Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

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  • Chain-Smoking Vegetarians and Other Annoyances in L.A.
    Sandra Ann Miller
    The only thing more annoying than being stuck in traffic, the blinding blitzkrieg of paps, or a chain-smoking vegetarian’s health rant, is having everything you ever wanted in the palm of your hand, and the rug swiftly pulled out from under you. El Patterson’s dreams were on the verge of coming true when a tragic twist of fate took it all away. Facing the official end of her ea...
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    9,12 €

  • The Flower Seller
    Ellie Holmes
    Jessie Martin believes that when it comes to love there are three types of people: the skimmers, the bottom dwellers and the ones who dive for pearls.  Jessie is a pearl diver. She had thought her husband William was a pearl diver too. But when William leaves her for a much younger woman, it’s not just Jessie’s heart that is broken, her ability to trust is shattered too. All Je...
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    11,88 €

  • House of Transformation
    Astrea Taylor
    Ananda is a bigger-than-life pop star, but the paparazzi won't leave her alone and she's tired of being smeared on the Enquirer every month for her drug addiction. After a mental breakdown, she goes home to her old friend Mag, and asks for her help.  Knowing how many pop stars die young, Mag will do anything to help Ananda, including losing her dignity, facing her grea...
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    11,70 €

  • Little Dystopias
    Kyle Aisteach
    Kyle Aisteach is one of the most promising new speculative fiction writers to emerge this decade. We present here 17 of his stories – 8 never before published – along with captivating essays that take a look behind the magic (and the science). This collection includes: 'Another Generation's Problems,' 'Clockman,' 'Eternal Love,' 'Eternity Undone,' 'A Fairy Tale,' 'Final Voi...
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    10,73 €

  • Fangs for Nothing
    Shannon Ryan
    Not everyone who gets turned into a vampire becomes a sexy rock star.At twenty-seven, Vincent Lester still looks seventeen, acne and all. He lives in his parents' basement, playing PlayStation and barely surviving by licking the blood off raw hamburger trays. His parents nag him to find a day job, but he's afraid the sun will make him burst into flame.One night at the b...
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    9,18 €

  • Machrihanish
    Dan Miller
    John McAlonan is an American of Irish descent. Yet Scotland, specifically Machrihanish Golf Club hard against the remote and rugged Argyll coast, is the closest he's ever come to feeling truly at home. Meanwhile, his only daughter Kate seemingly has it all: She drives a Porsche, lives in a Los Angeles beachside condo and is on the fast track to partner at a global advertising f...
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    11,22 €

  • Losing Found Things
    Brett Garcia Rose
    'We're all broken, and the scars we trade are all that remain of our fragile, once complex lives.' Losing Found Things is the raw, unforgettable debut collection of fifteen short stories from award-winning writer and novelist Brett Garcia Rose, who takes readers past what lies on the surface and into the darkest corners of human experience. A young man boards a cruise ship pl...
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    7,09 €

  • Inga’s Zigzags
    Vica Miller
    "A sexy tale with plenty of Russian atmosphere." -- Kirkus ReviewsInga's Zigzags is the story of a 28-year-old Russian woman who, after a decade in New York, returns to post-perestroika Moscow to start her own business. When her prospects fall through and she finds herself far from the heart of the action, she meets Emma and Alexandra, a pair of wealthy and well-connected m...
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    18,26 €

  • In the Midst of the Storm
    Felecia Poolé
    LOVE....SEX.... BETRAYAL.... This is a riveting story of a young girl’s journey through love, sex, and betrayal, her fight to keep her sanity and the consequences of trying to become an adult too fast. Take the journey with her as she struggles through this thing we call life. On the day she was born a mighty storm raged. Her father nicknamed her Stormi. She was born at the spe...
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    16,21 €

  • Apron Strings
    Mary Morony
    At seven years old, Sallee Mackey is wary of the grown-ups that populate her Southern world-especially her mother, Ginny-and with good reason. Ginny is flat out dangerous and not the kind of dangerous that threatens mortal harm, though at times death might be preferred. It's far worse than that, especially if you cross her in one of her moods. Sallee learns early on to rely o...
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    14,66 €

  • Writing From the Outskirts of Hope
    Malcolm MacDonald
    Isolated and depressed following the death of his wife, Robbie McDermott is living an aimless existence in rural Michigan - until the chance discovery of a British Library audio collection inspires him to write a novel as a means of bringing a sense of purpose to his days. Set in England between 1944 and 1975, McDermott's plot is centered upon his unlikely relationship with th...
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    13,99 €

  • The Ultimate Sacrifice
    Anthony Fields
    Betrayal is worse than slaughter. That's the motto Antonio Ameen Felder always instills in his friends. When a murder at the prison threatens to incarcerate them all for life, one man decides to sacrifice himself to free the others. All he asks for in return is that his family is taken care of. Luther ""Khadafi"" Fuller is the leader of the recently freed trio. He takes his...
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    29,42 €

