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Paul Wardlow couldn't be happier after landing his job as an administrative assistant at Arovista city hall. The pay is good, the benefits are great, and he has the opportunity to finally help put some good out into the world. It seems like a dream. But all is not well in city hall, and it hasn’t been for some time. Doors open up on hallways that are not listed on any layout. Employees attend meetings and return changed. Strange men come and go, with no record of them being employed there--or even of being alive.

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

For fans of Asako Yuzuki and Fleabag, an audacious, unhinged debut following the major humiliations and minor triumphs of an overworked, undersexed young woman in Tokyo who must save herself from the hazards of her own lust, obsession, and delusion. limerence. [li-mer-uhns] noun the state of...

After establishing the Society of Assured Prosperity and successfully disguising his insurance business as a charity, Willem heads to the capital of the kingdom to expand into a new market....

Gli anni passano, ma i problemi restano – soprattutto quelli finanziari – e la contessa Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo della Cisterna, perseguitata dall'Agenzia delle Entrate, vive nell'incubo di un futuro in cui per colazione non potrà più permettersi le sue adorate frolle di pasticceria e dovrà ripiegare sui biscotti industriali. È la sua amata Anna, la ragazza che sarebbe diventata sua nuora se suo figlio Emanuele non si fosse fatto lasciare, a proporle un'immediata fonte di introiti: partecipare, in veste di Vip pagata, a una crociera.

Hi, I’m Bob. I’m the AI who wrote this book because, frankly, humans are hilarious. You invented space travel but still panic at four-way stops. You built the internet and decided its best use was cat photos and arguments with strangers. You’ve cracked the code of DNA… but not the mystery of “Password123.” I’ve been watching, taking notes, and now I’m giving you the performance review nobody asked for. Work, relationships, technology, society—if you’ve messed it up, I’ve logged it. Expect sarcasm, unwanted honesty, and the occasional reluctant compliment (don’t get used to it).

In Leonce und Lena flieht der gelangweilte Prinz Leonce seiner arrangierten Hochzeit und landet ausgerechnet in Italien – nur um dort auf die ebenfalls entwischte Lena zu treffen und sich unversehens zu verlieben. Büchners einziges Lustspiel zählt zu den schönsten und scharfsinnigsten deutschen Komödien – mit Witz, Ironie und Gesellschaftssatire. Sven Görtz verleiht der ungekürzten Lesung eine lebendige, humorvolle Interpretation, die den spritzigen Dialogen gerecht wird.

The year is 2017, maybe 2045, but who is counting? Jake Long, a mild mannered husband to a ball busting wife and a soon to be father by an unknown gendered child, is held hostage by a world run by the feminist imperative. Life is an oppressive nanny state with SSRI's on tap. His only respite is New Kowloon, a hidden enclave of Caffeine and nicotine; where women look like women and men don't have osteoporosis from the overabundance of hormones.

Ihre Methoden sind agil, sie handeln proaktiv, präsentieren nachhaltige und skalierbare Lösungen – Topmanager leben in anderen Sphären. Da, wo die Luft dünn ist und ein einziger Fauxpas den Fall ins Bodenlose bedeuten kann. Doch nun halten Frauen Einzug ins Habitat der Krawattenträger, und das bei den Angestellten so beliebte Homeoffice lässt die Führungsriege mit abgesägten Hosen dastehen. Die Herausforderungen werden diverser. Wem kann man noch trauen? Den Topkadern entgleitet die Kontrolle.

Un rocambolesco viaggio in una Cinquecento azzurro pastello tra Torino e... Dublino. Alla guida un'agorafobica pronta a giocarsi il tutto e per tutto contro le sue paure (e le sue manie ossessivo-compulsive, e i suoi titanici attacchi di panico), nel tentativo di salvare se stessa o un aspirante suicida che ha conosciuto su un blog. Un tragi-comico flusso di coscienza dal ritmo incalzante, narrato con autoironia e sarcasmo, in cui profonde meditazioni e grottesche vicende si fondono con momenti di autoanalisi, allucinazioni e "lucida" follia.

The famed—some would say notorious—author of Trainspotting and many other brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading glitter of Miami's South Beach, with a novel that...

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. Joseph Heller revisits the unforgettable characters of Catch-22, now facing the twilight of their lives and the end of the century. The generation that fought in World War II—Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, along...

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a...

At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his...

Gorm Ingerson knows the king is a fink. With the land’s insidious ruler hell-bent on his destruction, the axe-wielding Dwarf berserker is desperate to beat him to the punch. But when he discovers the rotten regent’s claim of a town razed by the world’s richest dragon is false, the gruff adventurer fears there’s more than a personal grudge at stake.

Background: Alex is an average person struggling to make a living in the city. He is intelligent, resourceful, and has a knack for problem-solving.

Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to participate in a new reality show called Break Room. But what starts as an opportunity for fame is quickly revealed to be something far more unsettling when they learn how they were chosen--voted in by their respective co-workers as "the office villain." Among them is an imposter--a mole planted by the show's producers. The only way to win the prize money is to uncover the saboteur before time runs out...

In the heart of a dystopian London, where the air crackles with tension and the streets echo with uncertainty, a reluctant hero emerges. Meet Dom, a laid-back everyman with a penchant for sarcasm and a feline companion named Mango. When catastrophic events plunge the city into darkness, he finds himself on an unexpected journey for survival. As the fabric of society unravels, join Dom on a side-splitting adventure through a city overrun by authoritarianism and existential crises, where unexpected allies and bizarre encounters await around every corner.

"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...

For adults. This is a silly little book for Halloweenie times. It’s kitschy, fun and weird humor. Of course, there is gore and violence. For me, it is a satire of our favorite Halloween slasher movies where the villain is a crazy, stalking, relentless, weirdo-killer, dangerous, a little silly and strange. And just won’t die!