Publisher: Babelcube
Kyle and Wednesday form a very exotic couple. She is goth, he is all preppy. Only they work out so well in dating that these differences - sometimes so abrupt - make no difference in the relationship. Until the day they celebrate Wednesday's 15th birthday. Based on the 'Wednesday' series.
Leonid Bershidsky's Animal Tested is set in a parallel universe that feels either a few years ahead of our own or slightly behind it. An authoritarian ruler is confronted with a winged threat that promises a profound transformation for both himself and his regime. Meanwhile, a young biochemist discovers something unexpected about her test subjects, forcing her to abandon science for protest politics. Elsewhere, a technocratic manager loses faith in mathematical models and turns to civil disobedience. Ultimately, these three storylines converge, signaling a global crisis and, perhaps, a sequel.Show book
If you’ve ever read a philosophy paper and wondered, “Did they really need that many syllables to say absolutely nothing?”—this book is for you. Sophia Anne Blackwell, the wildly irreverent creator of the Cogito Ergo Nope! series, returns with her most hilariously scathing book yet: a no-holds-barred takedown of philosophy’s greatest (and most obscurantist) offenders. From the ancient Greeks who invented making things harder than they need to be, to French theorists who turned not making sense into a career, Big Words, Small Ideas traces the glorious tradition of intellectual smoke and mirrors with biting wit and actual clarity. In this book, you’ll meet: Plato, who decided the real world was just a sad knockoff of Ideas That Don’t Exist Aristotle, who invented philosophical filing cabinets with seventeen drawers too many Plotinus, who tried to write about the indescribable in several hundred pages Kant, who made thinking about thinking so hard you’d wish you never started Hegel, the man who weaponized run-on sentences Heidegger, who wrote an entire book about Being without explaining what Being means And a whole cast of modern academics who think obscurity = genius With ruthless humor, surprising accuracy, and zero patience for jargon masquerading as depth, Blackwell takes you on a tour through the theater of philosophical absurdity—and dares to ask the forbidden question: What the hell are they actually talking about? Whether you’re a recovering philosophy major, a curious outsider, or just someone who’s tired of pretending to understand Lacan, this book is your guide to 3,000 years of intellectual gaslighting—with jokes.Show book
This audiobook is about a boy called Simon and his unusual adventures.Show book
An amateur mushroom hunter, Kaolin, and her brother, Gully, have their paths diverge after a note leads her to a remote area of the forest, as he stays behind to play video games. An old woman treats a drone like a pet, and an aggrieved writer plots his revenge with the help of his never-sober girlfriend. At the center of it all is a dubious bar, mobbed with formally-attired, pill-popping headset wearers.Show book
Galactic A$$holes: The Misadventures of Captain Fartknuckle is the most gloriously stupid, chaotically crude, and outrageously hilarious space saga you never knew your twisted little heart needed. Follow Captain Fartknuckle—a fearless leader with a nuclear butt blast and the strategic planning skills of a drunk wombat—as he stumbles, farts, and occasionally saves the galaxy alongside the universe’s dumbest collection of outlaws: Sockward the crusty gym sock prophet, Grandma Glittertits the battle-hardened old warrior with no filter (and even less patience), Jeff the semi-feral raccoon diplomat, and a sentient AI that hates them all equally. From sock-based civil wars and galactic fart bombs to evil sentient soap bars bent on cosmic cleansing, this crew faces every ridiculous catastrophe the stars can throw at them—and usually makes it worse. Packed with dark humor, savage stupidity, relentless fart jokes, and plot twists so dumb they come full circle to genius, Galactic A$$holes will blast you into a galaxy where dignity dies, laughter reigns, and the only universal law is "Never trust a raccoon with chili." Brace your nostrils. Shield your brain cells. Welcome to the misadventure of a lifetime.Show book
Cape Cod, a wrecked schooner and a boy who goes into the wrecking business with an old captain. Joseph C. Lincoln wrote nearly fifty novels of the Cape and its longshoremen, and his dialogue is the best record there is of that speech. The comedy is dry and the storm chapters are serious. This edition is bound with sixty plates of painting, among them Winslow Homer, George Inness and John Thomas Serres, dating from 1771 to 1904.Show book
