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As irreverent as it is amusingly insightful, Cinephilia is the world’s only transgressive work of satirical fiction that involves both cat strangling AND ninjas. The characters are as hilarious as they are absurd and persons of every potential gender, race, and creed are welcome to laugh...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

I "Her går det godt" (1952) udstiller Finn Søeborg blandt andet naboskab, familieforhold, sportsidioter og læserbrevsskribenter i 1950’ernes Danmark, hvor bolignøden præger mange menneskers hverdag. En mild satire med herlige typer som fx den koleriske Jeronimus, der med stor iver søger...

Why do Brits say “I’m fine” when they are absolutely not fine? Why can a queue jumper inspire more silent fury than an actual crime? And why is putting the kettle on considered an appropriate response to almost every crisis?Brits Don’t Do Drama: We Just Complain About Everything Quietly...

Twenty days to go-live. One CRM & ERP project. What could possibly go wrong?Liam Lane has spent years implementing business systems and has learned one important lesson:The software is rarely the problem.With go-live approaching, the project is held together by stand-ups, status reports...

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

When a brutal alien invasion turns out to be a galaxy-wide reality TV show, Chad Jenkins, a broken man given wolverine-like regeneration must team up with an android, a sasquatch, and a teen tentacle abomination in order to save humanity from enslavement.Humanity isn’t just expected to survive...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

Gnot Normal woke up dead.At least, that was his first assessment.His second was that being dead involved considerably more mud than expected.Now he’s stranded on Anachronia, a world where time is broken, neighboring towns belong to different centuries, and reality has an alarming habit of...

Fünf Frauen unter einem Dach – das kann nur in einer Katastrophe enden? Tut es, aber anders als gedacht. Als dann auch noch Benno auf die Idee kommt, Brigitte ungefragt einen Hund zu schenken – noch dazu einen Welpen – ist das Chaos perfekt und die Nerven liegen blank. Und noch bevor alle...

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

Eine Reise in den Rausch! Nach ihrem Hörbuch über den Opernball legt Stefanie Sargnagel mit einem weiteren Abenteuer nach: Allen Warnungen zum Trotz und in ein Dirndl geschnürt begibt sie sich an einen Ort, der für viele eine Zumutung ist und für andere der Himmel: das Münchner Oktoberfest. Das bietet viel Anlass zum Nachdenken über die liebenswerten und weniger schmeichelhaften Gemeinsamkeiten von Österreich und Bayern.

It Started With A Ridiculous Mix-Up.An ordinary teenager from Earth and an endlessly curious alien accidentally swap lives across the stars, leaving each of them to navigate the other’s world, with bizarre civilizations, advanced technology, a know-it-all AI, an android trying to understand...

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking...

When Candide is cast out of his sheltered life, he embarks on a journey filled with war, natural disasters, betrayal, and heartbreak—all while clinging to the optimistic philosophy of his mentor, Pangloss. As he travels across Europe and the Americas, encountering a bizarre array of characters and suffering the harsh realities of life, Candide’s faith in idealism is repeatedly tested. In this classic satire, Voltaire skewers the pretensions of philosophy, religion, and social systems, offering a compelling critique of human nature.

ନିତିଦିନିଆ ଜୀବନର ଘଟଣାବଳୀ ଭିତରୁ ବ୍ୟଂଗର ଉପାଦାନ ଖୋଜିନେବାରେ ବିଶିଷ୍ଟ କଥାକାର ମୃଣାଳ ସିଦ୍ଧହସ୍ତ! 'ଭଲ ଅଛ ନବଘନ' ବହିରେ ଅଛି...

Ambitious and hardworking Tracy Flick feels underappreciated and stuck. Her job as a high school assistant principal isn’t the political career she dreamed of as an over-achieving teen, so when the longtime principal abruptly announces his retirement, offering a rare chance of promotion, Tracy is filled with zeal at the prospect of success. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. 

'Shrewdly observed, brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment . . . Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft' MARIA SEMPLE ONE OF ESQUIRE UK'S 'BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN 2019' AND LITERARY HUB'S 'MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019' Finally...