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When toilet paper turns murderous, janitor Gary and his ragtag crew must fight swarms of vengeful rolls and face the monstrous Mother Roll. Armed with lighters, makeshift weapons, and questionable courage, it’s humanity’s most absurd battle for survival.

जयवंत दळवी लिखित मराठी कादंबरी "ठण ठण पाळ"

The women of Harrington Estates don't just sell homes, they sell dreams. And founder Amanda Harrington isn't just a woman - she's a brand. A star of the real estate and mumfluencer world, she expects only the best from her team. But behind the perfect façade, cracks are beginning to show. New arrival Bella is causing tension with her constant success, including securing the listing of a coveted £50 million mansion from dishy developer Simon - and she's been stepping on some toes in her Louboutins to get there.

Step into the mind-bending world of Philip K. Dick with The Eyes Have It, a satirical and surreal short story that turns ordinary phrases into a conspiracy of alien invasion. This engaging audiobook brings Dick’s sharp wit and paranoia to life, making you question the hidden meanings in everyday language. Perfect for fans of classic sci-fi, unexpected twists, and the legendary storytelling of one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Listen now and uncover the secrets hidden in plain sight.

There's a lot to cover here, ok, first what if the voice inside your head left and became a mop, you ever think of that? of course not, why would you, forget that. Second! If particles are everywhere all at once until they are observed, then why do we all see the same thing when we observe them, who is doing that, it can’t be us or we would all see something different, who or what controls what particles become when we look at them?

صدر هذا الكتاب للكاتب الساخر عمر طاهر بمناسبة مئوية نادي الزمالك، وقد جاء في مئتي صفحة مقسّمة إلى عدّة فصول متنوعة يبدأها بملخّص عن تاريخ نشأة النادي الأهلي ونادي الزمالك مع بعض الحكايات الوطنية لمؤسسي نادي الزمالك الذي بدأ باسم "النادي المختلط" لتمكين المصريين من المشاركة فيه إلى جانب "الخواجات" كما يشرح عن اسم "الزمالك" وسبب التسمية.

كعادة الكاتب الساخر عمر طاهر يأتي هذا الكتاب على شكل مدونات ويوميات وبعض القصص القصيرة لكن بأسلوب ساخر ولاذع جدًا.

عندما تنظر حولك إلى كلّ هذه التفاصيل التي تجتاح حياتنا بشكلٍ يومي ستجد خيطًا رفيعً مشتركًا فيما بينها..

هذا الخيط هو الجنون !!

وإذا ما حاولت جمع هذا الجنون في كتاب سيخرج أمامك هذا "الكتاب الأصفر" الذي ليس سوى محاولة للتعبير عن السرايا الصفراء التي نعيشها بشكلٍ يومي ومحاولة إثبات أنَّ الدنيا ليست مسرح بل مستشفى مجانين !

Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison's once-acclaimed writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers. He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited 'some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days'. Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies – his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.

In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'. Best friends since adolescence, Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war. Radio personality Emory – who has built her career riding the tide of popular thought – makes increasingly hard-line statements while, for her part, Pearson believes the whole thing is ludicrous.

What do democracy and doughnuts have in common? Nothing in the middle. Owls, Doughnuts, and Democracy is the satirical adventures of an outspoken millennial woman with a colourful past named Bea, who, with a motley coalition spanning the political spectrum, puts the middle back into democracy. Bea gets it all going when she’s volunteered to help at a senior’s home. She teaches octogenarian Harold, the resident curmudgeon and ex-MP troll, to use the internet, leading to an app for people to vote individually on bills before parliament.

Publié en 1830, Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal est un roman historique et psychologique qui dépeint l’ascension sociale et les ambitions de Julien Sorel, un jeune homme ambitieux issu d'une famille modeste. À travers ses tentatives pour gravir les échelons de la société, il se trouve souvent dans les intrigues au milieu de personnes influentes. Satire mordante de la société française du XIXe siècle, l'œuvre s'attaque aux hypocrisies de l'Église et des aristocraties, tout en constatant la folie des actions du protagoniste.

Nach dem Klimakollaps der Erde lebt die Menschheit teilweise auf einem Planeten namens Xalypso. Weil die meisten Arbeitsprozesse von Androiden erledigt werden, bekommt die Bevölkerung ein monatliches Budget für den Konsum. Ihr Herrscher, ein machthungriger Mutant, will mit seinem Militär weitere Planeten kolonisieren. Doch ein politischer Gegner beauftragt die sympathische Kopfgeldjägerin Nova, die nach mehreren OPs zu 50 Prozent ein Cyborg ist ...

Come on in and enjoy the Mare Inebrium. We have a large facility and are sure we have something that will meet your needs and exceed your expectations. In the top floor of our building we have a very fancy restaurant with lovely views of the city spreading out into the far distance. The floors above the main bar contain various restaurants, shops, meeting rooms, and we even offer hotel rooms for the discriminating traveler. Our main bar is quite large, with room for several hundred patrons at once.

מהו הדבר הזה, "עין תחת שן"? פסטיבל אימה הומוריסטי מבית היוצר של ריקרדו סטרָפאסה, שפיתה, עינג והצחיק אלפי קוראות וקוראי עברית בספרו "הסיני שקרא עיתון בתור לגרדום" ב-2014.

הפרח שתחת הרגל — ובו יסופר על נעוריה של הקדושה לאורה דה נָזיאַנזי ועל התקופה שחייתה בה. כמיהות ותככים לרוב רוחשים מתחת לפני השטח בקאירולה, בירתה של ממלכת פיסוארגה, שבה מתרחשת עלילת הפרח שתחת לרגל – סאטירה על חצר מלוכה כלשהי, עם יותר מרמז אחד לווינה של שנות ה-20. מעל לפני השטח יש בה שפע שמלות מרהיבות ושיחות ריקניות מלאות אירוניה ושנינות או צדקניות, או בקיצור — צביעות.

