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One man. One year. So many ways to screw up.…William has a 12-year-old boss bent on his destruction; the interior design duo from hell re-decorating his bathroom; and an angry small person with a mean right hook on his case. On the plus side, he has as a gorgeous wife and an adorable (but insomniac) new son - and he loves them both. It’s just a shame that parenthood doesn’t stop him doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time, with catastrophic results for his small - and increasingly exasperated - family.

Introducing Interviewing by William Seymour - the winning short story of the Bookseller Futurebook audio original competition 2019. When a young job applicant is overwhelmed with anxiety attacks about an impending interview, his world seems about to implode. Worse still, the calm voice of reason in his head is no help at all...Chosen for its unique writing approach and fascinating prose, Interviewing is a piece of writing that is enhanced by a fresh, forward approach to the audio format.

They say the Messiah is alive. He is living in New York. Sleeping with men. Impregnating women. Euthanasing the dying, healing the sick. Defying the government and condemning the holy. If you met him.... and he changed your life... would you believe?

The complete set of five novellas from Nick Earls. Gotham tells of the encounter between music journalist Jeff Foster and 'boy pharaoh' Na$ti Boi. Venice is about love and the tensions that pull us apart. Vancouver is the story Paul would tell if he were living in plague times - a story that comforts, a story that wards off evil. Juneau captures an acutely observed moment in which we see the universe. NoHo is about living in the shadows of the famous.

Jónas ha quarantanove anni e un talento speciale per riparare le cose. La sua vita, però, non è facile da sistemare: ha appena divorziato, la sua ex moglie gli ha rivelato che la loro amatissima figlia in realtà non è sua, e sua madre è smarrita nelle nebbie della demenza.Tutti i suoi punti di riferimento sono svaniti all'improvviso e Jónas non sa più chi è.

All you have to do is find out why Harry is prepared to blame an innocent man. That's the thread. Follow it. You'll reach the Silent Ones. This is your way - our way - of making a difference. With this challenge from Father Edmund Littlemore, Anselm returns to the Old Bailey to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. The man in the dock is Littlemore himself. He is charged with grave offences against Harry Brandwell, who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar.

The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.

Die wundersame Wandlung eines Mannes, der irgendwo zwischen Himmel und Erde feststeckt und von Gott die allerletzte Möglichkeit erhält...

Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is keeping secrets; and her brother seems only to egg on their parents' erratic and unpredictable behaviour. Alongside her friends, Suzy finds herself drawn into the downward spiral of her parents' relationship, and as a result is drawn into the centre of a mystery surrounding a murder.

At the end of Charles Webb's first novel, The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock rescues his beloved Elaine from a marriage made not in heaven but in California.It is now eleven years and 3,000 miles later, and the couple live in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, with their two young sons, whom they are educating at home.

William är bara sex år gammal när familjen får det fruktansvärda beskedet: han har fått leukemi. Insjuknandet innebär en stor omställning för hela familjen. Och året som följer kommer att bli svårt, tungt och fullt av motgångar. Men det kommer också att vara ett år fyllt av livsglädje, vilja och kämpaglöd. Det mest uppenbara för en förälder i en sådan situation är hur mycket den skulle ge för att bara få hålla i sitt barn en gång till, bara en gång till. Två år senare kan familjen se tillbaka på perioden som svår, men att de klarade det. Detta är berättelsen om familjegemenskap, livsglädje och kärlek. Den är skriven av mamma Sandra och William.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

Another in the great Caedmon Shakespeare series from the 1960s. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous 'pound of flesh' speech. Shylock, a greedy Jewish money-lender, has lost his beloved daughter when she elopes with a man who belongs to a virulently anti-Semitic society.

Das "Notizbuch eines Schriftstellers" führt in eine fremde ferne Welt. Es enthält Beobachtungen, die Maugham auf seinen zahlreichen Reisen gemacht...

Honey Santana is determined to set up her own tour business, paddling tourists around the Florida Everglades in ocean kayaks. The result is a kayaking trip from hell, and an unplanned overnight stay on Dismal Key, one of the Everglades' islands.

McAvoys Travelling Cirkus kommer till stan, och Clay Allison tycker inte alls om det. Cirkusägaren är en otrevlig typ, men han för med sig en hel del vackra damer! En dag hittas en kvinna död. Det blir ett fall som bara Clay Allison kan reda ut. Clay Allison eller William Marvin Jr. är pseudonym för författaren Bengt-Åke Cras (född 1943) som skrivit 124 böcker i serien "Sexy Western". Cras har även skrivit ungdomsböcker, serier, sagor, noveller och dokumentära böcker, ofta under olika pseudonymer.

När Clay spelar kort på en saloon promenerar plötsligt Celia in, en kvinna som Clay varit gift med! Hon behöver hjälp och snart är Clay indragen i ett mysterium Clay Allison eller.

Staden Bakersville var inte sig lik. Sheriffen, Clays gamle vän, brydde sig bara om flaskan. Clay beslutar sig för att göra något åt saken Clay Allison eller. William Marvin Jr är pseudonym för författaren Bengt-Åke Cras (född 1943) som skrivit 124 böcker i serien "Sexy Western". Cras har även skrivit ungdomsböcker, serier, sagor, noveller och dokumentära böcker, ofta under olika pseudonymer.

Mackintosh lebt mit seinem Vorgesetzten Walker in einem kleinen Dorf in Polynesien. Walker schickaniert ihn und seine anderen Untertanen...

This is the eight book in My Memoirs, a love story, modern fairy tale, a rock-and-roll story, and my family history - a history of Glasgow a man unemployed for decades then an author.