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Nur mit Mühe schafft es Pflegerin Sybille, den Betrieb in ihrem Seniorenheim zusammen mit ihren Kolleginnen am Laufen zu halten. Und dann taucht plötzlich auch noch Rüdiger Otterle, Nachfolger und Erbe des Heims und gelernter BWLer, auf. Der Neue hat zwar keinen Schimmer von Pflege, geschweige denn von Senioren, aber ein großes Ziel: Er möchte Haus Sonnenuntergang zum »Heim des Jahres« machen.

First published in 1891, Diary of a Pilgrimage is a charming retelling of a journey to Oberammergau, Germany: the home of the famous Passion Play. Written with Jerome's trademark wit and candour, Diary of a Pilgrimage follows our protagonist – who appears to act as a proxy for Jerome himself – and his friend, B., as they travel to Germany to see the eminent Passion Play, a traditional historical spectacle that occurs once every ten years.

Bloomsbury presents Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff, read by Luke Kempner Jonathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him – only richer and more organised with a different...

'Snort-out-loud funny, warm and moving' Lizzie Damilola Blackburn on CHAOTIC ENERGY _____________________________ Cassie's not looking for love. She's just doing it for the plot... Cassie is looking for a man. She knows exactly what she doesn't want: no one with a podcast, more Instagram...

Totally feathered up and living on the dub side... Take a trip in a stranger’s head. Travel rain-shot streets with a gang of hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine. Yet Vurt feathers are not for the weak. As the mysterious Game Cat says, ‘Be careful, be very...

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful old estate on to his children. The Second...

Ein bayerisches Dorf mit Hangover - Xaver Gottwalds Schädel brummt, als er nackt auf einer Kirchenbank erwacht. Was ist gestern beim jährlichen Frühlingserwachen-Fest nur passiert? Verkatert sieht sich der Dorfpolizist um und entdeckt ein Foto, das ihn glücklich in eindeutiger Pose mit einer wunderschönen Unbekannten zeigt. Verdammt, wieso kann er sich an nichts erinnern! Xaver macht sich auf den Weg zur Wache. Im Dorf herrscht blankes Chaos: Reifenspuren in der Kirche, bemalte Schweine auf dem Friedhof und Pinguine in Kühlregalen.

Mitten im ganz normalen Wahnsinn. Menschen sind merkwürdige Wesen: Sie kaufen Möbel mit Anleitungen in 14 Sprachen – und bauen trotzdem zwei Bretter falsch herum ein. Sie fragen nach ehrlichen Meinungen – und sind beleidigt, wenn sie eine bekommen.

Big personalities, quick schemes, and even quicker comebacks—life with Torchy and Vee is never dull. Torchy may have traded his office-boy days for marriage, fatherhood, and greater responsibility, but he has lost none of the streetwise charm, restless curiosity, or sharp New York wit that...

Sie sind neugierig und wollten schon immer einen intimen Blick hinter die Kulissen eines gut vernetzten Personalberaters werfen? Dann begleiten Sie einen Insider auf eine Reise durch die ebenso faszinierende wie befremdliche Welt der Headhunter. In über 85 Episoden enthüllt dieses Buch die absurdesten, kuriosesten und überraschendsten Erlebnisse aus dem täglichen Geschäft der Personalvermittlung. Hören Sie hautnah, wie Top-Manager und Führungspersönlichkeiten agieren oder manchmal auch grandios scheitern.

1993, Clemens Wallner, 24 Jahre alt, ist frischgebackener Kriminalkommissar. Gefeiert wird das zusammen mit Polizeiwachtmeister Leonhardt Kreuthner und der Tochter des Chefs – bei einem riesigen Sonnwendfeuer, auf einem Gipfel im Mangfallgebirge, die ganze Nacht. Als der Morgen graut, entdeckt »Leichen-Leo« die erste Leiche seiner Karriere. Denn unter der Asche ihres Feuers findet sich eine metallene Kiste mit einer Toten.

Ever wondered why dogs don’t speak human languages? Simple: they know too much. If dogs ever started talking, they’d tell you exactly what they think and that would shatter every human illusion in one bark. No more polite nodding. No more “Who’s a good boy?” theatre. Just pure, unfiltered clarity. And clarity is dangerous. Enter Pepe: a highly opinionated, aggressively honest Jack Russell who has finally decided to break the silence. He’s here to explain the world as dogs actually see it... and trust me, you’re not ready.

For fans of comic fantasy, British pub humor, and stories where ordinary people face extraordinary nonsense with stubborn determination. Think The League of Gentlemen meets Bottom, if Richie and Eddie inherited an eldritch horror and tried to fix it with curry. Some reckonings arrive with fire and brimstone. This one arrives with vindaloo. Beneath an ordinary pub in Albrighton lurks the Hungry Table—an ancient entity that has survived wars, landlords, Thatcher, disastrous refurbishments, and pub quizzes so dire even the ghosts stopped attending.

When Prince Harry sues Prince William for "wilful and malicious sibling rivalry," the sensational claims from Spare finally face their day in court. But as the proceedings unfold, it's not just the brothers on trial – suddenly the very suitability of Wills and Kate as Britain's future King and Queen is thrown into doubt. The timing couldn't be more disastrous. Charles and Camilla are preparing to abdicate for a blissful retirement in Mustique, leaving the throne dangerously exposed just as the monarchy becomes the centre of the most explosive trial of the century.

Sara recibe de un informante anónimo unas fotos comprometedoras de su esposo, por lo que empieza a plantearse el divorcio. Para animarla a dar ese paso, Vero y Cassandra, sus amigas de toda la vida, deciden celebrar con ella una fiesta, la de su despedida de casada, en un destino sorpresa y misterioso. Pero Rebeca, la hija de Sara, cree en la inocencia de su padre y está dispuesta a seguir a su madre hasta el fin del mundo con tal de impedir su separación.

Weihnachtswunder gibt es nicht ... oder? Neve verbringt die Tage immer gleich, egal, welches Fest vor der Tür steht. Sie fährt mit dem Taxi durch das eingeschneite New York, sammelt die unterschiedlichsten Menschen ein und am Abend fällt sie müde ins Bett. Nur dieses Weihnachten hat das...

London, 1597. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men are used to the roar of the crowd, but they are entirely unprepared for the predatory gaze of the Virgin Queen. In a sudden strike of royal caprice, Elizabeth I has issued a command that sends a linear jolt of terror through the wooden foundations of the Globe. She demands a new comedy featuring her favorite glutton, Sir John Falstaff, and she wants him "in love." The catch? William Shakespeare has a mere fourteen days to conjure a masterpiece from the ink, or the company’s royal favor will be siphoned away into the black depths of the Thames.

Christmas: the most wonderful, overhyped, aggressively jolly time of the year. Meet Phil, a man who loves Christmas almost as much as he loves tearing it to shreds. As The twelve days count down, so does he, one chapter, one day, one festive absurdity at a time. From carols that make no sense, to the baffling origins of tinsel, he’s got opinions, facts, and a hangover to back them up.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Not every Lovecraft tale comes from the shadows. Writing as a genteel old gentleman recalling his youth in eighteenth-century London, Lovecraft steps entirely out of the cosmic and into the drawing room — offering a warm, witty portrait of Dr. Samuel...

May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she—and everyone else in the shop—receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation—and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead. As disturbing texts continue to arrive, the Blackheath residents are threatened with further revelations and titillations. Then Fletcher becomes the focus of the tormenting texter, and barely escapes an attempt on his life.