Nous sommes en 2001. Lors d'un passage à la télé, le PDG de GGG dévoile l'existence de Green.com, une cellule supposée révolutionner la communication au sein de son groupe. Le problème ? C'était un coup de bluff : Green.com n'a jamais existé. Qu'à cela ne tienne, on la crée d'urgence, en y réunissant les pires salariés de l'entreprise : chacun sait que cette cellule ne servira à rien. Mais, contre toute attente, ce petit groupe de bras-cassés va tout faire pour accomplir sa mission. Ils n'imaginent pas qu'en cherchant à donner du sens à leur travail, ils se jettent dans la gueule du loup.

David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him. Until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book. Suddenly Silas is interested—if intensely spiteful. But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with an alarming update.

An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model. His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their twenty-odd years of unlikely connection. And an aspiring filmmaker, unknown to them both, labors over a script about best friends and lovers while longing for the financial freedom to make great art.

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage. Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her ... except vengeance.

Dive into the whimsical and satirical world of James Thurber and E.B. White with the audiobook "Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do," narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti. This classic work, first published in 1929, explores the perplexities of love, relationships, and human behavior with humor and wit. Through a series of essays, Thurber and White dissect the absurdities of the sexual revolution, the nature of the American male, and the quirks of feminine types.

يقول الكاتب أدهم الشرقاوي عن كتابه طرائف العرب:-" الحمد لله الذي علّم بالقلم، علّم الإنسان ما لم يعلم، والصلاة والسلام على من بُعث رحمة للعرب والعجم، أما بعد : فهذا كتاب في طرائف العرب، وقد جعلتُه في ستة عشر باباً هي : "طرائف الأعراب، طرائف الخلفاء والأمراء، طرائف الأطبّاء، طرائف الأمثال، طرائف الأنبياء والصحابة، طرائف البخلاء، طرائف الحمقى والمغفلين، طرائف الصِبية، طرائف الشعراء، طرائف الفقهاء، طرائف العشاق، طرائف النحاة، طرائف المعلمين، طرائف النساء، طرائف المتسولين، طرائف الفراسة " ولم ألتفِتْ كثيراً في ترتيبها، لأني رأيتُ أنها مواضيع مستقلة، فلو سبقت طرائف الأطباء طرائف المعلمين فلا ضير، و

يقول الكاتب أدهم الشرقاوي عن كتابه طرائف العرب:-" الحمد لله الذي علّم بالقلم، علّم الإنسان ما لم يعلم، والصلاة والسلام على من بُعث رحمة للعرب والعجم، أما بعد : فهذا كتاب في طرائف العرب، وقد جعلتُه في ستة عشر باباً هي : "طرائف الأعراب، طرائف الخلفاء والأمراء، طرائف الأطبّاء، طرائف الأمثال، طرائف الأنبياء والصحابة، طرائف البخلاء، طرائف الحمقى والمغفلين، طرائف الصِبية، طرائف الشعراء، طرائف الفقهاء، طرائف العشاق، طرائف النحاة، طرائف المعلمين، طرائف النساء، طرائف المتسولين، طرائف الفراسة " ولم ألتفِتْ كثيراً في ترتيبها، لأني رأيتُ أنها مواضيع مستقلة، فلو سبقت طرائف الأطباء طرائف المعلمين فلا ضير، و

En esta fascinante novela, los enredos y las equivocaciones determinan el destino de la lucha por la Independencia de México. Con el implacable humor que inmortalizó a Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Los pasos de López cuenta el cauce cotidiano de una gesta insurgente protagonizada por personajes de carne y hueso, con dudas y vanidades, caprichos y torpezas. Una inigualable muestra del talento de un autor que se ha vuelto indispensable para la literatura hispanoamericana.

Set in a soon-to-be future, Taylor Swift employs hypnotic beats, subliminal messages, and catchy lyrics in favor of quality, thoughtful, mature music that had been anticipated from the aging pop star. The majority of the world's population is transformed into denizens of the woman.

Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.

In the beginning, GOD created the Earth—a profound statement unless you know that by "GOD," I mean the General Observable Dimension corporation, and by "Earth," I refer to their immensely profitable simulation known as human existence. Among GOD's lesser-known creations is Richard, a nobody to everyone on Earth except his beloved wife and children. After his sudden demise, Richard finds himself in a transformed version of Hell—an unlikely utopia built upon a foundation of smothered fire and brimstone by its inhabitants.

Humour, mystery, and a time leap back to the 1970s. Could you relive your life and change the past? However, history always repeats … or does it?… Jason Apsley is about to find out.

Gen-X computer hacker Toby is a classic American: impulsive, irreverent, intelligent, and inventive. And, after a silly accident in 2008, he can add “inanimate” to the list—because Toby is dead. But only for a while. Eighty years later, medical science has advanced enough to bring Toby back to life.

Yeah, I shouldn’t have kissed Natalie Slater. Not on the porch. Or at the beach. Or in the storage closet. Especially not the storage closet. But to be fair, she kissed me first. Six months later, I’m still thinking about it. Trouble is, I’ve made promises that tie me to our small town, while Natalie can’t wait to escape. I’ve got no business pursuing her or my secret ambitions. My future’s set, and people here are depending on me. Too bad my gut’s not listening to reason, and I'm being pulled toward different dreams: the career I’ve always wanted, and the woman whose smile I can’t forget.