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New York Times Bestseller “Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn’t mean you have to be one. Mark Manson’s book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now.” — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and...

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...

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

He spent six months looking for the beautiful, bookish girl who dropped a patch. Finding her was the easy part. Logan I grip too hard. My pitch. My family. Even the memory of Georgie, the girl I met six months ago at a Spring Training fan event. The girl with the dimpled smile, the coffee-shop...

Their engagement produces the highest ratings in show history, and legions of fans are obsessed with their every move. While Noah returns to work as a lawyer, Olivia dives into influencing, trying to parlay her fame into a Hollywood career. Soon the in-demand pair are offered another reality show, brand deals, exotic vacations, and invited to high-profile events.

Filmfan, Mutters Liebling und völlig gelangweilt Coming-of-Age in Brandenburg — nach Art von Marvin KaminskiMarvin Kaminski lebt ein Leben, das vor allem eins ist: durchschnittlich. Seine Arbeit im Rathaus ist öde, das Haus mit Mutter zu eng, sein Alltag langweilig – bis eine merkwürdige Webseite und ein ebenso merkwürdiger Auftrag sein Leben komplett auf den Kopf stellen. Plötzlich steckt Marvin mittendrin in einer Welt aus verschwundenen Bauern, dubiosen Gestalten, einer zwielichtigen Gaststätte, überraschender Waffenkenntnis – und einem Mord. Oder war es doch nur ein Unfall?

By turns hilarious, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender, this final volume of the Tennis Player Confessions series that began at the Wimbledon tournament comes finally to Flushing Meadows, where the last match is played not with a racket, but with the truth. Written largely as a stage-script, the text shifts into meta-cinema, opening with a drone shot sweeping from the River Mersey to a hospice ward. As reality blurs into dreams, surveillance drones hum through the corridors and Andy is forced to confront what age means in a world that so easily discards its heroes.

Lord Andrew believes that he has won the vote for the club chairmanship: his time has come, his victory is total. But not complete. What's the next challenge for the tennis player who's just won Wimbledon? To win the Australian Open in Oz of course, so our hero bids farewell to his beloved tennis club and sets off on his journey to Melbourne (known in the 'real' world as HM Prison North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire where our hero is serving out his sentence for arson having set fire to the tennis club's racquets.)

"Filho de uma pisadela e de um beliscão" Leonardo, filho do espertalhão Leonardo-Pataca e de Maria da Hortaliça, é uma criança travessa e sem controle. Na contramão do que se espera para ele, Leonardo cresce sem rumo, mas se torna um sargento...

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.

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...

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.

'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...

Damiano Rodetti ha avuto una mattinata complessa. Avrebbe dovuto intervistare la star del cinema francese Isabelle Huppert in un ricco albergo nel centro di Roma, ma l'attrice era in ritardo e lui non riusciva a togliersi dalla testa Lidia, la ragazza che da sempre lo ossessiona e che proprio la notte precedente si è rifatta viva dopo anni. La morte improvvisa di un'amica di famiglia lo costringerà a fare i conti con la morbosa rete di rapporti su cui i suoi genitori hanno fondato la loro esistenza.

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner Genreübergreifenden Virtuosität.

An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post–9/11 America. Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a...

A darkly comic suspense in the vein of Alls Well and Yellowface, Shes a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion. Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who...

A short satirical thriller from bestselling author Freida McFadden. 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...

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).