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      • June 2021

        And nothing ever ends

        Novel

        by Tomer, Gardi

        In And Nothing Ever Ends, two artists from two different centuries travel through linguistic and cultural spaces. Experiences of foreignness, identity, life as an artist, and lots of politics are the major themes of the novel, in which the two storylines mirror each other. First, Tomer Gardi, written in German, sends himself as a literary character with the talking German shepherd Rex and the elf king or even Goethe’s Erlkönig at his side on a fantastic-adventurous odyssey, slapstick, funny and with many subliminal pinpricks. In the second part of the novel, translated from Hebrew, we follow the 19th century Indonesian painter Raden Saleh from Java through Europe and back to Asia—a historical novel and at the same time a reflection of our times.

      • Nature's Confession

        by JL Morin

        The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet...the universe...and their love. A cli-fi quest to outsmart polluters, full of romance, honour and adventure.    “The novel is epic” –The Guardian    “It makes no apologies for its mission: to save our Planet Earth from self-destructing. A thought-provoking novel that brings the genre of ‘cli-fi’ to young adult readers.” —Florence Griswold Museum Reading Club, in an event featuringDr. Mark J. Schenker, Senior Associate Dean andDean of Academic Affairs at Yale University   Readers' Favorite Award Winner Book Excellence Finalist A Top 10  Best Science Fiction book Best Climate and Environmental Fiction book LitPick Award winner In "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read" 'Top Fiction Read' of the Year New York Book Festival Honorable Mention An excerpt received an Eco-Fiction Story Contest Honorable Mention     "Honestly, it's not my fault.  Humans were polluting the planet to desolation.  What else could I do?  I had to save her. "   When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone's lifetime. With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. Their quest takes them through the Big Bang and back. Will Starliament tear them from the project and unleash 'intelligent' life's habitual pollution, or will youth lead the way to a new way of coexisting with Nature? Nature's Confession couldn't be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments give $5.3 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies every year, while we continue to propagate the idea that solar and wind power are unprofitable. The ideal classroom tool, with illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book. JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.

      • Fiuuu & Graac

        by Max

        Murdering the Comic?In 1930, Joan Miró furiously proclaimed that Painting had to be assassinated.Max endorses the mironian proclamation to apply it to the Comic, proceeding to a full fledged demolition of the mandatory visual scaffolding of comics: vignettes and boxes, speech bubbles and dialogues, backgrounds and details...In his rage, Max even kills the Theme, serving us a naked, pointless slapstick.After Vapor (2012) and Rey Carbón (2018), Max continues his particular journey towards the atomic nucleus of the Cartoon, this time stepping on the accelerator.

      • 2009

        Binky the Space Cat

        by Ashley Spires

        Binky may look like an ordinary housecat, but he’s actually a certified member of F.U.R.S.T. (Felines of the Universe Ready for Space Travel). But his mission to blast off into outer space (the backyard) to battle aliens (bugs) is delayed when he realizes he's left something behind—and it's not the anti-gravity kitty litter! Readers will love all five titles in the Binky series, which mix dry humour and sci-fi slapstick with lots of heart. Soon to be a TV series in fall 2019!To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2JMNulr

      • I want to marry the Devil

        by Tanuma Ikeuchi

        Lovey-dovey romantic comedy by the Servant and the Devil!     One day, the devil who happened to help Haru who a human boy sold as a slave in the land under her rule and brought him back to the castle.     She raised him as her servant, and a few years later, Haru who grew up as a young man, suddenly proposed marriage to her…   One of the highlights is Haru's love for the devil makes him a little crazy behavior, and 340-year-old devil panics like a girl.   The slapstick love comedy by couples with age gap over  300 years.

      • Humour
        September 2023

        The Ultimate Wizarding World Joke Book

        Laugh-out-loud fun for Harry Potter fans of all ages

        by Jeremy Brown

        The worlds of Harry Potter have always been imbued with wry humor and occasional moments of slapstick comedy, in both the books as well as the films. Harry Potter paired with humor is nothing new. But in this big new book of jokes, riddles and puns, Harry Potter hilarity is taken to new heights of broom-powered fun. Inside readers will find more than 500 laugh-inducing entries, perfect for Harry Potter fans happy to have a little fun with their literary favorites. Written by Jeremy Brown, author of the bestselling humor book The Official John Wayne Big Book of Dad Jokes and regular Fatherly columnist, this book also includes recurring special features such as "Who is the funniest character in the Harry Potter universe?"

