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The second in this hilarious cozy mystery series features a woman who is a talent agent for showbiz animals and discovers that she has a talent herself: solving crimes. Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting - that is, birdsitting - her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show’s charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is - you guessed it - Barney.

Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives. So when life gave them lemons and their loved ones let them down, they pooled their resources and bought a dressmakers shop on the corner of Penny Lane. And they’ve been doing just fine ever since. But one day, while studying her tired eyes and shapeless figure in the mirror, 62-year-old Tess realised that she doesn’t want her life to be just fine anymore. She wants it to be extraordinary.

Max, un petit gars de banlieue, conducteur grutier à la fourrière, vient d'enlever une voiture sur un emplacement livraison. C'est alors qu'il découvre, sur la banquette arrière, une vieille dame. Faute professionnelle qui risque de causer son renvoi... D'autant plus qu'il la reconnaît : c'est la chef d'entreprise Madeleine Lamor, héroïne de la Résistance, dont la tête orne ses paquets de galettes bretonnes. En pleine crise de confusion mentale, elle le prend pour son amant de 1944 traqué par la Gestapo.

Veranix Calbert leads a double life. By day, he’s a struggling magic student at the University of Maradaine. At night, he spoils the drug trade of Willem Fenmere, crime boss of Dentonhill and murderer of Veranix’s father. He’s determined to shut Fenmere down. With that goal in mind, Veranix disrupts the delivery of two magical artifacts meant for Fenmere's clients, the mages of the Blue Hand Circle. Using these power-filled objects in his fight, he quickly becomes a real thorn in Fenmere's side.

Veranix Calbert is the Thorn - the street vigilante who became a legend to the people of Maradaine, especially the gangs that run the neighborhood of Aventil. The Thorn continues to harass Willem Fenmere, the drug kingpin of the Dentonhill neighborhood. Veranix is still determined to stop Fenmere and the effitte drug trade, especially when he discovers that Fenmere is planning on using the Red Rabbits gang to bring the drug into Aventil. But it’s also Exam Week at the University of Maradaine, where Veranix is a magic student.

Es ist der bisher mysteriöseste Fall für Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Bart Minnock, Gründer von U-Play, einem gigantischen Computerspieleimperium, wird tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden. Die Freundin des Opfers ist gelähmt vor Trauer, und seine Partner bei U-Play sind aufrichtig geschockt. Der sympathische Millionär schien keine Feinde zu haben. Doch Erfolg zieht immer Neider nach sich, sobald es um viel Geld, Macht und Rivalitäten geht. Das weiß auch Roarke, Eves Ehemann und Konkurrent von Minnock.

At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told - that local students’ strange demises at Whitewood, a local reformatory, were all tragic accidents. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry - and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood - Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents.

Following a cancer diagnosis, 40-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto faces a shutdown and he meets with the condominium developers ready to take it over - including a foul-mouthed young Chinese entrepreneur and Wende, his ex-girlfriend from graduate school - Prin hears the voice of God.

Brooklyn Manning thought her life was perfect in every way, until it crumbled down around her and turned into a dumpster fire. With her pride wounded and her tail tucked between her legs, she leaves New York and goes back to her tiny hometown of White Timber, Montana. No more 24-hour taco trucks, no more shopping at the best designer stores within walking distance, no more giving taxi drivers the finger when they angrily honk at her. She didn’t think it could get any worse. But then Clint Hastings walked into the room and insulted her.

Mallory Devereaux is known throughout the town of Royal Flush, Louisiana, as a walking disaster, and her luck just got worse. She needs to raise $10,000 in one week to keep the IRS from seizing her adoptive father’s business, where she works as the demolition foreman. When the opportunity to cool cards at her uncle’s casino comes up, Mallory hopes her luck is changing. But when she realizes her uncle has assembled a tournament of criminals, she wonders what she’s stepped in the middle of.

Oma wird tüdelig. Seit einem Jahr leben Sönke und Maria gemeinsam auf der Nordsee-Insel Föhr. Mit der Ruhe ist es allerdings vorbei, als Sönkes minderjährige Cousine Jade zu Besuch kommt. Statt des braven Mädchens von früher steht eine übelgelaunte Grufti-Braut vor ihnen. Auch Oma bereitet Sorgen, denn sie wird zunehmend vergesslich, so richtig vergesslich! Und dann geschieht auf der Insel ein spektakulärer Kriminalfall, und die Kripo schickt vom Festland einen Kommissar, den Maria noch von früher kennt - ihr attraktiver Exfreund.

Seize auteurs aux styles variés osent une incursion dans la littérature érotique.

One rule: No more men. Two years ago I walked away from a marriage I thought would last forever and all I got from it was Dick…And I don’t mean the one between my stupid ex’s legs. I’m talking about the 150 pound furry dog said ex dropped off at my doorstep. But I’d take Dick over any man, any day. So why did I resemble my dog, panting and drooling, whenever I ran into Hudson West, my sexy new neighbor? True, the gorgeous veterinarian was hotter than sin. And my new roommate only made it impossible for me to avoid conversation with a man I didn’t need.

Alice est une rêveuse pour qui la vie est bien décevante: elle n’a pas de bon emploi, pas de belle maison et, surtout, pas de chum. Une nuit, elle rêve de l’homme idéal. Et la nuit suivante, et les autres nuits encore. C’est ridicule, elle le sait, mais, peu à peu, elle tombe amoureuse. Le problème: les membres de sa famille sont impatients de faire la connaissance de son nouveau «copain».

Hotelmanagerin Annabelle hat gerade einen Superjob in Singapur ergattert, als sie das elterliche Hotel in den Alpen übernehmen soll. Fest entschlossen, den Familienbetrieb zu verkaufen, reist sie in die verschneite Heimat. Dort wollen mächtige Investoren das verträumte Bergdorf touristisch aufmöbeln - doch dann kommt einer nach dem anderen ums Leben. Wer steckt dahinter? Und welche Rolle spielt Lennard, der zwielichtige Nachbarssohn? Ein mörderischer Wettlauf um das familiäre Glück beginnt.

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village - the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.

Gestorben wird immer, aber selten so vergnügt: "Der Tod ist schwer zu überleben" von Bestsellerautor Sebastian Niedlich jetzt als Hörbuch. Es gibt Traumjobs. Es gibt Höllenjobs. Und es gibt den Job, vor dem sich Martin bisher erfolgreich gedrückt hat - denn eigentlich soll er Nachfolger seines besten Freundes werden, dem leibhaftigen Tod. Stattdessen gibt es nun plötzlich andere Kandidaten für den Job, zu denen eine mordlustige Studentin, ein liebenswerter Pazifist und eine trinkfeste Russin gehören. Aber ist einer von ihnen die richtige Wahl?

Kos-Kos Shabdkosh, by Rakesh Kayasth, can be categorized as a valuable dictionary or thesaurus or essays of sarcasm in Hindi. This pause-resisting parody of 50 contemporary Hindi words used in various social and political contexts defines them differently with an edge of sarcasm. Although the words are most commonly used, the author’s wit gives them new dimensions of unusual, satirical interpretations. You will find your smiles evolving into roaring chortles and sometimes find yourself delving deep into the delicate nuances of the author’s elucidations.

The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over 60 - even for the former star of a 1980s TV series. So when she's offered the plum role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in Zurich, it seems like a godsend. Until, that is, the play is abruptly cancelled in suspicious circumstances, and Suzy is forced to take a job on a cruise ship to get home.

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralyzed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war.