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The Sickness Unto Death, and Other Fun Danish Party Games: Kierkegaard Without the Prozac is your gloriously sarcastic, brutally insightful, and occasionally soul-crushing guide to philosophy’s original sadboy, Søren Kierkegaard. Tired of listening to philosophy that feels like intellectual sandpaper? This book unpacks Kierkegaard’s anxiety-fueled, despair-drenched theology with the humor and honesty it desperately needs.

Imagine the satisfaction of nurturing a garden from seed to harvest. With the right guidance, that dream can become a reality. Introducing Gardening 101: The Complete Gardening Guide for Beginners, your ultimate guide, which offers essential gardening techniques and easy-to-follow instructions for starting and maintaining a thriving garden, even if you've never planted a seed before.

Thus Spoke My Therapist: Nietzsche Without the Mental Breakdown is your one-way ticket to understanding one of history’s most misunderstood philosophers—without needing a doctorate or a prescription for existential dread.

Congratulations! You’ve found yet another self-help book that you’ll skim through, feel briefly inspired by, and then completely ignore while continuing to make the same bad decisions.

In this mercilessly funny takedown, Jean-Jacques Rousseau—history's most insufferable philosopher—gets the roasting he so richly deserves. Noble Savage, Deadbeat Dad exposes the spectacular hypocrisy of a man who abandoned five children at orphanages while writing the definitive guide to education, preached natural virtue while exposing himself to strangers, and railed against wealth while living off rich patrons.

Disgraced and nearing the end of his career, Lieutenant Gil Meek is an old school detective living on borrowed time. Once a respected captain, Gil has been demoted and sidelined after a past case went wrong, left to police the forgotten edges of a rural county while wrestling with grief over the brutal murder of his wife, Mallory. When a routine overdose investigation leads him into a cave marked with blood, chains, and a cryptic message—9904 SHEPHERD—Gil realizes this is anything but an open-and-shut case.

This is not a polite introduction to Thomas Aquinas. This is a fully sarcastic, gloriously disrespectful roast of the chubbiest, holiest overachiever in Catholic history—a Dominican friar who took Aristotle’s metaphysics, added Latin, guilt, and divine purpose, and built the intellectual operating system of the Catholic Church.

God or Nature, Whatever is what happens when a philosophy grad student decides to explain Baruch Spinoza—the 17th-century lens grinder who got canceled by every major religion—using sarcasm, swearing, and a deeply unhealthy relationship with Euclidean geometry. Sophia Blackwell takes Spinoza's Ethics (a book structured like a math textbook, only less fun) and translates it into plain, hilarious, possibly heretical English. The result? A philosophical roast that actually teaches you something. Inside, you'll learn: Why Spinoza thought God was just...

Are you tired of being emotionally stable? Do you wish you could turn every minor interaction into a full-blown existential crisis? Look no further than Maybe I'm the Problem? – the ultimate guide to professional self-gaslighting and strategic overthinking. From the brilliantly neurotic mind of Dicholas Chad Pansy comes a self-help book that will definitely not help you at all. Inside, you’ll learn essential skills like: Turning a simple "Hey" text into a three-day analysis of your entire life. Convincing yourself that your perfectly fine presentation was actually a career-ending disaster.

This is the story of two retirees who have hated each other since pre-school. They each come into possession of half of a winning lottery ticket that is worth $220 million. That is, if they can put the two halves together.

In the thrilling sequel to Caged: A Mike McHaskell Novel, Marshall Black invites you back into the exciting yet deeply personal world of Mike McHaskell, a man walking the tightrope between duty and family.

When I started in real estate I was lost. I didn't know where to start. When I asked people doing well in the business what I should be doing I would hear things like, “it takes time”. I just wanted for someone to give me a handbook or a playbook to be successful in this business.What takes time? I just wanted to know what I can do now!

Are you tired of living off your allowance, finding it hard to save, and feeling confused about your financial future? Do you want to take control of your finances but feel like investing is only for adults? Or perhaps you are a parent or educator, looking for a practical, engaging, and comprehensive resource that instills good financial habits and simplifies investing for teens. Your search ends here.

A kosher inspector doesn’t come home one night. By morning, his wife is certain something is wrong. The police aren’t convinced. He hasn’t been gone long enough. There’s no sign of violence. Officially, there’s nothing to investigate. That’s when his wife turns to Jake Cooper.

A scribe repairing an old scroll uncovers a buried secret—and is murdered for it. The police call it suicide. The community calls it murder. Jake Cooper isn’t a cop, but he’s the only one who can unravel the deadly secrets hiding behind closed doors. In a world of greed, betrayal, and ruthless calculation, finding the truth may be the only way to survive.

Gullywasher's of Georgia has been abandoned a long time but it's far from empty. A determined CDC epidemiologist goes rogue to tackle a mysterious outbreak in Savannah, only to find himself entangled with a pair of urban explorers and a dangerous, tortured soul in an abandoned theme park where dark forces stir.

Emil is Chicago’s most feared food critic—a man who delights in trashing restaurants and terrorizing chefs. When he hears rumors of a restaurant serving an off-menu dessert called Blood of Leeches, Emil’s curiosity quickly turns into a fixation. One taste, and Emil’s curiosity drives him to deconstruct the dish with a hunger reaching far beyond gastronomy—into something older and darker.

The world of Keyfaetuun has four dragons, but never did it have a single unicorn … until the fae guardian of the Kingdom of Zenith, Madame Astrid, took a foal from its mother and fed the foal magic milk, which transformed him. Then she stole a baby girl from her parents and gave the little unicorn to her “daughter” as a pet. But when the daughter grew up and was taken to live in a tower, she said goodbye to her unicorn friend she called Quinn. After Madame Astrid was punished for breaking the rules.

Are you tired of pretending to understand Hegel? Do you feel personally attacked by German idealism? Have you ever wondered if “sublation” is just a fancy word for “I have no idea what I’m saying”? Congratulations. You’ve found your people. In Hegel’s Dialectic: Making Simple Ideas Complicated Since 1807, philosophy finally gets the sarcasm-drenched takedown it deserves.

Fray Rodrigo de Ávila, a Dominican friar, witnesses the vast Spanish Empire stretch across continents, yet sees not glory, but the human cost of ambition. In the Council of the Indies, he condemns the brutality of the conquistadors and the empire's moral corruption. He expects exile, censure, or death, but instead, the crown summons him as a reluctant adviser, placing the weight of conscience squarely on his shoulders.