas en ...