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Author’s NoteLaughter is one of the most misunderstood gifts we carry. We often treat it as weightless —something spontaneous, harmless, and free of consequence. We assume it arrives without responsibility. Yet laughter is powerful. It can bridge strangers, soften grief, dissolve tension, and remind us —sometimes urgently —that we are still alive. But it can also wound quietly. It can expose vulnerability without consent. It can cross lines we only recognize once we are standing on the other side of them. This book was born in that tension. Prank Everyone Except the Dead is not a manual.

Pearl Etta Riggs just buried her husband of a million years (no, not literally, but it felt that way sometimes), and her dear friends are trying to find a way to cheer her up. So, they meet for coffee and cheesecake at their favorite place, the Cheesy Cream Café. Ah, the taste of childhood. Ethel spots the story of a local bank robbery in the paper, and pitches solving it as "it will give us something to do." She begs, she pleads, and she… Flirts with the waiter?

Igor, poco più che quarantenne, ha sempre avuto un rapporto complicato con il padre, a partire dal suo lavoro di traduttore americanista che Herr Professor – russofilo, vetero-comunista, soprannominato così per il suo rigore intransigente – ha sempre disprezzato. Per fortuna, però, padre e figlio vivono in città diverse, e le occasioni di scontro sono limitate al minimo.

Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Dietmar Bittrichs Geschichtensammlung macht einfach glücklich. Die Kleinen sind überraschend ungeduldig bei Staus, Verspätungen, verlorenem Gepäck. Sie langweilen sich bei den Sehenswürdigkeiten, die uns interessieren. Sie verlangen immer nur Pommes. Ein heiteres Hörbuch für alle, die den Kulturclash der Generationen augenzwinkernd betrachten, grandios interpretiert von Bernd Stelter.

Severance meets Lovecraft in this surreal tale of corporate horror and existential dread. Joe always had potential, but he doesn't expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won't expect much of him either. But when he enters the offices of Ponos—a company he's never...

A death foretold. A truth footnoted. A bureaucracy panicking. Decimus Flaccus was just a scribe. Quiet, diligent, and very nearly forgettable—until he accidentally overheard a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. Now he’s juggling misplaced prophecies, bribable omens, one extremely combustible laundress, and Rome’s worst-kept secret. His job? File a report. His plan? Stay unnoticed. His mistake? Telling the truth.

Tenía ocho años cuando mi abuelo me tomó de la mano y no la soltó hasta que encontramos a mis padres en Atenas. Era 1946. Principios de la primavera de 1946. Los almendros florecían uno al lado del otro y el campo estaba en su esplendor. Así empieza la novela más autobiográfica de Theodor Kallifatides y una de las más apreciadas por sus cientos de miles de lectores. Con su característica sencillez y humanidad, nos narra su vida desde que abandona su pueblo natal hasta que retorna a él para recibir el homenaje de sus vecinos convertido ya en un escritor consagrado.

The Keys is a great place to hide a seashell bucket full of secrets. Creole . . . shot . . . dead. Three words Madison Westin never thought she’d hear in the same sentence. Creole promised. He pinky swore on it. But even through a blur of tears fed by prescription-strength margaritas, Madison...

In the storm–drenched city of Verdigris, home to indolent sorcerers and undead hotels, something is dreadfully wrong. Buildings are starting to crumble due to the kidnapping of their hobs, the many-legged house spirits that keep each home in order. In such times, one would ordinarily blame the...

This "thoroughly engaging" novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("[a] quiet masterpiece" —Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment. “One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.”...

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek. “One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.” —Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo In the present day, a Black American expat to Rome named D. reconnects with his former Army...

A scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral At twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny’s orbit. But after three years of...

"Heady, harrowing, and darkly funny" (The New York Times Book Review), Nerve Damage follows one woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself. "It’s impossible for a book so chilling, so uncanny, so urgent to also be this funny. Nerve Damage is a major debut.”...

„Recht haben ist auch keine Lösung" zeigt genau diese Momente – bissig, ehrlich und so treffsicher, dass es manchmal wehtut. Du hörst. Du lachst. Und erkennst dich schneller wieder, als dir lieb ist. Über 125.000 Menschen feiern Tims Humor bereits auf Social Media. Jetzt kommt er als Hörbuch genau dahin, wo er am meisten wirkt: in deinen Alltag. Freue dich auf humorvolle Kurzgeschichten über Missverständnisse, Ego und den ganz normalen Kommunikationswahnsinn.

Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache ist ein kurzer humoristisch-satirischer Essay des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Mark Twain aus dem Jahre 1880. Das englische Original wurde zuerst in der Anthologie „A Tramp Abroad" als Annex D veröffentlicht. Twain, der sich zu jener Zeit auf einer mehrmonatigen Reise durch Europa befand, schildert darin die – wie er es empfand – Skurrilitäten, Absurditäten, Widersprüchlichkeiten und generellen Schwierigkeiten beim Erlernen der deutschen Sprache als Fremdsprache.

Yoga gegen Rechts vereint Kurzgeschichten mit trockenem Humor, bissigen Dialogen und messerscharfen Beobachtungen. Mit satirischem Scharfsinn und viel Selbstironie entlarvt Patrick Salmen die pathologischen Züge achtsamkeitsbesessener Stadtneurotiker, denn niemand weiß so gut wie der Dortmunder Comedian, dass einem das Gegenüber oft nur deshalb so schräg vorkommt, weil man gerade in einen Spiegel schaut.

Elizabeth Zhang knows her place in the world. She knows she’s in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, and the ninety-ninth percentile for academics. With a hard-working ethic instilled in her by immigrant parents, armed with impeccable grades...

Jerome K. Jerome's second ever published work, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a rollicking collection of hilarious essays that established the writer as one of the most talented humorists of his day.

Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow features twelve comedic essays that effortlessly blend humour with philosophical enquiry. Vibrant and lively, Jerome's writing offers amusing meditations on some of life's most trivial endeavours. Spanning everything from indecisiveness and keeping up appearances, to avoiding unsolicited advice and romance, these witty musings gently poke fun at the pressures of societal expectation with profound insight.

The year is 1984. The British government has become impersonal and apathetic, not run by a particular party or corresponding ideology, but by the random selection of a new figurehead each year. When the eccentric Auberon Quin is chosen to lead the country, the nation begins to take a whimsical turn. In an attempt to liven up London, Auberon transforms the city into a mock-medieval town, complete with crests, flags and costumes. Everything is a joke–that is until Adam Wayne, a young man claiming to be the Napoleon of Notting Hill, begins to take it seriously.