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An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout.

In seinen satirischen Anekdoten plaudert der beliebte schwäbische Komiker und Volksschauspieler Willy Reichert über Tabak und Tabakwaren, über Pfeifen und Knaster (milder Tabak und Kräutermischungen). Er redet über Atemtechniken, wie Lungenzüge und Paffen und natürlich über den Genuss.

En el Manhattan de los noventa, Victor Ward, un modelo con abdominales esculpidos y amistades influyentes, es visto y fotografiado en todas partes, incluso en lugares en los que nunca ha estado y con personas que ni siquiera conoce. En vísperas de la inauguración del club nocturno más cool en la historia de la ciudad de Nueva York, Victor es atraído, de manera gradual e imperceptible, hacia un espejo sombrío de la alta sociedad hasta sentirse atrapado y sin salvoconducto de regreso.

Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes - you can call him Izzy - might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. After finding himself at the mercy of a cease-and-desist letter from Pitbull's legal team and living in his aunt's garage-turned-efficiency, Izzy embarks on an absurd quest to turn himself into a modern-day Tony Montana.

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

Es sollte der perfekte Tag für den perfekten Antrag werden. John hatte an alles gedacht. An die Location, an Rosen, an den Ring und an das Essen. Auf der Hütte würde er Victoria die wichtigste Frage ihres und seines Lebens stellen und von da an mit ihr glücklich bis ans Ende ihrer Tage leben. So wie im Märchen, nur besser.

Embark on a journey into the imaginative and whimsical world of "The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches" by Mark Twain. This audiobook offers a delightful collection of Twain's satirical and humorous essays and sketches that explore a wide range of topics, from politics to society to the absurdities of everyday life. With Twain's trademark wit and clever storytelling, you'll find yourself transported to a place where irony reigns, and laughter is guaranteed. These sketches provide a sharp and often hilarious commentary on the quirks and follies of the human experience.

Delve into the satirical and thought-provoking world of "Christian Science" by Mark Twain, a collection of essays and writings that offer a humorous yet critical examination of Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. This audiobook presents Twain's signature wit and incisive commentary as he explores the tenets of Christian Science, its practices, and its impact on society.

Only Billy Gerrick knows the truth…he’s a ticking time bomb. An overachieving bundle of fear, denial, and desire who has held it together for three-plus decades by sheer will. Now, on the eve of finalizing the most comprehensive, far-reaching global agreement ever proposed, Billy Gerrick is forced to confront a past he’d rather forget—the painful childhood, the embarrassing failures, the impressive string of romantic flameouts—when his perfect fiancée chooses this historic moment to pressure him about settling down, getting married, and having kids.

Beware of Cynicism is a satire that examines medical education with sharp and cutting humor in the setting of profound disillusionment. The story chronicles the adventures of The Morality Police, Jaded Larry, Follows the Rules, and The Grumbler, four over 40-year-old students, as they navigate medical school at the world’s most conservative university, The Land of the Zealots.

Dark, lanky, and bald, New York-raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can’t tell if she’s highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to here with art critics and their gaseous praise, Sabre returns to Barbados, her childhood island home, to water her roots. She needs to quell self-doubt by doing something—anything—profoundly important. Welcoming her with bejeweled open arms is her aunt Aggie, a fearsome high-society attorney eager to show off her famous American niece. When Sabre witnesses Aggie unleash her wrath on the household staff over a minor mistake, Sabre finds her cause.

In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.

LOCA DE LOS GATOS [sustantivo] Mujer soltera, independiente, desquiciada y distante, que vive sola. Mia se siente segura interpretando el papel que se espera de ella. Casada con Tristan, es una buena esposa y una madrastra cariñosa, y cada mañana se pone el traje de ir a trabajar como si fuera una nueva piel. Pero bajo la superficie hay otra mujer que pugna por salir.

Mike Kovacs is an economics professor, who's trying to get over a bitter divorce. He’s barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he’s just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at a deserted Michigan beach. (In his defense, he hadn’t meant to get that drunk. And what’s the use of getting caught and going to jail if it means you can no longer make positive contributions to society?)

Jen disrupts a meeting of the world's most powerful oligarchs. She escapes via paraglider and joins her partner, JoAnna, who drives a Humvee. The women are chased through the streets of Kuala Lumpur, then a higher speed chase on the byways of southern Malaysia. But corporate oligarchs strike back, killing innocent bystanders and handing Dog Breakfast a huge dilemma.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (adapted into an Oscar-nominated film). The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny...

