Humor Fiction Adventure

Une irrésistible histoire d'amitié que vous n'oublierez pas de sitôt. Humour, aventures et fantaisie sont au rendez-vous ! Lorsque Harry se trouva pour la première fois nez à nez avec Madison, il fit la grimace ! Pourquoi diable son oncle d'Amérique, l'oncle George, lui avait-il légué un perroquet africain au plumage gris, âgé de quarante ans et, de surcroît, muet ? Luc Alexander, Sophie Arthuys, Arnaud Bédouet, Didier Rousset et Françoise Vallon nous proposent une lecture pétillante de cette histoire pleine d'humour !

A contract enforcer for a drug kingpin steals a car, brutally murders a young couple in their home, and begins an epidemic that will eventually turn half the world into flesh eating zombies. And he's the hero! Tapper wasn't always soulless. In fact, he was a decorated patriot of high character and honor. But this story isn't about any of that. It's about the man he was after the operation. The man the doctors said had lost his soul. A lost soul with such training and expertise should have been guided, not abandoned. But he's not bitter. In fact, he's loving life.

Join George Mahood, his long-suffering wife, and their three young children as they pack their bags and embark on an exciting new chapter in Devon. Picking up where Every Day Is a Holiday left off, Life’s a Beach follows George as he continues his hilarious celebration of the quirky and bizarre calendar days, proving that fun and adventure can be found in the most unlikely situations.

Harry Fische and the crew of the Limburger are back in action, and they're out to take the cheese. The evil alien Sploig have stolen a whole cheese factory, cows and all, and taken it off planet Earth. There's nothing to do but load up the Jiffy Whip and go after the cheese rustlers! But how do you find an ancient race of shape-shifting aliens who make even the Farfnians look like technological troglodytes? The answer? Pick a nice Carpoolian with lots of money, and run for public office!

La storia di due amici, Huck Finn e Jim, che cercano la libertà, nell'America dell'800, in lingua inglese! Una collana di Classici della letteratura in lingua originale, per giovani desiderosi di imparare una nuova lingua, in forma ridotta per renderli più facili. Pubblicati come audiolibri per permettere di apprendere in modo ancora più semplice la pronuncia delle parole.

Barry and Beth, high school sweethearts separated by time and circumstance, find themselves reunited at the Blue Loon Village senior living center in Minneapolis. Now both seventy, they rekindle their relationship only to discover how differently time has shaped them. Beth has blossomed into a free spirit with a goth flair, while Barry has transformed into the curmudgeon he swore in his youth he’d never become.

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.

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.

Meet Ruby Rose, a 2010 Kia Soul with a sassy attitude and a knack for storytelling. When Traci, a frazzled mom, and her glitter-obsessed daughter Lizzie embark on a cross-country journey from Oklahoma to California, Ruby’s not just their ride—she’s their guide through life’s wild detours. From squirrel heists to disco RVs, this funny road trip novel is packed with quirky characters, absurd mishaps, and heartfelt moments.

A down-and-out rodeo champion follows a mysterious woman on the run with half a million dollars back to the bright lights of Las Vegas in the sequel to Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky? “Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard Two years after...

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.

In the backwoods town of Possum Trot, trouble’s brewin’—and only one man has the duct tape, moonshine, and guts to fix it. Meet Hill-Jack Bob: mechanic by day, redneck vigilante by night. When a shady corporation threatens to take over his town with mind-control soda and political corruption, Bob and his oddball sidekick, Possum Boy, rise up in camouflage, homemade gadgets, and a superhero vehicle built from junkyard scraps.

Drie Vlaamse goudzoekers trekken in 1849 naar Californië. De lezer volgt de verrassende en komische verwikkelingen die hen telkens in de buurt van het fortuin brengen… maar nooit echt dichtbij. Avontuur en kluchtige humor wisselen elkaar af in deze uiterst toegankelijke roman.

“A tremendous novel—droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.” —William Boyd, Author of Any Human Heart and Restless.” A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean...

Una historia emocionalmente evocadora acerca de un hombre, una mujer y un caimán es un emotivo tributo al amor, del autor best seller del New York Times de las galardonadas memorias Rocket Boys: la base de la película Cielo de Octubre. Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (el padre del autor) eran...

Détective de renom, Justan Lockholmes est une pointure. Aucun coupable ne lui échappe et sa vérité triomphe toujours ! Pourtant, lorsqu'une certaine Elisabeth Smith met tragiquement fin à ses jours, rien ne va plus. Un cas insoluble, des éléments sans le moindre sens, et un assistant à la vivacité toute relative. Voilà que la vie du jeune Justan bascule et que tout se complique !

Dani's plans to stay far away from her friends' adventures change when an ancient relic shows up at her doorstep. Now she's in the midst of secret codes, suspicious bodyguards, and a mystery surrounding her antique shop. Hunter knows there's something about Dani and her friends that she's not telling him. But spending time with her is worth all of the secrets. That is, until the moment the package arrives at her doorstep. While Dani and Hunter feel like they're way in over their heads, they know it's up to them to make this right.

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 Derek Strongarm, Felix Lightfoot, and their friends are hired to transport a powerful and potentially dangerous magical artifact, they can’t help but foresee disaster ahead. They have a rather bad track record, after all. Why should this job prove easier than any other? It doesn’t. Their pessimism is rewarded in spades when they become trapped for the winter in Além, a fortified city under siege by howlers - savage beasts living in the surrounding forest and hungry for human flesh.

When bounty hunter Duke LaGrange and his oft-inebriated Japanese-Irish ninja companion, Ishiro’shea, entered their favorite watering hole, Cyborg Joe’s Grill N’ Go & The Why Not Saloon, they had no idea that they would soon be gobbled up by an unhinged astral anomaly and deposited on an uncharted primitive world. Few things are worse than undeveloped planets, especially those that haven’t even made it to the soufflé stage. To top it off, this particular planet comes with its own insane ruler and an Orb That Controls Everything and Must Be Respected.