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521) Clump
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At the end of the 19th century a strange and unexplained medical phenomenon starts to occur - people being to 'clump' together. What starts out as two individuals conjoined at the skin soon snowballs into groups of three, four, and upwards. How large can these clumps grow? And when, if at all, will the clumping stop?
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Devant une situation surprenante, qui ne s'est pas dit un jour: «non, mais je rêve!»
De la fiction à la réalité, il n'y a souvent qu'une pensée, une crainte, une croyance, une conviction.
Ici, le lecteur voyage entre le virtuel et le réel au cours de récits abordant des sujets comme la télépathie, l'illusion, la confusion mentale, la prémonition. Au fil des histoires, sur un fond de tabous, de surconsommation, d'homosexualité ou encore...
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The main character of the book, an eccentric Aleph McNaught, is at a crossroads in what he sees as a meaningless life. Abused as a child, he turns to drugs and ends up locked up in an asylum before launching into a new and wildlife populated by a host of multiple personalities.
McNaught, as narrator, invites the reader on a psychotic ride into his crazy headspace, while commenting on the state of a fictitious society.
His goal is to tilt the axis...
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De courtes histoires composent ce roman de la ville si particulier, le premier texte d'Amandine Dhée, o l'on découvrait alors avec jubilation ce ton décalé et cet humour parfois corrosif qui lui sont propres.
Dans Du bulgom et des hommes, l'autrice-narratrice, dans un monologue adressé directement au lecteur ou à la lectrice, décortique avec humour des situations absurdes auxquelles sont confronté.e.s la plupart des citadin.e.s d'une grande...
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La matinée avait pourtant débuté de façon ordinaire, semblable à toutes les autres. Mais après avoir maudit l'alarme de son réveil, englouti un café, puis traîné sa carcasse jusqu'à la salle de bain, la terrible et inéluctable découverte était sur le point de bouleverser les perspectives journalières de chacun. En un instant, les vêtements avaient disparu sans laisser de trace, mystérieusement remplacés par quelque chose d'aussi...
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A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes.
In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles-some as large as one thousand feet long-was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman...
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Telepathic hospice workers... a Danish prince haunted by his immortality... a naked mercenary with the ultimate bioweapon... a ghostly gunslinger in a showdown with the Devil's bandits... a writer losing his dog and his mind... a wormhole with a cure to every human ill...
Slippery When Metastasized.
Sixteen pieces of prose and poetry inspired by the author's wife and her struggles to live with, and overcome, cancer. The genres of horror, science fiction,...
528) Nearly Christmas
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Mortals magically murdered generally is enough to get Filthy Henry, Ireland's first and foremost fairy detective, involved in the case. But when those murders happen on Halloween there is even more reason for him to investigate what is going on. As the walls between Realms weaken, allowing spirits to roam the land, Filthy Henry and Shelly are in a race against time to ensure All Hallows Eve goes off without a hitch. Otherwise dead mortals are going...
529) Spring's Eternal
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Onetime jester Malfred Murd has risen about as high as a Fool can go. But it will all be for nothing- unless he can pull off the world's toughest trick!Heavy is the head that wears the jingle-bell hat: our favorite funnyman is now the face of a whole country... and striving to bring about world peace, even as a Phantactive doomsday device looms on the horizon.And a big bam boom isn't the only threat facing Fred. He's also dealing with a daffy Dictator,...
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If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight.
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Shortly before Kato Whip was to become Kato Whip, he was waiting in line at a bank. He waited patiently, as he had done so countless times before. There was no hurry. Suddenly a woman crowded in front of him. He let it go. What did it matter? It wasn't that much more of a wait. But the more he thought about it, the more wrong it seemed. She had been rude not only to him but all the people behind him. In fact, by his inaction, he had implicitly condoned...
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The highly unlikely story of a real estate investor running against a lady for President of the United States. Explores all kinds of possibilities about who really runs things. The New World Order and other payers that want to change or very DNA are considered. The question really is, just how do things work? Is everything run out of a cornfield?
533) Le Journal d'un chat
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Nous voilà de retour chez nos heureux retraités, Colette et Jacques, et le nouveau membre de leur famille : leur petite chatte. Indiscrète et facétieuse, elle poursuit dans son journal le récit de sa vie à la campagne et des événements dont elle est témoin. Son regard perçant de félin capte, parfois mieux que l'œil humain, l'air du temps.
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Alice Besson aime lire, et écrire ! Elle en a même fait ses métiers,...
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Alors qu'on croit avancer en terrain familier, au fil des histoires, le connu se dérobe. Denis, Léonard, Clarisse, Alexandra et Erwan vont vivre des aventures hors du commun, des aventures qui sortent du cadre de la logique. Il existe le monde connu et l'autre. Quand ils se mélangent, gare aux dégâts. Tout devient troublant et déroutant...
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When reclusive best-selling novelist, W.C. Lumin, is diagnosed with a terminal wasting disease, he gathers his family and close friends together at his isolated mock gothic mansion and presents them with an ultimatum; they will each write a short story which his wife, Edith, will turn into a full length W.C. Lumin novel to fund a revolutionary course of treatment. If they fail in the task, they will be cut out of Lumin's will without a penny.The Stoat...
536) Year of the Bear
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In a world where you can be anything, be a bear.
Year of the Bear's short stories weave together social commentary with folklore, fairy tale, fantasy, and science fiction to entertain, challenge, and sometimes frighten readers.
A lawyer navigates a most unusual Tinder date; a gangster flees a deal gone bad; a young child is gifted with a magical hat; a group of campers meet a secretive stranger; a hitchhiker accepts a lift from a man and...
537) Bohemia: Roman
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Mars 2020.
Fred, citadin célibataire, vit très mal le confinement qui le met face à sa solitude et le plonge dans une angoisse existentielle sans nom. Un soir, afin de fuir une dispute de voisinage qui l'empêche de dormir, il se réfugie dans sa cave et y découvre un passage menant vers un monde échappant à toute explication rationnelle, et o tout semble possible: Bohemia.
538) Fool's Proof
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Malfred Murd's job as the royal jester was never a barrel of laughs, but now he's lost even that. Trying to jingle out a living on the streets with no license, no hat, and no one to watch his back but a sassy talking magpie, he flips at the chance to make a little money- even if the plan isn't entirely honest. Hoy, desperate times, desperate measures… right? But Fred has no idea what depths of desperation he's just stepped into. In short order he...
539) Under Ninja Vol. 2
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Now armed with modern ninja gear, Kudo begins to test out his new tool set throughout the mean streets of Tokyo. Unbeknownst to him, there is a Russian agent in town set on disrupting Japan's ninja corps.
While still fresh and not yet fully trained, Kudo is put on alert to take care of a terrorist in the city. It just so happens that this agent also happens to possess ninja skills!
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