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Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...
22) The Silvering
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Paranormal researchers visit Mrs. Thackery, a widow who lives in a house by the river. The researchers soon discover that the phenomena of The Silvering is real – spirits who want to avenge slavery and repression perpetrated by the Thackeries in the 19th century.
23) One, Two, Three
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A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.Excerpt« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing...
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The complete "Leyendas" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. These magic, sobrenatural, evocative and mystery short stories are some of the most famous creations of Spanish XIX century literature. "El Monte de las ánimas", "Maese Pérez", "El rayo de luna", "El Miserere". All in this wonderful unique audiobook production.
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"Transcending (to rise above; a human limit) Waters, takes you on an exciting journey. Though set in a different time, it parallels the strength and faith we all need to overcome challenges in our own lives. It is a story of true strength, of love and friendship, of family and of the faith to endure.
This story takes you into the lives of two young men, Case and Dane. It takes you through a tragedy that tears them apart, and then through the incredible...
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In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.
During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner's remote control-the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox...
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It's an exciting children's book that takes young readers on a thrilling adventure alongside a brave and curious girl named Christina. Join her as she unravels the mysteries of a spooky old house perched on top of a hill. In this captivating tale, Christina and her parents move to a new town, unaware of the secrets that lie within their new rental house. The house, with its cracked walls and peeling paint, holds a haunting past and a hidden secret...
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE*
An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors.
Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After rebelling against the dictatorial jock president of the...
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Jane, who spends a lot of time alone as a child while her mother works as head of a Broadway theater company, develops a friendship with an imaginary man named Michael, and meets him again when she is in her thirties.
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Grace McGuiver arrives in the Azores Islands of Portugal to do her dissertation research on the annual festival cycle. To get there, she travels on an ancient cargo boat auspiciously named the Holy Ghost. Little does she know her arrival will set into motion a series of deadly events that will threaten her ability to do what she came to do.
She is ill prepared professionally for what awaits and poorly equipped emotionally to deal with life as a single...
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The truth is all around you
Thomas P- is exhausted. He's been travelling for work so much he barely knows where he is. And then, while waiting for a table at a restaurant, he sees someone from his past. Exactly as she was twenty years ago, when they first knew each other. Deeply shaken, he tries to carry on as if nothing happened.
But when it happens again, in a different restaurant, in a different city, Thomas's world begins to unravel. Haunted...
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On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But in this novel from Carlos Fuentes, his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the fleeting object of his desire spurns him, and he is forced to reconsider the foundations of his life as a writer.
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Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself... Multi-levelled and diverse in scene,...
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In The Campaign, a witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner, kidnaps the baby of a prominent judge, replacing it with the black baby of a prostitute. When he catches sight of the baby's mother, though, he falls instantly in love with her and sets off on an anguished journey to repent his...
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Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a series of letters from a current resident to an old friend describing the island's seventeenth-century history that brings together the violent Inquisition,...
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Glorious Meditates is an inner journey of self-discovery. Guided by visions, Glorious goes on an inner journey. She receives messages and awakens levels of innate understanding. Her awareness intensifies as she allows herself to trust and surrender to the rhythm of the Universe. Deeply relaxed, Glorious receives an ultimate message to share with the world! After a read-through, this story morphs into inspiring affirmations for building good feelings...
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This extraordinary ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country best by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales, tales told contrapuntally in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and...
39) Der blaue Bien
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Janna hat mit ihrem neuen Job als selbstständige Restauratorin alle Hände voll zu tun. Gerade als ihr die Arbeit über den Kopf wächst und ihre Selbstzweifel sie zu überwältigen drohen, fliegt ihr ein geheimnisvoller Honigbienenschwarm zu. Janna ist fasziniert von den Bienenwesen, doch ihr wird schnell bewusst, dass es sich um keinen gewöhnlichen Schwarm handelt. Sie beschließt, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Sind die Bienen wirklich zufällig...
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During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his houseguest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with...
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