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Jen disrupts a meeting of the world's most powerful oligarchs. She escapes via paraglider and joins her partner, JoAnna, who drives a Humvee. The women are chased through the streets of Kuala Lumpur, then a higher speed chase on the byways of southern Malaysia. But corporate oligarchs strike back, killing innocent bystanders and handing Dog Breakfast a huge dilemma.

It’s the week before Christmas, and the historic McFarland home is buzzing with the return of four adult children and their young families. Pop made sure this was the year they all came back to town. Newly married and postpartum Ivy, a TikTok famous bus-life wanderer, struggles with the best way to parent her teen son with special needs. Ava’s seemingly perfect life and marriage are wearing thin. Oliver’s accidental wealth makes the perfect breeding ground for doubts about his professional abilities.

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2024 For fans of Nightbitch and While No One Is Watching, comes “one of the best books this year, or any year” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World)—a disturbing dystopian thrillfest about a woman moving to a glittering town of the future...

El arranque de la novela no dejará indiferente a ningún lector, porque es una reelaboración del famosísimo inicio de "La metamorfosis" de Kafka. Solo que aquí se invierten los términos y nos encontramos con una cucaracha que un buen día, al despertarse, descubre que se ha convertido en un enorme ser humano, concretamente en el primer ministro del Reino Unido, de nombre Jim Sams. Y resulta no ser la única cucaracha transformada en político que se mueve por las altas esferas.

Quand Samantha accepte l’invitation à une soirée organisée par quatre filles un peu sinistres, elle plonge sans le savoir dans un monde inquiétant, entre le conte de fées et l’histoire d’horreur.

Von Santo Domingo bis in die Katakomben von Wien, von den "Garden Parties" zu Cambridge bis in ein namibisches Gefängnis führen diese Geschichten, inspiriert von der Tradition großer englischer Reiseerzähler wie W. Somerset Maugham. Es werden Schlaglichter auf alle möglichen Arten zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen – und ihrer Abgründe – geworfen, vor denen nicht einmal Archivarbeiter, Professoren und andere Exzentriker gefeit sind.

Evelyn Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall, is the daring and hilarious tale of Paul Pennyfeather, a theology student expelled from Oxford and sent to teach at a private boys’ school in Wales. Previously a modest young man, Paul finds himself a bit out of place amongst the teachers of Llanabba, who are all misfits, fools, and derelicts themselves: Prendy (the anxious) and Captain Grimes (the drunk), just to name two.

Ein Krieg bricht aus, eine Finanzkatastrophe ereilt die Menschheit – und dann wird sie auch noch von einem Virus heimgesucht, das alle Frauen unfruchtbar macht. In dieser schweren Stunde landet eine kleine, bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe Schiffbrüchiger mit dem Kapitän Adolf von Kleist auf einer fiktiven Galápagos-Insel. Während die übrige Menschheit ausstirbt, wird hier ein neues Menschengeschlecht mit winzigen Gehirnen begründet.

Ohio. Cada mañana, los empleados se encuentran destrozados los armarios Kjerring, tiradas por el suelo las lámparas Brooka, y extrañas manchas en los sofás Liripip. Para desvelar este misterio, cinco jóvenes empleados se ofrecen como voluntarios para un largo turno de noche, en el que afrontarán horrores que desafían la imaginación. Una tradicional historia de casas encantadas en un entorno contemporáneo (y repleto de horrores propios de nuestra época).

Love Just Is... is a surreal journey through France, time and space, and international marriage. Is Baby a simp? Is Dear One "Queen of the Narcissists"? What are your thoughts on forgiveness? This twisted tale is the author's true story. If this is your true story, too, you may find this information helpful.

The fire is on, sherry poured, presents wrapped, and claws are being sharpened. In a seaside cottage perched on a cliff, one family reunites for Christmas. While snow falls, a tyrannical widowed matriarch presides over her unruly brood. Her niece tends to her whims, but fantasises about eloping; and as more guests arrive, each bringing their secret truths and dreams, the Christmas tree explodes, a brawl erupts, an escape occurs - and their 'midwinter madness' climaxes.

Ein Haus voller Menschen - und voller Überraschungen. Billy ist Mitte dreißig. Sie raucht selbstgedrehte Joints und hat eine Vorliebe für T-Shirts mit provokanten Sprüchen. Außerdem hat Billy zum zweiten Mal Brustkrebs. In der an der Ostsee gelegenen Rehaklinik Schloss Schönbye treffen zahlreiche skurrile Charaktere aufeinander, die alle ihre eigene Krankheits- und Lebensgeschichte mitbringen. Schon bald findet sich eine bunte Truppe zusammen, die jedoch bei verschiedenen Gelegenheiten aneinandergerät. Treffpunkt ist oft vor Haus 3, dem Raucherpavillon - auch wenn nicht jeder mitquarzt.

Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses-and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction-at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men.

Die Reiseleiter aus der Hölle sind zurück! Das Hörbuch zur Fortsetzung des Kultklassikers mit Hape Kerkeling. Edwin Öttel hat seine Karriere als Animateur längst an den Nagel gehängt und im Leben nicht wirklich viel richtig, dafür aber einiges falsch gemacht. Doch als er plötzlich von der Vergangenheit eingeholt und auf geheime Mission entsandt wird, begibt sich die ehemalige Animateurslegende wieder ins Urlaubsparadies, wo nicht nur nervige Pauschaltouristen warten.

Uma comunidade plural e anárquica encontra-se no Centro de Emagrecimento Ingatori para assistir à semifinal da Copa de 2014. Enquanto os frequentadores testemunham o fiasco histórico do 7 x 1, flashbacks narram suas trajetórias individuais: embora tenham personalidades muito distintas, o excesso de quilos parece unificar suas identidades; como se obesidade fosse um gigantesco rótulo padronizador. Os próprios sobrepesados brincam: um magro que habita um corpo gordo é um trans? E uma alma rica que nasceu num físico de pobre?

The undead have risen from their graves, and society hangs by a thread. But America's political parties aren't going to let a little thing like the zombie apocalypse get in the way of a presidential election. There are nasty whispers about the incumbent, though, and they have nothing to do with where he was born.

Callum Sterling is a grumpy jerk. A ridiculously hot one, but still. I’ve battled with Callum during our quarterly conference calls over the past year, but now we get to spar in person. And not only are we forced to work together every week, but we have to spend time together outside of work, too. At first, I was ready to fight, but the chemistry between us becomes undeniable, the more time we spend together.

Relacionarse es una de las cosas más importantes para los seres humanos, pero hacerlo por las razones equivocadas te puede conducir a una lucha interna de sufrimiento e infelicidad y muy en especial cuando se trata de relaciones de parejas. Estar con una persona, solo por dinero, por miedo a la soledad, para tener hijos, por sexo, por estatus social, por servidumbre o para cubrir tus carencias emocionales, son factores que poco a poco te conducen a una tristeza profunda y a una vida carente de sentido.

In his new writing project, Donkey, Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp, as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way out.

When Agatha Benedict plucked Kelly off the city streets to replace her dead cat Poopsie, she neglected to inform him of some very important house traditions. The history of the Benedict Estate prescribes that once the estate owner passes on, a will reading is to take place. However, the reading is more than passing on a loved one's final wishes: it's a figurative gunshot into the air, an alert to all in attendance that a playful game of anything-goes murder has begun. The prize? The inheritance, of course.