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The Old Man and the Sea

Tue, 7 May 2013 17:54:48 PST

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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of d ...

The Year of the Flood

Mon, 6 May 2013 3:28:10 PST

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Un Yanki en la corte del rey Arturo

Mon, 6 May 2013 3:27:34 PST

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Una temporada en el infierno - Iluminaciones

Mon, 6 May 2013 3:27:17 PST

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Cat's Eye

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:27:12 PST

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By turns disquieting, humorous, compassionate, haunting and mordant, Cat’s Eye is vintage Atwood. From the Hardcover edition.

The Year of the Flood

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:26:50 PST

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Las 120 jornadas de Sodoma

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:26:38 PST

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Flight to Arras

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:26:17 PST

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The French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, "Southern Mail" and Night Flight", are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including "Wind, Sand and Stars" and "Flight to Arras", stress his humanistic philosophy. Saint-Exupery's popular children's book "The Little Prince" is also read ...

Residencia En La Tierra

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:25:44 PST

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El asesino hipocondríaco

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:24:46 PST

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El señor Y. debe cumplir su último encargo como asesino profesional, pero para conseguirlo tendrá que superar un grave obstáculo: no le queda más que un día de vida. ..En realidad, el enigmático asesino a sueldo que responde a las iniciales M.Y. lleva años muriéndose, desde el mismo momento en que vino a este mundo. Le persiguen tantas enfermedades que cualquiera podría considerarlo un milagro mé ...

El Procés

Sat, 4 May 2013 20:24:00 PST

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Oryx y Crake

Thu, 2 May 2013 1:44:24 PST

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El pabellón

Wed, 1 May 2013 2:25:52 PST

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Que se mueran los feos

Wed, 1 May 2013 2:25:39 PST

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Los infortunios de la virtud

Wed, 1 May 2013 2:25:08 PST

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including drama, fiction, poetry, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan ...

El libro del cementerio

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 6:59:10 PST

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Escuchad esta trágica historia: una familia que duerme, un asesino sin compasión y una criatura aventurera, un huérfano que escapa de la muerte. ¿O no? El pequeño escapa del peligro y consigue gatear hasta lo más alto de la colina. Detrás de la valla que se encuentra, existe un lugar oscuro y tranquilo, un cementerio lleno de una vida especial. El niño es recibido allí donde los muertos no duerm ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 6:52:17 PST

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The fifth and final part of the complete collected stories shows Philip K. Dick at the very height of his outstanding powers. The twenty-five tales were written between 1963 and 1981, just a few months before he died, and include two stories which have been turned into box office smashes: the title story, filmed as Total Recall, and "The Little Black Box", which grew into his masterpiece Blade Ru ...

Laberinto de muerte

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 6:51:50 PST

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 6:42:59 PST

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It is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. we may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him ona strange course through uncharted territory. The world o ...

Save Me the Waltz

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:03:00 PST

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, which many critics consider to be his masterpiece, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parall ...

Me amarás cuando esté muerto

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:02:38 PST

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ERECCION DEL LABIO SOBRE LA PAGINA

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:02:35 PST

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Los señores del alma

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:02:30 PST

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Agujero Llamado Nevermore

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:02:27 PST

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:02:10 PST

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Yo estoy vivo y vosotros estáis muertos

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:01:28 PST

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Para unos, Philip K. Dick no es más que el nombre de un escritor de ciencia ficción, cuyas obras inspiraron las películas de Blade Runner y Desafío Total. Para otros, es uno de los escritores esenciales del siglo XX. Y, para unos pocos, el agente de una auténtica Revelación. Una cuestión obsesiva que ha hecho de su vida caótica una extraña odisea espiritual: ¿Quién sabe lo que es realmente?, ¿Q ...

Tombuctú

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:01:01 PST

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Míster Bones es un perro de raza indefinida, pero de una inteligencia muy precisa. No habla inglés —quizá porque se lo impide la forma de sus fauces—, pero tantos años escuchando el incesante torrente de su amo han hecho que lo comprenda a la perfección, y que pueda pensar e interpretar el mundo con una sensibilidad muy canina y una sintaxis muy humana. Porque Míster Bones tiene siete años y ha ...

