La serie del asesino. Presagio final


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El departamento de homicidios de San Francisco hace una petición inesperada a Joseph Newman, un sacerdote experto en sagradas escrituras e historia de la Iglesia. Archivald Ecker, un reconocido catedrático y antiguo amigo íntimo de Newman, está implicado en una serie de asesinatos donde cada escena del crimen incluye una cita bíblica que anuncia otro asesinato inminente. Pamela Hart, una criminóloga especializada en el análisis del comportamiento, colabora con Newman para desentrañar un aspecto desconocido y aterrador del pasado del asesino, que implica a personajes de las más altas esferas del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. En una frenética carrera contrarreloj por San Francisco, Pamela y Joseph luchan por detener al homicida sin rumbo claro. La ciudad y la nación entera entran en estado de pánico cuando los especialistas predicen que, si las matanzas no se detienen, habrá una catástrofe sin igual en la historia de la Unión Americana.




Havana Black


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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.




Now and on Earth


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San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.




Recoil


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Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary -- surely nothing could be worse. But when an unbelievably Samaritan act by a psychologist he's never met places Cosgrove in the care of Roland "Doc" Luther, Cosgrove's not so sure he hasn't traded the frying pan for the fire after all. On the one hand, Doc claims that Cosgrove owes him nothing, and seems at times like the most decent man alive. But at other times, Doc's potential for cruelty seems unimaginable. As it turns out, freedom's not as freeing as he thought it would be -- especially when it might end up getting him killed.




Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot


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Three Latin American writers quote, dissect and review this character in a cultural critique that combines analysis with humor and a relentless self-criticism.







Employment in Metropolitan Areas


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Pima Bajo


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The Chair: Volume IV


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The Chair Volume IV, Punt, Pass, & Kick tells of a gala retirement ceremony for an employee held on a railroad trestle, a fishing expedition under the Idlewood Arch & Aqueduct, the bravery, battles, and bastions of the Texas Revolution, a quinceañera celebration near Matamoros, a standoff gun-boat battle on the Rio Grande between the Armada de Marina de México and Americans, an all-girl rock band from Topeka, a Thanksgiving dinner in 1971 Beverly Hills, a brunch with mimosas at the Pierre Hotel on 5th Avenue, a lunch at The Horse tavern in Baltimore, a docu-drama about a high-school football team in East Texas, intimate mother and daughter correspondence, an English suffragette who becomes an ocean-liner titan, four brothers from Italy creating a family olive-oil and wine-exporting company, the creator of synonym, antonym, and hyponym awareness for women entrepreneurs, a courageous cattle drive from South Texas to Wyoming, a seascape watercolor painter, and a teenage writer whose unpublished manuscript is found and read by Lana McCracken, the prime character in The Chair pentalogy, a story that can only be found in an old trunk between the real and imagined, a story for all times.