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This is an audiobook of funny cat stories that will make you laugh and most likely think about your own funny cat stories! A lot of laughs are awaiting you when you start listening to this audiobook

Un bizzarro e coinvolgente viaggio sentimentale: sedici anni dopo le tragicomiche peripezie raccontate in "Stupore e tremori" e in "Né di Eva né di Adamo", Amélie Nothomb torna in Giappone. È l'occasione per rivedere i luoghi e le persone amati dopo lo spaventoso terremoto di Fukushima del 2011.

The story of a starry-eyed performer who dreams of performing with the Rockettes, F--ker, The Christmas Mouse, is a heart-warming and ludicrous tale of holiday dreams come true.

Previously published as A Private War, Marie Brenner’s Richard Jewell tells a gripping true story of heroism and injustice. In the early morning hours of July 27, 1996, three pipe bombs exploded at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, killing one person and injuring 111 others. Hundreds more potential casualties were prevented by the vigilance and quick actions of security guard Richard Jewell, who uncovered the bombs and began evacuating the area. But no good deed goes unpunished. Investigators and journalists pursued Jewell as a potential suspect.

Clint Lukas' kompromissloser Held geht malochen, obwohl er Arbeit scheiße findet, macht Filme, obwohl er Filmleute nicht ertragen kann, hält sich für einen Frauenversteher und hat trotzdem immer Streit mit ihnen. Woran das liegt, dass immer alles so kompliziert sein muss? An ihm wohl kaum. Findet er jedenfalls. Clint Lukas lebt seit seinem zwanzigsten Lebensjahr in Berlin. Er hat nichts studiert und keinen Beruf gelernt.

Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J. M. W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame - as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters - and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.

An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman's family across 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors.

Als Christians Vater das Angebot erhält, als Entwicklungshelfer nach Südamerika zu gehen, wittert Christian eine Chance auf einen Neuanfang. In der Schule läuft es nicht - blaue Briefe stehen auf der Tagesordnung, doch die hat er bisher vor seinem Vater gut versteckt. Seit dem Tod seiner Mutter ist alles anders. Christian schwänzt die Schule und verbringt seine Zeit in Spielotheken und Kneipen. Er muss hier raus. Das versteht auch sein Vater. Und so machen sie sich auf den Weg.

Raven and Lucas embark upon a personal cruise around the Bahamas for an adventure of a lifetime. Raven discovers a mysterious wooden idol on a secluded beach just a couple of hours into their two-week journey. Her curiosity and archaeological scientific mind entices her to keep the artifact with the intention of researching its background and story. Where did this unique, seemingly non-Bahamian statue originate, and how did it land in Bimini?

Pias Entschluss steht fest: In der Nacht vor ihrem 18. Geburtstag wird sie ihrem besten Freund Momo folgen und sich umbringen. Man kann ja doch nur die Farbe der Scheiße ändern, in der man sitzt. Doch dann lernt sie Tom kennen, der so ganz anders ist als alle anderen, die sich bloß an Oberflächlichkeiten festklammern; und sie fangen an zu reden - über das Leben, übers Sterben, über ihre verloren gegangenen Träume.

Maximus never thought his life would change so dramatically. Orphaned from a horrible accident caused by unicorns, the youngster is adopted by the Royal family who just lost their own son the same night. The love Maximus receives from the ruler of Forestrial, King Drummond, is exactly what he needs the most. Queen Zelebeth, on the other hand, has a closed heart and wants nothing to do with Maximus. She despises him.

Left with Aunt Mattie and uncle Sheriff Cade in the North Carolina mountains, nine-year-old June becomes "Mattie's Girl" when Cade is killed at the home of her best friend, PeeDee. In stories deeply rooted in 1940s Appalachia, June chronicles the years between meeting the irrepressible PeeDee and losing her. She struggles to understand her mother's indifference, her father's divided love, her grandmother's sudden death, and her grandfather's being institutionalized.

Eryk is 15. He hears that a girl he likes, D W-B, is in a gang and decides to check it out.

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost.

My name is Catianna Breaker. I live in a community that lives by the word of the Lord, and unquestioningly obeys the laws of the Bible. My father was a Gatekeeper, a soldier of God who enforces these laws and dispenses justice as our Prophet sees fit. I'm a painter, and an average student. I help my Aunt Shelly run a pottery store after school. I'm sixteen years old, and I'm dying.

Paul Frees is the voice of your Ghost Host at Disneyland and Disneyworld's Haunted Mansion, the dastardly Boris Badenov from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Professor Ludwig von Drake via the Wonderful World of Disney, the Pillsbury Doughboy, voices in George of the Jungle, half of the Beatles in their cartoon series, narrator of such classic films as The Manchurian Candidate, The Shaggy Dog, The War of the Worlds, and others.

The complete trilogy in one book! The best-selling trilogy about three brothers that are modern day princes and the women they love and put crowns on! A lovely feel-good clean romance with strong empowered young women. Number one in philanthropy, charity, horses and civics. Have you ever hoped to find true love? Come along as each of our amazing heroines meets up with the man of her dreams.

Solomon Stein has dreams of success in the music industry. At the breakout of his music career, he is bought into the fold of Detroit-based, One By One Records (IXI), the hottest hip-hop label in the country. But the deeper Sal gets into the world of IXI, he realizes everything that glitters isn't gold. Pushy corporate reps who want to steal his house, his growing feelings for a mysterious industry executive, and obscure messages hidden in plain sight are making it impossible to know what to believe.

Charles Dickens' most notorious reading from the classic Oliver Twist is performed by his Great Great Grandson Gerald Dickens. Causing ladies in the audience to faint and Dickens himself to collapse, Nancy and Sikes always shocked the audience. The drama and the passion of Nancy's murder are still as powerful and chilling as it was in Charles Dickens' time.

Haast eagles have been extinct for a long time, so when Tina discovers an orphaned Haast eagle chick on her rooftop, she knows she has found something special. The only way to ensure the eaglet's freedom is to bring him to Maori lands. But scientists would rather study her bird in a laboratory than return him to his native lands in southern New Zealand. Can Tina return him so Haast eagles can once more be seen flying free?