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Slaughterhouse-Five

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:36:32 PST

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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

The Passage

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:35:50 PST

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Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 6

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:34:29 PST

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But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook?

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:34:26 PST

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Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better! This means things are about to get infinitely worse. Suddenly, TWO of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they're playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren't making things any easier. And what's up with Ramona, anyway? She's been acting kinda weird ever since they moved in together. It's the SECOND L ...

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:34:20 PST

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That's right, folks! Put down the video game controller! Skip that rehearsal for your band! Make whatever sacrifices you must to those comic gods you hold so dear! Just make sure you're ready because Bryan Lee O'Malley and Scott Pilgrim are back! Well, a couple months have passed since the last time we caught up with our intrepid hero, but what can change in a few short months? Well, not much has ...

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:34:16 PST

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Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott to fight Todd, keep Ramona happy, fend off demented ex-girlfriends, and practice that new s ...

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:33:51 PST

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Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who's their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott's relation to her? Why are they Knives Chau's new favourite band? Fights! Drama! ...

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:33:47 PST

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Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's "between jobs," and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott's awesome life get turned upside-down? Wi ...

Graceling

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:33:07 PST

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Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. She never expects to learn t ...

Iron Angel

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:29:54 PST

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Scar Night: Bk. 1

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:29:50 PST

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For nine hundred generations, the city of Deepgate has hung suspended by giant chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss. In the unfathomable darkness below is said to reside the dread god Ulcis, 'hoarder of souls', with his army of ghosts. Outside the city extend the barren wastes of Deadsands, inhabited by the enemy Heshette, so that safe access is guaranteed only by a fleet of airships. At the ...

The Help

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:29:20 PST

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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 2:28:55 PST

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It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date. This he said/ ...

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #3)

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:27:44 PST

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When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to ...

The Sea of Monsters

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:27:40 PST

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After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson—a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any “normal” friends. But things don’t stay quiet for long. Percy soon discov ...

The Lightning Thief

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:27:37 PST

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Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus' master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and hi ...

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:20:42 PST

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Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.

The Demon's Lexicon

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:06:15 PST

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Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole -- a charm that keeps her alive -- and they want it badly enough to kill again. Danger draws even closer when a brother and sister come ...

A Game of Thrones

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:05:40 PST

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A Game of Thrones is a contemporary masterpiece of fantasy. The cold is returning to Winterfell, where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime. A time of conflict has arisen in the Stark family, as they are pulled from the safety of their home into a whirlpool of tragedy, betrayal, assassination, plots and counterplots. Each decision and action carries with it the potential for conflic ...

Catching Fire

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:05:02 PST

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After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen returns to her district, hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she and Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss and Peeta can co ...

The Hunger Games

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 6:04:39 PST

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Katniss has been providing for her family since her father died, but is she strong enough to win the Hunger Games, a deadly competition that can have only one winner?

The Last Watch

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:44:14 PST

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Little Women

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:43:54 PST

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Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Bio ...

Todo está iluminado

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 6:46:20 PST

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Una primera novela que ha sido una revelación en Estados Unidos. Su autor, con precoz y arriesgada maestría, describe las peripecias de un atribulado joven judío neoyorquino que parte con destino a Ucrania para conocer sus raíces y desvelar el misterio de su legendario abuelo. Divertida, trágica y conmovedora.

Preacher, Vol. 1

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 6:32:53 PST

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Here's a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it's the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can't watch but you can't turn away. The story follows an ex-preacher man, Jesse, who has become disgusted with God's abandoning of His responsibilities. So Jesse starts off into the wilds of Texas with his hi ...

Kafka on the Shore

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 6:12:40 PST

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The Graveyard Book

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 6:08:22 PST

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Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2010. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. A del ...

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 6:04:48 PST

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BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR A "PEOPLE "MAGAZINE "TOP TEN" BOOK WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD "Ravishing...Combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien."--"Time" At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the ...

The Host

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 5:09:06 PST

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The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the ...

The Name of the Wind

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 5:05:23 PST

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NOT TO BE MISSED: THE POWERFUL DEBUT NOVEL FROM FANTASY'S NEXT SUPERSTAR Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid ...

