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Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties...
882) Trying Patience
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trying Patience: New York City was the last place nature writer Patience Madrid wanted to be. She preferred the quiet and solitude of her Adirondacks cabin to the noise and bustle of the city. But her sister, Tilly, is being mysterious, and begs Patience to come and stay at her apartment while she and her husband, Terrence, are out of town. Except, when Patience gets to the apartment, she finds it isn't empty.... Jake Farr was only looking for a place...
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1083
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela perdida. Un escritor maldito. Una búsqueda. Un viaje iniciático. La resolución de un misterio. 1938: el escritor africano T. C Elimane, al que llamaban «el Rimbaud negro», publica una novela titulada El laberinto de lo inhumano. Estalla la polémica, se le acusa de plagio, se arma un gran escándalo, el autor desaparece y su obra se convierte en un libro maldito. 2018: el joven escritor africano residente en París Diégane Latyr...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is supposedly. In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character C.D. Rose (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 367
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic tale of upended evolution in which redemption depends...
888) El hombre nada
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ella no puede parar de escribir hasta que encuentre al asesino. El no puede dejar de leer porque el asesino es él. Yo era la chica que sobrevivió al Hombre Nada. Ahora soy la mujer que lo va a atrapar. Acabas de leer las primeras páginas de The Nothing Man, las memorias sobre crímenes reales que Eve Black ha escrito sobre su búsqueda obsesiva del hombre que mató a su familia hace casi dos décadas. El guardia de seguridad de supermercado, Jim...
889) The master
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Henry James, a famous novelist born into one of America's intellectual first families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed...
890) Los hechos casuales
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
"El encuentro fortuito entre dos amigos de la infancia es el detonante de esta novela, la cual nos lleva a recorrer la vida de un empresario exitoso y adinerado con un pasado enigmático. Su nombre: Sebastián Sarmiento. Su tragedia: haber perdido a sus seres más queridos. La consecuencia: un sentimiento de culpa que jamás lo abandona. La historia de Sebastián toma rumbos insospechados debido a circunstancias tan simples como una rama seca tirada...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The essential second volume of bestselling author Peter S. Beagle's short stories, including one previously unpublished and four uncollected stories, shows again that Beagle is one of America's most influential fantasists. With his celebrated versatility, humor, and grace, Beagle is at home in a dazzling variety of subgenres. Evoking comparison to such iconic authors as Twain, Tolkien, Carroll, L'Engle, and Vonnegut, this career retrospective celebrates...
892) Cochabamba
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"El agua de azar puede también danzar como humo de insomnio o conversación de sobremesa sin tiempo. Así nace la amistad a primera vista entre el diplomático francés Xavier Dupont y el escritor al que le pide escribir la novela de la vida de su madre, Catalina. Nacida en Cochabamba, hija de un potentado boliviano, oligarca adinerado y símbolo de la tiranía patriarcal, Catalina se sabe la mujer más bella del mundo y más aún cuando por orden...
893) Love at the shore
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jenna often blames her neighbor, Lucas, for her writer's block. But over beach bonfires and sunset strolls, she begins to see a new side of her neighbor at the shore.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In pursuit of an author who could help get her brother published, Rebecca Lane stays at Swanford Abbey, a grand hotel rumored to be haunted. It is there she encounters Sir Frederick--the man who broke her heart. When a mysterious death occurs, Rebecca is one of the suspects, and Frederick is torn between his feelings for her and his search for the truth.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Bunnicula strikes again!: When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that he is a vampire.
Bunnicula meets Edgar Allan Crow: An overly alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.
896) Errors and omissions
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists' rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator--and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally that they own the rights to their corporate cash-cow franchise of Spykiller films, he has little choice but to comply.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, a division of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"De la mano de la autora de Sabrina y Corina, finalista del National Book Award, nos llega una historia épica de traición, amor y destino que abarca cinco generaciones de una familia chicana e indígena en el oeste de los Estados Unidos. En cada generación hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida. Luz 'Little Light" Lopez, lectora de hojas de té y lavandera, debe valerse por sí misma cuando su hermano Diego, encantador de serpientes...
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 52
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher is high in holiday spirits, spearheading the annual Christmas parade and preparing for her family to come to town. The only thing dampening the holiday cheer is the discovery of two sets of bones on Jessica's property; one set ancient, the other only about a year old. She suspects the remains might be connected and everything seems to come back to a mystery that has long plagued Cabot Cove. If she wants to solve the case, she'll...
899) Be frank with me
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Reclusive literary legend M. M. 'Mimi' Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years. But after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme, she's flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies, with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a local art shop owner is murdered, Jessica Fletcher is surprised to once again be working alongside her old friend MI-6 agent Michael Haggerty to solve the case in the newest mystery in this USA Today bestselling series. When Nelson Penzell, co-owner of a local art and treasure store in Cabot Cove, is murdered, the nail tech from Jessica Fletcher's favorite beauty parlor is the main suspect. After all, she's the one who ran out of the store...