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Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She’s making it in New York, a sort of wunderkind at the social media marketing startup where she works. She’s put an experimental writer, Jeremy Miller, on the map by helping him concoct a viral internet novel, told in fragments through various fake social media accounts. But privately, Jane feels trapped, ruled by her routines and her compulsions, caught up in an endless cycle of soothing and punishing herself.

Da werden doch die Kühe auf der Alm verrückt - Franz Eberhofer soll einen Mord begangen haben! Als im Polizeihof Landshut ein toter Polizist gefunden wird, ist Franz der Hauptverdächtige. Schließlich handelt es sich um seinen erklärten Erzfeind Barschl, mit dem er am Abend vorher einen Riesenkrach hatte. Dann wird auch noch die Mordwaffe gefunden: Franz Eberhofers Hirschfänger. Zum Glück ist der Birkenberger Rudi zur Stelle, um den delikaten Fall aufzuklären, und natürlich gibt auch der Moratschek seinen Senf dazu.

Dismissed for misconduct from the Met’s Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills (or hold down a relationship), Detective Inspector Robin Lyons has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she’d escaped forever at 18. In Birmingham, sharing a bunkbed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator - to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size.

Every summer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family’s nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career and his own very real desire for love and human contact.

A good job, a beautiful wife, a big house in a nice neighbourhood; there's really only one thing missing from the picture: a baby. But motherhood is a serious undertaking, especially for a wife who has always valued her selfhood above all else. And there's also a bigger problem: Temi, the wife's best friend who swears she knows her better than her husband. Set over the course of one day, husband, wife and friend toe the lines of compromise and betrayal.

The family that decays together, stays together. On a hot summer weekend in San Antonio, Texas, a father and son bond after discovering three impossible corpses buried in their backyard. From the author and screenwriter of We Need to Do Something comes a new novel of body horror and existential crises.

This book is very silly. Actually, it contains two very silly books written by two very silly people. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll throw up. Contains the novellas Naked Brunch by William Pauley III and Naked Brunch by Zachary T. Owen.

A woman comes to terms with the human condition.

America's in the throes of the Great Recession, and Tim's dreams of flipping a house have collapsed along with the housing market. After abandoning his new home as a lost cause, he's caught up in the poker craze and moves to Atlantic City with a new dream of "playing poker for a living", but soon finds himself stuck in a dizzying spell of bad luck at the card tables.

Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions.

Not long after their mother's death, sisters Maureen and Lesley are packing up their family home. It's a painful duty, with Maureen trying to control the worst of Lesley's projectile lamenting. Then a strange man knocks at the door and introduces himself as David Johnson, a friend of Maureen's neighbour. He'd like to view the house if they are thinking of selling - which Maureen definitely is.

Le "Vieux" n'est toujours pas près de sucrer les fraises ! Bali, une plage de rêve, un resort paradisiaque. Aux côtés de Julius, son partenaire dans le crime, Allan Karlsson devrait pouvoir enfin souffler. Mais il n'a pas tenu en place les cent premières années de sa vie, ce n'est pas maintenant qu'il va changer ! Pour distraire Allan et fêter ses 101 ans, Julius lui offre une virée en montgolfière qui vire à la catastrophe. Suite à une avarie, le ballon sombre dans l'océan. Heureusement, les deux naufragés sont recueillis par un navire militaire.

Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies but will he reach her in time and will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing and his mind is racing and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Should he reconsider the separation from his wife? Why does he feel so utterly confused and paralysed?

So ein mieser Schuft! Als Carina entdeckt, dass Ehemann Sven sie betrügt, bricht ihre heile kleine Welt zusammen. Klar, Lust und Leidenschaft sind nach zehn Jahren Ehe und zwei Kindern auf der Strecke geblieben. Doch dass Sven mit seiner Neuen all die romantischen Highlights genießt, die sich Carina immer gewünscht hat, ist zu viel. Sie beschließt, ihn direkt in die Scheidungshölle zu schicken. Und die Neue gleich dazu.

Dermot McEvoy sweeps his listeners into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by the ghost of Bobby Kennedy, whose death he feels responsible for.

HVAD ER MIT NAVN? JEG HAR IKKE ET NAVN, JEG ER BARE ET TAL. Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i den østgrønlandske by Tasiilaq, hvor de navnløse grave på kirkegården i Blomsterdalen er dækket med blå, røde og pink plastikblomster, der skriger i den rene sne. Hun har en kæreste, hun elsker, en omsorgsfuld familie, og hun er lige kommet ind på universitetet i Aarhus. Verden står åben, men intet føles rigtigt, og gradvist begynder verden at snævre sig ind omkring hende, og en nedtælling begynder.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...tequila, guns and cocaine. Inspired by the author's time with Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Girl is a smart, rollicking ride told with heart, a loving fictional portrait of a larger-than-life literary icon, and soon to be a major film. Alley Russo is a recent college grad desperately trying to make it in the gruelling world of New York publishing, but like so many who have come before her, she has no connections and has settled for an unpaid magazine internship...

The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask. The protagonist, Mattia Pascal, finds that his promising youth has, through misfortune or misdeed, dissolved into a dreary dead-end job and a miserable marriage.

Opal has two months to live. Terrified of dying alone, she makes a shocking request of her three cheeky friends: to help her die. Her plea is met with disbelief and denial. The shameless exhibitionist, the mouthy pill popper, and the lovesick beauty, each haunted by their pasts, dismiss Opal’s wish as a desperate bid for attention. Sure, friendships are easy when the champagne and money are flowing, but when helping a quirky friend could get you fifteen years behind bars, things can get prickly.

قول الكاتب الساخر بلال فضل في تقديم هذا الكتاب: "طلبتْ مني دار الشروق مشكورة مأجورة أن أكتب نبذة عن نفسي كما جرت العادة، التي يزعم أهل دار الشروق أنها عادة حسنة، وأزعم أنا أنها ليست كذلك.