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Tony Dodds has a new suit, an old handler, and a tiny window of opportunity. The suit is dove-grey, bespoke, and tailored for a twelve-inch French bulldog. The handler is Nora Giles — the one person from his former life he's actually glad to see. And the window is biological: the longer Tony stays in this body, the less of him there'll be to bring back. MI5 has a proposition. One mission, and they'll dedicate the full resources of the British government to reversing his condition. The mission: go viral, get cast in a Hollywood blockbuster, and use a film shoot in a Central Asian ...

With the shadow of the Flayed Monarch looming ever closer, Dan must prepare the store and himself for the battle to come. To stand a chance, he’ll need to expand his operations, broker a precarious trade deal with the Delvers of Howlers Hold, and transform his stash of relics into an arsenal of magical war crimes.

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...

Inherit money. Inherit power. Inherit everything from the father he never knew. Sean Costello’s life just went from zero to a hundred million in the blink of an eye. But in Las Vegas, every fortune has a price. A stunning casino, a penthouse overflowing with secrets, and a harem of women who are as dangerous as they are desirable. Between the matriarch of the house, a loyal but suspicious childhood friend, and a dangerously tempting maid, Sean quickly discovers how easily pleasure and danger can intertwine. Note: This book contains mature themes.

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step into a world where each fleeting moment holds infinite mystery and strangeness, where the natural and the surreal collide in whispers of wind, frost, and starlight. In Miniscule Madness: Weird Poetry Vol 6, every line compresses entire universes of wonder, unease, and cosmic humor into just a few heartbeats. Whether it's stars that melt into fields of forgotten moons, wolves howling with human voices, or leaves that sigh with lost names, these poems capture fragments of reality and spin them into something entirely otherworldly. ...

A Tony Dodds se le acaba el tiempo, y las personas que le metieron en este cuerpo preferirían que se le acabara en silencio. La degeneración avanza. Las palabras se escurren. Los instintos se agudizan. La mente humana dentro del bulldog francés se va apagando, y el compuesto que podría revertir el proceso sigue fuera de su alcance. Para conseguirlo, el MI5 envía a Tony a China bajo cobertura: una exposición tecnológica en Shenzhen, Mike y Wendy de acompañantes, y la promesa de que el compuesto estará esperando a su regreso. Tony sabe que la promesa tiene trampilla. Lo que no sabe ...

Un escritor judío de mediana edad ha decidido probar suerte en el género de la novela y el teatro para expresar su ansiedad por todo lo que existe. Su tercer matrimonio está en crisis y sospecha que su apuesto y exitoso hermano menor y su vecino podrían haber seducido a su bella esposa, educada en Harvard. Asher Baum siente una culpa infinita por no haber enterrado a su padre con un mandil de borrego. Entonces descubre un secreto sorprendente que podría causar estragos si lo revela. ¿Debería guardárselo o revelarlo y arruinar su matrimonio?

The Metamorphosis tells the unsettling story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into something entirely unexpected: “a monstrous insect.” This is not just a novel about physical transformation but also a deep reflection on alienation and loneliness. The listener will not only to enjoy Kafka’s incomparable style but also to confront the vital questions that only a masterpiece can provoke.

From the first bite to the final crumb, this is the saga of that biscuit, told with the seriousness it never asked for and the depth it could never deserve. Along the way, hunger wrestles with hesitation, distractions arrive in the form of a knock at the door and phantom phone calls, and the great philosophical questions of our time are asked—such as whether regret tastes different when it is edible, and why the fridge is always worth checking at least three times.

À la fin du siècle, une figure du Décadentisme invoque un démon sans visage: l’absurde. Dans ce roman où le réel se lézarde, les certitudes vacillent, les élans et les répulsions se heurtent, et la condition humaine affleure, mise à nu. Fidèle à une esthétique anti-réaliste, la narration glisse entre clairvoyance et vertige, mêlant trouble, ironie sombre et élégance vénéneuse, pour sonder ce qui nous meut quand toute logique se défait.

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws, and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: She makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing time.

A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women - who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive “feminine” passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company.

Oskar Matzerath ist anders. Mit drei Jahren beschließt er, nicht weiter zu wachsen. Der groteske Außenseiter betrachtet die Welt mit schonungslos-sarkastischem Blick "von unten". Sein ständiger Begleiter ist eine Blechtrommel. Mit ihr ertrommelt er sich Distanz, fordert, schreckt auf. Wird sie ihm genommen, setzt er sich mit einem Schrei zur Wehr, der Glas zerspringen lässt. So absonderlich der zornige Zwerg ist, so frei ist er. Oskar ist ein unerbittlich scharfsinniger Beobachter des Danziger Kleinbürgertums im "Dritten Reich".

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.

Mona Kitt has it all. A high-powered job at Kline Turner Solutions. Expensive taste. A revolving door of suitors. And… the ability to see the future. This has, of course, afforded her the luxury of staying three steps ahead of everyone around her. She sees future lovers, future opportunities, and future scandals to use as blackmail fodder. But unfortunately for Mona, she also sees Death, and she's in a race against time to save her soul. Can Mona confront her past to change her future?

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.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.

Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.

Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach – pur, ungekürzt, virtuos. Man schrieb das Jahr 2002, als Dirk Bach ins Studio ging und seine charakteristische Stimme dem berühmten Käpt'n Blaubär, dem Held des ersten Romans von Walter Moers, seine Stimme lieh. Und so wurde der phantastische Kontinent Zamonien samt seiner Bewohner von Bachs leidenschaftlicher Virtuosität zum Leben erweckt: