Юмористическая фантастика
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Surrounded by lush flowers and neurotic brides, Elly Jordan has carved out a sweet life for herself as the owner of Posies, a boutique florist in St. Louis. Not bad for a woman who drove away from her life two years earlier when she found her husband entwined with a redheaded artist. Sure, Elly has an embarrassingly beautiful best friend, a badly behaved sheepdog, and a sarcastic assistant she simply calls «Snarky Teenager,» but overall her days are pleasantly uneventful. As a bonus, her new...
| Автор | Colleen Oakes |
Дочь Иуды две тысячи лет охотится на вампиров, чтобы избавиться от родового проклятия. Помогает русскому князю одолеть Мамая на Куликовом поле, а Дзержинскому – ловить недобитую контру. И вот, наконец, в 2018 году находит логово последнего упыря Москвы… Из рассказов вы также узнаете: что будет, если выпить таблетку вечной молодости; как вырубить инопланетян при помощи айфона; и сколько жизней придется отдать за любовь ведьмы. 1. Синдром Андромеды 2. Последний вампир Москвы 3. Солдатский...
| Автор | Стасс Бабицкий |
Однажды утром двадцатишестилетняя Ангелина просыпается в теле сорокалетней женщины. Куда пропали годы ее жизни? Почему не состоялась долгожданная свадьба? Как общаться с окружающими и при этом не загреметь в психиатрическую больницу? Можно ли вернуться обратно и что необходимо для этого сделать? Ответы на все эти вопросы вы узнаете, прочитав новый остросюжетно-юмористический роман Нелли Лысенко. Автор – профессиональный психолог и системный семейный психотерапевт, что не могло не сказаться на...
| Автор | Нелля Лысенко |
Power House Inc., the largest employer in suburban Fairbrook, downsizes, throwing hundreds of employees out of work. The story focuses on four women, their lives suddenly turned upside down by the lay-offs, face the loss of their homes.<br>Charlotte is the ex-wife of the PowerHouse CEO who now wants to cut off his financial support and force her to sell the home that had been in her family for generations. It seems he'll stop at nothing to get his way. Laurel has moved nine times...
| Автор | Fredrica Greene |
Markus Pell was leading his life, minding his own business, running Smileyville Cab and Courier while working toward his dream business: the Bright White Light Entertainment Engine. He considers himself 'reasonably normal' and thought his life, too, was 'reasonably normal,' which it was – reasonably. <br><br>Until, that is, the ghostly members of his Imaginary Master Mind came to life. There is nothing normal about living with ghosts named Lincoln or...
| Автор | Markus Jr. Pell |
From Mark Twain to O. Henry, from Saki to Washington Irving—The Classic Humor Megapack reels in no less than 45 classic short stories and poems sure to amuse. Read and laugh! <P> Included are: <P> THE STRIKE OF ONE, by Elliott Flower<BR> THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, by Mark Twain<BR> A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER, by O. Henry<BR> LAURA, by Saki<BR> TEETH IS TEETH, by Ellis Parker Butler<BR> ARAMINTA AND THE AUTOMOBILE, by Charles...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
Goodbye Mrs. Robinson is an Irish, very black comedy about a brother and sister who find themselves in a very complex plot to claim money from their foster mother's insurance. Set in Galway, West Ireland this novella is about two orphaned children Aoife and Conor trying to break free from their contrary foster mother, Helen Robinson.<br><br>If you liked In Bruges and The Guard you'll enjoy this latest book from Fiona O'Malley.<br>Half of the money raised...
| Автор | Fiona O'Malley |
"Two men discover they share more than just a name in this Belgian bestseller from Flemish author Tom Lanoye." -[i] Kirkus Reviews Two Belgian exiles, both called Tony Hanssen, are on the run from their former lives on different continents. In Buenos Aires one of the Tony Hanssens, a former cruise director, is playing a dangerous game as a toy boy to the elderly wife of a wealthy Chinese businessman. In South Africa a totally different Tony Hanssen, a computer specialist running from a...
| Автор | Tom Lanoye |
When Katie starts to receive valentine's gifts in her locker two weeks before Valentine's Day, and her school's annual sweetheart dance she can't help but wonder who her secret admirer is. She and her best friend Beth become convinced they are from Katie's crush and decide to investigate. <br><br>Is it the dreamy Nick Mitchell finally noticing her? <br><br>Or is someone else leaving the sweet declarations of love?...
| Автор | Erica JD Morrison |
Esmeralda is a shy witch who longs to be noticed. This year she and her cat Pickitywick are attending The North American Spell In, a large witch's convention and she has a plan to get the attention she deserves.<br><br>In an old spell book she finds a mysterious recipe for Changing Tea and brews up the potion. The spell is supposed to turn you into the person you have always wanted to be, and seems to be working very well until events happen that make Esmeralda question if...
| Автор | Erica CDN Morrison |
Dorothy Gale Robinson, an aspiring actress, is the daughter of hippie parents with a passion for old movies. When her father is killed suddenly while sipping a non-fat decaf mocha latte at a local coffee shop, Dorothy's life is turned upside down. After an unconventional dispersing of her father's ashes at the Universal Studios' Psycho House, Dorothy's mother decides to sell all her worldly possessions and join a New Age cult headquartered in Banff, Canada. Of...
| Автор | Karen Mueller Bryson |
Hi! My name is Buddy. I am a Beagle. Since I can read and write, I am no ordinary Beagle. I also am very fond of Mental Masturbation. This is my second book!<br><br>Mental Masturbation, Dear Reader, is a form of anxiety relief that affects my ever-wandering, always-worrying, exceedingly-addictive mind that works 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. I even can confirm that Mental Masturbation manages to continue spinning an extra day during leap year.<br><br>This...
