Family Humor

Spring is in the air of Fort Connor, Colorado-a time of new beginnings for the House of Lambspun knitters. But for fellow knitter Jennifer's new real estate client, it is his end. He's been murdered and Kelly Flynn is left unraveling a tangle of clues. This may prove to be her most challenging...

Gundula sucht Ruhe, zieht aufs Dorf - der 5. Teil der erfolgreichen Bundschuh-Reihe von Andrea Sawatzki. Gundula ist außer sich! Warum erfährt sie immer als letzte von allem? Dabei handelt es sich um keine Kleinigkeit, denn ihr Göttergatte Gerald hat beschlossen, ihr schönes Haus im Rotkehlchenweg zu verkaufen, um raus aufs Land zu ziehen. Jotwehdeh. Und zwar mit der ganzen Familie, inklusive beider Großmütter und der reizenden Schwägerin Rose. Eins ist schnell klar - wegziehen ist einfach.

Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait - for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster - all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect.

When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. A ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves - even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes.

Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one - not always charitably - and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, "spark joy"), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment.

After going through menopause, Lyn finds that she no longer wants sex. This is unfortunate, as her husband, Neil, still does. When he discards her after 35 years of marriage like an old worn-out shoe, Lyn moves to Cornwall to start a new life. However, new friends are hard to find, and she feels lonely. On the spur of the moment, she decides to join an online dating site, MatchULike, just for companionship.

Wieder einmal Aufregung bei den Bundschuhs: Gundulas Ältester hat sich verliebt und kündigt unvermutet eine Hochzeit an. Doch niemand kennt seine zukünftige Frau. Nur eins ist klar: Gefeiert wird im Garten seiner Eltern, die sich um Gelassenheit und Weltoffenheit bemühen. Tatsächlich aber sind sie schockiert, denn ihre Schwiegertochter ist Afroamerikanerin, hört auf den Namen Imene und stammt aus Detroit. Da wird dann vor allem Gerald gefordert sein, der behauptet, sattelfest im Englischen zu sein.

The second audiobook in #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate's fun new series. Doggo likes routine: napping, eating, and more napping. Life is good. Life is good for Pupper, too, even though he worries a lot, about things like giant squirrels. If he were braver, he might even...

In this rollicking sequel to A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage, two (mostly) reformed serial killers discover something more deadly than murder: living in suburbia. This couple’s midlife crisis is murder . . . literally. Hazel and Fox have it all: two children, a beautiful home, and a...

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcée, her teenage daughter, a hapless con man, and their feckless patriarch—descend on a ritzy Lake Michigan vacation island. When the Pickford...

Christmas is over. And so is my marriage… Twenty years of marriage. Twenty years of ignored red flags. And one very smug ex-girlfriend. He seemed perfect at first. Don’t they always? I fell fast, and I fell hard. So when I discovered his secret double life, suddenly all those years of...

When four once-inseparable friends reunite twenty years after the community theater production that first brought them together, they discover fresh feelings, unfinished business, and plenty of offstage drama in this charming ensemble queer rom-com. Love always deserves an encore. As teens...

A daring novel from the acclaimed author of Those Who Are Saved: female rage, grief, and creativity collide in the present and animate the past, when a woman reconnects with her essential self during a summer journey, and discovers an ancient female world that offers parallels to her own Kept...

Im Nachhinein kann man Gundulas Entscheidung, mit ihrer Schwiegermutter Susanne in die Ferien zu fahren, als durchaus leichtsinnig bezeichnen. Aber die Verlockung eines sonnenwarmen, harmonischen Urlaubs auf Norderney war stärker als die Vernunft. Doch schon die Überfahrt verläuft alles andere als reibungslos, es regnet Bindfäden - und dann steht auch noch ihre liebeskranke Mutter Ilse in der Hotellobby. Ihr derangierter Zustand aber ist nur ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf die amourösen Schicksalsschläge, die Gundula in diesem Urlaub treffen.

“A funny and moving commentary on that point in a woman's life when everything seems to come into question." —Camille Perri, The New York Times "It's the superb insights and penetrating writing that make this book remarkable... An extraordinary debut." —The Guardian "Enthralling, sharply...

Auf einer Wiese hinterm Deich wird ein Mord begangen. Allerdings ist das Opfer kein Mensch, sondern ein Schaf des verstorbenen Bauern Dietrichsen. Enna und Pavel sind höchst alarmiert, denn wer so eine Gewalttat an einem Tier begeht, kann seine Brutalität auch gegen Menschen richten.

A parody for fans of Harry Potter and The Crown, Harry Windzor and the Magic of Monarchy is an irreverent, satirical twist on the life of Prince Harry and the House of Windsor. There are spats between heirs and spares, dodgy deals between the Palace and the press, and so many scandals swept under the rug that even the corgis are suspicious. Maybe this isn’t a satire after all...

Ils n'ont qu'une addiction : le sang. Mais depuis plus de vingt ans, ils ont décidé de renoncer à leur péché mignon et de se désintoxiquer. Pas facile d'être un vampire urbain au XXIe siècle ! Dans une banlieue british tout ce qu'il y a de plus respectable, les Radley essayent désespérément de se comporter comme « des gens normaux ». Mais des vampires de souche peuvent-ils définitivement refouler leurs désirs et leurs instincts ? Pas sûr.

In book two of the House of Robots series, it's 'bot brains versus 'bot brawn in an all-out war! Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez and his "bro-bot" E are making new friends every day as E works as his bedridden sister Maddie's school proxy. But disaster strikes when E malfunctions just in time to be...

Mariana Abascal, nuestra querida Mariana, por fin tiene un consultorio como terapeuta de pareja, ya no solo atiende a sus amigos al teléfono sino que tiene pacientes en toda forma, lo logró. Además de su fiel compañero, el perro Freud, ahora la acompaña la gatita Síntoma y un enamoramiento desbocado que se está saliendo de control... en fin, la vida más o menos normal de cualquiera, el problema mayor es que, al reencontrarse con su verdadero padre y establecer una relación con él, a Mariana le dejaron de hablar su hermano y su madre porque se sintieron traicionados.