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The number one bestselling author of global sensation LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns. 'Charming, uplifting, soulful, and original' Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Women 'Laugh-out-loud funny. It is impossible not to be beguiled' Guardian Peck & Peck is the irresistible story of a young...

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place. ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and according to ZAC, a man on the verge of something significant. His wife Suzanne has heard this before. ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...

Kirkus Reviews says: GET IT.The Trump era, retold as scripture.The Book of Don is a deadpan, mock-biblical chronicle of Donald Trump, television, power, politics, and America’s talent for turning spectacle into belief.From Queens to Manhattan, from The Apprentice to the White House, from the...

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

As irreverent as it is amusingly insightful, Cinephilia is the world’s only transgressive work of satirical fiction that involves both cat strangling AND ninjas. The characters are as hilarious as they are absurd and persons of every potential gender, race, and creed are welcome to laugh...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

I "Her går det godt" (1952) udstiller Finn Søeborg blandt andet naboskab, familieforhold, sportsidioter og læserbrevsskribenter i 1950’ernes Danmark, hvor bolignøden præger mange menneskers hverdag. En mild satire med herlige typer som fx den koleriske Jeronimus, der med stor iver søger...

Fünf Frauen unter einem Dach – das kann nur in einer Katastrophe enden? Tut es, aber anders als gedacht. Als dann auch noch Benno auf die Idee kommt, Brigitte ungefragt einen Hund zu schenken – noch dazu einen Welpen – ist das Chaos perfekt und die Nerven liegen blank. Und noch bevor alle...

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career...

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.

Why do Brits say “I’m fine” when they are absolutely not fine? Why can a queue jumper inspire more silent fury than an actual crime? And why is putting the kettle on considered an appropriate response to almost every crisis?Brits Don’t Do Drama: We Just Complain About Everything Quietly...

Twenty days to go-live. One CRM & ERP project. What could possibly go wrong?Liam Lane has spent years implementing business systems and has learned one important lesson:The software is rarely the problem.With go-live approaching, the project is held together by stand-ups, status reports...

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

When a brutal alien invasion turns out to be a galaxy-wide reality TV show, Chad Jenkins, a broken man given wolverine-like regeneration must team up with an android, a sasquatch, and a teen tentacle abomination in order to save humanity from enslavement.Humanity isn’t just expected to survive...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

Onnellisen kadun kulisseissa kuplii - trilogia tanskalaisista miljonääreistä alkaaLine taistelee pelastaakseen avioliittonsa Kristianin kanssa, joka on alkanut viettää pitkiä aikoja yksin autotallissa autossaan istuen. Kukaan ei tarkalleen tiedä, mitä mies autossa tekee, mutta Kristian...

Mikä on menestyksen hinta? Avioeroasianajaja Caroline käy pitkillä kävelyillä Dyrehavenin puistossa, eikä itsekään tiedä miksi. Hänen kiinteistönvälittäjänä työskentelvä miehensä Kaare on pääsemässä takaisin jaloilleen konkurssin jälkeen, ja miehellä on jälleen suuria...

Getting Even/Letting Go is a taut, darkly comic novel about money, memory, and the psychic wreckage of a marriage long after love has ended. On a single spring afternoon in New York City, Gene Mills —a once-successful writer now living on fumes —hosts friends in his apartment while waiting for an art auction that could change everything. The paintings on the block were made by his ex-wife, now a global art star. They depict her affair, her ambition, and the life she detonated when she left him. Gene believes selling them is justice. Or survival. Or both.

A man moves to the forest to be left alone. The forest turns out to be fully staffed. Twenty-five years ago Boris Kriger drove north out of Toronto on a nice day, kept going until he got tired, and bought a house on a hill with six and a half acres of impassable bush. He had been in Toronto three days. He was looking for silence.

A runaway goat, a fearless six-year-old, and a roomful of empire-builders collide in Simla, where a child’s plainspoken wisdom exposes the blind spots of British bureaucracy. When Tods—idol of bazaar porters and servants—bursts into the Viceregal Lodge in pursuit of his pet, he also...