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2022.
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Español
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El Domingo de Ramos de 1965 dos parejas inician un viaje hacia Veracruz, pero se ven obligadas a detenerse en Cholula. Los cuatro personajes se internan en el laberinto de las antiguas galerías que componen el sitio arqueológico de la ciudad, como en un descenso a los infiernos; una travesía que hará surgir los más oscuros secretos de cada uno y concluirá con una tragedia ritual inesperada.Ficción total, en palabras del propio autor,...
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"An idyllic Nantucket summer begins like a dream for scrappy Mia from South Boston; Presley, a gorgeous Southern beauty queen; Cole, a handsome introvert; Jade, the sultry daughter of a model and music mogul; J.P., an energetic young designer; and Grant, a playful party-boy. These six are working as seasonaires--influential brand ambassadors--for the clothing line Lyndon Wyld. But like all things that look too good to be true, the darkness lurking...
4) Privilege
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Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice...
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2015.
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English
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"Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more airless in the aftermath of two family announcements ... She seeks refuge at a Norwegian artist colony that's offered her a painting apprenticeship ... Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, is kneading bread in the shop's window when he sees his mother for the first time in a decade. As he gains a...
6) Toad
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"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
7) Malibu bluff
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Every summer is curated as a dream for six twenty-somthing seasonaires handpicked by Lyndon Wyld, the chic founder of her namesake clothing line. This summer takes these influential brand ambassadors to the West Coast. Mia, a resourceful young designer, is chosen to lead the pack--roped back into a second season by a deal she can't refuse, and the hope to leave behind her grief over her mother's death for the California sun. Mia is thankful that...
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2005
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English
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Scott Pilgrim is dating two girls, which gets really complicated. Knives Chau makes him feel like he can erase the past. Ramona helps him accept the past. But when Ramona and Knives meet and when Ramona's ex-boyfriends and Scott's old girlfriends are thrown into the mix, things gets more than a little crazy
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2009
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English
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This penultimate outing in the graphic novel series, finds Scott in the thick of a happy relationship with the hard-won Ramona V. Flowers, but troubles arise when past indiscretions come to light, leading to some uncomfortable doubts. At the same time, Scott must face down the latest of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends, the robot-controlling twins Kyle K. ("handsome jerk") and Ken K. ("perfect asshat")
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