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81) 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...
82) Felleza
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El primer libro de Jeanette Moro. Dos cuentos cortos en donde se mezclan el humor y el sarcasmo la problemática de todos aquellos que no son lo esperado, tanto en belleza como en estilo de vida a la luz de los valores de nuestra sociedad.
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A new government has been elected and, as usual, savings must be made in the public service. Some individuals in the Department of Multifarious, Extraneous and Artistic Affairs will go to any lengths to be made redundant and to leave with lucre, but Alan Mewling is not one of them; he is unashamedly desperate to avoid bureaucratic irrelevance. At the very time, though, when he needs to demonstrate his indispensability to senior management, his domestic...
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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...
85) 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.
86) Guasaapp
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¿Qué ocurre cuando se malinterpreta un mensaje en el teléfono móvil? ¿O cuando enviamos algo de lo que al día siguiente nos podríamos arrepentir... por culpa de un dedazo? Eso y más es lo que les ocurre a los protagonistas de esta novela corta, Merche, Javier y otros muchos, que se ven envueltos en una complicada cadena de acontecimientos por culpa de un mensaje mal interpretado.
En Guasaapp, Miguel Mendaza relata de una manera humorística...
87) 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...
88) 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 ORANGE OFFICE: A day in the life of a messed up President. A satirical and funny story about an unlikeable man who rose above his own competence.
Ronald Stroud is a loud and obnoxious wind that blew into the Oval Office, he doesn't care about history or politics.
Ronald Stroud has finally made it to the White House. On his first day, he discovers that being the President of the United States isn't going exactly as he planned - senators want...
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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.
92) 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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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.
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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...
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On 15th June 2011, an extraordinary event took place in Brixton, south London. On that day, an Irishman devoured two doner kebabs in a mere 1 minute and 59 seconds. What made this feat even more remarkable was the fact that he had already indulged in 13 pints of lager. Now, in a riveting account, the true story of the events leading up to this accomplishment is recounted by the protagonist, 'Johnny Two Kebabs.'In this 'prequel' Johnny invites us into...
96) 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...
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Self-interest can motivate people to do a lot of horrible things. In this book it leads people to lie, cheat, mock their inferiors, deride newborns, abandon fat people, steal from the terminally ill, apply feces as camouflage, scapegoat children, push over conjoined twins, and hit strangers with clown shoes. In the process, the limits of egotism, the brutality of reflection, the realities of affection, and the ramifications of shortsightedness are...
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The third fatal book in the unforgivably funny And Then They All Died series, filled with atrocious dark comedy hijinks, cruelty to orphans, and soul-stealing insurance agents. Thomas is accused of murder and must clear his not-good name before his pre-trial execution. Orphans, doctors, psychologists, and insurance agents are among his suspects, but will Thomas find the real perpetrator? Taking out life insurance on orphan coal miners, how a psychologist...
100) 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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