Ergebnis für "Hope" in Comedy & Humor

Um als Taekwondo-Kämpferin eine Olympiachance zu haben, wurde sie Polizistin. Ein Handyvideo, in dem zu sehen ist, wie Hope Joanna vier gewalttätige Räuber in einem Späti überwältigt, macht sie zur Heldin wider Willen. Eine rechtsradikale Sekte scheint davon überzeugt zu sein, dass der legendäre, seit Kriegsende verschollene Fluchtkoffer Adolf Hitlers eben nicht nur eine Legende ist. Unter anderem soll er das Rezept für ein sagenumwobenes Elixier enthalten. Schnell findet sich die junge Kommissarin Hope Joanna Marlow in einer tödlichen Parallelwelt wieder.

New York Times Bestseller “Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn’t mean you have to be one. Mark Manson’s book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now.” — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and...

*AS RECOMMENDED BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID "FOR SOMEONE WHO NEEDS A GOOD LAUGH"* DON'T MISS NATALIE SUE'S HILARIOUS NEW NOVEL 'YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE', PUBLISHING IN AUGUST 2026 ‘A darkly funny riot’ The Times, Book of the Month A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION 2024 Would you want to know what...

Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the...

Tucker Max graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago in 1998 and received an academic scholarship to Duke Law School, where he graduated in 2001, despite the fact that he spent part of one semester--while still enrolled in classes--living in Cancun. He took these degrees and set...

Ex-Vize-Präsident Joe Biden kann sich so gar nicht damit abfinden, ein Ex-Vize-Präsidenten-Leben zu führen. Er langweilt sich auf seinem Anwesen mit Hund und Frau beinahe zu Tode, außerdem vermisst er sein Idol und besten Freund, Ex-Präsident Barack Obama. Der scheint sich derweil prächtig zu amüsieren, ob beim Bungee-Jumping von einem Hochhaus in Hongkong oder beim Speedboot Fahren vor der Küste Südafrikas. Doch dann führt der Tod eines alten Bekannten das Dream-Team Obama und Biden wieder zusammen: Bidens Lieblings-Amtrak-Fahrer hat sich ausgerechnet vor einen Amtrak-Zug geworfen.

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost...

It Could Be Worse, a new One More Chapter book, full description to follow when available...

After 25 years of achieving what he thought were his dreams of being a headlining touring comedian and actor, Kyle Cease suddenly discovered that the belief that "when something happens, I will be happy" is a complete lie. With nothing more than an intuition, he decided to quit his stand-up career at its peak, and now - as a transformational comedian - he brings his one-of-a-kind self-help wisdom to sold-out audiences in his Evolving Out Loud Live stage show.

'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'More than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives' IRISH TIMES 'Droll, shrewd and...

*** PRE-ORDER GAME ON, BOOK 3 IN THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING INTO DARKNESS SERIES *** Meet BookTok's latest obsession . . . dark, funny and super spicy, can you handle the ride? I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by the New York Times Book Review, Today show, People, NPR, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Harper's Bazaar, and more! Narrated by the hilarious Nasim Pedrad! "Hilarity ensues."— TAYLOR JENKINS REID "Fans of The Office will delight." — SHELBY VAN...

Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star...

Retired stage magician turned professional mystic debunker, John Barker, finds his sceptical beliefs under fire when he encounters a strange man who claims to be Merlin. After several unsuccessful attempts to rid himself of his increasingly unpredictable companion, John finally relents and agrees to assist in the man’s crazy mission, to find the true grave of the mythical King Arthur. Following a hidden code contained within the text of a soft porn novel, they gather a growing entourage of hippies, mystic seekers and alien hunters as they leave a trail of chaos across the south west of England.

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there...

Within days of wishing she could change her life, Fran Cooper is working for a celebrity, on a yacht, and en route to a tiny Italian island and the glittering Crystal Ball. When she—quite literally—bumps into a handsome American called Evan, the magic really begins. He makes her a promise: no last names, no life stories, just one unforgettable night. But Evan belongs at the ball, and Fran is a gatecrasher. Their lives are a world apart—unless, on a night like this, everything can change forever....

'Wonderfully drawn characters you really root for . . . a delightfully uplifting story' – Mike Gayle, author of All the Lonely People When an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen become each other's only hope of getting their lives back on track, what can possibly go wrong? Alfred...

Tom Hope is broken. Ever since his wife Laura died he hasn't been the same man, and definitely not the same father. Luckily however, his mother-in-law Linda is there to pick up the pieces and look after his two struggling daughters, Evie and Lola. But Tom getting arrested on the first...

In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally free, he heads straight for John Dortmunder's house. Long ago, Tom buried $700,000, and now he needs help digging it up. While he was inside, the government dammed a nearby river, creating a reservoir and putting fifty feet of water on top of his money.

A runaway global bestseller, available now in the UK comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookshop. One bookshop. A thousand ways to rewrite a life. When Violet Powell is newly released from prison after killing someone in a drink-driving crash, she longs for a chance...