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Grace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace’s husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert’s law school fling...

It's 1997 and three very different expatriate Britons are living and working in Hong Kong. Sally, a sophisticated, thirty-something magazine editor, finds her life plagued by a ruthless bully. Tess, an idealistic young graduate, embarks on an unlikely office romance. And Rob, the most recently...

In October of 1987, Rose Kho, Hong Kong girl who left home, returned and has left it again for New York to escape her life, reflects, scotch in hand, as the sun sets on the Statue of Liberty. Meanwhile, the Feds are ransacking her offices because Gordie, her employer, is under investigation for illegal...

What do we think we desire? What do we truly desire? These are the two competing forces underlying Xu Xi’s latest fiction collection Access. These thirteen tales are at once acerbic and heartbreaking, directing our gaze at the incongruities of human relations and the persistence of wounds our hearts...

Moralla, a fading seaside town on the ‘beautifully uncivilised’ Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, has won Australia’s Tidy Towns award for two years running. Now Rebecca Moore—the most beautiful, talented girl in town—is dead and there’s nothing tidy about it. It seems everyone in this...

Murder, ghosts, and runway modeling. The basic ingredients: a wealthy 34-year-old gym junkie doctor with a taste for steroids; a pompous and tarnished English expat with a master's in expediency; a successful, sexy young Vietnamese artist; a glamorous if somewhat nosy female neighbour; a gorgeous,...

At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make a major concession as part of the peace treaty. In Singapore, Jethro Westrope, a magazine journalist, stumbles onto the scene...

From the depths of sorrow begins a journey of hope. The dream of a life together is shattered when AD finds himself attending Mikee’s funeral. He is overcome with grief. But Mikee’s brief appearance in his life was not by chance; it was to trigger a spiritual awakening. With help from Mikee’s...

For fans of The Good Place, Good Omens, *Third Rock from the Sun, Groundhog Day, **Third Rock from the Sun, **Community, *Hot Tub Time Machine, *Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, *and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Best pals Jason Medley and Theo Barnes barely survived a...

After an attack by a band of roving Nazi Brownshirts, Lisel Ganz, an artist’s model in Berlin, suffers an injury that gives her the ability to catch glimpses of the future. It is already too late for many, but Lisel now can see that an even greater evil lies ahead. Taking refuge in the home of artist...

For fans of authors Bill Bryson, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Christopher Moore,  and movies and TV shows such as Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, Time Bandits, Third Rock from the Sun, Community, Groundhog Day, Hot Tub Time Machine, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Hitchhiker's...

Diese Sammlung kolumbianischer Erzäh- lungen ist keine Anthologie im herkömm- lichen Sinne, sondern eine sehr persön- liche Auswahl des Herausgebers, in der er Perlen aus seinen vergriffenen Büchern mit neuen Fundstücken vereint. So ent- steht ein ungeheuer lebendiges und spannendes Bild der Literatur...