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Jasper and Annie are a pair of jobless no-hopers who have dropped into the cracks between the paving slabs of life. Rather than bothering to climb out, they have embraced their situation and created a life based around doing pretty much nothing. That is, apart from visiting various chronic illness clubs for free refreshments and selling old cassette tapes online. But when a customer leaves negative feedback for a month-old purchase without first making contact, Jasper seeks retribution.

On Attmore Lane Patience River Attmore is known for her big heart, her faith, and a knack for turning any problem into a blessing — with a side of fired chicken. When a neighborhood family faces eviction and the community center is threatened with closure, Patience rallies her neighbors, Young and old alike proving that love, laughter, and a little determination can overcome even the toughest challenges. Enter Jeremiah, a gifted musician with a troubled past, whose music brings hope, joy and a few surprises to the neighborhood.

The hustle and humor is a bold, heartfelt and hilarious journey through the eyes of two lifelong friends chasing their dream of making people laugh in lagos. Kwame "rich" Mbeki and Bernard Mac Njoroge are local comedians armed with nothing but wit, Wisdoms, and worn out shoes. From candlelit gigs during power outages to the biggest stages in the city, learn that laughter isn't just entertainment- its survival.

Sam never asked for greatness. As a scavenger wandering the galaxy in his barely functional ship, he preferred life on the margins—quiet, uneventful, and sarcastically narrated. That changes when he stumbles upon a glowing artifact called the Echo. Hunted by rogue AIs and pulled into the enigmatic Qlank Domain, Sam learns the Echo is humanity’s last attempt to bridge the divide between organic and synthetic life.

Meet Aswaled "Kyle" Stampson, a 48-year-old smooth-talking single father from the Bluff city—a who half hustler, half philosopher, and all heart. When life throws bills, broken cars, and parenting curve balls his way, Kyle flips every struggle into a punchline.

Dumpster? Check. Pigeons? Check. Lottery miracles and Wall Street dreams. Double check. Cherry "Dumpster Diva" Deluca is Flatbush's most chaotic heroine, and her life is about to go viral. Penthouse in a Dumpster is a laugh out loud, over-the-top urban comedy about grit, glitter, and the glamorous life of garbage.

Laugh-out-loud, feel-good romcom for fans of Emily Henry and Josie Silver 'Fresh, witty and thoroughly enjoyable.' The Sun Unlucky in love, failed actress Libby Lomax has retreated into the world of classic movies, where the immortal lives of the screen goddesses offer so much more in the way of...

Nora Lange's debut novel, Us Fools, was praised as the "Great American Novel" by Molly Young in the New York Times, and "a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism" by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by.

Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite. He’s done with grief, guilt and the beige slop they dare call food at Sunny Glen Aged Care Facility, where he now resides. Six decades of life have given him all the lemons he can handle, so he breaks into the nursing home kitchen...

Efter ett vredesutbrott på jobbet ställs karriärkvinnan Sissel inför ett ultimatum: Att lära sig hantera ilskan på ett retreat i Lappland, eller få sparken. Sissels plan är att halvhjärtat delta i några yogapass och sitta i ångbastun medan saker och ting lugnar ned sig och hon kan återvända till storstan igen. Men retreatets föreståndare, den maniskt leende Lexandra, verkar vara i ständig kontakt med Sissels chef. Och snart står det klart att villkoret för att få komma tillbaka är att med liv och lust delta i alla de flummiga aktiviteter som den ombytliga Lexandra hittar på.

The impressions show that needs no introduction - with bonus End of Year specials Radio 4’s award-winning and hugely popular comedy show is back with yet another helping of political-vituperation, media-mauling and celebrity-savaging. Sit back and treat your ears to a bumper edition of superb...

'Down Under's funniest detectives shoot from the lip with a wit as dry as their martinis' Kathy Lette A brand new mystery featuring Nick and La Contessa, the beloved characters from Matthew Benns' smash hit nationwide newspaper serial. 'Time for a martini, darling?' Wise-cracking...

In the summer of 2005, Mookie Hooper—think Diane Sawyer in a training bra—investigates a girl who went missing from Camp Cartwright, while confronting the budding anxieties of tweendom.

Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood...

Bertie Wooster, a bumbling English gentleman based in London, is in need of a new valet after firing his previous one for stealing. Enter unflappable, clever Jeeves. Set in a world of upper-class eccentricities, Jeeves proceeds to save Bertie from doomed romantic entanglements, financial scrapes and various other comic mishaps. With stories such as ‘Jeeves Takes Charge’, ‘Fixing It for Freddie’ and ‘The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy’, Carry On, Jeeves shows Wodehouse at his wittiest, and remains an integral part of the illustrious Jeeves canon.

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there’s the devil herself: Jane’s senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).