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Back home after her life changing moment at Frogham train station, it seems that Alison's life is looking up, and there's even a possibility of romance on the horizon. Maybe she can finally stop lying. But it's not very long before it all starts to go wrong, and when Alison makes an enemy of Blake's new girlfriend, she decides it's time to get herself a proper job and make something of herself.

Embark on a captivating journey through "Pastafarian Chronicles: Navigatin' da Noodle-y Seas o' Faith," where Ministeroni Antonicus invites you to join him on a thought-provoking adventure that traverses the realms of belief and skepticism. With a seasoned pen that wields both insightful introspection and uproarious humor, Antonicus delves into the complex tapestry of interfaith spirituality and atheistic musings.

A short fantasy story to imagine the relationship between Antara and Abla in the present time and the difficulties of engagement and marriage in the present time. A satirical comedy story.

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of New Teeth, hailed as “a triumph of sustained humor” (Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review), comes a hilarious and powerful collection of short stories chronicling the plight of aging millennials. ​

Stetson Jeff never realized that his brain was so special, but it's true that he can learn complex, obscure languages in just a few weeks. He heads off to Oxford University for a semester to get hooked up to brain scans and learn Korean for a chance at an honorary degree. But is being a smart person something Jeff has time for right now? Heck no. Hot on the trail of A.S.P. now, Jeff leaves England headed for Egypt and then ... well, we wouldn't want to spoil the story now, would we?

Riff Savage is a former heavy metal bassist and horror video icon whose idea of a peaceful retirement involves memoir-writing, sipping mocktails, and absolutely no crowd-surfing or demon-dodging. But when his legion of loyal—and somewhat unstable—superfans catch wind of his retreat from the limelight, they devise a sinister plot to ensure Riff’s swan song is anything but peaceful.

Sarah Langan's A Better World is gleefully ruthless in its dissection of wealth, power, and privilege, timely in its depiction of a self-destructing world—and it is a prescient warning to us all.

Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd') and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?) And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. Frustrated, disappointed, and undersexed, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything.

Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy.... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet.

В романе Кризис самоопределения Бен Элтон возвращается к читателю в своем несравненном амплуа сатирика с кинематографическим зрением. Эта книга — бескомпромиссный роман об "эпохе оскорбленных", в которую мы живем. Мы и не заметили, как миллионы людей начали круглосуточно выяснять отношения, обижаться на то и на это, оскорбляться по поводу, без повода и просто для удовольствия. В социальных сетях нынче сплошное кровопролитие. Сдвинув время всего на несколько лет вперед, Элтон моделирует возможное развитие событий в Британии в ближайшем будущем, и по его версии, кровопролитие запросто может выплеснуться из проводов на тротуары.

Banal Nightmare is filled with complicated characters who will dazzle you in their rendering just as often as they will infuriate you with their decisions. Halle Butler singularly captures the volatile, angry, aggrieved, surreal and entirely disorienting atmosphere of the modern era.

In this satirical alternative history, Professor Jeronimo Herodotease and his team of documentary filmmakers and reenactors revivify the dark days of the Grim Depression and Amerika's descent into dictatorship. In the chaos and strife that followed the assassination of President-elect Frankie van Rosenvelt, General Jackson and a cadre of Forcist-minded cockroaches swarmed the stage, gnawed away at democratic norms, and declared martial law under the guise of restoring "Law and Order."

Helena es una leyenda: su generación construyó las grandes revistas de moda, y lo hizo con talento, inteligencia y estilo. Pero ahora, como a cualquier persona mayor de treinta años, la consideran vieja: una reliquia sin nada que hacer en un mundo de publicaciones digitales, blogs, influencers, hashtags y likes.

Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.

Ferhan Şensoy yazdığı ve sahnelediği sıradışı oyunlarla, daha çok dil inceliklerine dayanan mizah öğelerini kullanarak güncel olaylara eleştiriler getirmiştir. Geleneksel Türk tiyatrosundan epik tiyatroya kadar çeşitli üsluplardan izler taşıyan bu çalışmalarıyla 20. yüzyıl sonlarında Türk tiyatrosunda kendine özgü bir yer edinmiştir. İngilizce Bilmeden Hepinizi I Love You adlı eserinde de yaşadıklarını, gözlemlerini kendine has mizah üslubuyla gözler önüne sermektedir.

In the aftermath of World War II, a funeral home mortician by the name of John Cave has a revelation about the nature of death: Death is peace; death is nothing to be feared. This simple concept will evolve into an atheistic religion known as Cavism, which will displace Christianity as the dominant western faith. But Cavism has a dark past, and even more ominous future.

Sebastian 23 – in den Sozialen Netzwerken auch bekannt als mondschaf23 – schreibt über 5712 einfache Wege, die Welt zu retten. Ganz konkret, praktisch, entschlossen - und vor allem optimistisch und mit Humor. Weil es wichtig ist, auch einmal über sich selbst zu lachen und nicht alles nur todernst zu nehmen. Schließlich geht es nur um die Zukunft der Menschheit. Seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt sich Sebastian 23 intensiv mit den Themen "Umweltschutz", "Verkehrswende" und "Klimakrise". Nicht nur als Vater zweier Kinder macht er sich Gedanken, wie es um die Zukunft bestellt ist.

Vic follows a simple code of life—when stuck between certain death and certain death, always chose a third option. Ready to renounce his criminal ways, Vic needs to pull one last heist—transporting a rare and valuable albino friklar across a short section of space without detection. Easy money. However, when the animal escapes on a primitive planet called Earth, Vic must either settle accounts with his boss—ruthless Axle Prim—or endure his wrath.

When Stetson Jeff Stetson takes some time to think about a clue he picked up in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, he realizes that his hero, Ranger Johnstone, may have hidden some kind of precious cargo that he stole from the Russians in Havana somewhere in Belize. Precious... and potentially lethal. Could it be nukes? Of course it could. But what if the shadow organization A.S.P. beats him to it? Between encounters with sharks and agents from the counter-shadow organization R.A.T.S., will Jeff survive long enough to get out of sunken submarines and a cave with the bones of a male Mayan princess?

In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.