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Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Going back home was not exactly what Tim and the C&C gang expected. Trouble continues to follow them back to Gulf Coast Mississippi. Trouble...and a gnome...and an undead midget.

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who believes that the voices she hears are from God.

Big mouth. Big heart. Big wedding. Big problems. It's the wedding of the century! Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying...

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

This is a collection of the second six short stories in the Caverns and Creatures series.

Cada vez que el profesor Henry Wilt entra en el aula del centro politécnico, algo se rompe en su interior. Con el regreso a casa cada día tampoco llega la paz, sino tan solo la constatación de que su vida es una derrota continua. Y, sin embargo, algunas de las mejores carcajadas de la...

Eigentlich haben wir nur eine Person gesucht und am Ende drei gefunden. Doch wie soll es jetzt weitergehen? Diese neue Welt ist nicht für jeden gemacht und manche brauchen mehr Schutz als andere.

Clark Kind, ein klassischer Tagedieb, wird 45 und er beschließt sein Leben zu ändern.Was dann geschieht ist manchmal absurd, manchmal grotesk und für einen morbiden Humor immer unterhaltsam.

El thriller más irreverente, ingenioso y divertido del año con una protagonista inolvidable a la altura de Bridget Jones Florence Grimes siempre toma las peores decisiones. Soltera, sin dinero y frustrada tras el humillante final de su carrera musical, lo único que la motiva para levantarse de la cama todas las mañanas es Dylan, su hijo de diez años. Hasta que Alfie Risby desaparece misteriosamente durante una excursión con el colegio y Dylan se convierte en sospechoso.

From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only...

Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. For a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains derailed.

Instant Sunday Times Bestseller "Wickedly funny." —People "A gleeful satir[e]." —Sunday Times “Ferociously entertaining.”—Good Housekeeping (UK) With the bite of The White Lotus and the family dynamics of Succession, What a Way to Go is an uproarious and satirical whodunnit about...

A "hilarious, suspense-filled" dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to use this as inspiration for his next book (Entertainment Weekly). A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a...

From Emmy Award-winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman, and Franz Kafka.

By his own admission, Dougie Neil is a deeply unattractive man. With only one failed relationship to his name, Dougie is now middle-aged, single, and close to giving up his quest to find love. Then, after the strangest of incidents at work, the unthinkable happens—Dougie is propositioned by a succession of attractive women. Armed with his newfound superpower, Dougie’s only remaining challenge is to decide which of his many admirers is Ms. Right. Then he can settle down, get married, and live happily ever after.

Am letzten Wochenende vor Semesterbeginn, das sie wie immer in der Strandvilla der Eltern von John und Gretchen verbringen, kommt es zwischen John, Tom und Nicolas zu einer Wette: Wer es schafft, die ahnungslose Susan—Zimmergenossin von Gretchen und berüchtigte harte Nuss—zu verführen, bekommt das beste Zimmer im Verbindungshaus.

Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect if it weren't for her cheating husband, her suspicious daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that guy she lost her virginity to 20 years ago.

In Tell Me Lies, Jennifer Crusie dishes up a funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies.

In einer Hütte findet Heffs Team Schutz vor den Schrecken des Waldes – doch leider auch neue Schrecken! Denn hier finden sie die Aufzeichnungen einer Okkultistin über die Machenschaften eines Hexenzirkels in genau dieser Gegend. Einen Zirkel, der seine Opfer in Kuckucksuhren zu bannen pflegt!

A young woman must unmask a serial killer and prove her innocence, all before her best friend’s wedding in this hilarious “sultry summer thriller” (The New York Times). Gwen Turner has made a bloody mess of her life. She recently broke up with the best man she’s ever known for reasons...