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A BRAND NEW brilliantly funny rom-com set in Italy from Sandy Barker 🌞💖🇮🇹🍹 The perfect 2026 summer beach read for fans of Sarah Morgan, Emily Henry and Beth O'Leary! 'When I pick up a Sandy Barker book, I know I'm in for a treat full of swoony romance, sunshine and fun.' Julie...

Broke and not getting any younger, Max Bowman has officially hit bottom. Dogged by trolls and an angry ex, he flees to California, where he ends up running a detective agency with a dead man's name on it. That's when a new client who's not quite right in the head shows up because he thinks the government is breaking into his apartment to move food around in his refrigerator. It's also when zombie assassins start showing up wherever Max goes, killing everyone on site except him. But wait, there's more!

As Time Goes Bye-Bye... What happens when one of the world’s greatest superspies struggles with retirement? Officially, he’s dead, of course, but for 84-year-old Herbert Bigglesby, a quiet fadeout at Sunset View Senior Living Community is not going well. He feels like a prisoner, no one believes his stories, and his once-honored sixth sense for danger is now ridiculed as paranoid delusion.

Kaum hören Möchtegern-Schriftsteller Tommi und Putzfrau Svetlana den Reiseruf im Radio, rast die Gesuchte auch schon im Auto an ihrem Camper vorbei. Sofort heften sie sich an ihre Fersen und spüren den Wagen auf einem Rastplatz auf. Doch die Frau ist verschwunden. Natürlich wittert Svetlanas Spürnase sofort ein Verbrechen. Ehe Tommi sich’s versieht, stecken sie mitten in ihrem nächsten Kriminalfall. Dabei kommen sie nicht nur schier unglaublichen Verbrechen auf die Spur, sondern begeben sich auch tief in die Abgründe menschlicher Beziehungen.

»Wir unterbrechen das Programm für einen Reiseruf: Frau Gabriele Zorn, unterwegs mit einem blauen Audi in Richtung Süden, wird gebeten, sich sofort mit ihrem Ehemann in Verbindung zu setzen!« Kaum hören Möchtegern-Schriftsteller Tommi und Putzfrau Svetlana den Reiseruf im Radio, rast die Gesuchte auch schon im Auto an ihrem Camper vorbei. Sofort heften sie sich an ihre Fersen und spüren den Wagen auf einem Rastplatz auf. Doch die Frau ist verschwunden. Natürlich wittert Svetlanas Spürnase sofort ein Verbrechen. Ehe Tommi sich’s versieht, stecken sie mitten in ihrem nächsten Kriminalfall.

What is the price of a heart that knows no bounds? In the shimmering, bittersweet world of Oscar Wilde’s "The Devoted Friend," loyalty is a beautiful garden, but manipulation is the winter frost that threatens to wither it all. This isn't just a fairy tale; it is a captivating dance of irony...

Henry “Hank” Howard had a plan: finish his groundbreaking serum, impress his demanding future father-in-law, and propose to the love of his life. But when a late-night mugging leaves him rattled—and the experiment finally turns purple—Hank makes a desperate choice that changes everything. Now, when he loses his temper, Hank transforms into something else: huge, unstoppable… and bright purple.

Later in life, Chief JP is working in Naples, Italy, looking into the Chinese threat to the US Mediterranean Fleet.

Brought to you by Penguin. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to...

Tales from the Motherland: Book Zero is a darkly comic collection of interlinked stories about power, memory, exile, and the quiet absurdities of modern life. Set across post-Soviet cities, imagined borderlands, and bureaucratic nowhere-zones, these stories follow people who live slightly out of sync with their surroundings—men and women shaped by collapse, reinvention, and systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.

Maksim Max Orlov is not living, he is staying eligible to be billed again. He wakes up with a mouth tasting of metal and a phone bleeding failed payment notifications. Somewhere between towering ambition and crippling laziness, Max has mastered a new survival skill, he can turn his own collapse into a joke before anyone else can name it. A chaos man with a talent for punchlines, and a hollow hunger for validation.

A timeless classic of political fiction, Animal Farm by George Orwell is a powerful satire of revolution, power, and corruption. When oppressed farm animals rise up to claim freedom, their dream of equality quickly unravels as new leaders twist the rules to seize control. This sharp, fast-paced...

Welcome to The Albino Hippo – An Apocalyptic Zombie Dance-Off — a high-octane absurdist comedy blending the chaos of Zombieland, the sarcasm of The Office, and the cosmic humor of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Saving St. Savior’sis a satirical novel about an ultra-liberal pastor serving an aging church. His enthusiasm and ambitious ideas for the church include relocating its ministry to a nearby conference center, located in a beautiful setting by a river. Not everyone supports his plans or vague theology, however, and tensions arise over the move to the conference center, whether or not to save the church organ, and an unwarranted accusation of sexual harassment. Automatically suspended because of the complaint by the mentally unwell church organist, the pastor takes a sabbatical.

Where do we go after we die? In this story the protagonist, Oscar Whatmore, dies and finds himself transported to a rundown spiritual realm, eventually appearing before a vast court presided over by a diminutive and disagreeable Jesus clad in legal robes. Although judged worthy of admission to Heaven, Oscar finds himself in a boring and dilapidated domain, which is blighted by outdated technology. He subsequently bribes an official to gain access to Hell, which he discovers to be surprisingly pleasant and staffed by a friendly Devil who explains that the ancient punishments are obsolete.

Pope Blatantly IV wishes to return to the papal autocracy of the Middle Ages. He devises a threefold plan: 1) to enforce universal Catholic geographical supremacy, 2) to criminalize sin, and 3) to ban “grease” in favor of doctrinal “dryness.” The Pope’s outlandish initiatives include annexing Antarctica using a team of bodybuilders and gluing borders, and monetizing salvation through Indulgences 2.0 and Pre-Death Canonizations. In opposition to the Pope’s extravagant claims, the “Grease Underground,” is formed.

Meet the crime-solving duo of the Florida Keys: Madison, who has all the charm of the girl next door, not to mention a deadly aim, and Fab, her best friend, a femme fatale private investigator with a taste for danger and stilettos. When their neighbor is found dead, the headlines read, “It...

From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid (“Sublime”—NYTBR) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites. A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR “A wild, wonderful essential novel.” —Claire...

Hip-hop-loving best friends Moore and Spit are back in Copper Cobra, Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series—a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud climate caper where friendship, activism, and Alaskan absurdity collide. Signing on for a summer salmon season, the duo expects long hours and big fish—not a toxic mining scheme slithering through backroom deals and straight into the heart of the world’s largest wild salmon run.

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