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One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Vous vivez comme une divinité technologique. Alors, pourquoi votre cerveau vous fait-il vivre un enfer ? Si vous passez vos journées stressé par un e-mail un peu sec, paralysé par l'infini des choix possibles, ou anxieux à l'idée de ne pas être "parfaitement optimisé"... ce livre audio est votre planche de salut. La vérité ? Votre cerveau tourne encore avec un vieux logiciel de l' âge de pierre. Privé de vrais dangers, il panique pour des broutilles et transforme votre confort royal en prison mentale.

In a church basement in Los Angeles, survivors gather every Thursday night. No names, no accusations, just stories about the witches who changed their lives forever. For these broken few, U-Know Support Group offers a chance to cope with memories of being transformed, controlled, or worse. Linda, their therapist, understands better than most — her sister is one of them. But in trying to help humans deal with a world ruled by witches, she may have attracted exactly the wrong kind of attention. Experience the world of SPELLBOUND AND DOWN from the other side.

In a fractured near-future America split between Red States and Blue States, propaganda saturates not just the media but reality itself. Bureaucrats, scientists, cloned celebrities, would-be revolutionaries, and weary citizens stumble through systems that unravel the more faithfully they're obeyed. Across vignettes of malfunctioning machines, surreal workplaces, dueling presidents (one of them an ape), and agents of cognitive control, this satire skewers conformity, ideology, and culture recycled into propaganda.

Ferma animalelor este un roman alegoric scris de George Orwell, publicat în 1945. Povestea urmărește un grup de animale care se răscoală împotriva stăpânului lor, sperând să construiască o societate dreaptă, în care toate animalele să fie egale. La început, idealurile lor par să...

PICKED FOR ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB 'If you're already missing HACKS, this will fill the void' Debutiful, 'The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2026' 'Funny, poignant, and positively delightful' GRAHAM MOORE, author of The Holdout 'A searing, hilarious farce' NIKESH SHUKLA, author of The...

El conserje profesional de un hotel prestigioso vive grandes aventuras.

A novel about a woman’s unconventional journey through grief… Eliza never expected to marry until she met Joseph. He made everything better, never minded about her habit of saying the wrong thing or her chronic nervous sweatiness. Their life together was perfect—well, okay, not perfect, but pretty damn good. Until he died. On their wedding anniversary. With the second anniversary of his death looming, Eliza is still grieving. What’s worse, her meddling mother-in-law and her casserole-wielding, platitude-giving busybody neighbours won’t leave her alone.

In Praise of Greed: A Satire in Rhyme is a modern English translation of Lof de Geldsucht by the seventeenth-century Dutch poet Jeremias de Decker. In rhymed couplet like the original, In Praise of Greed is a sustained, ingenious voice-portrait of Greed personified. It dredges up both classical and Christian authorities, scientific breakthroughs, Dutch seafaring, and forces the reader to think about wealth, ambition, and moral agency from an unfamiliar perspective—"through Greed's glasses." The poem is both timely and timeless.

Be prepared to immerse yourself into eleven stories of youth, travel and trouble from Karl G. Trautman in The Appocalypse and Other Stories. The author of Deacon Blues writes of compelling tales of pain, hope, regret, love and wanderlust. There are also stories of technology gone crazy, as inanimate objects come alive and plan necessary acts of nefariousness. "Crying in the Basement" is the story of an emotional wound passed down from father to son in Depression-era St. Louis.

What if the real Book of Laws was stolen, rewritten and distributed as the Bible, leaving out the good parts? Turns out it was! Lord, COO of the Galactic Order of Demonstration (G.O.D.), is gobsmacked when he discovers that his son Chip—once known on Earth as Jesus—never delivered G.O.D.’s original teachings to humanity. The reason? Cretin, leader of the Elite Global Order (E.G.O.), stole the sacred text and created a version called the Bible—replacing a message of empowerment with one designed to keep souls obedient and unaware of their own creative power.

Le avventure di un apprendista concierge in un hotel di lusso.

Mit 60 fängt das Leben erst richtig an – sagen zumindest die, die es noch nicht erreicht haben. Doch was bedeutet es wirklich, wenn die Brille plötzlich zum treuesten Begleiter wird, der Medikamentenschrank besser sortiert ist als die Werkstatt, und die Kinder endgültig durchschaut haben, dass Papa eben doch nicht alles kann? In seinen pointierten Beobachtungen nimmt der Autor mit viel Witz und Augenzwinkern den Alltag reiferer Herren unter die Lupe: vom Kampf gegen das Verschwinden der eigenen Haare bis zur Erkenntnis, dass ein Mittagsschläfchen kein Zeichen von Schwäche ist.

Efter romansuccesen TI KAMELER FOR AMEERA, hvor Ameera endte med at vælge den forbudte kærlighed, står hun nu med konsekvensen: et barn UDEN FOR ægteskabet. Ameera har et problem. Hun har allerede skuffet sine forældre og resten af den ægteskabsbegejstrede familie ved at aflyse sit...

The Mother, the Daughter, and the Ghost pleasantly tramples all expectations. Bo is called to agony. She flees her mom for the tranquility of cave life, only to confront a flock of inquisitive, senile nuns pleading for a savior.

Emma pensó que acabar con su vida pondría fin a todos sus problemas. Mark pensó que confesar sus sentimientos podría salvarla. En lugar de eso, ambos acaban en un lugar peor de lo que jamás imaginaron: atrapados en el limbo como asistentes de la Muerte, el Primer Jinete del Apocalipsis.

SOUNDING OFFICIAL IS EASY. BEING EFFECTIVE IS HARDER. Some people rise through competence. Crispin had a different strategy. Crispin Lockwood-Fetch never set out to become a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He simply discovered, quite early on, that he was exceptionally good at one thing: sounding official.

Lionel Pendrake, a New York advertising executive, has unexpectedly been sent an invitation and an airplane ticket to Crete from an old college friend he hasn't seen in decades: John Windsurf. When Pendrake arrives in Crete, he goes to John's apartment, only to discover John Windsurf has disappeared and is perhaps dead. What follows is a winding tale of mystery and intrigue, as Pendrake tries to discover what happened to his friend. Along the way, he is met with baffling literary, moral, and cinematic clues that may, or may not, mean anything. Is Pendrake the victim of an elaborate prank?

Everyone wanted a piece of the world’s most beloved film star, but who finally took it? Italy, 1929. When renowned detective Lord Edgington boards a luxurious night train in Rome, he hopes for attentive service, fine food and perhaps a chance to read his book. But a short distance into the...

Als der Tod bei ihrem Klassentreffen auf die Wette ihres Jugendrivalen eingeht, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie damit den Untergang allen Lebens auf der Erde besiegelt. Um diese Katastrophe zu verhindern, werden vier zufällig ausgewählte Personen auf eine Mission geschickt, um das Schicksal abzuwenden. Doch es gibt bereits auf der Erde Wesen, die glauben, als Gewinner aus dem Untergang hervorgehen zu können.