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Fünf Musiker, drei Konzerte, eine Stadt in der Provinz. Eine Woche im Leben der erfolgreichen Band. Eine Band, die vor allem ihren Erfolg feiern will. FUN! Ganz egal, wie hoch der Preis ist, den andere dafür zahlen müssen. Drei Frauen, die alle mit der Band zu tun bekommen. Für Ljilja wird ein zunächst spektakulärer Abend im Backstagebereich zum schlimmsten ihres Lebens. Liane wird durch das Wiedersehen mit der Band endgültig von der Vergangenheit einholt. Und für Maila wird der Konzertabend mit einer erschütternden Erkenntnis enden.

It’s the 1950s, and Grundy’s Travelling Fair arrives in town. When night falls, the local town is drawn to the fair. But when the fairgoers head home, the Grundys are left behind. Hours are long and the work backbreaking. But family and friends hold things together.

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands.… Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children - Joey loves monster movies, and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer.

Tyler, Channing, and Sammy Clauster have descended on their childhood home, with significant others and four-year-old twins in tow, for another good old-fashioned Christmas. Overwhelming holiday magic, as always, comes courtesy of their mom, Claire. They know she’s thrilled to cook, wrap gifts, decorate, accommodate, play games, overprepare every Christmas Eve Eve Eve tradition, and still let Dad be known as the Fun One. It’s her thing, right? Maybe the family should have paid closer attention. Because this year, something is a little off-key—and it’s not just the carols.

Edie has enough on her plate keeping her tyrannical boss happy at Moira’s Wedding Shop. So when society bride Tia begs Edie to design her wedding dress - and keep it a secret from her domineering mother-in-law to be - Edie reluctantly says “I will” to making Tia’s dream come true. But if her deception is found out, it’ll mean losing her job.... Meanwhile, best man James has his eye on Edie, and he’s proving ever harder for her to resist. He’s upper-crust, and Edie’s one unexpected bill away from the breadline - they’re from completely different worlds.

In this hilarious, low-spice rom-com, a librarian falls for a book-nerd . . . the only problem is they are an ocean apart. Authentically, Izzy is told mostly through emails, texts, and letters and is sure to leave readers with a lighter heart. Perfect for fans of Sarah Adams and Emma St. Clair...

Statistically, if you kiss a lot of frogs there's bound to be at least one that's not a complete toad, isn't there? When Joanie’s engagement becomes more stalemate than soulmate, her best friends stage an intervention sure to make even the most hardened, serial daters wince: 10 dates in 10 days. With nothing to lose, Joanie embarks on a hilarious roller-coaster of blind dates. But when the sexy as sin guy next door starts throwing his spanner in the works, Joanie soon realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew.

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game! Vying for a promotion against a bitter rival as the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy finds solace in the text-flirting relationship that started as a wrong number exchange—unaware that the man she’s texting is the one...

Hooray, it's Christmas! Mary Brown's favorite time of year, and she embraces it with the sort of thrill and excitement normally reserved for toddlers seeing jelly tots. Our funny, gorgeous, and bonkers heroine finds herself dancing from party to party, covered in tinsel, decorating the Beckhams' Christmas tree, dressing up as Father Christmas, declaring live on This Morning that she's a drug addict, and enjoying two Christmas lunches in quick succession.

John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B--. Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? Gala writes letters to B-- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B-- and Gala form a dialogue bout creation - of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture.

A captivating story of the people who shape us and the places we struggle to leave behind. Katie, Maeve and Evelyn - friends forever, united by their childhood games and their dreams of escaping the tiny Irish town of Glenbruff. Outspoken, unpredictable and intoxicating, Evelyn is the undisputed leader of the trio. That is, until the beautiful, bold Pamela Cooney arrives from Dublin and changes Glenbruff forever. Told from Katie's witty, quirky perspective, Frances Macken's debut beautifully captures life in a small town and the power of yearning for something bigger.

In this hilarious, sweet, low-spice rom-com, opposites attract when a princess falls for a flannel-wearing carpenter. Perfect for fans of Sarah Adams and Emma St. Clair. Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, My name is Luke Edgewood, and...

A surreal theme park where nothing is as it seems. Jade and her sister Louise are in the Belle Epoque, a twisted and strange version. For fans of Poor Things and Westworld, this novella is delightfully absurd.

In the year 2054, reality is a really dumb place. The only time the young, freedom-loving, 1980s pop culture and sex-obsessed Bowie Jackson really feels alive is when he's huddling in a rusted metal lean-to in rural Wisconsin, jacked into the virtual, hyper-sexualized utopia known as the O-Face.

Jessica Holloway is miserable. As mom to two ungrateful, almost-grown children and wife to one appreciative-but-needy husband, she has all-but-abandoned the extraordinary—and extraordinarily fun—woman she used to be. She may be smiling while she volunteers at the school's dog wash fundraiser, but inside, she's seething. Having traded her future as a high-powered attorney for motherhood nearly two decades ago, she's now desperate to reconnect with the woman she once was. Pushed to her breaking point, Jessica is secretly terrified at what she might do.

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«Querido lector, querida lectora, la novela que estás a punto de iniciar es una historia incómoda, quizás la más incómoda que he escrito hasta la fecha. Una historia que solo se entiende a partir de cierta edad o de un determinado momento de la vida. Por eso hemos decidido indicarlo.

Stories for Fun: Insanity is a delightful collection of short stories that celebrates the lighter side of life. In this second installment of the Stories for Fun series, author Brad S. Wilson brings his signature wit and warmth to tales of everyday madness and mirth.

Cuando ambas mujeres descubren que tienen mucho más en común de lo que creían, su forma de ver el mundo que las rodea, e incluso a sí mismas, da un vuelco que pone sus vidas patas arriba.