Novedades

Nico 'Junior' Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don't get to have women like her. It's why he pushed her away back in high school and has kept his distance ever since. But when Junior looks Lauren up online, he discovers the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone. In her place is a strikingly beautiful woman whose social media is filled with scantily clad pictures of herself and a connection to a nearby play club.

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

This collection of 12 twisted tales dives deep into the anxieties of a generation that grew up with the internet, got ghosted by the housing market, and fears their student loans more than actual ghosts.

Philip Dunbar is a slacker. A newly minted college graduate, Philip is unsure of what to do with his life. With pressure from his father and U.S. Senator, Philip enters a chaotic job market, spending months looking for work until he finally lands a job at a local branch for a major bank. Dealing with psychotic customers and impossible sales goals, Philip is eventually fired due to his poor sales performance. But after accidentally uncovering a Ponzi scheme, Philip is rehired and is thrust into the world of corporate finance, getting promoted to work in New York City. It is there Philip ...

In the festering muck of Boggy Ballsack Swamp, Frank—a short-legged, rage-fueled frog—croaks his way through a dark comedy fantasy that’s as hilarious as it is unhinged.

The galaxy just called for help. Unfortunately, the wrong man answered. When small-time conman, Cal Carver, is thrown in jail and forced to share a cell with a semi-naked cannibalistic serial killer, he's pretty sure his day can't get any worse. Boy, is he wrong. It isn't until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is mistakenly abducted by aliens that things really start to go downhill.

It's a lighthearted murder mystery ... with space aliens! Gabriel Lake is a not so hard-boiled computer guy who finds himself swept up into a web of interstellar crime when he is recruited into the Galactic Detective Agency, led by the brilliant Oren Vilkas. Can a mere Earthling track a killer across the stars before more lives are lost? Can he negotiate his way around other worlds and understand the ways of extra-terrestrial cultures? Can he even figure out how to use a bathroom designed for aliens? And can he uncover the mystery of A Town Called Potato?

Told over the course of a day in the life of a relatable heroine, this laugh-out-loud mom-com faces the harsh reality of juggling self-discovery with a shaky marriage.

Jonathon Fairfax can’t even get on the London Underground without bumping into someone he’s desperate to avoid–like Rachel, his first love, who demolished his heart eleven years ago. She tells him that her terrifying uncle (a man Jonathon knows only as ‘the murderer’) is about to be released from prison. Does the murderer blame Jonathon for his time inside? Will he seek revenge?

John’s House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John’s haven. He is alone, but never lonely; he is here now, but neither remembers nor longs for a before. In his House, John is safe and untroubled. But then a terrible shadow creature breaks in—and it wants him out. Pushed from the House, John falls into the light… And finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles, the first person to ever come back from the other side.

Der neue Provinzkrimi von Bestseller- und #1-Kindle-Humor-Autor Friedrich Kalpenstein. "Vertrauen Sie mir, ich bin Arzt!" Diesen Satz hatte Sebastian Burgegger bestimmt oft gesagt, bevor er in seinem Gästezimmer im KRAUSE tot aufgefunden wird. Es gibt keinen Zweifel, dass er ermordet wurde. Grund seines Aufenthalts in Brunngries war ein Motorradtreffen, zu dem er mit seinem Club auf seinem Zweirad angereist kam. Nun verlässt er den wunderschönen Ort im Chiemgau auf vier Rädern im Kofferraum eines Leichenwagens. Hauptkommissar Tischler nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.

Alan E Bailey, author of The Alexander Saga and The Midtown Murder Mysteries, shares memories of growing up and coming of age as a relatively gender fluid and willfully naive child in a freakishly large Southern Baptist family during the Baby Boom, college and dating issues during the seventies and eighties, travels with his mother, and struggles in his 50s and 60s to stay current in a ever-changing adult world. This collection of situational adult humor tells the stories that could not be included in the PG-rated Alexander Saga, including what remains his most embarrassing moment - at ...

The Cat on Salter’s Point is a story of a young social worker, Rachel Thomas, who embarks on a crazy adventure when she accepts her first social worker job at Salter’s Point Regional Hospital. It is a psychiatric facility outside of Seattle. On her first day, a suicidal patient mysteriously disappears from the hospital. Doctor George Benny, who works there, is the patient’s lover and is suspected in her disappearance. Rachel befriends Jamie Lee, who is an alcoholic social worker at the facility. The two of them, suspicious of the doctor, find a way to connect him to the patient’s ...

New York private investigators–and super-sized, ever-so-slightly-paranormal siblings—Fran and Ken Stein are back in business. Thirty-two-year-old Austin Cobb is trying to find his birth parents to get an answer for a deeply rooted question: Was he put up for adoption because he’s on the autism spectrum? Fran and Ken personally know about abandonment, due to their parents leaving to keep them safe, hence the reason they founded K&F Stein Investigations. So naturally they want to help Austin and bring him good news.

After losing her long-time acting gig on the hit show Murder 101, Sydney Ryan decides she needs a break from Hollywood politics. She heads to Treasure Island, Florida where her grandmother has been visiting and now refuses to leave. Sydney’s plan to lie low for a bit quickly goes awry though, as she is swept up in her grandmother’s now flourishing social life—Grand not only bought a new house in Casas de Flores, she’s also helping her neighbor Myra open a bookstore in Pass-a-Grille.

The Roman poet Juvenal was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His 16 satires encompass attacks on the immorality, abuses and hypocrisy of the Romans of his day. The last of the great Roman poets, he wrote between CE 110 and 130, his approach to satire coming close to modern expectations of the genre.

A short bittersweet tale of childhood remembrance. "Laughter, Pathos & Muscles" is also available in paperback, hardback and e-book form as part of the collection Easy Money & Other Stories. When his work happened to lead him through the cafeteria during lunchtime, tables of boys and girls would shout, “Hey, Muscles, show us your muscles!” He’d oblige us and weave among the tables flexing his arms, making crazy faces, and rattling off one-liners. Even the crabby, old lunch ladies had to laugh when Muscles put on a show. When he was in an especially good mood, he’d add the much-loved...

When three women living in the Arizona territory learn of the death of the famed gambler and ladies’ man Whiskey Logan, they take it upon themselves to travel to his funeral each believing that they are his only grieving widow. Their encounter over his dead body turns into a drunken brawl that ends with their un-holy alliance for revenge against his killer. Plotting revenge ain’t cheap, and since Whiskey left them with nothing but broken hearts and empty pockets, the women turn to breaking the law to become the first gang of lady outlaws in the territory. As they learn survive in the ...

One cabin. One impossible connection. One chance to rewrite the rules. Pia I came to the mountains to clear my head, finish my thesis, and maybe breathe for the first time in years. I didn’t expect him—my brother’s best friend, NHL golden boy, Liam Mitchell. Older. Brooding. Off-limits. He’s supposed to be a summer complication. A distraction. But then he touches me like I’m the only thing keeping him grounded. And I’m starting to wonder… maybe I am. Liam I came here to disappear. Anxiety, burnout, pressure I can’t explain—hockey used to be my escape. Now it’s my cage. ...

This dark, twisted comedic memoir explores "The Cat Daddy's" judicial and sexual accountability as a soldier of reproductive fortune. Was it the cats, the genetically modified animals, the cuckolding, or the lifetime of illegal ventures that resulted in the karma of this firsthand accounting of prison purgatory?