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All Nick wants to do is take his dying father for a perfect father-son weekend in the Scottish Highlands. It’s not much to ask, is it? A log cabin, a roaring fire, a bottle of fine whiskey, and two days to paper over the cracks in their relationship. However, Nick didn’t plan on making the trip with a dead neighbour in the back of his car. Or the neighbour’s dog. He really didn’t plan on being pursued by a psychotic female assassin intent on collecting body parts.

A mysterious cowboy is stalking the eccentric Trapnell siblings. Is he a supernatural entity or a hired killer? To complicate things, the will making them heirs to their billionaire father’s estate is missing and a relative has returned from a watery grave. Last time, the Trapnells saved the world from destruction. This time they may not be able to save themselves. Black Willows is a darkly funny Southern-fried adventure, complete with Voodoo, arson, and alligators.

James Williams has it all, apart from the need to have a baby. His investment banking job is challenging and lucrative. His home is practically a palace, and he’s married to a gorgeous woman half his age. The only problem James keeps failing to address is that his wife Zoe can't stop spending money. Sneaking shopping bags into the house and hiding receipts, Zoe is driving the household into poverty. Things have to change.

Die letzte Episode hat uns ja ganz schön durchgerüttelt. Aber es ist nur wenig Zeit zum Verschnaufen. Siehst du den Silberstreifen am Horizont? Ich nicht. Mir fehlt noch der Kaffee.

This novel is a virtual time machine that takes the reader back to 11th century England - the time of Saxon domination before and after the disastrous Battle of Hastings in 1066. Step directly into the footsteps of Cuthwin of Alnwick. There are few “great men or women” in this historical novel, but instead the story of an ordinary man and his wife who work to survive.

America's in the throes of the Great Recession, and Tim's dreams of flipping a house have collapsed along with the housing market. After abandoning his new home as a lost cause, he's caught up in the poker craze and moves to Atlantic City with a new dream of "playing poker for a living", but soon finds himself stuck in a dizzying spell of bad luck at the card tables.

Unser Gefängnisaufenthalt war ja ganz schön spannend. Doch wie geht es jetzt weiter? In einer Villa mit Whirlpool die Apokalypse aussetzen? Klingt verlockend, aber wäre natürlich langweilig. Lest es doch einfach selbst! Ich will ja hier nichts verraten. Herzlichst, euer Rüdiger.

Willkommen zu Teil 2! Wie geht es weiter mit Rüdiger und seinen Freunden? Wird er auch diesen Band überleben? Viel schwarzer Humor und Zombies erwarten euch. Oder sind die wahren Feinde die Überlebenden?

Joe, is a bad guy. Joe doesn’t know, Joe, is a bad guy. Joe thinks he’s a good guy. That’s why we had to beat him to take over that world. It was for the better good. Joe was not a good guy, regardless of what he’d have you believe.

The humour and pathos of strokes and dementia.

Jim Frost thinks that when you’re dead, you’re dead. Gone. Finished. Kaput. But on the eve of his 73rd birthday, his daughter suggests he have his brain downloaded to a microchip for safekeeping, and Jim is forced to consider what it really means to die - and what it might mean to live forever.

Sujetos cuyos conocimientos enciclopédicos los conducen a la cúspide y en seguida al abismo de sus biografías, hombres obsesionados con la idea de su muerte, profesores empeñados en enseñar de modos sumamente complicados materias sencillísimas, presidentes que quieren vender al mejor postor el país que gobiernan, personajes literarios que se salen de su papel y cometen locuras a diestra y siniestra.

"Un concours administratif, c’est comme une loterie. Parfois l’administration en tire un lot gagnant : un candidat compétent. Parfois elle hérite d’un candidat dont la seule compétence est de passer les concours administratifs et nul n’est là pour venir contrôler ses incompétences dans ses fonctions, puisqu’il a eu le concours. L’administration ne remet jamais en question l’insuffisance d’un seul concours en tant que garantie de compétences. Ça débusquerait bien trop d’imbéciles à des postes importants."

Almost everyone in prison will tell you they’re in there for a crime they didn’t commit, but Anthony Rourke really means it. That’s because he’s actually Bunny McGarry, who has got himself into one of Nevada’s finest penitentiaries under false pretenses. He is there to bust someone else out.

Hi, mein Name ist Rüdiger und ich bin ein Zombie! Wie es dazu kam? Das erzähle ich in diesem Hörbuch. Eine humorvolle Zombieserie über das Sterben, das Leben und ganz viel dazwischen.

Humoristisch, depressiv, altbacken und technikgeil - Filip Galvian setzt einen Kontrapunkt zu der von Mittelmäßigkeit geprägten Gegenwart! Diese Folge handelt vom vermasselten Studium. Der Professor der Entwurfsklasse zermürbt den armen Studenten; dazu fällt ihm die Assistentin auch noch in den Rücken und überhaupt - ist der sachte fallende Schnee nicht viel schöner als diese verschmierten Leinwände der Kunststudenten?

Witty and realistically sarcastic; full of self-redemption and the dark, cosmic inner-workings of life and death. Comically sharp yet lighthearted, Death Dresses Poorly is the bittersweet tale of a young man’s journey through the discarded baggage of his childhood.

If stealing a half million dollars from the Mafia is a bad idea, then using the money to pay off a homicidal Russian loan shark is an insane idea. Elliot Becker realizes this a little too late as his well-intentioned South Florida real estate scam starts to fall to pieces. He needs a Plan B - and he needs it now - because when Ponzi schemes fail, they tend to fail fast. Complicating matters is Logan Treverrow, an aspiring sculptor and newly-returned veteran from Afghanistan trying to figure out who took out a $200,000 loan in his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s name.

This is a story about a man, his son, and their three-day mission to cheat death. Sometimes funny, often sardonic, with shifting perspectives and unpunctuated dialogue, Nearly Dead in North Dakota is a fast and loose journey through history, science, religion, pop culture, and a closer examination of the kind of world we live in but never get enough time to really think about.

Whitt hat kein Bock zu sterben. Vor allem nicht mehrmals. Doch genau das erwartet ihn beim "Immortal Contest": dort soll er sich an seinem unsterblichen Tag live umbringen lassen. Auch wenn er am Tag der Show über Superkräfte verfügt - sein Leben würde er trotzdem nicht aufs Spiel setzen. Aber Whitt hat keine Wahl: Dem Sieger des Immortal Contests winken eine Million Dollar Preisgeld, weshalb sein Bruder ihn an die Show verkauft hat - und es ist nicht so einfach, sich gegen eine Entführung zu wehren, wenn man im Rollstuhl sitzt.