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First days can be killer. Kat Harper's first day at her new job doesn't go as planned when a runaway cat leads her to a dead body outside of her office building. Things only get worse when Sadie Cramer's death is deemed a homicide, and Kat has to wonder...

Finding himself suspended upside down from a burning tree above a pack of ravenous beasts was a bit of a surprise for Sevan.It had been one heck of a week. One minute he'd been struggling to meet his Corporation targets, the next he'd been promoted...And...

Esta antología de 16 relatos cortos recoge algunas historias en tono de humor, en ocasiones macabro, otros de aventuras y otros de suspense, de corte más clásico. La pluma de julifos se desliza rápida por la acción, dejando de lado las descripciones...

A bibliopath is an author who believes his books are being mutilated because they're so popular, or a reader who believes the author is stuffing his books full of coded messages especially for her. A phobologue is somebody who watches over the simple use...

Keilaremmi tuskailee pitkään kestäneiden arkisten huolien ja henkilökohtaisten murheiden parissa. Timppa on työtön ja alkoholi maistuu. Kalea painaa avioero ja oma hankala luonne. Handella on avio-ongelmien lisäksi menossa akuutti työkriisi. Mutta...

When former actress and lifestyle guru Donna Bruce is found murdered in her sauna cabin, stung to death by bees, Odelia and Chase are on the case. Meanwhile Odelia's tabby Max has his own issues to deal with. The vet has decided the flabby tabby is too...

The peace and calm of Hampton Cove is brutally disturbed when celebrity chef Niklaus Skad, famous for his show Kitchen Disasters, is found cooked in his own oven. The chef wasn't a well-liked man, and there are plenty of suspects to go around. Odelia...

When famous eighties pop star John Paul George is found floating facedown in his pool, Hampton Cove's premier sleuthing tabby Max and his feline friends are on the case. Soon they're chasing leads and following clues, helping their human Odelia Poole,...

Blorange tabby Max and ragamuffin Dooley are on the case again. This time a world-famous reality star has been found murdered in her own bed, and it looks like the crime just might be terror-related. The Kenspeckles, stars of the well-known reality show...

Kiara is a dynamic, thirty-something girl who has reached great heightsprofessionally, and is the apple of the eye for almost everyone who knowsher. But she never took any short cuts to become happier, wiser, healthierand more compassionate.She had to...

Using the legendary love story of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni and his Turkishslave-cum-lover Ayaz as the backdrop, Mahmud and Ayaz, set in contemporaryMumbai, tells the story of a young, casually radicalized Muslim man, MahmudFakhar, who has failed to...

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia and overstays her holiday visa.Desperate to carve a life for herself as an illegal British migrant, she invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy: she is to meet the...

When the matriarch of the least successful Jewish family in America gets tired of their misfortune, she consults mystical texts for help.Determined that their next grandchild will be a genius who changes their fortunes, and convinced that no one in her...

É Halloween, e a animação está se acumulando em Braxton.Enquanto outras pessoas esculpem abóboras, fazem passeios em carroças da hayride assombrada, e correm pelo assustador labirinto de milho no Festival de Outono, Kellan está de mudança para uma antiga...

Ellie Chambers always wanted to be a writer. Now, she was a successful author, but it had come at a price. Two prices, actually.The first was the fallout from a hastily-signed contract with Margo Rollings, the Publisher Who Wouldn't Die. And the second...

Spies like Jyp are hard to find.Inflicting Christian names like Jefferson Youll on a young lad already saddled with a surname like Patbottom is a sufficient handicap for anyone, but if you have the misfortune to be educated at Watlington County Grammar...

Ποιος σκότωσε τον παράξενο άνδρα που έμενε στο πανδοχείο Ρορκ και Κόρες;Σε έναν χορό μεταμφιέσεων για τη συγκέντρωση χρημάτων για την ανακαίνιση της βιβλιοθήκης Μεμόριαλ, ο Κέλαν βρίσκει ένα πτώμα ντυμένο με στολή του Δρ. Κακού. Λίγο αργότερα, ένας...

Was lief nur schief bei diesem Junggesellenabschied?Ausgerechnet nach seinem Junggesellenabschied wacht Matthias Käfer in einem fremden Bett auf – mitten im Chaos! Neben ihm schlafen zwei nackte Stripperinnen mit einem ziemlich großen...

SUPERNULF ist super. So einfach ist das. Wenn auch eher selten. Aber wenigstens fühlt es sich für ihn so an, wenn er Wurst-Betrüger entlarvt, der Bakshish-Bande den Garaus macht, die Tripper-Trutschen zurechtweist, Pappnasen verprellt oder dem...

A story from the German Ruhr region of yesteryearJust as a dog sometimes feels the need to have a good scratch because its fur is itching, children also occasionally have the desire to drive their fellow human beings up the wall with pranks. And who...

"Eine heitere bildliche Erzählung, mit viel Charme und Ironie. Eine Geschichte, die verzaubert, die amüsiert, belustigt aber auch nachdenklich macht. Die Schriftstellerin Marika Thommen vereint die Kunst des Schreibens, die Wahl der Worte mit einer...

Ich glaube an genervt sein auf den ersten Blick, denn das war ichmittlerweile, wenn mir zuhause Werkzeug oder Baumaterial denWeg versperrten. Wir steckten bereits länger wie vereinbart im Renovierungswahn, als ein geplatzter Sack mein Fass zum überlaufen...

Die Schöpfungsgeschichte erzählt auf heitere Art, wie Gottvater den Menschen erschafft und ihm wesentliche Eigenschaften wie die Liebesfähigkeit und die kreative Intelligenz einpflanzt. Gottvater ist Ingenieur mit einem Hang zur Skurrilität, sein...

