Résultats pour "Doctors" dans Comédie et humour

From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?  

Read by the author, Adam Kay. The multi-million copy bestseller Book of the Year at The National Book Awards ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor...

Doctor How's twin brother and cousins deserted their posts in '63, leaving him alone to battle the forces of darkness. Now he's under attack and there are only two beings he can rely on: a morphing superpredator called Trinity and a petty thief called Kevin from a South London slum. What could possibly go wrong?

Meet Rowena Halley, a former human rights activist turned academic. Rowena thought teaching on US college campuses would be a lot safer than interviewing torture victims in Russia. Boy, was she wrong. Rowena quickly gets caught up in campus intrigue that threatens to turn deadly. Meanwhile, the life and lover she thought she’d left behind in Moscow might not be so firmly back in the past as she’d believed.

Winner of the Locus Award and CIBA Mark Twain grand prize, The Man Who Saw Seconds is a gripping speculative fiction thriller, blending absurdist satire and adrenaline-charged suspense, about a New York man who can see five seconds into the future—which changes his life forever; perfect for...

Kevin must die. And a race of aliens hate him so much they're prepared to invade Earth to kill him. Doctor How thinks his greedy, womanizing cousin Why can help - but can he be trusted? As a killer robot blasts its way across the planet and a death ray is fired at London, Doctor How sends Kevin back in time on a desperate mission to save the Earth. But when he's paired up with one of the Doctor's previous assistants the sparks begin to fly - for all the wrong reasons.... Kevin's made a lot of dangerous enemies in the present, and things looks bleak back home.

A children's toy comes to life. And it will do anything to get back a missing body part. But is it the only one, or are there more? Whilst Doctor Peterson of MI16 tries to find the solution, Thickett creates a monster of a problem. With Doctor How taking a leave of absence, can Kevin and Cassandra stave off disaster long enough to get help from the most stubborn of the Time Keepers? This is book four of the Doctor How series.

Something ate the Rindan consul and her husband alive. And now it's eating humans. The extraterrestrial diplomatic community blames Doctor How. He and his assistants try to deal with the alien threat quietly, but events spiral out of control when the MI6 headquarters and US embassy come under attack. Meantime, Doctor How's cousin When has neglected to tell him about a far greater danger, which threatens to destroy the power of the Time Keepers.

Doctor How's arch-enemies finally reveal themselves as they threaten humanity. They execute a fiendish plan to discredit the Time Keepers and impose their will on the Pleasant Universe. It's a plan so cunning that even the Time Keepers' closest allies turn against them. Can Doctor How, Trinity, Kevin, and Cassandra thwart the forces of evil and stupidity?

The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts...

Half a century ago, Doctor How's famous brother sold his fictional life story to the BBC, painting himself as a lone hero. Disillusioned, their four cousins dropped out. For 50 years, it is Doctor How who has protected humanity against the forces of darkness and stupidity. Illegal aliens try to hack Doctor How's systems, and he finds his estranged cousin Where has already been compromised. When reports come in of mysterious attacks by alien creatures, How has to rely on his new assistant Kevin, a petty criminal from south London, and Trinity, a morphing super-predator.

The Doctor awakens to discover a universe that is at once all too familiar and yet completely unlike that which he was expecting. Join him as he argues with himself, his companions, and anyone else near enough to be drawn in—all the while attempting to save a shattered and disintegrating universe. If this seems to be parodying something familiar that has itself recently fallen apart and lost its shine, it probably is.

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction....

Call Brook Ogden a matchmaker in reverse. Let others bring people together; Brook, licensed mental health counselor, picks up the pieces after things come apart. When her own therapy practice collapses, she lands on her feet with a weekly advice-to-the-lovelorn column and a successful consulting service as the Breakup Doctor. But when her own relationship suddenly crumbles, Brook finds herself engaging in almost every bad breakup behavior she preaches against.

An uproariously funny collection of sea tales from the coauthor of Mutiny on the Bounty, a cult classic available in print again for the first time in this century. In Portsmouth, by the fireside of the Cheerful Tortoise taproom, British seamen regale themselves with tales of seafaring...

Since the day he lost his mother, everyone tells Robbie he needs psychological help. He is cursed with intelligence and lacks relationships to cope with his trauma. He is reminded every day to seek out psychiatric treatment, and certainly, the world around him endorses its benefits wholeheartedly.

‘A gorgeous treat of a book…the very best uplifting read you'll get your hands on this summer!’ Faith Hogan #1 Bestselling author of The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what All’s fair in love and…medicine? Dr Katie...

As a black doctor working on the frontline of the NHS, Matt Hutchinson hears these words all too often. In this book, he offers a compelling glimpse into the unvarnished reality of working in healthcare as an ethnic minority. Tracing his journey from medical school through to working at some of the country's most chaotic hospitals, Matt uncovers how the true backbone of the NHS is the diverse community of immigrant healthcare workers who work tirelessly to keep the show on the road.

In search of the ferocious truth, some would call trying to channel the spirit of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson a fool’s errand. But these are desperate times. So settle in for this trilogy of uppers, downers, screamers, laughers from John Bruni (Tales of Questionable Taste), Kent Hill (Hercules with a Shotgun) and Kevin Candela (Weedeaters: The Complete Acropalypse) as they bring you just what the doctor ordered.

In Doctor Lovebeads, Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph", ignores the little voice in the back of his head that says to stay out of the lives of his passengers. Instead, he goes undercover as a hippie - muslin, sandals, VW van and all - to rescue two girls he believes have been brainwashed by a cult leader.