It’s the week before Christmas, and the historic McFarland home is buzzing with the return of four adult children and their young families. Pop made sure this was the year they all came back to town. Newly married and postpartum Ivy, a TikTok famous bus-life wanderer, struggles with the best way to parent her teen son with special needs. Ava’s seemingly perfect life and marriage are wearing thin. Oliver’s accidental wealth makes the perfect breeding ground for doubts about his professional abilities.

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2024 For fans of Nightbitch and While No One Is Watching, comes “one of the best books this year, or any year” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World)—a disturbing dystopian thrillfest about a woman moving to a glittering town of the future...

Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life—a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success.

El arranque de la novela no dejará indiferente a ningún lector, porque es una reelaboración del famosísimo inicio de "La metamorfosis" de Kafka. Solo que aquí se invierten los términos y nos encontramos con una cucaracha que un buen día, al despertarse, descubre que se ha convertido en un enorme ser humano, concretamente en el primer ministro del Reino Unido, de nombre Jim Sams. Y resulta no ser la única cucaracha transformada en político que se mueve por las altas esferas.

Quand Samantha accepte l’invitation à une soirée organisée par quatre filles un peu sinistres, elle plonge sans le savoir dans un monde inquiétant, entre le conte de fées et l’histoire d’horreur.

Von Santo Domingo bis in die Katakomben von Wien, von den "Garden Parties" zu Cambridge bis in ein namibisches Gefängnis führen diese Geschichten, inspiriert von der Tradition großer englischer Reiseerzähler wie W. Somerset Maugham. Es werden Schlaglichter auf alle möglichen Arten zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen – und ihrer Abgründe – geworfen, vor denen nicht einmal Archivarbeiter, Professoren und andere Exzentriker gefeit sind.

Evelyn Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall, is the daring and hilarious tale of Paul Pennyfeather, a theology student expelled from Oxford and sent to teach at a private boys’ school in Wales. Previously a modest young man, Paul finds himself a bit out of place amongst the teachers of Llanabba, who are all misfits, fools, and derelicts themselves: Prendy (the anxious) and Captain Grimes (the drunk), just to name two.

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that “[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs” (The Wall Street Journal) “Insightful, compassionate, biting and honest.”—The...

Ein Krieg bricht aus, eine Finanzkatastrophe ereilt die Menschheit – und dann wird sie auch noch von einem Virus heimgesucht, das alle Frauen unfruchtbar macht. In dieser schweren Stunde landet eine kleine, bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe Schiffbrüchiger mit dem Kapitän Adolf von Kleist auf einer fiktiven Galápagos-Insel. Während die übrige Menschheit ausstirbt, wird hier ein neues Menschengeschlecht mit winzigen Gehirnen begründet.

Ohio. Cada mañana, los empleados se encuentran destrozados los armarios Kjerring, tiradas por el suelo las lámparas Brooka, y extrañas manchas en los sofás Liripip. Para desvelar este misterio, cinco jóvenes empleados se ofrecen como voluntarios para un largo turno de noche, en el que afrontarán horrores que desafían la imaginación. Una tradicional historia de casas encantadas en un entorno contemporáneo (y repleto de horrores propios de nuestra época). 

For years, I was Dylan Truman. Your average girl next door with romantic hopes and dreams. Until the incident. From then on, my fate was sealed. I became Lady Justice, a vigilante for hire who lives for the sole purpose of exacting revenge on those who deserve it. Cheater. Bully. Swindler. I don't discriminate. But my next target is the worst one yet.

Love Just Is... is a surreal journey through France, time and space, and international marriage. Is Baby a simp? Is Dear One "Queen of the Narcissists"? What are your thoughts on forgiveness? This twisted tale is the author's true story. If this is your true story, too, you may find this information helpful.

The fire is on, sherry poured, presents wrapped, and claws are being sharpened. In a seaside cottage perched on a cliff, one family reunites for Christmas. While snow falls, a tyrannical widowed matriarch presides over her unruly brood. Her niece tends to her whims, but fantasises about eloping; and as more guests arrive, each bringing their secret truths and dreams, the Christmas tree explodes, a brawl erupts, an escape occurs - and their 'midwinter madness' climaxes.

