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41) 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.
42) 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...
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Harry Stone was a good man or so he thought, he had never committed any crime. Like most people he assumed when you die that was it. He was wrong. Death was only the start of his problems. In, The Life and Death of Harry Stone, read what really happens when you die and just who knows who you might meet. In Harry's case people that everyone will have heard of before. This is a dark story, so if easily offended this may not be for you ! You have been...
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El 3 de enero de 1923, tras una larga enfermedad, falleció Jaroslav Hašek, uno de los grandes escritores checos del siglo XX. Pocos meses después, los amigos con quienes había fundado el Partido del Progreso Moderado Dentro de los Límites de la Ley en 1911, se reunieron para homenajearle y comenzar la titánica empresa de recuperar su obra. Mi tienda de perros tenía que ser el primero de varios tomos pero, a pesar de las buenas intenciones,...
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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.
46) Don't be a Hero
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If Harry Harris had been a second-hand car, Big Marge would have kicked his tyres.
Harry has ditched thirty years in a well paid career to follow his dream of being a writer before it's too late. Girlfriend Peggy patiently supports him, but Harry is wilting under the weight of rejection letters and the guilt of not helping with the bills. On an impetuous whim, he applies for a job as a bookies cashier. However, a Birkenhead betting shop is no place...
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Nick Ray lives in a world where everything is for sale. University Ph.D.s, pig fetuses, bomb shelters, and vending-machine-dispensed live bait, to name just a few. But for the first time in a long time, Nick Ray finally has something to sell. Determined to be covert about an affair he's having with a woman already spoken for (by another woman), Nick buys the cheapest computer he can find at a pawn shop, only to discover that it contains a list of...
48) 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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When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995. The novel's protagonist, Nix Walters, is an adjunct instructor of English at a communications college in the loop with few prospects for advancement. He had become a literary punch line when his novel, touted as the next big literary phenomenon, was universally panned by critics. He and his pregnant wife, Flora, are struggling financially;...
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1964: A DYING MAN LIES OUTSIDE A BIRMINGHAM JAZZ CLUB, THE MOUTHPIECE OF A TRUMPET RAMMED INTO HIS THROAT. 1994: hapless reporter Stanley Snout, son of a Coventry glass blower, investigates the disappearance of his father, three decades earlier ... a mystery with roots in 1930's Berlin. To solve it will call for ingenuity, powerful antiseptic ointments and several pairs of multi-pocket action trousers.
When underachieving journalist Stanley Snout...
51) 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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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...
53) Viva Grump!
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This dark comedy of brutality and betrayal is a bawdy romp through the palaces and prisons of 18th century Europe and is thus full of swearing, sword fighting and bad sex. Our hero Eduardo Lasagne - once described as 'Alan Partridge meets Poldark' - is a fledgling revolutionary on a quest to free the people of Grump from oppression. The country of his birth is a bell-ended peninsular governed by an evil puppet regime comprising of two little wooden...
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The distant future: the year 2020. Brexit still hasn't, meant Brexit. The Conservatives are still in power. Things are bad. For average Brits Ian, Ben, and Nate it's time to get away from it all with a holiday to a country where the leader is competent and the politics are civil. Just kidding: they go to America.
What should be a relaxing tour of the east coast turns into a holiday from hell, when they, become embroiled in increasingly apocalyptic...
56) La cuenta atrás
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Todos nacemos con un indeleble número secreto en la frente que marca nuestra fecha de caducidad. Un número sólo conocido por el azar o la genética y que en el instante del nacimiento comienza su inexorable cuenta atrás.
La cuenta atrás es la historia de un hombre al que la ambición, el sexo, el desarraigo, la estupidez, la orfandad, el despilfarro, la obsesión, la derrota, la rapiña, la brutalidad, la decadencia, la ingratitud y la desesperación...
57) Cuentos cansados
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Se acaba el día, asoman las primeras estrellas. Ya es tiempo de comenzar a leer Cuentos cansados, pero los protagonistas de estas historias están tan pero tan cansados, que quizá nunca sepas si estás leyendo un libro o soñando. La genial prosa de Levrero, en el que quizás sea su texto más desenfadado y genial, nos lleva al encuentro que cada día ocurre entre el narrador (el propio Levrero) y su hijo Nicolás, que haciendo poco caso del cansancio...
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Following hard on the heels of tragedy and a botched suicide attempt, The Cuckoo of Awareness has flown in to the Cotswolds to rescue the life of Tom Atkins - whether he likes it or not.
If that wasn't bad enough, at the same time a 'Black Swan' event - the 'Battle of Wellington Square' - the most uplifting peacetime civilian massacres in history - was coming to the doorstep of his home in 'Cheltenhamshire'.
The 8th Wonder of the World is...
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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....
60) 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...