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Welcome to Apartment 4B. Your orientation has begun. Kyle Newton is a professional systems architect who builds automated workflows for a living. He understands logic, clean code, and operational efficiency. What he doesn't understand is why his smart home’s central router just issued him an...

WAMBAM is an advanced chatbot with promises of a better future. Whether it's making art, giving medical advice, or offering bleach-ammonia cocktails, the sky's no limit for the mechanical virtuoso. But mistake after mistake proves it's nothing but Slopper the Slop Bot! With every new advancement, Slopper goes from a minor nuisance to a harbinger of the world's demise. Slopper's very sorry for messing up and will do better next time-but are good intentions ever enough?

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

From the author of The Portrait of a Mirror, a modern tragicomedy transforms the myth of Icarus into a blazing romp through bureaucracy, B-list fame, and college basketball . . . Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly unsexy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

Der Strickclub aus Mettes Strickladen »Strickschick« sticht in See! Für die Maschen-begeisterte Ermittlungsrunde aus Lüttjekoog geht es auf eine Strickreise über die Färöer nach Island. An Bord des Schiffes sollten die Teilnehmer unter dem Motto Stricken und See eigentlich nur Wolle, Weite und Wellness erwarten – doch es kommt anders. Als ein mysteriöser Todesfall das Bordleben erschüttert, ist der Spürsinn der Strickcrew gefragt.

Perfect for lovers of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, the undead mayhem of What We Do in the Shadows, Christopher Moore's worldly wit, and the weird fun of Sookie Stackhouse. A demented Alchemyst. An outraged Faërie queen. And Benny and Gus, ghouls with a goal . . . . . . which will probably get...

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster has always run on spin. Now it runs on an AI. In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes. Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged. So Sarah tries not to. Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

The table in the centre of The Harp eats pork scratchings. It arranges its own beer mats into impossible patterns. And tonight, for the first time in twenty years, it's waking up. The Harp is a decent pub. Decent pint. Pork scratchings that vanish when you're not looking. Arguments about who took the last one. Friendships tested. Decades of quiet, simmering resentment. Brian sits in his usual seat every night. He can't remember what you're drinking – even after ordering the same pint for twenty years. But he remembers exactly who stole whiskey from his cabinet in 1982.

Ein Buch von Selbstzweifeln. Mut. Selbstfindung. In einem ziemlich kaputten Kopf. Und noch viel mehr. Ein Plopperbuch. Ein Stolperbuch. Ein Ich-weiß-nicht-aber-ich-schreib-Buch. Mit echten Gedanken, wilden Fragen, sprechenden Blockaden und einem einzigen Fischstäbchen.

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تدور أحداث رواية حظك اليوم حول عالم الأبراج، ولكن بأسلوب فلسفي مبتكر ورؤية مغايرة لكل ما اعتدنا عليه عن الأبراج. ينطلق الكاتب من فكرة أن الأبراج مجرد خرافة، لكنه يستخدمها كخلفية للأحداث، ليقدم إسقاطات مختلفة وتأملات عميقة حول الحياة والقدر والشخصيات. تجربة قراءة فريدة تجمع بين الفلسفة، السخرية، والخيال الأدبي.

Bloomsbury presents Agnes Lives written and read by Hallie Elizabeth Newton "An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving." --Joyce Carol Oates A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next SoulCycle class. "A tale of...

The agenda of the weekly meeting of the Widows’ Association has one goal: Find a husband for Patricia Potter. The other members—Amy, Amanda, and Cecily—can’t stand Patricia’s moaning about mystery illnesses and the loss of her beloved husband, Henry Potter. The only way to resolve...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Eluano Longo Astarnazza è un medico in pensione che ha una teoria: la carta igienica è destinata a scomparire. Non perché ci creda davvero, ma perché l’ipotesi è elegante, provocatoria e — soprattutto — vendibile. Da questo presupposto...

It's a hot day in the hills. Yearning for a cooling summer swim, Miranda and her brother set off for a sojourn at a dune lake. But there's competition for the water. Will Miranda and her brother get the swim - and the company - they're wanting? Or will a rival pack spoil the day? Enter a fantasy...

Armin freut sich wie ein Schneekönig, dass er nicht Kanzler geworden ist, sondern Bundespräsident sein darf. Doch schon am ersten Tag erfährt er, dass tief unter dem Schloss Bellevue die Zentrale des geheimsten Geheimdienstes der Welt liegt. Und er als Bundespräsident in Wahrheit nur eine Aufgabe hat: Agenten an Orte zu bringen, an die sie sonst nicht gelangen würden.

Live from the swamps of D. U. M. P. — it’s Florida Man! When the Department of Uncontrolled Magical Processing accidentally gives the most chaotic man in the multiverse a livestream permit, MythTok will never be the same. Join Florida Man, Pretty Pretty Princess (his tiara-wearing crocodile), and the Magic Fridge (sentient, insulting, and perpetually disappointed) as they bring you Season One of Florida Man Live — four outrageous MythTok streams that escalate from holiday scandal to cosmic catastrophe. Stream #1 – The Naughty Clause Scandal: Santa’s caught in HR with Karen the Head C. U. N.

Frederick Fife has borrowed someone else’s life – but it might just save his own… A funny, tender and uplifting story about second chances, human connection and the families we find along the way. The feel-good runaway bestseller about forgiveness, redemption, and finding family. Frederick...

Her daughter has just flown the nest and her pensioner mum has dived headlong into internet dating - can Hattie hold on to her sanity? Hattie is a 47-year-old mother whose daughter, Layla, is just about to head off to university. She's not coping terribly well (Hattie that is - Layla seems to be...