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I "Navn ukendt" (1965), Finn Søeborgs mest gakkede roman, møder vi manden, der mirakuløst overlever et flystyrt. Da han vågner har han mistet sin hukommelse, og han hvirvles, nu identitetsløs, ind i en række absurde forviklinger, der involverer militæret, det hemmelige politi, kongen og...

Rebecca Bloomwood er journalist og ansat ved et økonomisk tidsskrift. Hun tilbringer sin arbejdstid med at fortælle andre, hvordan de skal håndtere deres finanser. Sin fritid? Den tilbringer hun med at shoppe. Og vi taler ikke blot om shopping til husbehov. Nej, Rebecca shopper i gennem! Hun...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Adam opened his eyes. He looked around, just taking in everything. “Creation,” he said to himself. “Beautiful,” he murmured as he looked at tight rows of flowers of many shapes and colors. His attention was stolen to a part of the row of flowers...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The dust and sand painfully chaffed at her belly and thighs with every step her animal took. Sand and dust was everywhere. Of course it was always everywhere; they lived in Israel! Only the dust and the sand outnumbered the rocks, if they could be...

Katie Van Aspell’s hilarious and pulse-pounding debut, Slay-at-Home Mom, is the perfect thriller-comedy for fans of Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Megan Butcher is a wife, a mother, and—she’ll admit it—a basic bitch. She’s also an assassin...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada returns with a wonderfully wise and charming novel about a therapist, a world-famous singer, and the unexpected friendship that changes both of their lives. Julia is an expert in solving other families’ problems. She’s a...

Bestsellerautor Mark Franley, wie man ihn bisher noch nicht kannte… Das Leben des Versicherungsvertreters Herrn Mayer gleicht einer flachen Linie. Alles muss seine Ordnung haben und Abweichungen im Alltag sind nicht erwünscht. Doch dann zwingen ihn unvorhersehbare Umstände zu einem...

Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that he was extinct. And thanks to his over-eager secretary, he's been dumped in the midst of murder most foul. From beyond the grave, victims are begging Blake to solve their murders. In the real world, he's flummoxed by vandals, threats to his life, wildly raucous suspects and a homicide detective happy to pin killings on him.

Ausgerechnet unter einem Mistelzweig begegnet Jessica ihrem Traummann. Leider kommt ihr jemand beim Küssen zuvor und sie muss mit Tony, seinem grantigen Bruder, vorliebnehmen, der sich als ihr Pensionswirt herausstellt. Doch während der turbulenten Weihnachtstage im Bed and Breakfast verliebt sich Jessica nicht nur in die raue Schönheit der Isle of Skye, sondern auch in den gar nicht so mürrischen Tony. Zwischen nörgelnden Pensionsgästen und verkohlten Scones setzt sie alles daran, die Pension vor dem drohenden Ruin zu retten und das Herz des spröden Schotten zu erobern.

A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful...

„Acul și barosul” este o poveste scrisă de Ion Creangă, în care două unelte cu însușiri și întrebuințări diferite ajung să-și confrunte puterile și să-și scoată în evidență meritele. Prin dialoguri pline de umor și înțelepciune populară, povestea subliniază că...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What is in a name? Everything, apparently—at least to Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, two young bachelors who invent elaborate fictional personas to escape their social obligations. But when both fall head over heels—Jack for the fiercely...

Thirteen stories. Plenty of laughs. A few surprises. And more than one twist you won't see coming. Welcome to Once Upon a Time, a collection of entertaining short stories for adults and grown-up children where ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary situations, family arguments take...

Discover The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, a timeless classic of French literature filled with adventure, humor, romance, and sharp social satire. Follow Gil Blas, a young man who leaves home to seek his fortune and encounters a fascinating world of nobles, servants, swindlers, clergy...

The acclaimed author of Apologize, Apologize! takes the art of the tragicomedy to new heights in Panic Grass Farm a witty and electrically original story of true love, found family, musical genius, and kidnapping—for fans of Madeline Cash and Kevin Wilson. When Ferdia Guerin and Rosie Fagan...

À quarante ans, Gaëtane fait face à trois naufrages : un conjoint parti pour une autre, sa fille victime de harcèlement scolaire, et sa boîte bien décidée à la pousser vers la sortie. Elle claque la porte pour s'installer à Saint-Aldric, une commune de caractère dont elle est tombée sous le charme bien avant d'y poser ses cartons. Adieu les tableaux Excel, bonjour les machines à espresso ! L'ancienne contrôleuse de gestion réalise son rêve en ouvrant un coffee shop.

A farce, a short story revolving around the mysterious death in a nursing home, beginning with a growing sourdough starter left on the kitchen counter and a bizarre blue horse inside a British phone booth...

A grief-stricken, stoned, lonely Anthropological grad student infiltrates the Venice Beach Chapter of the Flat Earth and unexpectedly finds himself leading their investigation into the shocking disappearance of their chapter president. UCLA graduate student Pascal Froth sets out to infiltrate...

"I told my mother that I did not want to go to my sister’s friend’s birthday party dressed exactly like my lacey, frilly sister - who planned to bounce off planet and abandon me with strangers for a purple alien." 'Use your words' is not a lesson one little girl needs to learn. She knows...

Eine Kreuzfahrt, die ist tödlich... Zur Silberhochzeit soll der Traum von Polizistengattin Heike Detlefsen endlich wahr werden: Gemeinsam mit Thies, vielen Fredenbüllern und anderen illustren Passagieren bricht man zu einer Kreuzfahrt ins Nordmeer auf. Doch als ein Sturm aufkommt, muss der Kapitän zwei in Seenot geratene Männer an Bord nehmen. Und auf einmal ist Schluss mit ausgelassener Kreuzfahrtstimmung. Die Männer entpuppen sich als gefährliche Gangster, die das gesamte Schiff in ihre Gewalt bringen.