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A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).

"Wir alle sind, was wir gelesen." (Golo Mann). Ich halte dieses Diktum Golo Manns für wahr. Insbesondere die Lektüre in empfindsamen Phasen unseres Lebens, zu denen die Jugend sicher zweifellos gehört, prägt uns alle. Sie prägt uns in unserer Art zu denken, die Welt wahrzunehmen und vielleicht sogar, wie wir fühlen. Tucholskys Texten begegnete ich erstmals bewusst mit ca. 14 Jahren, nachdem mir sein Name im Wesentlichen als der Autor des auffälligen Liederbuches, das bei meinen Eltern im Regal lag, bekannt war.

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...

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents...

Onnellisen kadun kulisseissa kuplii - trilogia tanskalaisista miljonääreistä alkaaLine taistelee pelastaakseen avioliittonsa Kristianin kanssa, joka on alkanut viettää pitkiä aikoja yksin autotallissa autossaan istuen. Kukaan ei tarkalleen tiedä, mitä mies autossa tekee, mutta Kristian...

Mikä on menestyksen hinta? Avioeroasianajaja Caroline käy pitkillä kävelyillä Dyrehavenin puistossa, eikä itsekään tiedä miksi. Hänen kiinteistönvälittäjänä työskentelvä miehensä Kaare on pääsemässä takaisin jaloilleen konkurssin jälkeen, ja miehellä on jälleen suuria...

Getting Even/Letting Go is a taut, darkly comic novel about money, memory, and the psychic wreckage of a marriage long after love has ended. On a single spring afternoon in New York City, Gene Mills —a once-successful writer now living on fumes —hosts friends in his apartment while waiting for an art auction that could change everything. The paintings on the block were made by his ex-wife, now a global art star. They depict her affair, her ambition, and the life she detonated when she left him. Gene believes selling them is justice. Or survival. Or both.

A man moves to the forest to be left alone. The forest turns out to be fully staffed. Twenty-five years ago Boris Kriger drove north out of Toronto on a nice day, kept going until he got tired, and bought a house on a hill with six and a half acres of impassable bush. He had been in Toronto three days. He was looking for silence.

A runaway goat, a fearless six-year-old, and a roomful of empire-builders collide in Simla, where a child’s plainspoken wisdom exposes the blind spots of British bureaucracy. When Tods—idol of bazaar porters and servants—bursts into the Viceregal Lodge in pursuit of his pet, he also...

Goodboy is a darkly funny, searing debut novel that asks: What does it mean to be a good man? Lars is enlightened. He takes ice baths, meditates, journals, and has a cute rescue dog. He even volunteers every week! A former Hollywood agent turned producer, Lars can finally pursue his passions...

Worcestershire, 1987: When cash-strapped Vale Television, the smallest station on the ITV network, goes bust, Victoria Bloom sees her career come to a crashing halt. Forty years later, happily retired, Vicky reminisces with her granddaughter as they watch a show she once worked on, now repeated on a nostalgia TV channel. Later, when a stranger offers her the chance to revisit the past, Vicky returns to the start of the year when it all went wrong.

Une mort annoncée. Une vérité reléguée en note de bas de page. Une bureaucratie en pleine panique. Decimus Flaccus n’était qu’un simple scribe. Discret, consciencieux et presque parfaitement oubliable… jusqu’au jour où il surprend par hasard un complot visant à assassiner Jules César. Le voilà désormais obligé de jongler avec des prophéties égarées, des augures corruptibles, une blanchisseuse particulièrement explosive et le secret le moins bien gardé de Rome. Sa mission ? Rédiger un rapport. Son plan ? Passer inaperçu. Son erreur ? Dire la vérité.

A children’s party. A disputed teddy bear. An astonishing shortage of grown-up behavior. When little Ede Andros grabs another child’s toy at a suburban gathering, a small scuffle becomes a very adult affair. Wounded pride fuels sharp remarks, neighborly smiles give way to insults, and two...

Eigentlich wollte Hansi Scharnagl nur die Wasseruhr ablesen. Dann steht er im Keller vor einer Leiche – und in Unterfilzbach ist die Sache noch am selben Abend klar: Selbstmord. Sagen die Nachbarn, sagen die Stammtischbrüder, sagt sogar die Polizei. Nur einer glaubt kein Wort davon. Während...

Go ahead. Put on your pajamas, curl up next to the fireplace with a warm cup of cocoa and prepare for a nostalgic trip down memory lane .... but not with this book! THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AND FALL OF B.B. WOLFE is NOT the fairy tales of your childhood! While the names and faces may seem familiar, their personalities are not. Dreamed up under the light of the waning Flower Blue Moon, each character sprang to life, their thoughts, hopes and foibles delivered without mercy but with a touch of spicy innuendo and deadpan humor.

As society teeters on the brink of nuclear apocalypse, Markus Moksha, an oversexed alcoholic anthropologist, encounters Dordogne, a telepathic woman from the future who recognizes his import to the fate of humanity.

García Márquez y Vargas Llosa se conocieron en el aeropuerto de Caracas, en agosto de 1967. Con apenas treinta y un años, Vargas Llosa era ya un escritor aclamado por la crítica. García Márquez, cuarenta años cumplidos, encontraba por fin el éxito editorial con Cien años de soledad, publicada ese año en Buenos Aires. Antes de confundirse en un abrazo en el aeropuerto de Caracas que dio inicio formal a la amistad, los dos genios de la literatura se habían escrito cartas y leído mutuamente con admiración.

Thomas Mann's vivid, dramatic, and thought-provoking The Magic Mountain is firmly established as one of the classic epic novels of the twentieth century. Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, Mann's story depicts a decaying European society on the eve of the First World War.

Brought to you by Penguin. The audiobook of Mort is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford (Fleabag; Vanity Fair; Quiz). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and...

With magic declassified in the UK, the fake psychics and fraudulent healers are running amok, and it's up to the Department of Extradimensional Affairs' newly appointed Skepticism Officers to crack down. But when they set their sights on Modern Miracle, a highly suspicious and fast-growing faith healing cult with remarkably good social media presence, even their skepticism is put to the test.