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Mike is a foley artist who traveled from England to work with his friend Dwain—the first foley artist in the porn industry. On set, Mike finds himself drawn to Chloe, an actress who looks like Marilyn Monroe… if she’d been involved in an industrial accident. The loss of her leg hasn’t stopped Chloe from becoming a top star in Freak Porn. Inspired by his feelings for her, Mike sets out to bring a touch of artistry to the sleaziest corner of cinema by creating tastefully erotic films featuring abnormally shaped performers.

Kevin Welch was just a small-time thug until a brutal encounter made him the pope! Now being hunted through the streets of Rome by clergy intent on taking his place as pontiff, Kevin finds a possible, though unlikely ally in an enigmatic and alluring hitwoman, but it seems she would just as soon kill him as help him, so can he actually trust her? Does he have a choice? Kevin just wanted to get his life back, and the only thing standing between him and that life is a cadre of bloodthirsty bishops and cardinals, furious nuns, hallucinogenic manifestations of Satan ... and his own ineptitude.

The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

When Tony Hardstaff breaks the bank playing ‘Snap!’ at the St Petersburg Casino, he is swept up in a maelstrom of romance and adventure. Seduced by the sultry Natassia Fillipovna Karamazov – a woman with curves so perfect they could make a geometry professor spontaneously combust – Tony is caught in flagrante by the Russian mafia, and flees for his life.

A human wakes up in an alien body. A budgie thinks life is a musical. An AI won’t shut up. An android just wants to feel things. And absolutely no one knows what they’re doing. They’re not a crew. There’s no plan. And nobody is really in charge. What unfolds is a not-quite-accidental, frequently illogical, occasionally profound journey through life, the universe, and everything. And it’s all told through curious beings, at improbable moments, with meaning hiding where you’d least expect it.

Willkommen in Baltimore! Heimat der Baltimore Ravens, letzter Aufenthalt Edgar Allan Poes und für diese Woche - die Residenz des King. Im Leben von Roger Finlay und seiner Freundin Catherine ist der Alltag eingezogen. Grau, eintönig und ohne Abwechslung leben die beiden nur noch für ihre Jobs. Aber das wird sich heute Abend ändern! Eigentlich wollten sie im trendigen Hafenquartier Baltimores gemeinsam speisen und anschließend noch ein bisschen die Stadt unsicher machen. Doch schon auf dem Weg zum Restaurant wird Roger von einem Stadtstreicher angesprochen.

Un cane troppo fedele che torna sempre come un boomerang dal padrone che lo vuole abbandonare; un potentissimo manager pronto a tutto pur di riunire i Beatles per un concerto; un terzino fantasioso e romantico su uno spelacchiato campo di periferia; un arrogante e irredimibile uomo d'affari; un frate che sceglie il silenzio per sentirsi più vicino a Dio ma viene vinto dalla bellezza di una muta; una perfida vecchietta divorata dall'invidia e dal livore sono solo alcuni dei protagonisti di questa raccolta di racconti, nella quale Benni mostra il lato più curioso, imprevedibile e misterioso della vita.

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over 300 new and previously published short fictions - distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of the American short story.

An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite", when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.

בוקר אחד, באמצע החיים, מתעוררת נעמה נוימן למציאות חדשה. בעלה, אדם בריא ונמרץ, מדריך טיולים, מודיע לה שאינו יכול לקום מן המיטה. למן הפתיחה הזאת, המזכירה את פתיחת "הגלגול" של קפקא, נפרשת לעינינו פרשת היחסים בין אודי, הגבר ש"השבית" את עצמו, לבין אשתו, המנסה להתמודד עם הקרע בחיי הנישואים. במהלך העלילה, שמתקדמת בשינויי קצב מהירים בהתאם לאופיה של המספרת, נעמה, הנעה ללא הרף בין תחושת אובדן מוחלטת להרגשה שמצאה קרקע יציבה, אנו מתוודעים באורח אינטימי לחיי הזוגיות של נעמה ואודי, ודרכם, כמו באמצעות מראה מגדילה, מלוטשת וממורקת להפליא, לחיי הזוגיות של כולנו. "בעל ואישה" הוא רומן מופת על חיי הנישואים.

Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she’s clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.

Muchas son las razones que hacen de "El Tercer Policía" una novela singular. El título del libro se refiere a un misterioso personaje que posee las llaves para escapar de una serie de extraños sucesos que se irán repitiendo a lo largo de la narración. En su alucinante recorrido por parajes...

Beyond legend lies a reality so absurd it threatens to invert everything. Oscar Teabag-Dooven, poet by nature, Velvet Paw by necessity, is the only hope for a land on the brink of ignition. Some books brighten the world. This one sets it aflame. In a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme. Bedlam threatens to engulf the world—unless Oscar can stop it, which he’s willing to try, provided he has an enormous breakfast first.

When dark magic and deceit collide, the biggest threat also becomes the most ridiculous. Forget what you know about heroes: this one’s earless, accident-prone and remarkably ineffective. In a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme. With Sinson Rascalion threatening to plunge society into darkness, Oscar Teabag-Dooven is once again thrown into the fray. After stumbling upon the arrogant bard The Dodosette and the beautiful cat Vaasi-Vee, the unlikely trio argue their way across the world to do something about it.

Oscar Teabag-Dooven, former Velvet Paw of Asquith and occasional poet, is ready to leave the chaos behind. Having faced tendony beasts, collapsing palaces, poetic terrorists, and exploding pastries, he’d much prefer foccussing on the opening night of his theatrical debut. Unfortunately, the world has other ideas.

The city of Liebe is gone and Oscar presumed dead. With Tabby Miss Cakes adrift in a crumbling realm of myth and memory, she's not sure what’s real anymore—or if anything ever was. When Oscar reappears, inexplicably alive, the two stumble into a bizarrely wholesome world where people sand horses, kindness is weaponised and no one seems to notice the sky is falling. That’s because a poet is eating reality.

Die Erzählerin in diesem Hörbuch ist müde - von der Arbeitswelt, ihren absurden Ritualen und entfremdenden Herausforderungen. Allerdings entwickeln auch die abseitigsten Anstellungen ihre Tücken - von Läden, die vom Erdboden verschwinden, über mysteriösen Sekten, zu einem Landschaftspark, der von einem Geist heimgesucht scheint. Fast könnte man meinen, das System ist das Problem ...