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Claus: Legend of the Fat ManIn the early 1800s, Nicholas, Jessica, and Jon Santa attempt the first human trek to the North Pole and stumble upon an ancient race of people left over from the Ice Age. They are short, fat, and hairy. They slide across the ice on...
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Pedro ParamoEn 1955 aparece Pedro Paramo, novela gestada largamente por el mexicano Juan Rulfo, un escritor con fama de poco prolifico y que auno la propia tradicion narrativa hispanoamericana con los principales renovadores de la literatura occidental: Joyce, Faulkner, Wool... Es una novela rica, apasionante...
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Mitos NórdicosViolencia, traiciones, poder... Con una prosa h bil e ingeniosa, Gaiman analiza la naturaleza imperfecta y competitiva de los dioses, sus susceptibilidades, su habilidad para embaucar y dejarse embaucar por los dem s y su tendencia a dejar que la pasi n dirija sus...
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Fallen MountainsWhen Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his tightly knit hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only ones that threaten to emerge. Something terrible happened seventeen years ago. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by it. Possum, the victim...
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We Should Have Left Well Enough AloneA new mother is pursued by mysterious men in black. A misguided youth learns the dark secrets of the world from an elderly neighbor on Halloween night. A housewarming party where the guests never leave. A caretaker tends to his rusted relic of a...
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Don't Know Jack: The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series"Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers gives Diane Capri and her NEW Hunt for Jack Reache Series Two Thumbs Up Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy? It's been a while since we...
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The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost StoriesThe first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now...
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We Can't Help It If We're From Florida: New Stories from a Sinking PeninsulaFlorida is more than just fodder for hard-boiled crime novels and zany farces. This anthology of new stories and essays challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write about the state through a literary lens, though not without the requisite...
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Marguerite's LandingMarguerite's Landing is based on the true story of Marguerite Lossieux and Christophe Poulain du Bignon of Jekyll Island, Georgia. A widow with three children when they meet, Marguerite marries again and makes a home with her sea captain husband in Brittany, France--until the...
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The Belly of the AtlanticA powerful debut novel from a talented young Senegalese author.Author: Fatou DiomePublisher: Serpent's TailPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.50dISBN: 9781852429034About the AuthorBorn in 1968 in Niodior, Senegal, Fatou Diome moved to Strasbourg in 1994. She has taught at Strasbourg...
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No Fixed Line: Volume 22It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the NTSB (National Transportation Safety...
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The Three MusketeersThe novel's fast-moving story is set in the royal court of Louis XIII, where the swaggering King's musketeers square off against their rivals: the crimson-clad guards of the dreaded Cardinal Richelieu. The Red Duke rules France with an iron hand in the name of...
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Death by Pumpkin SpiceBookstore caf owner Krissy Hancock would rather spend Halloween serving pumpkin goodies than wearing costumes with Pine Hills' wealthiest at Yarborough mansion, especially when the soiree shapes up to be more trick than treat . . . As if a run-in with an old...
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Red Planet"The most thrilling and tingling kind of science fiction story."─ Kirkus Reviews"Heinlein found his true direction.... The Martian setting is logically constructed and rich in convincing detail while] the characters are engaging and the action develops naturally." ─Jack Williamson Marking the first appearance of...
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The CartelThe port of Miami brings in millions of dollars' worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (Loa #315): Author's Expanded EditionUrsula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her death This fourth volume in the Library of America's definitive Ursula K. Le Guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career...
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The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1The first of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned "weird fiction" author Clark Ashton Smith. "None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any...
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AustenlandFor readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a "gloriously satisfying" (Glamour) romantic comedy set at a Jane Austen fantasy resort from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. Now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell and produced by Stephenie Meyer....
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The SuitcaseSergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects--the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn-out suitcase, take...
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TemporaryIn 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...
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