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An underpaid, overworked certified flight instructor cheats death while attempting to teach a cast of incompetent student pilots to fly at a skeezy South Florida flight school; all in the quest to build flight time so he can get a “real job” at an airline. The planes break, the regs break, metal gets bent, students are lost at sea, and a Top Gun wannabe student, who has 400 hours of flight instruction, still hasn’t made his first solo flight.

L'insensatezza del mondo, l'ossessione per il cibo, la macchina faticosa e perfetta del corpo femminile, lo sport nazionale dello scaricabarile, il mito della ricchezza e del potere, la scommessa del cinismo contro la bontà, i figli, tormento e beatitudine. Questi i temi dei monologhi scritti da Mattia Torre, coautore della serie tv "Boris", che tre grandi attori, Geppi Cucciari, Valerio Aprea e Valerio Mastandrea, hanno portato con successo sulle scene italiane negli ultimi anni.

I’ve rebuilt my father’s media company with hard work and determination, but my single status leaves me on the outs with the one businessman I need to get close to. A little white lie and I’m suddenly in love, head over heels. Now I need to find a fake girlfriend, someone to keep up appearances without any emotions. When I find my mother’s fiery assistant in a compromising position, it’s the perfect opportunity to get what I want: a girlfriend for business appearances, without any feelings involved. I won’t let the fact that I’m wildly attracted to the petite redhead get in my way.

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too)...

A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review) and the bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about...

The very liberal Kirks are throwing a party. For Howard Kirk, liberal sociology lecturer whose deluded sense of heroism has him moving seductively around the university campus, the net must be perfectly cast: ‘if you want to have something that’s genuinely unstructured, you have to plan it carefully.’ Kirk embodies the contradictions of the era’s intellectual and political climate. As he navigates complex relationships with his wife, his students and his colleagues, he pursues personal and professional agendas under the guise of progressive thought.

Moriae encomium, zu Deutsch: Lob der Torheit (oder Lob der Narrheit), ist der Titel eines der bekanntesten Werke des niederländischen Humanisten Erasmus von Rotterdam. Das Werk, ein herausragendes, zu seiner Zeit wirkmächtiges Beispiel der Narrenliteratur, ist auch als Laus stultitiae bekannt. Es wurde eines der meistgelesenen Bücher der Weltliteratur und wurde schon zu Lebzeiten des Erasmus in viele europäische Sprachen übersetzt, denn Satiren waren in der Renaissance die bevorzugte Literatur der Gebildeten.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need...

'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...' Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real...

Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton (Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield) at Ascot. When he proposes and she accepts, does she really love him, or is she merely dazzled by his title and money?

René Sydow lässt die angespitzte Zunge von der Kette und sticht zu: In brandneuen Texten geht er dem allgegenwärtigen Irrsinn auf den Grund, nimmt sich Minister, Medienmacher und andere Mitglieder des organisierten (V)Erbrechens vor. Vom Regierungssprecher bis zum Waffenhändler, vom Schönheitschirurgen bis zum eigenen Ich... nichts und niemand bleibt ungeschoren. Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Wortakrobat geht in seinen bissigen Texten über die Politik hinaus und hinterfragt unser Weltbild mit schwarzem Humor, Spott und Poesie.

История одного города - сатирический роман, написанный в форме исторической хроники. "В этом фантастическом мире нет ни страстей, ни увлечений, ни привязанностей.

When Shadeys Bank loses another CEO to a scandal, they are desperate to show they’ve reformed. Who better to present their redemption than a country Vicar? Reverend Tom Goodman is ousted from his job as a country Vicar for allowing a homeless family to stay in the church hall. Meanwhile, a major bank is trying to rescue its image after the latest in a long string of financial scandals. It seems like the perfect match, and Goodman is hastily appointed as the bank’s new CEO.

Napoleon has England on edge. For the cunning and conniving Becky Sharp, it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and improve her lowly station. Her friend Amelia Sedley, a blue-blood pawn, affords Becky entrée into the moneyed class. As the guileless Amelia pines for a rakish soldier, the ruthless Becky climbs upward, setting the stage for a domestic battlefield of greed, ambition, deception, and dizzying reversals of love and fortune.

In "Phantasien und Geschichten" sind die Meisterwerke vom großen russischen Satiriker Nikolaj Gogol vereint. Inhalt: "Der Mantel" – "Memoiren eines Wahnsinnigen" – "Die Nacht vor Weihnachten", "Wie es kam, dass sich Iwan Iwanowitsch mit Iwan Nikiforowitsch entzweit hat" – "Wij, der König der Erdgeister" – "Eine Mainacht", "Ein Landjunker" – "Der Zauberer" – "Die Nase" – "Altväterliche Gutsbesitzer".

With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry. On the other end of the line is the brilliant yet temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher’s job is to rescue the script of a saccharine love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his family is in danger in Vienna, while his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded by his British colleagues.

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin...

Bitterböse - und politisch unkorrekt: Sie leiden persönlich unter globaler Erwärmung. Sie sagen Schokokuss statt Negerkuss. Sie haben Verständnis für Terroristen. Sie kommen sich mutig vor, wenn sie Hitler schlecht finden. Sie sind die Gutmenschen - und sie glauben, die Welt wäre schlechter dran ohne sie. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Sie quälen und sie nerven uns. Und es ist höchste Zeit, sie loszuwerden.

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable...

Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KGB is soon on the scene. But all is not as it seems and soon Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate a labyrinth of double-crossing that is to lead him to a bewildering showdown in a remote corner of the Kowloon province of Hong Kong.