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Floating voyeuristically above the endless Northern steppe lands - banished for falling in love with a flaw - a former pornographer of the divine finds his destiny entwined with that of two unlikely adventurers. Primordial Wild Boar sage and snowy-minded Goat - the marvellous Mr K and Charles. Together, they launch forth on an unparalleled quest through mind-bending dimensions of radness - to reconcile the poles of the world, and not get eaten.In...
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Finding a place to live is tough. There isn't a lot of places available, and when they are, they are crazy expensive. A group of punks and drop-outs have discovered the decent enough place to live: in the back of old paperbacks. It is simple living, but there is no rent. And because people ignore old books, they are pretty much left alone. They eat punctuation and hunt animals that are also loose in the old books. These stories are of those who live...
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It is, in a way, difficult to write about a book that is, in essence, a compilation of various short stories that were written across the span of two decades. An accident in a swimming pool, a Town that holds a celebration of human speech, a date with the heroes and villains of human history far up in the heaven, a nerve-wracking examination hall, a life that could have been, the land of Sun-worshippers and Moon-landers, a hopeful job-interview, the...
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A picaresque allegory of the Spanish Civil War pays homage to the classless society that might have been. With his capricious behavior and detachable head, the protagonist--a member of one of Brazil's indigenous tribes--parodies the Enlightenment concept of the noble savage as he investigates a civilization upended by conflict. Set against a landscape peopled by generals, priests, conquistadors, poets, witches, and nuns, The Novel of the Tupinamba...
525) Reality Challenged
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Someone may have infiltrated the Prime Universe in order to conquor the Multiverse. It's up to a psionic girl and her bizarre companions to stop them. It might help if they knew what they were doing. This humorous sci-fi adventure is the first book of The Other Universes series.
526) Le Placard
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Un trentenaire, après des années de formation et de tentatives, trouve enfin un emploi auprès d'un laboratoire public. L'unique tâche qui lui est confiée étant de vérifier le matériel livré chaque matin...
Ses journées se passent ainsi, entre l'ennui et la contemplation du vide. Il s'aperçoit vite qu'il n'est pas le seul à ne rien faire: ses collègues, ses supérieurs, passent leur temps à bricoler des maquettes de navires dissimulées...
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Monsieur Pluche s'essaye au sport...
Ceux qui connaissent déjà Monsieur Pluche seront heureux de le retrouver dans de nouvelles aventures loufoques et burlesques. Les autres ont de la chance: ils ignorent encore ce qui les attend...
Découvrez les aventures rocambolesques de Monsieur Pluche!
EXTRAIT
En général, il préfère démarrer petit. Pluche n'est pas un aventurier. Il sait par expérience que tout exercice physique nécessite une préparation....
528) The Shuffle
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A unique story collection which takes the reader deep into the heart of the Shuffle – and traps them there.
Inside the Shuffle the Devil lives in the roofs of terraced houses, the art world finds Picasso's lost colouring book and a contagious virus causes everyone to talk with the voice of Tom Baker. Inside the Shuffle there's a Facebook-style afterlife, the hardest jigsaw in the world and the disappointing return of Christ. Inside the Shuffle...
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Matthew Smith is a largely unremarkable computer programmer from Surbiton, who just happens to have landed a rather lucrative contract for his latest game, Bootlesquith Manor.To celebrate his good fortune, he pops down to Frank's Outdoor to get a few tinnies, and share the news with hisgood pal Frank – whereupon the off licence is robbed and Matthew knocked out.Or so it seems; until he and Frank find themselves in a wholly more colourful version...
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Sharp snappy sci-fi short story: top tips on avoiding alien abduction, straight from the gray horse's mouth! Crop circles, phantom pregnancies, little green men in flying saucers, alien visitations, strange surgeries, anal probes and men in black: what's it all about, really? For a less than serious answer to the lights in the sky and the spooky night-time visitors, check out this acerbic and frank 'expose' from the keyboard of Amaritta Beane. Avoid...
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A corporate flunky wades through the aftermath of a co-worker's suicide. A man tries to free his butt from the chimney during the great flood. A resident starts a war with the board of directors by planting a garden in the back of his building. Explore disputes, violence, love, and a total disregard for authority and literature in this collection of short absurd stories that will remind you why writers were jailed in the early 1900s.
532) Breaking Stupid
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"Breaking Stupid" is a sidesplitting compendium of interconnected comedic tales that revolve around the uproarious escapades of the Tramp family. As they relentlessly chase riches through increasingly absurd schemes, their journey takes them from cryptocurrency conundrums to reality show ruses, and even a peculiar time-travel teapot. With each chapter offering a fresh dose of humor, satire, and absurdity, this collection is a whirlwind of laughter...
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Abandonné volontairement dans un lieu public, ce livre passe de main en main pour vivre une aventure tel un parcours initiatique. Sans être moraliste, l'auteur nous fait vivre une épopée improbable et pourtant convaincante. Ramassé sur un banc par une fillette, puis volé par une femme de ménage, l'objet poursuit son chemin, témoin muet de la fatuité humaine.
Que lui réserve ses prochaines rencontres? Un bouquin peut-il tomber amoureux?...
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"The sunlight glints on the translucent triumph of science. The faint rasp as I unspool it sends delirious brightly colored butterflies flocking through my stomach. I am like a tailor of the elves bedecking him in a shimmering suit of some magical material. Soon, Roy Orbison stands before all of Düsseldorf wrapped up in clingfilm. Silent white light floods my whole being and I become one with the universe."
Just as the avant-garde artists Christo...
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51 récits drles et émouvants d'une vie à hauteur d'homme...
Ces 51 « nouvelles du front » constituent un objet littéraire non identifié. Pierre Debauche y pratique le grand écart entre constat de l'absurde folie des hommes et exercice de la joie de vivre. Il se livre dans un cheminement narratif fulgurant qui nous conduit, des anecdotes de l'enfance, d'une vie d'homme sans regrets, à l'universalité de la condition humaine.
L'homme fuit...
536) The Remainder
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Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three...
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Det. Birch Ritter is a man on the edge-of himself. His past is filled with secrets, guilt, and ghosts. And his latest case is about to lead him to Genevieve, a woman who claims that her business is shadows. The widow of a recently deceased real estate mogul, her grief isn't entirely convincing. But she knows what lies between the darkness and the light inside men. And what she knows about Ritter is more than he can bear . . . and more than he can...
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What really (might have) happened when Jack Ruby, nightclub owner, brass knuckle-slinger, and inveterate fan of Corbusier, decided to kill the killer of JFK? In this first-ever trade publication of Bob Trammell's work, Jack Ruby mythos loops between fact, fiction, and spectacle to satirize Dallas' place on the world stage. Jack Ruby & The Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas caricaturizes everyone from Bob Thornton to Joseph Beuys, fodder for JFK...
539) Doublemint Gumshoe
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When a galactically inept inspector tackles the world's most illusive AI, prepare for apocalypse. Determined to find missing programmer Alyson Sweetcheeks, Detective Bob unleashes a war between a tech conglomerate, a covert cyber gang, the mob, and a malevolent time-travelling intelligence bent on world domination. Will Bob beat astronomical odds to save the girl, the world, and his chances for promotion?
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"Invention Is a Mother is a sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. It made me laugh in despair and laugh in joy. I loved it."
-Will Leitch, author of How Lucky
RESPONSIBILITY IS OVERRATED
As a recently graduated and happily unemployed engineer, Shaughnessy shirks responsibility whenever possible. He coasts through life, sidestepping...
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