Action Adventure Humor

David Markham, a Vietnam-era veteran, and a regular computer geek, wants to shoot guns, blow up stuff, have access to every digital device on Earth, end terrorism, eat breakfast at Lowell's, and watch football, especially the Seattle Seahawks. Only his computer - Igor - knows how much money he has. Igor is the real brains of the operation. The computer organizes everything by having access to every computer and device on the planet including printers, cameras, microphones, GPS, and other satellite data. If David wants something done, Igor gets it done.

Back on the Road to Key West reintroduces the somewhat reluctant adventurers Kansas Stamps and Will Bell, casting them into one bizarre situation after another while capturing the true flavor and feel of Key West and the Caribbean in the early 1980s.

The Road to Key West is an adventurous/humorous sojourn that cavorts its way through the 1970s Caribbean, from Key West and the Bahamas, to Cuba and Central America. In August of 1971, Kansas Stamps and Will Bell set out to become nothing more than commercial divers in the Florida Keys, but adventure, or misadventure, seems to dog them at every turn.

This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes – only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There, the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom’s life back on track by opening his only asset as an idyllic country retreat.

Elliot Vail is a floundering San Francisco stand-up comedian who will do anything for a cheap place to live. So when strange Edward Bockman offers him free rent in exchange for some odd dos and don'ts, Elliot thinks his luck is about to change. After all, despite Bockman's over-active imagination, head-to-toe Robin Hood costume and locked bedroom door, he seems nice enough.

Siempre concienciado con los problemas sociopolíticos que asedian al mundo, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa aborda en Hambre uno de los temas candentes de hoy en día: la falta de alimentos que sufren cientos de millones de personas en todo el planeta. Para ello, echa mano de los protagonistas de su afamada novela Medusa y los sitúa en una nueva trama sin respiro que atraviesa toda el África subsahariana y salda cuentas con las empresas y gobiernos interesados en perpetuar esta crítica situación.

It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the man, he seems a nonentity and you quite fancy his wife. And there's no chance of being caught.

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.

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.

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.

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.