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A merciless, darkly funny satire about a tastemaking editor whose cool-girl magazine job gives her just enough power to become a status monster. Have you ever considered what your tote bag says about you? Or pepper grinder? Or phone case? Connie Qing is a professional tastemaker. An editor at...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles... du moins, c'est ce qu'on a appris au jeune Candide. Chassé du château de Thunder-ten-tronckh pour un baiser volé à la belle Cunégonde, ce héros naïf part pour un tour du monde...

కార్టూనిస్ట్ మల్లిక్ తన రచనలతో ఎంతో మంది పాఠకుల పెదాల పై ఇట్టే చిరునవ్వు పువ్వులు కురిపిస్తాడు. కడుపుబ్బా...

Joshua Cross was supposed to die once. Instead, Heaven made it permanent. Every time Joshua dies, he's dragged back before celestial bureaucracy, handed another bill, and thrown into another century. Ancient Rome mistakes him for a political threat. Viking-age Norway mistakes him for something disturbingly Odin-shaped. Egypt turns him into the most blamed man in the Exodus. Every death adds another legend. Every resurrection adds another fee. Joshua doesn't want to change history. He just wants to survive long enough to stop accidentally becoming part of it.

This book is an Aspiring Baker’s Journey through Norse Mythology and Viking Sagas. Delve deep into the dough of the Norse Mythology and learn how Odin baked the Universe. Explore the bakeries and ovens of the Master Bakers in the nine Realms and taste the baking adventures of gods, dwarves and giants. Sail on the longship mobile bakeries with the adventurous Viking bakers and see how they spread their sourdough starter across the world. The Norse Mythology and Key Viking Sagas are here, kneaded, proofed, baked and covered with chocolate icing.

Quand Mary revient un soir dans son appartement de l’East Village, elle n’est pas surprise de trouver Primo, son nouveau petit ami, avachi devant la télé. Mais lorsqu’elle comprend qu’il est mort, une tout autre histoire débute. Avec le chien de Primo sur les bras, elle va tenter de...

A MAGICAL WORLD. A RELUCTANT HERO. A RAGTAG TEAM. It’s already been a bad day for Richard Parry, and that’s before he’s shot. After that it just gets worse. Thrown into a surreal world, he is seen by some as the manifestation of a prophecy and bringer of doom who might need to be soundly terminated. On the positive side, the Ministry of Insecurity think he will be useful on a suicide mission.

The system doesn’t eat its own. It promotes them. Some people believe those who are incompetent are promoted to limit damage. Experience, however, shows they are often promoted to where they can do the most damage. The Bureaucracy of Policing is a sharp, satirical look at "The Machine"—where corporate buzzwords beat integrity and an opened bag of hamburger buns triggers an Internal Affairs investigation.

Glamour ist ein Überlebenskampf – und nicht alle sind ihm gewachsen »Ein irisierend schönes und kluges Zeugnis menschlicher Irrwege.« Timon Karl Kaleyta Von einem Gig als Osterhase bei einem Mode-Designer steigt Felix Kellergeist kometenhaft in die Welt der Supermodels auf. Alles scheint...

Edward Mills and George Benton (A Tale): These two were distantly related to each other seventh cousins, or something of that sort. While still babies they became orphans, and were adopted by the Brants, a childless couple, who quickly grew very fond of them. The Brants were always saying: "Be pure, honest, sober, industrious, and considerate of others, and success in life is assured.

Uma investigação envolvente, satírica e multifacetada da sociedade nigeriana contemporânea. Para além da originalidade estilística, marca indelével da produção ensaística e dramatúrgica de Wole Soyinka -- e que lhe valeu o prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1986 -- o romance oferece uma...

খেতিয়ক ফৰিঙৰ পিঠা খোৱাৰ মন। পিছে পিঠা খোৱাৰ পিছতে ফৰিঙৰ নাম সৰৱজান হ'ল কেনেকৈ? দশোদিশে সৰৱজান নামেৰে জনাজাত হৈ...

O mestre e Margarida é um romance revolucionário. É uma obra com um estilo absolutamente original, sobre a liberdade da escrita e a força do amor em tempos adversos. É também uma sátira devastadora da vida sob o regime soviético, da censura e da repressão. Um dos livros mais importantes...

Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts...A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiancee, Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch...

Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient...

These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy—with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: “All’s Well with Bingo,” “Bingo and the Peke Crisis,”...

At the house party at Chateau Blissac, Brittany features a rather odd array of guests this year. Mr. J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a while. She, however, has invited numerous visitors to the chateau, to whom he will have to play...

From the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. This collection includes the stories “Fate,” “Tried in...

When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and unexpectedly becomes engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides. While Florence tries to cultivate Bertie’s mind, her former fiancé, hefty ex-policeman “Stilton” Cheesewright...

Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as...