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41) Jillian
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Megan, a bitter young medical secretary, takes a break from her overwhelming feelings of social rejection by keeping track of the disgusting habits of her co-worker, Jillian. Meanwhile, Jillian's misguided "go for it!" attitude leads her towards a series of unadvisable decisions.
42) After nightfall
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A gripping thriller about an engagement party gone fatally awry. Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone's evening. After an awful night, your friend's battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff. Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare....
43) The easy life
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed-careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed-a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English language edition.
Language
English
Description
"This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes a breathtaking saga of subterfuge, betrayal, and revenge gone wrong. Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound"--
48) El buen nombre
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Tras la lenta recuperación de un terrible accidente ferroviario y un matrimonio arreglado con la joven Ashima, Ashoke Ganguli decide abandonar su cómoda y previsible existencia en Calcuta, aceptar una beca en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts y mudarse con su esposa a Boston. Allí nacerá su primer hijo, que por azares del destino acabará llevando por nombre Gógol en honor al célebre escritor ruso. El niño, hijo de bengalíes,...
49) Joyce's Ulysses
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Ulysses depicts a world that is as fully conceived and vibrant as anything in Homer or Shakespeare. It has been delighting and puzzling readers since it was first published on Joyce's 40th birthday in 1922. And here, Professor Heffernan maps the brilliance, passion, humanity, and humor of Joyce's modern Odyssey in these 24 lectures that finally make a beguiling literary masterpiece accessible for any reader willing to give it a chance. Although they...
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