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Bei Maska, dem archäologischen Ermittler aus Schwerin, ist das Geld knapp. Dann schiebt eine aluminiumblonde Braut ihren Vater in sein Büro, ihre Freunde werden umgebracht, aber die Polizei will davon nichts wissen. Mit seinem Doktor in angewandter Kryptozoologie kann nur er diesen Fall lösen, der ihn und den letzten Kobold Mecklenburgs zu den Bigfoots, Vampiren, Zwergen und Werwölfen des Landes führt. Kann Maska die Mordserie stoppen, bevor die blonde Puppe auch kalt gemacht wird? Und warum bedrängt ihn eine rothaarige Schönheit mit Sätzen aus drei Wörtern?

Ein hochkomisches Hörbuch von Twitter-Star Lorenz Meyer – in vielen Stimmen interpretiert von Stefan Kaminski. Auf Twitter entwirft Lorenz Meyer (@shengfui) entwirft auf Zuruf Texte und Statements diverser Personen des Zeitgeschehens: von Christian Lindner über Harald Martenstein und Heidi Klum bis hin zu Richard David Precht. Seine Beiträge werden von Hunderttausenden geliket und geteilt und legen offen, wie stanzenhaft moderne Kommunikation in Zeiten von Social Media funktioniert.

Ein neuer Job ist wie ein neues Leben. Und es könnte alles so schön sein, wäre da nicht die gähnende Langeweile. Aber offenbar steht in dieser Firma die Zeit still, während einem die Kollegen das Leben schon mal schwer machen können. Da hilft nur eins: Zurückschlagen! So setzt sich in "ARBEITEN VERBOTEN" von Episode zu Episode ein buntes Bild über das Arbeiten im Büro des deutschen Mittelstandes zusammen. Eine aufschlussreiche Offenbarung für alle, die in ihrem Büroalltag auch manchmal den Kopf schütteln, weil sie nicht fassen können, was da vor sich geht.

Rikki Thunder, twenty-two-year-old drummer for the scorching new ’80s metal band Whyte Python, is about to have it all: absurd wealth, global fame, and a dream girlfriend. But an unwitting role as an international spy? That was definitely not part of the plan. "A rock-n-roll thrill ride...

Désirée, trop jeune veuve, va régulièrement sur la tombe de son mari. Au cimetière, elle rencontre "le mec de la tombe d'à côté", dont l'allure l'agace autant que le caveau tape-à-l’œil qu'il vient fleurir. Depuis la mort de sa mère, Benny vit seul dans la ferme familiale. Il s'en sort comme il peut, grâce à une bonne dose d'humour. Chaque fois qu'il la voit, il s'énerve contre la nana qui s'assied sur le même banc de cimetière que lui.

Quand Samantha accepte l’invitation à une soirée organisée par quatre filles un peu sinistres, elle plonge sans le savoir dans un monde inquiétant, entre le conte de fées et l’histoire d’horreur.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ____________________ 'Sorry?'...

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.

Extreme Zeiten erfordern extreme Lösungen. Warum kein neues Leben beginnen, wenn das alte zum Problem wird? Dieser Ratgeber erklärt schrittweise fünf Möglichkeiten, den eigenen Tod glaubhaft und gerichtsfest vorzutäuschen. Einige dieser Vorschläge sind mit großem Aufwand und enormen Risiken verbunden, versprechen aber nach der Aufführung des Spektakels den ungestörten Neuanfang. Andere Methoden sind unkompliziert durchführbar - für den Fall, dass es mal schnell gehen muss.

A GoodReads Reader's Choice Bridget Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back! In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a few rather pressing questions: What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday...

Edith Lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, Edith meets Charles, Earl of Broughton, and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, who runs the family estates in East Sussex and Norfolk. To the gossip columns he is one of the most eligible young aristocrats around. When he proposes. Edith accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, his position, and all that goes with it?

A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in this feminist fairy tale satire. “The Princess Bride meets Shrek.”—Susie Dumond, author of Bed and Breakup...

George, Harris, and J. decide to take a cycling trip through the Black Forest - to be accomplished on a tandem plus one. Whether it is Harris's harrowing experience with a Hanoverian road-waterer or George's valiant attempt to buy a cushion for his aunt, their experiences are hilarious - - and they may even offer some important lessons to all who may be contemplating a cycling trip in the U.S.

When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was met with raves, lines for tickets, and reviews calling it the “must-see experience of a generation.” But after dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on a bloody night of chaos during the show’s run, the nation was captured by one inescapable question: How could this happen?

With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.) Monday 27 January: "7:15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, thereby...

Satire und Systemkritik mit Maik Martschinkowsky. Wie hört es sich an, wenn die Sesamstraße eine Regierung bilden will, Superhelden ihre Steuererklärung machen müssen oder Bob Ross ein rechtes Weltbild malt? Welche rhetorischen Tricks sollte man bei Begegnungen mit ungeduldigen Feen oder Berliner Beamten unbedingt beachten? Und kann es sein, dass sich die Interview-Antworten von Politikern und Fußballspielern kaum unterscheiden?

The Big Jewish Book for Jews brings together Jewish wit, inspiring tales, classic skills, and even pickle recipes, for the instruction and edification of the modern Jew. Readers will learn how to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord, the rules of Canasta, how to build a pyramid (the Bernie Madoff and the Egyptian kind), and how not to accept the first table you are shown to in a restaurant.

In this new Audible Original series – Daisy’s first ever podcast - she’s invited six celebrity friends to try to covert her to books by telling her all about their favourite classic. She promises she’ll definitely read one of them by the end of the series. Maybe.

Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him want to meet her. Without even a name to go on, and only a few of her possessions to help him, how is he to find one woman in a city of millions?

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.