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1) The harpy
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
2) 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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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature.
The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on...
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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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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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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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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...
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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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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
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A short story SciFi comedy, a satire, a very odd tale. As told from the point of view of her long suffering best friend, Jan and the Spooky Periscope Incident is a short collection of stories that muddle their way through the ongoing adventures of a mad scientist, Jan, as she meets, creates and mostly survives her own deranged experiments. Warning. Contains strangeness. #1 Jan and the Spooky Periscope Incident. Jan gets all cross-dimensional when...
14) Devil May Care
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One night Joey Adams finds a stranger at his door, a stranger that's revealed to be The Devil himself. But Joey doesn't really give an F, in fact the man is less than impressed. But soon he has to deal with both Lucifer and his older sibling Michael running amok in his life. Will Joey survive these too near all powerful beings with being damned or converted?
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456 ... with the impending birth of a baby to Joe and Jess Abernathy-Vaughn. Things are nearly back to normal for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The Luna City Café & Coffee is doing well, he has moved up from tending a single potted plant to a pet, and a flirtatious relationship with Kate Heisel, star reporter for the local newspaper. But his past may be about to catch...
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"Reflejos en la Arena Lunar" es un exquisito libro de poesía que transcurre entre las lenguas árabe y español, creando un paisaje lírico que fusiona la realidad terrestre con la perspectiva cósmica. Escrito bajo la fascinante premisa de contemplar el Sahara desde los Mares de la Tranquilidad en la Luna, la obra nos sumerge en un viaje poético que trasciende fronteras. Con un lenguaje rico y evocador, el autor nos transporta a un universo donde...
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Esta novela-disparate es un atentado terrorista contra la dictadura de lo políticamente correcto. Aquí no hay eufemismos. Las cosas son lo que son. Un enano, una gorda, un homosexual, un negro y un extranjero viven presos de sus estúpidos rencores. Liderados por un psicólogo sin escrúpulos ejecutarán la venganza que promete reparar sus cerebros podridos por el rechazo. Una fiesta de horror y violencia. Pero no por eso deja de ser una fiesta....
19) 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...
20) Coming to Reason
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Carrie has committed to an inter-species engagement with Trent, her billionaire boss. Presently, he is eighty percent dreamboat and twenty percent nightmare. When he fires her, so they can become a 'normal couple' everything heads south. Providing her a stark contrast, her new boss, Dan Marshal, is everything a woman could want. But for Carrie, her heart is taken, and thus, the path to reason remains long and arduous. When her relationship with Trent...
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