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“Mateo Askaripour is a writer of deep talent, great range, great skill, and very funny! What a pleasure to read his work.”—James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck: a dazzling, inspiring...

Working at the local grocery store and surviving high school used to be the hard part. Now the real problem? Time and space keep breaking. The JackSkip Detective Agency (and bait shop—long story) is way out of its depth. Reality is cracking open: demons are slipping through, alternate selves keep showing up, and something big, furious, and cosmic is behind it all. Skip and Jack (careful, that’s trademarked by the Tuna Conglomerate) and Annabelle, aka A.B., are the victims of a bizarre pivotal location, a town that is at the center of a Universal Conflux of Doom.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Você gosta de assistir os vídeos dos memes do caixão? Mas e se fosse você dentro daquele caixão carregado pelos dançarinos ganeses? Seria assustador, não seria? Pois foi isso o que aconteceu com Raimundo Gomes, um desempregado que teve a idéia...

History, mystery and a barrel load of bitchery. (Think Maupin meets Mapp & Lucia, or Less meets Schitt’s Creek) The second instalment in The Brightonians Trilogy continues the story of warring socialites – this time navigating the bonkersness of the first National Lockdown. On a broader level, it’s about how resourceful people can be when they feel they are being attacked. Under siege you might say! Beginning in 2020 with an ominous card-reading that the fortune-teller hasn’t had since the mid-80s, one question preys on his mind.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Como vender uma casa mal assombrada? Esse é o grande desafio do desempregado Ivan – para conseguir ficar com a vaga de corretor em uma imobiliária, ele terá de vender uma casa que é assombrada por um terrível fantasma...

Everyday Absurdities is a collection of short stories by author M. von Lindenberg. This book is bad, and it's not meant to make you happy. In fact, it would please the author to no end to know that you threw it in the trash after the introduction. If you manage to actually listen this god-awful thing, you should seek psychiatric advice. Note: there will be no mention of The Noodle Incident herein.

The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? Super Castle Fun Park explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario's anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change.

Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can't break...

It's never Satanists. Until it is. And now Bubba and his team are heading to North Carolina to find out what's going on with one of the most notorious places in the Southeast - the Devil's Tramping Ground! Between greedy real estate developers, meddling sheriffs, hippie women with blue hair, and crazy backwoods preachers, Bubba's not sure whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt, and now he's got to figure out if this is the work of Satanists, or just rednecks playing jokes on the weird preacher who set up in the next building over in the industrial park.

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.

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has just been offered his first paid detective gig, which means going on the road with gender-fluid rock star JonniK, tagging along as the musician's entourage travels from Berlin to Brussels and beyond. Jonni's manager is already worried by a guitar tech's fatal overdose on a tour bus, but then the star himself is attacked on stage... Another shock comes as Jonni's lead guitarist is electrocuted by his own instrument in the middle of a gig.

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing a certain piece of his...

Das Leben geht munter weiter im »Hotel Güneş«. Yusuf Karamak muss sich damit abfinden, dass seine 90-jährige Oma tatsächlich nach Las Vegas fliegt … und dann läuft er am Flughafen auch noch einem verwirrten Mann mit einem Messer in die Arme … Vom Krankenhausbett in Antalya bis in die schillernden Casinos von Las Vegas – Yusufs Leben ist chaotisch, spannend und humorvoll. Jeder Tag bringt neue Überraschungen.

Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she...

Ungewöhnliche Grabinschriften wie „Hier ruhen meine Gebeine, ich wollt, es wären Deine" kennt jeder. Auch bei Beerdigungen ist der Grat zwischen Trauern und ungewollter Komik schmal. Die Autoren fragten Pfarrerinnen und Pfarrer, Bestatter und „normale" Menschen nach anrührenden Beerdigungserlebnissen. Daraus entstand diese hinreißende Sammlung, ein Kleinod des Allzumenschlichen. Ernst und doch erheiternd.

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly. But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart...

“These gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can’t-miss meditation on families and survival.” —People “A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we...

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself. *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE PICK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...

The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home. They’ve had enough of the broken boiler, drafty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio. And to top it off, another series of murders is rocking the hamlet of Duck End. It seems like every villager and his dog is trying to make up for all of the thwarted murders of the past thirty years.

The Hospital Ship is no more, and Yang Wei awakens to find himself at the mercy of monstrous doctors and the tumult of his own mind. Not helping matters, of course, is the Mars Hospital’s Pool of Dead Souls. A ghastly body of water, it traps people in an endless cycle of treatment, death, and resurrection. When an unruly band of patients revolts against this suffering, the Hospital descends into chaos, the likes of which have never been seen before.