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1) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel.
The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)-and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery-and...
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One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, Accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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The acclaimed writer Padgett Powell is fascinated by what it feels like to walk through everyday life, to hear the swing and snap of American talk, to be both electrified and overwhelmed by the mad cacophony -- the "muchness"--of America. "The Interrogative Mood" is Powell's playful and profound response, a bebop solo of a book in which every sentence is a question.
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Los monólogos de Ludovico es la segunda novela con que nos sorprende William Castaño-Bedoya. En esta obra, el autor de la también conmovedora Flores para María Sucel, reafirma sus dotes de recreador de la profundidad humana.
Poco a poco, Castaño-Bedoya nos va llevando por el mundo de Ludovico. En un comienzo el lector podrá pensar que se trata de un personaje que se propone mostrarnos su limitado y aburrido mundo, pero en la medida en que el...
8) East Lynne
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East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. A Victorian best-seller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working lawyer-husband, Carlyle, and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor, Francis Levison, after wrongfully...
9) Temporary
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In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more personal than doing your job."--Back cover.
10) Fiends
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Was my troubled head to be the frequent theater of horrors for a malicious being?The absurdity of it all went clean through me like a draft emanating from the beating wings of Lucifer.In response I laughed out aloud. An insane chuckle that burrowed into the night with demonic urgency.My lament was purely comical. I was shaking my fist at the skies, imploring a deaf deity to dance to my song. "How so you fool?" I queried myself laughing some more.By...
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It's summer in the little town of Somwärin, Texas, where the most anticipated event is a wrestling match between a man in a bear-suit and a bear in a man-suit. To Ruby Bejou, it looks like just another boring summer. And when Ruby's bored, she makes trouble.
But this year, things are different. Her daddy accidentally starts a cult for long-haul truckers. Her big sister is on a mission to win a cutthroat beauty pageant and won't let anything get...
14) Mortuis Luna
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…it seemed like a good idea…the end Is near(er)Things go from bad to worse quickly at the University of Centrum Kath.Will Physics Professor Klept and his dog be found before he crashes the Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies into one another? Residents of both galaxies are in a panic. Welcome to Aphroditto, the largest virtual reality pleasure center in existence.It's wildly popular and discrete. Once you leave Aphroditto, it's like you were never...
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¿Dónde está el infierno? Esa es una pregunta que me he hecho muchas veces, y siempre me respondo lo mismo: debe estar en un enorme campo verde esmeralda, con un cielo nuboso como cuando está a punto de empezar a llover. Un campo que parece tranquilo y hermoso, pero que esconde un secreto terrible. Un campo que está flanqueado por torres grises, altas y frías, que proyectan su sombra hasta el horizonte de mi vista. Torres que son la morada de...
16) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
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A three-book collection of the Luna City series, originally published separately: 4-6. Life in the small town of Luna City, Texas, the most beautiful small town in Karnes County, where a former celebrity chef manages the cafe, the owners of the Age of Aquarius Campground and Goat Farm lose their home to fire, and Mills Farm is under new management.
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Phil Bowers was a comedian and jazz trombone player par excellence! He also compiled jokes to use in any and all situations over his 97 years of life as a husband to wife Carolyn, a singer, and the mother of their eight children. (And each had a sister)!His biography will be published later this year- his wife Carolyn Bowers published her biography just this past year. But this book, written entirely by Phil, or Soupy as was his childhood nickname...
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It's OK if you don't get on with your neighbors over the road. But, what if you and they have some shared, unsavory history? And, what's it like when it's only your house and their house in the same deserted street?
Maybe, one day, they decide to take revenge on you. Then what?
Meet Japser and Jantine. Meet Marc and Marcella. Two lovely young couples on the surface. But, the wrongs of past behaviors bubble away and eventually come to a boiling point...
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