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A young boy comes of age within the confines of post-civil-war Beirut, with conflict and comedy lurking round every corner. Adam dreams of becoming an astronaut, but who has ever heard of an Arab on the moon? He battles with his father, a book-hoarding journalist with a penchant for writing eulogies, his closest friend, Basil, a Druze who is said to worship goats and believe in reincarnation, and a host of other misfits and miscreants in a city attempting recover from years of political and military violence.

Amritalaal naagar kee lekhanee se haasy-vyang mishrit jin vibhinn rachanaaon kaa srijan huaa ve apane aap mein vilakṣhaṇ hain. Ye samay-samay par vividh patr-patrikaaon mein prakaashit huii theen. Unke kayi sangrah nikle jinhein behad pasand kiyaa gayaa.

As a young man, John Reynolds fled his provincial hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for Los Angeles. But after 20 years in Hollywood, Reynolds feels existentially unfulfilled. He resides in a beautiful mansion with his wife and daughter, and his business is booming, but his attempts to pivot into producing his own movie projects fail again and again. At a creative dead end, Reynolds finds himself drawn back to the historical setting of his youth: he has secretly signed up to participate in a weekend-long reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in an unlikely California town.

Caroline, Katia et Vicky s’envolent pour Las Vegas avec leurs amoureux, afin de profiter au maximum du long week-end de Pâques. Tous explorent les extravagances de la cité aux mille tentations dans la plus grande harmonie conjugale, jusqu’à ce qu’ils décident spontanément de souligner l’enterrement de vie de célibataire d’un des couples, qui se mariera à l’automne.

As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, in his newest novel, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands.

A Harvard reunion prompts a Boston Brahmin’s search for meaning in this comedy of manners by the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Point of No Return.

A sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn’t fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen. He prefers to contemplate the American dream and his father’s advice for achieving it: “Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw ’em all.” But when Harry gets his first job as a cafeteria busboy, a customer warns him that money leads to corruption. The idea disturbs him so much that he accidentally sticks his hand into a meat grinder.

In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.

La historia se inicia cuando, en el aniversario del gobierno, se atenta contra la vida de Viviana, presidente de la República de Faguas, líder y fundadora del Partido de Izquierda Erótica. Gioconda Belli, poeta y narradora nicaragüense, usa de su humor, ironía, valentía, imaginación, para relatar una historia en la que el realismo de la situación de América Latina y, particularmente América Central, es descrito con una precisión fotográfica. Es poesía en acción, ideología nueva y sueños, no exenta de amor, violencia y esperanza.

"In Gedanken zähle ich die Tage bis zum Ende der Pubertät. Es sind noch viele. Sehr, sehr viele." Sebastian Schulz, alleinerziehender Vater der 14-jährigen Mathilda, ist entsetzt, als seine Tochter zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben eine Vier mit nach Hause bringt. Da das Kind sein wichtigstes Projekt ist, lässt er alles stehen und liegen und fahndet nach der Ursache. Doch die ist glücklicherweise schnell gefunden. Sebastian ist überzeugt: Sein Kind ist hochbegabt und deswegen in der Schule einfach nur unterfordert. Allerdings - er ist so ziemlich der Einzige, der an diese Theorie glaubt.

Le nouveau phénomène de l'humour vient de Berlin-Est... Et c'est un kangourou ! Un jour, Marc-Uwe Kling voit débarquer chez lui un kangourou sans gêne. Communiste et chômeur, le marsupial vide le réfrigérateur et refuse de payer un loyer. Surtout, il entraîne le narrateur - souvent contre son gré - dans des conversations à bâtons rompus brassant tous les sujets, du totalitarisme des marchands de soupe en sachet aux tatouages de Robbie Williams. Difficile à la lecture de savoir qui des deux protagonistes montre le plus de mauvais esprit.

When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undertake a course of hypnotherapy to rid himself of the habit. At first the treatment works, but his stress levels begin to rise when he is passed over for an important promotion and he finds himself lighting up again - but with none of his previous enjoyment. Then he discovers something terrible: he accidentally causes a man's death, and needing a cigarette to calm his nerves, he enjoys it more than any other previous smoke.

America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.

Nach fast dreißig Jahren kehrt Rike unfreiwillig zurück in ihr altes Kinderzimmer. Damals hatte sie die Enge der Kleinstadt mit wehenden Fahnen verlassen, um die Welt zu erobern. Nun ist sie wieder da. Mit gebrochenem Herzen und einem Koffer voll Problemen. Alle anderen scheinen ihr in punkto Lebensglück einen Schritt voraus. Und Rike muss erkennen, dass nicht alles schlecht war früher, dass Schein und Sein manchmal eng beieinanderliegen, dass Alter nicht vor Torheit schützt und dass sie sowohl von ihrem Sohn als auch von ihrer Mutter noch viel lernen kann.

Sandra Malien lebt in einem kleinen Haus am Strand. Durch Zufall landet die quirlige Enddreißigerin in dem Lesekreis der kleinen Inselbuchhandlung. Hier treffen sich Bücherliebhaber, aber auch diejenigen unter den Insulanern, die abends nicht allein vor dem Fernseher sitzen wollen. Besonders sympathisch ist Sandra der charmante Schulleiter Björn. Nur hat Sandra ein Problem: Dass sie nicht lesen und schreiben kann, ahnt auf der Insel niemand.

Following a cancer diagnosis, 40-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto faces a shutdown and he meets with the condominium developers ready to take it over - including a foul-mouthed young Chinese entrepreneur and Wende, his ex-girlfriend from graduate school - Prin hears the voice of God.

Kos-Kos Shabdkosh, by Rakesh Kayasth, can be categorized as a valuable dictionary or thesaurus or essays of sarcasm in Hindi. This pause-resisting parody of 50 contemporary Hindi words used in various social and political contexts defines them differently with an edge of sarcasm. Although the words are most commonly used, the author’s wit gives them new dimensions of unusual, satirical interpretations. You will find your smiles evolving into roaring chortles and sometimes find yourself delving deep into the delicate nuances of the author’s elucidations.

Inception meets Black Mirror for the YouTube generation. The idea behind MindCast is simple. We insert a small chip into your skull and then every thought, every feeling, every memory is streamed live, 24 hours a day. Trust me - within a few months you'll be the most talked about person on the planet. When David Callow is offered the lead role in a revolutionary new online show, he snatches the opportunity. Rapidly becoming a viral sensation, David is propelled to stratospheric levels of celebrity. However, he soon realises the downside of sharing every secret with the world....

Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars.

Extreme Zeiten erfordern extreme Lösungen. Warum kein neues Leben beginnen, wenn das alte zum Problem wird? Dieser Ratgeber erklärt schrittweise fünf Möglichkeiten, den eigenen Tod glaubhaft und gerichtsfest vorzutäuschen. Einige dieser Vorschläge sind mit großem Aufwand und enormen Risiken verbunden, versprechen aber nach der Aufführung des Spektakels den ungestörten Neuanfang. Andere Methoden sind unkompliziert durchführbar - für den Fall, dass es mal schnell gehen muss.