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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
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2) Above Clouds
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From soil to cloud, from valley to peak,From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world,What one could take as life,What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was abandoned by his mother and abused by his stepmother when he was a child, and after he grew up, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for injuring a person by mistake, and after his release from prison,...
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"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
4) Mortem
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Love shouldn't hurt. Love shouldn't come at night with a knife.Two years after she was almost killed by her abusive boyfriend, Bree Elliott still struggles to move on, alcohol and sleeping pills her only support. She meets her soulmate, in a most unexpected way, when she's taken hostage by Roarke in a bank robbery that goes to hell.Ruthless hitman Roarke Brennan thought he had everything under control, but when a mysterious girl catches his attention,...
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Tyler Ortez was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Earth Quad Force. She didn't have time for a social life and kept to herself. She was a lifer and wanted to be old and gray when she retired from the Force.Benz Clach is the epitome of a warrior, six feet seven of muscle and brawn. He's a hybrid, half-human and half-Drole, an alien species that can breathe carbon monoxide and oxygen. He's an interspecies and a captain with The Earth Quad Force commanding a massive...
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A prejudice-driven serial killer is on the rampage in Motor City, and it's up to Detective Harvey Havoc and his new partner Lenard Graves to catch them before these hate crimes tear the city apart. Meanwhile, while on suspension, Detective Shay Smith is trying to solve a mystery of her own. But when martial law is declared amid civil unrest sparked by the killings, the Serenity Bureau sends in an opportunistic bureaucrat to take over the Motor City...
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Now a major motion picture, Manhattan Night, starring Adrien Brody, Campbell Scott, Yvonne Strahovski, and Linda Lavin
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her husband, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession...
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Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth.
Dionne Brand's multicultural infusion follows the stories of a close circle of twenty-something second-generations living in downtown Toronto-and the secrets they hide from their families.
Tuyen is a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese...
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Don't miss the BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Stephanie Harte
Meet the Kennedy twins and get ready for trouble!
Twin sisters Lily and Daisy Kennedy live a life ruled by their controlling father, Des. Desperate to salvage his own shattered dreams, he forces his girls to perform in seedy London club, Eden's, in the hopes they will finally hit the big time.
Their double act instantly pulls in the punters, but in the shadow of the spotlights,...
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Imaginez le topo…
Un gus se retrouve plombé dans les transports publics. On est plus en sécurité nulle part ! Sauf que le fait divers vire fissa à l'empoignade musclée et secret-défense. Un rodéo à renvoyer James Bond au bac à sable et votre cher Infra-détective à son manuel du parfait espion. Et ça tandis qu'une main loin d'être innocente se balade au petit bonheur…
11) Diamond Head
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Winner of the annual St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest.
Newcomer Charles Knief spins a compelling mystery replete with scandal, intrigue, and an appealing new P.I.--retired U.S. Naval officer John Caine, living aboard his sailboat in the beautiful waters of Oahu, getting by doing "favors" for friends. But this time, the favor involves the brutal murder of Vice Admiral Winston's daughter, who it seems was involved in the...
12) Don't Let Her In
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The letters drop onto every doormat…
Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the home and happy-ever-after she'd believed they were always going to share.
But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone's deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one - except for Lena's.
Someone clearly wants to implicate...
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