Action Comedy

Max is just your average girl. She works odd jobs, has a soul-crushing amount of debt, and happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Europe’s youngest female prime minister, Sofia Christensen. Sofia is powerful, beautiful—and unfortunately, someone is trying quite hard to assassinate her. When the CIA approaches Max with a deal, a life-changing amount of money if she pretends to be Sofia on the prime minister’s annual Italian vacation, Max packs her bags for the Amalfi Coast.

Henry Fielding è considerato uno dei padri fondatori del romanzo realista inglese. Tale scopo sarà pienamente raggiunto da Fielding nel suo capolavoro, Tom Jones (1749), uno dei più grandi romanzi della letteratura inglese. La storia narra le divertenti disavventure e peregrinazioni del giovane Tom Jones e della sua amata Sophia Western unendo a una trama sapiente e a pagine di garbata satira personaggi di grande efficacia e presenza, per fornire uno spaccato della società inglese dell'epoca. Cornice musicale di Georg Friedrich Haendel.

Professional, experienced contract burglar. It’s not exactly something you can put on a business card. Molly Miranda has made a successful living from “acquiring” valuables and delivering them to clients who pay buckets of cash for her unique services. So what if she has to lie about her lavish lifestyle in Manhattan and her frequent trips out of the country? Molly has everything under control.

Imagine you’re the Pandora of myth and legend. The Greek chick with the box. Now imagine it’s your duty (and your curse) to gather up all the evil you set free and put it where it belongs - back into the box you were tricked into opening all those millennia ago. Add to the mix the world’s first rock star, an immortal villainess with a kink for poisons, and a management shakeup in the Underworld. Now imagine your box has been stolen.

Life is looking pretty bleak for Asger. After a fiasco at work finds him unceremoniously booted from both his advertising job and his family home, he finds himself the carer of Waldemar, arguably Denmark’s sickest man. Their initial days together in a Copenhagen ghetto only serve to pile on the hopelessness. But then Waldemar hatches a plan: fabled healer Torbi el Mekki offers a miracle cure to all who seek an audience. Only thing is, he’s in Morocco - over 2,000 miles and another continent away. Piling into a beaten-up Volkswagen, the two set off on a zany road trip across Europe.

What happens when an intrepid band of thrill-seeking, rollicking Americans ventures out in search of adrenaline? They learn the hard way that having everything means you have that much more to lose. Orla, a beautiful and sharp-witted young Irish woman, saves the day, earning their loyalty. She proves to be a valuable addition to the globe-trekking crew on a high-stakes journey where discoveries unravel at every turn.

Somehow, Brandon Andrew Morgan survived the Omega Vaccine and the total collapse of society that followed it. And yes, he’s just as surprised about it as you are. But while his brother is off to unknown adventures, Brandon has decided to stick around, make a life for himself, and care for his best buds as they transition to their new lives as vampires.

Brandon Andrew Morgan wants and lives a normal life. Well, mostly, anyway. Between his crazy roommates, slacker brother, and the intolerable customers that plague his job, Brandon certainly attempts to make the most of things. But Brandon's world is about to be turned upside down when mankind decides to face a possible doomsday event by doing what they do best: making it worse. Much worse, in fact. Implementing the new Omega Vaccine as a preventative, let's just say the world is not prepared for the side effects that weren't posted on the label.

"I'm 36 years of age; handsome and fit. I'm not as tall as I'd like to be, nor am I rippling with chest-muscles. But I reckon I'm a dead ringer for Hugh Grant. After years spent with 'the dreaded Laura' Ben is finally free! A new divorcee he can't wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do.

After being chosen as guinea pigs for the first-ever human hibernation experiment, Chad O'Connor and Tyrone Jackson are placed in suspended animation that is supposed to last three years. Instead of waking up in the year 2030 as planned, they wake up in the year 2083 in a post-nuclear world as the only two living males on Earth in a society run by women. What appears to be a paradise at first turns into a world of horrors and a quest for survival.

