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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.

LA NOVELA QUE ODIARÁS AMARUNA AUTOPSIA DEL HIJO DE PUTA MODERNO. Ado es el antihéroe definitivo: racista, misógino y xenófobo conligeros toques de alcoholismo, drogadicción y psicopatía. Cuando descubre que Mia, su novia, ha sido supuestamente secuestrada por comunistas y lesboterroristas radicales en China, lo abandona todo y decide emprender un viaje en bicicleta para liberarla. Desde Barcelona, pedalea a través de medio mundo en una odisea surrealista para rescatarla y, de paso, salvar a la humanidad de las aberraciones modernas.

One thief holds the key to the perfect crime. Only one problem: He holds the key in his butt.

Jack has always been the agreeable one. But a cross-country road trip with his girlfriend and her domineering parents pushes him to his breaking point. Trapped between loyalty and self-worth, Jack must decide if he’ll remain “Mr. Agreeable” or break free to rediscover who he truly is. I’m Gree is a poignant tale of finding your voice when silence has defined you.

Ali “Al” Jafar is a rising star at notorious hedge fund Prism Capital, but fortunes change fast on Wall Street. When his biggest investment goes up in smoke, Al loses $300 million—and his fragile sense of self-worth—in a single afternoon. He’s certain he’ll be fired, but Prism’s obscenely rich and politically connected founder isn’t that merciful. Instead, he gives Al an impossible ultimatum: recover the lost money in three months or become the fall guy for the government’s insider-trading investigation into the firm.

A detective tracks down the lowlife who absconded with a small fortune. It was a case of obstructed justice.

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be the case. A delightfully sweet comic novel that ends in a raucous bang, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is as surprising and entertaining as it is beautifully wrought.

Prepare for a comical journey through the art of offending with How to Offend Everyone: A Comically Disastrous Guide. This audiobook offers a step-by-step manual on how to turn everyday interactions into hilariously awkward and offensive encounters.

Гражданская война в России подходит к концу. Остатки белой армии оказывают отчаянное сопротивление на Крымском перешейке. Волна беженцев вот-вот обрушится на Турцию, а затем распространится по всей Европе. Небольшая группа русских эмигрантов пытается спастись от красных, перебравшись из Крыма в Константинополь, а затем в Париж. Все они бегут от большевиков, но у каждого из них бегство от внешних обстоятельств накладывается на попытку бегства от внутренних проблем.

Funny, fast-moving, and thought-provoking, Five Minutes from Chaos tells the story of Charlie Neb, a philosophy professor who spends his days lecturing to anxiety-filled frat boys and cheerleaders.

Welcome to the unpredictable world of Paradise Lost: A Journey Through Chaos, where the sun-drenched shores of Hawaii serve as the backdrop for a comedy of errors that will leave you both laughing and reflecting on the absurdity of adulting. Our protagonist, an unwitting hero in a series of unfortunate events, navigates the turbulent waters of shared living spaces, financial fiascos, and unraveling friendships.

Diary of Liz Truss: Prime Minister Extraordinaire is a satirical and humorous dive into the whirlwind 44-day tenure of one of Britain's most short-lived and controversial Prime Ministers. Written as a mock diary, it offers a tongue-in-cheek perspective on Liz Truss's "bold" decisions, chaotic policies, and her unique interpretation of leadership.

Hilda Tablet is a fictitious ‘twelve-tone composeress’ created by Henry Reed in a series of radio mockumentaries. She first appeared in the play A Very Great Man Indeed, which follows the quest of a fictional biographer, Herbert Reeve, who is writing the biography of the equally fictional novelist Richard Shewin.

In this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter—winner of the Washington State Book Award—a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual, in which men must compete to win her affections.

Galben de Crome, primul roman al lui Huxley, apărut în 1921, este o satiră socială rafinată, de un umor subtil, care ia în derâdere modele și snobismul "lumii bune" britanice, cu toanele, prețiozitatea și superficialitatea ei. Personajul central al cărții, tânărul poet Denis Stone, sosește într-o vizită la conacul Crome al familiei Wimbush. Aici întâlneste o întreagă societate venită să se destindă. Astfel, romanul explorează o rețea de relații și raporturi sociale din cele mai diverse, căci fiecare personaj are câte o obsesie ce-l marchează.

Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

Satire of job seeker and his experiences while looking for a job.

Beverly Cryer (Vurl) has to choose a dystopian faction to live with for the rest of her life. If she doesn't make it through initiation, she'll be factionless and declared a Detergent. But, Vurl is determined not to spend the rest of her life doing everyone else's laundry. She is an independent young woman with skills she doesn't even know about and with the help of handsome number Two she'll not only make it through initiation, she'll save the city from disaster.

كتاب ذو طابع سخرى عن الواقع المصرى المعاصر واحوال المجتمع يتميز بلغة بسيطة سهلة الاستيعاب كتبه مواطن مصرى لأخيه المصرى المطحون ليخرجه من كآبة العيش وهموم الدنيا بسخرية ظريفة تأتى على الجرح احياناً لتوجع القلب الموجوع فى الأساس سخرية قادرة على أن ترسم الضحكة الممزوجة بالهم على وجه ذاك المواطن الشاقى البائس.

I never wanted any of this. Sure, I'll take the universe-shattering powers—who wouldn't? But there's always a bloody price. You don't inherit the ability to bend creation to your will and get to ride off into the sunset. Oh no, every power-hungry dickhead in the universe wants a piece of the action, especially the former God of Creation. Not that I asked for the title—or any of the mess that comes with it. But, if I want to achieve my dream of being left the hell alone, it's going to cost me. And that price? Pain… so much pain.

Pearl is a trans woman writer on the cusp of literary greatness... or so she thought until her agent informs her that her first book has sunken like a stone for its failure to "connect with normal people". Normal people. Heterosexual people. Cisgender people. Jaded from the knowledge that this industry rarely lets in people like her, Pearl comes up with a plan: write a commercial male/male romance. Except the market's all about authenticity these days, isn't it?

Stewart Johnson had worked hard his entire life to reach retirement. However, his Golden Years would prove to be more of a challenge than he anticipated after his wife passed away. Seeking to find peace of mind and warmth in Florida, Stewart became surrounded by a tribe of Snowbird residents who took him on a journey of laughter and sleuthing inside a gossip riddled community filled with the humorous dysfunction of overgrown children.

El sofisticado, inteligente y vanidoso Patrick Bateman trabaja en Wall Street, idolatra al joven magnate Donald Trump, cena en los restaurantes de moda de Nueva York y es capaz de distinguir un traje Armani a cincuenta metros de distancia. También le gusta violar, torturar, asesinar y desmembrar.

The hilarious BBC Radio comedy show where every sketch has been written by the public. The complete series of the ground-breaking comedy series, which called for submissions from members of the public. With over 12,000 sketches sent in from 1,500 different people, The Show What You Wrote spans such diverse comedy topics as Crime & Thriller, Kitchen Sink, Body & Soul, and "Geography", and features sketches about heaven's unexpectedly strict dress code, the Shopping Forecast, the grammar police, and some very literal highwaymen.

Relativity is a captivating wild romp fueled with the aspirations of three men who are on a quest to dedicate their lives to their ridiculous dreams in this thought-provoking and satirical novel of friendship and finding oneself.

There are 47 bars in Magenta that sling their swill to the 80-odd thousand inhabitants and I know every stool, table, couch, and urinal in every one of'em. It’s my business to know. The Garden of Eden was as slick as a silk sheet sliding on sweat-soaked skin. It brought originality to the word "sin" that even Webster couldn’t have kept down to less than a chapter.

Three very different young men overcome their bad habits in a funny, introspective, and culturally topical story while serving in the Marines together.

Tommy West is the finest Elvis Presley tribute in the North West of England. At least, that's what is says on his van. Off stage however, his life is a mess. He can't pay his rent, his child maintenance is crippling him, and his old Bedford needs new tyres. Tommy is broke, drinks too much Guinness, smokes too much weed and is frightened of his own shadow.