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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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***This book has also been published as Where the Moon Isn't.***
Winner of the 2013 Costa First Award
"A stunning novel. Ambitious and exquisitely realized . . . clearly the work of a major new talent." -S. J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew came home safely. Ten years later, Matthew tells...
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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The Yellow Pinto straddles the line between memoir/narrative and transgressive fiction by combining themes of identity, addiction, and complicated familial relationships.
Written in a unique, unconventional, pulse raising style, B.WalterWill uses essay and storytelling in an inventive fashion. He intertwines stories within stories to detail his personal struggle with gambling addiction - a hidden addiction not well understood. B.WalterWill explores...
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Larry Nodens unravels sinister secrets and navigates personal upheavals to confront a conspiracy that threatens to transform the very fabric of his world.Inspector Lazarus Balthazar Nodens is a seasoned detective in the modern industrial city of Dylath-Leen, where enigmatic extra-dimensional Overlords reign. Leading a squad in the Criminal Investigations Division, Larry faces the challenges of a city where the Overlords and their hybrid offspring...
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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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The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey-and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who's found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class-a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution;...
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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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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...
12) Queens Noir
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Nineteen authors share mystery stories set in New York City's largest borough in this anthology.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Queens becomes the fourth New York City borough to enter the arena in this riveting collection edited by defense...
13) New Jersey Noir
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Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the hidden dirt of the Garden State.
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14) Nairobi Noir
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In this anthology, fourteen authors explore dark mysteries in the concrete jungle capital of Kenya, dealing with topics of race, religion, and corruption.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Brand-new stories by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Stanley Gazemba,...
16) 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...
18) 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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