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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

The Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn't all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don't burn. Multi-layered and entrancing, blending sharp satire with glorious fantasy, The Master and Margarita is ceaselessly inventive and profoundly moving. In its imaginative freedom and raising of eternal human concerns, it is one of the world's great novels.

Awkward Pause is an anthology collection from Ryan Harby's popular online comic series Honey Dill. A love letter to odd humour, Awkward Pause is a mix of joy and sorrow, both soft and sharp. The book includes over 50 comic strips, which range in topic from mental health to time travel, murder, and butts. Absurd and strange in ways that will warm even the coldest of hearts.

Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you'll feel right at home in Bogart Creek.

Told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this novel draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.

A story about the secrets we keep, the friends we make, and the food we cook.

On the day the Berlin Wall falls, Stasi officer Bernd Zeiger's betrayal of his onetime friend has come back to haunt Zeiger. Was Lara the naïf she presented herself to be, or did she know more about him than she admitted? As the surveiller becomes the surveilled, all will be revealed, with shocking consequences.

Imogen is supposed to be on the most romantic weekend of her life, and instead she's quickly realized that her current boyfriend definitely isn't "The One" and is actually One Big Mistake. Frankie is fed up. Fed up with her good-for-nothing husband and her four unappreciative children. Well, they hardly notice her anyway; maybe it's time to shake it up a little. Grace thought she had the perfect life--gorgeous little boy and perfect, hardworking husband--or rather, she did until she realized her husband was shagging his "work."

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.

Que se passe-t-il quand une fille de la ville, déménagée en région il y a un mois seulement, doit gérer seule deux enfants, une belle-mère déplaisante et un félin diabolique ? Réponse : beaucoup trop de choses ! Quand mon amoureux m'a abandonnée pour un orignal (OK, j'ai été naïve de lui donner ma bénédiction), tout allait bien. C'est cinq minutes après son départ que ça s'est gâché… À quel âge les enfants commencent-ils à se lever à une heure normale ? Où se cache donc le maudit chat ? Qu'est-ce qu'on met dans un lunch pour des papilles difficiles ? Comment ça, des poux ?!?