Results for "Ghost" in Literature & Fiction

Ils ont trois jours à San Francisco. Trois jours pour écrire leur histoire. Que feriez-vous si un fantôme débarquait dans votre vie et vous demandait de l'aider à réaliser son voeu le plus cher ? Seriez-vous prêt à partir avec lui en avion à l'autre bout du monde ? Au risque de passer pour un fou ? Et si ce fantôme était celui de votre père ? Thomas, pianiste virtuose, est entraîné dans une aventure fabuleuse : une promesse, un voyage pour rattraper le temps perdu, et une rencontre inattendue.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE Narrated by Holliday Grainger, star of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tell it to the Bees and Animals. He said ‘I love you’. And then he disappeared. Things that are going right for Nina Dean...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot. Set...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you." “An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at...

Take a hilarious journey into the wonderful out of this world haunts of ghosts relaxing in their own fantastic crypts. We all know that ghosts can be scary, very frightening OR they can be fun in the right mood. These ghosts have all got together for parties to chat about how life was like when they were, well, alive. This audiobook contains four different books of their tales ranging from playful revenge to the confessions of the people who hear confessions as part of their earthly existence.come what may, these are all funny stories designed to share laughter.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dev Banerjee has not had a full night's sleep since he made senior. He is a burned-out senior accountant at a Milwaukee firm that has just moved him into the corner desk of a bookkeeper who died at it. On his first night in the chair, a stapler slides...

A helicopter mom comes back as a ghost to over-parent her children and sabotage the new live-in nanny in this tender, mordantly funny debut novel. Tess has made a career of writing parenting books--most recently a defense of helicopter moms that got her laughed off the internet. But when Tess...

A collection of two chilling tales of the macabre from Blair Daniels, including The Homeowner's Association, and Attention, Shoppers! ATTENTION, SHOPPERS “ATTENTION, SHOPPERS: Please hide at the back of the store immediately." I'm at a Bluemart, on a diaper run with my kids, when I hear the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Milo Fenwick has exactly three things going for him: a van with a pun painted on the side, a business card that smells like sage, and an almost supernatural ability to be wrong about everything except the one thing that matters. When a call comes in...

National bestseller “Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny.” —Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Party A comic thriller following the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer, who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a...

In The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning, Wodehousian clubman, flaneur, idler, and sleuth Anty Boisjoly pits his sardonic wits against another pair of impossible murders. This time, Anty Boisjoly’s Aunty Boisjoly is the only possible suspect when a murder victim stands his old friends a farewell drink at the local, hours after being murdered. 

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Step into the eerie and darkly humorous world of Trinity Church graveyard, where a cynical young journalist seeking refuge on a mild May night accidentally stumbles upon a midnight convention of restless ghosts. From disgruntled ship captains and giant...

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

Celebre racconto umoristico giovanile di Oscar Wilde, pubblicato nel 1887. Il racconto ebbe grande successo come parodia delle storie di fantasmi: in realtà, dietro al noncurante umorismo dello scrittore, la storia è pervasa di dolcezza e di poesia.

An award-winning novel from an international rising star – spanning ancient and modern China – in the dazzlingly inventive style of Haruki Murakami and Kaliane Bradley 'Lu has a brilliant mind for style, language, pace and ideas, and this is a funny and fascinating book that I can’t wait...

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets that “will appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal...

The Ghost that Ate Us is a true crime style mockumentary that details the events leading up to a massacre at a fast food restaurant. Using the backdrop of Jonny, Iowa, a truck stop town in a flyer over state, Kraus explores the many ways forgotten Americans with little money and less prospects...

The Mother, the Daughter, and the Ghost pleasantly tramples all expectations. Bo is called to agony. She flees her mom for the tranquility of cave life, only to confront a flock of inquisitive, senile nuns pleading for a savior.

Following the success of the last party which was recorded in the much acclaimed book, Ghosts Screaming With Laughter, it was time for another one.

1914: Sixteen-year-old Etterly, running from something, hides inside the trunk of a tree and disappears. The police search but find no trace. Her family and friends wrack their brains, but come up with nothing. And so slowly life returns to normal. The hole in the tree is boarded up and the...