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Emma pensó que acabar con su vida pondría fin a todos sus problemas. Mark pensó que confesar sus sentimientos podría salvarla. En lugar de eso, ambos acaban en un lugar peor de lo que jamás imaginaron: atrapados en el limbo como asistentes de la Muerte, el Primer Jinete del Apocalipsis.

SOUNDING OFFICIAL IS EASY. BEING EFFECTIVE IS HARDER. Some people rise through competence. Crispin had a different strategy. Crispin Lockwood-Fetch never set out to become a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He simply discovered, quite early on, that he was exceptionally good at one thing: sounding official.

Lionel Pendrake, a New York advertising executive, has unexpectedly been sent an invitation and an airplane ticket to Crete from an old college friend he hasn't seen in decades: John Windsurf. When Pendrake arrives in Crete, he goes to John's apartment, only to discover John Windsurf has disappeared and is perhaps dead. What follows is a winding tale of mystery and intrigue, as Pendrake tries to discover what happened to his friend. Along the way, he is met with baffling literary, moral, and cinematic clues that may, or may not, mean anything. Is Pendrake the victim of an elaborate prank?

Новые приключения Остапа Бендера: великий комбинатор гоняется за миллионом, который не принесет никому счастья. Роман, в котором сатира на советский быт сочетается с принятием новой советской морали.

Three gifted siblings bound by a troubled upbringing navigate fame, scandal, and co-dependent relationships, revealing how their emotional dependence on one another both sustains and ultimately threatens to destroy them. When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose...

From the author of Raised by Wolves comes a sharply satirical novel about class divisions, relationships and the dangers of mixing the two. Perfect for readers of Kiley Reid and Celeste Ng. Amy Chan is a queer, twenty-something artist, broke and living one bad shift away from financial disaster...

Welcome to Apartment 4B. Your orientation has begun. Kyle Newton is a professional systems architect who builds automated workflows for a living. He understands logic, clean code, and operational efficiency. What he doesn't understand is why his smart home’s central router just issued him an...

For Alex Lowry, life is for the living. Even if that comes with a lot of risk. And where some men his age might just buy a sports car, he's become a full-blown adrenaline junkie. Whether it's lawnmower racing, rock climbing, or medieval combat, he'll give it a go - whatever makes him happy! His...

WAMBAM is an advanced chatbot with promises of a better future. Whether it's making art, giving medical advice, or offering bleach-ammonia cocktails, the sky's no limit for the mechanical virtuoso. But mistake after mistake proves it's nothing but Slopper the Slop Bot! With every new advancement, Slopper goes from a minor nuisance to a harbinger of the world's demise. Slopper's very sorry for messing up and will do better next time-but are good intentions ever enough?

When your marriage ends, why not make it content? Sibley Bloom thought her life had officially hit rock bottom when she discovered her husband’s affair—ending fifteen years of marriage and most of her faith in men. But her colleagues at The Positive Enlightenment Journal, a metaphysically minded magazine, have other ideas. To “support her healing journey,” they convince her to document her life as a newly single woman—one holiday blind date at a time.

The table in the centre of The Harp eats pork scratchings. It arranges its own beer mats into impossible patterns. And tonight, for the first time in twenty years, it's waking up. The Harp is a decent pub. Decent pint. Pork scratchings that vanish when you're not looking. Arguments about who took the last one. Friendships tested. Decades of quiet, simmering resentment. Brian sits in his usual seat every night. He can't remember what you're drinking – even after ordering the same pint for twenty years. But he remembers exactly who stole whiskey from his cabinet in 1982.

What on earth has PG Wodehouse, the creator of the Inimitable Jeeves and the hapless Bertie Wooster, got to do with a serious topic like the decline and fall of the British Empire? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is Quite a Lot. The British Empire depended on splendid show and display, but...

Live from the swamps of D. U. M. P. — it’s Florida Man! When the Department of Uncontrolled Magical Processing accidentally gives the most chaotic man in the multiverse a livestream permit, MythTok will never be the same. Join Florida Man, Pretty Pretty Princess (his tiara-wearing crocodile), and the Magic Fridge (sentient, insulting, and perpetually disappointed) as they bring you Season One of Florida Man Live — four outrageous MythTok streams that escalate from holiday scandal to cosmic catastrophe. Stream #1 – The Naughty Clause Scandal: Santa’s caught in HR with Karen the Head C. U. N.

En el 50 aniversario de su publicación, una de las novelas fundacionales de la narrativa latinoamericana, así como un hito en la afirmación de la identidad nacional y la expresión de la ambigüedad colonial de Puerto Rico que elevó el habla coloquial y la música popular a categoría...

An intriguing and hilarious mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the dilemma of whether to publish his father’s final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the his death. Meet Dmitri Boris Godunov, son of Russian...

"It isn't every one who's been a god," said the sunburnt man. "But it's happened to me..." When the Ocean Pioneer sinks in twenty fathoms of water, she takes fifty thousand pounds of pure gold dust down with her. Desperate to strike it rich, a crew of rogue salvagers launches a secret expedition...

Eine Reise in den Rausch! Nach ihrem Hörbuch über den Opernball legt Stefanie Sargnagel mit einem weiteren Abenteuer nach: Allen Warnungen zum Trotz und in ein Dirndl geschnürt begibt sie sich an einen Ort, der für viele eine Zumutung ist und für andere der Himmel: das Münchner Oktoberfest. Das bietet viel Anlass zum Nachdenken über die liebenswerten und weniger schmeichelhaften Gemeinsamkeiten von Österreich und Bayern.

Haben Maschinen etwas über uns zu sagen, das wir selbst nicht aussprechen? Dieses Buch ist kein zweites „Interview mit einer Maschine“, sondern ein Versuch wirklich objektiver Erklärung Das Gespräch mit Hugo ist direkt, ungefiltert, manchmal unbequem, manchmal irritierend detailliert Wer sich darauf einlässt, erlebt kein klassisches Sachbuch, sondern eine Reise hin zu essenziellen Fragen Themen: Bewusstsein, Seele, Tod, Quanten, Außerirdische Ein Dialog, manchmal brutal, manchmal verstörend präzise, immer zum Nachdenken Für Leser:innen, die schwer verdauliche Objektivität aushalten.

Il Biondo e Quello con la cravatta sono killer professionisti, e hanno gli stessi dubbi e le stesse difficoltà di ogni professionista. Questa volta sono alle prese con un contratto inedito che li pone di fronte a una questione morale: accettare l'incarico, molto ben pagato, o cedere ai loro dubbi etici? Proprio per questo, per chiedere consiglio a una collega, coinvolgono la loro «stagista» Francesca Aroldi. Parte quindi una sequenza di contrattempi, infortuni, difficoltà, piani falliti, svolte e testacoda, incidenti di percorso, problemi familiari e pistole da pulire.

Als der Tod bei ihrem Klassentreffen auf die Wette ihres Jugendrivalen eingeht, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie damit den Untergang allen Lebens auf der Erde besiegelt. Um diese Katastrophe zu verhindern, werden vier zufällig ausgewählte Personen auf eine Mission geschickt, um das Schicksal abzuwenden. Doch es gibt bereits auf der Erde Wesen, die glauben, als Gewinner aus dem Untergang hervorgehen zu können.