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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable ------------------- EVERYONE IS MOVING ON... AND THEN, THERE'S HANNA BY THIRTY, HANNA EXPECTED TO HAVE IT ALL (OR AT LEAST SOME OF IT) A fulfilling and successful career A...

Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love. So she can’t believe it when she meets a remarkable new man. Followed by another. And then another. And all of them want to date her.

Catherine Sloper, the heroine of this tragicomic tale set in mid-19th century New York, is absolutely ordinary in every way except for her exceptional capacities in love and loyalty. These latter qualities are of no interest to her father, the successful society Doctor who is constantly disappointed by his daughter's failure to be brilliant, either physically or intellectually. For this reason, he is highly suspicious when Morris Townsend begins to woo her and is convinced the handsome young man's interest is only in the fortune Catherine will eventually inherit.

Seventeen-year-old Çaglar is just another apathetic teenager - except when it comes to his sister, Çigdem, who he believes is the world's most beautiful and brilliant nine-year-old. Determined to display her genius, Çaglar grooms Çigdem's talent into a perfect Michael Jackson impersonation and pursues a sure route to fame: YouTube. Tragically, Çaglar's efforts are sabotaged by a little incident internationally known as the Taksim riots.

Oskar Panizza: Das Verbrechen in Tavistock-Square. gelesen von Werner Wilkening. Die Erzählung "Das Verbrechen in Tavistock-Square" ist ein ironischer Protest gegen die übertrieben prüde Sexualmoral (nicht nur im wilhelminischen Deutschland) seiner Zeit. 1891 veröffentlichte Panizza den Text in dem Almanach "Modernes Leben", einem Sammelband der Münchner Modernen. Dieses Buch wurde sofort nach Erscheinen von der Staatsanwaltschaft konfisziert, gegen Panizza sogar Anklage wegen Vergehens gegen die Sittlichkeit erhoben, die allerdings bald wieder fallengelassen wurde.

The dummies initially resisted the rescue because they weren't done shopping.

Library Cat, the resident cat of the University of Edinburgh's Main Library, is not like other cats. He is a thinking cat. You can tell by the canny glint in his eye, his disdainful whiskers and his unrelenting interest in books and piles of paper. This is the Library Cat's story. Join him as he...

Mairéad is single, child-free and head of a successful influencer talent agency. The young people at work may be mean to her, she hasn’t seen her only sister for nine years and she’s one bad date away from giving up on men completely – but other than that, she’s got life sorted. Until...

An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss's whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is...

The Zen Basard Rides Again is the new work by investigative satirist Paul Krassner. Dubbed "the father of the underground press" by People magazine, and called a "raving, unconfined nut" by the FBI, Paul Krassner is a counter-culture legend and a comic genius. According to the Los Angles Reader, "Krassner delivers the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town."

Dubbed "the father of the underground press" by People magazine, and called a "raving, unconfined nut" by the FBI, Paul Krassner is a counter-culture legend and a comic genius. According to the Los Angles Reader, "Krassner delivers the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town."