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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide. Accompanied by his aging father, Spike crosses the Mediterranean to Malta for the funerals. It falls to Spike, a lawyer, to act as executor of the wills. The more he looks into his relatives' deaths, however, the more he is faced by...
162) Girl gone mad
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Part of a group of six girls called the Harpies bullied a girl to her breaking point years ago. Now therapist Emily Bennett finds the past catching up to her as members of the Harpies start dying one by one, causing her to question her sanity and reality.
163) The son
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
164) La voz del ángel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Una anciana serena y positiva con un duro pasado a sus espaldas. Un joven desesperado que se asoma al abismo del futuro. Una amistad capaz de iluminar los días más sombríos y disipar los miedos del presente. Dos personajes inolvidables descubren que en el lugar más inesperado puede aparecer nuestro ángel. Sus vidas se cruzan en una aséptica habitación de hospital. Él es Hugo, un joven desesperado que ha intentado suicidarse, y ella Blanche,...
165) The good samaritan
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn't want them to hope. She wants them to die. Laura hasn't had it easy: she's survived sickness and a difficult marriage only to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry. She doesn't love talking to people worse off than she is. She craves it. But now someone's on to her -- Ryan,...
166) One another: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a writer Googles the name of her first love and discovers he committed suicide years ago, she is deeply shaken. Memories of Petrus begin to flood into her mind, followed by the memories of other loves, one after another. What exactly is love? How does it come and go? She begins to search her personal history for answers. Twelve men. Twelve chapters in a novel. Melancholy Petrus, handsome actor Jakob, Simon with his pet rat, gay Nathanael, a student,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A gothic twist on the classic tale of innocents abroad, THE ZERO AND THE ONE is a meditation on the seductions of friendship and the power of dangerous ideas that registers the dark, psychological suspense of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley and the intellectual and philosophical intrigue of John Banville's The Book of Evidence. A shy, bookish scholarship student from a working-class family, Owen Whiting has high hopes of what awaits...
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain courage volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Crime psychologist turned podcaster Erin Larson agrees to assist a county detective-- who also happens to be her ex-- in finding the answers to a cold case that has suddenly warmed up. The deeper they dig the more dangerous the situation gets. The stunning truth, once revealed, will change their lives forever"--
169) Jek/Hyde
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lulu and Jek are science nerds in London, Illinois, and have been best friends since they were young...or at least they used to be. Lately Jek has been pulling away from Lulu, just as she's coming to terms with how she really feels about him. Just as she's ready to see if there could be something more between them. But Lulu's thoughts are derailed by a mysterious new guy who's showing up at local parties. Hyde is the definition of a bad boy, and everybody...
170) Fin de guardia
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Al detective retirado Hodges, que dirige una agencia de investigación privada con Holly, le diagnostican un cáncer de páncreas: le quedan meses de vida. En ese momento Hodges investiga una serie de suicidios recientes con un punto en común: todos los fallecidos tuvieron relación con Brady Hartsfield, el tristemente famoso Mercedes, que hace años planeó volar una sala de conciertos de rock llena de adolescentes. Hodges y Holly dejaron...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of...
172) She lover of death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring-and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death-a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen...
173) Foreign deceit
Author
Series
David Wolf novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant David Wolf is a good cop in the small ski resort town of Rocky Points, Colorado. A good cop who's seen bad days before. But none like this. As if a harrowing attempt on his life, his ex-addict wife coming back into the picture, and a looming career change weren't enough, his world is turned when he receives word his brother has committed suicide in the Alps of Italy. Devastation and resentment over his only sibling's selfish act quickly...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"'Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?' Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad...
175) El estudiante
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición en B de Bolsillo: noviembre de 2020.
Language
Español
Description
El autor de El Psicoanalista vuelve a deslumbrarnos con otra historia de suspense dotada de una trama impecable y un ritmo frenético, cuyos personajes caminan sobre el filo de la navaja de comienzo a fin. El fruto de la venganza es más venganza. Mientras intenta mantenerse alejado del alcohol, Timothy Moth Warner alterna sus clases de posgrado en la Universidad de Miami con las reuniones de un grupo de autoayuda para adictos. Su tío Ed, médico...
176) Black paradox
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny..."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove -- to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife -- that the hours of his life belonged to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn...
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