Comédia e Humor

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially by 10 best-selling novelists. From a hilarious race against time to a moment of unexpected eavesdropping, from righting wrongs in rural India to finding joy in unlikely places, these stories are all rich in wit and humour, guaranteed to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Dolly Alderton sabe bem do que está falando. Ela sobreviveu aos seus vinte anos com dignidade (mais ou menos), e todo mundo que já passou (ou está passando) por essa década decisiva da vida sabe que chegar inteiro aos trinta é um feito e tanto. São muitas descobertas, experimentações, romances intensos, roubadas, porres homéricos, empregos estranhos, auto sabotagem, foras destruidores, mágoas, humilhações e, o mais importante, amigos imprescindíveis que estão sempre ali para te ajudar a passar por todas essas coisas sem grandes traumas (ou quase isso).

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything.

Escrito por Daniel Furlan e Pedro Leite, Você não merece ser feliz é um falso manual de autoajuda com um ritmo intenso e humor original. Por meio de um dos personagens mais queridos dos últimos anos, os autores trazem uma crônica divertida e absurdamente irônica sobre a nossa mania de perseguir a todo custo a felicidade (mesmo que não seja merecida).

Björn has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife Katharina will leave him - and take their daughter. He reluctantly starts a mindfulness class and to his surprise, it's a revelation. He becomes calmer, more focused, and he's starting to understand what's really important in life. So when his client and brutal crime boss Dragan Sergowicz tries to interfere with his precious family time, Björn remembers his new-found goal to find serenity - and kills him.

Prove your awesomeness - or bolster your stockpile of conversation starters! Either way, prove you’re the smartest schmuck in the room with over 500 absurdly real facts! With over 500 outrageous and real facts on everything from hippo sweat to stars in the galaxy, you're sure to impress your friends, stump your colleagues, and crush the trivia night competition! Discover insane-but-true factoids and prove you really do know it all! Test out the true or false questions covering the gamut of science, sports, history, pop culture, and a potpourri of others.

Um dia você é a jovem moderna que ouve música alta e incomoda a vizinha. Num piscar de olhos é você quem está interfonando para o porteiro e reclamando, aos berros, do som da garota que mora no andar de cima. O que aconteceu? Simples: a vida adulta chegou. Quer dizer, não tem nada de simples.Como Camila Fremder mostra neste seu novo livro, a vida adulta costuma chegar de uma hora para outra, sem avisar, sem um curso preparatório, sem nada. Ou pelo menos é assim que a gente se sente. E a consequência disso é muito estranhamento, reflexões e boas risadas.

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.

What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury.

O mundo ao redor de Millicent Carmichael, também conhecida como Missy, de 79 anos, está diferente. Embora se apresse em dizer que considerava seu papel de dona de casa e mãe pouco satisfatório, a verdade é que Missy levou uma vida agitada cuidando de dois filhos e de um marido respeitado no mundo acadêmico. Agora que ele não está mais ao seu lado, que ela brigou com a filha e o filho se mudou para a Austrália, levando consigo seu amado neto, Missy passa os dias bebendo xerez, evitando as pessoas e vagando pela casa enorme e mal decorada esperando... o que exatamente?

It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.

In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.