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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...

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

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE...

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly...

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....

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....

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...

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.

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...

“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...

“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...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he...

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.

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own....

“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The Atlantic After salaryman Hanio...

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....

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....

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....

“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...

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 . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic...

A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing....

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....

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....

In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early 20s and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood....

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly...

Traga a descrição no chat, já formatada com negritos e itálicos. 13:25 The complete text of both Alice novels — unabridged, carefully formatted, and followed by three critical essays that transform a childhood favorite into a book you'll never read the same way again. Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. Together, they've been translated into 174 languages, quoted in Supreme Court rulings, adopted by the Surrealists as secret scripture, and used in every logic textbook written since. They remain two of the strangest, ...

According to a recent survey, millions of people in the UK and US claim to have sampled "Canine Cuisine" at least once in the last year. However, due to its underground nature, the rearing and preparation of dogs for human consumption remains firmly below the radar. Recipes are handed down from generation to generation as part of a largely undocumented oral tradition. This groundbreaking, taboo-busting book brings together both modern and traditional recipes into a single unified volume of delicious treats. From boundary-pushing modern classics such as "Bitchin' Black Bean Sauce" and "...

What if the most dangerous decisions do not feel like decisions at all? He does not give orders. He does not choose outcomes. He signs. Each document is precise. Each process is justified. Each action is necessary. And every time, Authorization granted. At first, it feels procedural. Administrative. Neutral. But language begins to shift. Responsibility begins to dissolve. Repetition turns action into routine. Unintended losses. Acceptable parameters. Necessary measures. Until one realization becomes unavoidable. Understanding changes nothing. The system continues. The signatures remain. The...

Ayn Rand and the Refusal of the Abyss Ayn Rand enters the existential field not as a participant but as its counter‑figure - the thinker who accepts the existential demand for self-authorship while rejecting the ontological conditions that make that demand tragic, unstable, and ethically charged. Her protagonists stand in the same architectural posture as the existential subject: solitary, defiant, self-authorizing, and unwilling to submit to the world’s interpretive machinery. Yet the ground beneath them is fundamentally different. Where the existentialists begin from contingency, ...