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No drama, no problems - that’s Tori Carter’s idea of the good life. Her tendency to plan everything to the max has made her the most successful event coordinator in the business and the number one problem-solver for her family and friends. But, Tori’s organized world is turned upside down when her seemingly perfect fiance runs off with another woman, leaving her without a plan B-through-Z.... or any idea what to do next.

A woman comes to terms with the human condition.

Hal Harper is an independent filmmaker and Penny Garland is his beautiful, yet overbearing, über-Mormon fiancée. Max is her fat, dimwitted brother, and Josey is her loyal minion. Penny's mom, who has a few screws loose, is convinced Hal isn't good enough for her and will do anything to get between them. Simon Manners is a meddling returned missionary and Allison Lombardi is a redheaded distraction. Buddy Kennedy is an amoral businessman, MRV is a corrupt Jack Mormon politician, and Scruffy is a deranged talking teddy bear with a passion for murder and cannibalism.

Life of Right depicts the dramatic conflict between pro-choice and pro-life protesters in Washington, DC in the days leading up to the landmark 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that upheld Roe v. Wade. Ultimately, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter find the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment protects a woman's right to choose abortion. Meanwhile, deep in the heart of Texas, a virgin named Mary finds herself with child, but not by her mate Joseph.

Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of 11 stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power”, but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways.

Cuando la matriarca de la familia judía menos exitosa de Estados Unidos se cansa de su desgracia, consulta los textos místicos en busca de ayuda. Decidida a que su próximo nieto será un genio que cambiará su suerte, y convencida de que nadie en su clan es lo suficientemente inteligente como para criar a un genio por sí mismo, decide que el niño pasará de casa en casa para ganar su sabiduría colectiva.

A comical audiobook describing fictional criminals and their crimes. One-hundred percent laughter. Laugh and enjoy.

To gældstruede hippier kidnapper en rig mands søn i håb om løsepenge. Både de og drengens forældre bliver overraskede, da den lille dreng befinder sig bedre hos sine kidnappere end hjemme hos sin håndfaste far.

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. Bunny’s former partner died in the line of duty under dubious circumstances, but his murky background has suddenly resurfaced, threatening Bunny’s reputation as well. As if that isn’t enough, a young boy is in danger and a woman from the big fella’s past is trapped in a loveless marriage to a monster. They both need Bunny’s help, but he must get to work fast - it seems someone is trying to frame him for murder.

Bubba’s back from Fairyland, and sometimes it feels like they shoulda just stayed there! Man, coming back to the real world sucks. Bubba and his whole team have been fired on account of going MIA for a year and a half (yeah, time moves differently in Fairyland - yay), and now they’ve got to…get jobs? Oh, this is going to go well.

A teenage girl meets Satan in the form of a dog. Mild acts of mayhem ensue.

Just be glad you're not caught in this traffic...

En underholdende, livsbekræftende og rørende historie om at hage sig fast i livet og insistere på at være lykkelig. Komikeren Geo blev i 2012 erklæret rask efter at have haft kræft to gange – en kæmpe lettelse, der dog hurtigt blev afløst af spørgsmålet: Hva’ så nu?

The last time Eric Gideon and Sean Heschmeyer were in the same place was the day of the accident. The day Eric’s dare landed Sean in hospital. The day the Idiots’ Club ceased to be. Now, exactly 20 years later, Sean is back, but he’s nothing like how they remember him. When former Idiots’ Club member and serial bankruptee Callum Jollie receives a surprise invite to a Heschmeyer Industries VIP bridge opening, he tries to persuade Sean to support his failing business. Sean agrees, but there’s only one problem. His money comes with conditions.

TENTAKELMONSTER GREIFT LOS ANGELES AN! Wäre das nicht eine hübsche Schlagzeile für ein Boulevardblättchen? Ist aber wirklich passiert. Kein Scheiß! Ich war dabei. Mein Name ist Caliriel - meine irdischen Freunde nennen mich meist Clyde - und ich bin ein Engel. Ein Schutzengel, um genau zu sein. Und als solcher kann ich natürlich nicht zulassen, dass übernatürliche Ungeheuer ungestraft meine Heimatstadt heimsuchen. Also trommele ich ein paar Leute zusammen und jage die Viecher dahin zurück, wo auch immer sie hergekommen sind. So habe ich mir das zumindest vorgestellt.

Frances Beacon, longevity guru and best-selling author of Sex, Drugs and Social Security, is at the peak of her second career when a New York City cab catapults her into the afterlife. Shocked, confused, and royally pissed, all she wants is to go home. Instead, she’s enrolled in the University of the Afterlife, where this over-achiever turns into a dropout after being hit with a tsunami of obstacles. Frances spars with a host of bureaucrats, misogynists, and a mysterious Court that can condemn her to frigus repono - permanent cold storage.

Der erste Schelmenroman der Weltliteratur als Hörbuch. Jedes Mal, wenn Lazarillo einen seiner Herren verlässt, weil er es nicht mehr bei ihm aushält, kommt er vom Regen in die Traufe. Ist der erste grausam und geizig, lässt der zweite ihn fast verhungern. Und als er endlich einen findet, der wie ein Edelmann aussieht, stellt sich heraus, dass dieser in Wirklichkeit noch mehr Hunger leidet als er selbst. Also muß Lázaro auch noch für seinen Herren betteln gehen, der sich am Ende aber nicht einmal dankbar erweist.

An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and compulsive irreverence, explores the most surreal and inadmissible fantasies of contemporary women. “Nada Alic’s Bad Thoughts is lit up with the perception, wit, and cunning of Miranda July and...

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.” “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is...

Unser Leben liegt in Gottes Hand, aber was, wenn Gott auf einmal nicht mehr reagiert? Frau Bengtsson führt kein aufregendes Leben und auch ihr Tod ist banal, sogar so banal, dass Gott sich ihrer erbarmt und sie zurück auf die Erde schickt. Nun ist sich die ehemals Verstorbene sicher: Gott muss etwas Großes mit ihr vorhaben. Aber warum reagiert er dann nicht mehr auf sie? Genervt setzt Frau Bengtsson alles daran, den Allmächtigen wieder auf sich aufmerksam zu machen und wenn ein frommes Leben nicht hilft, dann vielleicht das Gegenteil.