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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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After posting a one-star review for a poorly written--but gruesome--horror novel, Emma Carpenter is dragged into an online argument with the author himself, but when disturbing incidents start happening at night, Emma digs into his life and work, discovering a sadistic man who is capable of anything.
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2023.
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In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...
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aAtico de los Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
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231 pages ; 23 cm
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Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North American wilderness, where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary thatcould disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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224 pages ; 22 cm
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Rafael Fuentes isnt easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit of...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2004]
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338 pages ; 21-24 cm
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... In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emoyional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams...
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Grijalbo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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395 pages ; 23 cm
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"Esta es la historia de un guardaespaldas y una escritora convencida de que no necesita proteccion. Kobo cree que sera un trabajo facil; Eva esta mas que dispuesta a ser su siguiente problema con tal de conservar su libertad. Sin embargo, cuando la tension y la atraccion entre ellos crezca hasta convertirse en un deseo irrefrenable, ambos deberan decidir si se dejan llevar o si ponen punto final a la aventura que acaba de empezar. Un trabajo imposible...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[bril de 2023]
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588 pages ; 23 cm
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"Elsa Benavides is a successful writer going through a creative crisis and with an obsession: to kill the main character that catapulted her to success. But the solution to her problems does not come with just electrocuting Valentina with a cell phone in the bathtub. That is just the tip of the iceberg of a deeper wound. Determined to flee so that she can embrace writing once again, she runs into Dario, her musician neighbor who recently arrived from...
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Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
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396 pages ; 20 cm
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Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta. Todo puede suceder durante un verano. January Andrews es escritora de novelas romanticas y una sonadora empedernida. August Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino. Pero January y Gus tienen mucho mas en comun de lo que creen: Los dos estan arruinados. Los dos estan bloqueados. Y los dos necesitan escribir un bestseller antes de que termine el verano.
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Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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414 pages ; 21 cm.
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At the end of a dark prairie road nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside is the Finch House. For years, it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests. When bestselling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the world's most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At...
12) Starling house
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen. Opal is a lot of things;orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier;but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago. All she left behind...
13) Out of nowhere
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2023.
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Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
14) Canción
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Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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158 pages ; 19 cm
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In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
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318 pages ; 23 cm
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Cuando eran ninos, Emily y Chess eran inseparables. Pero cuando cumplieron los 30, su vinculo se vio tenso por las exigencias de su vida adulta. Entonces, cuando Chess sugiere un viaje de chicas a Italia, Emily aprovecha la oportunidad para volver a conectarse con su mejor amiga. Villa Aestas en Orvieto es ahora una casa de vacaciones de lujo, pero en 1974 era conocida como Villa Rosato y la alquilaba durante el verano una famosa estrella de rock,...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
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396 pages ; 24 cm
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"Todo mito que nace renace. Todo mito que encarna reencarna". Obsesionado con la reina de Saba, Bos Mutas, un joven escritor contemporáneo, sale a buscarla por el mundo, igual que hicieron a lo largo de los siglos personajes históricos como Salomón, Tomás de Aquino y Gérard de Nerval. Y aunque la reina de Saba resulta inasible, Bos Mutas encuentra en su lugar a la muy terrenal Zahra Bayda, una partera somalí. De esa manera, el tiempo real del...
17) La mujer loca
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
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258 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Julia trabaja en una pescadería, está enamorada de su jefe y vive alquilada en una habitación de la casa de Serafín y de Emérita, una enferma terminal que está planeando su eutanasia. Pero, sobre todo, Julia mantiene una extraña y obsesiva relación con la gramática. En unas ocasiones, palabras que padecen patologías se cuelan en su habitación para que ella las trate; en otras, personas imaginarias pueblan su cabeza antes de, por sorpresa,...
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In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins' father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his...
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2023.
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"A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for a book she wrote-and the author doesn't even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
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