Comédia e Humor

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially by 10 best-selling novelists. From a hilarious race against time to a moment of unexpected eavesdropping, from righting wrongs in rural India to finding joy in unlikely places, these stories are all rich in wit and humour, guaranteed to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

Escrito por Daniel Furlan e Pedro Leite, Você não merece ser feliz é um falso manual de autoajuda com um ritmo intenso e humor original. Por meio de um dos personagens mais queridos dos últimos anos, os autores trazem uma crônica divertida e absurdamente irônica sobre a nossa mania de perseguir a todo custo a felicidade (mesmo que não seja merecida).

A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down.

In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.

Is the Constitution a living document that needs to evolve with the times? Or should we try to divine the original meaning that our Founding Fathers intended, and hew to that as strictly as possible, as present-day originalists suggest? In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution.

When 34-year-old Ms Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace—a company that manufactures cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day, she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups—because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...Ms Shibata is not pregnant.

Frances is 21 years-old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

Jerry Seinfeld revisita suas quase cinco décadas na comédia stand-up e oferece neste audiolivro uma seleção com os melhores textos de sua carreira.

Rir é um ato instintivo que praticamos desde bebês. É uma forma universal de comunicação. De um jeito ou de outro, todo mundo ri. Mesmo assim, sabemos muito pouco sobre o assunto. O que nos faz rir? Gargalhar realmente faz bem à saúde? O riso é contagioso? Por que certas pessoas riem tanto de coisas que outras consideram tão sem graça?

A quinta-feira agora é o melhor dia da semana. Com os crimes mais recentes solucionados, o Clube do Crime das Quintas-Feiras encontra-se em uma maré de tediosa normalidade. Mas não por muito tempo. Quando Elizabeth recebe a carta de um velho conhecido, sabe que está diante de um belo mistério. O agente do serviço secreto sessentão, com quem a ex-espiã tem uma longa história, acaba de cometer um erro terrível e precisa da ajuda dela.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. 

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

Fábio Porchat --Se tem alguém que pode te ensinar a escrever as suas piadas, subir no palco e ser engraçado do seu jeito, esse alguém é Judy Carter. Tá preparado para começar? Fazer stand-up não é para qualquer um. Mas com esse livro, qualquer um pode fazer stand-up. -- Fabio PorchatO Comedy Bible está finalmente disponível em português!

Scott Adams foi uma das primeiras figuras públicas a prever a vitória de Trump, mais ou menos uma semana depois do renomado estatístico Nate Silver colocar suas chances em 2%. Mas Adams reconheceu em Trump um nível de persuasão que só se vê uma vez na vida. Por isso este audiolivro vai além da política para analisar ferramentas de persuasão que podem funcionar em qualquer contexto, oferecendo ao ouvinte o acesso à “senha de administrador” dos seres humanos. O autor nos mostra que somos programados para responder à emoção, não à razão.