Action Comedy

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.

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles - the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America. But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money - an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling.

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.

Big things are happening for Mark Scottsdale. He has just graduated from college and is looking forward to starting a new life with his childhood friend and longtime girlfriend, Lisa. So when an old classmate of his offers him a high-paying job working for a new research facility, Mark jumps at the opportunity. However, all of his dreams come to an abrupt end when Lisa is taken from him by a drunk driver. But if Mark could gain access to his company's secret Flicker World project, he just might be able to see his beloved Lisa again after all.

This is an all-new story from Martin Archer. It is his longest and best. The action, political incorrectness, and wide-eyed innocence, and ignorance is non-stop in this exciting medieval times novel. The company's archers sail for Constantinople to join the fight against the orthodox army attempting to re-establish the Byzantine Empire with the help of the Venetians. Richard arrives from England and takes his horse archers out to delay and harry the invaders.

A humorous romance that you won't want to miss: It all started one frigid afternoon, when Joslyn received an all inclusive vacation package from her parents, she was shocked to find out, that it was a transition camp for lesbians...Enjoy this fun journey with Kara and Joslyn, as they join 46 other women, at Nature’s Way Tropical Retreat−an adult conversion camp, that has never been so entertaining−until now.

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.

This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes – only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There, the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom’s life back on track by opening his only asset as an idyllic country retreat.

Once Burned is about a career girl who has everything but love because she's 'once burned - twice shy.' A fire claim introduces a man handsome as he is determined to teach her to trust and love again. Will she find happiness or get her wings singed as her hopes go up in flames?