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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.

CAUTION! All employees must correctly dispose of otherworldly biohazards found on Dark Enterprises property. Failure to comply may result in one hell of a mess... "If a door is closed, you leave it alone." That's the one rule janitor, Sam, is given when he starts cleaning the infamous thirteenth...

Margo’s Got Money Troubles gets a thrilling gothic twist in this delightful, darkly funny debut novel set in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. When Emma Propeller’s unreliable and narcissistic husband, James, fails to return home to her and their new baby from a business trip, she fears...

A riotous debut spy comedy that follows an elderly retired CIA operative who has to dust off his skills after spotting his old foe at a party, for fans of Slow Horses and Killers of a Certain Age. Harvey Fox—eighty-three years-old, widowed, and retired from the CIA—has been thrown out of yet...

A dramatisation of A. A. Milne’s only detective novel, plus two of his sparkling comedies A.A. Milne achieved lasting fame as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, but he was much more than just a children’s writer. A prolific novelist, playwright and humorist, he penned numerous works for adults...

Verity can’t seem to stop breaking the rules. Whether it’s her landlord, her employer, or the court-issued restraining orders that demand she stops investigating her sister’s disappearance. However hard she tries, life just keeps unravelling. Pru has always abided by the rules. Well...

In her debut Audible memoir, Lady Miss Jacqueline (Oscar-winning child star, nightclub magnate, crystal empress, and self-proclaimed beacon of hope) finally tells her story in her own inimitable voice. From a gold-plated birth canal in Newport to surviving a shipwreck in nothing but a satin nightgown, from inspiring talk show legends to gifting Rolls Royces by Zeppelin to her nightclub staff in Ibiza, Lady Miss recounts the greatest moments of her lives (past and present) with the confidence of a woman who has never once been wrong, and the heart of one who occasionally suspects she might be.

Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them. In 1990, college senior Jane wrote to an incarcerated woman because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Thirty-six years later, that felon, actually a man, has moved in next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane that a nice person like her would never see coming.

Guy Pickering fell in love with Dorothy when they were just kids. Many years later, instead of enjoying their Florida retirement, he’s plotting ways to kill her. At her request. Dorothy has received a terminal cancer diagnosis and has asked Guy to help end her suffering. But there’s a problem; he can’t imagine killing her, and can’t fathom living without her. So, Guy concocts a plan to deceive Dorothy with a fake terminal diagnosis of his own, hoping he can saunter through the pearly gates right beside his beloved.

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.

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.

Imagine My Surprise! is the fictional memoir of Keenan Solomon Harris, a seven-year-old who claims to be the reincarnation of a murdered San Francisco drug kingpin, Kurt Houston.

He lived fast, he loved recklessly and every mistake was made at full throttle. When a pilot with a taste for danger and strip-club nightlife thinks he’s untouchable, the universe reminds him just how far a man can fall. Smoke in the cockpit. A marriage collapsing at the airport. Betrayal. Burned bridges. Scorched earth. And a past full of wounds he pretended didn’t exist.

Adapted into a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon! From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer comes Where the Truth Lies, a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and all-consuming desire—“a narcotically addictive...