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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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2024.
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English
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"Pain is Dymitr's calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who sacrifice their souls to slay monsters. Now he's tasked with a deadly mission: find the legendary witch Baba Jaga. To reach her, Dymitr must ally with the ones he's sworn to kill. Pain is Ala's inheritance. A fear-eating zmora with little left to lose, Ala awaits death from the curse she carries. When Dymitr offers her a cure in exchange for her help, she has no choice but...
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2024.
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English
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"The cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls. As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards,...
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2024.
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"When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies."--
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"They told him his daughter died. But what if she didn't? Ten years ago, Keaton Young turned his back briefly on his four-year-old daughter, Vivian, during a family picnic at the beach. Minutes later she was gone, her floaties found in the ocean. Drowned. But they never found a body. And Keaton has never given up hope that, somehow, she's still alive. He thought he'd found her numerous times, only to be wrong. But when he sees fourteen-year-old Emily...
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon's The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region's survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers' most affluent...
9) La promesa
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlǹtico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la "abogada de lo imposible": si logra salvarse, escribir l̀a historia de su vida. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un "diccionario de recuerdos" a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginacin̤ de...
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
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2024.
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English
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"Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman. Forged in the fires of the Western Front and reborn in the cafes of Paris, Leslie believes he can handle whatever is thrown at him-but Spar Creek holds a darkness beyond his nightmares. Something ugly festers...
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[Tanisha Stewart]
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[2021]
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English
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"Mia thinks her life is completely normal. She has a loving boyfriend, great and supportive friends, and a close relationship with her mother. Things take an interesting turn, however, when she is almost run down by a car one day. Then come messages from an untraceable number. Not to mention the heartbreaking secret that is revealed shortly thereafter. Suddenly, everything that Mia thought was right in her life goes wrong. She has no idea why, but...
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"During the renovation of a London terrace house in the 1980s, an incredible discovery is made. A dust covered postman's satchel is uncovered. It was buried under rubble caused by one of the relentless bombings during the Blitz of London and still contains letters that were never delivered. Noah, a young architect and owner of the property, decides to finish what the postman could not and finally deliver these long-lost letters. He embarks on a remarkable...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"EASTER BASKET MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Tinker's Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket-themed promotion to boost in-store sales, with tensions boiling over the grand prize--a mysterious golden egg crafted by a reclusive Maine artist. When the one-of-a-kind art piece is stolen, it's up to part-time reporter Lucy Stone to investigate three struggling entrepreneurs who stick out in the local scene. But a huge town scandal comes into focus...
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Nova
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Tras el descubrimiento de un barco fantasma, cuya tripulación al parecer murió intentando llegar a la isla de Akinah, rodeada por tormentas, Navani Kholin deberá enviar una expedición para asegurarse de que la isla no haya caído en manos enemigas."--Page 4 of cover.
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
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"This novella was inspired by little-known events that occurred during WWII. The story takes the reader on an exhilarating and gripping journey. A journey that includes the incredible happenings at a spy station in Rhode Island, a daring rescue mission at a luxurious Paris hotel, and the infiltration of a Nazi spy ring operating within the city of London."
16) Earth: a novella
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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It's the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He's a talented footballer who wanted to be an artist. A gay man in a sport that rejects diversity. A defendant...
18) La novia gitana
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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"Susana Macaya, a young gypsy girl raised as a paya, disappears after her bachelorette party. Her body is found two days later: the victim has been brutally tortured following an unusual and atrocious ritual. Her sister Lara suffered the same fate seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, but the murderer is serving a sentence in prison: has someone imitated his terrible methods or is an innocent person imprisoned? Inspector Elena Blanco, a veteran...
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