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A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

"تمكتو" واحدة من روايات أوستر الغريبة والتي يأخذنا فيها كالعادة إلى عالمه المتناقض ما بين العبثية والوجودية لكن هذه المرة سيكون بطل الرواية " كلب" فجميع الأحداث...

Пугающая реальность этой фантастической повести родилась из доведенного до абсурда понятия "демократии" - когда каждый индивидуум живет по своим законам и борется против всех и все другие борются против него.

पादण्यासारख्या नैसर्गिक क्रियेची गंमतीशीर धम्माल गोष्ट !...

THE AUTHOR is a dark absurdist take on the artist as a young man in a world damaged by social media, designer drugs, and the dark underbelly of Hollywood. The anonymous author of the saga peels back the curtain to reveal the inner life of a one-day superstar (or sociopath) desperate to become famous by any means necessary, who one day does, and pulls off one of the greatest public relations stunts in entertainment history.

Dive into the whimsical and satirical world of James Thurber and E.B. White with the audiobook "Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do," narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti. This classic work, first published in 1929, explores the perplexities of love, relationships, and human behavior with humor and wit. Through a series of essays, Thurber and White dissect the absurdities of the sexual revolution, the nature of the American male, and the quirks of feminine types.

Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man's ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bureaucracy. Upon his first speech, so rousing as to attract the attention of the Progressive Party...

Set in America's New Wild West, this medical thriller features Kit Carson, a single mom nurse, who joins the Vigilantes for Healthcare Justice to fight against armed crazies, a crooked sheriff, and the greed of the corporate hospital. Drama and trauma on the night shift in five episodes. In the vein of Samuel Shem's The House of God and B.P. Reiter's The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, Collison writes a medical thriller from a nurse's point of view, with gun locked & loaded and tongue firmly in cheek.

March 1954 in the booming economy of the United States. Kids and houses are becoming the newest necessities for everyone. Women are obsessed with having children and husbands. Men are obsessed with women and working. Love is in the air and so is wonder. We will focus on Richard Dick Rourke, a decorated war veteran turned highly touted stage actor in San Francisco, California. He enjoys a nice drink and a tiny bit of gambling on his favorite baseball team. Not to mention he loves screwing random women, usually married.

Caught in a redundant housewife existence, Ann never leaves her beige suburban home, her schlubby do-nothing son Brian is directionless after graduating high-school, and it looks like nothing will ever change. But when Brian is swallowed by a whale and Ann receives a garbled phone call from him, she is determined to find that monstrous beast and rescue her son. Experts, her ex, the press—everyone thinks she’s crazy—but she’s committed to her worthy quest.

As Rose Andrews steps into the world of flight attendants, she's thrilled to be part of an airborne family she never knew she needed. But amidst the camaraderie, an unexpected attraction takes flight, entangling her heart in unexpected turbulence.

The Earth is my Ant Farm, The Creational School gave it to me but I'm a bit bored with it now. A bigger boy threw a rock at it in the classroom and wiped out all my dinosaurs, I liked them. Now I'm stuck with the ants and they like to multiply. I have a favourite Ant, his name is Derek. This is about him, he likes to travel. He doesn't know how but I will tell him one day.

Tutto comincia con una domanda: Ma tu sei felice? È l'inizio di un dialogo all'apparenza ordinario, quello tra Vincenzo e Saverio, due amici seduti al tavolino di un bar per il classico aperitivo. Vincenzo ha un problema che riguarda suo figlio: un incidente con un compagno di classe, una maestra indelicata, un colloquio imbarazzante. Saverio ha un dilemma più immediato: la sua dieta iperproteica funzionerà davvero? Entrambi sono presi dall'epica di una quotidianità le cui tappe obbligate prevedono di prendersi cura della famiglia, sopravvivere al lavoro, arrivare a fine mese, oltre naturalmente a mentire, tradire, imbrogliare.

Nuns. Super Soakers. Oversexed Assistants! An ancient organization of women who suck cruelty out of people tasks one surly centenarian with a bubble-brained teenager to save the world. Yup, the world is in some pretty deep doo-doo. Bonus chapters from some of the author’s other books are included.

Everything is going great for Oliver Brewster, the nation's action superstar. He is India’s heartthrob. A man spoiled by riches and fame, just like anyone in his position would be. That is, until he finds himself in possession of a magical note that communicates with him. Soon, he spirals through a series of unfortunate and unwanted events that help him realize the absurdity of his life and existence.

A mother and daughter's relationship is seen from the point of view of a sentient oyster residing in a pack of oysters in the home. Narrator: Elizabeth Morse Composer: Tabitha Boon Music Mixed by: Edric Hwang Sound Designer: Yen Yu Ting, Loo Zhen Yang Mixed by: Yen Yu Ting The Sound of Stories...

رواية "الموت السعيد" من أشهر الروايات التى كتبها "ألبير كامو" حيث احتلت رأس قائمة أنجح الكتب فى باريس فور صدورها، وموضوع الرواية هو البحث العنيد عن...

Told with biting humor, brutal honesty, and moments of absurd laughter, Why Is My Bra Still On? is a darkly comedic, deeply emotional novel about friendship, loyalty, and what it really means to be family.

From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.

Gregor, a travelling salesman, awakens one morning only to discover that he has transformed into a giant insect. His family is repulsed by him not knowing what to do. Gradually things start getting overturned because of the mishap, and Gregor's life crashes like a house of cards. The...