| Автор | BuzzzzOff |
Hi! My name is Buddy. I am a Beagle. Since I can read and write, I am no ordinary Beagle. I also am very fond of Mental Masturbation. <br><br>Mental Masturbation, Dear Reader, is a form of anxiety relief. It affects my ever-wandering, always-worrying, exceedingly-addictive mind that works 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. I even can confirm that Mental Masturbation manages to continue spinning an extra day during leap year.<br><br>This collection of missives, which I...
| Автор | BuzzzzOff |
The place is gaudy yet drab, lively yet death-like, dispassionate mother hen to a brood of dithered chicks. Discover its bizarre existence from the inside, through the muddled collective mind of the outcast in-group, a gay throng of third-sex bewildered ones who frantically seek a why–but must always settle for The Why Not! Borgo Press is pleased to represent a true classic of gay literature, now available again for the first time in four decades. Includes an introduction by the author,...
| Автор | Victor J. Banis |
Kenny walked into the old farm house as if he'd never been away, as if nothing he'd done had ever shattered their reputations. But was this the real Kenny, the man who had disappeared into the night five years earlier? He certainly wasn't behaving like it. There was something sinister about him, too vague to put into actual words. Even his romantic interest in Ingrid, the co-heir to the family estate, was unlike the man–he'd never shown a real interest in a woman before. ...
| Автор | Victor J. Banis |
In Victor J. Banis's hilarious gender-bender send-up of the mutant superhero genre, hetero Peter Warren's ambition is to design women's dresses, and his most secret desire is to wear them. His cop wife, Teri, also secretly longs to see her hubby «dressed up,» but hasn't yet found the right way to tell him. And when Peter drinks the «wrong stuff,» he turns into the eight-foot-tall monster called Drag Thing. Add to the pot a pair of lesbian scientists working on a formula to...
| Автор | Victor J. Banis |
Queen City and Other Dimensions is a humorous satire of manners, mythologies and social conventions. Satirized are a small circle of friends, Supreme Court Judges in the guise of Roman Catholic Cardinals, more than a few politicians, some evil benefactors, religion and science. There is an infamous book from a distant planet pursued by many, including the Vatican. As the book goes through a succession of hands each reader is changed by its magic. <br /><br />Victoria Aires and her...
| Автор | E.C. Wells |
Lousy Lou Ousley, the detective, has been given another impossible case: the murder or suicide of a crackpot novelist in a locked room. Everything points to suicide but there’s the sticky point of the gun being made of wax. And what’s with the bottle on the desk with a deuce of diamonds inside it? In this novel, written in 1958 but never published anywhere until now, Harry Stephen Keeler pulls out all the stops and creates a tale that Arthur Conan Doyle might have written.
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Curl up with this uplifting festive read – perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Carole Matthews.‘This wonderful story put a huge smile on my face’ Lucy ColemanLast winter she had a plan.Lucy fell in love with tumbledown Rosemary Cottage as a child. So thirty years on, when she loses her city job and discovers the cottage is for sale, it feels like fate. She’ll raise her children in Burley Bridge and transform the cottage into a B&B with her husband.But a year can change everything . . .Now...
| Автор | Ellen Berry |
‘Irresistible’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie FfordeIn a cosy corner of Paris, a delicious little patisserie is just waiting to be discovered. And romance might just be on the menu…As the youngest of four, Nina Hadley has always had her big brothers telling her what to do. So, when she’s given the chance to move to Paris and help run a patisserie course, she can’t say au revoir quick enough!There’s just one problem: high-flying chef Sebastian Finlay is the owner of the patisserie. He’s also her...
| Автор | Julie Caplin |
Sail away to beautiful Croatia for summer sun, sparkling turquoise seas and a will-they-won’t-they romance you won’t be able to put down!When no-nonsense, down-to-earth Maddie Wilcox is offered the chance to work on a luxury yacht for the summer, she can’t say no. Yes she’ll be waiting on the posh guests… But island-hopping around the Adriatic sea will more than make up for it – especially when Nick, her best friend Nina’s brother, is one of them.Sparks fly when they meet on board and Maddie...
| Автор | Julie Caplin |
‘If you like hot characters, plenty of action, and sex thrown in, check out this series.’ – Fiona’s Book ReviewsWhen you have nothing to lose, revenge is the only option.Beth is still reeling from the murder of her beautiful sister Paige – a hit ordered by ‘El Escorpion’, the notorious cartel leader she has relentlessly pursued for the last six years in her role as DEA agent.Reunited with her lover and undercover agent Torres, who is now her husband, and raising their adopted daughter Alejandra,...
| Автор | Kierney Scott |
A story of dishonesty, intrigue and brutal manipulation showing how the superpowers manipulated the Coronavirus and how the opportunity was seized to fiercely attack the American and European Oil Industry, during the resultant short term glut of Oil that they caused. In parallel they manipulate the Oil supply and Governments with loans that all countries need, whilst advancing their long term aims of a worldwide empire but causing terrible damage on the way. Suddenly I realized that we are...
| Автор | Tawny Eagle |
A woman discovers she has a rogue body part, one she’s never heard of. As she prepares herself for surgery to remove the offense, she travels to London and finds answers to her questions in unexpected places—a locked room in a museum where jars of Victorian body parts are stored, an early 19th century operating room in the attic of a church, and a diary by a woman whose husband dissected a rhinoceros in their flat. Along the way, she ponders the nature of disease, the unfortunate name given to...
| Автор | Sarajabe Woolf |