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It’s the summer of 2013 and 21-year-old Ruby, a counselor at Camp Burntshore, can’t wait to supervise a rowdy cabin of 11-year-olds, smoke weed by the fire, and argue about which city make the best bagels. But when Brent, the camp owner’s son, hires Israeli soldiers to deal with a staffing shortfall, Ruby, a committed anti-Zionist, must decide if she’s willing to jeopardize her place at Burntshore to fight Brent over the contentious issues of Jewish belonging and settler colonialism, even as she finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers, the sweetly handsome Etai.

Ein Mann wacht eines Morgens als Frau auf und erlebt die Welt aus der anderen Perspektive. Dieses kluge Gedankenspiel enthüllt, was oft verdrängt wird – strukturelle Ungleichheit, subtile Vorurteile und die alltägliche Benachteiligung von Frauen. Das Buch zeigt, wie Frauen ihre Wünsche verwirklichen, den Gender Pay Gap überwinden und ihr Glück finden – und warum echte Gleichberechtigung uns alle stärkt: für mehr Verständnis, Fairness und gemeinsamen Erfolg.

ONE OF LITHUB"S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk comes a biting satire of American politics and a searingly intelligent novel about the cruel absurdities of contemporary life, centering on a world champion professional...

Can a school detention class appreciate a tragicomedy? It’s all about the play itself. After being sent to heaven, psychotherapist Doctor Styx finds no peace, longing for earthly life. Instead, she gets appointed to guard the mental health of angels.

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries...

A comedy fiction story about an average Joe that becomes famous accidentally. His life drastically changes after a series of unfortunate events.

Трэш-фантасмагория «Красный Бубен» охватывает пространство едва ли не всей планеты и даже космоса. Почему космоса? Потому что звезда Рэдмах, великая матерь звезд и пространств, источник всего сущего во Вселенной, вот-вот начнет излучать энергию, и фокус ее излучения придется на нашу Землю. Эпицентром вселенского действа станет обыкновенная русская деревушка на Тамбовщине под названием Красный Бубен. Здесь гонят самогон, соседи бьют друг другу морды, из Москвы приезжают дачники. Но в ней-то и суждено разразиться последней битве Добра со Злом.

Silicon Valley just invented time travel. Now, three reluctant heroes race to save the timeline before the resulting tech bubble bursts—and takes all of reality with it—in this satirical, hilariously plausible oral history. "Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters...

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!

In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop—a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video games—inexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet clarified the chaotic drama of what was happening inside such a company during its zeitgeist moment.

Il Marchese Del Grillo, altri dicono Duca Del Grillo, fu un gentiluomo romano, nato fra il 1730 e il 1740 e morto verso il 1800, cioè più di ottant’anni fa. Quantunque non mi sia riuscito di apprendere, per quante ricerche abbia fatto, il nome con cui egli fu battezzato, nè la data precisa della sua nascita, ho potuto verificare, dalle affermazioni recise dei suoi discendenti, che egli è un personaggio storico, vero, realmente esistito e che molte delle bizzarre avventure...

“Forget the rock and roll, this debut is about sex, drugs and a serious obsession with cleaning.” —ELLE “[A] gem of a debut novel...funny, vibrant, and utterly unpredictable.” —Service95 A disaffected young woman’s work as a cleaner takes her on an increasingly surreal search for a...

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It begun as a sudden strange fancy . . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one' The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it's time for a change of management. Who would not wish for that job? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily...

Brought to you by Penguin. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils...