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This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears WHEN YOUR KID IS LITTLE, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to...

Now an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr...

Tres años después de jurar como presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez es depuesto por un golpe militar, acusado de querer implantar una dictadura comunista. Tras arrestarlo y exigirle que firme una renuncia que Chávez se niega a convalidar, los espadones no saben qué hacer con el presidente derrocado ni tampoco quién debe asumir el mando en su lugar. Los generales venezolanos discuten si deben matar a Chávez acusándolo de traidor a la patria, o despacharlo en un vuelo a La Habana, o someterlo a un juicio sumario y encarcelarlo de por vida.

In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stella is contacted by the spirits of legendary Grease Prophets like Frank and Glen. These apparitions warn her that corporate interests and a fanatical cult, the Way of Dryness, are draining the universe of its viscosity and historical depth.

Off Beat Humor about aging and embracing the process of becoming being a Senior Citizen. Wacky Fun Stuff to make you smile. There are crazy thoughts of Bizarre Hilarity with Quirky Twist. Getting old is not easy and instead of crying about it, laughing about it is much healthier. Chapters like, The Woes of Aging and Venturing Out in Public. Book one in a series of three to keep you plodding along. Absolute Absurdity!

"A deep and sharply insightful commentary on narcissistic leadership, including valuable and practical ways to spot a predator in pastoral clothing."—Tia Levings, author of the NYT Bestselling A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy and I Belong to Me: A Survivor’s Guide to Recovery and Hope after Religious Trauma In a world full of uncertainty, self-styled spiritual saviors are out hawking salvation like it’s the latest TikTok trend. Enter Gaslighting for God, Becky Garrison’s razor-sharp unmasking of the unfortunate narcissism underneath so much American spirituality.

The stage is set. An epic battle of barbecue roasts ignites down the East Coast when a peck of Delaware peaches lands at the feet of cannabis chef Charlotte Bennett. The fires roar to life as Clinton Tuckerman sets her up in a culinary showdown that seals her fate. She whisks fresh cream, sugar, and a duck yolk with a vanilla pod over medium heat, just until bubbles form around the edge. Peaches simmer with a splash of whiskey as she blooms around the pot. A tablespoon of butter thickens the plot.

Is it Stalin's Soviet Union? Pol Pot's Cambodia? Kim Jong Il's North Korea? Incredibly, it's twenty-first-century London. In a monstrous twist of fate, Johnny has been targeted by the local council, who believe that he no longer has the right to claim unemployment benefits unless he can "provide proof of actively searching for gainful employment."

Kana sería un tranquilo pueblo perdido en Turingia si su remota desolación no hubiera atraído a un grupo de neonazis... Mientras que los lugareños mantienen las distancias con los extraños, Florian Herscht, un huérfano tan formidable como inofensivo, inocentón y clarividente, cree tener amigos en ambos bandos; y, convencido de que el universo está a punto de colapsar, escribe una carta tras otra a Angela Merkel para advertirla de la inminente catástrofe. Sólo el descubrimiento de la música de Bach le permitirá sustraerse de sus tormentosos presagios.

Brought to you by Penguin. Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it’s actually quite tricky... An electrifying, ultra-contemporary heist, a wild and hilarious story that is also dangerously prescient. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian...

Ever dream of killing your boss? Alan Benning knows how you feel. The problem: his billionaire boss actually winds up murdered. And the whole world thinks he did it. When globetrotting tech billionaire Barron Fisk is found dead on the floor of his swanky Silicon Valley office, all evidence points to Alan.

She needs nothing short of a miracle . . . Sister Agatha lies on her deathbed. But as she takes her final breath, the 124–year–old nun experiences a vision. At the Pearly Gates, St Peter will only allow her entry into heaven if she can atone for her past wrongdoings. And so, the Irish nun is...

From Saint Louis to Washington City to Shiloh. Here is another exciting John Henry adventure, which captures an amazing segment of American History. Those turbulent months early in the Civil War. A brief campaign in southern Missouri is followed by a trip to Saint Louis. On the run from assassins, John Henry links up with Pinkerton agents who escort him to Washington City. While there, John Henry has a long conversation not only with President Abraham Lincoln, but also with Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles, William Seward, and George B. McClellan.

This delightfully witty 1920s novel sees four dissatisfied London women escape rainy life for a sunny Italian castle, finding personal rejuvenation. The seemingly timid Lotty Wilkins recruits pious Rose Arbuthnot, socially exhausted Lady Caroline Dester, and stuffy spinster Mrs. Fisher to share...

Bloomsbury presents Break Room by Miye Lee, read by Chan Woo Lim A gripping and incisive psychological gameshow drama from one of the biggest stars in Korean fiction, author of million-copy bestseller The Dallergut Dream Department Store. Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to...

Listen to Cakes and Ale, one of W. Somerset Maugham’s most beloved and subtly provocative novels. First published in 1930, this classic explores love, marriage, art, hypocrisy, and the cost of respectability in English society. Told with Maugham’s trademark wit and clarity, the novel reflects on memory, morality, and the tension between social conformity and personal freedom. Inspired in part by real literary figures, Cakes and Ale is both a sharp social satire and a deeply human story.

In this fourth and final installment of the Saint James Street James memoirs about the last real man to ever live, he gives you every single last inch of himself until you're satisfied. Some might say, "The Final Inch." I would never say that as a comedy writer, because that sucks. The Jews probably put that in. Maybe "two-factor" authentification really is necessary on Amazon? Who knew? Anywho, if you're tired of being weak, hate your job, hate your fat wife and all that bullspit, then listen to this.

Change of fortune due to a condescending attitude.

Grimsby—Healing the Body Politic is a darkly funny, brutally honest novel about courts, corruption, politics, and the thin line between justice and vengeance. It’s about righting wrongs—sometimes with precision, sometimes with a crowbar.

فى السنة اللي عمل فيها جون جراي كتابه الشهير الرجال من المريخ والنساء من الزهرة ...عملنا كتاب الرجال من بولاق والنساء من أول فيصل ... واللي باع أكتر من خمسين نسخة. كتب...