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A veces el pasado vuelve y cuenta historias. Preparaos para descubrir novedades y secretos del Renacimiento italiano que no siquiera sospechabais. . El libro parte de un hecho que ocurrió realmente en Forlí en 2010, cuando algunas personas contaron en los periódicos locales haber visto un fantasma en el viejo palacio del ayuntamiento que aparecía sin una parte de la cabeza y se lamentaba de alguien y de algo. ¿Pero quién era y qué le había reducido a esa condición? Según el autor, se trataba de...
| Автор | Ivo Ragazzini |
Lawson Scott ist seit drei Jahren ein Gefangener. Er wurde durch Menschen, die Wandlerblut wollen, Folter, Erniedrigung und unzähligen Tests unterworfen. Er ist überzeugt, dass er den Rest seines Lebens an eine Wand gekettet verbringen wird, bis die sexy Wissenschaftlerin Liv Kimbro seinem Fall zugewiesen wird. Lawson Scott ist seit drei Jahren ein Gefangener. Er wurde durch Menschen, die Wandlerblut wollen, Folter, Erniedrigung und unzähligen Tests unterworfen. Er ist überzeugt, dass er den...
| Автор | Brenda Trim |
Čovek se vraća na Tajland nakon 50 godina odsustva. Dok je boravio u Bagkoku, na odsustvu oz Vijetnamskog rata, upoznao je devojku i zaljubio se. Nakon povratka na bojno polje bio je životno ranjen i prevežen u bolnicu u San Dijegu. Čovek se vraća na Tajland nakon 50 godina odsustva. Dok je boravio u Bagkoku, na odsustvu oz Vijetnamskog rata, upoznao je devojku i zaljubio se. Nakon povratka na bojno polje bio je životno ranjen i prevežen u bolnicu u San Dijegu. Nakon oporavka pd povreda, vraća...
| Автор | Charley Brindley |
Christian y Scarlett tienen un pasado del que no quieren hablar ni recordar. Cuando se cruzan, se ven obligados a revivirlo todo, y finalmente lo dejan en paz. Deben admitir finalmente la verdad… cuando es la última cosa que cualquiera de los dos quiere. Se sienten atraídos el uno por el otro, y tienen que preguntarse si pueden encontrar una manera de superar sus diferencias, y permitir que el amor florezca entre ellos. Christian Kendall, el Marqués de Blackthorn desea no tener...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
Com o Natal chegando, Lady Pearyn recebe presentes de um admirador secreto e começa a acreditar que talvez devesse dar atenção a este novo cavalheiro, porque seu Duque certamente não a quer. Lady Pearyn Treedale está noiva de Cameron Spencer, o Duque de Partridgdon, desde os oito anos de idade. Uma prática arcaica, mas uma situação que ela passou a gostar. Em sua introdução formal à sociedade, ela não era como as outras debutantes. Enquanto todos procuravam maridos, ela fez amigos, teve...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
Wenn alle deine Gewissheiten zusammenbrechen und du nicht mehr weißt, wer du bist, bleibt dir nur noch die Flucht. Die Flucht vor ihnen und ihrer Blutgier… nach deinem Blut! Vera hat gerade die Existenz von Vampiren entdeckt und muss nun flüchten. Auf einer Flucht zwischen Dublin und London wird Vera zur Beute einer blutigen und wilden Spezies, denn in ihrem Blut verbirgt sich die Waffe, um alle Vampire zu vernichten. Blake, einer der ältesten und stärksten Vampire der Welt, ist ihr auf der...
| Автор | Victory Storm |
Un chef face à l’extinction de sa meute. Une femme brisée par un tragique accident. Ensemble, ils pourraient survivre – s'ils apprennent à se faire confiance. En tant que directrice du refuge pour animaux Forever Home, Trina ne peut ignorer les rumeurs sur un cercle vicieux de combat de chiens à Granger Falls, dans l'Idaho, et se précipite pour les sauver. Elle ne recule devant rien pour assurer la sécurité de ses amis à fourrure, même si cela met sa vie en danger. Avec sa meute prise et piégée...
| Автор | Kristen Strassel |
From Bernstein Award-winner Sayed Kashua comes his fourth and most daring, intimate novel yet—a searing exploration of the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives, their histories, and the blurred lines between personal and national memory. Hailed as “an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight” ( Jewish Tribune ), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes which follows an...
| Автор | Sayed Kashua |
In this debut novel, conceptual artist Sheila B. Ackerman heeds a mysterious urge to return to her estranged family home and arrives at the exact moment of her mother’s suicide. In an attempt to cope with and understand her own self destructive tendencies, Sheila plants a camera on the lawn outside the house to film 24/7 while workers deconstruct the physical object that encases so many of her memories. Meanwhile, as she begins to experience frequent blackouts, she finds herself hunting a robot...
| Автор | Rachel Nagelberg |
Breckenridge takes readers on a hypnotically broken journey, chronicling his fathers slow and deliberate death, interweaving the stories of others: a young woman's hopeful arrival in New York City, a young man's voyeuristic summer spent housesitting for his professor, and a soldier who never made it out of Vietnam. What they all have in common is a deep preoccupation with the way lives resonate and connect, an emotionally honest love story about how we relate to others and ourselves....
| Автор | Donald Breckenridge |
Desirae Fernandez is kicked out of her parents' home in Little Havana on her eighteenth birthday. She has only one plan, and that is to be grown.When her best friend gives her the opportunity to make fast money at Miami's Queen of Diamonds gentlemen's club, Desirae dives head first into the business and meets a handsome, hoodrich, up and coming rap label CEO by the name of Luxury. Their attraction to one another is undeniable, but he plays her cool until she turns...
| Автор | Niyah Moore |
C-Town. The Land. Believe Land. No matter what you call it, for years Cleveland has been known to bring the drama. Follow the lives of seven deadly sinners as they struggle to weave their way through the hardened streets of the 216!Michael "Red" Roberts and "Bulletproof" Bobby Walker form a deadly combinationmaking money and holding down their territory. But when Bobby meets a girl that captures his heart, it causes a rift between him and his...
| Автор | CJ Hudson |
Leila, Rayshon, and Devon have been in a warped love triangle ever since Devon's cold heart and neglect left Leila seeking comfort in Rayshon's arms.It was a battle for her heart, but Rayshon won, and now he and Leila are happily expecting their second child. The marriage is a little shaky because now that Leila is losing her business, the strain is almost too much for the relationship to bear. Feeling alone again, Leila turns to Devon, who is more than happy to be a shoulder for...
| Автор | Anna Black |
A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. “Utterly engrossing. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks of loss, but doing so with dignity, humanity, and passion.” – Timothy Taylor, author of The Rule of Stephens When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to...
| Автор | Eddy Boudel Tan |
"When BooBoo stabs Morris Boyle I am reading a news magazine that someone has smuggled into the wing." Thus, the protagonist of this novella introduces us to prison, one of the several worlds he inhabits, worlds most of us would rather ignore but which inexorably, through what we see and hear and read and live on uncountable American streets, has become the one world we can no longer avoid. It seduces us with the voice of drugs and violence. Of the disenfranchised. Of those both at once...
| Автор | Don Judson |
The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she's in for. Stephen explains that he is an angel, a former...
| Автор | Anne Enright |
Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African Americans has adapted a religion typically thought of as white to fit their needs and circumstances.This predominantly African American congregation is an anomalous phenomenon for both Religious Science and African American religious studies. It stands at the intersection of New Thought doctrine, characterized by personal empowerment teachings,and a...
| Автор | Darnise C. Martin |
Adventures, and misadventures, with eccentric characters, fill this quirky read about two brothers, abandoned by their mother (a convent novitiate nun). Luigi and Guido grow up with an adopted father who rubbed pigs and an Irish mother who danced for a living. When their professions died out, they started an Irish pizza restaurant in the pork capital of Italy. The green dough and unique flavors made it a hit. After their 5th year of high school, the formally conjoined twins make their way...
| Автор | T. STRAHS |
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya.[/b] Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the...
| Автор | Ibrahim al-Koni |
Set in the harsh desert of eastern Egypt, Seeds of Corruption is the tale of a Ulysses-like hero in search of himself and his ultimate salvation. The novel becomes a singularly compelling play between the peace and desolation of the desert, the corruption of the dissolute Egyptian king and his court, the purity of the hero's daughter, and the simple dignity of the fishermen and desert Bedouins. Seeds of Corruption eloquently portrays the corruption of the Egyptian monarchy and the...
| Автор | Sabri Moussa |
Set in the Philippines, a country that is vastly underrepresented in fiction The “he said, she said” theme resonates with the best-selling novels Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and by Gillian Flynn A fabulist love story about a woman with wings that twists into a darker, more ominous tale as a husband misinterprets his wife’s secrets Fans of small-town fiction will sink into the lush rural landscape and the mix of village voices that take turns narrating the story of two people’s lives Magical...
| Автор | Renee Macalino Rutledge |
Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea so he can investigate the cloning of human cells, she finds herself having an affair, even as her husband gets caught trying to publish falsified research. Filomena is a maid who begins to...
| Автор | Susanne Paola Antonetta |
Honoré de Balzac's 1830 <I>Treatise on Elegant Living</I> was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's <I>Anatomy of Dandyism</I> (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in <I>The Painter of Modern Life</I>, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism of nineteenth-century France. The <I>Treatise</I> is the first true...
| Автор | Honoré De Balzac |
"An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism." — Saturday Review A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building in a ghetto neighborhood in this warmly comic novel. Elgar Enders, having been expelled from eight Ivy League schools, is eager to make something of himself. He begins by...
| Автор | Kristin Hunter |