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It’s never too late to get back on track. Michael is a broken man. He’s waiting for the 09.46 to Gloucester, so as to reach Crewe for 11.22: the platforms are long at Crewe, and he can walk easily into the path of a high-speed train to London. He’s planned it all: a net of tangerines (for when the refreshments trolley is cancelled), and a juice carton full of neat whisky. To make identification swift, he has taped his last credit card to the inside of his shoe.

En Villavieja de la Sierra no hay glamour, ni príncipes, ni filtros de Instagram. Solo hay humedad, empanadas, y vecinos que se conocen tanto como se soportan… es decir, poco. Mariví lleva toda la vida en ese rincón gallego, regentando una mercería que huele a alcanfor y frustración. Amargada, soltera y con más carácter que paciencia, su mayor ilusión es huir. O prenderle fuego al escaparate. Lo que ocurra antes. Ceferino, mecánico del pueblo y especialista en refunfuñar, tampoco ha ganado ningún concurso de belleza. Ni de simpatía. Vive a gusto entre sus herramientas, su ...

If you’ve just fallen into this beguiling treasure, then it’s in your best interest to just spank yourself and throw this book back in the vault where you found it. Because once opened, fabulous words that grow into sentences and paragraphs and stories will leave you with a massive rock-solid sense of the surreal. Leave now and we can both forget about this momentary plunge of lusciousness your eyes were about to feast on. Go! Prevail upon the legendary badassery life that is yours elsewhere. You have been thanked for your no-obligation, risk-free read of this secure blurb and I wish ...

Uncover the terrifying secrets of Sacramento, California, once a symbol of American pride, now morphed into an oppressive urban hellhole ominously known as the Ward. This chilling city-prison, with its unfathomable horrors, is a place where even angels fear to tread. In the grim depths of the Ward, a trio of horrifying factions clash. Avalon Company, fueled by an obsession with fire and destruction; the Breedless, cannibals who echo the ferocity of ancient Vikings; and Talon's Legion, a death-cult reminiscent of the terrifying might of the Roman Empire. Each is embroiled in a brutal battle ...

Maybe reality has always been there, but you've forgot about it. George is a young American, who spends his days online sharing memes and hoping to make it big online. One day, he wakes up and realizes that an unimaginable and crippling transformation has happened to him. Maybe you’ve spent so long in the metaverse that it has become your reality. George’s new condition helps him to see the real world as never before, but at the same time it drags him deeper into what appears to be a nightmare, from which he might never be back. Maybe there’s a chance to come back to reality, or maybe...

Ary solo tiene tres reglas en la vida: nunca llegar a tiempo, nunca callarse lo que piensa y, sobre todo, nunca JAMÁS enamorarse de su jefe. Lástima que Jaime Ruber, alias “Mr. Devilful”, haga que esa última regla sea cada vez más difícil de cumplir. Por alguna razón cósmica inexplicable, Jay, su sugar boss, tiene la pésima costumbre de mirarla demasiado, de sonreírle cuando cree que no lo ve y de hacerle creer que, tal vez, bajo esa fachada de energúmeno inflexible, haya un hombre capaz de enamorarse de una mujer que lleva más post-its en la ropa que en la agenda. Él ha ...

In this amusing story we meet the character of Diego, a young man who is rejected by the girl of his dreams. In exile in the mountains to clear his head he meets Don Quixote and Sancho and joins up with them in a quest for adventure but soon enough he meets a new girl, who may replace the old one, and become the love of his life.

Award Winner! "Honorable Mention," Contemporary Fiction, 2021 Writers Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards If you like stories told in unusual ways, enter the emotional, funny, and scary world of Backstory—a single mom’s search for new love and Hollywood fame. But wait: Is a serial killer stalking her and her daughter? Told with a series of letters and brief screenplay scenes, this story's dynamic format will make you laugh, cry, and cheer for Merry Mayfield, a mid-life Columbia University film school grad, who relocates to Austin, Texas, after a devastating divorce. Through her diary-...

A rib-tickling tale of an ambitious pig that hangs out in a bar in Apache Springs, Arizona. Follow the pignatious Bacon as she gets herself elected Mayor, marries Harley Hog, has a litter of cute little piglets and becomes world-famous.

The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the world, the boy vanishes, and the girl is left to wait, wonder, and worry. Will he return? Who might she be if she moves on without him?

