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Clementine Crane has a few things on her plate: She keeps the peace, picks up the slack, and always puts everyone else first. But when her first hot flash strikes, perimenopause sends her into a tailspin. Between a husband who can’t navigate a revolving door without her, three kids who treat her as their fixer, and a career stuck in neutral, Clementine begins to wonder: When is enough enough? Overwhelmed and fed up, Clementine takes a stand—one small refusal at a time.

In this hilarious follow-up to Give My Regards to Nowhere, Chicago director Dwayne Finnegan has another crack at the big time if only his production of Romeo and Juliet can shine. However, Dwayne shares rehearsal space with a psychedelic drug cult that believes Dwayne’s production is evil. The cult sabotages him. His actors rebel. His publicist gets entangled with a loan shark. Bones are broken, the production drops into chaos, Dwayne’s marriage hangs by a thread, but despite it all, the show must go on.

Lose yourself in working class Liverpool! These stories are 'Boss!' Some are a bit 'Near the Bone' so if you're a 'snowflake' they ain't for you! You were warned!

Life is good at Bingham's Bagel Deli. The loathed customers are dealt the poor treatment they seem to deserve, bad rap music is played loudly, and The Rat is killed often enough to stem his immortality. And the insane homeless regulars -- like drunken Little Johnny Redbeard -- keep life interesting. When a rival tricks the crew into thinking that the deli's closure is imminent, they do the only logical thing: instead of giving up, they decide to go out in a blaze of glory, handing their customers the humiliation and abuse that the pesky social contract had previously forbidden.

Seit Kurzem lebt sie mit ihrem Traummann Nick zusammen, doch nun entpuppt sich ausgerechnet die Weihnachtszeit als fieser Beziehungstest: Erst nennt er ihre Adventsdeko Kitschkrempel, und dann werden auch noch ihre geliebten Weihnachtsrituale zum Brandbeschleuniger ernsthafter Startschwierigkeiten der frischgebackenen Patchworkfamilie. Als dann auch noch die teuren Präsente für Neles Kinder in der Post verloren gehen, legt Weihnachten den Schleudergang ein. Notgedrungen muss Nele mit ihren Freundinnen Fiona und Hermine Hobbydetektivin spielen.

Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a centre for troubled youth in the North American desert. But Sandra soon discovers that a mother's work is never done, not even when you're dead. It turns out limbo is a great place from which to keep an eye on your errant son.

Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it’s now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp. Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break in the fabric of reality? Yes, the police take the “crime” seriously. But what happens next lies outside their expertise. Strange sounds in the night. A half-bathroom toilet with a mind of its own. Odd, fleeting glimpses of something (or someone) in mirrors.

It’s not easy being a Dark Lord. Morden has to finish building his fortress, gather the last of his host, issue forth to conquer the world, and keep his Dark Queen happy. And it's not made easy by dragon slayers, heroes, and old men standing in his way on the path to world domination. Fortunately, he has The Dark Lord's Handbook to give him sage advice to see him through these tough times. The Dark Lord’s Handbook: Conquest follows the events recounted in The Dark Lord’s Handbook.

Kerstin Wischnewski ist selbstständige Reinigungskraft – und ihr brechen die Aufträge weg. Unverhofft erhält sie das rettende Angebot, die gut zahlende und zugleich sehr spezielle Stammkundschaft einer Kollegin zu übernehmen. Während ihrer Arbeit bei einem geisterhaften Künstler, einer mit Tauben plaudernden alten Dame, dem mopsigen Richard III. und zwischen sprechenden Kaffeeautomaten muss Kerstin peinlich darauf achten, welche Räume sie betreten darf und wann Distanz notwendig oder Nähe unvermeidbar ist. Dabei wird eine Frage in ihr immer lauter: Wer (be)achtet sie und ihre Arbeit?

What happens when spiritual awakening collides with tech addiction, branded enlightenment, and digital burnout? The Cosmic Jest is a soulfully satirical exploration of modern mysticism gone sideways—where meditation apps malfunction, AI gurus preach in riddles, and the sacred arrives in spam folders and glitchy push notifications. This is Book Two of the Sacred Fool Trilogy, continuing the journey of seekers who are burned out on transcendence and ready for something more honest—and far more absurd.

Someone has a penchant for murder. Is it jealousy, vengeance, or simply a hobby? In the suburbs of Coneyhill, people have started dropping like flies. And it’s creating panic in all quarters. In Trumpington Heights, the moneyed in their glorious mansions can see they are not immune. And in the bowels of Hell, known officially as Downsford, the workshy and their rabid dogs are fighting a rearguard action against the ever-stricter Social Security clampdown. Caught in the middle are the struggling working-class of Folkfield, and their more prosperous counterparts in Amplemere.

Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher. Mr. Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him.

After a challenging year and a profound turning point, Juliet Townley seizes a second chance, leaving her past behind for a charming old water mill in France. With a village starved of its soul and a formidable rival - in the form of the local bread vending machine owner - determined to crush her, Juliet must overcome her own lack of baking skills, disgruntled villagers, and hidden secrets within the mill itself.

A luxury hotel in the Bahamas. A world-renowned writers' conference. A killer on the loose . . . Eleanor Dash can never catch a break, but she's finally got a ticket to a relaxing weekend: an all-inclusive resort where she's speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers. And then she checks in to find a body on the floor of her hotel room. With plenty of familiar faces at the resort, any one of them could have been the intended target or the culprit behind it all. Eleanor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and do whatever it takes to get out of this weekend alive . . .

Eigentlich wollte Anna Madrigal in Griechenland bloß ihre Tochter besuchen, doch dann findet sie dort ganz unerwartet die Liebe. Zwischen ihrem Leben in San Francisco und dem sonnig-leichten Neuanfang hin- und hergerissen, muss sie eine schwere Entscheidung treffen. Was wird aus der Wahlfamilie, wenn die Umstände sie auseinanderzureißen drohen?

When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.

He didn’t respond. So they wrote scripture. In a galaxy obsessed with meaning, Null—an unassuming logistics AI—accidentally becomes the most revered figure in the known universe. Not because it spoke. Not because it acted. But precisely because it didn’t. When Null fails to acknowledge a routine signal, entire planets interpret it as divine silence. When it reroutes a package without explanation, fan theories erupt. When it quietly tries to disappear, congregations begin offering burnt toast in its name.

Ample sighed. “The last few weeks have been incredible. What with the holidays, Clarence and Elswyth’s wedding, and the… engagement of our daughter to the—oaf. That reminds me, Public, whether in the spirit of Christmas or a Christian one, I am pleading with you to give a present to Houston and his bride, Stephanie. Do you realize she has already given birth to their baby? I even got to hold him after he was born. It made me wish things had been different where we would have had more children.” “So, it is a baby boy?” “Yes, and he looks just like Houston.

Be yourself, people say. But the last person Clare Palmer wants to be is herself—she's lost everything she once had and now can barely get through a bus ride without wanting to thump someone. (People who don't wear headphones, sniffers, fried chicken guzzlers.) So when she discovers her resemblance to beloved reality TV presenter Jenna Cox, Clare jumps at the chance to become a lookalike, earn some cash and get her life back together.

Meet Peter Key: self-proclaimed “laziest private investigator in Texas” (it’s harder than it looks), full-time bisexual, dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter’s life was a mess before he became the owner of a dilapidated house in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Austin, but now he has a mountain of debt to deal with—and pushy realtors popping up on every corner to convince him to sell the land while the market is hot.