Ergebnis für "Job" in Comedy & Humor

Charlie Ashers Welt ist perfekt, bis seine Frau Rachel bei der Geburt ihres ersten Kindes stirbt. Über Nacht ist Charlie nicht nur Vater, sondern auch Witwer. Und darüber scheint er den Verstand zu verlieren - anders kann er sich das Wesen in Minzgrün nicht erklären, das ihm immer wieder erscheint. Dann fallen auch noch wildfremde Menschen tot vor ihm um, und es stellt sich heraus, dass Charlie von ganz oben eine neue Aufgabe zugewiesen bekommen hat: Seelen einzufangen und sicher ins Jenseits zu befördern. Ein todsicherer Job, aber trotzdem nichts für Charlie.

Was ist, wenn der Ehemann plötzlich so ganz anders ist als sonst? Susanne Fröhlich weiß, was zu tun ist! Pointiert und mit viel Humor erzählt sie vom alltäglichen Ehe- und Beziehungsdschungel...

Ein Mann wacht eines Morgens als Frau auf und erlebt die Welt aus der anderen Perspektive. Dieses kluge Gedankenspiel enthüllt, was oft verdrängt wird – strukturelle Ungleichheit, subtile Vorurteile und die alltägliche Benachteiligung von Frauen. Das Buch zeigt, wie Frauen ihre Wünsche verwirklichen, den Gender Pay Gap überwinden und ihr Glück finden – und warum echte Gleichberechtigung uns alle stärkt: für mehr Verständnis, Fairness und gemeinsamen Erfolg.

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence...

Hit Job follows Brynn Morris (Palmer), an aspiring artist desperate for a job to help her ailing grandmother.

Loch is seeking revenge. It would help if she wasn’t in jail. The plan: To steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but is now in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so, Loch - former soldier, former prisoner, and current fugitive - must assemble a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shape shifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical war hammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills.

"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his...

Depressed, lonely, and tired of life, George Thring leaves work one night but never makes it home. Before he knows it, he's driven over 200 miles in the wrong direction and finds himself in a strange little town, in the middle of nowhere, during their annual Elvis Presley appreciation festival. As he stumbles from one mishap to another, George meets the woman of his dreams, unwittingly aids in a bank robbery, and finds himself pursued by both the police and a gang of angry criminals.

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker “Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my...

She lost her mother—and found her fury. What happens when a woman who has spent forty years being dutiful decides she’s done surviving—and starts living dangerously instead? Set against the icy beauty of a Massachusetts beach town in winter, this novel is a sharp, darkly funny, emotionally charged story about marriage, betrayal, grief, desire, and reinvention at the exact moment life is supposed to be winding down. Viola arrives to bury her mother and settle an estate.

Für Berater Mats Enning ist es ein Job wie jeder andere: Auf einer Tagung soll er die Mitarbeiter eines Pharmariesen auf Trab bringen...

Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he's desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty steering wheel, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.

In this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstances. Throughout these breathtakingly creative seventeen stories spread across time, space, and differing planes of reality, we encounter a host of...

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'An absolute banger of a novel' LOUISE O'NEILL 'A funny, messy and satirical delight' STYLIST 'Whip-smart yet surprisingly tender' JENNIE GODFREY 'Vanity Fair meets The Kardashians' SARRA MANNING 'Snappy, witty and sharply observed' DAILY MAIL 'Scandalously funny' BOBBY PALMER "You don't want to...

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life can’t be ignored, however...

'Razor-sharp and deliciously wry' COCO MELLORS 'Funny, tender, thrillingly dark' HEATHER DARWENT 'Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful' OLIVIA PETTER An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied...

In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories...

Fue escrita durante el boom, cuando esta narrativa era partidaria de un cambio revolucionario del sistema político y económico. Durante ese tiempo todo novelista escribió desde allí. Guzmán fue uno de los independientes que descuidaron la contingencia política y económica para escribir...

Policing today is not what the public imagines. Beneath the uniform lies a profession suffocating under bureaucracy, political interference, and a leadership structure more concerned with optics than justice. Officers are stretched to breaking point, forced to navigate a world where insane decisions fail the most vulnerable, where criminals slip through the cracks, and where those on the front lines are left to absorb the trauma—alone.