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Jasper and Annie are a pair of jobless no-hopers who have dropped into the cracks between the paving slabs of life. Rather than bothering to climb out, they have embraced their situation and created a life based around doing pretty much nothing. That is, apart from visiting various chronic illness clubs for free refreshments and selling old cassette tapes online. But when a customer leaves negative feedback for a month-old purchase without first making contact, Jasper seeks retribution.

Aaron Rogers is a former two time IFL MVP who’s in a bit of a rut. He has been bounced around the league after legal issues, league wide suspension and his play becoming despicable at best. Ending up living a life of a loser. An assistant coach from the Bismarck Thunderbirds, Dom Capers, ends up seeing Aaron’s arm throwing lobs from his house. He gets pressed to find the gift he’s been given. The Thunderbirds are lacking a quarterback because of the league wide lockout, shortening the season and restricting the star players that could be picked up.

A collection of two chilling tales of the macabre from Blair Daniels, including The Homeowner's Association, and Attention, Shoppers! ATTENTION, SHOPPERS “ATTENTION, SHOPPERS: Please hide at the back of the store immediately." I'm at a Bluemart, on a diaper run with my kids, when I hear the...

When Annie Meyers wakes up in a made-for-TV Christmas movie starring her ex-situationship and a now not-so-dorky childhood neighbor, her plans to swear off love—and Christmas—begin to unravel. Perfect for fans of A Merry Little Meet Cute, this holiday rom-com will enchant listeners who have...

What happens when classic characters outlive their copyright… and someone decides that's unacceptable? Meet the Executor: a man tasked with "protecting culture" by eliminating anything that slips into the public domain. Armed with absolute certainty, questionable logic, and a trench coat...

Eager to try her hand at activism, a young woman in London moves in with her "friend" who is devoted to social issues, only for things to go awry, in this rediscovered queer Victorian novel. After her beloved father passes away, Althea Vane is adrift. Her mother is selling the beautiful home she...

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.

Der französische Literatur-Gigant Balzac war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende. Sein fast übermenschlicher Arbeitseifer wurde optimal durch seine Kaffeesucht und seine zahlreichen Affären ergänzt, wobei letztere ihm dabei halfen, seine chronischen Geldprobleme wenigstens phasenweise zu überwinden. Er erschuf ein Universum von mehreren hundert Charakteren, wobei „Die menschliche Komödie" sein bekanntestes Werk darstellt.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER This brilliant new novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain...

When Lexi Blake was 12 years old, a fortune teller gave her the following cryptic message: In your 30th year, once the dog jumps over you, your life will change in the most unexpected ways. 

Partisan de la position allongée, Oblomov ne trouve le bonheur que dans le sommeil. Ni son ami Stolz, incarnation de l'énergie et de l'esprit d'entreprise, ni la belle Olga avec qui se nouera l'embryon d'une idylle, ne parviendront à le tirer de sa léthargie. Entreprendre et aimer sont décidément choses trop fatigantes. Grand roman de mœurs, Oblomov offre une satire mordante des petits fonctionnaires et des barines russes.

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

Oblomov is one of the most distinctive characters in Russian literature - within a short time following its publication in 1859, the novel spawned its own saying: ‘Oblomovism’! From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man, Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, who represented...

"Like shyte through the bull's anus, so are the days of our lives."

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Tobias Smollett, in his creation of the Scot Roderick Random, exposes the sheer incompetence and injustice of the Royal Navy, as well as the snobbery and hypocrisy prevalent in English middle-class society at the time. Set in the mid-18th century, this picaresque novel follows the life and adventures of Roderick, the eponymous hero who has been shunned by his gentleman father's family on the basis of the lowliness of his mother's family.

This refreshing comedy is fun to listen to and conveys the values of freedom of speech, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, unity, and togetherness. It brings recent events in our history to a point in a funny and ironic way, through a comical "fictional story" told in rhyme.

It’s 1969, and President Kennedy is serving his third term, and is maybe not quite himself—he has pushed America clean off the edge of the Space Age. Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station who hates her job, is sick of space, and wants nothing more than a safe place to smoke a cigarette that won’t blow everyone up. Then she stumbles into an outer-space conspiracy tangled around President Kennedy, a miserable and long-forgotten estate lawyer named Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could rewrite the course of history.

We return to… Guy Secretan now disgustingly rich, nationally famous, and building a Swiss chalet-style mansion of alarming ambition. Mac MacCartney is thinking about leaving it again, while Caroline Todd contemplates whether she’ll ever get to be a mother. Martin Dear despite minimal effort, is somehow still not a doctor. Joanna Clore has served her time and is ready for action. Alan Statham is getting used to life working under Boyce, who is doing his level best to hold on to his department, his parking space, and his sanity. Sue White remains a law unto herself.

The adventures of a poor gentleman who, inspired by reading novels of chivalry, sets out in the company of his faithful squire Sancho Panza to help the poor, weak and oppressed, as well as to fight against evil. Driven by the desire to achieve immortal fame and the love of Dulcinea - a peasant girl whom he named lady of his heart - Don Quixote becomes entangled in successive adventures and, in his attempt to fix the world, he will fight more than one heroic battle against windmills that, in his eyes, take the form of dangerous giants...