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“In the beginning, there was the phone. And it was good. Too good.” Once upon a time, humans walked the earth with their heads held high — literally. They made eye contact. They talked. With their actual mouths. These strange, ancient beings — let’s call them Pre-iZombians — read physical books, made awkward small talk in elevators, and suffered the cruel torment of waiting in line without entertainment. It was a savage, barbaric time. Then came the glow. It began innocently enough: a message here, a selfie there, a map to avoid the existential terror of asking for directions. ...

The most powerful man in the world has a secret. It's not political. It's primal. During a state visit to Paris, a bizarre incident in the gardens of Versailles leaves the American President... changed. His appetites become monstrous, his temper inhuman, and his public appearances spiral into chaos. His staff scrambles to spin the terrifying transformation as mere eccentricity, but a lone translator knows the horrifying truth. As the full moon rises over the Seine, a team of unlikely heroes—a disgraced scholar, a grizzled hunter, and a pair of viral influencers—must race to stop the ...

“No bother,” I say. “I presume you are still working for Dwyer the Bookie?” “The same.” Christy is relaxed now. “And yeh know our Ciaran here, he’s Dwyer’s nephew.” “I didn’t know that.” “He’s to be my apprentice, to learn the ropes of the debt protection business.” “For Dwyer?” “For Dwyer, his uncle. I’ve bin given him to have under me wing for a year, from last week. After he got out, still on the probation.” “Debt protection, is that some class of insurance?” I seek clarity. Christy laughs and they both grin at each other. “More debt ...

Sit back and enjoy good old fashioned--FUN!--storytelling with The UnNamed Traveler as he tells his Travel Stories from Around the World. For travelers and non-travelers, there are enough adventures and misadventures in such places as Cuba, Hong Kong and following Bruce Springsteen on tour to go around for all.

During the 2016 election, high school sophomores Roman Sheffield and Julia Walsh started dating, the first serious relationship for both of them. But their fathers were radical ideologues, believing candidates from the opposing party would destroy democracy. Bret Sheffield zealously supported Donald Trump. Ted Walsh supported Hillary Clinton with equal fervor. Their fathers began to feud about the election and forbade their children to date. Despite their fathers' wishes, Roman and Julia kept meeting secretly. Their lives became more complicated, leading to unexpected consequences for them ...

System Overload is two short stories of Robot story and a Love "programming code"

If you ask your wife to get you a beer during sex and complain when the one she brings you is not imported, chances are, you’re not sensitive. Marriage & the Happily Ever After Syndrome is long overdue. Finally, there is a definitive examination that explodes all of the myths and misunderstandings between a husband and wife. While wives always know what they are doing, men never fully comprehend the thought process of their mate. This volume of our infamous Male Sensitivity Tests focuses entirely on the sacrament of marriage in hopes of providing the needed insight that is so lacking in ...

The UnNamed Traveler is BACK! From Alaska, to the D-Day beaches, to Morocco, to Israel, to India, and even to Vietnam, he brings back 24 more stories of adventures—and misadventures!—from around the world! He might even have some actual travel advice here for you! Wake up your travel dreams with his new, humorous book!!

Follow the journey of Silas, a remarkable young boy who will capture your heart and take you through a world of adventure and mystery. In the bustling city of Tudor York, where the streets are filled with the hustle and bustle of daily life, a special baby is born into a loveless marriage. Silas, the light in his mother's life, quickly shows signs of being extraordinary. His journey will be filled with challenges, both internal and external, as he tries to understand himself and those around him. But as Silas grows and becomes entangled in the dangerous web of Tudor society, his ultimate ...

Dans ce bonus XXL, issu de l'univers de « Not a fuckin' romance », une partie de la bande des chocolatines vous entraîne dans une aventure inattendue et totalement barrée dont ils ont le secret. Au programme : un enterrement de vie de jeune fille, un avion qu'il ne faut pas rater, un camping-car tout pourri, une évasion en tracteur, une terrible vendeuse de melons, des écrous à visser (qui auront toute leur importance), des disputes, des délires, des moments tendres, et quelques grosses révélations.

Stop Starting, Start Finishing: The Hilarious, No-Fluff Guide for Procrastinators Who Are Tired of Their Own Excuses Are you a professional procrastinator, part-time excuse generator, or full-time dream abandoner? Do you proudly collect half-finished projects, color-coded planners, and unopened Google Docs? Congratulations—you’ve just found your people. Don’t Finish What You Start is the brutally hilarious, painfully accurate, and weirdly motivational survival guide for anyone who’s made procrastination an extreme sport. This is not your usual self-help fluff. It’s a satirical ...

The revised, expanded, illustrated edition of Martin Noble's classic, hilarious adaptation of the screenplay by Alan Shearman, Ron House and Diz White. England is in a spot of bother and only Bullshot Crummond can save the day! As the rounds of shooting, fishing and consuming innumerable kippers in nightclubs begin to pall, Captain Hugh 'Bullshot' Crummond casts his fertile, restless mind longingly back to darker, more dangerous days when, in the skies over France, he came face to face with his arch-enemy, Count Otto von Brunno, the abominable Black Baron of Blitzburg. 'English humour at ...

A team of paleontologists finds a mysterious black box embedded in the rock with a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil and some small unidentified bones. The only logical conclusion was that the animal had eaten an alien visitor, and the still functional box was some advanced technology at least 65 million years old. A devoutly religious team member convinced the small bones are human leaked the find to a new Earth museum director, who published news of the discovery as proof that man and dinosaurs walked together within the last 6,000 years. The fear of panic in the general population...

Winning a poker game with chips made of souls from hell. Game on.

When he arrives in Bilbury, a small village on the edge of Exmoor, the young doctor doesn't realize how much he has to learn. But he soon finds the extent of his ignorance when he meets his patients. There is Anne Thwaites, who gives birth in the middle of a field and local rogue Thumper Robinson, who knows a good many tricks that aren't in any textbooks. And there is Mike Trickle, a TV show host, who causes great excitement when he buys a house in the village. The young doctor's employer is elderly Dr. Brownlow, who lives in a castle-like house and drives an old Rolls Royce.

This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.

Milton Frederick was arguably the best player of Crowned Lieges of Destiny in the entire world. As the strategy coordinator for one of the top guilds, he was beginning to actually make a living from it. That was, until he was abducted by aliens. Severely damaged and confused about what happened to him, he woke up to find himself trapped inside a massive chicken egg on a strange, primitive world filled with curious - and deadly - creatures. Now, in order to survive, Milton has to rely on a snarky, foul-mouthed AI guide to show him what it means to be a Station Core.

A dance club full of bodies. Cause of death - a mystery. The lone survivor - a man, raving like a lunatic, wearing only a deerstalker hat. Now, the man who calls himself Sherman Holmes is being studied like a lab rat by a top-secret government agency. How is it he can be barely clinging to reality one minute - yet be a seeming genius the next? Within his brain might just be the greatest scientific breakthrough of the millennium, if anyone can figure out how to access it. Enter the agent code named Watson.

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash.

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders?