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Cuanto más cruenta y violenta es una noticia, más llama la atención de la gente: "La sangre manda." Así reza la máxima periodística que hará que Holly Gibney, la detective a la que Bill Hodges legó su agencia Finders Keepers, y uno de los personajes más queridos por los fans de Stephen King, se interese por la matanza en el instituto Albert Macready y acabe obsesionada con las noticias. En esta ocasión deberá luchar contra lo...
1063) Night magic
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Philadelphia is locked in the grip of an evil magic that transforms its streets into a nightmare landscape the minute the sun sets each night. Becket Walker has been nightstruck, her conscience swept away-- along with all the guilt of having inadvertently let the night magic into the city-- and of having killed her onetime best friend. Her hot new boyfriend is super-controlling and downright malevolent, and Becket is sinking ever deeper into the night...
1064) Book of shadows
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In a diary, Melanie recounts the strange events that occur in her town--which is dominated by a conservative mega-church--after she and her friends experiment with witchcraft by using a mysterious spell book.
1065) The boy from tomorrow
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Josie and Alec communicate via a spirit board, realize they are living in the same house a century apart, and develop a life-changing friendship.--Provided by Publisher.
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"A thrilling Choose Your Own Adventure(R) book based on Netflix's Stranger Things! Are YOU ready to journey to the dark side of Hawkins, Indiana? Join Eleven, Dustin, Max, Lucas, and their friends as they explore Pennhurst Asylum, the creepy old Creel house, and possibly even the Upside Down. The decisions YOU make will decide the fates of the characters and lead to unexpected, thrilling, and even deadly outcomes. Fans of Netflix's hit show Stranger...
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For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition...
1068) La visitante
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"México, 1972. Los años del miedo y la represión hacia los estudiantes todavía no se acaban. Gabriela es una joven que llegó recientemente a la UNAM para cursar la carrera de contaduría, aunque termina dedicando su tiempo al grupo de teatro experimental de la universidad dirigido por Teodoro, joven promesa de la escena artística. Tan pronto se integra a los ensayos, se entera de la desaparición de una de las antiguas actrices, quien...
1069) Tender
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Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family--but her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing.
1070) Who's a good boy?
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"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Four of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Jonny Sun, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations."--
1071) Never alone
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As children, Nathaniel Wallace and Riley McKnight bonded over losing their fathers. Years later, they pass their time watching movies and imagining elaborate stories about the their small, Alaskan town. But Nate soon learns that his real life is more bizarre than any fiction.
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This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
1074) Dai dark: 6
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"The galaxy's least favorite outlaws continue their journey through the cosmos, one step ahead of the very long list of people who want to rip out Zaha Sanko's bones. Maybe someday they'll figure out why everybody thinks his bones grant wishes, but for now it's just a weird fact of life. Sure enough, almost immediately after setting down on the planet Kenzarn, Sanko and pals once again find themselves locked in mortal combat with the zealous Lighthead...
1075) Doctor Sueño
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Stephen King vuelve al mundo de El resplandor una de sus novelas más emblemáticas. Danny Torrance, aquel niño aterrorizado del Hotel Overlook, se ha convertido en un adulto alcohólico y sin residencia fija que vive atormentado por sus visiones y por los fantasmas de su infancia, que ha aprendido a controlarlos pero no a eliminar de su mente. Un día se siente atraido por una ciudad de New Hampshire, de donde le llega la visión de Abra Stone,...
1076) The girl on Hallow's Eve
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"On the night of Hallows' Eve a few lucky shoppers are about to have a night that they'll never forget. On the outskirts of the remote town of Sherwood, everyone is abuzz about the big glamorous new mall that is soon to open. To add fuel to the excitement, some lucky shoppers will be able to spend the night at the Village Square Mall before its grand opening. As the malls' doors are being locked shut, a wickedly rad party is about to commence. But...
1078) The Last Chance Hotel
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"Seth is a kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel. His father has long ago left, leaving him imprisoned until he is old enough to set out on his own. If there's any hope he has, it's to be the greatest chef that ever lived... just like his father. One night, a band of magicians begin to arrive to participate in a secret meeting -- a Prospect Selection Procedure to determine the most talented magicians in the world, judged by their leader Dr....
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"A deluxe edition of Orochi, featuring all nine of the classic interconnected short stories by horror master Kazuo Umezz, the creator of The Drifting Classroom! A mysterious young woman slithers her way into the lives of unsuspecting people like the legendary multitailed serpent for which she is named--Orochi. The fourth and final volume of Umezz's classic horror manga begins with “Eyes,” in which Orochi encounters a girl who can see more than...
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This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, an unfinished novel, whom many consider to be Stevenson's masterpiece. It was cut short by his sudden death in 1894 from a cerebral hemorrhage. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE: Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror,...