Action Comedy

What do the Secret Service, Detroit Lions, TSA and the large husband of a beautiful hula dancer have in common? They all want answers from the seemingly innocent Mr. Beam.

Mr. Beam cannot....

Disillusioned by her glitzy life in London and her desirable but cruel TV-presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks it all in and spends four years running a refugee camp in Africa. Then famine strikes in a nearby province and an influx of starving refugees threatens to overwhelm the camp. Frustrated by the cautious response of the aid agencies, Rosie decides on a drastic short-term solution.

In volume four of this neon-noir series, a reflective moment on the train sparks the arrival of a pushy travel agent with an insane offer.

Tres historias corrosivas, disolventes. La que da título al audiolibro es todo un tratado sobre la maldad inherente a las buenas intenciones y su producción fraudulenta, tanto ideológica como artística y hasta sanitaria. En "Atalanta vuelve a correr" se da un juego -un juguete literario- en el que los personajes mitológicos apenas logran huir de la indencia de un presente lastrado por la política sucia y consuetudinaria (se alude muy en concreto a cierta alcaldesa padecida por los ciudadanos de Madrid.

What would you do if your ex got abducted? Remember, they're an ex for a reason. So let's assume you hate them from the depths of your soul. Line up the tequila shots, right? Not your problem? Now stay with me for a second. What if you were the only person who could save their life? Then would you save them? We are talking about another human being's life, after all. Now, imagine you have seven million dollars in your bank account. Sweet, right? It's seven million dollars or your ex's life. This is a judgment-free zone.

Kilroy Dondi Vance is an 18-year-old mixed-race Brooklynite who deals pot and goes to prep school on scholarship, all while growing up in the shadow of his absentee father, Billy Rage, a legendary graffiti writer who disappeared from New York City in 1989 following a public feud with MTA police chief Anastacio Bracken. Now it’s 2005. Bracken is running for mayor of New York City. And who should Dondi discover on a rooftop in Brooklyn but his father, newly returned to the city and ready to settle the score.

The American Dream is dead. It is a nation desperate for change, which might explain how a man like Lester Ginn - huckster, hypnotist, swordsman, self-proclaimed visionary - could rally support for his own grandiose notion of utopia...The Pyramid. From the hardscrabble streets of Queens, New York to the semi-post-apocalyptic Glass Desert of Nevada, we ride Lester's ever-flapping coattails as he careens through time and space, ultimately lording over the world's largest man-made structure.

This is a darkly humorous debut series from Edward C. Harwell. With razor-sharp precision and startling emotional insight, Who Is the Sun King? is a portrait of urban psychosis, garnished with details of a suicide, that quickly develops into Sol Liddens' struggle to find a way out of London's West End, which leads to a term in Clifton House Rehabilitation Centre.

Un libro satirico dell'umorista Thackeray scritto nel 1838. È una satira della colonizzazione britannica dell'India, narrata come il resoconto delle avventure del maggiore Gahagan, un fanfarone, "alfiere irlandese", che combatte "gloriosamente" con l'armata inglese in India.

A cosmetic wizard hat. Some heart-patterned boxers. A pair of trademarked shoes. Those were the only items I could equip after being granted a second chance at life - all the stuff I met the minimal requirements for, but whatever. I wouldn’t fret. This was my shot to redeem myself and to continue serving the one true Voidlord. Like any warlock, I suppose, I had great ambitions. But first...there was the little issue of finding a way back to Earth from Bognaroth’s Lair.

Uniter of Dena. Guardian of the people. Death Knight: Anthony gained a few titles. So did the savior of the north, the Guardian princess; Aila Wranoris. The gnomish engineer Tommie. The mad undead. Redeemer of kin, last of his bloodline, Damien. The reborn battle mage, the honorable Lich, high judge Claire. It seems as if he stands in good company. Titles, honors, awards. They are little consolation for the dead, a grim reminder and heavy weight for the living.

Bill Brabham, a recently divorced and unemployed financial manager from Texas, is a man down on his luck. With nothing left to lose except possibly a few years of his life, he takes a high-risk, high-reward job cleaning up at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. While in Japan, his luck drastically changes, and everything starts to go right for him. Unfortunately, his newfound luck seems to be coming at the expense of those around him.

“Do something, even if it’s wrong!” yell his coaches. They say anything is better than just standing around. But for a second-string skinny kid, everything he does is wrong in the crazy world of high school sports. Can anyone live up to the legacy of a dad who played in the pros or a wild rebel brother who inspires fear on and off the field? Who is more important the individual or the group? Do you join a team led by psychos? Who is crazier: The brutal hoods, the obsessive dean, or the dark coaches who endlessly torture him?

Forrest Gump meets Woody Allen in this endearing story about a sea turtle seeking to be reunited with the love of his life. When Akela is separated from his migrant soulmate Kalea, he will do anything to be reunited with her. Journey with this charming and neurotic sea turtle as he crosses paths with celebrities, politicians, and other moments in history with unbreakable determination to be reunited with his love.

Private Lewis Freeman has a problem. The treasure map passed down through generations of family, from slavery to modern day, shows his legendary ancestral fortune is buried in the dead center of the war zone. Corporal Vince Masini has several problems. He is struggling to keep a ragtag group of outcasts and misfits together as a military unit. He must also keep them out of the clutches of Captain Nikki Christopoulos, war regulation enforcement, while making it look as though they are obeying the orders of a blood and guts veteran commander, Colonel Thaddeus T. Fattingham.

In the far future humanity is in a paradox. The discovery of a dynamic ore has allowed humans to prevent their own extinction by saving their dying world. However, Terra Prime is ultimately consigned to oblivion in an unforeseen cataclysm. A cataclysm which has created the Void. Rather than be curious or fearful of unexplored space, most humans simply perceive the Void at the center of the known universe as the single greatest mystery of the cosmos. While the human race is preserved, living on colonized planets in outer space, mankind has lost the sense of who they really are.

Amiah is given the opportunity to discover what true adventuring is like. She ends up participating in person rather than merely reading about it in a book or watching it in a movie. Something terrible has happened to the lidra of Ti's Nest and it is up to Amiah to help her friends through harrowing and comical challenges that take on a creepy edge when they realize the enemy they are up against is a spider-like people. Perhaps the privilege of riding a giant saber tooth cat will make it worth it!

Action and adventure are mixed with a healthy dose of offbeat humor in this P. Howard classic, set in the second half of the 1930s. Harrincourt is dishonorably discharged from the French Naval Academy for a prank. He realizes that his carefree behavior put the livelihood of his widowed mother and teenage sister in jeopardy. To secure their financial future, he pays the premium on his life insurance policy and joins the French Foreign Legion destined to Africa, where his death “in the course of professional duty “would be all but guaranteed.

For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive.

Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive dbut novel" ( The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.