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Han pasado muchos años desde que el protagonista de este relato, que escribe desde una mazmorra en la que, sin saber cómo ni por quién, ha sido confinado, observaba desde su ventana el deprimente espectáculo de la existencia en el Barrio Viejo, e imaginaba una vida emocionante en los extramuros, alejado de sus hermanos, de su abnegada e inexpresiva madre y de una niñera sumida en la desesperanza.
La llegada intempestiva de una extraña joven...
22) Follaje
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Follaje es el aullido de una generación de soñadores sumida en una carrera de fondo sin fin en la que despertar cada mañana llorando, tiritando del pavor. Una historia de resignación y redención en la que el narrador nos invita a acompañarle en su lúgubre descenso a los infiernos.
Artur Nahasapemapetilon, de treinta y cuatro años, es un joven asalariado de cuello blanco cuyo puesto de trabajo transcurre en una moderna agencia creativa. Pesimista...
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Shadows of Deception is a gripping tale of love, danger, and deceit set in a conservative society. The story follows Trudy, who holds a flash drive containing secrets that bind her to Wambui, the woman she secretly loves. As Juma, an informant, calls for police backup to dismantle Mzee's drug empire, the guests inside the mansion are lost in their own web of deceit. Aisha's guilt and Katana's desperation to escape poverty add to the tension, while...
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Nobody rides for free.Not even a talented opera singer . . .My initial encounter with the diva had been on a Hollywood Blvd bus in the mid-70s. I was sitting in the middle somewhere on my way to another nothing job interview that I doubted I had a chance to land. Nam vet, you see. With a case of PTSD.She had boarded and claimed the bench seat across from the driver. Next thing we knew, she was squatting. . . . Well, let's just say the air suddenly...
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"Un ir y venir (las vueltas de la vida)" es una novela autobiográfica, con una narración sencilla, pero significativa. A lo largo de la vida del personaje, se desarrolla la historia del país donde habita, cuyos hechos nos impactan a todos. Los lectores lo acompañamos desde su infancia en el campo, pasando por su etapa de conscripto y, luego, durante sus años como carabinero y, ahora, en su rol de guardia de banco. Conocemos de su amor por su...
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The Pleasure Cats of Nova Playa is a story of sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and techno music. Set in the fictional sun soaked Mediterranean resort of Playa Nova where underground, under town, cats mirror the excesses of the sunseekers above. Into this bustling, vibrant underground city arrives the beautiful Napoleona, a charming and cunning cat with a past, but with her eyes fixed squarely on the future, and in particular the coming winter. In the...
27) Días de invierno
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La producción literaria de Kajii Motojirō se ubica en una fase crucial del Japón moderno. Tras el gran terremoto de Kantō (1923), surge en el mundo intelectual la necesidad de redefinir la identidad japonesa. Aunque Kajii recoge los estímulos de las principales corrientes literarias de la época, su contenido y su estilo no son atribuibles a una corriente concreta.
En los quince relatos recopilados en la presente antología, su prosa lírica...
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New York City is unique, vibrant, exciting and a melting pot of cultures and values. But sometimes, living in the Big Apple can lead to twists, turns, and unexpected outcomes.
The Big Apple Bites Back portrays life in NYC-the people, neighborhoods, the workplace, dashed dreams, and life on the street.
The stories attempt to capture the city's spirit, with tales about how things occasionally go awry and how even the unexpected can enliven...
29) No somos amigos
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Alexander Amador es uno de los empresarios más exitosos de Panamá. Joven, apuesto, altivo y de una gran soberbia, nadie imagina el sufrimiento del que se esconde detrás de ese muro impenetrable que ha moldeado con los años.
Vive en una rutina inamovible, pero varios hechos comienzan a hacer temblar su perfecto mundo organizado.
Mauricio, recién graduado de la universidad, espera impaciente ingresar al empleo que su padre le ha prometido. Honesto,...
30) Latchkey Ladies
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Latchkey Ladies opens in 1918 in the Mimosa Club, a women's hostel in central London where young women office workers and ladies on declining incomes find refuge from the tedium of war work and the chilliness of impending poverty. Anne Carey is twenty-five. She is engaged to a young lieutenant in the army, but she is bored of him and bored of the war. When she meets Dampier, a man unlike anyone she has ever met before, they begin an affair, and then,...
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Calder, reclusive by nature, gives his color TV set away (to break free of his addiction to it). In an effort to fill the void in his humble digs he decides to pick up a parrot at the local pet store. Instead of the bonding that he was receptive to and expected to take place, this bird-lover's life is turned into a certified nightmare.
Following a month's worth of assaults by this evil freaking "lovebird," he takes it back to the shop. But then inexplicably...
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A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World.
The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use...
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Reid Wolfe is a master of seducing women.
This time, his life may depend on it.
He's known as the Wolfe of Manhattan. Reid Wolfe sees women as playthings, and most are happy to be arm candy and bed warmers for the handsome billionaire rake. He knows the art of seduction like no other, so surely he can get a Las Vegas showgirl into his bed in record time. He must, because she has information
...34) Little Dorrit
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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
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From debut novelist Eugene Havens, Marble on a Table is an unexpected love story between two wounded outsiders seeking redemption in dazzling, heartless New York City.
Rasmus Smith is a shrewd New Yorker who believes lofty ideals are for other people. That is until a sudden moral dilemma makes him listen to his conscience. Rasmus tries to raise his standards but watches his life spin out of control.
It leads him to Alli. A captivating stranger,...
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In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared's lives in ways none of them can...
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"A deftly crafted, deeply engaging, and memorably compulsive page turner." --Midwest Book Review No means no, except to the most powerful woman in fashion. Kyle's been trying to forget her for eleven years. When she reemerges for round two, Kyle's forced to confront his painful past-the one he's kept hidden from his girlfriend, Rebecca. Complications arise when Rebecca's blog for women becomes a global sensation in the one magazine Kyle hoped to avoid....
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A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus.
The tale begins with a game of chess-and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great city. From appalling injustice springs forth the story of Chicago, and the men and women whose resilience, avarice, and altruism combine to generate a moment...
39) The Alibi
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Pre-order The BRAND NEW addictive revenge thriller from Evie Hunter for 2023!
Don't get mad...get even!
Leona Carson thought Scott Jessop was a decent man…she was wrong.
When she discovers Scott has been lying to her, she knows it's time to call it quits on their relationship. But Scott doesn't take kindly to being rejected by Leona and begins a campaign to ruin her life just like he has done to many other women…
Determined to stop Scott and...
40) Bystander
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"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death."
Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his bachelor apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five star hotels. So when he returns after being away for nine months and notices a strange smell coming from his neighbour's apartment, he initially tries not to get involved,...
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