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Stella loves her life in London, being far from the foul-mouthed, flame-haired grandmother who raised her. Then, she gets the dreaded call in the middle of the night, and finds herself living with Gina in the crazy coastal town of Mapton on Sea.

In the land of Daoistan, freedom has arrived at last. The revolution liberated all, then enslaved everyone, and now it was liberating them again by allowing people to own credit cards. And a man with credit is a man who has the world at his fingertips, or at least a trip into town where the temptations are pretty much as they have always been, only more people can afford them.

Den snart 40-årige Bertil bor hjemme hos sine forældre i Sdr. Kvong ved Vesterhavet. Han kan ikke se nogen mening med at være i live og har købt to krysantemumbomber for at sprænge sig selv og hønsehuset i luften. Det eneste problem er, at han ikke rigtig har viljen til at begå selvmord. Da hans mor i ledtog med kommunen tvinger ham i aktivering som besøgsven hos den gamle, etbenede dame Judith, får han sin sag for. "DØDSMODEN" af Simon Holm Pedersen er en sort og absurd komedie om livsangst og dødsdrift, ensomhed og umage venskab - og om at finde en vej ud af sit eget forknudrede hoved.

One night, the body of a young woman is found, naked but for a necklace, tied to a statue outside a block of luxury flats. There should be an outcry. But the police rule it a suicide, and move on. Private investigators Lee and Jo, owners of No Stone Unturned detective agency in Leeds, are tasked with looking into the case. Who was the woman? Did she really kill herself? As they investigate, Lee and Jo uncover shocking secrets. And when they see links between this case and another they are working on, they are forced to question – is any woman ever truly safe in this world?

There was always one point, one moment in all of reality where everything that was will fight for everything that might be. It’s this point. Well, several points, but all happening at the same time, but not the same time. It’s super complicated. Some question whether it really happened at all, or will happen.

Hvor langt er du klar til at gå, når du ikke længere har noget at miste? Alex Storm har mistet næsten alt. Nu risikerer han også at miste sin kone, Jessica, hvis han ikke kapper båndet til sin halvbror, Peter Bao, der er leder af en magtfuld Hongkong-triade. Da Alex rejser til Hongkong for at finde ud af mere om sit kinesiske ophav, bliver Jessica tvunget til at involvere sig med et colombiansk narkokartel. Samtidig bliver Peter udsat for et drabsforsøg. Han lugter blod og vil rydde ud blandt sine fjender – også blandt dem, der er tættest på Alex.

Kevin Mallory is a customer assistance representative for a cable company. He keeps his customers on hold, his supervisor on the run, and his female nemesis on ice, but a new friend just might change his perspective.

The Way We Thunk is the much anticipated follow-up to the 2018 best-seller Meeting Mungo Thunk—a novel that's attracted many thousands of loyal fans and five-star reviews. Now, Mungo Thunk is back, and he's quirkier than ever....

A hellacious thunderstorm rages over the small tin mining town of Bleddington, waking reclusive teenager, Willard Jennings, from his sleep. As the fleeting flashes of light illuminate the room, he sees brief and taunting glimpses of a broken figure standing at the foot of his bed.

Marilyn Monroe died just after midnight on August 5, 1962; former Little League champion Kimitake "Clyde" Koba was born on the same day, at the same time. As Clyde struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father and stumbles through his first love, he finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Monroe. Meanwhile....

When Brooke is released from rehab and goes back home, her bestie April moves in to keep her company and help her get back on her feet. The two start dating guys. When one guy makes a move on April, Brooke's alter ego Hayden makes him pay with his life.They scramble to hide the body, but then a detective pays a visit and questions them.

Canadian author James K. Moran's debut collection of dark fiction offers fantasy, sci-fi, and horror shot through with hope and friendship.

Gamer, geek, and vampire – Bill Ryder was a normal guy who's now trying to survive in a world of abnormal horrors. Despite awesome powers and a Brooklyn-sized attitude, the odds are stacked heavily against him. Bill must fulfill his destiny and save the world from the ancient terrors threatening it – all while trying to build some semblance of a social life.

Paul is a simple handyman looking for work. He thinks it should be easy to get a job. But it's not. This is The Wasteland. The Wasteland sucks. Introducing himself as a handyman is the biggest mistake he’s ever made. Why? Because someone’s on a murdering rampage. Everyone calls this infamous killer "The Handyman."

Eigentlich haben wir nur eine Person gesucht und am Ende drei gefunden. Doch wie soll es jetzt weitergehen? Diese neue Welt ist nicht für jeden gemacht und manche brauchen mehr Schutz als andere.

Haben uns wirklich Zombies gerettet? Abgesehen davon warten noch viele weitere Überraschungen auf mich. Unsere Retter sind nicht irgendjemand, sondern... das sage ich jetzt natürlich nicht! Dazu kommen noch schwierige Entscheidungen, ein paar Todesfälle und ein DVD Abend. Die alltägliche Apokalypse eben.

Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all...

Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful boyfriend, Cat decides that she needs a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry.” But when the budding social influencer finally gives in to impulse, buying a Burmese python from a local pet shop, she sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire events that culminates in one of the most memorable denouements in recent fiction, one that ensnares her entire family, from her eco-obsessed parents, Ottilie and Frank, to her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd.

A charismatic young tech entrepreneur, Chase Stapp, played by Haley Joel Osment (Goliath, The Kominsky Method), concocts a designer cannabis brand and has high hopes of disrupting the entire budding industry.

At a lonely seaside bar, suicidal car valet Geoff Osmah gets rolled by ex-Radio 2 raconteur and celebrity graphologist, Fraser Davis; a crime which sets in motion the endgame for aging dj Pete Moran, whose health, art and wealth are crushed beneath a weight of circumstance he does not understand.