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  • Same Player Shoots Again

    A Biography of the Pinball Machine

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Total Emasculation of the White Man

    by David Valentine Bernard ...
    From the author of the “powerful, fable-like work” (Publishers Weekly) Intimate Relations with Strangers comes a sci-fi mystery—and a very dark comedy—about several, mostly white, men who are systematically driven insane by a series of bizarre events.A man wakes up in the woods one day with amnesia and is confronted by a dominatrix who tells him they are on a mission from God. She takes him to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Thirsty Earth

    A Novel

    by David Valentine Bernard ...
    A young Caribbean boy must learn to survive by himself after the death of his grandmother and disappearance of his mother, while trying to stay one step ahead of corrupt police.A twelve-year-old Caribbean boy wakes up to discover his grandmother, his only relative on the island, has died during the night. On his way into town to tell the authorities—and call his mother in America—he becomes the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Intimate Relations with Strangers

    A Novel

    by David Valentine Bernard ...
    A powerful debut novel that blends time travel, fantasy, and mystery to portray a love story set in a post-9/11 America.Set in a future where the threat of terrorism has seeped into everything, an American soldier finds himself at the vanguard of America's latest war. After a terrorist attack on the White House, America invades an African country in the Sahara. In the desert, the soldier begins to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Theory of the Hashtag

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis, Daniel Ross ...
    This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Triumph of Profiling

    The Self in Digital Culture

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what are its implications?In this book, Andreas Bernard examines contemporary profiling’s roots in late-nineteenth-century criminology, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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    by Nicole Williams ...
    From NEW YORK TIMES and USATODAY Bestselling author Nicole Williams . . .Knox Jagger. The name inspires resentment in every male at Sinclair University, want in every female, and contempt in Charlie Chase.Charlie can be summed up in three words: independent, independent, and independent. To Charlie, Knox epitomizes everything that’s wrong with college males: prolific one-night stands, drunken ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Interior

    by Stephen Graham Jones ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction!"A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror MovieWalking through his own house at night, a young boy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Futurological Congress

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. " Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. " — The Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in C... ... Read more

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  • The Nostalgist

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Daniel H. Wilson ...
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    The Nostalgist: A Tor.Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson.With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.This story has been adapted into a short film of the same name, directed by Giacomo Cimini and starring Lambert Wilson and Samuel Joslin.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • To Tempt a Sheikh

    by Olivia Gates ...
    Series series Pride of Zohayd
    He rescued hostage Talia Burke from his royal family's rival tribe and swept her into his strong embrace. But Prince Harres Aal Shalaan soon discovered there was more to the brave beauty than he knew. Talia held information vital to protecting his beloved kingdom…and she had every reason not to trust him.Marooned together at a desert oasis, Talia couldn't resist Harres. Yet even as his sizzling ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Minotaur

    A Jim Chapel Story

    by David Wellington ...
    Someone is smuggling Russian guns into the United States to arm domestic terrorists, and it's up to Special Forces veteran Jim Chapel to uncover who is behind the plot. The prime suspect is Ygor Favorov, a notorious Russian operative who defected just before the fall of the Soviet Union. But exposing a billionaire double agent is far from easy, and Chapel must fight his way through a small army of ... Read more

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