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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. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat—and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a “threatened man.” But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding himself to the twin dangers of the threat itself and—perhaps worse—his own deranged mind.

Percy and Pigeon live in separate apartments on the fourteenth floor of that strange building on Thirteenth Street, the brown building with brown trim, elevator that squeaks, rooftop that's out-of-bounds, basement that's always locked, tenants that haven't seen a marriage in thirty-three years . . . . . . haven't seen a marriage in thirty-three years, until the marriage of Percy and Pigeon, that is. Will their marriage change things for the tenants of this building? Will the basement get breached? Might the rooftop be reached? Recommended only for those who've considered reading the Bible ...

בוקר אחד, באמצע החיים, מתעוררת נעמה נוימן למציאות חדשה. בעלה, אדם בריא ונמרץ, מדריך טיולים, מודיע לה שאינו יכול לקום מן המיטה. למן הפתיחה הזאת, המזכירה את פתיחת...

Escritor checo en lengua alemana. Nacido en el seno de una familia de comerciantes judíos, Franz Kafka se formó en un ambiente cultural alemán, y se doctoró en derecho. Pronto empezó a interesarse por la mística y la religión judías, que ejercieron sobre él una notable influencia y favorecieron su adhesión al sionismo.

Never fall for your hot young fake fiancé… It's simple, convince my family the engagement to my new secretary is real, if it works, the yacht club’s mine. The trouble is…I don’t do relationships. And I don’t do marriage. Being Star Island’s most eligible billionaire, you’d think getting her to say yes would be easy. But faking it gets complicated. I can do anything for a short time except getting stuck on a yacht with this smok’n hottie. The thought of those thick thighs wrapped around my neck ignites a blaze in me and I can’t keep my hands off her. But Isabella’s half ...

The US state of Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. So when Alexander and Alexandra Anderson decide to fill in their backyard lake, it unleashes a wave of emotion that shakes the town, the state, and eventually the nation itself. But all big things start as small things, and the story of the Alex Andersons of Edina, Minnesota, is no different. They are native Minnesotans (which means they are of Swedish descent), and they get married soon after college. Children do not arrive in the first few years, and as our two Alexes grow up, it starts to become quite clear that while the ...

In the beginning, GOD created the Earth—a profound statement unless you know that by "GOD," I mean the General Observable Dimension corporation, and by "Earth," I refer to their immensely profitable simulation known as human existence. Among GOD's lesser-known creations is Richard, a nobody to everyone on Earth except his beloved wife and children. After his sudden demise, Richard finds himself in a transformed version of Hell—an unlikely utopia built upon a foundation of smothered fire and brimstone by its inhabitants.

A ROLLICKING, ENTERTAINING RIDE THE PAGEANT OF DYSFUNCTION is an absurdist novel about the life of Ivan Spinoza, a fictional descendant of philosopher Baruch Spinoza who suffers from a cascade of modern ills, including bipolar disorder, beginning from his youth in the 1970s up until his battle in his fifties with Covid. The novel evokes the works of Saul Bellow, notably THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH, but with a tilted worldview reminiscent of Tom Robbins. Ivan Spinoza is a boy, and later a man, who either can’t or won’t change. Raised in Queens, New York, by a father who sells toupees ...

The relatives have gathered again in New York for their annual Christmas Eve dinner at 8. The only problem is they are all a bunch of raving lunatics. Unfortunately for Bubba, the family social outcast, he has to join them this year on the hour. See how it all unfolds as his aunt undresses, a monkey gets loose in the house, a pet rat shows up for dinner and an unexpected visitor slides down the chimney.

THE AUTHOR is a dark absurdist take on the artist as a young man in a world damaged by social media, designer drugs, and the dark underbelly of Hollywood. The anonymous author of the saga peels back the curtain to reveal the inner life of a one-day superstar (or sociopath) desperate to become famous by any means necessary, who one day does, and pulls off one of the greatest public relations stunts in entertainment history.

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence.

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.

Am Morgen seines dreißigsten Geburtstages wird der Bankangestellte Josef K. verhaftet. Doch wieso? Er hat keinerlei Schuldbewusstsein. Auch kann er sich weiterhin frei bewegen und seiner Arbeit nachgehen. K. will herausfinden, was vorgeht, und dringt immer tiefer in einen labyrinthischen Albtraum einer Bürokratie, in der es keine Antworten gibt... Kafkas Romanfragment wurde nach seinem Tode veröffentlicht.

“Fantastic!” —the actual Jeff Goldblum (for real) The essential companion for any fan of Jeff Goldblum, Hollywood’s most beloved and otherworldly icon. You like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum. So lie back, Jurassic Park-style, and prepare...

From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.

After accepting a vague invitation, a writer finds himself at a mysterious and secluded hotel. He wants to checkout more than he wants to understand the bizarre situation unfolding around him, but an alluring journalist and an antagonistic desk manager complicate things. In this dreamlike, absurdist novel, Marco Cavazos explores themes like nature versus technology, and asks philosophical questions about life and existence all while never taking any of it too seriously. Surreal and funny.

Greg Host is a normal guy. Or at least he was 6'2", mid-level retail manager, owner of one judgmental cat. But when he notices he’s a fraction shorter one morning, his ordinary life begins to unravel one inch at a time. No one believes him. Doctors shrug. His mom blames dehydration. And the universe? It just keeps laughing.

Evil does not arrive screaming. It arrives explaining. Idiot: Evil’s Advocate is a philosophical novel about complicity, language, and the quiet mechanisms by which cruelty becomes reasonable. This is not a thriller, nor a story of monsters or possession. It is an interior descent into how justification itself can become a moral anesthetic. A philosopher, once devoted to clarity and truth, begins to experience a dialogue with a Voice that claims to be reason. The Voice does not threaten or command. It argues. Patiently and politely, it reframes faith as order, order as efficiency, and ...

È l'anno 2156: da una Parigi sotterranea e da un mondo ghiacciato dalle guerre nucleari, parte un'incredibile corsa spaziale, verso una nuova terra più vivibile. Contro la Proteo Tien, la scassatissima astronave sineuropea, e il suo ancor più scassato equipaggio, scendono in campo due colossali imperi: l'Impero militare samurai, con una miniastronave su cui un generale giapponese guida sessanta topi ammaestrati, e la Calalbakrab, la reggia volante del tiranno amerorusso, il Grande Scorpione.

Una notte in una casa nel bosco, un gatto fantasma affida a Prendiluna, una vecchia maestra in pensione, una Missione da cui dipendono le sorti dell'umanità. I Diecimici devono essere consegnati a dieci Giusti. È vero o è un'allucinazione? A partire da questo momento non saprete mai dove vi trovate, se in un mondo onirico farsesco e imprevedibile, in un sogno Matrioska in un Trisogno profetico, se state vivendo nel delirio di un pazzo o nella crudele realtà dei nostri tempi.