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  Tefil

  Rafał Wojasiński

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  "Challenging, repulsive, and fatally attractive – a voice you cannot silence, a novel you will not forget." 
  Rozmaryn never knew his mother. When he finds an old photograph of her in the company of a stranger, he does what any person would do: he goes looking for answers. What he finds is Tefil. 
  Tefil lives in a garret flat in a quiet Polish town. He is balding, not especially fragrant, and fiercely committed to avoiding the repayment of small debts. He attaches himself to strangers and cadges pastries, coffee, and the occasional alcoholic dinner with the persistence of a tick. He has never married. In his working years he served as a village factotum; now he collects the clothes of the dead and philosophises. 
  His philosophy centers on mould. Mould, Tefil argues with full conviction, is the only truly unconquerable living thing -- it survives being eaten and digested, it outlasts civilisations, and it is destined to consume everything, including humanity itself. He is not joking. Or perhaps he is. This uncertainty is precisely what makes him so difficult to leave. 
  Rozmaryn cannot pull himself away. Nor, it turns out, can the reader. 
  Tefil is a poetic novel in the tradition of Finnegans Wake -- something closer to music or abstract painting than to conventional narrative. It does not resolve neatly. It does not try to. What it offers instead is a voice of extraordinary and deeply unsettling force, a meditation on decay and meaning and the stubborn persistence of the repulsive, and a character who is among the most singular in contemporary Polish fiction. 
  Winner of the Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2022). Translated by Charles S. Kraszewski, whose previous translation of Wojasiński's Olanda was published by Glagoslav in 2019. Published with the support of the ©POLAND Translation Program.

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  My Stories I Like to Tell - A...

  Phil bode

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  This is a collection of true life stories and experiences during the decade of the 1950's. In a humorous and sometimes nostalgic telling, the author shares the genuine way that life's lessons are learned. In each story, the author relates how he got into situations that came with unforeseen consequences. From learning to obey family boundaries, to learning how to deal with other children, and ultimately learning how to treat animals with compassion, a child gradually builds an understanding of how the world works and how he fits into it. As a result, he teaches himself discipline and responsibility.

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  The Actual One - How I Tried and...

  Isy Suttie

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  A hilarious, razor-sharp debut memoir about the moment when you realize that your friends have all grown up and left you behind, for listeners of Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, and Kelly Williams Brown’s Adulting. 
  Isy Suttie wakes up one day in her late twenties to discover that the deal she’d struck with her friends, to put off growing up for as long as possible, had been entirely in her head. Everyone around her is suddenly into mortgages, farmers’ markets, and going off the Pill, rather than running naked into the sea or getting hammered in a country pub with eighty-year-old men.After a particularly crushing breakup precipitated by Isy’s gifting of a human-size papier-mâché penguin to her boyfriend, her dearest friend advises Isy not to worry: the next guy she meets will be The Actual One. 
   
  Heartened by this promise, Isy decides to keep delaying the onset of adulthood, whether that means standing on the side of a highway in nothing but an old fur coat and sneakers, dating a man who speaks only in rhyme, or conquering her fears of Alpine skiing by wildly overestimating her athletic ability. Insightful and laugh-out-loud funny, The Actual One is an ode to the confusing wilderness of your late twenties, alongside a quest for a genuinely good relationship . . . or at the very least, a good story to tell.

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  Death on the Night Train to...

  Benedict Brown

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  Everyone wanted a piece of the world’s most beloved film star, but who finally took it? 
   
  Italy, 1929. When renowned detective Lord Edgington boards a luxurious night train in Rome, he hopes for attentive service, fine food and perhaps a chance to read his book. But a short distance into the journey, screen siren Geraldine de la Forge is slain in her sleeping compartment, and the master sleuth is put to the test. 
   
  Adored the world over, Geraldine seemed to have the perfect life, but as Lord Edgington and his grandson investigate, a darker picture emerges. Was it her jealous lover, a wealthy patron with secrets to hide, her ambitious director, or an obsessive fan who cut the life from her? The detectives must untangle a web of passion, lies and betrayal to stop the killer from striking again. 
   
  A fast-paced, witty, and fiendishly puzzling whodunnit in the tradition of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. “Death on the Night Train to Verona” will send you thundering towards the final destination and one last dizzying twist. 
   
  The audiobook is narrated by the actor George Blagden from the TV shows "Vikings" and "Versailles" and the Oscar-winning film "Les Miserables".

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  Imagine Wagons - (Caravan of...

  JP Weaver

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  “It’ll be a good opportunity,” they said. Little did they know. Finley, the roving tinker and sales extraordinaire (who may or may not be an elf), would prefer to avoid the heroic riffraff and their suffocating, otherworldly hope. Unfortunately, the pantheon has other ideas which is ever noticeable when they keep dropping summoned heroes in his path, insistent that they’ll be the savior. Why? Great question! Finley has no idea. His world has been overrun by zombies, so why bother? His business is already in turmoil–expected really, when the “regulars” would rather be eating brains than buying flowers for loved ones and the uninfected are busy trying to survive. Yet, the higher powers saw heroes as the solution. What’s a merchant meant to do with them? Or their worthless money in such a vile economy? One thing is for sure… When the horde comes calling, you better have an escape plan.  
  Perfect for fans of All the Skills, Jake's Magical Market, and A Summoner Awakens, this satirical LitRPG deck-builder uses a card-based magic system and promises to entertain.

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  Ruin Your Life Now - How To Use...

  Dicholas Chad Pansy

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  Tired of self-help books promising success, happiness, and inner peace? Good. You're holding the only book brave enough to say what you're really thinking: "Why bother?" 
  Welcome to Ruin Your Life Now—the ultimate anti-self-help book for overthinkers, self-saboteurs, and anyone who’s ever looked in the mirror and muttered, “Yikes.” 
  Written by professional over-apologizer and amateur disaster Dicholas Chad Pansy, this brutally sarcastic guide shows you how to weaponize affirmations not for success—but for spectacular failure. Learn to: 
  Attract toxic relationships with the efficiency of a broken dating app 
  Manifest crushing debt and emotional instability 
  Sabotage your job, body, and soul in record time 
  Cultivate spiritual emptiness and repel divine intervention 
  Alienate everyone who ever loved you (or at least tolerated you) 
  Think of it as your daily dose of self-destruction, disguised as a coping mechanism. 
  Packed with toxic affirmations, unnecessary rants, and advice so bad it circles back to genius, Ruin Your Life Now is like a car crash you can’t stop watching—except the car is your life and you’re the one behind the wheel, blindfolded. 
  This is not a guide to healing. 
  This is a how-to manual for becoming the chaotic, emotionally-unstable dumpster fire you were always meant to be. 
  Don’t fix your life. Ruin it. On purpose.

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