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Tess Simpson needs a break. No one appreciates her at home. No one appreciates her at work. And now her dog has died. She’s had enough! Maybe what she really needs is a break from hopeless husband, Dave, the ungrateful ‘kidults’ and the lacklustre job.

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.

"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.

Meet Mr. Conley, a shooting instructor who trains people in the time-honored American custom of self-defense. He also practices self-defense, but only when he can’t come up with a better option. Most hitmen live in fear of the legal system, but Conley considers it his best friend. In a world where there’s nothing new under the sun, Conley has worked out a whole new twist for a very old game.

Each and every year, the Sprin’ Bor came. It was the wave of water that flooded downriver, marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring. But this year, it was late! The panic among the creatures of White Waters Chase was just simmering away quietly, until one day, it reaches boiling point when an immigrant ferret, known by the name of Percy Polecat (though he prefers the name Black Paw), opens his big mouth. Within a matter of hours, Percy’s been arrested and tried on trumped-up charges

Brandon Merryweather is a young man with two passions in life: numbers and the written word. Brandon makes his living crunching numbers and unwinds by reading a good book. One morning, when Brandon steps out of the front door of his Manhattan apartment building, he hears a clap of thunder and sees a flash of blue light. Brandon closes his eyes in fear and when he opens them, he finds himself in Greedy Gulch, the 1880s boomtown from the novel he is reading. The people of that world call him the new Tale Spinner and expect him to finish the tale.

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.

Als Sayo wider Erwarten lebend in Aath Lan'Tis auftaucht, ändert sich für sein Volk alles. Was er ihnen anbietet scheint unglaublich: eine neue Heimat. Eine eigene Welt, genannt Eh'Den, in der sie nun endlich friedlich weiter existieren können. Inspektor Dalon, Martandi und die beiden chaotischen Drachen Nerol und Dragon werden gerufen, um die Aath Lan'Tianer bei der Suche nach diesen Elementen zu unterstützen. Was niemand von ihnen ahnt: Sayos Vereinbarung mit den Schöpfern der neuen Welt hat eine Macht erzürnt, die Eh'Den auf keinen Fall hergeben will.

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.

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.

Dog walker Ben Carter is shocked to discover that his mom's fiancé, Alvar, is an "encantado"–a shapeshifting dolphin that seduces human women and preys on their flesh. He races to Minnesota to stop their wedding, leaving demon dog Toby back in Chicago.

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.

A snappy, absurdly dark satire set in Hanmer, a small town on the outskirts of the author's hometown of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It's about a sport involving grocery carts, several terrible people, an alternate universe, and an annoying (yet charming) narrator.

Les parents de Louis n'ont pas beaucoup de temps à lui consacrer, ils sont trop occupés par leur restaurant. Heureusement, Louis peut compter sur ses amis : Frim le chat, Gaufrette, le poisson rouge et Einstein le chien...

At the end of the 18th century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.

After years of pulling heist, the Great Bandit is caught. The judge discovers something different about her and gives her an opportunity that most criminals would only dream of. The Great Bandit has the ability to remember everything—she has an eidetic memory. After realizing the great potential that she could have for his country, the judge orders her to serve out eight years in the US Army and become part of the CIA. She doesn't want to go, but it was either this or 30 years in prison for all the robberies she committed.

The world is a curious place, filled with mystery and unexplainable events. This story follows the man known only as Tim Meadows. He is a man of mystery, with his history kept secret. He has seen things that some can only dream to see. Everything in this story is dedicated to the memory of some of the world's impossibilities, and limitless to what some call realistic. Tim must find the balance between reality and his own personal world, before everything collapses. Follow these wonderous adventures with Tim, and be prepared to have questions.

Bishop's Point is about to face its biggest crisis since the distempered badgers attacked. Father O'Riley and Father O'Malley are all that stand in the devil's way. The forces of Hell descend upon the sleepy Irish town en masse, but they were not expecting the good fathers to lead a rebellion against them.

Después de presentar su año en Estados Unidos ("California 83") y en la universidad ("Chorromoco 91"), Pepe Colubi retoma las andanzas de su alter ego en el momento en que Pipi obtiene su título académico en 1994. A base de inconstancia, falta de ambición y tendencia a no esforzarse, intentará labrarse un futuro sin doblar el espinazo. Nadie ha logrado menos con tan poco.

Molly Miranda is back for more hilarious and exciting adventures in professional burglary. This time, Molly is thrown into the high-stakes world of art theft. She and Rhys, her partner-in-crime, travel to France to steal a priceless work of art with the help of a new business connection - an artist with her own set of unique skills.