Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Comédie et humour

Verstehe einer die Kinder. Oder die Großeltern. Die einen werden erwachsen, kaufen sich Leitz Ordner für Handyverträge und schwören dem billigen Fusel ab, der gestern noch zu jeder Party gehörte. Die anderen haben eine kindliche Freude daran, die Welt neu zu erobern und ihre Grenzen auszuloten. So mancher Jugendliche bleibt hingegen lieber zu Hause, um zwischen Kühlschrank und Computer nach sich selbst zu suchen. In seinen neuen Geschichten beschreibt Familienmensch Wladimir Kaminer das komplizierte Verhältnis der Generationen mit viel Liebe und Humor.

Die Oma tindert. Die Enkelin strickt. Was passiert, wenn zwei Generationen ihr Leben tauschen? Zwei Monate Sabbatical: Nach einer katastrophalen Präsentation im Job wird Leena eine Auszeit verordnet. Ausgerechnet Leena, die Tag und Nacht arbeitet, um ihre verstorbene Schwester nicht zu vermissen. Zuflucht findet sie bei ihrer Großmutter Eileen auf dem Land. Eileen wurde mit 79 gerade von ihrem Mann verlassen und wünscht sich eine neue Liebe, nur leider ist die Auswahl an interessanten Kandidaten in ihrem kleinen Dorf begrenzt.

Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice", Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others.

Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor. Your good intentions used to be enough. But in these diverse and divisive times, some people would hold you accountable for your actions. You were not raised for such unfairness. You need help. And help you now have. Let Daquan - that Black coworker you are referring to when you claim to have Black friends - help you navigate perilous small talk with African Americans with this handy field guide. This portable bit of emotional labor puts at your fingertips an alphabetized list of things not to say to Black people. Finally!

Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his toddler son, Jake. Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it is never very far away, either. Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household.

Centering us in Rome, but transporting us seamlessly into worlds as varied and exotic as they are emotionally real, these stories paint landscapes that are populated - vividly, hauntingly - by animals: from squawking, violent seagulls, to magical snakes, to a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road, to starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation.

The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day, he works in a bakery, and by night, he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: It’s all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend, Magnus, comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrator’s familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magician’s disappearing act, and midway through the routine, he vanishes. Is this part of the act? What’s happened to Magnus?

Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company’s sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he’s nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech startup’s user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their secret—and wondering whether her death really was an accident.

Frühjahr 2020. Die Menschen erwachen aus dem Winterschlaf, blinzeln in die Sonne und ahnen nicht, dass kürzlich im fernen China ein erkältetes Gürteltier auf eine kranke Fledermaus geniest hat. Ein Virus war geboren, das die Welt lahmlegte - nur der Neugier von Wladimir Kaminer konnte es nichts anhaben. Wie gingen die Menschen mit Ausgangssperre, Mundschutz und Sicherheitsabstand um? Wie fühlten sich die ersten zarten Lockerungen an? Und welche Welt fand man da draußen vor?

Im Lesereisegepäck sind der im Januar 2019 erscheinende erste Roman Nudel im Wind, eine Medienkrimi-Satire, sowie ein kleines Best of der bisherigen 15 Bücher. Könnte ein langer, lachtränenreicher Abend werden!

Here, with laugh-out-loud humor and well-earned experience, Julie Vick offers coping mechanisms for everything from sharing the news that you are becoming a parent to the moment the baby is born (one way or another, it will happen), from managing doctor’s visits to handling playdates. She offers advice on finding childcare and ignoring the nursing versus formula conversation with strangers. Witty yet valuable, her tips and checklists focus on the time from pregnancy through preschool.

From the author of the National Book Award longlisted epic The Great Offshore Grounds, here is the debut novel that launched her career - a story of activism, police violence, and white guilt in a not so distant dystopian America.

William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.

Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by his conservative diocese for eccentricity and insubordination, he's made his exile into a kind of pilgrimage, transforming his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. He intends to spend his trip in peaceful contemplation. But then he sees a minivan sideswipe a coyote. Unable to suppress his Franciscan impulses, he takes the wild animal in, wrapping its broken leg with an old T-shirt and feeding it Spam with a plastic spoon. But the coyote is far from the only oddity fate has delivered into this churchless priest's care....

Versteh' einer die Frauen! Wer versteht schon die Frauen? Für Männer sind sie unergründlich. Und doch ist ein Mann zumindest einer Frau auf die Spur gekommen. Seiner eigenen. Für Wladimir Kaminer ist Olga ein offenes Buch. Oder doch nicht? Er weiß zwar, dass sie gern strickt. Aber wann und warum aus einer Socke erst eine Jacke und dann ein Teppich wird? Ein Rätsel. Weshalb Schuhe gegen Erkältungen helfen und eine Handtasche gegen Winterdepressionen? Nicht nur für Ärzte ein Mysterium.

Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship.

Musterbriefe für Härtefälle Nutzlose Versicherungen, bräsige Vermieter, aufdringliche Chefs... Es gibt unzählige Anlässe, sich dezidiert schriftlich an Leute und Institutionen zu wenden, bei denen mündlich vorgebrachte gute Worte und höfliche Bitten auf taube Ohren stoßen. Schon das Lesen entsprechender Briefvorlagen sorgt schnell dafür, dass man den Dampf, den man in sich spürt, zu einem Gutteil ablässt - denn man weiß ja, dass man solch einen Brief theoretisch durchaus abschicken könnte.

Spreading democracy takes more than cutting-edge military hardware. Winning the hearts and minds of a troubled nation is a special mission we give to bewildered young soldiers who can't speak the native language, don't know the customs, can't tell friends from enemies, and, in this wonderfully outrageous Iraq-era novel about Vietnam, wonder why they have to risk their lives spraying peanut plants, inoculating pigs, and hauling miracle rice seed for Ho Chi Minh.

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip.

Honey Santana, impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes", has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility.