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Have you ever wondered what Big foot does on his day off? Or were hippies really about peace and love? Why are there really so many junked cars in the south? Well sit down and find out about this and more. This is a collection of stories that take place in the world of Harold Hatch cryptid liaison. From magical mishaps to aliens abducting hobos.

Get ready for a rollercoaster ride through the realms of the unexplained, the surreal, and the uproarious. This is a collection of short stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat, make you question reality, and have you laughing out loud. From haunted houses that send shivers down your spine to bizarre encounters that defy logic, and humorous escapades that will leave you in stitches, these stories traverse the entire spectrum of human experience. Each tale is a unique adventure, promising to leave you both perplexed and delighted. Dive into this eclectic mix, where the scary, ...

Se si fugge di notte da Villa Bacilla sulle ali di una diavolessa sexy, sorvolando Tristala assieme a tre equipaggi che si spostano contemporaneamente, può accadere di visitare gli otto mondi alterei della mappa nootica. Capita così di conoscere la terra primordiale di Ermete Trismegisto, Protoplas; i mari incantati di Capitan Guepière a Posidon; i cinquanta casinò e i locali notturni di Bludus; Mnemonia con i suoi fuochi fatui e l'insidia dell'embambolia; Medium con le sue giornate di Beneficenza Ben-evidente.

Charming but flawed Jack was never "right," but that's a lot of what made him magnetic to others. His decades-long deterioration is chronicled in painful detail with a mix of dark humor, tragedy, and brutal self-awareness that is unlike any book you've ever listened to.

Continue Jack's struggle. He never seems to make the right choice, but watching him make the wrong one is usually fairly entertaining. Alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illness plague him and dog any efforts he makes to improve his lot. Watching Jack is like watching a fly buzzing around a window, banging into it again and again, never understanding that there's glass there. A fly doesn't even have a concept of "glass." Similarly, Jack is ignorant to the ins and outs of being human. How long will you watch him buzz around and smack into the glass? Transgressive author Christopher J. ...

As head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose reputations have been ruined by scandal. But Leonard has been managing a strange and debilitating crisis of his own that’s held him captive his entire adult life: Leonard likes to eat soap, pencils, paint chips—anything with no nutritional value. For years, he’s kept his compulsion hidden behind a professional veneer.

Nessuno si aspettava il Contrappasso. Eppure, in una giornata simile a tante altre, gli esseri umani avevano iniziato a morire in modi violenti e atroci. Per motivi sconosciuti uccidere un animale, che fosse un insetto, un mammifero, un pesce, significava condividerne, all’istante, la stessa sorte, e perdere la vita nello stesso modo. Gli eventi di quel giorno sono ormai storia, e il mondo a suo modo si è adattato alla nuova normalità seguendo il Piano di Sopravvivenza, fra squadre di Arginatori, sacrifici al Dovere, punizioni al Ritmo Delta, isole fantasma e colonie di ribelli.

Benjamin Malaussène ha uno strano lavoro, è il capro espiatorio dell'Ufficio Reclami del Grande Magazzino di Parigi. Una cliente è appena uscita dalla sua stanza quando si sente un forte boato. Una bomba, poi due, nel dipartimento giocattoli! Il sospettato numero uno dell'ondata di oscuri attentati è proprio Benjamin. E allora per scoprire chi sia il vero responsabile delle esplosioni si mobiliteranno la sua tumultuosa famiglia e una esilarante banda di personaggi: Thérèse la sorella sensitiva, Jérémy il geniale e pestifero fratello, il Piccolo visionario.

One dark, windy supermoon night in the near future, a woman's ill-timed tarot question rips open a portal between dimensions, unleashing cosmic chaos. Step right up to Venice Peach, a flamboyantly freakish circus on the gritty Venice Beach boardwalk, where bizarre talents and mind-bending spectacles are just the beginning. Get lost in a funhouse maze of reality-shattering events and untamed, sex-fueled showdowns.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

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,...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Un scriitor (întâmplător sau nu, având același nume cu autorul) duce o existență cât se poate de mulțumitoare: singurul conflict autentic din viața lui, după cum ne anunță chiar de la început, este încăpățânarea de a scrie, când, după toate aparențele, nu are de ce. În lipsă de alte frământări, observă în tihnă lumea din jur și începe să ne povestească pe un ton firesc lucruri banale care i se întâmplă, în cartier și prin împrejurimi: o vizită la o clinică de gastroenterologie, prezentarea unor cursuri de scriere creativă la o librărie sau un drum la frizer.

Christopher Newman writing as Pete O'Brien. Previously published as: Eat Like A Girl Twenty-eight-year-old Caitlin Ulmer has just graduated from Stanford with a PhD in Virology and after twenty-one years in academic harness is burned out. When she and her oddball posse of girlfriends visits a Buffalo Wild Wings at a San Jose shopping mall on the 4th of July to watch the annual Nathan’s Coney Island hot dog eating contest, she is both amazed and confused by what she witnesses there. Why is it that World Eating League phenom Tommy Filbert manages to ingest an astonishing seventy-six ...

Siete mai stati nel fantastico paese delle meraviglie? Vi accompagna Alice, una bambina curiosa e coraggiosa che in un bel pomeriggio d'estate, seguendo un curioso coniglio bianco, si ritrova in uno strano paese abitato da creature fantastiche e da animaletti a volte dispettosi. Tratto dalla celebre favola di Lewis Carroll, questo bellissimo Audiobook vi condurrà nel mondo incantato della fantasia. Seguite Alice e i suoi piccoli compagni di viaggio: incontrerete il Coniglio bianco, il Bruco turchino, la Lepre di Marzo, il Cappellaio matto, il Ghignagatto e tutti gli altri incredibili e indimenticabili personaggi di questa bellissima avventura!

You know how they release those "Director’s Cut” versions of movies and they’re mostly self-indulgent nonsense?

Voilà un coin de campagne où l'on a de drôles de façons... La foire aux vieux, par exemple. Curieuse institution ! On sait bien que tous les enfants peuvent voler comme des oiseaux dès qu'ils étendent leurs bras - mais est-ce une raison suffisante pour les enfermer derrière des murs de plus en plus hauts de plus en plus clos ?

Un classico della letteratura inglese per giovani e adulti. L'incanto della fiaba mescolata al surreale. Musiche originali di Ivan Genesio e Manuela Daviddi.

When Dr. Cline offers Dr. Morrison a large sum of money to take a patient off his hands, it should have been a red flag… but Dr. Morrison disregards it. After all, the patient’s condition is nothing out of the ordinary. How difficult can she be?...

Thoroughly absurd and yet all-too-real, My Way to Canossa follows four journeys that re-imagine the Middle Ages amid the political and technological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It isn't an historical novel. It's an exploration of how the present uses the past.

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.