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  Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

  by Mario Vargas Llosa

  Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community.
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  Shangai Baby (Bestseller (Booket Unnumberd))

  by Wen-Hui Zhang, Wei Hui

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  Delirium

  by Laura Restrepo

  In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters. There's Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper-class family who is caught in the throes of madness; her husband Aguilar, a man passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue... (more)
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  Acid Row

  by Minette Walters

  Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a child has been kidnapped, the frustration and anger that has been seething on the streets of Acid Row is ignited. And no one will be safe.
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  Over the Top (That's So Raven)

  by Alice Alfonsi

  Raven wants everything to beperfect for the opening of her father's new restaurant, but she's drivingeveryone crazy with her bossy demands. When Raven has a vision of Eddie andChelsea together, she starts to suspect that they are dating behind her back.To confirm her suspicions, she disguises herself as a plumber and spies on themat Chelsea's house. Plus, when a passing comet temporarily gives Eddie... (more)
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  The Map of Time

  by Félix J. Palma

  A Map of Time by Felix J. Palma. Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigage purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens if we change history (more)
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  Villa Diamante/ Diamond Village

  by Boris Izaguirre

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  Corduroy Mansions

  by Alexander McCall Smith

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  Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems

  by Arthur Rimbaud

  Burnt out at 23, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several short prose works, including "A Season in Hell".
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  The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

  by Oscar Wilde

  ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The classic Gothic tale of horror that explores the pleasures and dangers of a life of decadence. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of... (more)
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  Ray Flowers: Book 1

  The Angel Gateway

  by Jane A. Adams

  After a bomb attack Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate the future. Old diaries refer to a visitor called Kitty - but Ray learns that she was tried as a witch in 1643, and like him, bore facial scars. He pieces together her life, and finds his own part in it.
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  The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of 'Roulettenburg':... (more)
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  Pasion Turca, La

  by Antonio Gala

  Desideria Olivan, una joven de Huesca con decepciones matrimoniales, en el curso de un viaje turistico por Turquia descubre repentinamente la pasion amorosa mas avasalladora en los brazos de Yamam, y a pesar de que no sabe casi nada de el, lo deja todo para vivir a su lado en Estambul. Pasa el tiempo, y la intensidad de este amor persiste, pero las relaciones de los dos amantes se van haciendo cada vez mas... (more)
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  CINTA ROJA, LA

  by Carmen Posadas

  Pocas veces la realidad ha dado un personaje de vida tan intensa y aventurera como Teresa Cabarrus la dama espanola que segun la leyenda logro acabar con el Terror en la Revolucion francesa. Para sus detractores una arribista que hizo de la frivolidad su religion y de la seduccion una forma de supervivencia. Para sus admiradores una mujer que consiguio salvar a muchos inocentes de la muerte y que merecio que la... (more)
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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 3

  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

  by Stieg Larsson

  In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.
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  Love Again: Novel, A

  by Doris Lessing

  Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a... (more)
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  THE Words to Say it

  by Marie Cardinal

  This work explores the author's personal experience of psychoanalysis. It reveals her truamatic childhood and institutionalization, followed by her escape to the quiet cul-de-sac where her psychoanalysist lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian analysis.
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  Olvidado Rey Gudu (Ancora Y Delfin)

  by Ana María Matute

  Olvidado rey Gudu es la obra maestra de Ana Maria Matute y una de las grandes novelas de este siglo. Repleta de fabulas y fantasias, narra el nacimiento y la expansion del Reino de Olar, con una trama llena de personajes, aventuras y de un paisaje simbolico: el misterio Norte, la inhospita estepa del Este y el Sur, rico y exuberante, que limitan la expansion del Reino de Olar, en cuyo destino participan la astucia... (more)
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  LA Sonrisa Etrusca

  by Jose Luis Sampedro

  “Unforgettable”. “Deep and true”. These are just two of the many accolades heaped on this novel, without a doubt one of the most beautiful in the Spanish language on the subject of love. This eternal and universal theme is expressed through an aging farmer’s last great love and last great passion. The love: a grandson who evokes all his tenderness and affection. The passion: a woman who fills his last... (more)
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  El sueño de Alejandría

  by Terenci Moix

  Text: Spanish