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In this rollicking sequel to A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage, two (mostly) reformed serial killers discover something more deadly than murder: a midlife crisis. “As funny as it is familiar . . . A perfect read for anyone who has ever tried to maintain a hobby while raising a toddler...

Everything is fine. It just doesn’t look like it. Dan has a plan. He just hasn’t started it yet. After a series of completely reasonable decisions—losing his job, his marriage, and most of his stability—Dan finds himself in a temporary situation. One that is, by all accounts, under control. Told through his calm, measured perspective, Everything Is Fine follows a man who insists nothing is wrong… while everything clearly is. As his world quietly unravels, Dan reframes each setback as progress, each warning sign as misunderstanding, and every ending as “not quite final.

Fünfundzwanzig Jahre verheiratet. Eigentlich ein Grund für eine große Silberhochzeitsfeier mit der ganzen Verwandtschaft. Elke und ihr Mann sehen das anders. Statt sich feiern zu lassen, möchten sie lieber etwas tun, das sie in all den gemeinsamen Jahren noch nie ausprobiert haben: Campen. Es gibt nur ein kleines Problem. Sie haben weder einen Wohnwagen noch Erfahrung und eigentlich auch keine Vorstellung davon, worauf sie sich einlassen.

An english comic novel, The Diary of a Nobody, reproduces the diary entries of one Charles Pooter, a city clerk, his scrapes, his attempts to reach high society, his despair of his son ever finding a decent position, of his friends Cummings and Gowing, and numerous comic adventures and...

Paste Jewels is a collection of humorous short stories following the Perkins family — particularly newlyweds Thaddeus and Bessie — as they navigate the comic trials of managing a household and domestic staff in late 19th-century America. The book's seven tales include "The Emancipation of...

A book about an aspiring author whose work is published by a publisher. A book signing event is hosted at local library to promote the author. Throughout the book there are many bizzare anecdotes.

Who wouldn’t want to find someone as loyal and wonderful as their beloved pup? Landscape architect Melissa finds out the hard way when a random wish on a dandelion transforms rescue dog Gus into a man in a public park, sans manners, sans English and sans clothes. His mind and behavior still all canine, Gus immediately throws Melissa’s world into hilarious adventure in this comedy/fantasy novella with an unexpected romantic twist.

Ein bayerisches Dorf mit Hangover - Xaver Gottwalds Schädel brummt, als er nackt auf einer Kirchenbank erwacht. Was ist gestern beim jährlichen Frühlingserwachen-Fest nur passiert? Verkatert sieht sich der Dorfpolizist um und entdeckt ein Foto, das ihn glücklich in eindeutiger Pose mit einer wunderschönen Unbekannten zeigt. Verdammt, wieso kann er sich an nichts erinnern! Xaver macht sich auf den Weg zur Wache. Im Dorf herrscht blankes Chaos: Reifenspuren in der Kirche, bemalte Schweine auf dem Friedhof und Pinguine in Kühlregalen.

Mitten im ganz normalen Wahnsinn. Menschen sind merkwürdige Wesen: Sie kaufen Möbel mit Anleitungen in 14 Sprachen – und bauen trotzdem zwei Bretter falsch herum ein. Sie fragen nach ehrlichen Meinungen – und sind beleidigt, wenn sie eine bekommen.

Sie sind neugierig und wollten schon immer einen intimen Blick hinter die Kulissen eines gut vernetzten Personalberaters werfen? Dann begleiten Sie einen Insider auf eine Reise durch die ebenso faszinierende wie befremdliche Welt der Headhunter. In über 85 Episoden enthüllt dieses Buch die absurdesten, kuriosesten und überraschendsten Erlebnisse aus dem täglichen Geschäft der Personalvermittlung. Hören Sie hautnah, wie Top-Manager und Führungspersönlichkeiten agieren oder manchmal auch grandios scheitern.

Ever wondered why dogs don’t speak human languages? Simple: they know too much. If dogs ever started talking, they’d tell you exactly what they think and that would shatter every human illusion in one bark. No more polite nodding. No more “Who’s a good boy?” theatre. Just pure, unfiltered clarity. And clarity is dangerous. Enter Pepe: a highly opinionated, aggressively honest Jack Russell who has finally decided to break the silence. He’s here to explain the world as dogs actually see it... and trust me, you’re not ready.

For fans of comic fantasy, British pub humor, and stories where ordinary people face extraordinary nonsense with stubborn determination. Think The League of Gentlemen meets Bottom, if Richie and Eddie inherited an eldritch horror and tried to fix it with curry. Some reckonings arrive with fire and brimstone. This one arrives with vindaloo. Beneath an ordinary pub in Albrighton lurks the Hungry Table—an ancient entity that has survived wars, landlords, Thatcher, disastrous refurbishments, and pub quizzes so dire even the ghosts stopped attending.

When Prince Harry sues Prince William for "wilful and malicious sibling rivalry," the sensational claims from Spare finally face their day in court. But as the proceedings unfold, it's not just the brothers on trial – suddenly the very suitability of Wills and Kate as Britain's future King and Queen is thrown into doubt. The timing couldn't be more disastrous. Charles and Camilla are preparing to abdicate for a blissful retirement in Mustique, leaving the throne dangerously exposed just as the monarchy becomes the centre of the most explosive trial of the century.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Not every Lovecraft tale comes from the shadows. Writing as a genteel old gentleman recalling his youth in eighteenth-century London, Lovecraft steps entirely out of the cosmic and into the drawing room — offering a warm, witty portrait of Dr. Samuel...

A humble clerk. A treasured overcoat. A loss that follows him beyond the grave. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin lives an invisible life in the freezing streets of St. Petersburg. Poorly paid, routinely mocked, and devoted to his monotonous work as a government copyist, he asks for little—until...

An ancient city. A perfect stranger. A single word that ruins everything. For the deeply refined Miss Winchelsea, a dream voyage to Rome is supposed to be an escape into art and poetry. Instead, amidst the sun-drenched, cypress-shadowed ruins of the Colosseum, she falls under the spell of a...

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.

I’ve come a long way since inheriting my Aunt Elizabeth’s Tarpon Cove house and her beach cottages full of quirky residents. I strap a Glock to my thigh as easily as I slip into flip–flops. Even Fab is going legit . . . mostly. When she’s hired to investigate some high–end boat thefts...

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a riotous novel following a family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be up-ended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex...