Action Comedy

All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and his legend is brilliant but un-earned. Somehow, he thinks he's the best there is and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF hilarity and biting social satire creates a spy world that has gathered praise from the greats of the genre.

Welcome to Glacier Country! Luthor Devlin and his ranch hands were out tracking 20th-century rustlers when they stepped into a time warp! There on the jagged cliffs was a woolly mammoth, a sabre-toothed tiger, and a tawny, near-naked savage. She was a primal fantasy come true - that left him stunned!

When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing.

Two years after he won the average at the Las Vegas National Finals Rodeo by riding Kamikaze, the world’s most unridable bull, Lick is down on his luck, working on a ranch in the remote Nevada desert with Al Bean, an ornery old cowboy. Then into their lives crashes Teddie Arizona—T.A.—a woman of mystery who crawls out of the wreckage of her plane with a $500,000 secret.

Luke Jensen lived on the wrong side of the tracks all his life, but that never stopped him from realizing his dream and making it a reality. Now, the king of the street racing scene, he finally has everything he wants and he won't let anyone take it away from him. Violet Barnes lived a sheltered life growing up, never fitting in except in the books that she loved. After losing her parents, she forges forward, creating her own little world, content in being alone.

When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers that it's on the brink of tearing itself apart. Things become complicated when it appears those responsible are in charge of running the place.

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements -- such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks -- that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated.

Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded.

Lea, Andrea e Viola a scuola erano inseparabili. Poi è arrivata la vita adulta, che oggi per un trentenne può essere molto complicata, tra il lavoro che non c'è e i progetti che slittano sempre in attesa di un momento migliore (mentre tutti ti ricordano che il momento migliore, in realtà, è passato da un pezzo). Ora quel legame che tra i banchi sembrava indissolubile ha fatto posto ad altre cose: Viola sogna un figlio dal suo compagno, Lea ha un marito e un lavoro part-time, Andrea sta per andare a convivere...

"Les aventures de Tom Sawyer" és una de les més grans novel·les per a adolescents que s'han escrit mai. Tota la vida dels pobles de la riba del Mississipí hi és mostrada a través de la narració dels jocs, les preocupacions, les activitats i les relacions d'un parell de personatges que han esdevingut veritables clàssics de la novel·la d'aventures: Tom Sawyer i Huck Finn.

Amid the political turmoil of the French Revolution, another revolution is taking place, an ambitious project to remeasure the Paris meridian, thus determining the precise distance from the North Pole to the equator in order to calculate a new base unit of length - the meter - establishing a rational system of measurement based on nature that will unite all people of all nations for all time.

Oliver Twist fu il secondo romanzo di Dickens, pubblicato a puntate mensili dal 1837 al 1839. E' una delle opere più famose dello scrittore, primo romanzo inglese ad avere un ragazzo come protagonista e uno dei primi romanzi sociali. L'umorismo feroce con cui Dickens descrive la società inglese, la povertà, l'abuso infantile, l'ipocrisia della cultura fu decisamente una novità.

Grandi speranze è considerato uno dei più grandi e più sofisticati romanzi di Dickens; ebbe inoltre più di 250 adattamenti sul palcoscenico e sullo schermo. Fu pubblicato a puntate fra il 1860 e il 1861, ed è come altri romanzi di Dickens la storia di un percorso di crescita morale di un ragazzo che viene seguito, nel racconto, dall'eta di 7 anni all'età di 35 anni.

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.

Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen? Bedingungsloser Spaß! Schräge Vögel aus der Schwulenszene, Studentinnen, die Sexfilmchen mit Plüschtierchen drehen, Professorinnen und Redakteurinnen, die für Lack und Leder-Fotos Modell stehen. Temperamentvolle Sängerinnen, die ihre Bandmitglieder von der Bühne prügeln. Ein Arzt, der die Anti-Baby-Pille für seine Tochter gleich tütenweise von Pharmavertretern schnorrt.

Sam Goodall knows how to hide. And in the years since his sister's death, he's done just that, burying himself in his work at the Evans brothers' Mile High Adventures as a backpacking guide. Clients don't mind his strong, silent demeanor, and he's happy to leave the rest of the world behind when he's hiking, or holed up in the off-grid cabin he calls home. But he owes his life - what there is of it - to the Evans boys, and when they ask for a favor, he can't refuse.

Tre amici ed un cane percorrono in barca il Tamigi. Sia durante i preparativi del viaggio che in navigazione, si verificano situazioni assurde e divertenti, descritte con il tipico umorismo inglese.

Vous rêvez d'une croisière de l'extrême ? Alors, c'est parti pour l'Antarctique ! Sur le navire, une globe-trotteuse septuagénaire répertorie les similitudes entre humains et animaux. Et elles ne manquent pas, grâce à une brochette de voyageurs bigarrés venus se frotter aux épaulards tueurs, albatros, pétrels et autres éléphants de mer. En route pour le bout du monde, Tomas file vers son objectif ultime : en finir avec les tracasseries de la vie, seul sur la glace.

Russia, 1945: For Petka, a rambunctious 12-year-old boy with dreams too big for his tiny village, the prospect of invasion is dangerously thrilling. He watches the Red Army troops march off to engage the enemy, and wages his own war - against boredom, bullies, and his lot in life as a bastard in a backwoods world. Secretly raising a wolf in his grandmother’s goat barn, happily raising hell with the local troops, stowing away in a shipment of bootleg booze destined for the combat zone, and defying death by the noose, Petka eagerly takes all he can from life.

Liz Monahan is in a rut. Her boss is a jerk. Her mom won't stop asking about her love life. And her boyfriend just might be married. But since she found that corpse in her hotel room, things have gotten interesting. The new guy in accounting has a license to kill. He thinks she holds the key to a terrorist plot. And the man in her life is a rogue secret agent who just might want her dead. But at least he's single.