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"After an adolescent prank leads to a stranger's death, Alvis Maloney rambles westward. He lands in a small North Carolina town and falls in love - in love with his neighbor Molly, with a lonesome quarterback called Miles, with a whole community of enduring misfits and losers. But at the same time, another life takes shape in Maloney's dreamlike visions: a horse named Forever, a princess with hypochondria, and an electric city that's always just out...
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On the planet Mulizan, a world over eight-hundred-quintillion light years from Earth, dire peril threatens. Berasculata's leader and "father figure" has died, causing a spiral into confusion. The orphaned kingdom now comes to blows in an effort to redefine its identity. Individuals with different motivations jockey for the dead king's all-important position of power. Until a new king and heir is found amongst the kingdom's nobility, Berasculata has...
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Aidan Iverson porzucony przez matkę w dzieciństwie, sam doszedłdo wielkiej fortuny, inwestując głó wnie w wielkie wynalazki. Zostałwspó łwłaścicielem okrytego złą sławą najbardziej elitarnego klubudla dżentelmenó w. Ale z powodu niewiadomego pochodzenia samjest tam obcy, a drzwi salonó w są przed nim zamknięte. Nie pozostajemu nic innego, jak tylko poślubić wysoko urodzoną pannę&hellip. Diana Ashby odrzuca oświadczyny lorda...
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"When Detective Regan Reilly sets off for her tenth reunion at Quiltier College--an all-women's college in Northern Massachusetts--she is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and reminiscing. She doesn't expect to be working. But things don't always turn out as planned. On her way to the reunion, Regan stops at her favorite diner, Dot and Don's, and discovers the owners of the restaurant bound up in the cellar, the cash register empty....
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"Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he's caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain for Western intervention. He hides behind knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand's son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads...
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"Hace veinte años, el padre de Emily Mills fue asesinado y ella encontró su cuerpo colgando en el patio trasero. Su hermana menor, Madison, afirma que estaba dormida en su habitación. Su hermana mayor, Tara, afirma que salió con amigos. La tragedia llevó a su madre al suicidio ya Tara a dejar la ciudad para siempre. El asesino fue capturado. El caso cerrado. Desde entonces, Emily y Madison han tratado de olvidar lo que sucedió esa noche, hasta...
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La primera novela de Agatha Christie presenta a los personajes de Hercule Poirot, el inspector jefe Japp y el capitán Arthur Hastings. En medio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, los residentes de Styles se despiertan una mañana y descubren que Emily Inglethorpe ha sido fatalmente envenenada. El Capitán Hastings, que se queda con la familia, solicita la ayuda de su viejo amigo, el detective belga Hercule Poirot. Con la evidencia acumulada contra un...
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La Sra. Fullerton conoce a Luke Fitzwilliam, un oficial de policía jubilado, y le cuenta sobre una gran cantidad de muertes en su ciudad natal que ella cree que son asesinatos. Inicialmente desdeñoso, se intriga cuando la Sra. Fullerton muere en un accidente de atropello y fuga y el hombre que, según ella, sería la próxima víctima, aparece muerto.
Mrs. Fullerton meets Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired police officer, and tells him of a strong of...
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"Fight the power with power. Acclaimed writer J. Michael Straczynski returns to the prescient, ambitious world of The Resistance! In the wake of the assassination of their leader, the Resistance is in disarray, disconnected from each other and hunted by authorities around the world--including an army of 'reborns' recruited by the American government. To avert decimation at the hands of a fascistic government crackdown, the Resistance must discover...
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"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...