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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the...

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle...

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

Sparing the Family Tree by W. C. Tuttle is a hilarious classic Western short story filled with mistaken identities, outrageous marriage schemes, and unexpected twists. When two desert cowboys encounter high society, a fake marriage, and a mysterious inheritance, chaos follows. Packed with witty...

Cervantes's masterpiece, joyously restored to its riotous, laugh-out-loud glory. In one of the world's first and greatest novels, don Quixote of la Mancha becomes obsessed with romantic tales of chivalry, dubs himself a knight, and sets out in search of adventure. Accompanied by his scrawny...

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionable improvisations. Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.

Zwei Monate nach seiner Rückkehr nach England zieht es Gulliver erneut zur See. Er fährt mit einem Schiff unter dem Kommando von Kapitän John Nicholas zum Kap der Guten Hoffnung und durch die Meerenge von Madagaskar, gerät aber dann in einen gewaltigen Monsun und stößt auf ein unbekanntes Land. In einem Boot begibt er sich mit einigen Besatzungsmitgliedern an Land und geht ein Stück weit allein. Da bemerkt er, dass die anderen Besatzungsmitglieder wieder zurückrudern, weil sie von einem Riesen verfolgt werden.

Gulliver nimmt eine Tätigkeit auf einem Schiff an und arbeitet bald darauf als Wundarzt auf dem Schiff. Dieses aber gerät in einen Sturm. Gulliver sucht mit fünf anderen Besatzungsmitgliedern Schutz in einem Ruderboot, das jedoch kentert. Der Schiffbrüchige erreicht einen Strand und schläft dort ein; die anderen Besatzungsmitglieder sieht er nie wieder. Als er aufwacht, findet er sich an Armen, Beinen und Haaren mit Schnüren an den Boden gefesselt. Sechs Zoll kleine Winzlinge klettern auf seinem Körper herum.

NEW FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR A stranger in a tuk-tuk plans a terror attack in an island nation. A prisoner plots a jail break during a riot. Four girls meet a hologram of their grandfather. An Englishman, a Dutchman and a Portuguese walk into a Victorian bar. And three spies search...

THE BOTHERING OF CTHULHUAn Eldritch LampoonTHE STARS ARE RIGHT. CTHULHU IS NOT IN THE MOOD.For countless eons, the Great Old One has slumbered beneath the Pacific Ocean, dreaming unspeakable dreams of cosmic destruction, universal madness, and unusually affectionate female demon manatees...

Pável Ivánovich Chíchikov llega a una remota provincia dispuesto a cerrar un negocio insólito: comprar las «almas muertas» de los siervos fallecidos que siguen figurando en los censos del Imperio. Lo que en apariencia es una maniobra absurda pronto se convierte en el retrato desbordante de una sociedad entera.

This satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites. In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains...

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Clans of the Alphane Moon explores the meaning of mental illness through the actions of people with clinical disorders and those of...

In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse, wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons—weapons that don’t work. But when aliens invade, the top...

Bergdorf Blondes are a thing, you know, a New York craze. Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but it’s très difficult. You wouldn’t believe the dedication it takes to be a gorgeous, flaxen-haired, dermatologically perfect New York girl with a life that’s fabulous beyond belief. Honestly...

Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots...

The animals of Manor Farm are in the midst of a revolution. Overworked and mistreated, they set themselves against Mr Jones and with flaming idealism and stirring slogans they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality; only to find that revolution isn’t always so simple.

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.