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تدور أحداث رواية حظك اليوم حول عالم الأبراج، ولكن بأسلوب فلسفي مبتكر ورؤية مغايرة لكل ما اعتدنا عليه عن الأبراج. ينطلق الكاتب من فكرة أن الأبراج مجرد خرافة، لكنه يستخدمها كخلفية للأحداث، ليقدم إسقاطات مختلفة وتأملات عميقة حول الحياة والقدر والشخصيات. تجربة قراءة فريدة تجمع بين الفلسفة، السخرية، والخيال الأدبي.

Viola hasn't had much luck with men. Her first husband, Marco, companion of her youth and father of her only child, left her when he realised he was gay. Her second, Rhys, ended his high-octane, fame-filled life by driving his Porsche into a wall. No wonder her family always believes she needs...

Fever Beach leads us, in pure Hiaasen-style, into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Dale Figgo is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. Now his...

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Vous vivez comme une divinité technologique. Alors, pourquoi votre cerveau vous fait-il vivre un enfer ? Si vous passez vos journées stressé par un e-mail un peu sec, paralysé par l'infini des choix possibles, ou anxieux à l'idée de ne pas être "parfaitement optimisé"... ce livre audio est votre planche de salut. La vérité ? Votre cerveau tourne encore avec un vieux logiciel de l' âge de pierre. Privé de vrais dangers, il panique pour des broutilles et transforme votre confort royal en prison mentale.

Barbra 'Barbie' Jacobs may be the wrong side of forty, but she's still beloved by her fans. Typecast as a Scream Queen from her very first horror flick, Barb's always wanted to prove to herself that she's more than a 'final girl' - the prettiest one who somehow manages not to get chopped into...

In a church basement in Los Angeles, survivors gather every Thursday night. No names, no accusations, just stories about the witches who changed their lives forever. For these broken few, U-Know Support Group offers a chance to cope with memories of being transformed, controlled, or worse. Linda, their therapist, understands better than most — her sister is one of them. But in trying to help humans deal with a world ruled by witches, she may have attracted exactly the wrong kind of attention. Experience the world of SPELLBOUND AND DOWN from the other side.

In a fractured near-future America split between Red States and Blue States, propaganda saturates not just the media but reality itself. Bureaucrats, scientists, cloned celebrities, would-be revolutionaries, and weary citizens stumble through systems that unravel the more faithfully they're obeyed. Across vignettes of malfunctioning machines, surreal workplaces, dueling presidents (one of them an ape), and agents of cognitive control, this satire skewers conformity, ideology, and culture recycled into propaganda.

El conserje profesional de un hotel prestigioso vive grandes aventuras.

A novel about a woman’s unconventional journey through grief… Eliza never expected to marry until she met Joseph. He made everything better, never minded about her habit of saying the wrong thing or her chronic nervous sweatiness. Their life together was perfect—well, okay, not perfect, but pretty damn good. Until he died. On their wedding anniversary. With the second anniversary of his death looming, Eliza is still grieving. What’s worse, her meddling mother-in-law and her casserole-wielding, platitude-giving busybody neighbours won’t leave her alone.

In Praise of Greed: A Satire in Rhyme is a modern English translation of Lof de Geldsucht by the seventeenth-century Dutch poet Jeremias de Decker. In rhymed couplet like the original, In Praise of Greed is a sustained, ingenious voice-portrait of Greed personified. It dredges up both classical and Christian authorities, scientific breakthroughs, Dutch seafaring, and forces the reader to think about wealth, ambition, and moral agency from an unfamiliar perspective—"through Greed's glasses." The poem is both timely and timeless.

In the scorching heat of the Turanian summer, Thraxas is doing his best to avoid working. His plans for a spell of uninterrupted beer drinking go wrong when the Civil Guards arrest a man for murder, right in Thraxas's office. Outraged at this insult to his dignity, Thraxas goes into action. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a deadly war between rival bands of warrior monks. The situation becomes more complicated when a consignment of the King's gold goes missing.

“Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation.”—Guardian A blistering, brilliant novel from the Booker-shortlisted author, elegantly reflecting his Geoffrey Faber Memorial award-winning story collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity In The Quantity Theory of Morality...

Ferma animalelor este un roman alegoric scris de George Orwell, publicat în 1945. Povestea urmărește un grup de animale care se răscoală împotriva stăpânului lor, sperând să construiască o societate dreaptă, în care toate animalele să fie egale. La început, idealurile lor par să...

Be prepared to immerse yourself into eleven stories of youth, travel and trouble from Karl G. Trautman in The Appocalypse and Other Stories. The author of Deacon Blues writes of compelling tales of pain, hope, regret, love and wanderlust. There are also stories of technology gone crazy, as inanimate objects come alive and plan necessary acts of nefariousness. "Crying in the Basement" is the story of an emotional wound passed down from father to son in Depression-era St. Louis.

What if the real Book of Laws was stolen, rewritten and distributed as the Bible, leaving out the good parts? Turns out it was! Lord, COO of the Galactic Order of Demonstration (G.O.D.), is gobsmacked when he discovers that his son Chip—once known on Earth as Jesus—never delivered G.O.D.’s original teachings to humanity. The reason? Cretin, leader of the Elite Global Order (E.G.O.), stole the sacred text and created a version called the Bible—replacing a message of empowerment with one designed to keep souls obedient and unaware of their own creative power.

Mit 60 fängt das Leben erst richtig an – sagen zumindest die, die es noch nicht erreicht haben. Doch was bedeutet es wirklich, wenn die Brille plötzlich zum treuesten Begleiter wird, der Medikamentenschrank besser sortiert ist als die Werkstatt, und die Kinder endgültig durchschaut haben, dass Papa eben doch nicht alles kann? In seinen pointierten Beobachtungen nimmt der Autor mit viel Witz und Augenzwinkern den Alltag reiferer Herren unter die Lupe: vom Kampf gegen das Verschwinden der eigenen Haare bis zur Erkenntnis, dass ein Mittagsschläfchen kein Zeichen von Schwäche ist.

Le avventure di un apprendista concierge in un hotel di lusso.

Efter romansuccesen TI KAMELER FOR AMEERA, hvor Ameera endte med at vælge den forbudte kærlighed, står hun nu med konsekvensen: et barn UDEN FOR ægteskabet. Ameera har et problem. Hun har allerede skuffet sine forældre og resten af den ægteskabsbegejstrede familie ved at aflyse sit...

Audie Award Winner Chris Ciulla performs this fast, fun, funny story of memorable murderous misadventure. After losing his lunch across Monterey's Coast Guard pier, nervous newly successful writer Walter Straub wobbles aboard the Diego Wind for a sunset cruise with a who's-who of celebrity authors. It takes a few fruity cocktails, a disputatious dinner, and some playful orca before he's comfortable in his rented tux and finds the nerve to speak with lovely, bestselling author Avni. All goes swimmingly until a guest becomes fish food. Then more writers turn belly up.