Ergebnis für "Adam" in Satire

Eigentlich wollte Hansi Scharnagl nur die Wasseruhr ablesen. Dann steht er im Keller vor einer Leiche – und in Unterfilzbach ist die Sache noch am selben Abend klar: Selbstmord. Sagen die Nachbarn, sagen die Stammtischbrüder, sagt sogar die Polizei. Nur einer glaubt kein Wort davon. Während...

In Unterfilzbach geht es um die Wurst. Max Saxinger, jahrzehntelang Metzger des niederbayerischen Dorfes, hat sich zum konsequenten Tierschützer und »Kuhflüsterer« gewandelt und will nun alle Unterfilzbacher zum Vegetarismus bekehren. Begeisterung löst das nicht überall aus. Als Saxinger...

Wahlkampf im niederbayerischen Dorf Unterfilzbach — und der beliebteste Kandidat will gar nicht kandidieren. Seit seiner erfolgreichen Verbrecherjagd wird der Bauhofangestellte Hansi Scharnagl im ganzen Ort als Held gefeiert. Alle Parteien umwerben ihn emsig, jeder Stammtisch reicht ihm ein...

Im niederbayerischen Unterfilzbach fliegt der Feierabend in die Luft: Erwin Weiderer, pensionierter Briefträger und Gemeinderat, kommt bei einer ebenso spektakulären wie tragischen Explosion ums Leben. Ein unglücklicher Zufall? Die erprobten Bauhof-Spürnasen Hansi Scharnagl und Sepp Müller...

Vierzig Jahre Heimweh — und eine Leiche am Straßenrand. Hansi Scharnagl wollte nie nach Las Vegas. Die Reise wird ihm aufgezwungen, und dann trifft er dort ausgerechnet Charly Woodforth: geboren in Unterfilzbach, seit vierzig Jahren in Amerika. Die Begegnung bleibt nicht ohne Folgen. Charly...

Am Bauhof von Unterfilzbach hat Hansi Scharnagl bisher die Rasenmäher regiert. Dann kommt Monaco: neuer Kollege, faul wie ein Sonntagvormittag, aber so attraktiv, dass ihm das halbe Dorf hinterherschaut – Damen wie Männer. Hansi rutscht in eine handfeste Lebenskrise. Und als Monaco...

Two years after successfully melting down the top secret sperm bank under the Space Needle, the CLITO collective (Community of Lesbians Inclusive To Others) is thriving on their newly acquired private island, Lesbos 2. All is well in their queer utopia. Or is it? Investigative reporter Sarah Keebler (Sarah Steele) is piecing together the crew's previous heist for her bombshell true-crime podcast–and getting dangerously close to the truth.

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

My teammates know I’m not the biggest party guy, and Vegas is not my scene. But they wouldn’t take no for an answer. When Christy ‘Kit’ Garrett, my high school nemesis, appears out of nowhere, wearing a wedding gown, I’m certain I’m hallucinating. Fast forward twelve hours later: I have a massive headache, a ring on my finger, and Kit sleeping next to me.

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcom in the Middle) follows in the exasperated footsteps of Samuel L. Jackson, giving voice to the long-suffering father whose indifferent child will just not eat in this hilarious follow-up to Adam Mansbach's international best seller, Go the F--k to Sleep.

Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and is drawn into a four-billion year old mystery that must be...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, PBS, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire...

This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears WHEN YOUR KID IS LITTLE, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to...

¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso y franco de manera radical, cuenta la...

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A...

Susy Branch (Tavi Gevinson) and Nick Lansing (Adam DiMarco) aren’t into each other, but they share a similar problem. Susy is a down-on-her-luck socialite who doesn’t want to get a real job, and Nick is a struggling writer who’s tired of tutoring the kids of the one percent. All of their wealthier friends are getting married, to seemingly lucrative results. So, Susy and Nick devise a plan: have a wedding.

In the sun-drenched hills of Napa Valley, former Mexican cartel distributor Francisco Bautista reinvents himself as a respectable vintner, trading blood money for the prestige of California's wine aristocracy. Armed with a mountain estate, sprawling vineyards, and a fabricated past, Francisco launches his assault on Napa's wine country social elite. His unlikely arsenal includes a washed-up celebrity ghostwriter, retired sports legends, and elite wine experts—all fighting for relevance in the intoxicating world of luxury wine.

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage. Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her ... except vengeance.

Aly and Adam Bloomington have been best friends since birth. They are twins after all. When Adam travels to California for work and to visit an old friend, he leaves his beloved–and ill-behaved–dachshund, Pretzel, behind with Aly. When Adam FaceTimes Aly, his childhood best friend Levi hovering over his shoulder, Aly can’t believe this tall, broad-shouldered, chiseled stranger is the same scrawny, floppy-haired boy they grew up with. Could this be the same boy she secretly used to crush on? Aly finds herself wanting to get to know the mysterious man he’s grown into.