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Thomas Brussig's slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City.

Pull up a stool and have a drink with the vacationing Father of Lies while he provides his unbiased take on topics like the truth, free will, and the seduction of the damned. It'll have you laughing, reflecting, and wondering about karma as the stories unfold and you see yourself within them.

Let's be real: customer service sucks. Being sandwiched between needy customers and incompetent leadership at a greedy corporation sets an impossible expectation. It's Tony's job to "reset the customer experience" with no tools other than his customer-oriented attitude and expression of the company's hip and trendy culture.

A vast caravan of RVs roams the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde’s universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges encountered in these pages mirror those we face in our modern age.

'Look after the dead,' said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. He'd had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen....

In this compulsively listenable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life but to keep on living it.

This motley crew of “Pickwickians” is led by Samuel Pickwick, the philosopher without any great ideas. He is joined by Tracy Tupman, the romantic who cannot hold down a relationship; Augustus Snodgrass, the poet who has never written poetry; and Nathaniel Winkle, the sportsman without any skill. Together, they encounter a series of misadventures that will leave listeners laughing out loud.

Als Maike und Alex vollkommen unverhofft ein etwas baufälliges Haus in Tübingen erben ahnen sie noch nicht, dass ihnen die Renovierung der »Villa Mimmi« alles abverlangen wird. Erneut stürzen sich die beiden mit Leib und Seele in ein neues Abenteuer und lassen sich weder von motorradfahrenden Biker-Omis noch von paragrafentreuen Bauamtsinspektoren von ihrem Ziel abbringen. Morsche Terrassen, irre Handwerker und tierische Untermieter sorgen auf dem Weg ins eigene Traumhaus ebenso für Überraschungen wie unfreiwillige Volksfestbesuche und Kletterpartien auf regennassen Dächern.

Jules Burnside is a hipster barista who monologues about indie music and participates in riots more to destroy property than effect civil justice. Nephi Jensen is a young Latter-Day Saint who believes God called him to be a superhero to deliver sandwiches to the homeless. Eldon Glenn is a big-headed lawyer who seeks election as city commissioner in a backwater Kentucky town by pandering to the locals with promises of bringing a drive-through window—staffed with singing and dancing dwarfs—to the local Wal-Mart supercenter.

Bold new work of conservative satire, author Biff Darkly takes aim at the left's greatest heroes in a way that's both comedic and...well, not-so-comedic. Lefty Legends are in for a “Fictional Takedown" and promises to be a wild ride for anyone looking for a laugh and maybe a little bit of eye-opening insight, too.

Dass der Bauernbursche Hansgirgl nicht der Erstgeborene ist, bekommt er sein ganzes Leben lang zu spüren. Durch eine Heirat erhofft er sich ein glücklicheres Leben, Ansehen und vor allem: einen Bauernhof. Wird ihm dieses Vorhaben gelingen? Wird sein Leben dadurch wirklich so, wie er es sich erträumt hat? Auf humorvolle Art und Weise parodiert Thoma die Träume eines Bauernburschen in Bayern.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält in einer Auswahl Sostschenkos satirische Texte von den zwanziger Jahren bis zu Kriegsbeginn. Der sozialistische Alltag mit seinen Zumutungen und Absurditäten bot dem Autor reichlich Stoff. Sei es ein Klinikaufenthalt, der zum Albtraum wird, die schwierige Wohnungssuche, Warenknappheit, Liebeshändel oder kleine Gaunereien – Sostschenko ist nichts Menschliches fremd. Der Leser weiß oft nicht, ob er weinen oder lachen soll. Am besten beides gleichzeitig.

Die Einteiler einer mächtigen Zeitung halten bei ihren Kolporteuren kräftig die Hand auf, wenn es darum geht, wer den besten Verkaufsplatz ergattert. Das Geschäft boomt, das Nebeneinkommen ist beträchtlich, die Kolporteure halten still. Doch dann wird ein Einteiler tot aufgefunden. Kottan vermutet den Täter im Kreis der ausländischen Zeitungsverkäufer, doch es gibt auch noch eine andere Spur.

I’ve spent years as a dirt-broke, starving artist. When my mom's hospital bills start piling up, I take every odd job I can find in Silver Mountain. Eventually, that leads to a nanny position at the biggest mansion in town. The kids are cute as stuffed animals. The pay is great, and my luck seems to be improving.

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair–the social-climbing, wealth-obsessed world of Regency England in the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Relativity is a captivating wild romp fueled with the aspirations of three men who are on a quest to dedicate their lives to their ridiculous dreams in this thought-provoking and satirical novel of friendship and finding oneself.

There are 47 bars in Magenta that sling their swill to the 80-odd thousand inhabitants and I know every stool, table, couch, and urinal in every one of'em. It’s my business to know. The Garden of Eden was as slick as a silk sheet sliding on sweat-soaked skin. It brought originality to the word "sin" that even Webster couldn’t have kept down to less than a chapter.

Three very different young men overcome their bad habits in a funny, introspective, and culturally topical story while serving in the Marines together.

When the doors to the North Columbus Wow-Mart open at midnight on Black Friday, ringing in the “Wowzathon” event of the century, chaos breaks out. A rampaging mob threatens to tear the store apart. Santa Claus is drunk, and a washed-up Halloween diva takes his place. The store manager’s daughter disappears. A turkey breaks loose. The security guards go into hiding.