El país de las últimas cosas

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:00:44 PST

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Anna cuenta, en una carta a su novio, enviada desde una ciudad sin nombre, lo que sucede en el pais de las ultimas cosas. Anna esta alli para buscar a su hermano William y describe una tierra en la que la busqueda de la muerte ha reemplazado a los avatares y negocios de la vida, las clinicas de eutanasia y los clubes para el asesinato florecen, mientras que los atletas y corredores no se detienen ...

Leviatán

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:00:33 PST

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Todo comienza con un muerto anónimo: en una carretera de Wisconsin, un día de 1990, a un hombre le estalla una bomba en la mano y vuela en mil pedazos. Pero alguien sabe quién era, y con el FBI pisándole los talones, Peter Aaron decide contar su historia, dar su versión de los hechos y del personaje, antes de que la historia y las mitologías oficiales establezcan para siempre sus falsedades o ver ...

El pesa-nervios

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:59:48 PST

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Translation of Le pèse-nerfs, L'ombilic des limbes, Fragments d'un journal d' enfer.

The Theater and Its Double

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:59:46 PST

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Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western cultur ...

ALEGATO DE UN LOCO

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:58:29 PST

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Novela autobiográfica, escrita como una defensa de sí mismo entre 1887 y 1889, el autor relata en ella el deterioro y la ruptura de su segundo matrimonio sobre el fondo de una cuestión crucial que empezaba a plantearse en ese tiempo: la liberación de la mujer de los roles y funciones que tradicionalmente se le habían asignado. Visceral, cruel y moderna, la novela describe magistralmente la ru ...

Inferno

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:58:03 PST

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Partly autobiographical novel, based on author's years in Paris when he suffered apersonal crisis, and originally written in French (from Wikipedia).

Las olas

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:19:28 PST

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Esculpir en el tiempo

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:30:35 PST

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El diario de trabajo del gran director ruso: un conjunto de lúcidas reflexiones surgidas al afrontar los distintos aspectos de su tarea como creador cinematográfico: el guión, los actores, las tomas, el montaje, la música.

La muerte en Venecia ; Mario y el mago

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:30:11 PST

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American Gods

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:56 PST

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Complete 2-volume set comprising 19 CDs.

Fluyan mis lágrimas, dijo el policía

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:46 PST

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¿Qué haría usted si de la noche a la mañana, se convirtiera en un perfecto desconocido sin existencia real en el mundo que le rodea? ¿Qué haría si viviera en una sociedad policial, donde los estudiantes están confinados en las ruinas de los antiguos campus universitarios, donde existen los campos de trabajos forzados y donde un individuo vale tan sólo lo que señalan sus tarjetas de identidad? ¿Có ...

Vuelo nocturno

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:34 PST

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A principios del siglo XX, las compañías aéreas de transporte de mercancías debían competir en rapidez y eficacia con cualquier otro medio, y sus pilotos se jugaban a menudo la vida en la empresa. Esta novela, considerada por muchos la mejor de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, narra la epopeya que acompaño el establecimiento de un vuelo nocturno entre Río de Janeiro y Buenos Aíres para mejorar el servic ...

Cuentos De La Taberna Del Ciervo Blanco/ Tales from the White Heart

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:25 PST

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Baila, baila, baila

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:15 PST

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En marzo de 1983, el joven protagonista de esta novela, redactor freelance todoterreno, después de pasar días sombríos, siente la necesidad de volver a ciertos escenarios de su vida para ajustar cuentas con el pasado. Viaja a Sapporo con la intención de alojarse en el Hotel Delfín, donde años atrás pasó una semana con una misteriosa mujer que, de manera inesperada, desapareció de su lado. Asu lle ...

El viejo y el mar

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:29:04 PST

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El horror de Dunwich

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:55 PST

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A vuestros cuerpos dispersos

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:46 PST

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A vuestros cuerpos dispersos, El fabuloso barco fluvial, El oscuro designio y El laberinto mágico constituyen los cuatro volumenes de una de las series más famosas de la literatura mundial de ciencia ficción: El mundo del Río. el mundo imaginado por Philip José Farmer es un mundo cruzado por un único y caudaloso río que lo atraviesa de parte a parte y cuya fuente es desconocida, y al que van a pa ...

