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Mitty Woodlawn is a local cook at the Joy Annex. He helps his pupils master several dishes and includes kind words with their meals. Mitty’s accommodating nature is captivating to all sorts of residents. His friends Buford and Scarlett, help Mitty navigate through a tough time in his life. Not only have they been there from the jump, but they adore him in every way. Mitty’s harmonious time in Cherishville changes when an odd woman enrolls in his class. He decides to entertain her kooky demeanor and ends up in an unforeseen adventure. His professionalism, freedom and livelihood will be tested.

What if, one ordinary morning, humanity discovered that animals could suddenly understand us… and talk back? In The Cats Have Notes, Sam Peterson and his wife Sally wake to a world forever changed when their three household cats begin carrying on perfectly understandable conversations. Morgana, the self-important Maine Coon mix; Melisandre, the sardonic black cat with a Goth streak; and Grizabella, the sharp-tongued young tabby, suddenly have opinions about everything—from food and litter boxes to television, politics, personal privacy, and the baffling habits of humans.

When a devastating EMP attack wipes out the electrical grid across the United States, the people of Clinton, Iowa suddenly find themselves cut off from the modern world—no phones, no internet, no refrigeration, no idea whether the federal government still exists, and only three days’ worth of patience remaining. Mayor Frank Ramey is trying to keep the city functioning with lanterns, rationed gasoline, and whatever remains of Midwestern common sense.

Imagine a noir thriller that turns completely sideways. A man confronting the darkest reflections of his own obsessions and delusions, and discovers that killing the mirror only deepens the fracture. A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT is a darkly comic psychological noir in which a mild-mannered man's life descends into chaos when he confronts Andor Vescov, a charming and unhinged figure from his past; a fever-dream of absurdity, horror, and dark comedy, blending psychological tension, cult rituals, and a protagonist whose only crime is surviving his own madness.

Cementing her mastery across genres, Catherine Lacey returns with a new collection of visceral and absurdist short fiction. Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, Catherine Lacey’s second collection of short fiction, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality, and horror of...

Already an international sensation, this darkly funny and provocatively visceral novel introduces one of contemporary fiction's most unforgettable heroines: a gifted butcher whose greatest longing is to become a mother. For Esther, life is simple and beautiful. Born in a Finnish industrial town...

A Lynchian, absurdist debut novel for fans of Joy Williams and Emma Cline about two disaffected young women and the local homeless man they become obsessed with The Bowl is a strange place: Surrounded by abandoned almond orchards filled with feral children and neighboring towns that keep burning...

One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...

* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction * “I’m in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped piñata in an old van held together by...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming...

“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...

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

Anna vend des poulets rôtis sur les marchés pour assurer l'essentiel, pour que son fils Léo ne manque de rien. Anna aspire seulement à un peu de tranquillité dans leur mobile-home au bord de l'Atlantique, et Léo à surfer de belles vagues. Mais quand elle perd son camion-rôtissoire dans un accident, le fragile équilibre est menacé, les dettes et les ennuis s'accumulent. Il y aurait bien ce "Jeu" dont on parle partout, à la télé, à la radio, auquel Léo incite sa mère à s'inscrire.

Neste romance baseado em um crime real e construído de forma circular — ele começa no ponto em que termina —, Estela está presa em uma sala de interrogatório policial para esclarecer a morte de uma menina a seus inquiridores. Anônimos, eles estão separados da protagonista por um vidro...

“You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent...

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...

What if the end of the world were postponed because the invading aliens got overbooked? What if artificial intelligence suddenly began answering every question exactly the way a cat would? What if Death quietly took a well-earned vacation…and nobody on Earth could die anymore? What if the Second Coming returned to Earth only to discover that miracles are no substitute for proper paperwork? And what if the most frightening thing in the Book of Revelations wasn’t the Beast……but the Standards and Practices department?

»Und die Kugel blieb sich immer gleich, völlig unberührt von allem.« Urplötzlich schwebt sie nahe einer tschechischen Kleinstadt über der Erde: eine Kugel, die nichts weiter zu tun scheint und einfach milchig vor sich hin schimmert. Bei den Stadtbewohnern aber, die sie vor ein enormes...

Drei Freunde, ein alter Saab und die Stimmen der Toten: eine rasante, lakonisch-komische Friedhofsodyssee durch Mitteleuropa. Lorenzo, Caspar und Miss Detroit sind unterwegs im alten Saab. Ihr Ziel: die Friedhöfe Mitteleuropas. Mit jedem gefahrenen Kilometer rücken die drei näher aneinander und hören die Stimmen der Toten von Grab zu Grab deutlicher.

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...