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Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by.

Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: free lodging in a guest cottage in exchange for tennis lessons, luxuriously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother.

It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest of his life at Riven Rock, the family's California mansion, Stanley is treated by a series of confident doctors determined to cure him.

Zacharia, a Civil War general, discovers a secret about the Gods. With Jacob, his aide-de-camp, he sets out to alter the lives of Gods and men in this offbeat tale of satire and humor.

We're back with Bertie Wooster and his devoted man, Jeeves, in Carry On, Jeeves, the second collection of P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved series. There are trips to America, scandalous books and articles to tend with, near misses in love, and schemes aplenty, all under the watchful eye of Jeeves, who always finds a way to make things just right.

It’s summertime at Treemeadow College and the living isn’t easy. Theatre professors and adorable couple Nicky, Noah, and their thespian troupe stage an original musical adaptation of the King Arthur Legends entitled, Knights in Tights. Queens blissfully shout, “King me,” until critics drop like their scathing reviews.

Berlin 2003. Wolfgang Schneider ist zwanzig und heißt trotzdem Wolfgang Schneider. Er lässt die Provinz hinter sich, doch in Berlin hat niemand auf ihn gewartet. Zumal die Stadt im Umbruch ist: Die hedonistisch-anarchischen Neunziger liegen noch in der Luft, doch eine neue Zeit klopft an der Tür: Berlin will als Hauptstadt Ernst machen. Schon bald kann Wolfgang die demonstrative Wichtigkeit der Menschen hier nicht mehr ernst nehmen. Leider rutscht er schnell in todernste Milieus ab, gerät ans Theater, in die Berliner Kunstszene und in eine kommunistische Hochschulgruppe namens "SacK und Klit".

Humorvoll überspitzte Alltagsgeschichten, gewürzt mit Satire - das ist die Domäne von Uli Kreimeier, einem Meister der sicheren Sprach-Pointe.

Quarantott'ore dopo essersene andata, Elena Alberti riappare così com'era sparita: senza una parola. È allora che inizia l'enigma, perché Elena torna a casa, sì, ma non al suo posto: abita la sua vita di prima da straniera, celando dietro un sorriso da sfinge un cambiamento radicale se non addirittura sovversivo. Che non sia più la stessa, l'ha capito persino il cane. Ma in fondo, anche prima della sua fugace sparizione, chi poteva dire di conoscerla davvero? Probabilmente non Lorenzo, uno chef stellato in crisi creativa convinto che il loro amore fosse invincibile.

Introducing the Most Deliciously Indulgent Guide of the Century! How to Get Fat: The Ultimate Fast-Track Guide to Maximum Caloric Indulgence Are you tired of those boring, restrictive diet books? Exhausted from endless lectures about salads and jogging? Well, it's time to feast your eyes and your appetite on the definitive guide to letting yourself go—How to Get Fat! In this gut-busting, laugh-out-loud parody, author and renowned food enthusiast, Chunky McButterpants, serves up 27 mouth-watering chapters filled with the secrets of achieving peak plumpness faster than you can say "extra ...

Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.

Stupid Plays includes four deliciously dumb plays. They are silly, funny, and a great way to waste an afternoon! Sugar and Spice - Ruth Stone returns to work after the death of her husband and turns to a life of crime. Grave Undertakings - Zoe pays off past debts by turning the mortuary where she interns into a necrophiliac whorehouse. Freedumb - don't worry if the country goes socialist, fascist, or communist, because we've got freedumb! Bread and Circuses - Junior and Steffie go on the ride of their lives.

Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? Jolene certainly doesn’t. She’s riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hates her coworkers. The less she knows about them, the better. So when a catastrophic IT f--k up grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, she’s initially horrified. The last thing she wants is to be privy to their sad discussions about dying desk plants and marital troubles. That’s until with job cuts looming, she realises the power this new-found knowledge gives her.

After getting her heart broken in her early twenties, Abi Mason vowed to live by a simple (but non-negotiable) rule: no second dates. Who needs a boyfriend, or anything else for that matter, when you have a career to think about? But life has other plans: with some unexpected time on her hands, Abi finds herself on holiday in Tuscany. Among sun-dappled vineyards and olive groves, Abi meets dashing American Tony, and it seems the universe is conspiring to force her out of her comfort zone...

Frances Mathews doesn’t get out much since her husband died, but that doesn’t stop her from jump-starting a campaign to create a hedgehog highway in Hilltop Place—feeding stations, holes at the bottoms of gates and fences, and wild garden areas for hibernation. To Frances’s delight, her neighbours are on board. Mostly.

Dublin-based Dessie (David Kelly) and Violet Doyle (Pauline McLynn) are trying to keep their theatrical costumier business afloat amidst drama, scandal and farce so brilliant it should be on stage itself. Attempting to embrace modern working practices, the pair find themselves in uproarious situations with a cast of colourful characters and multiple narrative threads… Listen and laugh as the beleaguered couple embrace an offer from a local nun’s drama group which might help, if only they don’t get things mixed up with the Gaiety Theatre’s opera production.

When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with 18-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose hobbies include playing the fiddle and telling folktales - many of them about female rebellion and disobedience, and seeking justice, whatever it takes. But beneath the surface of the apparently friendly and peaceful pastoral surface of the farm, something darker and less harmonic starts to vibrate.

Get ready to set sail on a new fun adventure with Jake Stewart in this murder mystery! When the unemployed journalist stops for a quick drink at a country bar, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous shootout. From there, Jake leaves his RV life behind as he moves aboard a sailboat and embarks on a wild ride filled with murder, romance, and rumors of a treasure that fell from the sky. Will he be able to navigate through the dangerous waters of marina life and find a new family among the eccentric characters he meets? Will he stay alive long enough to find love and money? This fast-...

A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it “birth” and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician—older, self-contained, alone, and nine-months pregnant—moves to town, Ari sees the possibility of a new friend, despite her unfortunate habit of generally mistrusting women.

In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to come by. Supermarket stock clerks Pedro and Marques spend their days unloading trucks, restocking shelves, and dreaming of a better life, of breaking the cycle of poverty that has afflicted their families and their community. Well-acquainted with the drug dealers in their neighborhood and seeing an opportunity to earn a little extra cash, they decide to start a weed-dealing operation.