Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

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  • Blue on Blue
    Quentin S. Crisp
    In an artificially engineered loop of parallel time called the Alternative States of the American Fifties, Victor Winton, a talented but unfulfilled cartoonist, struggles with the contradictory forces held in precarious stasis by the loop. While trying to create the perfect pin-up girl for his new comic-strip series, he becomes intrigued with an ’ordinary girl’ by the name of J...
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    17,25 €

  • Not Color Blind
    V.A. Herring-Trice
    NOT COLOR BLIND takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotion as it spins a tale of love, greed and murder.  Pulling no punches, it dives head-on into a world rift with racism, poverty, domestic abuse and child exploitation.   The story introduces two women.  Beth, a narcissistic and spoiled yet neglected child. bent on her own destruction.  Nettie, a light skinned black...
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    10,94 €

  • THE BODY SNATCHERS AFFAIR
    MARCIA MULLER
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    15,72 €

  • Count the Mountains
    Pamela Lindholm-Levy
    Linnie Ann Adams and her father leave Illinois for Denver expecting abundant rewards from a gold mine investment. All too soon both the stock and Linnie Ann’s father die, and she is left penniless and without prospects. She agrees to assist a mining town doctor in Rhodochrosite, Colorado, where explosions, cave-ins, barroom violence, childhood epidemics, and home childbirths fi...
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    10,59 €

  • Saint Nick
    Brandon Kroupa
    The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!   It is a season filled with gift giving, joy, happiness and of course visits with Santa Claus, a beloved symbol of Christmas by children of all ages. This is what Heather Fahs is most looking forward to on her trip to Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland.   Heather will come to realize this visit with Santa will be an extraordinary one.  For the ...
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    13,71 €

  • Home from Within
    Lisa Maggiore
    It’s the fall of ’82, and Jessica Turner has finally been set free, entering a public high school after being homeschooled. But her mother wears a frown and her father wears his Colt .45s, with a warning: no dating allowed. Seeking warmth, Jessica finds herself in a secret relationship with bad boy Paul Peterson. When the relationship–and Jessica’s pregnancy–are discovered, Pau...
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    8,72 €

  • Terrifying Freedom
    Linda Anne Smith
    Truth can be illusive, choices disconcerting; the promise of moral certitude, irresistible. In the Midwestern offices of Secure Star Insurance, Rebecca, efficient and distant, seeks only to survive another day. Sally, earnest and devout, views the workplace as a fertile mission field. Into the agency comes a new employee, Gladys, gregarious, unorthodox and twice divorced. When ...
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    19,15 €

  • Azimuths
    R.A. Morean / R.AMorean
    Five women and a lonely trailer park on the edge of the Mojave Desert... What sifts beneath the sand are mysteries—a fossilized whale, a particle accelerator, and calculated dreams of escape. Above live five unique women: Hattie, who tries to find her dead mother's face within her own; Kinni, the veiled survivor of Nagasaki; Melody, the orphan who nurses wayward children; L...
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    24,00 €

  • GIDEON SMITH AND THE MASK OF THE RI
    DAVID BARNETT
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    24,29 €

  • Coming Through
    Karen Krahl
    Sylvia Morton, a graphic artist at an LA design firm, develops mild depression and starts working from home. Her son Richard is away at school and her husband, Miles Harrison, an architect, is becoming distant. Fogged in by a pervasive ennui, she drifts through her life as if she were not part of it. Suffering from the dissociation that comes with depression, she starts to with...
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    24,66 €

  • Winter of the Wolves
    Jackie Clay
    On a brutally cold winter day, Jess Hazzard discovers a young man lying unconscious and nearly frozen to death in the snow. He takes him home and works to save his life, not knowing he has been searching for Jess. Years earlier, Jess put a bullet in the man's father. He lived, but forever blamed Jess for his family's dismal poverty. Following the death of his beloved m...
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    10,98 €

  • BEYOND THE POOL OF STARS
    HOWARD ANDREW JONES
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    22,51 €

  • The X-tails Surf at Shark Bay
    L.A. Fielding / L.AFielding
    Wisdom the Lion and the X-tails are wild about surfing!  When they wake up to a flat ocean, they head out on the ultimate surf trip to find waves-taking them to Shark Bay.  They find waves, but they also find Skulk- a shark who is always snarking.  He likes to tease, name call and is just plain MEAN.  Besides missing his two front teeth, Skulk is missing something else.  Can th...
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    14,12 €

  • PATHFINDER TALES
    TIM PRATT
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    19,07 €

  • The Manifestation of Caleb Lewis
    Timothy D. Tims
    Opening with a young Caleb Lewis witnessing and event that will shatter his life, he decends into a a world of drugs, sex and violence until a girl shows him a better way. The Manifestation of Caleb Lewis is a magical and romantic story of triumph, love and perseverance.  3 ...
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    15,55 €

  • The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories
    Laura Marello
    In the phosphorescent title novella of Laura Marello's collection, an enigmatic drifter pursues her circuitous path through the intricate cultural terrain of Sweetwater County, California, a patchwork of communities where 'everyone speaks the wrong language.' Through subtle, disciplined prose inflected with the deep colors and clear lines of ancient Mykonos and the northern...
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    14,01 €