  • Logos
    Nicholas Nikita
    Nikita’s haunting debut is an extraordinary story of creativity and perseverance, the tragic consequences of unresolved grief, and the power of legacy.After witnessing the brutal death of his parents, a young caveboy is roaming through a barren, parched land with nothing but his newborn brother strapped to his chest. Unwilling to accept his loss, the boy sets out on a dangero...
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    13,27 €

  • Find Me At The Disco
    Diahanna Aurora Hampton
    New York, 1977. Liza Collins is struggling to reconcile her relationship with her father, Will, after a lifetime of secrets and betrayal. Upon graduating from boarding school in London, Liza returns to her hometown of New York City seeking answers about her childhood that Will has largely left unanswered. Instead of answers, Liza unearths a series of illicit affairs, sham marri...
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    21,77 €

  • The Genesis of Change
    Livia J. Elliot
    Élan; the chaos-tamer, the record-breaker. Verve; the one behind the rise and fall of thousands of civilisations. Two alchemists, each sent on a mission by the leader of The Orders-The Rector.Élan must shatter their mentee’s humanity to train her as an alchemist, while Verve must define the unexplainable existing within a respected healer. When their missions reveal clues that ...
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    9,96 €

  • Dark Fate
    A.L. Hampton
    In the heart-pounding next installment of the Crown of the Seven Realms series, Dani, Rhyland, and his brothers venture into Luminara, the mesmerizing realm of the Fae, on a quest to find the elusive Faerite stone to add to Dani’s crown. But their mission is fraught with peril as Azrael relentlessly hunts them down, driven by dark intentions. The sting of Adrian’s betrayal stil...
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    24,45 €

  • The Poor Little Rich Girl (Esprios Classics)
    Eleanor Gates
    Eleanor Gates (26 September 1874 - 7 March 1951) was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best-known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913 and went on to be made as films for Mary Pickford in 1917 and for Shirley Temple in 1936.The film story, created to cash in on the talents of the ei...
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    23,71 €

  • Spike and Babe
    Jane / Philip A. Jorgensen / Philip AJorgensen
    Squirrel watching is fine as far as it goes. But newly retired Harold Miller is not content squirreling away his Golden Years from a porch. He is bored. Maybe the motorcycle he wished for in his youth would bring some excitement back into his life? To his surprise, and after a fair amount of sweet-talking, his wife Gwen swallows her reservations and goes along for the ride. Wit...
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    13,73 €

  • Zeniada
    Zeniada
    Zeniada is an intercollegiate poetry and art magazine based at Johns Hopkins University. This is our FALL 2018 issue. ...
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    12,20 €

  • The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Alfred Gatty / MrsAlfred Gatty
    Margaret Gatty (née Scott, 3 June 1809 - 4 October 1873) was an English children’s author and writer on marine biology. Some of her writings argue against Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Among her other books are Parables from Nature, Worlds not Realized, Proverbs Illustrated, and Aunt Judy’s Tales. She also conducted Aunt Judy’s Magazine, a family publication written by va...
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    20,48 €

  • The Wishing Moon (Esprios Classics)
    Louise Dutton
    'A little girl sat on the worn front doorsteps of the Randall house. She sat very still and straight, with her short, white skirts fluffed daintily out on both sides, her hands tightly clasped over her thin knees, and her long, silk-stockinged legs cuddled tight together. She was bare-headed, and her short, soft hair showed silvery blonde in the fading light. Her hair was bobbe...
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    24,44 €

  • Pink Revolution
    Craig Lynn Cooper
    Pierce Morrison Buckman is a United States Senator from Minnesota who is the standard bearer of the progressive left. He is a liberal leader. There aren’t many with the same beliefs to lead.If he is serious about becoming a candidate for president starting with the Iowa Caucuses, he will have to do it with idealism, positions many consider to be radically liberal and grassroots...
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    16,84 €

  • The Maid of Orleans (Esprios Classics)
    Friedrich von Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goeth...
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    22,94 €

  • Love and Intrigue (Esprios Classics)
    Friedrich von Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goeth...
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    20,64 €

  • The Camp of Wallenstein (Esprios Classics)
    Friedrich von Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goeth...
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    17,35 €

  • The Ghost-Seer, and Sport of Destiny (Esprios Classics)
    Friedrich von Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goeth...
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    20,65 €

  • Wilhelm Tell (Esprios Classics)
    Friedrich von Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goeth...
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    22,19 €

  • Aunt Jane’s Nieces (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    Aunt Jane’s Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name 'Edith Van Dyne.' Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. The novel 'is genuinely original and interesting. It focuses on three a...
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    22,94 €

  • Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    Aunt Jane’s Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name 'Edith Van Dyne.' Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. The novel 'is genuinely original and interesting. It focuses on three a...
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    23,65 €

  • Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    Aunt Jane’s Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name 'Edith Van Dyne.' Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. The novel 'is genuinely original and interesting. It focuses on three a...
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    21,37 €


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