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The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting. Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret that makes it appropriate for haunting. Here, he meets new spirits who reside in this version of the afterlife, a middle place between life and the ultimate destination. Against his intentions, Bierce becomes caught up in the unsolved mystery of his new haunt, and in the matters of still-living people.

Crónicas desde el país de la gente más feliz de la Tierra es una divertida y amarga sátira política sobre la corrupción en forma de novela de misterio. En una Nigeria imaginaria, pero muy parecida a la real, un grupo de pícaros, predicadores, emprendedores y políticos se ve inmerso en una trama sobre tráfico de miembros humanos robados de un hospital.

What happens when the land around your dilapidated house gets bought up by a luxury homes developer and million-dollar mansions spring up all around you? You get at least one set of neighbors who would do just about anything to see you move away. The Frump family makes enemies of their next-door neighbors, the Wellingtons, simply by being who they are: poor, simple folk who would rather drink beer and go fishing than climb corporate ladders and impress their socialite friends.

In a turbo-charged romp through the Hollywood of everyone's wildest dreams, Boy Wonder follows the career of Shark Trager - rebel filmmaker and mega-successful producer - from his birth in 1950 at a drive-in movie theater and his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of Hollywood power, to his equally spectacular descent into obscurity.

ஒரே மாதிரியான கிராமக் கதையுள்ள தமிழ் படங்களின் நையாண்டியே, இந்நாடகம்.

ரியல் எஸ்டேட் பிசினஸ் செய்ய, அவரிடம் வேலைக்குச் சேரும் பின் அவரையே எதிர்த்து பெரிய ஆளாகிக் காட்டுவதாக சவால் விட்டுச் செல்கிறான்.

Eine rasante und ungemein vergnügliche Hochstaplergeschichte. Im September 2019 bekommt Michael Hartung, erfolgloser Videothekenbesitzer, Besuch von einem Journalisten. Der recherchiert über eine spektakuläre Massenflucht aus der DDR, bei der 127 Menschen in einem S-Bahnzug am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße in den Westen gelangten. Der Journalist hat Stasi-Akten entdeckt, aus denen hervorgeht, dass Hartung, der früher als Stellwerksmeister am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße gearbeitet hat, die Flucht eingefädelt haben soll.

Dal riconoscimento del bebè all'uso disinvolto del seggiolino omologato per bicicletta, dalla prima supposta alla lotta ai microbi, dalle recite scolastiche all'"età difficile": essere figlio è naturale, ma essere genitore è un'avventura. E quando Beppe Tosco, padre di due figli oggi grandi, ha avuto tra le braccia il suo primo frugoletto si è reso conto che fare il papà non fa solo diventare adulti, ma anche tornare bambini. E con questo manuale assai scorretto per allevare i figli a terra ci riporta direttamente nel nostro passato.

Tom Brantley is a complex superhero (or perhaps an anti-hero) who discovers he has the unique power of psychokinesis whenever he's drunk or high. Revered as Burlington City's guardian, Tom loves putting on a show for his devoted fans while saving lives and fighting crime, almost as much as he enjoys partying and indulging in vices. Despite the citizens encouraging his reckless behavior, his family and friends are increasingly concerned about his declining health.

When entrepreneur Edward Henning builds a horror-based theme park deep in the heart of Transylvania, little does he realize that his new business partner is, in fact, a centuries-old vampire. As the blood-thirsty vampire anticipates the arrival of the thousands of tourists to his land, he soon learns that the modern world is a far scarier place than the one he is used to. The vampire becomes a nervous wreck, as he has to endure the perils of the internet, drunken employees, health and safety inspections, crooked business partners, and even the Thai-Bride of Frankenstein.

Jameela Green only has one wish. To see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesn’t come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan is appalled by Jameela’s shallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed.

This is the ultimate traffic nightmare - city-wide gridlock! In this savagely satirical view of the near future, vehicular traffic in Los Angeles finally loses its liquidity, transforming into slow-moving slush, then finally hardening into sun-baked mud. With cars and trucks and buses paralyzed across 100 miles of freeway parking lot, the city grinds to a painful stop - or does it? Plus, a bonus story: "Afternoon with a Dead Bus" - a bizarre urban fantasy that only Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Gerrold could write.

Due to popular demand, Macy Blush - the renowned romance author beloved in both the realms of Faerûn and Reddit - has penned the highlights of her life story as a collection of brief essays. From her adventuring life to a career in penning amorous tomes, this inside look of Macy Blush’s history and personality is sure to thrill, titillate, and throb your heart and mind.

What really happened in the Garden of Eden? Who was behind the serpent and the apple? What was God thinking? At last, it can be told! The unexpurgated story of what really happens in Heaven. Why God created time. The truth about his friendship with Satan. Those rumors of a drinking problem. The meaning of life. Whether sin really exists. The political power of the three angels’ unions. Hear all about it! These are the stories that the cherubim don’t want you to know! This is what really goes on Behind the Pearly Gates.

Ich bewundere Menschen, die ihr Leben im Griff haben... Sie erwachen samstags vom ersten sanften Ton ihres Radioweckers, lächeln grundlos ihren Partner an, stehen auf, trinken Kokoswasser, machen Yoga, benutzen nach dem Duschen vitalisierende Gesichtscreme, essen vitalisierendes Müsli vor ihrer vitalisierenden Tageslichtlampe, schlendern dann nahezu durchvitalisiert zum Wochenmarkt, kaufen frische Zutaten für ihren nachvitalisierenden Ingwer-Shot, treffen dabei zufällig drei hübsche Bekannte, mit denen sie spontan ein erfolgreiches Start-up gründen, kommen um 9.30 Uhr wieder nach Hause, schauen auf die Uhr und denken...

Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.

Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own.

Sgt. Betty Bruce is having a bad day. Three bizarre deaths and a confession that isn’t a confession…A severed foot in a sneaker that her pot-bellied pig won’t give up...Her dead boyfriend willed her his house…and she has been told to stay out of the way of Chief Inspector Tom Powder. Chief Inspector Tom Powder’s day isn’t much better. The key to solving the cases hides within the pages of Tiffany Hyde-White’s strange novel, The Dastardly Mr. Deeds. In the end, it is up to Betty to unravel the mystery, no matter the cost.

Zum Auftakt der zweiten Staffel besprechen Torsten Gaitzsch und Moritz Hürtgen mit ihrer Kollegin Julia Mateus, auf welchen verworrenen Wegen sie zum Heft gelangten. Jeden Monat spricht TITANIC-Chefredakteur Moritz Hürtgen gemeinsam mit Ressortleiter Torsten Gaitzsch und einem weiteren Mitglied der Redaktion über die wenige Tage später erscheinende neue Ausgabe, deren Entstehung - und alles, was TITANIC-Leser/innen schon immer wissen wollten: Interna, Aktionen, Leserzuschriften, Geheimnisse, Promi-Geheimnisse und die Geschichte des endgültigen Satiremagazins.

2 b r 0 2 b is a classic science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the most accomplished and witty social commentators of the twentieth century, all of Kurt Vonnegut's unique strengths as a writer shine in the short fiction piece 2 b r 0 2 b.

A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Schneewittchen ist eine Transfrau, wird verfolgt und flieht zu den sieben Nerds. Das alte Märchen von Schneewittchen und den sieben Zwergen wird in die Welt der modernen Wissenschaft verlegt. Eine böse Wissenschaftlerin sieht im Spiegel der Literatur die Leistungen einer erfolgreichen jüngeren Kollegin. Voll Hass und Neid schickt die Ältere der Jüngeren per E-Mail einen fraktalen Apfel. Was der bewirkt und wer der Märchenprinz ist, davon erzählt dieses Hörbuch.

Vernon sigue en la calle y ha perdido todo contacto con el mundo real. El parque Buttes-Chaumont, al nordeste de París, es ahora su nuevo hogar, y allí convive con otros vagabundos, sin ser consciente de que se ha convertido en una especie de celebridad en internet y de que sus antiguos amigos, un heterogéneo grupo de individuos socialmente muy dispares, lo buscan desesperadamente. Todos quieren conocer las grabaciones que la estrella del rock Alex Bleach dejó en sus manos antes de morir.

Alex Bleach, ángel caído del rock francés, ha muerto de una sobredosis en la bañera de un hotel. Toda una desgracia para sus fans, pero sobre todo para Vernon Subutex, antiguo vendedor de discos cincuentón que aún conserva el magnetismo de antaño. Bleach no era un simple amigo, era la persona que le pagaba el alquiler, y su muerte ha arrojado a Vernon a la precariedad. Sin trabajo, sin dinero, sin familia y sin techo, la vida de Vernon parece abocada a una espiral de desgracias. Solo le quedan las filmaciones que realizó el propio Bleach y que dejó en su apartamento a modo de testamento.

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.

Questo libro è per tutti coloro che credono che l'amore sia meno psicologia e più allegria. In un'epoca iper-romantica quale quella attuale, Beppe Tosco ha scritto un pamphlet umoristico capace di ridimensionare i miti dell'amore: il principe azzurro, l'altra metà del cielo, l'innamoramento, il serio progetto di vita a due, l'amore come scelta e compagnia sognante. Tutte cose che esistono, sia ben chiaro, ma più in letteratura che in natura.

What if Adam and Eve never left the garden of Eden? That simple question launches this hilarious joy of a novel Genesis 2.0: Eat, Sleep, Know, a combination of religion, mythology, and social commentary that reads like a fantasy novel in the tradition of Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, and William Goldman. The Boss creates Adam and Eve, places them in the garden and tells them not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - and they don’t. Instead of being banished in less than a generation, they stay where they are and know and know and know.

Mit Gleitsichtbrille und Käsesahnetorte in den Generationenkampf – der Nachfolgeband des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers der Macher:innen von alman_memes2.0. Anette ist Bürgermeisterin! Doch wie von Göttergatte Achim bereits vor der Wahl befürchtet, geht der Trubel jetzt erst richtig los. Anettes erstes Großprojekt steht direkt in den Startlöchern: die Umgestaltung des heruntergekommenen Jugendtreffs "Haus der offenen Tür" (kurz: HoT) in ein schickes Mehrgenerationenprojekt. Schließlich war der Jugendtreff den Ü40-Hildenbergern schon seit Jahren ein Dorn im Auge.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that, at heart, most people are just really terrible, then this is the book for you - a collection of short stories about awful people doing awful things to one another. In these dark and satirical tales, you’ll witness the fallout from a disgraced pop star, the perils of cancel culture, the rabbit hole of COVID conspiracies, the merciless hunt for revenge, and one billionaire’s plan to save the world.

All Huck wants for Christmas is a revolution...and donuts. Vive la Revolution! The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. If Huck Carp has anything to do about it, the next people’s revolution will begin in the drive-through of a sleepy donut shop in a working-class neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It started as a single random act of kindness when an early morning customer paid forward the next person’s order, and so did the next, and the next, and the streak had been going all day long.