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"Behold the wisdom of Lord Birthday: a tiny mustachioed king who is as insightful as he is ridiculous. His bite-sized illustrations capture the inherent comedy of being human, and his guidance appeals to anyone who is striving against the odds, believing in both the absurdity and necessity of hope. How to Appear Normal at Social Events is an oddly cheering book of illustrated lists. Largely based on Lord Birthday's popular Instagram account, the book...
2) The harpy
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
3) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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Los monólogos de Ludovico es la segunda novela con que nos sorprende William Castaño-Bedoya. En esta obra, el autor de la también conmovedora Flores para María Sucel, reafirma sus dotes de recreador de la profundidad humana.
Poco a poco, Castaño-Bedoya nos va llevando por el mundo de Ludovico. En un comienzo el lector podrá pensar que se trata de un personaje que se propone mostrarnos su limitado y aburrido mundo, pero en la medida en que el...
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NEW WORLDS RADIATION GAME is the tale of a couple's surreal adventure as they journey through a fantasy inner space, after ingesting an unknown substance. Part sci-fi fantasy, part absurdist prose, part outsider art graphic novel, ALL BIZARRO! Non-explicit, but recommended for adults. First published and printed by Perry Mark Stratychuk in 1998.
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Este libro es fruto de la búsqueda constante de lo irreal, lo incoherente y lo fascinante. Elegantemente, el desquicio y la música de las palabras se encuentran, de manera poco inocente, para mezclar sus colores y cegar a la mismísima oscuridad, desmintiendo los miedos lógicamente ilógicos de lo desconocido, volviendo a la rutina un juego de riesgos reales y nutritivos.
El contenido emocional de esta compilación surge del florecimiento de lo...
10) Skunk Hunt
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Killed in a botched robbery, Skunk McPherson returns to life via a series of letters to his children. In them he plants clues that send Mute, Sweet Tooth and Doubletalk McPherson on a wild hunt for hidden loot, all the while trailed by lovers and ex-lovers, Skunk's old cronies, private detectives, the police and a host of unsuspected relatives. Death and comedy combine in a spectacularly twistedjourney of self-discovery.
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Fairy tale movies and commercials are everywhere. They are very popular. And that's great, because all those fairy tale characters need the work. All the Snow Whites, Three Pigs and a variety of Big Bad Wolves all are clients of the Madre and Gander Employment Agency. That's how Humpty Dumpty finally gets a crack into Show Business.
Madre and Gander is a casting agency where they supply all the fairy tale denizens a film production can ask for. Ethel...
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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
13) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
14) Why God Why
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Why God Why is a collection of bizarre, hilarious, occasionally touching and occasionally creepy flash fiction pieces."Matt Rowan writes as if he'd spent the past several years living inside a Russell Edson poem. Hands come from the sky to offer uninterpretable signs, superheroes with terrible powers make peace with themselves, public speakers demonstrate their insect-enlarging guns (necessary for world peace!) or declare that we must defeat the menace...
15) The Stony Stage
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Peter travels the world with his guitar and harmonica, searching for a sense of belonging in a remote and mysterious place called Belonging Sun. Along the way, he encounters obstacles that test his determination and resourcefulness. But he remains determined to fulfil his principle: that progress comes from taking action and not just waiting. Join Peter on his journey to find belonging in this inspiring tale of self-discovery.
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,454. Joe Vaughn, the stalwart chief of the Luna City Police Department, wants to keep that figure at that — if he has anything to say ...But fugitive former celebrity chef, Richard Astor-Hall (formerly Rich Hall, the Bad Boy Chef) now contentedly managing the Luna Café and Coffee — has had a significant person from his past catch up to him.
The seven-year-old son of Richard's assistant...
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I'm under constant pressure from working with incompetent people, avoiding repeated calls from America, I'm too scared to take. My life is a multitude of buried emotions, forced by a life shattering event. In my head, under the radar of others, I engage in a glut of unspoken conversations, too abrasive for the real world. If these were to creep out, just slip nonchalantly from my warped mind to my tongue, people around me would recoil in horror and...
18) Oh Stupid Heart
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Carrie Hanson is in love with a different species: Trent, a pampered, uber-rich socialite who's also her boss. Everyone keeps telling her it's a train wreck looking to happen, but her heart wants what it wants. So, despite the billion and one reasons not to, Carrie commits her heart to this inter-species relationship. But while she's off being trained for her new job responsibilities, a beautiful ex-fiancée is working hard to get Trent back and Carrie...
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Waiting for the Dawn is a great flourishing novel from ancient Africa era,a young boy name Simba lost his beloved ones after a terrible raid in their village by Chief Mapanda.His father was killed and his mother,sister and young brother were held as bounty by the enemy.Simba he will grow up to be a brave young man and conquered his fear by looking for his long lost family.On his journey with a friend,he will meet the love of his life Rudo and he will...
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