Charles Vas, il protagonista di "Mondo parallelo" è un tipo alquanto bizzarro e molto sognatore che vede la propria vita cambiare di colpo senza quasi rendersene conto. Per caso si ritrova coinvolto in una missione che lo porterà a varcare il confine tra realtà e fantasia alla ricerca di una misteriosa scatola magica catapultando l'ascoltatore in una nuova visione del mondo e della sua concezione. Lungo il suo percorso incontrerà personaggi reali e irreali che lo condurranno a scoprire il suo destino ma è davvero lui il prescelto?

A TALE TO MAKE YOUR HEART SOAR! In this unique and enticing modern fairytale, a lonely young man suffers a massive defeat . When he believes all is lost, he meets with fiery fortune teller Flame. Her plea for help sends Dargo on a crucial mission; but can he re-invent himself as a hero? Light-hearted, but poignant, Dargo is a humorous fairy tale for adults. You can also share it with your children who care about Earth. And if they don't, Dargo will help them do so! This hilarious and heartwarming tale has been likened to the Wizard of Oz, and will appeal to the magic in all of us. Dargo - ...

A transformação (Die Verwandlung, 1915) foi publicada originariamente na revista expressionista Weiße Blätter, que abrigava textos da nova geração de escritores alemães como Heinrich Mann, Ernst Bloch e Rosa Luxemburgo. A novela narra a singular história de Gregor Samsa, um caixeiro viajante que certo dia acorda em sua cama transformado em inseto. Plena de significados simbólicos, a obra deu origem às mais diversas interpretações.

Several years after being plunked back down to Earth, Derek Christian (mediocre music journalist and reluctant space adventurer) finds himself being swept up again by the mysterious Kent to (once again) save the universe, this time from Clone Kent who is assembling an army to invade Zongoland and steal the Creator's secret recipe for doughnuts which contains the secret to all creation. Some things have changed in that time, Clone Derek (who took his place on Earth while he was away) has made Derek a rich and successful writer, but, he harbors a grudge.

His name is Gregory Hidalgo Merchant, and he runs a call center in New Jersey, but when he unwittingly becomes the last man in America without an account on the dominant social network, the people start to call him Hidalgo: The One Who Walks Alone. And so Gregory becomes Hidalgo. He becomes the symbol of rebellion and freedom and independence that his fans think he is and the media makes him out to be. But freedom and fame and fortune come with a price, and for The One Who Walks Alone, that price is simply to be alone.

They call him The Walrus. . . TV weatherman Wilson "The Walrus" Wigham notices some odd correlations between natural disasters and sociopolitical turmoil and finds himself swept up in a comical whirlwind of events that carries him from his little Wisconsin town to the great old country of India and all the way back again.

You know how they release those "Director’s Cut” versions of movies and they’re mostly self-indulgent nonsense?

The US state of Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. So when Alexander and Alexandra Anderson decide to fill in their backyard lake, it unleashes a wave of emotion that shakes the town, the state, and eventually the nation itself. But all big things start as small things, and the story of the Alex Andersons of Edina, Minnesota, is no different. They are native Minnesotans (which means they are of Swedish descent), and they get married soon after college. Children do not arrive in the first few years, and as our two Alexes grow up, it starts to become quite clear that while the ...

Il suicidio intellettuale corrisponde alla decisione, più o meno consapevole, di spegnere il cervello e di rinunciare al pensiero razionale, in favore di atteggiamenti dettati da superstizioni, da abitudini consolidate, da pregiudizi, da luoghi comuni. Gli effetti delle scelte irrazionali, condotte a cervello spento, possono essere devastanti per sé e per gli altri. Gli esempi spaziano dal conformismo, alle superstizioni religiose, al fondamentalismo ideologico, ma non solo. Tommaso, il protagonista di questo romanzo filosofico, è vittima del suicidio intellettuale dei genitori, ...

If the part of you that caused self-doubt had a face, would you recognize it? If your tendency to self-destruct had a name, would you know it? Told with humor, empathy and a driving narrative, Mountain Lion Blues by Adam Greenfield is a surreal, dark comedy about the obstacles we place in our way that keep us from the love, success and well-being we've been taught since childhood are ours to expect. Part absurdist love story and part existential noir, Mountain Lion Blues speaks to the mountain lion-sized hole in all of us.