Bautismo de fuego

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 1:30:15 PST

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"Entonces le dijo la profetisa al brujo: "Este consejo te doy: ponte botas de yerro, toma en la mano un bastón de yerro. Ve con tus botas de yerro hasta el fin del mundo y por el camino agita el bastón y riega todo con lágrimas. Ve a través de la agua y el fuego, no te detengas ni mires a tu alredor. Y cuando las almadreñas se te desgasten, cuando el bastón de yerro se deshaga, cuando el viento y ...

TIEMPO DE ODIO

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 1:30:00 PST

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«Decir que la conocí sería una exageración. Pienso que, excepto el brujo y la hechicera, nadie la conoció de verdad jamás. Cuando la vi por vez primera no me causó especial impresión, incluso pese a las extraordinarias circunstancias que lo acompañaron. Sé de algunos que han afirmado que al instante, a primera vista, percibieron el hálito de la muerte que seguía a esta muchacha. A mí sin e ...

La sangre de los elfos

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 1:29:56 PST

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No has muerto en Stalingrado

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 3:04:18 PST

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Glass Houses

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:50:29 PST

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The Morganville Vampires, Book 1 From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the i ...

Dead and Gone

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:22:36 PST

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The Blood Books, Volume III

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:10:46 PST

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The bestselling Blood Debt and all the Vicki and Henry short stories-plus A brand-new one!

The Blood Books, Volume II

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:10:36 PST

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Vicki Nelson is an ex-homicide cop turned private detective. Mike Celluci, Vicki's former partner, is still on the force. Henry Fitzroy is an author of bodice rippers-and a vampire. Together, the trio are caught up in mysteries with a supernatural slant-from demons to werewolves and every otherworldly creature in between.

The Blood Books, Volume I

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:10:22 PST

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Vicki Nelson is an ex-homicide cop turned private detective. Mike Celluci, Vicki's former parter, is still on the force. Henry Fitzroy is an author of bodice rippers-and a vampire. Together, the trio find themselves caught up in mysteries with a supernatural slant-from demons to werewolves and every otherworldly creature in between.

From Dead to Worse

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:08:58 PST

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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death...and once mor ...

All Together Dead

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:08:41 PST

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Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a preca ...

Definitely Dead

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:08:37 PST

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Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

Dead as a Doornail

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:53 PST

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When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to ...

Dead to the World

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:44 PST

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Dead to the World is the fourth novel in Charlaine Harris's Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been ...

Club Dead

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:32 PST

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Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead--a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill--caught in an act of betrayal--she's not sure whether to save him or sharpen some stakes. Original.

Living Dead in Dallas

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:20 PST

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When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly. [예스24 제공]

Dead Until Dark

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:13 PST

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Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's n ...

Pretties

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:06 PST

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Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message ...

Uglies

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:06:59 PST

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Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. I ...

Lord of Misrule

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:05:04 PST

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Feast of Fools

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:04:56 PST

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The Dead Girls' Dance

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:04:47 PST

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The Morganville Vampires, Book 2 Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Midnight Alley

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:04:39 PST

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Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

El misterio de Salem's Lot

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:02:55 PST

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Coraline

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 2:02:21 PST

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Al día siguiente de mudarse de casa, Coraline explora las catorce puertas de su nuevo hogar. trece se pueden abrir con normalidad, pero la decimocuarta está cerrada y tapiadad. Cuando por fin consigue abrirla, Coraline se encuentra con un pasadizo secreto que la conduce a otra casa tan parecida a la auya que resulta escalofriante. Sin embargo, hay ciertas diferencias que llaman su atención: la c ...

El jardín del humo y otros cuentos

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:17 PST

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Cuatro cuentos insólitos de Chesterton, aunque en apariencia contengan las virtualidades literarias de la intriga, eso tan querido por nuestro autor, eso que lo ha convertido en uno de los grandes autores del relato policial de todos los tiempos. Así, en Los árboles del orgullo la broma y la sátira, paradójicamente, no hacen más que ahondar en el misterio que envuelve la desaparición de cierto e ...

La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:17 PST

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Los lectores que llegaron con el corazón en un puño al final de La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina quizás prefieran no leer lo que publicaremos en breve y descubrir por sí mismos cómo sigue la serie y, sobre todo, qué le sucede a Lisbeth Salander. Como ya imaginábamos, Lisbeth no está muerta, aunque no hay muchas razones para cantar victoria: con una bala en el cerebro, n ...

