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Jude, a profoundly unsuccessful chicken farmer, finds himself at the center of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis when Europe’s economic elite convince him that his roofless henhouse needs to become too big to fail. What starts out as a simple roofing job quickly spirals into a hundred-billion euro project to cover Jude’s native Squanderland in solar panels. But when the latest Eurozone scheme plunges his homeland into darkness, Jude must decide whether listening to the experts or listening to his heart will ultimately save his homeland, himself, and his beloved hen, Enda.

Hanya ada satu orang yang paling dibenci oleh Nadia di dunia ini, yaitu seorang anak laki-laki bernama Kafka. Cowok jail itu tidak bisa berhenti mengisenginya setiap hari, enam hari dalam seminggu, selama hampir dua tahun. Terakhir kali Nadia bertemu dengannya adalah sekitar 20 tahun yang lalu...

Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash Palace, an isolated lodge outside the big city where people pay to party in the wilderness.

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she’s got all her worldly...

Modern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In 11 stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live.

Folgt auf die Corona-Krise die große Inflation? Crasht der Euro? Stürzen die Börsen ab? Was droht unseren Jobs und unserem Geld? Der Privatbanker Willibald Katzenschlager beobachtet die Wirtschaft seit Jahrzehnten und hilft mit seinem Wissen vermögenden Kunden, ihre Gewinne zu erhöhen und abzusichern. Leicht verständlich erklärt er in diesem Buch, was wirklich kommt. Dabei zeigt er ohne Rücksicht auf die Beschwichtigungen der Politik und die Untergangsszenarien in den sozialen Medien auch, wie wir uns darauf vorbereiten können.

From a New York Times bestselling author ("One of our wisest storytellers"), a story collection that is funny and tragic in equal measure, about crimes large and small (Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers). Beloved author Jill McCorkle offers an intimate look at the moments when a...