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When Nancy's husband disappears to 'find himself' on a worldwide tour, just before he's due to retire, she's devastated to find he's left her penniless. She has the house though… and so she does the only thing she can. She finds lodgers. But she soon realises that life model Jackie, fortune teller Phyllis, and ageing rocker Marvin might be a more crazy group than teenagers would be. What's more… they're determined to help Nancy find her own wild side!

What is the price of a heart that knows no bounds? In the shimmering, bittersweet world of Oscar Wilde’s "The Devoted Friend," loyalty is a beautiful garden, but manipulation is the winter frost that threatens to wither it all. This isn't just a fairy tale; it is a captivating dance of irony...

Un roman ensoleillé malgré une météo capricieuse ? Chance, la quarantaine, est perdue. Par le quotidien, par son couple, par sa vie de famille, par elle-même... Elle n’attend qu’une chose : les vacances d’été pour récupérer ! C’est sans compter ce coup de fil, la veille du...

Halycon Sage is back! As the eccentric citizens of Dry Creek Gulch happily organize a peaceful, post-technological society, big sparkly blue Squidren are rapidly approaching Earth! These telepathic, time-traveling, dimension-hopping Squids have plans for us-as do the suddenly sentient Nanobots...

Join Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, as he slaloms through time, space, and multiple dimensions, all tangled up in a multiverse-spanning ball of yarn. The Squidren are back, along with many new characters. Will lawyer...

Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, has voluntarily disappeared. He is hoping to save the world but is also fleeing the Mail Pile. Sage, a person of mystery who may be a Native American male, meets some odd characters...

Henry “Hank” Howard had a plan: finish his groundbreaking serum, impress his demanding future father-in-law, and propose to the love of his life. But when a late-night mugging leaves him rattled—and the experiment finally turns purple—Hank makes a desperate choice that changes everything. Now, when he loses his temper, Hank transforms into something else: huge, unstoppable… and bright purple.

Es brennt im Harz. In der Gartenkolonie Grüner Daumen stehen Lauben in Brand. Polizeihauptmeister Andreas Anton aus dem idyllischen Düsterode ist nicht allzu alarmiert. Der Yogafan ist einfach nicht der Typ für Alarm. Als eine Leiche in einer der Hütten gefunden wird, macht er sich doch Sorgen. Denn der 14-jährige Sohn seiner neuen Partnerin ist verschwunden. Andreas rollt seine Yogamatte ein, nimmt Hündin Frau Krause an die Leine und ermittelt.

Ein Sohn, der nicht erwachsen werden will, eine Mutter, die sich in alles einmischt, und ein Kollege, der ihr nicht aus dem Kopf geht: Altenpflegerin Sophia zwischen Chaos und Neubeginn! Für Sophia stehen alle Zeichen auf Neuanfang. Sohn Migo ist endlich aus dem Haus, und sie selbst beginnt mit Ende vierzig einen neuen Job als Pflegerin im Altenheim. Die Bewohner, eine bunte Truppe ostfriesischer Originale, wachsen ihr schnell ans Herz. Und dann ist da noch Pfleger Pawel, bei dessen sanftem Blick sie ganz weiche Knie bekommt.

Later in life, Chief JP is working in Naples, Italy, looking into the Chinese threat to the US Mediterranean Fleet.

A 22 tale collection. Dark, introspective, grimy, urban, strange. “Like a puddle of blood in a back alley of New York City that whispers to you of what could have been via a static-slathered Bluetooth connection…” Art by Soren Häxan and Rachel...

Nothing Crazy is a sharp, heartfelt comedy about weddings, expectations, and what happens when everything goes wrong in exactly the right way. Marissa Holt is a wedding planner who promises her clients three things: simple, elegant, and nothing crazy. What they get instead are runaway peacocks, collapsing cakes, emergency Costco charcuterie, accidental sprinkler activations, and a string quartet replaced —briefly —by YouTube ads.

He lived fast, he loved recklessly and every mistake was made at full throttle. When a pilot with a taste for danger and strip-club nightlife thinks he’s untouchable, the universe reminds him just how far a man can fall. Smoke in the cockpit. A marriage collapsing at the airport. Betrayal. Burned bridges. Scorched earth. And a past full of wounds he pretended didn’t exist.

Brought to you by Penguin. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to...

Als der Ortspfarrer Josef überraschend stirbt, gerät die geordnete Welt seiner Haushälterin Anna ins Wanken. Dafür nimmt Anna, Anfang fünfzig, Fahrstunden bei ihrem ehemaligen Fahrlehrer und heimlichen Schwarm Herrn Tanner. Gemeinsam erkunden sie die Gegend um Blumfeld und erinnern sich an ein fast vergessenes Leben. An den Geruch des Sommers, die Farbe reifer Mirabellen, an harte Arbeit und kleine Alltagsfluchten. Je näher der Aufbruch rückt, desto drängender werden Annas Fragen, denn die Fahrt bedeutet eine Reise ins Ungewisse.

Steffie spends her days working in a dry-cleaner’s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can’t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside. Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can’t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame.

Das Ende des deutschen Fernsehens – als unterhaltsames Roadmovie Sebastian Hotz' zweiter Roman ist ein gekonntes Spiel mit »kultigen« TV-Figuren und den Kulturkämpfen unserer Gegenwart – eine Mediensatire als Roadmovie, in der Ähnlichkeiten mit realen Personen selbstverständlich rein zufällig sind. Nach Jahrzehnten der TV-Geschichte ist es so weit: Der legendäre Showmaster Falk Anders kündigt seinen Ruhestand an.

Maksim Max Orlov is not living, he is staying eligible to be billed again. He wakes up with a mouth tasting of metal and a phone bleeding failed payment notifications. Somewhere between towering ambition and crippling laziness, Max has mastered a new survival skill, he can turn his own collapse into a joke before anyone else can name it. A chaos man with a talent for punchlines, and a hollow hunger for validation.

Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni.

Tales from the Motherland: Book Zero is a darkly comic collection of interlinked stories about power, memory, exile, and the quiet absurdities of modern life. Set across post-Soviet cities, imagined borderlands, and bureaucratic nowhere-zones, these stories follow people who live slightly out of sync with their surroundings—men and women shaped by collapse, reinvention, and systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.