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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Italian adventure. And one man who simply cannot stop measuring things! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them into the beautiful Mediterranean! Their...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Look Up, Hendersons! — The Family Who Went Up the River** *All Aboard the Hendersons — Book Eight* **One unforgettable family. One legendary river. And an adventure that will change the way they see the world!** The Hendersons are back, and their...

A hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist Harold, a middling literature professor at a liberal arts college, lives in a state of dissatisfaction and fear. His...

Talib Mansfield and his first Mate, Waylon Series XI, both are Astronomers and Astrophysicists. They decide to travel through space to validate Talib’s theories of space exploration. Talib being a disgraced, lower level being on Earth. No matter how much he’s accomplished or designed. Waylon being Talib’s invention, becomes his co-pilot.

Tutto può accadere nel bar sotto il mare. Un bar in cui tutti vorremmo capitare, una notte, per ascoltare i racconti del barista, dell'uomo col cappello, dell'uomo con la gardenia, della sirena, del marinaio, dell'uomo invisibile, della vamp e degli altri misteriosi avventori. Sompazzo, il paese più bugiardo del mondo - Gaspard Ouralphe, il più grande cuoco di Francia - Il verme mangiaparole e l'incredibile storia del capitano Charlemont - La disfida di Salsiccia - Il dittatore pentito - Kraputnyk, il marziano innamorato - Priscilla Mapple e il delitto della II C.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam, read by Ramon Tikaram. There’s no problem Professor Chandra can’t solve. Except for one: the secret to happiness In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see...

Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead. Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.

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.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is...

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries...

On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence?

A cast-off jester. A lamentable bit of larceny. When a fool is labeled a hero, will his contrary streak save his skin or be fatally side-splitting? Malfred Murd just got downsized. Banished from his cushy life on the royal family’s private island, the talented yet belligerent joker relies on a bit of pickpocketing help from his incurably optimistic magpie sidekick to stave off starvation. But when he tries to turn in a stolen messenger bag for a reward, its desperate owner demands he assist her in rescuing her country…or face execution.

Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller "Die Ladenhüterin" Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück.

Blaming herself for her sister's fatal zoo accident, Maya overdoses in her mother's attic. Far away, a cafeteria employee named Claudio is gunned down on a university campus. The two of them meet in the afterlife, where a science-obsessed angel pushes people towards life-changing insights...

In dieser skurrilen Erzählung begegnen sich zwei Zeitgenossen, die wenig voneinander halten: Der eine ist ein Menschenfresser, der andere ein Trunkenbold – zumindest, wenn man der Einschätzung des jeweils anderen Glauben schenken darf. Und doch haben sie etwas gemeinsam: Beide halten sich selbst für ein wichtiges Mitglied der Gesellschaft.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One family. One unforgettable cruise. A whole ocean of laughter, surprises, and adventure! Meet the Hendersons, a wonderfully chaotic family of six who discover that the greatest adventures aren't always about where you go, but who you take along for...

The apocalypse has came and went, now these are the results!In this postmodern horror novel, the world has been ravaged by an untimely war brought on by unscrupulous bureaucrats. The leftover hellscape is now run by agencies that utilize flesh for currency, ban LGBT activity and force hard laws...

في سنة 1939، جهّز بابلو نيرودا لرحلة السفينة وينيبيغ؛ وهي السفينة الأسطوريّة التي أبحرتْ من فرنسا إلى تشيلي حملة على متنها ألفَيْ لاجئ إسبانيّ كانوا قد فرّوا من نظام فرانكو القمعيّ.

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.