Col recalentada

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:36 PST

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Cuentos breves y extraordinarios

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:26 PST

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Dublineses

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:12 PST

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Dicen que si Dublin desapareciera podría ser reconstruida a partir de los libros de Joyce. Pero los personajes desesperados, desafiantes o resignados que pueblan estos relatos se parecen a los habitantes de cualquier ciudad. Cada una de las historias, intensas e intemporales como toda obra maestra, adquiere nueva vida con cada lectura.

Drive

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:28:04 PST

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Confieso que he vivido

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:27:53 PST

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Una mirada a la oscuridad

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:27:41 PST

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Policías y criminales han sido siempre las dos caras de una misma moneda, pero ningún novelista ha sabido explorar esta perversa simbiosis como Philip K. Dick. Fred es el agente de policía encargado de investigar y detener a Bob Arctor, peligroso traficante de la adictiva y letal sustancia D. Para ello, Fred se adentra en un mundo donde resulta difícil diferenciar la realidad de los sueños y se ...

Crímenes exquisitos

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:27:30 PST

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El cuerpo de Lidia Naveira, una joven de la alta sociedad coruñesa, aparece flotando en el estanque de Eiris recreando la famosa Ofelia de Millais. ¿Qué relación tiene este crimen con el macabro asesinato acontecido meses antes en la Abadía de Whitby? La inspectora Valentina Negro, con ayuda del famoso criminólogo Javier Sanjuán, liderará una investigación que la llevará a colaborar con Scotlan ...

Confesiones de una máscara

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:27:20 PST

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Final del Juego

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:26:31 PST

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Hojas de hierba

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 1:26:21 PST

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Tormenta de espadas

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 2:47:51 PST

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Las huestes de los fugaces reyes de Poniente, descompuestas en hordas, asolan y esquilman una tierra castigada por la guerra e indefensa ante un invierno que se anuncia inusitadamente crudo. Las alianzas nacen y se desvanecen como volutas de humo bajo el viento helado del Norte. Ajena a las intrigas palaciegas, e ignorante del auténtico peligro en ciernes, la Guardia de la Noche se ve desbordada ...

La llamadade Cthulhu

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 2:46:42 PST

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Contiene: - El horror oculto - Las ratas en las paredes - Lo indescriptible - La ceremonia - Bajo las pirámides - La casa maldita - El horror de Red Hook - Él - En la cripta - Aire fresco - La llamada de Cthulhu - El modelo de Pickman - La llave de plata - El extraño caserón de la niebla

Primavera con una esquina rota

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 2:44:43 PST

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Luna de Enfrente- Cuaderno San Martin

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 2:44:23 PST

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Invisible Monsters

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:02:32 PST

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She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will te ...

El hombre en el castillo

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:26:04 PST

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Dioses del Mundo del Rio

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:23:49 PST

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Hace más de veinte años que Philip José Farmer inició la crónica épica del planeta llamado Mundo del Río, y de los treinta y cinco mil millones de hombres y mujeres que despertaron allí una mañana para iniciar el primer día de sus vidas después de la muerte. Resucitados por el poder de una raza alienígena, por razones que sólo pueden suponer, personajes como Mark Twain, Herman Goering, Cyrano de ...

Piensa azul, cuenta hasta dos

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 3:59:58 PST

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¡No, No, Rogov, No! Cuando llovió gente Mark Elf La reina de la tarde Los observadores no viven en vano La dama que llevó El Alma Piensa azul, cuenta hasta dos El coronel volvió de la nada El juego de la rata y el dragón El abrasamiento del cerebro Del planeta gustible Solo en Anacrón El crimen y la gloria del comandante Suzdal Dorada era la nave... ¡oh! ¡oh! ¡oh!

The Concept of Irony/Schelling Lecture Notes

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:33:54 PST

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A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the m ...

John Dies at the End

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 1:50:33 PST

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It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncom ...

Haunted

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 0:53:02 PST

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El vino del estío

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:04:49 PST

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La verdad sobre el caso Savolta

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:54:09 PST

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La rebelion en la granja/ The rebellion in the farm

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:54:00 PST

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Fight Club

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:52:45 PST

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An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and h ...

