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Alles was Mann wissen bzw. können muss! Männer pflegen andere Vorlieben und Interessen als Frauen und sollten einige spezielle Dinge wissen über das Leben. Zum Beispiel wie man eine Boeing 747 landet, wie man einen Schluckauf bekämpft, wie man pokert, was man beachten muss wenn man eine...

It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all...

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

The fabulous first Shopaholic novel by international No. 1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella! Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She’s a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and...

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle...

From internationally No. 1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella comes the third book in the Shopaholic series. For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it). She's got a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Baron Trump is a small, restless, wildly self-confident boy of noble Russian birth who lives at Castle Trump and cannot be kept indoors. Armed with an ancient manuscript from the family library and accompanied by his devoted dog Bulger, he sets off for...

Kongen af Malmø foregår i et fiktivt dansk kongehus, hvor kongen ligger for døden. Kronprinsen er klar til at tage over, men Prinsen af Danmark har forelsket sig i en ung, afrikansk kvinde – oven i købet af anden trosretning. Han nægter at benytte sig af sine royale privilegier og...

Man sender en dansk mand til Grønland for at tage sig af den kommende slægts udvikling: »En mand, der ikke kan køre hundeslæde – ikke kan fange sæler – aldrig har haft et gevær i hånden.« Alt sammen livsnødvendige egenskaber i bygden. Ja, han kan ikke engang landets sprog! Det...

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From the bestselling author of Really Good, Actually, a wickedly funny, wise, and tender novel about modern love, artistic ambition, and what happens when our plans for greatness fall through. In a bohemian enclave of a well-known city, where rents are rising and dreams are quietly downsizing...

Riley Thomas is the main character of this story–whether he likes it or not. Riley Thomas has always been a normal, regular, average guy. He has a crappy job, a few friends, and a boring homelife–and that’s just fine with him. Unfortunately for Riley, fate has other plans. Death gods, immortal psychopaths, haunted dolls, and serial-killer neighbors are only a handful of his problems. So far, he’s managed to sidestep his responsibility as the main character, but all that changes when he finds himself wrapped up in a prophecy that holds the fate of the world in the balance.

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Murder, Mayhem, and Mixed Doubles—Welcome to the Pickleball Palace. When the quirky residents of the Tucson Valley Retirement Community pack their paddles and hit the road for a major pickleball tournament in Mesa, Arizona, Rosi reluctantly agrees to partner up with her competitive, gossip-loving mom. Their odds of winning? Slim. Their chances of surviving a drama-free weekend? Zero. The tournament takes a dark turn before the first serve when a prominent figure in the pro pickleball world turns up dead—under suspiciously “accidental” circumstances.

Einfühlsame, lustige, politische, satirische, zum Nachdenken anregende, traurige Gedichte zu vielen Bereichen des Lebens. An meine Leser Wird man meine Verse lesen, sich an meinem Lied erfreun? Oder soll umsonst gewesen alle Müh' und Arbeit sein? Hab geschrieben, hab gedichtet, wie's mir eingab mein Gefühl, hab geschrieben, hab gedichtet und gewahrt den strengen Stil.

三年没见的前妻竟然蜕变成为东海第一尤物，还有霸道男总裁和大学男同学在竞争追求。这怎么能行？陶宝高呼一声：“老婆，我回来了。”。然后，故事开始了...

'Once I've taken his house from him, I will be entering through the front door.' In a garden somewhere in London, a fox is watching a man called Ben and his family through their kitchen doors. The fox has been stealing pieces of their lives - the odd shoe, a colourful sock, various bits of...

A helicopter mom comes back as a ghost to parent her children from the beyond and scare off the cute young babysitter moving in with her husband in this hilarious debut novel for fans of The Husbands and Sandwich. Tess is a professional mother. Not just because she spends her days caring for her...

Wo ist Laura? Der Aufzug klemmt, die Kaffeemaschine tropft, im Büro stapeln sich die Beschwerden, aber niemand tut etwas. Laura Clark ist weg. Einfach so. Ihr Ehemann Mark kämpft mit Handwerkern, die sein Haus überrennen, Tochter Sian sucht verzweifelt in Wäschebergen nach Antworten, und im Büro geht alles drunter und drüber. Niemand, nicht mal ihre beste Freundin, weiß, wo Laura abgeblieben ist.

An einer Tankstelle in Spanien lässt Matilda ihren Mann Hannes stehen und fährt allein nach Hause. Dreißig Jahre Ehe und die vermeintliche Sicherheit ihres Lebens bleiben hinter ihr zurück. Matildas impulsive Handlung löst eine ganze Reihe von Entscheidungen und Entwicklungen aus. Eine Geschichte über die Lebensphase 60 Plus und deren besondere Herausforderungen: Erinnerungen bewältigen, selbstbestimmt handeln und mit Gelassenheit nach vorne schauen.