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Campbell Parkes será un idiota, pero es un idiota con programa de radio propio, aunque se emita a medianoche y su público vaya menguando por momentos. Su resignada productora, Michelle, sueña con dedicase al periodismo de verdad, pero no tiene más remedio que conformarse con soportar los desvaríos de Campbell sobre el precio de las entradas del cine y los vasos reutilizables para el café.

Ambitious and hardworking Tracy Flick feels underappreciated and stuck. Her job as a high school assistant principal isn’t the political career she dreamed of as an over-achieving teen, so when the longtime principal abruptly announces his retirement, offering a rare chance of promotion, Tracy is filled with zeal at the prospect of success. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be.

Gli italiani non sono portati per la rivoluzione. In centinaia d'anni, mentre francesi, americani e russi si ribellavano all'andamento della propria Storia, gli italiani sceglievano strade alternative quali la diplomazia, l'iniziativa individuale, l'attesa della dipartita naturale del nemico, il superenalotto. "Il piantagrane" narra la vicenda di un individuo qualunque che, suo malgrado, si trova a innescare un grande, strabiliante, radicale cambiamento. A causa della sua semplice presenza, tutti cominciano ad agire secondo logica e buonsenso.

In this new Audible Original series – Daisy’s first ever podcast - she’s invited six celebrity friends to try to covert her to books by telling her all about their favourite classic. She promises she’ll definitely read one of them by the end of the series. Maybe.

A commentary on guilt, material wealth, community, religion, and more, this novel is a thought provoking yet heartwarming tale. Banished from his church after being falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner becomes a bitter hermit consumed only by the wealth and goods he has been able to attain in exile. After losing everything he loved from his past, he clings now to the materials he has gained since. However, he must suffer through losing those too and instead gain the love of an innocent orphan to find the redemption he didn’t know he needed.

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

Small Bones in a Fist is composed of stories drawn from Blindboy's first two published books: The Gospel According to Blindboy and Boulevard Wren and Other Stories. Curated, narrated and scored by the author, Small Bones in a Fist is a surreal, provocative and darkly funny introduction to one of the most original voices in Irish literature.

What happens when a regular man is faced with supernatural tragedy and evil? What happens when the legal system fails that man? When is enough actually enough? Welcome to Strikeforce, a thrilling story that sets about answering these questions.

A successful writer accidentally sends her new (and super-dreamy) editor the wrong manuscript. Instead of the full-length paranormal novel she promised Longstrand Publishing, she sends the fan fiction she’s written about her crush…on him—including every detail of the hot, steamy “physical activity” she’s fantasized about happening between them.

The last time I was in a coma my BFF read me every single Potter book, hoping they would give me the will to live. They didn’t, but I woke up anyway. Still delirious from the dragon bites, I demanded paper and wrote down Harry’s story as best as I could recall. I lit that one on fire.

Una carta sorprende a Lucrecia. Entre frases iracundas contra el trabajo y el mito del progreso Vita, su tía recién fallecida, encriptó el mapa de un tesoro enterrado en medio de La Pampa. Poco a poco, esa voz y la sucesión de acontecimientos descabellados que desencadena trastocan sus costumbres mundanas y su férrea disciplina laboral. Irónica y corrosiva, sin perder el sentido del humor ni por un instante, Cristoff revela el extractivismo vital que subyace en tantas prácticas contemporáneas.

Patrick is a lunatic in a town where lunatics are segregated from the normal population. Patrick spends his life hiding in his workshop fixing broken clocks. He stays out of trouble, until one day, the quiet lunatic crosses paths with an evil police captain, S.J. Worth. Patrick meets two travelers, Ed and Layla, who help him escape. Together, they lead S.J. Worth on a chase across the world of Adalay.

All her life, Susan's loved ones have been hiding a terrible secret from her: If she thinks too hard, her head will explode. Luckily, her devoted boyfriend, anxious parents and fierce best friend are prepared to do whatever it takes to keep Susan safe in ignorant, thoughtless bliss. And until now, Susan has lived happily in a bubble of TV and takeaways, social media and small talk; anything to distract her from the spiralling thoughts that so often haunt the rest of us - thoughts that would be deadly for her.

"Animal Farm", a fairy story, is a short novel by George Orwell. It describes a farm where animals revolt, take over and drive out men. It is an apologue written in the form of an animal fable, but also a dystopia. In this novel, Orwell offers a satire of the Russian Revolution and a critique of the Soviet regime, particularly Stalinism, and beyond that, authoritarian regimes and totalitarianism. The book was named one of the 100 best English-language novels written from 1923 to 2005 by Time magazine.

Henry Farber, a well-meaning psychiatrist, is forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader.

Author, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email Ed Reardon is back for a 15th series. Further thoughts on the world from the much loved (if flawed) writer perpetually on the brink of the breadline. Will he take a chance on success, or stay in his cosy, rather fetid rut? Hope springs eternal.

Ein neuer Job ist wie ein neues Leben. Und es könnte alles so schön sein, wäre da nicht die gähnende Langeweile. Aber offenbar steht in dieser Firma die Zeit still, während einem die Kollegen das Leben schon mal schwer machen können. Da hilft nur eins: Zurückschlagen! So setzt sich in "ARBEITEN VERBOTEN" von Episode zu Episode ein buntes Bild über das Arbeiten im Büro des deutschen Mittelstandes zusammen. Eine aufschlussreiche Offenbarung für alle, die in ihrem Büroalltag auch manchmal den Kopf schütteln, weil sie nicht fassen können, was da vor sich geht.

Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him. What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are. Charged by Olivia not to say he loves her, Lucien returns to sea and to a job characterized by its plodding predictability. Here he discovers that not everything in his life is foreseeable, including his feelings for Olivia. This is a fascinating and different work of fiction.

Un escritor recorre el país en su Torino con el encargo de escribir una improbable "Guía de pasiones argentinas". Pero en realidad escribe una novela que va construyendo según el azar de sus encuentros, de sus reacciones impredecibles. Y por entre los fragmentos de este trayecto aparentemente absurdo y cargado de humor negro, puja por surgir la historia de un viaje íntimo que comienza siendo de huida y acaba siendo de reencuentro.

One day, in 1994, just as he was poised to land a major cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, music journalist, Derek Christian is whisked away by a mysterious man with multiple arms and tentacles named Kent and deposited in a luxury hotel called the Intergalactic, which is populated by beings and creatures from across the galaxy.