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Maria Bamford is a creative genius. But the process of creating is not something that “comes easily” or “is enjoyable” for her. So, over the years, she’s invented a number of helpful techniques for tricking, shaming, coercing herself into doing things. You Are (A Comedy) Special is 15-step comedic send up of a self help guide that examines Maria’s approach to stand-up in a hilarious fashion.

"Money is congealed energy," said Joseph Campbell, "and releasing it releases life's possibilities." The Energy of Money distills 15 years of nationally acclaimed workshops into a powerhouse of exercises and techniques for freeing this potent "congealed" energy so you can focus it on your most...

Mona and Duncan used to be best friends. Now they can’t stand each other. Too bad that’s not a good enough excuse to miss their two families’ annual trip to the cabin. But things get really complicated when they accidentally drive through a wormhole together on the way. Look what playing nice and carpooling gets you. Now they’re stranded indoors by an epic storm and stuck in an alternate timeline where things are just slightly ... off.

Unstoppable is the fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova. In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no-one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just 700 dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD * * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH...

Brought to you by Penguin. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying. Welcome back to Bayview High . . . It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of Truth or Dare. But this is no ordinary Truth or Dare. This game is lethal...

Bloomsbury presents The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, read by Maria Liatis and Edoardo Ballerini. THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' – KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' –...

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game Maria Konnikova had never actually...

Robodog, from Children's author David Walliams. Bedlam is one of the most dangerous places on Earth – home to a host of wicked villains. Nothing and nobody is safe from these evil criminals. The city needs its own superhero to defeat the supervillains. But who? Robodog! He’s the newest...

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

The First People had only four lights to illuminate the world. The First People asked First Man and First Woman to give them more daylight. In this traditional Navajo story, learn how First Man and First Woman created the sun, moon, and stars to give light to the First People.

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

Barry uchodzi za prawdziwą duszę towarzystwa, ale to tylko pozory. Tak naprawdę czuje się samotny i ma wiele kompleksów, które ukrywa pod tatuażami, piercingiem i ekscentryczną fryzurą. Nie jeździ motocyklem i nie zalicza panienek jak jego kumple. Pewnego dnia zauważa tajemniczą nieznajomą, która na jego widok w panice ucieka i gubi swój szkicownik. Barry odkrywa, że dziewczyna ma wielki talent i ze zdziwieniem zauważa, że… każdy rysunek przedstawia jego.

Immobilienmakler Friedemann Heij alias Arturo Hernandez-Canicio de Cordoba hat es wild getrieben in seinem Leben. Er machte andere arm, um selbst reich zu werden. Und dann war da noch die Sache mit den Frauen. Eine tödliche Angelegenheit. Zwei sind einfach eine zu viel.

Ausgefressen & Voll Speed – Zwei Erdmännchenkrimis zum Spitzenpreis, gelesen von Christoph Maria Herbst. Mehr Hörspaß im Paket: Das Bundle zu Die Erdmännchen-Krimis. Perfekt zum Bingen auf langen Fahrten, beim nächsten Spaziergang oder einfach für noch längeren Hörspaß auf den Ohren. Rufus & Ray entdecken auf einer Speedboot-Tour durch die unterirdischen Kanäle des Berliner Zoos zufällig eine Wasserleiche und schlittern »voll Speed« mitten hinein in einen neuen Fall.

Man bekommt, was man verdient Leo und Sophie bekommen ein altes Aufnahmegerät in die Hände, aber wie benutzt man so etwas eigentlich? Doch eins wissen sie mit Sicherheit: Sie müssen Bilko und Nüessli überführen und dem gefährlichen Treiben im „Adventure Club of Europe" ein Ende bereiten. Und sie haben da auch schon eine Idee.

Als die kleine Tochter von Mona Olsson entführt wird, gehen die Täter mit äußerster Brutalität vor - der Großvater überlebt die schreckliche Tat nicht. Schon früh haben Arvid Sundquist und sein Team den Eindruck, dass es den Entführern nicht ums große Geld geht. Ihre Motive liegen offenbar ganz woanders. Während sich die Ermittler noch fragen, warum der Aufenthaltsort des Vaters nicht bekannt ist, tritt ein Offizier des Geheimdienstes auf den Plan.

Armaan is a young television writer and seems to have it all - a dream job, ample money and a good place to live in Mumbai. Despite all that, his heart lies somewhere in his hometown, Indore. Merry and beaming through all of life’s ups and downs, Sara is a little desolate and now needs a different space to rethink her life as she joins a leading television channel in Mumbai. Armaan and Sara meet in FILMY style and quite obviously then cannot help but fall in love.

Con men are artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Whether it's a suspicious-looking email or a multimillion-dollar global swindle, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the confidence game and the profile of both the con artist and his mark.