Ergebnis für "Me" in Satire

From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

"[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...

WINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST LAST LAUGH AWARD FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SKINNY DIP AND RAZOR GIRL, A HILARIOUS NEW NOVEL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE, SET AGAINST THE GLITTERING BACKDROP OF FLORIDA’S GOLD COAST It’s the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or...

My entire life is a mess. My ex cheated. My job sucks. And my apartment smells like old takeout and despair. Enter: a 3 A.M. infomercial promising the Scrubbie Dubbie will change my life. Desperate and half-delirious, I order it. The next day, a sponge arrives—hot pink, dual-textured, and...

Prem Dayal regresa con una versión corregida y aumentada de sus inolvidables mantras mexicanos. Con más de 100 mil ejemplares vendidos, el fundador del Osho Meditation Center en México nos regala, en esta edición reloaded de su clásico ¡Me vale madres!, un nuevo mantra: ¡A huevo! Prem Dayal nos ayuda a entender por qué la humanidad está tan jodida y nos propone una solución que nadie se espera.

Humoristický román ze středomořského ostrova Korfu, kde anglický přírodovědec strávil pět let se svou rodinou. Očima desetiletého hrdiny pozoruje autor zvyky různých živočichů, ale i příslušníků rodinného společenství. Pro budoucího zoologa s literárním talentem to bylo ideální splynutí. Díky jeho zálibě v čemkoli živém se všichni dostávají do zábavných, i když občas hororových scén. Příběh založený na typicky anglickém humoru, se vzrušujícím pohledem na středomořskou faunu a flóru. Dýchne na nás radost ze života na řeckém ostrově s typickým durrellovským humorem.

The Baron Sherazad sent me as far away from Eslant as possible. Now, I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere, in a nest full of enemies, with only a demented mimic and a renegade elf to watch my back.

From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29)...

It was just supposed to be one night. No kissing. No feelings. A wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am tangle in the sheets and we go our own ways. Only it's a small town, and I was bound to run into the irresistible Porter Jones again. I just didn't expect it to be at my job interview...which he's conducting.

A merciless, darkly funny satire about a tastemaking editor whose cool-girl magazine job gives her just enough power to become a status monster. Have you ever considered what your tote bag says about you? Or pepper grinder? Or phone case? Connie Qing is a professional tastemaker. An editor at...

Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that binds her in this hilariously bloody conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology. After countless failures (let’s not dwell on it), Davi has finally saved the kingdom from evil–by becoming the Dark Lord herself. But now...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England. In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...

When kidnapped English heiress Zoe Lexham daringly escapes from captivity, her problems have only begun. After 12 years in a harem, she knows far more about erotic practices than how to conduct a proper conversation in civilized parlors. Enter Lucien de Grey, the Duke of Marchmont. Lucien is no knight in shining armor; he's cynical, easily bored, dangerous to women, and utterly indifferent to popular opinion. But good looks, combined with money and title, make him welcome everywhere.

New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison whips together a witty and charming--and delicious--story about the secrets we keep, the friends we make, and the food we cook. MUST LOVE BUTTER: The Cookbook Club is now open to members. Foodies come join us! No diets! No skipping dessert! Margo...

In 1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to "do something" about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators.

Nine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most. Meena wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English...

Gary Halvorson discovers an old photo of his grandfather with the late James Dean, but the problem is the photo was taken in Dalton, Georgia, back in 1965! A whole decade after Dean was killed in a tragic car accident in 1955, in Cholame, California, after which he was laid to rest in his native Fairmount, Indiana - or was he? Getting more and more curious over this, Gary decides to go to Dalton, Georgia, and discover the truth over whether or not James Dean could possibly still be alive.

Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can’t do it? You don’t have to! Adam has done it for you! Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world view...

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind. Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion....

Here's an irreverent and hilarious reference guide to all the people, ideas, and institutions that pollute our lives. Because you don't have to be old to be grumpy. Read by the stars of Channel 4's Green Wing.