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Some people will do anything to feel like they belong. American ex-pat twenty-three-year-old Skye Sullivan is Influence Manager for Amsterdam's hottest startup. CoHab is a co-living community founded by charismatic Silas Hayes, and earmarked as the Next Big Thing. Everyone wants to work there...

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.

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.

First published in 1975, The Unexpurgated Code is a gloriously improper manual of survival and manners for social climbers, elegant impostors, wounded underdogs and anyone attempting to navigate the absurdities of civilized life. Across hundreds of indispensable lessons, Donleavy dispenses fearless advice on improving your accent, choosing the correct neighbours, surviving disastrous parties, behaving at funerals, confronting the rich and powerful, and preserving one's dignity during even the most unlikely personal catastrophe.

Lucy isn't a normal girl. Ghost. Victim. Killer. She's a doll on a mission—to find the man who killed her and return the favor. Lucy McQuinn has been murdered, but she's not about to go quietly. If she doesn't get to keep breathing, then neither does Kyle, her killer. Possessing the body of an...

A wildly funny and richly resonant novel about the absurdities and hypocrisies of twenty-first-century higher education and what parents will sacrifice to get their children into the schools of their dreams, from a celebrated Canadian novelist Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of...

"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny." —Gary...

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...

She's back again for a third time in the author's Maine-based Two Seasons series of humor novels. And this time, Ma's in trouble! 'Ma' and the other eccentric residents of East Puddleduck, Maine, invite you to join them at Ma's Diner for a series of silly misadventures. This time Ma ends up in court, she goes skiing, she gets a Halloween scare and, of course, she holds her dreaded Bucksnort competition once again. Only this time the real law shows up! East Puddleduck will also welcome a new doctor and even a new junior officer apprentice for Constable Bob.

"The perfect mix of wry humor, fascinating characters, and heartfelt thoughts on what it means to understand the world through stories.”—Kristen Perrin, New York Times bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own Murder A wickedly funny office comedy about one bookseller’s (occasionally)...

From dusty flea markets in Texas to parties in Washington, D.C., crawling with political hacks, Cadillac Jack is a classic American novel, timelier than ever. Larry McMurtry’s “big hearted” fiction has been lauded for “taking us places we hadn’t known existed” (Joyce Carol Oates, New...

A dead body on their first day of work would horrify most people — not Hilda. When she arrives at Doran and Sarn’s solicitors, she says, 'Are we playing a murder game? I'm terribly good at those.' Some might wish there were only one murder. The second victim for a start. But Hilda is happy to help her old friend Chief Superintendent Humblecut of the Yard. Whether or not he wants it. Murders, missing wills, and secret societies — this is a case that would baffle many. Hilda and Pearl are back together in this third book in the Hilda Mystery Novellas.

Out of the blue, vain and naive former drama teacher, Tristram Randolph, is offered the job of headmaster at a new school in Diskebapisbad, dysfunctional capital of a despotic post-Soviet state. Little does he know--although the signs are obvious to all but him--that the school is the pet project of the ruthless president's spoilt daughter. Randolph hires a motley crew of teachers, each of whom embodies one of the seven deadly sins.

You're smarter than Plato. So why is your life still a mess? You know the Earth goes around the sun. You know where babies come from. You're walking around with more accurate facts about the universe than the greatest minds of antiquity could have dreamed of. And you still can't figure out why you feel hollow after a good week, still fall for the wrong people, still lie awake at 3 a.m. wondering what you're doing with your one shot at this. Here's the uncomfortable news. That's not new. Every problem wrecking your life right now was already wrecking somebody's life 2,400 years ago.

একবার সকল দেবতারা মহাদেব ব্রহ্মার সাথে মর্তে আসেন ভারত ভ্রমণে। তাদেরকে অন্যান্য মজার খেলার সাথে পৃথিবীর দর্শন...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

When Lady Miss returns to her great-aunt's church in New Orleans to plan the funeral of the beloved Mother Miss Pearline, she discovers that the humble congregation of her youth has been transformed into a megachurch conglomerate run by holograms, subscriptions, and an AI named Earncybot. At the center of it all is the scheming Illuminate Slanders, a woman with five dead husbands, a suspicious will, and a dangerous plan to upload every church member's consciousness into her AI network.

The hilarious new satire from the bestselling author of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series There’s only one idea more foolish than dividing Ireland – and that’s trying to put it back together again. Meet Fiach O’Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man looking forward to a peaceful...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

Kay Brazen used to be famous. Don't ask her what for, you won't hear the end of it—but not anymore. After being evicted from her penthouse apartment and being forgotten by all who previously loved her, she embarks on a series on confrontations with those who she's wronged (or wronged her), with increasingly hilarious and explosive results.