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Au fil de leur péripéties quotidiennes, les deux hommes livrent avec dérision leur vision de la société tout en portant un regard acerbe sur le monde et les gens qui les entourent. Tout y passe : réseaux sociaux, codes du genre, stéréotypes. Avec une verve décapante et un ton des plus grinçants, ces deux roublards se moquent des codes et dépoussièrent les vieux clichés. Car oui, Paul et Tom sont homosexuels, et cela ne change absolument...
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Rohort a best seller writer has slipped. A Snowstorm etc is his last readable effort. It's a scathing testimony to police incompetence. Answers are sought. First there's love failure. "All I am to you is just somewhere to park the prick". Is the valediction.. Some detection is attempted, more failure. He's outwitted by a homeless man. His confidence is shaken, his writing skills desert him.
3) Dead Writers
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Before Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, there was P.K. Rossetti's DEAD WRITERS…It is summer in Paris and Quincy Rollins is drunk the first time he meets Ernest Hemingway. On his way back from a late night at Gertrude Stein's salon, the soon-to-be famous author knocks on Quincy's door to introduce himself. Quincy is also drunk when he meets F. Scott Fitzgerald a few days later, but so is Fitzgerald-he shows up in his living room without ever bothering...
4) Disguised
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THE F**KING IDIOT . . . Vlad Wieckowski has seen better days. With only the clothes on his back, he's out of money, out of luck, and out of gas. CONFRONTS THE EVIL PINT-SIZED BASTARD . . . That little sh*t Henry Winkle is at it again, and this time he's got warehouses full of toxic gas at his disposal. Can anyone stop his evil plot to gas the world? AND GETS F**KED OVER BY A MYSTERIOUS DIPSH*T AGENT . . . By his letter he is known. W. W for Wacky....
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The prequel to Chaotic Butterfly. Sakurai Yuuichi and his best friend, Takayama Kouji, don't see eye to eye sometimes about whether which groups make it in Midareteku Entertainment is all due to luck or not. Along with bandmates Tsukioka and Kurosawa, their unit's future might depend on what they decide together. Also contains the short story "Incognito," starring 5*STAR's Tsukioka and Adachi.
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Rohort Went to France. Rohort's a fallen star. A successful crime writer. He attempts to solve a simple crime, he fails. It's obvious he knows nothing about criminals. Travel will become his theme, crime is abandoned. He goes to France in search of inspiration.A snowstorm in Featherston is the last readable whodunnit by the novelist Rohort.He pillories the police Two fans go to Featherston to unearth the truth. He's been swapped in love for a policeman....
7) Las bestias
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«No quiero decir mucho, pero creo que las cosas empezaron a irle mal a Tom Keller cuando esos dos tíos lo llevaron al bosque por la noche y lo obligaron a hacer cosas que un niño de nueve años no debería hacer»
Así comienza Las Bestias, ópera prima de Gijs Wilbrink. Tiene lugar en Achterhoek, entre motocicletas, cazadores furtivos, granjas de visones y negocios que no toleran la luz del día. En esta mística frontera llena de secretos, crece...
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THE F**KING IDIOT . . .Vlad Wieckowski has seen better days. With only the clothes on his back, he's out of money, out of luck, and out of gas.CONFRONTS THE EVIL PINT-SIZED BASTARD . . .That little sh*t Henry Winkle is at it again, and this time he's got warehouses full of toxic gas at his disposal. Can anyone stop his evil plot to gas the world?AND GETS F**KED OVER BY A MYSTERIOUS DIPSH*T AGENT . . .By his letter he is known.W.W for Wacky. W for...
9) About Face
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Takayama Kouji's college life is not going as smoothly as planned. Home on a leave of absence because of his father's failing health, Kouji ends up missing the entire spring semester of his junior year to help run the family business. When his younger brother gets accepted to college on a baseball scholarship, Kouji makes the tough decision to return home permanently for his senior year.That means going back to New York to finish his junior year a...
10) Brenda's Owl
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Teaching English to non-native-speaker adults tends to focus on standard topics like business, shopping and travel. Brenda's Owl rings the changes with 24 short, whimsical stories about the oddball side of life in an ordinary English garden. With patterns, phrases and idioms that are current and useful in dozens of everyday conversational contexts, this book is easy to teach and fun to study!
12) Hood 2 Good
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Hood 2 Good is a fictional but inspirational story about resilience, loyalty, survival, and encouragement. Unfortunately, life is harder and more challenging for some. The people in this story were exposed to dangerous, dire situations early in their lives because they grew up in a downtrodden area of the city. A Good Samaritan who was determined to live a better life never wavered from this goal. One day the Good Samaritan rescued two little girls...
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La novela más divertida del autor más inclasificable.
Christopher Moore es el mejor exponente de la llamada "Ficción absurda", un movimiento literario que se caracteriza por cultivar el humor absurdo y los argumentos imposibles. Los títulos de Moore son auténticos fenómenos de ventas en los Estados Unidos y han convocado a una legión de fans muy activos e implicados.
En "Almas de segunda mano", Charlie Asher, uno de los personajes más emblemáticos...
14) Marina Melee
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George H. Marshall III has it all, and he wants to get away from it--women, a busy social calendar, and his so-called career in the family oil business. So he does what any 43-year-old, thrice-divorced playboy would do: he sails away to the Caribbean. Determined to prove to his parents (and himself) that he is more than a spoiled, womanizing, over-aged adolescent, George buys Porto da Vida Marina on the small island of São Jorge.Within days, George...
16) The Miracle Tree
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A young reporter has some sharp lessons to learn when he gets sent to cover a tree that might make wishes come true.Hope, race, love and redemption play out amid a media circus in this laugh-out-loud comedy of ill manners.
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When it came to pets, Bruce Dalwhinney was a cat-person-a rabid cat-person. But he didn't bite, or foam at the mouth, or lurch around London, Ontario menacing animal-haters or those of a different pet persuasion. Not at all, Bruce just really, really liked cats. After his much anticipated retirement dream of hand-raising two purebred, grand champion Siamese kittens is unexpectedly shattered, Bruce sinks into deep depression. When his well-meaning...
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In miniature golf, love is full-sized.A Fauxmance of epic proportions yet diminutive length, this novella follows the stormy path of beautiful eighteen-year-old Irish lass Georgette Winnipeg, as she struggles with love, jealousy and other matters of the heart. Her strange new homeland leaves her wondering if indeed handsome is as handsome does. Perry Chinthrust co-stars.
19) Doctor No
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El protagonista de la novela es un brillante profesor de matemáticas experto en nada que no hace nada. Eso lo convierte en el socio perfecto de un aspirante a villano Bond que quiere entrar en Fort Knox para robar, no los lingotes de oro, sino una caja de zapatos que no contiene nada.
A través de la voz de este profesor asperger, Percival Everett vuelve a utilizar el absurdo para hacer una brillante crítica a los valores de la sociedad actual.
Cualquier...
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"The Page Skipper" is a meta-fantasy about Will, Skylar, and Alto, three friends whose actions are frozen mid-story because the Reader set the book aside. Without a storyline to play out, they're protagonists without a purpose. But only till they meet Skip, a villain who moves backward through the pages. Using a weapon that can reposition and even add words, he revises key passages to reverse his fate. After escaping from several bizarre predicaments,...