Ein Haus voller Menschen - und voller Überraschungen. Billy ist Mitte dreißig. Sie raucht selbstgedrehte Joints und hat eine Vorliebe für T-Shirts mit provokanten Sprüchen. Außerdem hat Billy zum zweiten Mal Brustkrebs. In der an der Ostsee gelegenen Rehaklinik Schloss Schönbye treffen zahlreiche skurrile Charaktere aufeinander, die alle ihre eigene Krankheits- und Lebensgeschichte mitbringen. Schon bald findet sich eine bunte Truppe zusammen, die jedoch bei verschiedenen Gelegenheiten aneinandergerät. Treffpunkt ist oft vor Haus 3, dem Raucherpavillon - auch wenn nicht jeder mitquarzt.

Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses-and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction-at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men.

Die Reiseleiter aus der Hölle sind zurück! Das Hörbuch zur Fortsetzung des Kultklassikers mit Hape Kerkeling. Edwin Öttel hat seine Karriere als Animateur längst an den Nagel gehängt und im Leben nicht wirklich viel richtig, dafür aber einiges falsch gemacht. Doch als er plötzlich von der Vergangenheit eingeholt und auf geheime Mission entsandt wird, begibt sich die ehemalige Animateurslegende wieder ins Urlaubsparadies, wo nicht nur nervige Pauschaltouristen warten.

Uma comunidade plural e anárquica encontra-se no Centro de Emagrecimento Ingatori para assistir à semifinal da Copa de 2014. Enquanto os frequentadores testemunham o fiasco histórico do 7 x 1, flashbacks narram suas trajetórias individuais: embora tenham personalidades muito distintas, o excesso de quilos parece unificar suas identidades; como se obesidade fosse um gigantesco rótulo padronizador. Os próprios sobrepesados brincam: um magro que habita um corpo gordo é um trans? E uma alma rica que nasceu num físico de pobre?

The undead have risen from their graves, and society hangs by a thread. But America's political parties aren't going to let a little thing like the zombie apocalypse get in the way of a presidential election. There are nasty whispers about the incumbent, though, and they have nothing to do with where he was born.

Ellie Bates is in big trouble. When her parents, the owners of the apartment complex she manages, tell her she's on her last strike, Ellie knows she can't break any more rules or risk getting fired. She needs to tread very, very carefully or chance falling straight through this thin ice beneath her feet. That's easier said than done when Camden Lane moves into her complex and starts flipping her world upside down. But dating residents is off-limits and getting close to him is a rule she's not willing to break.

Callum Sterling is a grumpy jerk. A ridiculously hot one, but still. I’ve battled with Callum during our quarterly conference calls over the past year, but now we get to spar in person. And not only are we forced to work together every week, but we have to spend time together outside of work, too. At first, I was ready to fight, but the chemistry between us becomes undeniable, the more time we spend together.

Relacionarse es una de las cosas más importantes para los seres humanos, pero hacerlo por las razones equivocadas te puede conducir a una lucha interna de sufrimiento e infelicidad y muy en especial cuando se trata de relaciones de parejas. Estar con una persona, solo por dinero, por miedo a la soledad, para tener hijos, por sexo, por estatus social, por servidumbre o para cubrir tus carencias emocionales, son factores que poco a poco te conducen a una tristeza profunda y a una vida carente de sentido.

In his new writing project, Donkey, Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp, as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way out.

When Agatha Benedict plucked Kelly off the city streets to replace her dead cat Poopsie, she neglected to inform him of some very important house traditions. The history of the Benedict Estate prescribes that once the estate owner passes on, a will reading is to take place. However, the reading is more than passing on a loved one's final wishes: it's a figurative gunshot into the air, an alert to all in attendance that a playful game of anything-goes murder has begun. The prize? The inheritance, of course.

Witz und Schmerz des heiteren Heinrich Heine. Heinrich Heine: einer der berühmtesten Dichter der Deutschen, zugleich ein Poet, dem schon zu Lebzeiten (und erst recht von der Nachwelt) zwiespältig, oft feindselig begegnet wurde. Nicht nur die Zensurbehörden verfolgten ihn, sondern all jene, denen er zu aufsässig, zu witzig, zu frech, zu schlüpfrig war. Viele Deutsche sangen Heines Lieder (keines inniger als die berühmte "Loreley"). Große Komponisten haben seine Gedichte vertont: Franz Schubert und Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner und Johannes Brahms, Carl Loewe und Hugo Wolf. Man sang Heine, schwelgte in seiner Poesie.