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Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball, no one would ever know that in a past life she was an undercover spy and has been trained to kill a man with her bare hands. Not even her husband and certainly not the other mums at the school gate. But beneath the school runs and bake sales, Vicky had never quite said goodbye to the past.

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone...

What happens when a thirty-something, newly divorced man discovers courage and adventure, thanks to a karaoke contest? In Adventures of the Karaoke King, Harold Taw introduces us to Guy Watanabe, a man marginally aware of his Asian background and decidedly unaware of how poorly he has planned for his future. In this riotous, often thoughtful, and always entertaining novel, readers are taken on a memorable journey that crosses America, Asia, and back, with the last leg spent in a shipping container.

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh. The Randall family was always a little strange. For...

Maxi Dillion finds himself back home, living with his 80-year-old mother after living in New York City for 25 years. He thinks nobody knows the real purpose of his homecoming. He's wrong. Cillian Mulcahy knows the real reason...he owes money to the mob. While Maxi's out running errands for his mother, he bumps into Ella, a childhood acquaintance who is all grown up and strikingly beautiful. While over to Ella's house on a visit, Maxi discovers what he believes to be a treasure map. He, Ella, and two of her two girlfriends embark on a hilarious adventure to find the hidden treasure.

Aventuras y desgracias de un joven español en USA En 1983, un adolescente español de provincias es enviado por sus padres a California para vivir con una familia americana y estudiar COU. Sale de un país con una sola cadena de televisión, escasos conciertos de rock y una pesada carga católica para encontrarse treinta y cinco canales en la pequeña pantalla, Police o The Clash a la vuelta de la esquina y una contagiosa alegría de pecar.

Poder escuchar historias en ésos trayectos cortos que diariamente hacemos en el tren, metro, coche etc. se va a hacer muy agradable de la maño de Flora Smith, en este recopilatorio de sus relatos.Vamos a poder conocer a Ana Sicosi, una mujer obsesiva que sube siempre en la misma estación de la parada de Sants o Andresito qué se baja siempre en la estación de Atocha distraído con su móvil sin mirar a su alrededor, o lo mejor navegaremos por Matalascañas en Cádiz en una barcaza y nos encontremos a un par de amantes apasionados y no os extrañé qué escuchando éstos relatos os podais encontrar también con algún pirata.

Somehow, Brandon Andrew Morgan survived the Omega Vaccine and the total collapse of society that followed it. And yes, he’s just as surprised about it as you are. But while his brother is off to unknown adventures, Brandon has decided to stick around, make a life for himself, and care for his best buds as they transition to their new lives as vampires.

Benjamin was never the sharpest tool in the shed. For as long as he can remember, he’s longed for adventure in far-away lands. But every day he wakes up in the same boring suburb, where nothing ever happens.

Sampson, a thief-turned-guild-leader, completed an Instance in the BloodHaven’s dungeon, revealing that his most powerful guild member wasn’t some starved prisoner Sampson had saved, but in truth, a far more influential person than anyone was ready to handle. And his intentions couldn’t be more unclear.

Meet Daniel Chesterfield, a six foot seven inch foul mouthed straight arrow with a trite sense of humor and deep love and respect for law, order, and justice. Trading in his detective shield in Palm Beach County, Florida for a Sheriff’s badge in the rural town of Cowbell, Montana, Dan is assigned to take over the Bear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Sub-Station.

Lillith Hemlock is the last in a long line of Hemlock witches, but her parents renounced magic as evil before she was born. After witch hunters burn down their house, Lilly's family moves in with her grandparents, who are practicing witches living in a town of magical creatures.

Reverend Maloney isn't the world's greatest spiritual advisor. He drinks gin out of his coffee cup and has sex dreams about the Holy Ghost. His best friend Eli isn't perfect either, but he's a chess genius, so Maloney sees an opportunity in traveling around the country so Eli can win major chess tournament after chess tournament (while Maloney pockets Eli's winnings).

When Oscar stumbles across an arrogant bard named the Dodosette and the beautiful cat Vaasi-Vee, he unearths a plot to plunge the world into darkness. After some begging, a lot of snow and an industrial-sized vat of soup, the three animals argue all the way to the infamous land of Vra to do something about it. They did not, however, anticipate having to fight invisible Rottweilers, smash kitchens to pieces, lick frozen cars or fund taxi drivers' sisters' eye operations.

"Il circolo Pickwick" è forse il più famoso romanzo di Dickens. Pubblicato nel 1836, fu il suo primo romanzo, nato inizialmente per accompagnare delle vignette umoristiche, e in seguito diventato protagonista sul disegno. Romanzo a episodi, mantiene, pur nella sua struttura di avventure separate, un collegamento fra i vari personaggi, che sono quanto mai "dickensiani": caratteristici, buoni anche quando sono cattivi, e descritti sempre con bonarietà.

Кофеварка – это роман-мозаика, в котором смешались комедия, драма, детектив и руководство к действию. Тысячи людей ежедневно сидят за чашкой кофе и рассказывают друг другу тысячи своих историй: терпких, насыщенных, ароматных, обжигающих, оставляющих горечь сожаления или приятное послевкусие. Никто даже не подозревает, как кофе смешивает множество историй в одну.

The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon follows J.D. Solomon--a drifting insomniac, valetudinarian, and antiquarian--and his surreal hijinks around and through the bowels of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Himself a man out of time, J.D. encounters the wasteland of our contemporary era with decorous horror, whilst haunted by the memory of his lost childhood home.

It's autumn 2001, and a fire-breathing dragon is destroying London. With most of her military overseas, the Queen decides to do what previous Queens would've done and call in her Knights! The only problem is that the Queen has only knighted celebrities.

Author Joel Momberg takes listeners on an unforgettable and engaging ride in his third novel For Those Who Can - following the path through the mid-1970s of a young college prep teacher Alan Handler in an adventure filled with laughs, love, and a lingering sense that something is amiss.

Who is this "Odd Herbert"? Well, that’s hard to say really because he is yet to be a fully formed thing...And so, this is the tale of his journey towards self-discovery during his adolescent years...Born under unique circumstance, dare I say "Odd" nothing about Herbert is dull, straight-forward, or conventional. Instead, everything is a folly of interest, curiosity and unknown. To listen to this audiobook is to step in to the tumultuous, hilarious, and potentially heart-breaking adventure of thought that lies behind the purple lenses.