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21) The Silvering
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Paranormal researchers visit Mrs. Thackery, a widow who lives in a house by the river. The researchers soon discover that the phenomena of The Silvering is real – spirits who want to avenge slavery and repression perpetrated by the Thackeries in the 19th century.
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Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...
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"Transcending (to rise above; a human limit) Waters, takes you on an exciting journey. Though set in a different time, it parallels the strength and faith we all need to overcome challenges in our own lives. It is a story of true strength, of love and friendship, of family and of the faith to endure.
This story takes you into the lives of two young men, Case and Dane. It takes you through a tragedy that tears them apart, and then through the incredible...
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The complete "Leyendas" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. These magic, sobrenatural, evocative and mystery short stories are some of the most famous creations of Spanish XIX century literature. "El Monte de las ánimas", "Maese Pérez", "El rayo de luna", "El Miserere". All in this wonderful unique audiobook production.
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It's an exciting children's book that takes young readers on a thrilling adventure alongside a brave and curious girl named Christina. Join her as she unravels the mysteries of a spooky old house perched on top of a hill. In this captivating tale, Christina and her parents move to a new town, unaware of the secrets that lie within their new rental house. The house, with its cracked walls and peeling paint, holds a haunting past and a hidden secret...
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE*
An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors.
Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After rebelling against the dictatorial jock president of the...
27) The Orange Tree
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In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, to the fate of Hernan Cortes's two sons, to the destruction of the Spanish city of Numantia by the Romans and the annihilation of Hollywood by Acapulco, Fuentues couples the epic grandeur of...
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The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak; his uncle is powerful, yet his actions...
29) A Change of Skin
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First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi, and with him is his young Mexican lover Isabel, the talented but failed poet Javier, and his embittered wife, Elizabeth. There is a fifth person as well-the Narrator. Through him, we discover that all the characters are searching for some real...
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Through a series of vividly imaginative and wildly colorful characters, Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanying cultural revolutions. Reminiscent of the work of the magical realists but with a distinctive Nordic twist, The History of Danish Dreams is a truly magical novel.
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This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
32) Han's Cottage
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Emily Montgomery Duncan lost her mother at age four, her father fell apart, Emily ended up at boarding school. In her holidays, she came home to her Grandma Hanna and the only real home she ever knew. Shortly before her 21st birthday, the call came, Han, had passed away and her whole world collapsed.
Shortly after the funeral, Emily discovers she has inherited the cottage and all the land around, not her aunt, as she expected, but the thought...
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The truth is all around you
Thomas P- is exhausted. He's been travelling for work so much he barely knows where he is. And then, while waiting for a table at a restaurant, he sees someone from his past. Exactly as she was twenty years ago, when they first knew each other. Deeply shaken, he tries to carry on as if nothing happened.
But when it happens again, in a different restaurant, in a different city, Thomas's world begins to unravel. Haunted...
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Grace McGuiver arrives in the Azores Islands of Portugal to do her dissertation research on the annual festival cycle. To get there, she travels on an ancient cargo boat auspiciously named the Holy Ghost. Little does she know her arrival will set into motion a series of deadly events that will threaten her ability to do what she came to do.
She is ill prepared professionally for what awaits and poorly equipped emotionally to deal with life as a single...
35) Der blaue Bien
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Janna hat mit ihrem neuen Job als selbstständige Restauratorin alle Hände voll zu tun. Gerade als ihr die Arbeit über den Kopf wächst und ihre Selbstzweifel sie zu überwältigen drohen, fliegt ihr ein geheimnisvoller Honigbienenschwarm zu. Janna ist fasziniert von den Bienenwesen, doch ihr wird schnell bewusst, dass es sich um keinen gewöhnlichen Schwarm handelt. Sie beschließt, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Sind die Bienen wirklich zufällig...
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During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his houseguest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with...
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This extraordinary ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country best by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales, tales told contrapuntally in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and...
38) The Death Tax
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Why do a million hummingbirds descend upon a certain Missouri lake every April 15th, killing one more resident than they did the year before?
Once a man with a seemingly limitless future, Lake Tanaka resident Dr. Kevin Cousey struggles to find a purpose in life after a prankster mangled his hand with an M-80 twenty years ago, costing him his career, his family, and very nearly his life. He thinks he has found it in the lethal hummingbird attacks...
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Antología temática que reúne una amplia y variada serie de textos que el genial escritor Álvaro Cunqueiro publicó en diferentes periódicos y revistas desde los inicios de la guerra civil hasta su muerte. Lo hagiográfico y milagroso fue una constante sobre la que Cunqueiro regresó una y otra vez a lo largo de su obra, mostrando a través de ella tanto su coherencia narrativa como su capacidad para someter estos contenidos a un complejo juego...
40) Decadence Kills
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"Michael P. Charlton is so gritty that he could eat Charles Bukowski for breakfast."- JOHN DAVID EBERT, CULTURAL CRITIC "Michael P. Charlton has a skill for writing rich dialogue, likeable characters, and memorable conflicts, the relationships enriched by violence and tenderness."- JAMES ANDERS BANKS, BOOKER PRIZE LISTED, AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST "Charlton smacks of originality. His prose is shockingly raw, designed to reflect the depravity, listlessness,...
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