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1) Dracula
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Series
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English
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
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Overview: The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart-these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended...
2) Wonder boys
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Language
English
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Description
A funny novel on two college friends who relive their youth by getting up to all sorts of tricks during a literary conference. One is a professor who is writing a novel, the other is his editor. Both left college with high hopes of making a name, hopes which have not materialized. By the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
3) Rock bottom
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 35
Language
English
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Description
"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--a café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm's inferior foundation materials are the cause. Zoe...
Author
Series
Colección Edición limitada volume 9
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Un grupo de viejos camaradas -un constructor, un pintor, una profesora, un novelista fracasado- son convocados a una cena. Un día estuvieron unidos por un proyecto común: la revolución. Ahora, tantos años después, hacen repaso de sus existencias. El espejo del tiempo les devuelve la imagen de unas vidas vividas provisionalmente, y cuyo vacío se llena a menudo de culpa, desengaño, rencor o traición."--Amazon
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
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Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Darth Vader has been secretly pursuing his own agenda, but now it is time for the End of Games. As Inspector Thanoth returns with some startling information, it seems that Vader may have passed his master's tests. But even after finding favor in the eyes of the Emperor, the Dark Lord's schemes may yet prove his undoing... Plus, the killer droids Triple-Zero and Beetee wreak havoc in their own homicidal adventure! Marvel's in-depth exploration of...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
En una noche fría y con nieve en 1910, Ursula Todd nace, el tercer hijo de un banquero acaudalado Inglés y su esposa. Ella muere antes de que pueda sacar su primer aliento. En esa misma noche fría y con nieve, Ursula Todd nace, deja escapar un gemido lujurioso, y se embarca en una vida que será, por decir lo menos, inusual. Porque como ella crece, ella también muere, en repetidas ocasiones, en cualquier número de maneras. El mundo de Ursula...
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Series
Siruela Nuevos Tiempos volume 144
Publisher
Ediciones Siruela
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
En persa, Syngué significa zla piedra de la pacienciay. Se dice que esta piedra está en La Meca y alrededor de ella millones de peregrinos dan vueltas contándole sus desgracias. El día en que no le quepan más desgracias explotará, ese día tendrá lugar el Apocalipsis. Pero aquí, en un pueblo de Afganistán, la piedra de la paciencia es un hombre inconsciente por una bala alojada en la nuca. Su mujer permanece a su lado. Le echa en cara no...
11) The teacher
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Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new autobiographical material, Hunter of Stories includes Galeano's reflections on death, written during the very last months of his life"--
"Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries...
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Series
Yu-gi-oh! original series volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Contains several "Shonen Jump" adventures, including a showdown between Yugi and the Egyptian mystic Shadi, which decides the life or death of Yugi's best friends.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner every night, watches a few minutes of TV, and then turns...
15) Ecos del pasado
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 7
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
En plena revolución americana,...
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Publisher
Peter Owen
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"When H.G. Wells left school in 1880 at the age of thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he went on to become one of the most famous writers in the world, remaining active into the era of the atomic bomb, which he had predicted thirty years earlier. Along the way he created classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The...
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Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from recent events, even Hawkeye wants to know what his new status quo is. Who's with him? Who's against him? Who's trying to kill him and why? So many dang questions! And just when Clint's rock bottom couldn't arrive fast enough...his brother shows up. After a lifetime of decisions both good and bad, Clint and Barney Barton have to realize that they are brothers and ultimately, they're the only ones who can save one another. I mean, if they...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In 2014, a man is apprehended at a museum in Bogotá trying to steal the suit that an assassinated politician wore on the day of his death. What is behind--and what is the link between--the 1914 attacks against Colombian senator Rafael Uribe Uribe--who would inspire García Márquez to create Aureliano Buendía from One Hundred Years of Solitude, the leader of the Liberal Party Jorge Eliecer Gaitán--whose death in 1948 would blow up the history of...
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Red revenge! Lady Qi'ra not only insulted the Empire, but challenged it. In the end, Darth Vader showed her criminal organization that the Empire is not to be toyed with. But now, fearful whispers echo in every corner of the Empire -- Darth Vader is on the hunt, searching for anyone with any connection to the Crimson Dawn. How deep has the Dawn infiltrated the galaxy -- and are all their operations worthy of the wrath of Vader? In the bowels of Bespin,...
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Series
Daredevil (Zdarsky) volume 5
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The battle may be over, but Matt Murdock's war is far from fi nished! After the shocking events of DAREDEVIL #20, Chip Zdarsky reunites with Marco Checchetto to begin the next chapter of their defi nitive Daredevil saga: Hell and Back! For weeks, Hell's Kitchen has been a lawless neighborhood thanks to the Stromwyn siblings - but when the police are fi nally able to resume their patrols, they're quick to learn that they aren't the only ones interested...
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