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Der Hinweis auf eines der verborgenen Drachengräber führt den Magier Tib und seine Begleiter in die Wüste der Ewigkeit.

Es reicht. Und zwar sowas von! Die Angestellten tanzen Heff buchstäblich auf der Nase, die Vermieterin droht mit Kuchen, der mindestens so alt ist wie sie selbst und Heff weiss einfach nicht mehr weiter. Die Lösung offenbart sich ihm in Form des ehemaligen Militärausbilders Mr. Voll. Denn Mr. Voll ist voll toll. Dass Mr. Voll aber auch voll einen an der Klatsche hat, davon wusste Heff vorher nichts.

Seit Wochen knabbern Heffs Angestellte höchstens noch das Schwarze unter den Fingernägeln weg, denn ihr Chef, der einen ausgeprägten Sinn für Personalführung vermissen lässt, gibt sein Geld lieber für Fallen aus als für Nahrung seiner unterbezahlten Angestellten. Der Hunger treibt Heffs Angestellten schlussendlich zum Kühlschrank der Vermieterin, die von diesem Akt des Mundraubs allerdings alles andere als begeistert ist.

Size does matter in these delightfully tiny tales populated with narcoleptic drivers, bickering backers, suspicious spouses, and other memorable characters. Full of dark humor, intrigue, and absurdity, this collection of slightly sinister (and occasionally sweet) stories delivers a bite-size listening experience to satisfy any literary craving.

Jane Dorner has two modes: PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator. Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills. Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through Instagram - the guru of a 'wellness retreat' based out of a ramshackle country house that may or may not be giving off cult vibes. Suddenly Jane realises she might have found the one ladder she can climb.

The story of four generations of the Movi family, who all live in a crumbling Hollywood mansion, is chronicled by their stage acting dog and primary breadwinner Chumley P. Movi. A reality TV show based on their everyday existence appears to be the perfect vehicle to revive their glory days in the entertainment industry, but as the family will soon realize, you have to be careful what you wish for.

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...

Jason hadn’t seen his grandpa in years. And when he inherits a large estate, the Dummy is something he can’t get rid of. It’s a loud, wild ride with hilarious, terrifying twists and turns.

Cuando Grace Bernard descubre que el padre millonario que la abandonó ha ignorado las llamadas de auxilio de su madre moribunda, jura venganza y se propone matar a todos los miembros de su acaudalada familia. Así que hace una lista de nombres y, decidida a tacharlos todos, se lanza en una misión despiadada para hacer justicia y, en el proceso, convertirse en la única heredera de la fortuna de los Artemis.

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all.

While traveling back home from a job interview in California, Mark and Ally Thurston suffer a car accident in Middle of Nowhere Kansas. After walking for miles to the nearest convenience store, they are greeted by Hap, the store owner, who invites them to stay the night at his home.

Before Derek Christian became the confused hero, pawn of the universe, and reluctant cosmic adventurer of the Intergalactic novels, he was a simple copywriter at a radio station in Atlanta, WRFA: Radio Free America. This story tells how his writer's block set off a domino effect of murder and cosmic intrigue as The Fear chases him to his breaking point, and how he manages to escape into a world not of his own making.

Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times. Armed with this terrible knowledge, Petra meets Johan, a doomsday prophet, and Agnes, a widow of 75 who has made bank living a double life on social media as a young influencer. Together, the trio race through Europe as they plan to make the most out of the time they have left, in more ways than one. But of course, things rarely go to plan, even the end of the world.

A trilogy of contemporary plays inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights: Arabian Afternoons includes The Casper Logue Affair by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, The Porter and the Three Ladies by Rachel Joyce and A Dish of Pomegranates by Peter Jukes.

Nummer 1 på New York Times’ bestsellerliste og vinder af Costa First Novel Book Award 2017.

Eleanor Oliphant er en socialt kejtet kvinde, der lever et liv i ensomhed. På hverdagene passer hun sit kontorjob, og weekenderne består af dybfrost-pizza og vodka. Men hun har det helt ’fint’, og ingen har nogensinde fortalt hende, at livet kan være mere end det.

Alting forandrer sig dog, da Eleanor møder Raymond, den kluntede, usoignerede IT-fyr fra kontoret. Da hun og Raymond sammen hjælper Sammy, en ældre herre, der er faldet på fortovet, spirer et venskab gradvist frem mellem dem.

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.

Mi chiamo Grace Bernard e, con ogni probabilità, il mio nome non vi dice proprio niente. Nessuno mi conosce perché languisco dietro le sbarre per l’unico crimine che non ho commesso. Eppure, se devo dire la verità nient’altro che la verità, ho ucciso diverse persone, alcune in modo brutale, altre con maggior delicatezza – vale la pena specificarlo, perché fa un’enorme differenza agli occhi giudicanti della gente. Quando ripenso a ciò che ho fatto, avverto persino una punta di tristezza, giusto una fitta trascurabile, al pensiero che nessuno verrà mai a conoscenza del mio strabiliante piano.

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a living. The thing that unites them? Their labour must remain unseen. But when a friend is accused of murdering her employer, everything changes. The accused could be any of them; they all know the stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Each woman has secrets to keep, yet they must gather every ounce of bravery, fearlessness and complete audacity to clear the name of one of their own.

In an opulent honeymoon suite in Watch Hill, Rhode Island’s most desirable wedding venue, 29-year-old Callie Holt is spending her wedding night lying in a bathtub shoveling down a pizza; her expensive white dress now splattered with sauce and her groom passed out in the next room. With her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, Callie turns to the place of record–her phone–sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong.