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In this short story entitled Take the apple, Adam!, an idea wrapped around the tragic condition of humanity is brought before the readers. Through the roller coaster of the storyline, and the vivid descriptions and analogies, the readers are invited to follow and feel together with the characters, finding at least one familiar aspect of their own life experiences.Every reader can find his or her own message in the story, having a lot of thoughts and...
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Identical twins Sylvie and Betty Allard loathe each other. They loathe the outside world more. Estranged for ten years, their worlds collide. A shared competitive streak leads them to derail each other as they embark on a killing spree of celebs and wannabes to make the world a better place. As the net and the Met closes in on them, the twins might need to work together, for the first time ever. A crime noir literary romp.
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Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene"' The Times Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favor for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse, she decides to head south. What started as an impromptu joyride rapidly takes a turn for the chilling when strangers all along...
84) Lumberjack
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One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The Lineup
Nebraska city, 1901.
There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner,
J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate.
It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world.
Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father...
85) August
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Carla Turner has been drifting for all her thirty-two years. Worn down by the banality of rural life with an abusive husband and resigned to simple existence, she hardly seems capable of recognizing new adventure in the form of a man, even one as gorgeous as Brian DeCanto. But Brian understands the need for escape all too well. After accidentally shooting his boss, he is forced to take the murder's sole witness – his boss's ten-year-old son –...
86) Horror Stories
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading"-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast Horror Stories is a ghastly collection of tales, full of odd surprises and gruesome occurrences.Prepare to meet a deranged killer with a taste for autopsy, an eccentric stalker who's been following a victim for decades, a sectioned professor who lost his mind after witnessing an atrocity in the jungle, and much more.If you yearn for macabre...
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En la ciudad de Ofidia no hay dioses celosos de la fortuna de los hombres, seguramente porque ninguna de sus casi trescientas mil almas la tiene. Quien mejor lo sabe es Herodoto Corominas, un inspector de policía que nada-o casi-tiene que ver con el padre de la Historia, salvo por el hecho de que también desconfía de las apariencias y apela al sentido común ante los dos principales mecanismos que mueven el mundo: las pasiones y la injusticia....
88) Soledad salvaje
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Una emocionante novela protagonizada por una intrépida bióloga especializada en fauna salvaje y dedicada en cuerpo y alma a salvar especies amenazadas... y que recurre a sus superiores técnicas de supervivencia para frustrar los planes de quienes pretenden impedírselo.
La bióloga Alex Carter, recién llegada a una reserva natural de Montana con el objetivo de estudiar a unos curiosos mamíferos, los carcayús, sufre el acoso de un coche que la...
89) Hindsight
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A tormented ex-soldier.
A terrorist cell out for blood.
A nation at stake.
A family caught in the middle.
Shirley O'Shea is an ex-con with a history of violence and more than one debt to pay. Haunted by his years as a special forces operative, he's still trying to make things right for his family when a man named Isaac shows up with a package to deliver and an envelope full of money. Shirley takes the job, and the life he's spent years rebuilding...
90) Rail Birds
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Colin is a cash game poker pro, so is Jordan, but Jordan has something that Colin does not. A beautiful girlfriend named Isabelle. What happens when sex, money and deceit fill the air between them? This story is a original screenplay written by James Paul Nelson. In this story, James writes about themes he knows quite well. Gambling, drugs, sex, and fast money. Characters are forced to look at themselves and their situations and deal with the consequences....
91) Yesteryear
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Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger? It's 1930s Buffalo, and the Great Depression rages. Playwright Fran Striker needs to write the pilot for a new radio show but, first, he must overcome writer's block, defeat a curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, and recover stolen diamond...
92) The Invisible
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It's election time in New Babylon, and President Maggie Delgado is running for re-election but is threatened by the charismatic populist Ted Rust. Newly appointed City Commissioner Georg Ratner is given the priority task to fight the recent invasion of Synth in the streets of the capital, a powerful hallucinogen drug with a mysterious origin. When his old colleague asks him for help on another case and gets murdered, things become more and more complicated,...
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Edgar Rolfe is a private eye who only wants to watch a late night movie. Instead a stranger comes to Rolfe's office in the middle of the night asking the detective to find his wife.
The second in the Edgar Rolfe series. A series of short stories set in the fictional town of Brixton, New Jersey in the year 1978.
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Las bicicletas del padre Divino por Steve Bassett
Una guerra de mafias, tres asesinatos, un repartidor de periódicos con pistola y el fraude de los números puntúan la trágica historia de dos monaguillos a la deriva en un mundo de delincuencia sin esperanza de escapar.
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Las notas de "Adiós Nonino", las lágrimas de Máxima de Holanda durante su enlace con el príncipe Guillermo, la foto que descubre, entre los invitados, el rostro de una peligrosa activista hija de un banquero alemán. Así arranca esta trepidante carrera de maratón, con sus 42 capítulos y 195 metros finales, inspirada en los movimientos xenófobos y ultranacionalistas en la Europa de nuestros días.
El protagonista de Las Zapatillas Vietnamitas,...
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Herz der Finsternis: Auf der nächtlich an der Themsemündung in Gravesend stillliegenden Seeyacht Nellie erzählt der ehemalige Seemann Marlow seinen vier Freunden, die das Band der See eint, eine Episode aus seinem Leben. Er beschreibt seine Sehnsucht, die letzten weißen Flecken des Globus kennenzulernen, und wie sie nach einigen Mühen dazu führte, dass er Flusskapitän wurde.
Lord Jim: Anstoß zu dem Roman gab die dramatische Geschichte...
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Si vous aimez les histoires insolites, étonnantes, parfois sanglantes... allez dévorer les lignes de « Petites Nouvelles Craquantes ». Vous y découvrirez: - La vengeance d'une maîtresse diabolique- La naissance d'un grand amour- Le déclin d'un grand peintre- Les effets inattendus de la gourmandise- Des retrouvailles surprenantes...et bien d'autres surprises encore, pleines d’imagination!
98) Justicia mortal
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ENTREGA SEGUNDA.
Su vida esconde un secreto oscuro que se mostrará en su nuevo hogar.
Chad y Mohamed regresan de nuevo al Vaticano. El inspector está tan ofuscado como dubitativo. ¿Y si hubiera detenido al asesino en serie? Él sabía quién fue. Ahora, podía imaginarse que había regresado de nuevo a la escena del crimen, pero hay algo que no cuadra. Son las formas de matar. Las víctimas de los curas, cardenales, nuncios y arzobispos engrosan...
99) Dannie
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No matter what the logical cost, follow your dreams. Dannie had a rough start. She was born into wealth, however, she had no say in her life. She broke thru the mold and slowly went after her dream. Dreams don't die unless you let them.
100) The Endless Rose
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A disquieting, haunting work, The Endless Rose begins when a one-legged woman's manuscript is accepted by a small publishing house consisting of two friends. Stunned and excited by her writing, they invite her to visit them in the south of Spain.
The hypnotic, gut-wrenching events that follow-revolving around a brutal murder mentioned in the book's first pages-are plunged into an atmosphere of dreams, violence, and bizarre coincidence.
Maleno has...
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