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Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail.

Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead. Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.

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....

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 young woman tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend.

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

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....

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.

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

From one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls “Genius” comes a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning.

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....

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....

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

In the fading days of late summer, 2011, self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’ time—on September 21, at approximately 9:20 pm—ending the world as we know it....

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go.

A surrealist story of mourning and messiahs, deserts and droughts, cowboys and junkies, miracles and mass hysteria, the lure of despair and the solace of friendship. Peter Mendelsund's Weepers is a novel for this age: our age of anesthesia and anger.

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.

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

Este gran libro fue publicado por primera vez hace más de 400 años, y Oyelo.com lo invita a disfrutar de la obra más grande de Miguel de Cervantes....

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....

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....

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

Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach – pur, ungekürzt, virtuos. Man schrieb das Jahr 2002, als Dirk Bach ins Studio ging und seine...

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.

The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.

"Ashes of the Hollow Crowns" is a poetic odyssey. Spanning 21 years of visionary exploration, this masterpiece traces the soul of a broken kingdom—and the two unlikely hearts destined to heal it. Once radiant and wise, the kingdom of Eryndor fell to ruin under the weight of its own desires. Greed choked its rulers, selfishness divided its people, and the lust for power drowned its spirit. The land withered. Its kings wore hollow crowns. Its people forgot who they were. But amid the ashes, two souls rose. Caldus Varn, a weary knight burdened by the sins of his order, and Elowen, a young ...

✶ 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 ...

Welcome to the front porch of Possum Neck, Arkansas—where the tea is sweet, the air is thick with crickets and mischief, and Grandpa Charlie’s rocking chair creaks with more secrets than a preacher at a pie auction. In That Reminds Me of a Story, you’re about to experience twenty outrageous, side-splitting, and possibly-not-entirely-true tales straight from the mouth of the South’s most animated storyteller. From possessed hams and time-warping lawnmowers to ghost-filled outhouses and championship possum pageants, these stories walk the fine line between “that never happened” ...

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.

En esta colonia, un antiguo comandante ha implementado una máquina de tortura y ejecución extremadamente cruel y elaborada, que graba en la piel del prisionero el motivo de su castigo antes de matarlo. A medida que el oficial observa horrorizado el funcionamiento de la máquina, se ve envuelto en un conflicto moral sobre la justicia, la crueldad y el poder.

El grito del muerto de H. P. Lovecraft, narra los resultados de las investigaciones del Dr. Herbert West sobre la muerte y la reanimación de los cuerpos, desde sus tiempos de estudiante en la ficticia Universidad Miskatonic hasta poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Bei abendlicher Heimkehr von der Arbeit räsonniert Blumfeld über sein Leben als Junggeselle, die Vor- und Nachteile des Alleinseins, den Wunsch nach einem Begleiter, wenigstens eines Beobachters seines einsamen Lebens. Vor- und Nachteile eines Hundes: einerseits immer erfreut, ihn zu sehen, andererseits Träger von Schmutz und gegebenenfalls schlimmen Krankheiten. Bei Ankunft in seiner Wohnung findet er tatsächlich zwei Begleiter vor, aber gänzlich andere als gedacht...

C. J. Cannatelli returns with this disturbing collection of tales to keep you up at night. In this collection, a college student is traumatized by a family heirloom, a sleepwalking man wakes up in a living hell, and many more new stories.

In the soul-crushing beige of an Idaho IRS office, where fluorescent lights hum endless and the radio loops forgotten hits, Elliot toils over tax forms, auditing losses that mirror his own. Trapped in a purgatory of mildew-stained carpets and petty office wars, he’s haunted by dreams he never chased, a life unlived. Amid the droning despair of coworkers reduced to shadows, each clinging to their rituals of donuts, weather reports, and futile team-building, a spark of chaos ignites, threatening to unravel the fragile order.