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In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family--her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 27
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"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest...
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2021.
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Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others want to keep buried.
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Editorial Demipage
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2015
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¿Cómo escribir un libro increíble a partir de sus debilidades personales?Umbral o Bolaño, Camus o Proust, muchos otros, escribieron libros donde la enfermedad era protagonista, cierto. Pero la cuestión de fondo es de qué modo afronta el escritor el hecho de la enfermedad. ¿Cómo da cuenta de ella?, ¿de qué manera la transforma en relato?, ¿acaso desde el rencor de enfermo crónico?, ¿quizás amarrándose al poder terapéutico del humor?...
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Editorial Demipage
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2015
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El don de Vorace hermana a Casanova con Rimbaud, por su genialidad, su provocación y su muerte temprana. Se advierte en Casanova la gracia, el desparpajo, la propensión lúdica de un ángel con rasgos diabólicos, todo lo cual exime a su arte de las esperables convenciones del oficio. El libro, abiertamente inverosímil, es de principio a fin una parodia y denota un esfuerzo imaginativo poco común. Es la deriva criminal de un hombre a quien la...
508) Dark Places
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Pinnacle Books
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2013
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A Killer's Tracks. . .
Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks' icy mountain roads. . .
Can Only Lead. . .
The woman's body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school. She is bleeding from the head, still alive--but...
509) Sarah Jane
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Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious...
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HarperCollins
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Widely acclaimed, hugely successful speculative-fiction author Orson Scott Card takes another step into the mainstream with an extremely chilling, vastly engaging novel that sets the notion of family values on its head and chronicles a man's transformation from hermit to hero.
When Quentin Fears was 10, his sister left this world, the victim of a car accident. Her death made him withdraw from this world too -- into books, away from people. By the...
512) Running Scared
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No Matter How Fast You Run...The newborn baby boy is beautiful, perfect, and hers for the asking. All Kate Summers has to do is agree to one condition-she must disappear from Boston and never breathe a word about the adoption to anyone.Or How Far You Go...Fifteen years later, Kate has built a good life for herself and her son, Jon, in Hopewell, Oregon. Still, she is haunted by the fear that he will somehow be taken away. Then Daegan O'Rourke arrives...
513) The pisces: a novel
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"Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer ... but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety ... Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity,...
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Editorial Demipage
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2015
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Quizás Ann Arbor no sea el mejor luego para olvidar su pasado...Ann Arbor es una ciudad-frontera del Medio Oeste americano donde cada año llega gente dispuesta a cambiar su suerte. Hasta allí llega una escritora de guías de viaje que no viaja. En Ann Arbor espera encontrar refugio contra un pasado que la atenaza. Pero Ann Arbor se encuentra en el corredor de los tornados americanos y los desastres medioambientales y las bajas temperaturas invernales...
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Primento Digital Publishing
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2015
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-- La balada de Robin Hood (Madrid, Editora Nacional 1981, con Arturo González), Los días del duopolio EXTRACTO —¿Estás en huelga, o qué? —preguntó Luis. —Me han puesto en huelga indefinida. Ignoro cómo me ha pasado algo tan... No te lo vas a creer. He perdido el cuerpo. Lo que estás viendo es sólo una imagen de lo que fui. —¡Venga ya...! ¡Déjate de cachondeos! Juan hizo una breve exposición de lo que le había acontecido...
518) Mother, mother
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The disturbing fate of a runaway older sister is gradually revealed in a tale told from the perspectives of the Hurst family, including a teen girl whose drug use has landed her in a mental ward, an autistic youth, an alcoholic father, and an insidiously manipulative mother.
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"Miranda's life and career has been a roller-coaster ride. Her successful rise to the top of the booming lifestyle industry as a social media influencer led to a humiliating fall after a controversial product she endorsed flopped. Desperate to get away from the hate-spewing trolls shaming her on the internet, she receives a mysterious letter from a young cousin in England that plunges her into a dark family mystery"--
520) Deserves to die
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As he watches, her body drifts below the water's surface, forever altered. Before he disposes of each victim, he takes a trophy. It's a sign of his power, and a warning. In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Alvarez and Pescoli are struggling with a new commander and a department in the midst of upheaval. It's the worst possible time for a homicide. A body has been found, missing a finger. Alvarez hopes this means a murderer with a personal grudge,...
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