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Los personajes de Bestiaria vida van configurando el laberinto en el que vive nuestro personaje: una mujer que se enfrenta a sus propios demonios personales y que en un momento determinado hace un ejercicio de reflexión para contarnos su historia. Su objetivo no es otro que analizar por qué ha llegado a la situación en la que se encuentra. Los vínculos entre el sujeto y su entorno familiar se explican a través de personajes que, mediante analogías, son identificados con el bestiario literario.

Liam and Pierce live in a country ravaged by a strange sickness. It’s called the CRUD, and it turns its victims into rabid killing machines known as the "plaguers". The authorities wage constant war to keep the plaguers from overrunning the towns, boroughs, and cities. Liam and Pierce are plumbers sent to the infected zones to keep the taps and sewers flowing. They preserve the dwindling resources of their homeland.

Mopsy Mops wird diesmal das Opfer einer hinterhältig eingeleiteten Rache- und Verwechslungsaktion. Sein Vetter Ethelbert spielt den Hilfreichen, als Mopsy mit einer fälschlich an ihn adressierten Karte nichts anzufangen weiß. "Rache ist süß", sagt sich Ethelbert, nachdem ihn Mopsy nur so aus Quatsch in einen Hundehaufen befördert hat. Er schickt deshalb die Karte mit Mopsys Anschrift versehen an das Statistische Amt Hundeweiler.

A story about an Demonic Angel in Heaven and an Angelic Demon in Hell. Damon always felt out of place in his surroundings and at his work. Most would consider it an ordinary problem but Damon was an angel working in Heaven. When Damon is redeployed to work on a mission on Earth, things start to become interesting. He is however dismayed to find out that he has been assigned as a shoulder Angel to the most boring man on Earth, Joe Smith.

Vuelve a vivir una temporada más en la cárcel más famosa de este país con esta serie de 10 episodios inéditos. Najwa Nimri y Maggie Civantos dan voz en esta producción Audible original a sus personajes en la popular serie. Macarena y Zulema regresarán a Cruz del Sur para participar en un novedoso proyecto reeducativo, en el que las presas y sus víctimas se ponen en contacto.

Dos viejos amigos se reencuentran después de 20 años sin verse. Cuando eran jóvenes presentaban juntos un programa radiofónico de humor y ahora uno de ellos ha triunfado como humorista, mientras que el otro siente que ha fracasado como periodista.

In the spring of 2014, struggling musician Mike Bradley is forced to do some manual work over the spring bank holiday to make ends meet. What was supposed to be a routine decorating job turns into a life-changing decision. Is the Memorabilia Man all he appears to be? A story of loyalty and betrayal and a misguided sense of honor.

Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.

COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.

Este libro cuenta las divertidas, y con frecuencia desconcertantes, experiencias de Ulpiano Pizarro en su primer año como profesor de Filosofía e Historia en secundaria, es decir, de «eso» que llaman ESO. Convertido en un verdadero lazarillo de sus alumnos, Ulpiano narra con humor y acidez el día a día en un instituto, donde deberá enfrentarse a adolescentes sobrehormonados capaces de preguntarle: «Entonces, ¿si dejo de comer fruta solo veré en blanco y negro?» o responder en un examen que «El homo eructus vivía en las tabernas».

Perfect for fans of A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Funny, moving, clever, mysterious and challenging, with a fabulous central character who always remains one strong-willed and whimsical man standing against the world. Dominic likes anonymity, his local Drumcondra park, his neighbour’s cat, Boris, and Mrs Hand who passes his front door always carrying two bags of groceries. But all is not as it seems. The Politician next door claims to be his wife, the Auld One his mother, the Young Woman his daughter and the Brat his grandson - the "Onslaught".

The Burgers Brothers' Family Funeral Home is dying, and Donnie Burgers wants out. When Donnie expresses his desire to sell the family business, he expects the passionate resistance he receives from his younger brother, Frank. What he didn't expect from his brother was the dirt-covered, bulky trash bag now hiding on his closet floor. Convincing Frank to close the home won't be as easy as Donnie imagined.

The only location for millions of souls is Limbo, an ever expanding sphere of metal no longer deep under the Swiss mountains. Death itself is on hold and something must be done to stop the tide and avoid the final endgame. John Hewson will yet again be drawn in to the battle to save humanity. It's third on his to do list behind finding the other parts of his soul and removing an ever increasingly paranoid pigeon.

Debido a un desafortunado error de calendario, el Plan Divino sufrió un pequeño traspie. En lugar de dar a luz a La Elegida, la Rebelde Marciana Keila Eisenstein libera a la Malvada Demonio Espacial Rangda Kaliankan y a su ejercito de canibales Xeno sobre la humanidad. “Afortunadamente” la Verdadera Creadora, la deidad suprema de la Vía Lactea, tiene un plan para lidiar con la nueva amenaza.

Una serie de novelas de ciencia ficción en tono de comedia negra, todas integradas en una gran novela. La trilogia de los Dioses Divinos Espaciales es una parodia de la trilogia Los Divinos Zetan, del mismo autor. La trilogía contiene: Las Travesuras de Abraham, Revolución para Dummies, y Las Picardías de Rangda.

Gundolf, der Sohn des Gutsherrn Jayden-Fynn, zweifelt an seinem Verstand, als man ihm offenbart, dass sein alter Vater noch einmal heiraten will. Und als wäre dies nicht schon genug, muss es auch noch Klotilde sein, Gundolfs Ex-Freundin. Was für eine Schmach. Nach einem unfassbar tief gehenden Streit sieht Gundolf keine andere Möglichkeit mehr, als dem Gutshof für immer den Rücken zu kehren.

Barnabas Jack lived a simple life as an ordinary Japanese salaryman. Life was good in his suburban utopia, until he died, of course. Imagine his surprise when he opened his eyes to a middle-aged male goddess who had given him the gift of reincarnation to new worlds. But there was one catch: Whatever killed him the past life is what he became in the next. With this knowledge, Barnabas Jack embarks on a personal journey to die at the hands of a cute girl or a handsome man. But for now, he'll just have to settle with being a car.

Meet Sonny Anderson, funny failed LA Galaxy hopeful, recovering misophonic meth-head and Shaun of the Dead-obsessed survivor. On his 21st birthday, gifted the opportunity of inheriting a life-changing sum of money, Sonny needs answers to a few important questions. For instance, where is his mother? He last saw her age five when his dad kidnapped him and took him to live on a commune in Brazil. His dad claimed to be a spiritual guru, but what kind of man was he really? To find his answers Sonny must leave his home in California and return to the UK, his country of birth.

Naufragaba entre manuscritos de crónica del Concurso del Libro Sonorense. Tocó su turno a No toda la sangre es roja. Aquí apesta a puro noir, me dije mientras apuraba un Jack Daniel’s. Quien bautiza su trabajo con un nombre pateador tiene su primer gol anotado antes de entrar a la cancha. Este canijo es un muertero. Un tipo duro, aunque por fortuna no una máquina registradora de estadísticas criminales, porque cuando el muerto se vuelve un número condenado a ser nota de cuatro párrafos, muere por segunda vez.

Carla the florist is surrounded by the duplicitous and the craven - and that’s just her flowers. The human beings are infinitely worse, especially the men. There’s Gwynne, her oafish and cold-hearted brother, Gerald, the suave and sophisticated doctor whose hidden agenda is unspeakable, and finally there’s David, the handsome, dashing lawyer whose deceit hurts most of all. If only God weren’t a fictional character then surely they’d get their just deserts...except, it is only through their perfidy that love finds a way into her world.