Action Comedy

It is 2005. The multi-billion dollar company, Whittmeyer Industries, is under threat of bankruptcy. The CEO and founder, Harry Whittmeyer, has been mysteriously murdered. His daughter and successor, Megan Whittmeyer, is kidnapped soon after.

Make friends,” the A.I. said. Gemini Fowler did. Now, the stakes have been raised, and Gemini is irate. Stripped of his gear and returned to the village where it all started, he must follow a long road filled with peril and quests to level up and recover the companion he lost. Soon, he’ll see Enora is much more than a dark forest, and his adventure has hardly begun. Can he reach Roshan before the mysterious governor’s men arrive at the tyrant’s stronghold and she is lost to him forever?

In this captivating memoir, Unconventional Tales of Sydneighey McGreggoreighly Johnsunveille, you'll be taken on a rollercoaster ride of laughter, tears, and jaw-dropping escapades. Get ready to embark on a wild journey of adventures and misadventures!

Brandon Andrew Morgan wants and lives a normal life. Well, mostly, anyway. Between his crazy roommates, slacker brother, and the intolerable customers that plague his job, Brandon certainly attempts to make the most of things. But Brandon's world is about to be turned upside down when mankind decides to face a possible doomsday event by doing what they do best: making it worse. Much worse, in fact. Implementing the new Omega Vaccine as a preventative, let's just say the world is not prepared for the side effects that weren't posted on the label.

Será melhor manter os pés bem firmes no chão ou nos deixar levar por um pouco de fantasia? Desde os 13 anos, Maria Luiza conta os dias para chegar ao fim da adolescência e finalmente ir para a faculdade. Para ela, as pessoas deveriam passar da infância direto para a vida adulta, sem que fosse necessário lidar com rostos espinhentos e grupinhos típicos de toda sala de ensino médio.

"I'm 36 years of age; handsome and fit. I'm not as tall as I'd like to be, nor am I rippling with chest-muscles. But I reckon I'm a dead ringer for Hugh Grant. After years spent with 'the dreaded Laura' Ben is finally free! A new divorcee he can't wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do.

L'affaire de la Logia a beau être close, elle n'a pas pour autant épargné le fameux Justan Lockholmes. Un mois plus tard, alors que de terribles cauchemars le hantent, il va devoir reprendre du service aux côtés d'un tout jeune officier de police, et cela, qu'il le veuille ou non ! Un orphelin noyé, une énigme prométhéenne et une pintade bien peu digeste. Voilà que Justan plonge dans une histoire passablement compliquée !

Doogie O’Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student, applies for a gap-year job as a tour rep in Africa, where he also hopes to find time to study the wildlife. Instead, he finds himself on Mallorca, thrust in at the deep end of the madcap package tour business. Gannets are the only form of wildlife encountered. But these aren’t the sort of birds he can treat. These are laden with fun-seeking holidaymakers! Problems are bound to arise, and they do, as does the bewitching influence of Mallorca and a beautiful young Mallorquina called Catalina.

Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead.

There’s no rule book for this deadly game. When Samantha’s friend and sometimes boss AJ Gunn is accused of murdering the star quarterback for the Oregon pro-team she knows three things: No way is AJ guilty even if he doesn’t have a solid alibi, this is not a one gal PI gig, she’s going to need help, and rich people are crazy. If Samantha thought she was out of her element in Wind River, investigating in a new town is like working in a foreign land. Looking for a real suspect, Samantha meets a host of powerful characters with deep pockets and dark secrets.

Castle Perilous is a magic castle full of mystery and adventure, but sometimes even magic castles can go awry. This particular castle has the power to send its guests to 144,000 alternate worlds, each a fantastic voyage to the unknown. But each voyage seems to backfire. Computer whiz kid Jeremy is stuck on a planet of golf-playing dinosaurs. Gentrified Gene finds himself on a planet overrun with amazon women where the queen has taken a particular shine to him and only the Lord of the Castle Incarnadine can stop this witty madness from shaking Castle Kidnapped to its foundations.

Some months have past since Aldrin Adams discovered his extraordinary SUPERPOWER. When he eats CHEESE, just before he goes to sleep, he can enter into other people's dreams...and their nightmares! He's learned when to eat blue cheese (to help with nightmares about KILLER toys), smoked cheese (to help him recover from using his powers) and good old Cheddar (TOP SECRET). He's also come face to face with his nemesis—A MYSTERIOUS SUPERNATURAL VILLAIN who creates NIGHTMARES for millions of children every night.

