Novedades

Penola and Lennon have the perfect marriage because they follow twenty rules that ensure marital bliss. Controversial fiction author, Dicey Grenor, has released these rules so that couples everywhere can benefit from them. In case you’re wondering—hell yeah, it’s fiction…just like the “perfect” marriage. Fans of Dicey’s work will enjoy this novelette’s explosive combination of nonfiction and dark humor. New-to-Dicey readers will need to buckle up for this tongue-in-cheek ride and expect the unexpected.

The Antarctic ice sheet collapses and threatens shipping. A mysterious fungus infects pipelines and prevents oil transportation. Jack Griffin and his mobile AI in the meantime investigate how big oil mitigates environmental damage. Here they encounter Cass Anderson. This naturalist by day and eco-terrorist at night instructs them in the ways of civil disobedience. With the oncoming collapse of the worldwide carbon-based economy, government and big oil attempt to track down where this anarchy originated. The novel satirically deals with a number of topical issues such as climate change, ...

John O’Driscoll is madly in love with Karen Black but is so mesmerised by her beauty that in her presence his brain refuses to function. He walks in fear of school governor Father Kennedy, a man with nasal hair so terrifying it gives grown men nightmares and sends small animals scurrying for cover. And all O’Driscoll’s efforts to impress Karen seem to end in disaster and public humiliation at the hands of the cantankerous cleric. Will O’Driscoll stay out of the pub long enough to win Karen over? Will he stay out of Father Kennedy’s reach for long enough to have his teaching contract renewed?

"Brilliantly written, fresh and extremely funny..." ‘Unmade Classics’ features my sitcom scripts for ‘Falling Stars’ and ‘New Ageing’. Both comedies were optioned by production companies in the 2010s, but ultimately shunned like a wheezy child with a large booger. Hope remains they’ll make it onto the stage and screen one day, until then I’m proud to present my ‘unmade classics’ in this entertaining book. Falling Stars Two expiring celebrities struggle to keep up their media profile amid a wave of fresher faces crashing onto the scene. New Ageing Lifelong hippie Jim ...

On a flight home from Houston, pet store owners Myrtle Humphry and Edna Ulington joke that they've kept their husbands in cages in the basement for thirty years. Overhearing this, Tracy Kensington hires Myrtle and Edna to kidnap and obedience train her tyrannical husband like a dog to get him out of her life once and for all. The problem: Tracy's husband, Jared, is a police officer and a local hero. Jared's disappearance becomes a major news story. Between reruns of Murder, She Wrote, Myrtle and Edna collect more men who wander into their pet store, searching for Jared. Meanwhile, word ...

Listen to the conversation as you sit in the corner of the snug in Mulligan's pub. The Teacher, The Sergeant, and the Parish Priest, aided by the Barman, are in session, and little of what happens in this Dublin inner city parish will escape their attention.

There's something funny going on here! Was Jeremy Ronson, a top-ranked university official, defenestrated (tossed out a window), or did he defenestrate himself? The police decide his death was accidental, but Mike Woodsen, the university’s PR director, is not convinced. He decides to investigate the death on his own. Woodsen interviews Ronson's colleagues, an odd collection of administrators, nerds, suckups and misfits, and learns that Ronson had a justified reputation as a sonofabitch, earning many enemies in his chequered career. Meanwhile, Woodsen’s day job gives him a bird’s-eye ...

When a frozen corpse is discovered in a fishing shack on a nearby lake, most residents of Parson’s Cove assume the man succumbed to the blistery cold. However, after the body thaws, the coroner discovers that the man, one Victor Fleming, was actually beaten to death. Eye witnesses suggest that town bad boy Jakie Flanders was seen leaving the shack the night of the murder and was overheard threatening Fleming in town earlier. Add this to the fact that Victor Fleming was Jakie’s mother’s first cousin and was demanding money from her and Jakie’s motives for murder were piling up. ...

A marital spat at a carwash turns deadly - and Mabel Wickles, Parson's Cove's amateur sleuth, isn't buying the claim that the victim's wife bashed him over the head with a brick. However, when the woman confesses to the murder, Mabel decides to investigate the crime herself - along with help from her best friend Flori, her cat Sammy, and a busload of senior citizens.