Fossdyke Retirement Home has seen its fair share of quirky characters, but it’s never seen the likes of these four geriatric rockers! To outsiders, they are sweet, funny, if not a tad bit ornery. To those in the know, they are meddlesome, rebellious, and way over their heads. When chaos erupts, they’re not far behind.

The Taylor Turbochaser is a road-trip roller coaster...with a twist. At its heart is the unforgettable Amy Taylor. Amy loves cars, and dreams of being a driver. But there’s a major catch: her slow old wheelchair with its broken wheel. When Amy finally gets a new electric one, it’s exciting...at first. But standard engines only have so much power. And that’s where Rahul comes in - Amy’s best friend and genius inventor. Soon Rahul turns a wheelchair into...a supercar!

This short story introduces former college football star turned repo man Ruddy McCann, star of W. Bruce Cameron’s new novel The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, and tells how Ruddy met his best friend Jake, a lazy but lovable basset hound, during a repo gone wrong. Full of laugh-out-loud humor and thrilling adventure, "The Midnight Dog of the Repo Man" is a page-turning, delightful short story.

Panik macht sich bisweilen breit, wenn sich Frau jenseits der 30 fragt, ob nach der ein oder anderen Beziehung (bzw. gescheiterten Ehe) doch noch der Richtige kommt. In diesem ironischen, frechen, teilweise nachdenklichen und frivolen Werk jagt die Autorin ihre Protagonistin durch absurde und reale Situation, die wohl jede Leidensgenossin gut nachvollziehen kann. Die Geschichten und kleinen Hilfestellungen für die Suche nach Mr. Right unterhalten kurzweilig und informativ.

Die fußballbegeisterte Luca - weiblich, ledig, sucht - ist 29 und Single. Mit ihrem rassigen Aussehen zieht sie ebenso viele Männer an, wie sie gleichzeitig scheiternde Kurzbeziehungen aufzuweisen hat. Nichts funktioniert, der Richtige scheint einfach nicht den entscheidenden Doppelpass spielen zu wollen. Beruflich ist Luca bei Radio Blu endlich kurz vor dem Ziel ihrer Träume angelangt und hat den heißbegehrten Moderatorenjob zum Greifen nah.

1942. Der kleine Hermi, eingebunden in eine typische nationalsozialistische, straffe Familie, erlebt in Braunschweig die ersten Bombenangriffe der Alliierten. Sein Glaube an den Führer steht noch vor Gott. Nach Bombentreffern folgt die erste Evakuierung nach Lyck, Ostpreußen, zum Großvater mütterlicherseits. Als die Front näher kommt, erlebt Hermi die zweite Evakuierung, Richtung Helbra in Thüringen. Danach: Luftschlachten, beginnende Gerüchte über Endkämpfe.

Esther beichtet die Spur der Verwüstung, die sie auf dem Weg zu sich selbst als Frau hinterlassen hat...

Liz Monahan is in a rut. Her boss is a jerk. Her mom won't stop asking about her love life. And her boyfriend just might be married. But since she found that corpse in her hotel room, things have gotten interesting. The new guy in accounting has a license to kill. He thinks she holds the key to a terrorist plot. And the man in her life is a rogue secret agent who just might want her dead. But at least he's single.

Dominic Cummings has a lively mind. He is constantly thinking; planning; coming up with big ideas. During a time of momentous events in Britain (Brexit, a general election, The COVID-19 pandemic) the government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on post-it notes and any scrap of paper he can find.

Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen? Bedingungsloser Spaß! Schräge Vögel aus der Schwulenszene, Studentinnen, die Sexfilmchen mit Plüschtierchen drehen, Professorinnen und Redakteurinnen, die für Lack und Leder-Fotos Modell stehen. Temperamentvolle Sängerinnen, die ihre Bandmitglieder von der Bühne prügeln. Ein Arzt, der die Anti-Baby-Pille für seine Tochter gleich tütenweise von Pharmavertretern schnorrt.