Chocolat

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:51:22 PST

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El chocolate es algo más que un placer para los sentidos. Saboreándolo las penas se hacen más llevaderas, los secretos menos íntimos, los sueños más reales. Por eso para el cura Francis Reynaud, la llegada a Lansquenet-sur-Tannes de Vianne Rocher, una singular mujer que decide montar una chocolatería, no puede ser sino el primer paso para caer en la tentación y en el pecado. Y frente a él, la jov ...

La Torre Oscura, vol. 1

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:27:25 PST

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La reedición del primer libro de esta serie supondrá todo un acontecimiento para los incontables fans de Stephen King. En ella, Roland de Gilead, uno de los héroes más enigmáticos del autor, debe perseguir al Hombre Negro por el desierto para que le revele los secretos de la Torre Oscura, un edificio mítico que se encuentra en el nexo de todos los universos. Tras correr innumeralbes peligros, "el ...

Cuentos crueles

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:52:58 PST

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God hates us all

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:52:54 PST

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The critically acclaimed show, Californication, is one of Showtime's highest rated programs. Averaging about two million viewers an episode, it is the most successfully rated freshman series in Showtime history. A Golden Globe nominee for Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical), Californication features an electric, likeable cast, led by actor David Duchovny, who won a Golden Globe for his per ...

Otono en Pekin

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:50:44 PST

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Escupiré sobre vuestra tumba

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:49:50 PST

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Violenta y pornográfica, la novela de Vian busca herir la sensibilidad del lector para dar mayor virulencia a su alegato antirracista. Una lectura loca y trepidante.

La feria de las tinieblas

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:41:25 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...

Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:39:17 PST

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1Q84

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:33:16 PST

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LOCOS DE LA HISTORIA

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:04:35 PST

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«Con este libro rindo tributo a mi padre y a mi abuelo; ambos médicos psiquiatras, escritores y excepcionales maestros en el arte de disfrutar aprendiendo y gozar enseñando. Continúo la serie de ?Locos egregios? que iniciase mi abuelo Antonio y continuase mi padre, Juan Antonio; es, de alguna manera, el tercero de la saga escrito por un miembro de la tercera generación». Con estas palabras abre ...

Little Brother

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:43:03 PST

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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist at ...

La mano izquierda de Dios/ The Left Hand of God

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:42:31 PST

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A Princess of Mars

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:42:08 PST

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Written by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Told by STAN WINIARSKI "I stood on the Arizona bluff with my attention drawn to the large red star, Mars. I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms and was drawn through the trackless immensity of space. I opened my eyes upon a strange landscape." Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter found himself a captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him was Dejah Th ...

La isla del doctor Moreau

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:40:40 PST

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Dracula

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:40:19 PST

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ***************.

Cuentos de los hermanos Grimm

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 3:39:14 PST

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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:52:41 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 by Havelock Ellis

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:52:31 PST

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Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the co ...

Naked Lunch

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:52:19 PST

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Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American cult ...

Curious Sofa

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:51:35 PST

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Gorey’s naughty, hilarious travesty of lust-now reissued in a special gift edition. “A master of the genre of graphic storytelling and a brilliant draftsman” (New York Times Book Review).

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:45:34 PST

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Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real, tangible truths - that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Pro ...

Waiting for Godot

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:36:24 PST

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Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see "Waiting for Godot". At the worst you w ...

The Corrections

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:35:46 PST

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From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfred’s condition worsens and the Lamberts a ...

The Wasp Factory

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:35:07 PST

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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the b ...

The Virgin Suicides

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:34:28 PST

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This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

The Time Traveler's Wife

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:32:45 PST

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This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor con ...

Someone Like You

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:30:27 PST

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There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already attracted a huge following which can only be more disturbed, alarmed and - thankfully - amused by 'So ...

Miserables Y Locos

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:19:50 PST

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El Malestar En La Cultura

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:18:45 PST

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BioShock: Rapture

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:16:05 PST

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Había terminado la segunda guerra mundial.

Just Abans De La Guerra Amb Els Esquimals

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 0:11:27 PST

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