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Many view "hitting rock bottom" as a foundation on which to rebuild one's life, a place from which one can only ascend. Gamers know to search for a secret door leading down to the sewer.

After the events of the first two books of the Vicious Circle series, Carey and Randall reached LA during the early '80s punk scene, which was heavily mixed up with Chinatown. A young Chinese girl with silver hair is the Empty One that seems to run things there, and her ex-lover, an Empty One named Zang, has apparently turned against them and may or may not be on Carey's side.

This is the story of the infamous 19th-century Scottish grave robbers who weren't Scottish and didn't rob graves. They were actually Irish, and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh's anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people - usually their neighbors - for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives, they set about supplying corpses for Dr. John Knox, an eminent Scottish surgeon, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto.

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari - sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will - for a price - allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.

“Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of...

Hija de una estrella de cine narcisista y de un multimillonario, una Navidad Madison es abandonada en un internado suizo mientras sus padres se dedican a impulsar sus nuevos proyectos y a adoptar huerfanitos. Entonces Madison muere por una sobredosis y lo siguiente que sabe es que está en el Infierno rodeada de un variopinto grupo de jóvenes pecadores demasiado bueno para ser cierto: una animadora, un deportista, un empollón y un rockero punk.

Después de Condenada, Chuck Palahniuk nos trae de vuelta a Madison Spencer, la adolescente muerta más vivaracha y mordaz del inframundo, en una aventura que la llevará a luchar contra el mismísimo diablo. Me llamo Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer, y soy un fantasma. En otras palabras: ¡Bu! Tengo trece años y un poco de sobrepeso. En otras palabras: estoy muerta y encima gorda.

Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl's infidelity to start anew. Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career. Eleanor, a successful commercial novelist, eagerly pivots in a new creative direction. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her mother.

Fred Van Lente's brilliant debut is both an homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy "blue collar" comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon.

El héroe de esta comedia fúnebre es un enfermo del pelo. Tiene pelo de más, pelo para regalar. Pero tiene miedo de perderlo, o de ponerlo en las manos equivocadas, o de vivir siempre pendiente de su suerte, a merced de la moda, las chicas incompetentes que lavan o los peluqueros irresponsables.

Helen Moran is 32 years old, single, childless, college educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She is accepting a furniture delivery in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead. According to the Internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for "the abyss".

A dark and comic novel, Congratulations on Everything tracks the struggles, frailties, and cruelly pyrrhic victories of the middle-aged owner of a bar-restaurant and a 30ish lunch-shift waitress. Jeremy has bought in to the teachings of an empowerment and success guru, hook, line, and sinker. A Toronto service industry lifer, he's risen through the ranks until he finally takes the keys to his destiny and opens his own place, The Ice Shack.

There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is "you" gets solved.

Following on the heels of Robert Brockway's comedic horror novel The Unnoticeables, The Empty Ones reveals the next chapter in the lives of a few misfits attempting to fight back against the mysterious Unnoticeables. The Empty Ones follows Carey and Randall to London where they go to rescue Gus and fight more of these mysterious angel-like creatures, and stumble on a powerful and unexpected ally.

Al giovane Christian, palermitano con una perfetta conoscenza della lingua araba, viene affidata dai servizi segreti una delicatissima missione...

Costanza è bellissima, molto elegante, un po' scostante. Piace molto agli uomini ed è ovviamente oggetto di invidia per le donne. Nel suo intimo tuttavia ha un carattere semplice, ama i suoi genitori e la sua gatta. Ha alcuni amici, pochi ma fidati. Il lavoro non la soddisfa, ma l'ambiente è prestigioso e ormai ci si trova bene. Tutto dunque sembra scorrere nella normalità, fino al giorno in cui, in uno dei laboratori di ricerca, viene trovato morente un giovane ricercatore, assassinato da mano ignota.

Ein schwarzhumoriges Werk über die Tücken des Älterwerdens! Der Protagonist in Wilhelm Genazinos zynischem Roman hat Probleme mit seinem Liebesleben: er ist mit gleich zwei Frauen, Sandra und Judith, zusammen - allerdings wissen die beiden nichts voneinander, und es wird immer schwieriger, das Geheimnis um die Dreiecksbeziehung zu wahren. Gleichzeitig merkt er, dass er die Blüte seines Lebens langsam hinter sich hat - und das Altern bringt ganz eigene Herausforderungen mit sich...

RAMAR-GAN, ISRAEL: "DEN SIKRE SANS FOR DRAMATISK ANTITESE HAR GJORT SVEN HAZEL TIL EN NY HEMINGWAY." "Mindst en bataljon af flammekasterkampvogne svinger rundt som en flok sindssyge vildsvin. Lange, ildrøde flammetunger hvæser ud fra tårnene og forkuller alt levende. Ud fra "GPU-fængslet" strømmer stimer af røde fanger. En spærreild af utrolige dimensioner hamrer ned bag tyskerne.

HVAD ER MIT NAVN? JEG HAR IKKE ET NAVN, JEG ER BARE ET TAL. Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i den østgrønlandske by Tasiilaq, hvor de navnløse grave på kirkegården i Blomsterdalen er dækket med blå, røde og pink plastikblomster, der skriger i den rene sne. Hun har en kæreste, hun elsker, en omsorgsfuld familie, og hun er lige kommet ind på universitetet i Aarhus. Verden står åben, men intet føles rigtigt, og gradvist begynder verden at snævre sig ind omkring hende, og en nedtælling begynder.

Où l'on apprendra que les intelligences artificielles sont plus artificielles qu'intelligentes, que l'amour permet de continuer ou de finir sa vie sereinement, que la vie de certains est remplie de mensonges et de douleurs, que la famille est plus à redouter que la police, ou que certaines histoires doivent continuer à être racontées.