Rayuela

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:16 PST

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Es reconocida corno la obra maestra de Julio Cortázar. De entrada, él nos propone elegir uno de los dos accesos: leer en el orden acostumbrado y acabar en el capítulo 56 (al que siguen más capítulos, que denomina como "prescindibles"), o bien, seguir el "tablero de dirección", que nos remite de un capítulo a otro, pasando por variadas trampas o juegos: una omisión aparente, un doble y significati ...

Hygiène de l'Assassin

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:16 PST

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Prétextat Tach, prix Nobel de littérature, n'a plus que deux mois à vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l'écrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des années. Quatre seulement vont le rencontrer, dont il se jouera selon une dialectique où la mauvaise foi et la logique se télescopent. La cinquième lui tiendra tête, il se prendra au jeu. Si ce roman est pre ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:16 PST

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Odisea

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:57:16 PST

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Las andanzas y aventuras de Odiseo, vividas en el lapso de diez años que duró su regreso al hogar tras una activa participación en la guerra de Troya, conforman la apretada trama, casi novelesca, de uno de los grandes monumentos de nuestro patrimonio intelectual. Probablemente compuesta a fines del siglo VIII a. C., la Odisea nos adentra en un mundo real, el Mediterráneo antiguo, pero repleto de ...

Los vagabundos y otros cuentos

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:22 PST

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Crónicas marcianas

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:14 PST

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Esta colección de relatos recoge la crónica de la colonización de Marte por parte de una humanidad que huye de un mundo al borde de la destrucción. Los colonos llevan consigo sus deseos más íntimos y el sueño de reproducir en el Planeta Rojo una civilización de perritos calientes, cómodos sofás y limonada en el porche al atardecer. Pero su equipaje incluye también los miedos ancestrales, que se t ...

Solaris

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:14 PST

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Una condena a la sociedad totalitaria brillantemente plasmada en una ingeniosa fábula. Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus dueños humanos y los vencen. Pero la rebelión fracasará al surgir entre ellos rivalidades y envidias. Aunque fue concebida como una sátira del estalinismo, su carácter abierto y universal la convierten en un extraordinario análisis de la corrupción ...

A Room of One's Own; Three Guineas

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:14 PST

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"A Room of One's Own" is a feminist essay, published in 1929, which argued that women would never be able to write well and freely until they had the privacy and independence implied by a room of one's own. The essay pays tribute to women writers of the past, to women's achievements in the form of the novel, and projects a future in which women would be enabled to become not only novelists but po ...

Aire/ Air

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:14 PST

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El pueblo de Mae es el último en conectarse a la red. Pero ahora hay algo nuevo, algo que no necesita conexiones ni ordenadores: es Aire. Aire es una nueva tecnología de comunicación que pone los beneficios de Internet al alcance de todos y en todas partes, lo quieran o no. Nada puede pararlo. Mae es analfabeta, pero sabe que Aire lo cambiará todo. ¿La escuchará su gente antes de que sea demasia ...

EL LIBRO DEL GUION

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:14 PST

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He aquí un libro imprescindible y clarificador para el futuro guionista y el profesional consolidado. Escrito por el profesor de guión más solicitado del mundo. Un manual de lectura amena, con exposiciones claras y sistemáticas, con ejercicios, ejemplos reales, esquemas, consejos, etc. El autor nos proporciona la técnica de la escritura de guiones, sencilla y depurada por años de experimentación. ...

La feria de las tinieblas

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:54:13 PST

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Dos adolecentes descubren, una noche de octubre, que en unos pocos minutos, unas pocas vueltas en el carrusel de una feria ominosa, pueden apresurar el tiempo y transformarse en adultos, o en viejos centenarios, o ir hacia atrás y volver a los balbuceos de la primera infancia...

Catch-22

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of o ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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'Shakespeare's Sonnets' have caused endless debate and speculation: who is the dark lady; who is the 'only begetter'; and, what light do the poems shed on the life of the poet? Yet the sonnets themselves can be enjoyed for their lyricism rather than their intention. Written as a form of personal confession - of love, of grief, of anger, of jealousy and of lust - the sonnets encompass a huge range ...

El lobo estepario

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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La trágica historia de la vida y muerte del doctor Fausto

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, 1564) falleció a los veintinueve años dejando escritos siete dramas. Su vida fue turbulenta, y con las conjeturas sobre sus puntos oscuros se podrían llenar volúmenes. Fue acusado de blasfemo, ateo y homosexual. Tuvo un fin tráfico. A partir del personaje histórico de Jorge Fausto se crearon diversas leyendas que pasaron a la imprenta en 1587. Inmediatamente traduc ...

Tu Rostro Mañana. 1 Fiebre y lanza

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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ILIADA

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The Scarlet Letter

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:48 PST

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Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction ...

El fin de la eternidad

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:51:47 PST

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Andrew Harlan ha cometido un crimen, pero su acto no es un simple delito. Porque la ley que ha quebrantado es la más importante de todas para un Ejecutor: la ley que impide que miles de años de historia sean borrados y reescritos de forma irreversible por la guerra, la muerte y la decadencia. Pero ni siquiera la Eternidad, la organización a la que pertenece, puede detenerle. ...

La ladrona de libros

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:48:32 PST

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En plena II Guerra Mundial, la pequeña Liesel hallará su salvación en la lectura. Una novela preciosa, tremendamente humana y emocionante, que describe las peripecias de una niña alemana de nueve años desde que es dada en adopción por su madre hasta el final de la guerra. Su nueva familia, gente sencilla y nada afecta al nazismo, le enseña a leer ...

Aventuras increíbles

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:43:22 PST

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El juramente del capitán Korby

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:42:30 PST

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La vida es sueño

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:41:03 PST

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He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo ...

Los tres mosqueteros

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:40:32 PST

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La aventura de cuatro hombres de armas, amigos inseparables, durante el reinado de Luis XIII de Francia. D’Artagnan, listo y valiente, que llega de su provincia con muchas aspiraciones y poco dinero, conocerá a tres valientes mosqueteros del rey: Athos, Porthos y Aramis, con los que vivirá mil peripecias, siempre en pugna con los guardias del cardenal Richelieu y sus maquiavélicos planes. El amor ...

El Tartufo

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:39:58 PST

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La historia interminable

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:39:31 PST

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El Reino de Fantasía está en un serio peligro: corre el riesgo de desaparecer. Pero los habitantes de éste no pueden hacer nada por evitar el mal que se cierne sobre ellos. Bueno, hay algo, o mejor dicho, alguien que sí que podría ayudarles. Un niño llamado Bastián. Un niño que no es de su universo, y que se encuentra al otro lado de su mundo, en la realidad. A él recurren y sin pensárselo mucho ...

Momo

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:38:41 PST

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Momo o la extraña historia de los ladrones del tiempo y de la niña que devolvió el tiempo a los hombres. Una novela-cuento de hadas.

Konrad

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:38:41 PST

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La señora Bartolotti, que carece de experiencia con los niños, recibe un día por la vía más inusitada -por correo- un hijo de siete años: Konrad, el niño que salió de una lata de conservas. Con mucha inspiración y humor, se cuentan en este libro las emocionantes y divertidas situaciones, en las que se ve envuelta la señora Bartolotti por la presencia de Konrad, y cómo le defiende, cuando se descu ...

Cuentos Escritos a Maquina

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:38:41 PST

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Abarat 2

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:38:40 PST

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A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone. The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands - one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life f ...

Abarat

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:17 PST

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A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley. Can ...

The Lord of the Rings

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:17 PST

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Considered to be J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece of imaginative fiction - in the invented world of Middle-Earth, Tolkien created a new mythology and a vast epic story. This volume contains "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King".

Night Watch

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:16 PST

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The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and ima ...

The Day Watch

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:16 PST

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Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. In "The Day Watch", second book of the "Night Watch" trilogy, Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, attends a planning me ...

The Twilight Watch

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:16 PST

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Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky's holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar - his boss and Night Watc ...

The Penultimate Peril

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:15 PST

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La mujer del viajero en el tiempo

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:35:15 PST

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Una inusual y sorprendente historia de amor que desafía todos los convencionalismos. Clare y Henry se mana desde siempre, pese a que Henry tenga una extraña enfermedad que le impulsa a viajar en el tiempo. Este detalle hace de este libro una imaginativa y sabia reflexión sobre los sentimientos, sobre le destino a dúo y lo que realmente -a lo largo de nuestra agitadas vidas- es perdurable y defini ...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:30:14 PST

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 1:30:14 PST

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Book 5 As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time wi ...