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61) Wendigogo
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Morty didn't intend to become a cannibal. Lately he hasn't felt like himself, and his friends are concerned. Something has been eating his neighbors. A treacherous shaman and a psychotic water panther are urging Morty to unleash his carnivorous side. A relentless Bigfoot hunter, an arrogant oil company, and sinister squirrels are only making Morty's life crazier. Morty was happy being an average nerd. How is a snarky bookseller-turning-wendigo expected...
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La taberna de los 3 monos (y otros cuentos alrededor del póquer) es un libro de relatos de los más diversos géneros: negro, terror gótico, esperpento, fantástico, policial, erótico, gastronómico o western.
O más bien la esperpentización de esos géneros tras bañarlos en humor ácido y negro.
La presencia del póquer en todos los cuentos aporta la tensión, análisis sicológico y suspense que acompañan a este apasionante juego.
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Do you sometimes believe you have made a contract with the Devil at work? Have you sold your soul and paid the Ferryman his fare to transport you to the Purgatory of your work? Well think yourself lucky you don't have to face the Demons that pursue Jack, Kitty and The Big Yin face across America and Europe as they seek the elusive secret to paradise - psychotic American Special Forces, ancient Welsh Druids, the Corsican Mafia, Dutch gold bullion dealers,...
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A new government has been elected and, as usual, savings must be made in the public service. Some individuals in the Department of Multifarious, Extraneous and Artistic Affairs will go to any lengths to be made redundant and to leave with lucre, but Alan Mewling is not one of them; he is unashamedly desperate to avoid bureaucratic irrelevance. At the very time, though, when he needs to demonstrate his indispensability to senior management, his domestic...
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Boomers John and Sally Ross return from a memorable vacation in Budapest, hoping for some peace and quiet at their Kentucky home. But Sally ends up staying with their daughter who is undergoing cancer treatments in New York.John heads back to Lexington, only to be surprised by unexpected houseguests that could put a strain on family relationships. He also has to deal with some shady characters who have moved into the neighborhood and may be responsible...
66) Swineforth
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¿Una escuela internacional en un estado totalitario? ¿Qué podría salir mal?
De la nada, el exprofesor de teatro, Tristán Randolph, vanidoso e ingenuo, ha asumido la dirección de una nueva escuela en Diskebapisbad, capital disfuncional de un despótico estado postsoviético. No se imagina, por más obvias que son las señales para los demás, que la escuela es el capricho de la hija malcriada del despiadado presidente. Randolph contrata a un...
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THE ORANGE OFFICE: A day in the life of a messed up President. A satirical and funny story about an unlikeable man who rose above his own competence.
Ronald Stroud is a loud and obnoxious wind that blew into the Oval Office, he doesn't care about history or politics.
Ronald Stroud has finally made it to the White House. On his first day, he discovers that being the President of the United States isn't going exactly as he planned - senators want...
68) Voracidad
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Voracidadprocura ser una novela provocadora, un despiadado retrato esperpéntico y satírico del nacionalismo, de la España gobernada por la derecha, del sexo, de la televisión, del arribismo y la falta de escrúpulos, del oficio de buscavidas, de la estupidez y la locura, de la venganza, del horror e incluso del amor por Internet.
Y del sistema, que se devora a sí mismo, como demuestra la crisis económica en la que estamos inmersos.
Por la novela...
69) Class Conflict
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Biggsy's challenging school year continues into the spring term. The 50-year-old head of English at a West London boys' secondary school is at a critical point in his career. Jaded with the state education system and nearing professional burnout, he prepares for a change of role in the school.
The new year started badly, with health issues resulting in him being rushed to the local casualty ward. At school, problems abound as the new term starts....
70) The Money Shot
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Sebastian Hunter is a rake and womanizer. He's also a star reporter for the CBC. He has the money shot of a luxurious house falling over a cliff, and the whole world is watching. He's about to take down the chief of police and is working a story that could topple a government. Everything is lining up. Engaged to the boss's daughter, Sebastian's path to the anchor seat on the nightly news broadcast seems a foregone conclusion. But when foreign correspondent...
72) Guasaapp
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¿Qué ocurre cuando se malinterpreta un mensaje en el teléfono móvil? ¿O cuando enviamos algo de lo que al día siguiente nos podríamos arrepentir... por culpa de un dedazo? Eso y más es lo que les ocurre a los protagonistas de esta novela corta, Merche, Javier y otros muchos, que se ven envueltos en una complicada cadena de acontecimientos por culpa de un mensaje mal interpretado.
En Guasaapp, Miguel Mendaza relata de una manera humorística...
73) Loading
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Gustavo es un escritor muy famoso, pero, por otro lado, cuando se trata de trabajo, no puede parar de postergar. Lo peor es que; en la víspera de entregar los tres primeros capítulos de su nueva novela-requerido hace meses por su agente-todo lo que sucede a su alrededor se transforma en un buen motivo para distraerse.
74) Emma
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Desde la muerte de sus padres, la joven Emma de Brantme vive de arrimada en la casa de sus tíos, los du Barry, quienes practican con ella el repertorio completo del acoso familiar. Un día, Emma recibe una carta de la misteriosa Escuela Bataille, donde la dirección le comunica que debe reclamar las herencias que sus padres le dejan: a) inscripción para malditos estudios en tan noble institución; b) cantidad de dinero apetecible; y c) el prestigio...
75) Coffee Tales One
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A collection of short stories and flash fiction that celebrates both light and dark sides of human nature.
Brief reads designed to transport you far away from life's small annoyances for a restful five or ten minutes.
Tom's life has been going nowhere for years. His dad has zero expectation of the situation ever changing. Bring on the onions.
Joy adores her husband and would never do anything to jeopardize their marriage. Would he?
Petra loves...
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Amistad, desilusiones, lo efímero de la vida, relaciones tóxicas, dependencia emocional, maleficios y traición rodean a un grupo de gente imperfecta, adorable y alegre que trata de ser feliz..., unos con más puntería que otros.
En este escenario, Almudena, casi cincuentona y empujada por la presión social, está obsesionada por pescar novio. En su busca, son más los desatinos que los aciertos que comparten escenario con una herencia sorpresa....
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The best-selling indie hit returns! This revised, expanded edition of Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons brings the darker side of social behavior back to the shelves. Tara Laskowski's demonically clever stories break the rules of a "decent" society, providing a definitive guide on the etiquette of obesity, dementia, infertility, homicide, arson, and more. Blending humor with a sharp social commentary, Laskowski introduces us to cynical yet sympathetic...
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A través del hilo conductor que establece Pacho Murga, un haragán bilbaino "más pijo y tonto que mandado hacer de encargo", asistimos a la inusual puesta en marcha de El Mapamundi de Bilbao, "el Rolls-Royce de los bares de pinchos de creación"; pero sobre todo conoceremos a su peculiar cocinero y dueño, Antón Astigarraga, un hombre con un terrible pasado.
En 1962, cuando era catador de Franco, un grupo de militantes nacionalistas vascos y miembros...
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From the author of Last Bus to Coffeeville
After an absence of some seven years, Greg Bowman returns from America to find his father lying in a bamboo coffin, his estranged brother Billy stalking a woman with no feet and his seventy-nine-year-old Uncle Frank planning to rob a bank. While renovating the family house he is unexpectedly visited by the presence of his dead father and charged with the task of 'fixing' the family. In the course of his reluctant...
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