Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom!
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the fifth book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
In Lionel Shrivers entertaining send-up of todays cult of exercisewhich not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal lifean aging husbands sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.
A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting inRobin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis.
A debut novel in the vein of Liane Moriarty and Tom Perrotta, about dark secrets brought to life after the mysterious death of a handsome and charismatic trainer to the elite women in Santa Monica.
Supervision is a critical function of leadership that is often overlooked, and yet the quality of supervision is often what makes or breaks a leader-and an organization.
'Good-hearted and brutal at the same time, The Milkman in the Night is a complex, unsettling mixture of bleakness and warmth' Sunday TimesRead this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed.
A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our time A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as a result of a neurological disorder, is asked to review a recent, first biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer who has been his long-time friend and neighbor in Charlottesville.
Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 - Nominated Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los AngelesIt's the Great Depression and Mary Mabel McTavish is suicidal.
The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.
'An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure' Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies'Magnificent and stunning' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander'An immense achievement.
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the seventh book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.
**Order Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now**THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYES'Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny.
Collects Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; and Carry on, Jeeves'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived [.
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow.
This hilarious new novel by Americas best-selling cowboy poet, Baxter Black, offers afunny, fast-paced inside look at the lives of rodeo cowboys and the women they love--or that they want to love.
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.
The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen of mystery.
In einer Zeit, in der das Land, in dem wir leben, sich wieder intensiv mit dem Aufrüsten zur militärischen Antwort im Kriegsfalle beschäftigt, wünschen wir uns sehnlichst, daß statt der Waffen die Möglichkeiten der Psychotherapieausbildungen und die Möglichkeiten der Kunst in unseren Gesellschaften ausgeweitet würden - um möglichst viele Menschen über einfache Methoden zu informieren, wie sie ihre im Krieg erschrockenen und gestressten Nachbarn, Freunde, Verwandten, die zu uns Flüchtenden und – eben gerade auch – die uns mißtrauenden Fremden, noch bevor sie zu unseren Freunden werden, beruhigen, stabilisieren und aufbauen können!
Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africaa continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sortLionel Shriver'sGame Controlis a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions.
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the third book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.
Das mitreißende Psychogramm einer jungen FrauDie junge Landadlige Belinda Portman soll im Jahre 1800 in die feine Gesellschaft Londons eingeführt werden, um eine gute Partie zu machen.
