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Silicon Valley just invented time travel. Now, three reluctant heroes race to save the timeline before the resulting tech bubble bursts—and takes all of reality with it—in this satirical, hilariously plausible oral history. "Funny and distressingly realistic . . . propelled by awesome...

Le retour de votre auteur new-yorkais préféré. Orloff Trenchant, dit Or, est artiste peintre dans l'East Village. Après une rupture, il se retrouve à dormir dans son van, à vendre des livres dans la rue, et à tenter de finir le tableau qui peut-être, un jour, lui apportera le succès...

Based on a true story, Liz Enko Lacks Vax Facts is a bold, rhyming satire about fear, power, propaganda, and what happens when questioning authority becomes forbidden. In this installment in the Liz Enko series, a peaceful town is swept into a new age of public-health promises when Liz Enko arrives armed with charts, slogans, and the holy language of The Science. Backed by experts and industry, she sells the townspeople on a bright new future of injections, compliance, and trust.

'Believe me, the best proof is to have none at all. That is the only evidence one cannot debate.' Anatole France's 1908 novel Penguin Island offers a thinly veiled lampoon of French history and of human civilization. When a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on an island off the northern...

Grace is no longer famous. She sits alone in her New York apartment, endlessly watching reruns of herself on the reality TV show Speed Daters. Then, one evening, a man breaks in through her window. A rare, still-obsessed fan or raging incel — Grace is unsure. Before she can find out, he...

When Annie Meyers wakes up in a made-for-TV Christmas movie starring her ex-situationship and a now not-so-dorky childhood neighbor, her plans to swear off love—and Christmas—begin to unravel. Perfect for fans of A Merry Little Meet Cute, this holiday rom-com will enchant listeners who have...

Love Island meets Jurassic Park meets Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle in this twisted, thrilling satire about a group of influencers looking for love . . . only to find horrors awaiting them in paradise, and a group of producers plotting a wicked finale. They're dying for a chance at...

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s wife pursue their passion –...

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.

When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium than to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

Bloomsbury presents a graphic adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast, read by Joe Eyre, Harriet Carmichael and Brian Bowles. Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the...

My entire life is a mess. My ex cheated. My job sucks. And my apartment smells like old takeout and despair. Enter: a 3 A.M. infomercial promising the Scrubbie Dubbie will change my life. Desperate and half-delirious, I order it. The next day, a sponge arrives—hot pink, dual-textured, and...

It is 2004 and it’s make or break for Spud Milton and his acting career. Having survived his ten-year school reunion and avoided becoming a shareholder in a dubious wellness start-up company, he believes he is free and clear of the Crazy Eight. Spud and his creative sidekick Fox have their...

Quand Mary revient un soir dans son appartement de l’East Village, elle n’est pas surprise de trouver Primo, son nouveau petit ami, avachi devant la télé. Mais lorsqu’elle comprend qu’il est mort, une tout autre histoire débute. Avec le chien de Primo sur les bras, elle va tenter de...

Roman culte aux Etats-Unis depuis sa sortie en 1991, Fuck up donne à voir les errances d'un anti-héros attachant dans le New-York déglingué des années 80. Un roman riche, drôle et addictif à découvrir d'urgence. " Un roman culte pour plusieurs générations. " Télérama TTT " Drôle...

The rug bites. The suit of armor breathes. The woman in the painting gets closer every second. At Giselle’s Sundries, nothing is quite as it seems—but Nadia doesn’t know that. After messing up her freshman year of college, she’s sent to work at her aunt’s dinky little thrift shop...

Thraxas, the biggest star of comic fantasy in every sense, bounces back with a troublesome case of Elvish fever... When Thraxas receives a message from an old friend in trouble, he has to act quickly. A terrible crime has been committed on the Elvish Isles, and Thraxas is definitely the right man for the job. The ale there is legendary. When theft turns to murder, however, Thraxas suddenly finds himself in serious demand. The elves have no experience in investigating, and Thraxas is only too happy to help out.

DON DELILLO'S CULT CLASSIC REISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY HALF A CENUTRY Cleo Birdwell is twenty-four, a schoolteacher’s daughter from Badger, Ohio, and the first ever female recruit to play in the National Hockey League. She is an instant sensation on and off the ice - lauded not only...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Jack Isidore doesn’t see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law, Charley, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly...

Eine Alten-WG, in der man nett zusammensitzt, Socken strickt, über seine Krankheiten redet und nie mehr einsam und allein ist ... nun so sieht es bei den 5 alten Schachteln nicht wirklich aus. Im Gegenteil: Ein hässlicher Brief, ein geheimnisvoller Kellerfund und ein Schlaganfall halten alle...