The cover itself shouts out, “This ain’t your Grandma’s poetry book.” No, it is not. Not by a long shot.It was written by two certified common guys for other common folks. The poems deal with the issues, stresses and pleasures of daily living. Part 1 is filled with “Patriotic Poems.” Part 2, “Inspirational & Religious Poems.” Part 3, “Poems of the Genus Cowboicus Poeticus,” which being interpreted means “Cowboy Poetry.” Part 4, “Americana, Floridianna & Such.” Part 5, “Fun Poems with Few Redeeming Virtues.” Part 6, “Odds and Ends and Such,” has Stan’s ...

Cerita ini berkisah tentang perjuangan seorang OB alias office boy yang pengen berubah nasibnya! Wajar sih ada orang pengen berubah nasibnya. Yang nggak wajar tuh kalo ada yang mau berubah 'anunya,' eh, maksudnya berubah wajahnya, masak dari wajah 'ndeso' pengin jadi punya muka kayak 'Aliando?'

Do you love Harry Potter? Do you love parody? Do you love smoking the Ganja? Do you like to read parodies about Harry Potter while smoking the Ganja? Then this is the book for you!!! (Even if you don't like smoking the Ganja!) Hairy Pothead the Stoned Sorcerer is an easy read, because let's face it, most of you who will be reading this book have probably smoked yourselves daft by now, anyway. It's the story of a boy (Sort of.) about to embark on the adventure of his life (Such as it is.) A life that has apparently been written about before in a best selling series of books! (Spoiler alert!)...

A stampede during a parade; a supposedly accidental bull riding death; a burial with a horse drawn hearse in historic Mount Moriah Cemetery all tie together for another Mitch Tobin and crew mystery. The old mining town of Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota sees plenty of action during what should be the simple merger of two small banks. In the middle of the mayhem, Judy and Mitch are trying to plan a wedding but there is little time for romance when the bodies start to pile up. Throw in some dubious characters involved with the gambling casinos, a hobo who has a way with the ladies...

It’s Christmas Eve. Henry VII lies abed, after a hard day counting money ... After bedtime visits from “Mummy” Beaufort, and bidding a fond goodnight to Groat - his pet monkey- Henry’s plans for another frugal Christmas and a 'taxing' New Year go awry when he is visited in the night by four spirits demanding he change his ways. First is the ghost of William Stanley, minus a head. Second, Richard III, whom Henry defeated at Bosworth, demanding he stops slandering his reputation. Next, ‘the pretender’ Perkin Warbeck, confusing him and making him doubt...and, last of all, a ...

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.

La gente no sabe qué hacer con Susan Green. Su familia y amigos la ven irritable y difícil de entender, pero para ella todo tiene sentido. A los cuarenta y cinco años, piensa que su vida es perfecta. Tiene un piso en Londres ideal para una persona, un trabajo estable que se adapta a su pasión por la lógica y un "amigo" que le proporciona beneficios culturales y otros más íntimos.

Para resolver el caso, no tiene más que dar con la banda de delincuentes y malhechores que se han dado en llamar "las criaturas marinas", y encontrar a su líder, el espeluznante Watson. Para ello recurre a la ayuda de Tinker, su fiel compañero (un homúnculo que cabe en su maletín). El método que utiliza Nick es simple: se vale del juicio estético que le proporcionan los acontecimientos.

Un edificio en el que todos los vecinos creen que se ha cometido un crimen y que el culpable se esconde entre ellos; un desempleado convertido por equivocación en gurú de la autoayuda; un psicópata dedicado a matar taxistas inescrupulosos; una abuela que confunde el sable láser del nieto con el vibrador de la hija; un escritor inédito decidido a vengarse de los jurados que lo hicieron renunciar a su vocación; un adolescente que recuenta con ironía la historia de amor de sus padres divorciados, incapaz de aceptar al nuevo pretendiente de la madre…

When Mabel Wickles decides to retire from being Parson's Cove's only amateur sleuth, she never dreams that she might be back to work on a cold case. There is no body; there are no clues, just a mother who left her husband and deserted her children many years ago. All Mabel has to go on is a young doctor newly arrived in town who seems to have too much money for a physician starting out, the missing woman's daughter who's recently secured a plush job at the local hospital, and her father, the local moonshiner. Most of the women in Parson's Cove are more intrigued with whether the handsome ...

Sam and Daisy have been best friends since university. Back then Daisy was a wild, Fleetwood Mac-obsessed girl descended from the Yorkshire Moors, while Sam’s youth was misspent traipsing around Liverpool on shopping trips and nights out. But as they lean against each other on a wooden bench in the tired garden of their beloved local pub, gazing out at Sam’s wedding, they have no idea that their paths are about to truly diverge for the first time.