General Humourous Fiction

SORCERY IS A rip-off . . . the second one ebook within the page-turning SPELLSLINGER myth sequence.

Four months after fleeing his personal humans, Kellen has found he is a fair worse outlaw than he was once mage. It does not aid that his in basic terms allies are a swaggering card participant and a thieving squirrel cat.

Then he meets Seneira, a blindfolded woman who is not blind, and whose secrets and techniques get them stuck up in a conspiracy of magic, blackmail and homicide. Now Kellen needs to locate the mage in charge prior to the full frontier falls sufferer to the paranormal plague referred to as the shadowblack.

Perfect for fanatics of The darkish Tower, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Terry Pratchett, Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher.

Introducing Denverite Brendan Murphy or "Murph" as he's identified to the remainder of the realm. He lives on my own in his crow's nest condominium, fries a hamburger for each meal, does his dish, then channel surfs for reruns of Gilligan's Island. he's a thorough minimalist. He strives to earn not more funds as a driving force for Rocky Mountain Taxi corporation than his wishes require. he's made up our minds to stick out of the lives of these he transports. He struggles with one factor and is spectacularly undesirable with the opposite. The Asphalt Warrior is the 1st of 11 adventures. Come prowl the suggest streets of Denver with Murph and give some thought to the which means of the realm and every type of deep questions, equivalent to: Why may a person are looking to DO anything?

Hogg corridor is falling down, and the delusional, dysfunctional relatives of noblemen who inhabit the home look powerless to save lots of it.

Downton Abbey meets Father Ted in Brian Luff's surreal black comedy which has already stumbled on a cult following through its web publication and sequence of audio podcasts on iTunes.

Hogg corridor is a unusual and lovely international during which you will discover drunken wine critics, eccentric inventors, witches, ghosts, monsters and gangsters. you are going to additionally get in detail conversant in a bumble bee name Anthogrid.

the higher EAST aspect COOKBOOK: major path is a fake memoir and nearby cookbook set in big apple, in Parsley Cresswell’s higher East aspect brownstone residence. Her buddies locate Parsley mysterious—is it precise that she had a long-ago affair with Bob Dylan? “This can be a cult classic.”—Tenaya Darlington.

What much is published while her annotated, uncensored recipe dossier involves gentle. “Main path” reveals Parsley arrested for one crime and retained for suspected ties to insider buying and selling. in order to determine Parsley’s innocence, a chum audits the recipes left at the back of, which come with classics and exotics, corresponding to Gado-Gado. you could learn “Main direction” with no need learn “The higher East aspect Cookbook: surroundings the desk in a Time of narrow Means,” which coated just one eventful yr, 2008, within the lifestyles and busy kitchenette of Parsley Cresswell. “A deep dish, indeed.”—Garrison Keillor.

Ironico e ilare dalla scrittura umoristica ma sempre attento a cesellare tipi umani: arroganza e senso di inferiorità, adulazione e servilismo, ipocrisia e affettazione, ricerca del consenso e arrampicamento sociale. Una critica feroce alla piramide del sistema e delle classi che lo caratterizzano questo scritto diviene unico nel suo genere. Con uno stile iperbolico e grottesco, l. a. visione del mondo che Thackeray ci presenta è quella di un unico snob universo, dove l'eguaglianza auspicata da illuministi e giacobini, radicali e liberi pensatori è confluita in un mondo piatto, nel quale poveri e ricchi, uomini e donne, nobili e borghesi, letterati e analfabeti sono tutti irrimediabilmente snob. Pubblicato a puntate sulla famosa rivista umoristica "Punch" fra il 1846 e il 1847, e in quantity, una prima volta, nel 1848, questo pamphlet, nato consistent with irridere e fustigare los angeles società vittoriana, mantiene intatta tutta los angeles sua forza e le sue pagine ben si adattano al mondo di oggi.

"“Say it's not So” is a hilarious and romantic novel with plenty of drama. Walter T. Owens Sir, a well known pass judgement on and Roberta Owens a well known pastor lives in Atlanta GA. they've got seven siblings which are all grown and live on their lonesome. existence used to be easily appealing.

That is till all types of skeletons got here rolling out while a really daring spouse confirmed up at the parent's doorstep. the entire spouse regularly desired to do was once to fasten eyes with the gold-digger that was once robbing her husband blind.

This novel is stuffed with laughter and romance because the Owens extended family fines themselves in a single sizzling mess and an international of natural unadulterated drama. it is going to have you ever in stitches, tears and maybe an amen or . even if we may perhaps superb a little of the Owens drama in our personal lives, the writer brings all of it jointly during this one relatives. you could nice yourselves asserting; what, naw, hush your mouth, say it's not so.
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Luftgitarre, »Rockpalast«, »Beatclub« und Klammerblues, der Hüftschwung von Mick Jagger und die Nickelbrille von John Lennon, Hippies, Gammler und Rocker – der dritte Band der Beat-/Rock tales mit Geschichten und Songs aus einer Zeit, in der alles anfing mit Pop, Politik und Protest. In kleinen Erinnerungsstücken, Feuilletons und Erzählungen lassen u. a. Joseph von Westphalen, Keto von Waberer, Sibylle Berg, Heinrich Steinfest, Gert Heidenreich, Thomas Lehr, Alfred Komarek, Peter O. Chotjewitz, Georg Klein, Michael Rutschky und Martin R. Dean diese Zeit und ihre Musik wieder lebendig werden.

four f. – three h. – Décor : une salle d’auditions – Durée : one hundred and five min

Entre quatre femmes, occasions cocasses, quiproquos, agendas rouge et noir, escroqueries et menaces de mort, Pierre, le réalisateur aux multiples maîtresses, ne sait plus à quel saint se vouer. Trois actrices convoitent le même rôle et sont prêtes à tout. Une autre femme les rejoint. Pourquoi Pierre est-il si troublé en l. a. voyant ? Soumis à un rigidity insoutenable, sera-t-il l. a. victime du crime parfait perpétré par Sophie, los angeles mystérieuse invitée shock: l'assassinat par infarctus ?

"“Al…..#1-4-1” as he refers to himself, drives a taxi for wilderness Cab in Palm Springs, Calif. This activity may position him in lots of extraordinary and funny positions as he encounters numerous unusual passengers. through the yr “Al….#1-4-1” must become independent from from this activity to sail at sea as a service provider marine for Crest Tanks, out of St. Louis, Mo…... his different part-time activity. this actual 12 months he opts to force this previous ‘64 Volkswagen van around the kingdom to fulfill his send in Boston, instead of flying there. sound asleep at evening contained in the van, Al could cease at his favourite cities and bars, ones he use to widespread in his more youthful lifestyles. those stops contain Las Vegas, Aspen, St. Louis, Chicago, Montreal and at last, Boston.
Leaving his van in garage there, Al then forums the oil tanker “Chablis” that may take him to varied ports round the Gulf of Mexico and up the japanese seaboard, throughout the Panama Canal and again, up the Mississippi River, and at last finishing his four-month “tour of accountability” in Baltimore, Maryland.
After retrieving his van, the “Grunt,” from garage, and never eager to go back an analogous approach within which he crossed the rustic, Al may enterprise south and force to Mexico, through the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
In Mexico, Al remains for a month within the lodge city of Puerto Villarta, sooner than finishing his circle. Taking a ferry throughout to Cabo San Lucas, he then drives up the Baja Peninsula to California, preventing in Hollywood and Lake monstrous undergo sooner than falling again into his different life….that of using a taxi for desolate tract Cab.
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