In dieser turbulenten Geschichte kommen irgendwann alle auf den Hund. Allen voran Harrass, der freche Vierbeiner auf Monsterjagd. Auch Velofahrer Sven und seine Arbeitskollegin Bettina manövrieren sich beharrlich von einer Bredouille in die nächste. Und...

Ich werde erpresst!Und das ausgerechnet von dem Typen, der mit jedem Kerl vom Campus schon mal Blutsbrüderschaft getrunken und jede Tussi -die bei drei nicht ihren Verstand benutzt - nackt gesehen hat. Ich habe gedacht, dass er mein Geheimnis bewahrt...

MÖGE DER WAHNSINN BEGINNEN!Malerisch auf einem grünen Berg, umgeben von der Herrlichkeit Mutter Naturs befindet sich in einer idyllischen Illusion mit zwitschernden Vögeln, blühenden Blumen und brünftigen Hirschen die renommierte Psychiatrie des genialen...

Wir Schwaben leben ja in verschiedenen Gruppen u.a. in der Familie, unter Freunden, im Dorf, in Vereinen. Sie bieten Geborgenheit und Sicherheit und wir stellen immer wieder fest: "Zamma semmr stark". Eben in den Stürmen des modernen Lebens ist so ein...

Vielleicht ist Weihnachten ja nur ein Missverständnis! Trotzdem kehrt es Jahr für Jahr wieder. Die Erwartungen sind hoch und können nicht erfüllt werden. Wahrscheinlich ist es wirklich am besten, wenn sich alles in Chaos auflöst und das tut es in allen...

Eigentlich hat ja Jeder eines. Manche sagen dazu "Bauchgefühl oder "Intuition", andere nennen es "den kleinen Mann im Ohr" oder "die innere Stimme". Während diese Bezeichnungen in der Regel eher ungehört oder im Stillen agieren ist mein Inneres Ich eher...

"Candide," penned by the illustrious Voltaire, stands as a literary masterpiece that transcends time, inviting readers into a world of satirical brilliance, philosophical inquiry, and comedic escapades. Published in 1759, this novella encapsulates the...

What if you survived a plane crash only to be surrounded by sentient horses, feral humans, giants, immortals, necromancers, anti-intellectuals and more?Double Winner of the 2020 Reader Views Literary Awards - Humor/Satire, Canada West RegionCurrent Vote...

Little Dick Tater follows the titular character through an average day at school. Readers will delight as the tiny tater tot continues to make poor decisions and attempts to outrun the consequences. Readers will quickly gather that Dick Tater is a thinly...

It's the age-old story. Boy meets girl. Girl lies to boy about being human. Girl accidentally destroys planet. Girl apologizes super hard.Greg, if you're out there, this one's for you.

"Madstones" is a new collection including six works of fantasy and science fiction, representing several different constructs - short stories, a stage play, a screenplay, and a prose poem."Rama with the Ax," a short story, opens the collection, pitting a...

Parody Paradise, Part III is a compilation of thirty rewritten satirical short stories and plays from famous authors, featuring adult language and situations. Author Jay Dubya equally sideswipes (parity/parody) and lampoons popular and classic stories...

"Robert Guffey's The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is weirder than parthenogenesis, weirder than the Republican Party, weirder than the fetishizing of pregnancy that suffuses our culture, weirder than all the back issues of Weird Tales...

Everyone has their own idea of how things should work, but with a little inspiration from David Beckham, aliens, and the starry skies of his native Indian Ocean island, Gaston Le Clezio thinks he's figured out the perfect plan to save the world from...

Phil LoPresti hates everything except his girlfriend Missy, the band Swans, and Clive Barker (except for the film Nightbreed—he hates that film most of all). He channels his misanthropy into his poetry and art photography, but feels even more...

Merry Friggin' Christmas: An Edgy Christmas Comedy, Naughty EditionThe perfect gift for that Bah-humbug! in your life!Merry Friggin' ChristmasAn Edgy Christmas Comedy Naughty Edition"A funny book about Christmas and a...

Aboard the starship Undertoe, a skeleton crew of misfits takes orders from a smugly bureaucratic computer which couldn't care less if they live or die.  The Undertoe is part of the Galactic Freedom Corporation, a huge interstellar conglomerate...

Kidnapping the bride seemed like a good idea at the time.Her fiancé stole my fortune, so I stole his woman.Tit for tat. Or tat for tit. However you want to look at it.The one thing I didn't expect?Willow Honeycutt, preschool teacher, boy band super fan,...

There are three things I hate: Bratwurst in any form, my neighbors boinking like farm animals at 3 AM, and Chase Jett.Mostly I hate Chase Jett. It's been ten years since he took my virginity-I'd make a bratwurst joke, but the unfortunate truth is...

For anyone who's ever been on the receiving end of an unsolicited dick pic... He has the muscles of Adonis, an ego bigger than the sun, and a very clear desire to get back in my pants. Which would be fantastic if he weren't a SEAL and I wasn't a...

He's a librarian by day and the ideal fake boyfriend by night.When it comes to women, I know what they want. And all day long, I give it to them. Dark, broody, and sexy? You got it. Need to laugh? I'm your guy. Desperate for something to put you in the...

Eternal fame or eternal shame?Hopeless optimist Roberto Maccarone has staked his fortunes on a bold move: he's brought grand opera to the Oort Territories, where there isn't enough culture to fill a petri dish. But it's a tough sell here in...

Azemia is a satirical attack on what William Beckford perceived as characteristically feminine novel-writing. First published in 1797, under the pseudonym Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks, it joined its companion volume Modern Novel Writing, or, The...