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61) Trio: a novel
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309 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968 -- a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs...
62) Undone: a novel
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"Already hailed and persecuted for its perverse humor and wildly wicked sensibility, Undone is the tour-de-force black comedy by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee John Colapinto. In modern day America, Dez is a former lawyer and teacher - an ephebophile with a proclivity for teenage girls, hiding out in a trailer park with his latest conquest, Chloe. Having been in and out of courtrooms (and therapists' offices) for a number of years,...
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He thinks he's a deadly ninja. He's not. He's Barry Harris and he still lives with his mum.
Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life's not done with throwing him curveballs.
A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime. With talking hedges, samurai ghosts, meddling psychotherapists,...
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191 pages ; 22 cm
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Imagines a New Russia of the near future that is ruled by a reconstituted nobility and which blends draconian codes with modern technology while locking down Western borders, a region in which a twenty-years-older Vladimir Putin has appropriated all free enterprise.
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226 pages ; 20 cm
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
68) Ending up
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xiii, 112 pages ; 20 cm.
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At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive...
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Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the...
70) Mother Land
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509 pages ; 24 cm
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Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch. To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is...
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344 pages ; 21 cm
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Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep - a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is fantasizing about his early death. Ousep begins investigating the extraordinary life of his son, but as he circles closer and closer to the truth, he unravels a secret that shakes his family to the core. Set in Madras in the 1990s, where...
74) Amnesia: a novel
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"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny--that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics. When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian woman. Has she declared cyber war on the United States...
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From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in--and be thin--at their all-girls boarding school. It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Natasha finds...
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Este volumen contiene una colección de ensayos breves o muy breves, con los temas más dispares, que provocan la sonrisa, el miedo, el asombro y a menudo la identificación. Describen un mundo contemporáneo con mil facetas y extraño, analizan personajes a veces fantásticos, muy a menudo familiares o parte integrante de la sociedad.
Un hilo común une estos relatos del mundo en cortocircuito: una veta constante de ironía y grotesco, que hace...
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Laugh with Odin, the robot vacuum cleaner who tells you how the Danish government supplies senior citizens with nonhuman assistance so they can live independently.
Odin is a tireless worker and his elderly client relies on him totally. She treats him like a dear friend. Spurning her Havanese helper dog, she lets Odin do as he pleases.
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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,...
79) 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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