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  Like Water for Chocolate

  A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

  by Laura Esquivel

  The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, "Like Water For Chocolate" is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden... (more)
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  The Dead Zone

  by Stephen King

  Johnny Smith is a young schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him. Unfortunately, after leaving his girlfriend Sarah Bracknall’s home one night, he is involved in a serious car accident and is in a coma for 5 years. When Johnny wakes up he discovers he has an ability to see into other people's lives, past, present and future, by coming into physical contact. Realising that not only can he foretell future... (more)
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  Night Shift

  by Stephen King

  In places where fear dwells and blood runs cold, sinister forces and unspeakable things are working the Night Shift. An anthology of twenty excursions into horror by its modern master.
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  Eight Worlds: Book 2

  The Persistence of Vision

  by John Varley

  Dell mass paperback, 1st edition Aug. 1979, ISBN: 0440173116, 316 pages, cover art by Jim Burns. 12mo (7" x 4.25") Paperback reprint of 1978 The Dial Press/James Wade hardcover first edition. Winner, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection; 1980 Prix Apollo. UK edition retitled In the Hall of the Martian Kings. 9 stories, 6 of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe. Introduction... (more)
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  The Mummy

  Or Ramses the Damned

  by Anne Rice

  Anne Rice, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles, now delves into the mysterious legend of the mummy in this original and poetic tale of romance and horror. It begins in the early 1900s when archaeologist Lawrence Stratford discovers a perfectly preserved mummy in a tomb in Cairo. Little does he know that the mummy, one Ramses the Great, a.k.a. Ramses the Damned, has consumed an extraordinary... (more)
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  The Lady in Blue

  by Javier Sierra

  An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbingdreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a... (more)
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  El gato negro y otras narraciones extraordinarias/ The Black Cat and other Extraordinary Narrations (Libros De Bolsillo Z)

  by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Memoria Del Silencio (Coleccion Caniqui)

  by Uva de Arago?n

  En La Habana, Menchu se prepara para viajar a Miami a visitar a Lauri, su hermana gemela a quien no ha visto hace casi cuarenta años. Después de las primeras emociones del reencuentro, las jimaguas intercambian diarios y la historia retrocede a 1959, cuando Lauri, recién casada, se va de Cuba a los 18 años y casi sin darse cuenta se convierte en una exiliada. De ahí en adelante se alternan las voces narrativas de... (more)
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  Questa Storia

  by Alessandro Baricco

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  La serpiente

  by César Aira

  Victima de la mueca grotesca y puntualmente inoporturna, el celebre escritor Cesar Aira se propone aqui ayudar a la fraternidad dispersa de los monstruos fotograficos con un libro, al fin, practico y eficaz: Como salir bien en las fotos. La casualidad quiere, sin embargo, que en el viajecito que emprende a Dinosaur City para terminarlo, el encuentro con la predicadora Mâe Gonçalva y su peligrosa cofradia de... (more)
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  The Belgariad

  The Belgariad (Volume 2)

  Castle of Wizardry / Enchanters' End Game

  by David Eddings

  David Eddings’ acclaimed series, The Belgariad , reaches its stunning conclusion in these final two gripping novels. Continue on this magnificent journey and be entranced by a saga of strange lands and peoples, of prophecy and strife set against the background of a seven-thousand-year war of men, Kings, and Gods. The quest may be nearing its end, but the danger continues. After discovering a shocking secret... (more)
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  Voces del Desierto, Las

  by Marlo Morgan

  Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the protagonist of this fictional account makes a four-month-long journey through the Australian outback. Over the course of the challenging journey, Morgan learns how the Aborigines thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. By traveling with this extraordinary community, she... (more)
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  Tu rostro mañana

  by Javier Marías

  "I wish nobody ever requested anything from me, no advice, no favors, or suggestions". Thus begins Baile y sueño, the second volume of Marías' Tu rostro mañana, and most likely the pinnacle of his works. Here we continue the story started in Fiebre y lanza, of Jaime or Jacobo or Jacques Deza, a Spaniard belonging to a nameless group, employee of the MI6 or British Secret Service, whose task and "gift" is to see... (more)
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  Patuto: Ya Soy Grande (Spanish Edition)

  by Roberto Avaria

  No es una novela infantil, es un libro para adultos que todavía conservan el alma de un niño. Volverán a ser inocentes y curiosos a través de los ojos de Patuto. Los hará reír a carcajadas, los hará reflexionar con su lógica infantil y se sentirán parte de sus aventuras. Ambientada a fines de los setenta´s, cuando el mundo era más simple, sin internet, ni videojuegos. No encontrarás una novela que... (more)
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  El coronel no tiene quien le escriba ; Cien anos de soledad (Biblioteca Ayacucho)

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  Text: Spanish
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  Cuentos fatales [Annotated] (Spanish Edition)

  by Leopoldo Lugones

  Volumen de pequeñas narraciones unidas por el acercamiento a la muerte, al dolor y al miedo ante lo desconocido. La fatalidad impuesta sobre el destino es el hilo conductor que le permite a esta obra tener una unidad orgánica, lo cual no implica que cada relato no pueda ser leído sin la presencia de los otros. Cada cuento es en sí mismo un universo literario, que, si bien se relaciona con los demás, guarda... (more)
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  La Puerta de Los Tres Cerrojos (Spanish Edition)

  by Sonia Fernandez-Vidal

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  The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: Book 3

  The Prisoner of Heaven

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a... (more)
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  Pueblo Viejo (Spanish Edition)

  by Rocio Hernando Orihuela

  “PUEBLO VIEJO”- (La oscura verdad): “Extraños sucesos de tipo paranormal están asolando la humanidad, personas misteriosamente desaparecidas, entes que acechan familias, deseos sorpresivamente concedidos, la búsqueda de la inmortalidad y la aparición de seres malignos similares al más oscuro mundo onírico, donde el tiempo y el espacio alteran irremediablemente la realidad de once historias que conducen a un... (more)
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  CONGRESO DE LITERATURA, EL (Spanish Edition)

  by AIRA CESAR

  Cesar Aira nacio en Coronel Pringles Argentina en 1949. Desde 1967 vive en Buenos Aires dedicado a la escritura de novelas ensayos y muchos textos que oscilan entre ambos generos y a la traduccion. Es uno de los narradores mas radicalmente originales imaginativos inteligentes y delirantes. Su obra se ha publicado profusamente en Argentina Chile Mexico y Espana y varias novelas suyas fueron traducidas al aleman al... (more)