Títulos em Literatura e Ficção

Une ex-actrice à l'imagination débordante, un chat grincheux et un meurtre énigmatique : prêts pour un cosy mystery au bord de la Méditerranée ?Lorsqu'elle débarque sur la Côte d'Azur, Calypso Finn, fraîchement divorcée, s'imaginait siroter des caipirinhas et lire des romans policiers affalée sur un transat. À la place, elle découvre le corps d'un inconnu dans sa cave. Le temps de prévenir les autorités, voilà le cadavre échangé avec un autre.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Trowbridge Vermont EMT Brighid Doran delivers the region’s ambulance to a three-alarm house fire. Afterward, she sits in a warm truck with her girlfriend Sam, a US Army officer fresh from the battlefields of Iraq, as they watch a local volunteer firefighter battle the blast in subzero weather.

On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.

The fate of America rests in the hands of a washed-up stuntman, a foul-mouthed ex-wrestler, and a woman who should’ve taken another job offer. Duke Thunder wasn’t supposed to run for president. But after a bar fight, a stolen VHS tape, and a deep-state assassination attempt, he had no choice. Now, he’s leading a beer-fueled revolution, exposing conspiracies that shouldn’t exist, and rewriting the Constitution—with his fists. But shadowy forces want him gone. The Woke Mafia, the Deep State, and Hollywood elites have declared war.

Zofia's son, Janek, has vanished without a trace. Leaving behind her native Warsaw, she arrives in London, determined to uncover the truth - and she's certain that a celebrated writer called Steve holds the key to Janek's disappearance. To fund her DIY investigation, Zofia takes on a string of cleaning jobs - a professional trajectory she finds very much beneath her. Armed with little more than her stubborn resolve and a second-hand detective manual, Zofia gathers evidence.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

Monsters killed his parents, and Klondaeg is out for revenge. Wielding a talking battle-axe with a split personality, Klondaeg travels the world, teaming up with outlandish adventurers in search of new monsters to slay. He’ll battle lycanthropic garden gnomes, gold-devouring demons, aliens from a long-dead universe, the mighty maxotaur, an apocalyptically misguided wizard, and much, much more on his tireless quest to track down and bury every monster he can find.

There I stood, all five eight of me, poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, soaking wet in my retro bathing suit, holding a dry pair of tickets to the Emmys that night, in front of a gorgeous woman, and I didn’t know who I was, where I was, or why I was. Or, just as importantly, who she was and what she was to me. Over the course of the next few days I discovered I was a thirty-something Emmy winning writer-actor showrunning a popular sitcom, but I had to learn about that one detail at a time until my memory came back.

John, Chris, and Erik are neighbors in the quaint subdivision of The Creeks of Sage Valley Phase II. The three men happily live the typical suburban family life. But, it’s not all birthday parties and bounce houses. These men struggle every day to fulfill their roles as fathers, friends, and husbands. They face challenges like grocery shopping under pressure, learning to be the Tooth Fairy, and competing for Halloween bragging rights. Throw in Santa and the HOA, and it all adds up to a whole lot of crap.

Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish aristocrat, radical husband. Joan Foster has dozens of different identities, and she's utterly confused by them all. After a life spent running away from difficult situations, she decides to escape to a hill town in Italy to take stock of her life. But first she must carefully arrange her own death.

Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flatmate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, that calmly sabotages her careful plans, her stable routine—and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach . . .

Tired of being a loser selling weed, Steve, our hero devises a plan to steal Elon Musk’s space shuttle and embarks on a mission to go find the Galactic Overlord Xemu.

Ever wonder what happens when the guest of honor at your party is a dead guy, Santa needs a twelve-step program, or the comedian is anything but funny? This laugh-out-loud journey through the chaotic world of high-end events will have you snorting champagne through your nose. Follow the wacky adventures of a Bonafide gala guru and party planner extraordinaire along with her elite team of event operatives as they scramble behind the scenes to transform pandemonium into parties, fiascos into fiestas, and the utterly ghastly into glorious galas—all, just in the nick of time.

Timothy ‘Timbo’ Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down the dark canyons of global capitalism, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil. His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee ‘Lethal’ Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard.

You Might Be a Narcissist If… is the ultimate bathroom book for the self-obsessed (and the poor souls who have to deal with them). Packed with laugh-out-loud observations, cringeworthy truths, and some suspiciously accurate red flags, this book will help you determine whether you’re just a little full of yourself… or if it’s time for some serious self-reflection.

Dr. Hannes Hennes, leicht unterforderter Mathelehrer, glücklicher Ehemann und Vater, könnte ein zufriedener Mensch sein. Doch seit dieser demütigenden Sache bei der Nobelpreisverleihung in Stockholm und dem peinlichen Auftritt bei Günther Jauch läuft in seinem Leben alles schief. Natürlich hätte er auch niemals mit dem Jagdgewehr seines besten Freundes schießen dürfen.

Meet single mum Samantha, entrepreneur Rhea, and first-time mother Tahlie, all from different walks of life, brought together by their weekly mum and baby group in the town of Hickory Creek. Here they all find support—and a moment's peace—in the haze of raising their new-borns. But when the group is cancelled due to a lack of funds, it looks like the invaluable support they received will be no more.

Denk an das schlimmste Date deines Lebens – und du bist noch nicht einmal nahe dran! Ein ebenso humorvoller wie lebenskluger Roman, eine grandiose Mischung aus Humor und existentiellen Fragen. The Walking Date ist keine normale Dating-Plattform: Hier können sich Menschen, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, noch ein letztes Mal verlieben. Deshalb hat sich auch Patient Raphael bei TWD angemeldet, und tatsächlich funkt es zwischen ihm und der ebenfalls erkrankten Nala. Doch am Tag ihres ersten Blind Dates geht es Raphael nicht gut.

Dax Biggins releases Abigor–the demon of war from a dybbuk box–to increase his TikTok views. When Abigor returns to Hell, he discovers it's changed dramatically, and there's now a Committee of Warfare!

Christine Wright isn’t your average priest. An ex-special forces soldier and recovering alcoholic, she’s brought her twitchy reflexes and a knack for trouble into her new role as a church minister. And on day one, things explode—literally. It starts with a buried body. Add a furious widow, a missing church artifact, and a stalker hell-bent on revenge, and Christine’s new calling looks more like a high-stakes mission than a quiet parish life. As the chaos unfolds, her military past and her radical approach to faith clash with the expectations of her skeptical parishioners.