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Existo, para vivir combina la novela negra con la reflexión filosófica. Tal ensamblaje se hace posible gracias a una labor narrativa hilada con esmero e intensidad, en la que la trama da lugar a disquisiciones sobre problemas de indudable actualidad avaladas por filósofos y literatos, cuyas citas textuales aparecen integradas con naturalidad en la narración (por ello el lector cuenta al final de la novela con un índice de citas).
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Pour qu'il y ait des survivants, ça prend des morts. J'ai survécu grâce à la mort de ma meilleure amie, Marie-Anne. On s'était promis que s'il arrivait quelque chose à l'une de nous deux, l'autre arrêterait la drogue. Alors je suis obligée de rester straight et d'écrire son histoire. Puis de mettre un timbre sur l'enveloppe qui contient mon livre. J'ai envoyé mon récit à un éditeur qui s'occupera de faire rayonner œuvre partout à travers...
63) Bare Snow
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Featuring an insane cast of anthropomorphic characters, Bare Snow is based on Brett A. Brooks's Pussy Katnip Series and was first featured in A Hand of Gold and other stories in 2018.Jerry O'Hare is a journalist for the Herald, who is hoping to get the real scoop on Grizz Bigly and his dastardly schemes. When he and his apprentice witness a murder, Jerry's realizes he has more to worry over than the puddle of piss he left in Bigly's bed. Now, with...
64) The Underbelly
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White ex-convict Cal Winter returns to his home in Oakland, California, one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn't swim, and Cal concludes she didn't go in the water willingly. Though theirs was a marriage of convenience, he takes the murder personally. Along with his prison homie Red Eye, Cal sets out to find out who did Prudence in. His convoluted and often darkly humorous journey takes...
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Orrie Hitt's first two novels in one volume!
I'll Call Every Monday
Her name was Irene . . .
She was right up close. I could see the smoke coming into her eyes, dreamy and hot. I pulled her to me and I wasn't gentle about it. For an instant I worried about her husband and her plan-but I couldn't take time out to care.
There's something about a bewitching woman that always gets to the other side of a man. The side where violence and love live, in...
66) Soft Money
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Even the best cops burn out. 23 Shades of Black's Filomena Buscarsela returns, having traded in her uniform for the trials of single motherhood. Once a cop, always a cop. She may have left the department, but Filomena's passion for justice burns as hot as ever. And when, the owner of her neighborhood bodega is murdered-just another "ethnic" crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged-Filomena doesn't need much prodding from the dead man's grieving...
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Burn, Baby, Burn.
An incendiary mixture of genres and voices, this collection of short stories compiles a unique set of work that revolves around riots, revolts, and revolution. From the turbulent days of unionism in the streets of New York City during the Great Depression, to a group of old women who meet at their local café to plan a radical act that will change the world forever. These original and once out-of-print stories capture the various...
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Clay Blackburn has two jobs. Most of the time he's your average bisexual book scout in Berkeley. Some of the time, he's...not quite a private detective. He doesn't have a license, he doesn't have a gun, he doesn't have a business card, but people come to him for help and in helping them he comes across more than his fair share of trouble. And, trouble finds him seeking the fountain of youth, the myth of paradise, the pie in the sky...The Incredible...
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Finde den Tod, bevor er dich findet: Die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder führt die Ermittler Gray und Sophia nicht nur zur tot geglaubten Sekte Fiordia, sondern auch tief in ihre eigenen psychischen Verstrickungen. Dabei merken sie nach und nach, wie viel die Morde mit ihnen selbst zu tun haben. Und machen die schmerzhafte Erfahrung: Du kannst die Gegenwart so lange ignorieren, bis sie dich als Vergangenheit einholt.
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A RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly, the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.'s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers' gatherings for generations, and has gone through numerous editions.
As a result, of I.W.W. efforts to keep up with the times, however, recent versions of the songbook have omitted most of the old-time favorites, especially the raucous lyrics of the free-spirited hoboes...
71) Butterfly Potion
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Perry wakes up in an arroyo, hungover and unsure how he got there. His wallet and cell phone missing, he walks back to the last place he remembers being before he blacked out the bar. Fueled by alcohol and a touch of companionship, Perry is determined to find out who rolled him, but standing in his way is an accident that happened six months earlier and the struggle his life has become since. In his search for the material things taken from him, he...
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Cuando Filomena Buscarsela, detective privado trabajando en Nueva York, lleva a su hija adolescente Antonia a Ecuador para que conozca a sus familiares, la visita se trastoca en más que un simple regreso a casa. Filomena no ha pisado Ecuador en años, y este viaje le devuelve episodios de su vida pasada en los que fue una revolucionaria. Ni siquiera logra tener tiempo de adaptarse a su nuevo entorno cuando es asesinado el sacerdote que, años atrás,...
73) Vampyr
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Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.
74) Dead Low Winter
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Late January of 1978. Football season is over; the lights from all of the Christmas trees are out. Full-time cabdriver, sometime card shark Keith Waverly is feeling good driving two exotic dancers to work. But his mood turns sour when he witnesses the violent abduction of a local street hustler. Later, when the man is found with his head ventilated by bullet holes, Waverly is dragged into a world of high-rolling gamblers, crooked politicians, sex,...
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What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies, and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial law are eroding more and more opportunities for local sustainability and mutual aid? And, what can be done to challenge the rise of a new authoritarian political leadership at a time when the general public is obsessed with fears related to personal and national...
76) The threat
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"Melvin Levin is dissatisfied-with his job, with life, with it all. He's too polite and too boring, and the monotony of his days is only broken when he has to clean up after his neighbor's frequently vomiting cat. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Under the thrill of potentially getting murdered, Melvin begins to feel truly alive again. The threat gives Melvin a sense of self-importance-someone wants him dead-and, ironically,...
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Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their Big Get-Even adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme.
As part of their trafficking in counterfeit merch, they are looking to turn a few pallets of Grade Z computer chips into some military hardware sure to interest dictators and despots and drug lords around the globe. Bankrolled by a greedy local crime boss, they hope to promote a half-genius, half-addlepated...
80) The Big Get-Even
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A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real-estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has...
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