Resultados para "The Journey" en Literatura y ficción

A unique award-winning novel that combines side-splitting humor with the quest for enlightenment. Orthodontist Jacob Silverstein is not your typical tooth-straightener. He’s a novelist by night who dreams of becoming a best-selling author.

Investigating a malfunctioning air-conditioning unit, a professor and his sniveling assistant journey under a mobile-home trailer to discover an illusive world fraught with monsters. The fight to usurp control of the air conditioning unit from the Great Red Dragon soon coalesces into an unbridled desire to control the journal as log entry after log entry document this perilous quest.

The Journey of Joenes, also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow, tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present through the distorting lens of a future wonderfully skewed from and yet darkly, hilariously, similar to our own world.

Richard Brautigan was an original - brilliant and wickedly funny. His books resonated with the 1960s, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction explores the fragile, mysterious shadowland surrounding death. Told with classic Brautigan wit, poetic style, and mordant irony, An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a peripatetic journal chronicling the protagonist's travels and oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death of a close friend from cancer.

Ambrose Palmer, an aspiring actor, journeys through the circles of hell of a brutal industry. We follow him, his lovers, and a small clan of novice performers as they weather the storms of the acting profession. But behind the sex and hilarity lurks the desperation of Thatcher’s England.

When newlyweds Morgan and Marin discover a mystic portal in between the restroom doors of a convenience store, it whisks them away to a fantastic other world, one both barbaric and completely absurd.

Audiobook narrated by Kimberly Farr. In this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom. Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of...

Welcome to the unpredictable world of Paradise Lost: A Journey Through Chaos, where the sun-drenched shores of Hawaii serve as the backdrop for a comedy of errors that will leave you both laughing and reflecting on the absurdity of adulting. Our protagonist, an unwitting hero in a series of unfortunate events, navigates the turbulent waters of shared living spaces, financial fiascos, and unraveling friendships.

The concept of heritage often carries with it an intricate weight, a duality that embodies both pride and burden. In "Echoes of the Ancestors," the exploration of this weight delves deeply into the collective memory that shapes identity. Characters grapple with the inheritance of histories that are both celebrated and haunting, illuminating how the past is never truly distant.

In Book 1 of the BRAXTON'S AMERICA series, BRAXTON’S TURN, following his son’s diagnosis Jonathon Braxton began a journey to seek an understanding of why, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. government research funding, the medical research community did not know the cause, nor have a cure for T1D. It was a journey which would take him from successful tech sector entrepreneur and philanthropist to the halls of Congress, where he would encounter the powerful obstacles of greed, politics, and the financial interests of Big Pharma.

This is a story about four friends who grew up together in rural northern New Jersey. The four are close enough to be brothers- chosen family- whose loyalty and love for one another becomes a powerful force in their lives growing up.

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In "Bud Spencer - Die unglaubliche Reise zu meinem Filmhelden nach Rom 2011" erzählt der Protagonist, der Österreicher Tom Moore, höchstpersönlich und auf amüsante Weise, wie er im Jahre 2011 von seinem persönlichen Filmidol Bud Spencer nach Rom in dessen Domizil eingeladen wurde und was er dort erlebte.

The Cosmic Joke is a wildly original, spiritually sharp, and side-splittingly human look at the strange and beautiful mess of modern awakening. This audiobook is for seekers who’ve ever accidentally chanted in the wrong key, meditated through a cat attack, or wondered if that "sacred sign" was actually just a pigeon with bad timing.

Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life. Lara doesn’t realise how...

China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West.

An up-close look at the big city underground, following two Right-wing thrill seekers (Paul) and (Brandon) who travel to an already struggling Cleveland, Ohio to observe the aftermath of the 2020 riots and the endless lockdowns. They will stop at nothing to view the Liberals in their natural habitat, but they might just leave with more questions than answers after several encounters with characters too strange to be real, but they unfortunately are very real and walking amongst us.

The author of the Edgar nominated and ALEX Award-winning How Lucky (“an absorbing thriller with heart”—People), blends suspense, humor, and compassion in a new novel about seven strangers and one very intense evening at a small-town Georgia pharmacy. Lindbergh’s Pharmacy is an Athens...

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post...

In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time scammer and her adopted son have constructed in London becomes endangered during the tumultuous final months of World War II. It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are raining down on London with...