  • The Muffia
    Ann Royal Nicholas
    Madelyn Scott-Crane is a smart, 42-year-old professional mediator and single mom who's having the best sex of her life—after twenty-two months of self-imposed abstinence—inspired by the ladies of her book club, The Muffia, and the Muff’s latest racy read. But on their second date, as Maddie and her mysterious Israeli heartthrob, Udi, come together in orgasmic splendor that ...
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    11,37 €

  • Caged Bird
    Josuanne Denis-Frasier
    Four years ago, Jasmine Jordan turned her back on the only family she knew at the urging of her abusive boyfriend, Terrance Hert. Never in her wildest dreams did she think that their fairy tale relationship would turn into the complete nightmare that it has become.Erika Jordan thought she had it all. She has a beautiful home, a successful business and a large bank account to c...
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    9,83 €

  • When Arrows Rain
    Ileen McDuring
    Image-bearer breeders. They’re only too real. In this haunting new novel, Ileen McDuring, author of House of Tables, composes a darkly elegant requiem of womanhood. It is 2011 and Jena Thompson is wife to handsome and powerful Senator Tim Thompson. Raising her nine children in Memphis, Tennessee, Jena’s life is filled with home school, purity ring ceremonies, front-yard interl...
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    13,18 €

  • Creaking Floorboards
    Colbourne Miller
    Creaking Floorboards, Colbourne Miller's debut novel, is a true insight into the world of Ian Wills: An archetypal HSP, a patriot, a romantic, a lover of nature, a tad eccentric, somewhat political, very obsessive, but, above all, an Ancient Briton through and through! Ian Wills' trials and tribulations are numerous; frequently they are funny, occasionally they are sad,...
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    15,50 €

  • Presidential Whispers
    Michael O Cantwell
    Have you ever wanted extra help surviving freshman year in high school? Alex owns a magical book written by the men who founded our nation. When he reads it, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, all come alive and offer guidance, while telling tales from the past. However, even Thomas Jefferson cant find the proper words when it comes to Alex's first dance with a cute girl. Some...
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    11,11 €

  • NOW AND IN THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH
    PATRICK TAYLOR
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    24,29 €

  • The Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Diamond
    Chizelle T Archie
    Posh Manhattan investment advisor Victoria Diamond Cartiér lives a life of ultimate success: owning an affluent estate in Harlem's Hamilton Heights district, working near the famous 5th Avenue, and having the love of her devoted husband Malcolm. But when Victoria discovers that her marriage is a lie, she uncovers a deadly horror that may threaten her belief in healing, second c...
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    11,29 €

  • After Mind
    Spencer Wolf
    No one can ever be the same human twice.Cessini Madden lives with an extremely rare medical condition... then his physical life ends before he reaches age thirteen. After an Artificial Intelligence breakthrough, Cessini is reborn as a young AI child named Packet. Scared and living alone in a technology center, Packet recognizes nothing from his past, save for one thing: he is d...
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    13,49 €

  • The Grimsah Forest
    K. L. Beckman
    The world is hanging precariously in the balance between the good and evil forces who have come to earth in the aftermath of human wars using nuclear bombs and biological weapons. The planet has been decimated. Nations have fallen. Technology has been eradicated. Those who survived have begun rebuilding, but all will be destroyed if evil forces, led by Leibus, win. One girl, un...
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    14,39 €

  • Strife
    Shimmer Chinodya
    A rich, densely written novel, Strife examines one family’s responses to destiny. Tracing the Gwanagara’s roots back over a century, Chinodya interweaves past and the present, juxtaposing incidents never forgotten or resolved, revealing how memory becomes an actor in lived time.A large family grows up in Gweru. Their father aspires to be an enlightened Christian man, he sees hi...
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    28,24 €

  • Cephrael’s Hand
    Melissa McPhail
    'All things are formed of patterns...' And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross:In Alorin... three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept race dies with it. One man holds the secret to reverting this decline: Bjorn van Gelderan, a dangerous and enigmatic man whose shocking betrayal three centuries p...
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    32,31 €

  • Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
    Kathy Shuker
    Terri is a talented art curator, stagnating in a dead end job in London. Her ex-boyfriend, Oliver, is stalking her. A post curating the retrospective of a famous but reclusive artist seems the perfect escape.Portrait painter, Peter Stedding, lives in the mountains of Provence, in a house he shares with his wife, daughter and eccentric sister, Celia. The setting is idyllic; the ...
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    16,70 €

  • The Tack Chest
    Jeff Hawksworth
    . . .'but there’s something else as well. Grandma had a box at the foot of her bed, which she used as a linen chest. It’s a bit tatty; she covered it with a rug, but it looks a bit like the one in your picture. You’re welcome to it if you want it; only it had blankets in it, not tack.'I had nothing to lose, 'Yes please Audrey, if you could hold on to it, I’ll pick it up at the ...
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    11,66 €

  • The Boxford Stories
    Kristen Carson
    Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds, two Mormon families in 1970s Maryland. Far from their Western American roots, they cling to each other like exiles clutching a precious box of topsoil from the old country. In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when she needs an ear—sharing her deepest confidences, her everyd...
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    11,97 €


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