      • August 2020

        My Errors, Confusions

        by Gisela Heller

        The journalist, writer and fontane expert Gisela Heller invites readers with her memories on a journey through her long and eventful life. The author describes her not always easy path from her escape from her Silesian homeland and her professional beginnings in the early GDR, through her journalistic work for radio and television, to her closer involvement with a famous colleague who was to become her main work content and pillar of her life, Theodor Fontane. No writer is as close to me as Theodor Fontane, confesses the author and discovers, the more and the more intensively she deals with him, many parallels in her two life arcs. I did not choose him; he has grown into me over time.The book also offers exciting insights from the world of media and culture in the GDR, from the time of the reunification and the post-reunification period to the present, and presents a series of portraits of politicians, journalists and artist colleagues. At the same time, the extensive text does not omit family joys and difficulties and shows how the author repeatedly succeeded and continues to succeed in overcoming sometimes serious illnesses, crises and conflicts and in regaining a positive attitude to life.The touching autobiography concludes with the words: "The time of great, unfulfillable wishes is over; only one remained: May a pensive smile transfigure the face of those who think of me Cest çaThe almost 700-page memoirs of journalist, writer and font expert Gisela Heller were published to mark the 91st birthday of the author

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2022

        From Wholesome to Deadly

        A mind-expanding journey through the forgotten world of poisonous plants

        by Jan Grossarth

        Survival artists, murder weapons, life-givers Poisonous plants are alchemists. From sunlight, soil and water alone, they create nerve toxins, medicinal substances and hallucinogens. Their history is both many-faceted and exciting and tells of murder, intoxication, brilliant minds and scientific errors. In this book, author Jan Grossarth takes us on a journey through time, presenting the most important poisonous plants, describing mysterious deaths and offering tips on creating your own poison garden. And finally, he ventures a look ahead, as he is convinced that plant toxins are going to revolutionise agriculture and medicine – and safeguard our future.

      • Individual artists, art monographs
        January 2019

        The Last Days of Mankind

        A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic

        by artwork by Deborah Sengl; contributions by Marjorie Perloff, Matthias Goldmann, Anna Souchuk and Paul Reitter

        "Eye-catching": Top 10 Anticipated Art Books Publishers Weekly   Garnering critical success over the past four years, Viennese artist Deborah Sengl has exhibited taxidermied rats, drawings and paintings to restage Karl Kraus’ infamous, nearly-unperformable play The Last Days of Mankind (Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit, 1915–22). Featuring Sengl’s entire installation, this edition includes essays that examine her ambitious dramaturgy, which condenses the 10-15 hour drama into an abridged reading of its themes: human barbarism, the role of journalism in war, the sway of popular opinion and the absurdities of nationalism. The Last Days of Mankind offers an agit-prop protest envisioning human folly through animal actors, who become more than human, while confronting a violence particular to humankind, laced with selfishness and greed.   The work is a hundred years old, but for me it is still current. We may not have war in the immediate vicinity, but the war within us is as strong, if not stronger, as it was then.– Deborah Sengl

      • October 2022

        The Pavilion for Small Mammals

        by Patryk Pufelski

        “Noodle was one of the most important people in my life, despite weighing less than a kilogram and having four legs. I also think he was the only ferret in world history to visit every chapter of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland.” (page 17) The Pavilion for Small Mammals is the lightly fictionalised diary of contemporary Polish writer Patryk Pufelski. As a young, Jewish, openly gay zookeeper with a charming affinity for things past, his book offers answers to questions you didn’t know you had. How do you nanny a baby flamingo? Is being a vegetarian cyclist really enough to be an enemy of the Polish state? What does a friendship between a twenty-something-year-old, self-declared wannabe pensioner and an octogenarian Holocaust survivor look like?  Spanning almost a decade, Pufelski chronicles his journey from dropping out of university to landing a zookeeping job of his dreams. He shares not only laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating anecdotes from his personal and professional life, but also offers moving pictures of his family history, the present-day Jewish community in Poland, and life as a queer person under a socially conservative government. All the while, animals leap off the page, not least pet ferrets, tarantulas and Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. With seemingly effortless literary wit and endearing sensitivity to those around him – “all of them animals, some of them humans” – Pufelski’s Pavilion seems to be an effortless lesson on how the diary form can combine the personal with the political into an entertaining, heart-warming whole.

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