Maggie Ringo wollte in ihrem Leben nur eins: Der Enge des Kleinstadtlebens entfliehen, die Welt bereisen und entdecken. Über zehn Jahre lang hat sie ein Nomadenleben geführt, bis die nachlassende Gesundheit ihrer Eltern sie nach Hause ruft. Zehn lange Jahre hat Nick Trenton darauf gehofft, dass Maggie zurückkommt. Und jetzt ist sie wieder hier. Für immer. Wird es ihm diesmal gelingen, sie davon zu überzeugen, dass sie eine gemeinsame Zukunft haben? Schritt für Schritt findet Maggie ins Kleinstadtleben zurück und entdeckt, dass nicht alles so schrecklich ist, wie sie es in Erinnerung hat.

What's a woman to do when her rotten ex elopes with someone else and steals every dime in their bank accounts to finance his new married life? If that woman is Renata Moon, she reaches out to Connell MacAllister, her ex's business partner, who's also been left holding the empty bank bag, and pitches an outrageous idea to him: a survivalist reality game show is looking for newlywed contestants to compete in Bali for the chance to win one million dollars. It could be the answer to all their problems. Too bad they didn't anticipate the handcuffs.

Aurora, die mittlere der Leoni-Schwestern, ist eine Frau mit vielen Facetten. Als Forensik-Spezialistin stöbert sie tagsüber im sicheren Hafen ihres Büros Schwarzgelder auf. In ihrer Freizeit brütet sie über alten Goldgräberlegenden und denkt sich neue Wege aus, Chance Trenton in den Wahnsinn zu treiben. Als sie jedoch Hinweise darauf findet, dass jemand ein altes Goldgräberversteck tief in den Rocky Mountains wiederverwendet, um die Beute eines aktuellen Raubüberfalls zu verstecken, ist Chance plötzlich ihre einzige Hoffnung, dieses zu finden. Chance Trenton ist frustriert.

Henry Fielding è considerato uno dei padri fondatori del romanzo realista inglese. Tale scopo sarà pienamente raggiunto da Fielding nel suo capolavoro, Tom Jones (1749), uno dei più grandi romanzi della letteratura inglese. La storia narra le divertenti disavventure e peregrinazioni del giovane Tom Jones e della sua amata Sophia Western unendo a una trama sapiente e a pagine di garbata satira personaggi di grande efficacia e presenza, per fornire uno spaccato della società inglese dell'epoca. Cornice musicale di Georg Friedrich Haendel.

After being chosen as guinea pigs for the first-ever human hibernation experiment, Chad O'Connor and Tyrone Jackson are placed in suspended animation that is supposed to last three years. Instead of waking up in the year 2030 as planned, they wake up in the year 2083 in a post-nuclear world as the only two living males on Earth in a society run by women. What appears to be a paradise at first turns into a world of horrors and a quest for survival.

El circo y La Mariposa es una novela colectiva escrita por 13 autores de Rosario, en pandemia, “encerrados con un solo juguete”, como diría Juan Marsé. Al producirse el 20 de marzo de 2020 el primer confinamiento nacional dispuesto por el gobierno con motivo de la pandemia Covid-19, quedaron varados en el territorio argentino, cuarenta (40) circos, situación que no se ha modificado mucho en el momento que escribo estas líneas, un año y medio después.

Johnny Morinda, the bombastic manager of the Los Angeles Tangelos, finds himself with an open spot for the All-Star Game, which is being played in New York. Much to the surprise of the baseball world and the other All-Star players, Johnny adds the hot-hitting Matt Granite to the squad. New York will never be the same as Matt's friends Sean and Jack romp through the Big Apple.

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa coquetea con el humor, el esperpento y la sátira en esta comedia de aventuras que refleja lo absurdo de los tiempos en los que vivimos. La trama sigue las vicisitudes del pastor Alí Bahar desde el desierto africano al desierto de Las Vegas, en un viaje originado por su tremendo parecido con Osama Bin Laden y en el que le esperan todo tipo de divertidas peripecias. Una mirada limpia y cómica sobre los excesos de la sociedad actual.