Brick Lane East-end pub-share… will make you laugh, cry and cower at the same time • Q: What do you get if you have eight people and a dog living above a derelict pub and a womanising, chain-smoking property landlord that doesn’t give a flying…fig..? • A: Absolute mayhem ! Everyday life at its worst and best. After leaving college and university, our interesting tribe never imagined they’d be living with more complete strangers. Let alone become an eight strong, extended alternative family… Take a behind-the-scenes
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A group of college students form a committee dedicated to eradicating anything they find disagreeable or unpleasant in this satire of political correctness run amok. Blue Jade Toole spent his whole life being beaten down by snide comments, opinions he disagreed with and people refusing to celebrate the mere fact of his physical existence. When he goes to college he finds a group of students who have experienced the same thing and who are determined to make it stop. Blue Jade teams with them and
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A guy walks into a bar car and… From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father’s dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. With Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once
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What Monty Python’s Flying Circus might have done with Dame Agatha Christie’s lost manuscript… Invisible burglars who take nothing, but frighten the cat at meal times? This is hardly a case worthy of newly-promoted Chief Inspector Morgan. But when valuable jewels go missing and an attempt is made on Blandthorpe Fargenstropple’s life, Morgan jumps into action with keen interest. Of course, it helps that Blandthorpe’s niece looks nothing like a gargoyle. With a quirky cast of characters, witty banter, a little romance, more than a
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When three 60-year old Los Angeles BFFs suddenly find themselves husbandless, homeless, and dead broke, they put their skills together and formulate a wonder cream that erases under eye bags. Now they are poised to be rich with women all over the country clamoring for their cream. But it just so happens that the formula contains the active ingredient, CBD, from marijuana. And when it goes viral that the anti-drug DA candidate was the accidental first customer to use the weed-based cream, the women become
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Thanksgiving isn’t turning out the way she planned . . . Already dealing with a suspended driver’s license, despised job, and looming thirtieth birthday, Vanessa Collins doesn’t think much more can go wrong . . . until her husband Brian announces he’s filing for divorce. Acting on her thrice-divorced sister’s advice, Vanessa steals Brian’s financial documents. She’s determined to either escape her marriage with a six-figure settlement or day trade her way into retirement. But Vanessa ends up with something she never bargained for, and
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“Eisenberg is truly a talented writer. . . Hilarious and poignant.”—Entertainment Weekly Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also for his regular pieces in theNew Yorker and his two critically acclaimed plays, Eisenberg is an emerging voice in fiction. Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dormrooms of an American college
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Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat. Together, they will decide the future of mankind. Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which
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Boasting more than two million pageviews per month, TheAwkwardYeti.com has become a webcomic staple since its creation in 2012.
In addition to tons of fan favorites, Heart and Brain contains more than 75 brand new comics that have never been seen online.
From paying taxes and getting up for work to dancing with kittens and starting a band, readers everywhere will relate to the ongoing struggle between Heart and Brain.
With an interesting combination of literary tools to keep Erickson's plot constantly moving--opening chapters with sarcastic quotes, alternating between the above mentioned scenes, various plot twists, and closing on a humorous, yet thought-provoking note, Pianist in a Bordello is definitely a fun read for all." - San Francisco Book Review.
All Daniel Waterstone ever wanted to do was write the great American novel and change the landscape of modern literature forever. He has two literary books in print but no one's buying. His agent won't even accept his latest masterpiece which he poured his soul into: apparently, it's not commercial enough.
Throwing a bishop out of a window, no matter how humorous, is never advisable and often leads to serious consequences. In the case of The Sisters Of Kirley, that means excommunication, which doesn't look good on a CV and considerably lessens your job prospects.
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos."
