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Told with razor-sharp wit and an unfiltered, hypnotic voice, Clean Houses follows Sol. She is a progressive young woman obsessed with cleanliness who, upon becoming pregnant, hires two housekeepers to help her at home. Although having cleaners should, in theory, make her life easier, it instead becomes a source of inner turmoil: she needs them, yet she wishes they didn't exist. Morally compelled to justify her privilege, she searches for a more "respectable" and creative job—one just as precarious as those of her girls.

O enredo acompanha um homem comum, um intelectual de classe média que, ao aprender javanês, se vê envolvido em uma série de eventos inusitados. Ele, acreditando que o domínio da língua estrangeira o tornaria respeitado e valorizado, começa a se comportar como um indivíduo distinto, adotando uma postura pretensiosa e artificial. Contudo, o segredo que ele esconde é que, na verdade, ele não entende a língua, mas se aproveita da admiração alheia para ascender socialmente e conquistar uma posição de prestígio.

Return to the cozy Comfort Food Café series from best-selling author Debbie Johnson 🎃🍁 Readers love The Comfort Food Café series! ‘Oh how I wish the Comfort Food Cafe was real!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I felt like I was returning home to friends who I hadn’t seen in a long while…warm...

A Frosty Fairy Fiasco Sisters Holly and Ivy Bell are known for their festive spirit, not their green thumbs. But when a series of perplexing pranks threaten the annual Christmas Fairy Garden Contest, they find themselves digging into a different kind of mystery. Someone's sabotaging the...

‘A heartwarming summer read.’ Sunday Express The wonderful seaside story from Jennifer Bohnet, perfect for fans of Fern Britton and Veronica Henry! Time’s running out to save the little kiosk by the sea… Sabine knows that if she doesn’t come up with a plan to save her little kiosk soon...

The Mittelschmerz is the origin story of a family shaped not by catastrophe, but by smaller, more durable forms of suffering—the kind that lingers, adapts, and eventually feels like home. Set across the formative years of the Mittelschmerz parents and their children, the novel traces the emotional inheritance that will echo through generations: deferred ambition, stubborn love, inherited guilt, and the quiet heroics required to endure them.

Vanwege de sluiting van het verzorgingshuis in Amsterdam-Noord is Hendrik Groen overgeplaatst naar Bergen aan Zee. Hendrik moet constateren dat de tijd niet meer zo mild voor hem is: hij wordt steeds vergeetachtiger en begint het overzicht te verliezen. Hij besluit opnieuw een dagboek bij te gaan houden in een poging weer wat meer grip op de werkelijkheid te krijgen. Het leven wordt er niet aangenamer op als ook in Bergen aan Zee het coronavirus alles op zijn kop zet. Samen met deze bondgenoten sleept Hendrik zich opgewekt naar de eindstreep.

Where do we go after we die? In this story the protagonist, Oscar Whatmore, dies and finds himself transported to a rundown spiritual realm, eventually appearing before a vast court presided over by a diminutive and disagreeable Jesus clad in legal robes. Although judged worthy of admission to Heaven, Oscar finds himself in a boring and dilapidated domain, which is blighted by outdated technology. He subsequently bribes an official to gain access to Hell, which he discovers to be surprisingly pleasant and staffed by a friendly Devil who explains that the ancient punishments are obsolete.

Fabian Glanders, employed as a taster in a cat food factory, is content with his life of sex, drugs, and cat food. But when Fabian’s routine is interrupted by an assassination attempt, he becomes entangled in the machinations of his two identical brothers, one of whom (Flavian) is the CEO of a quasi-legal company that produces genetically modified sheep (honeylambs) for the sex trade.

Bryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold. Scathing in his reviews and unseemly in his affairs, Bryce is known to have many enemies. So when he's discovered dead in his hotel room, festival attendees are desperate to know what happened. Could one of the numerous writers he has insulted have taken revenge? Or perhaps one of his scorned lovers? Soon, author Francis Meadowes is drawn into a role he knows only from his own fiction—that of amateur detective.

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has landed an enviable job lecturing aboard the luxurious Golden Adventurer as it cruises down the West African coast. His fellow passengers, including opinionated retired surgeon Klaus, mischievous elderly widow Eve, flamboyant designer Sebastian, beautiful American aid worker Sadie, and her tedious but extremely wealthy aunt Marion, are an eclectic group. But when one guest is found dead in bed and another disappears overboard, Francis must employ all his professional expertise to find out which of the colorful characters on the ship is capable of murder.

Dans ces contes piquants et irrévérencieux, Armand Silvestre s’amuse à bousculer les convenances: il interroge les usages, nargue les habitudes bien-pensantes et met en lumière les contradictions des mœurs et des traditions. D’une plume vive, ironique et élégante, il multiplie les portraits incisifs, les situations décalées et les retournements malicieux, pour une satire aussi légère qu’acérée.

Dans ces Contes de Caliban, Émile Bergerat assemble une guirlande d’histoires brèves où l’humour fait bon ménage avec la réflexion. Écrits au tournant du XXe siècle, ces récits jouent de l’ironie, de la fantaisie et d’un sens aigu de l’observation pour éclairer nos manies, nos illusions et nos petites vérités. On y goûte une prose vive, capricieuse et élégante, qui surprend, pique et charme sans jamais s’appesantir.

Chaque jeudi, chez Madame Charbonneau, se joue un théâtre de salon où se croise la société du milieu du XIXe siècle. Armand de Pontmartin y déploie une satire alerte des mœurs: reparties étincelantes, piques feutrées, vanités à demi voilées et ambitions patiemment ourdies.

Stan boards an Amtrak train with one clear intention: do nothing important. No itinerary to optimize. No landmarks to conquer. Just movement, time, and the quiet pleasure of watching the world pass by a window. For Stan, trains are the last honest form of vacation — places where you’re allowed to sit still while life rearranges itself around you.

Four strangers. Four ridiculous crimes. One bus ride to infamy. Mildred Periwinkle is a wealthy socialite whose day began with a glass of premium chardonnay and ended with her stuck in a bathroom window, wearing a tattered silk gown and punching a police officer. Her crime? Losing her keys.

Three twisty mysteries, all set in Lyme Regis, one of England's most picturesque seaside towns. DC Tina Abbott is supposed to be staying with her mum Annie while she's on maternity leave. And Annie isn't supposed to be sticking her nose into murder cases. But then, Annie Abbott never does as she's told.

This book is very, very funny unless you are one of the authors whose manuscripts he ruined for his warped sense of amusement. It is like watching an opera singer whose trousers fall down in front of the audience. It is a bundle of laughs. After being hit on the head by his wife's lover, Jay Jackson changed the plots of the books he narrated to incriminate his attacker for humorous revenge.

Barry, Beth, and Jenny ride again! The Silver Squad Rides Again picks up where the multi-award-winning The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles left off. This time Barry, Beth, and Jenny take on a trapper who tortured a wolf and a health insurance company that has denied a fifteen-year-old girl the surgery she desperately needs.

It’s salmon season, the summer of 2022, in Sitka, Alaska. Emily Morrison is a seasonal office intern. Jasper Patchett is a seafood processor at the bayside plant, along with his friends Mason and Luis. And Alma Mendoza, Jasper’s cousin, is a social media influencer—beautiful, charming, and manipulative—and she’s tagging along for the ride. Jasper has fallen obsessively under his cousin’s spell, but he doesn’t know that Alma and Emily are lovers.