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Publisher
Blumhouse Books/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning collection of original, terrifying fiction from a unique cast of master storytellers. Jason Blum invited an impressive group of authors, filmmakers, and screenwriters to envision a city of their choosing. and to let their demons run wild. Taken together, the provocative stories in The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City create the unforgettable cityscape of a new world of horror. Disturbing, suspenseful, devious, and entertaining,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens. Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's The City & The City, but is uniquely its own. This incandescent novel maps an imaginary city and explores the lives of its outcasts and scapegoats. Each chapter is told...
63) Blooming fun
Author
Series
Full volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Full Bloom: "The temperature's on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, a divorcee who inherited her grandmother's Queen Ann mansion (and its wacky handyman Erdle Thorney). According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed & Breakfast needs if it's hosting...
Author
Series
Love you Maine volume 1
Publisher
[Prosaic Press]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A missed opportunity five years ago makes for an unexpected encounter now between two people meant for each other - but who square off in a very public battle of wills in the small town of Love You, Maine, where every day is Valentine's Day. Can love conquer all in a town steeped in it? Kell Luview refuses to be a sucker at love again. Five years ago, he left D.C. with his pride wounded and his heart broken. Fiercely protective of his small town...
65) A boa sorte
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"O que leva um homem a descer de um comboio antes do fim da viagem e ir esconder-se numa cidadezinha decadente? Um desejo de recomeço ou a necessidade de acabar de vez com a vida? Pablo, o protagonista em fuga, é conduzido pelo destino a Pozonegro, um antigo centro de extração de carvão que é hoje uma localidade moribunda. No entanto, há humor nesta cidade triste e maldita, porque a vida é feita de alegria. E de segredos, claro. Todos os...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ellen Hartley, an aspiring writer, is desperate to find work, but the Great Depression makes is almost impossible until she stumbles into a job with the Federal Writers’ Project. A New Deal program, it si hiring unemployed writers, librarians, and teachers to collect the reminiscences of pioneers who settles the Plains. Ellen soon finds herself in a small Kansas town where it is rumored that the pioneers’ stories will be read by President Roosevelt....
67) La buena suerte
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Pablo sigue un impulso y abandona su vida acomodada en Madrid para recomenzar en una destartalada ciudad del sur de España, aunque nadie logra entender la razón. ¿Qué le convirtió en un ser hermético y atravesado por un dolor que intenta ocultar a los demás? Allí conoce a Raluca, una mujer de un optimismo irreductible, incapaz de cerrar los ojos a todo lo bueno que le ha traído cada problema que ha debido afrontar. Tal vez estaban condenados...
Author
Publisher
Mythic Delirium Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few have successfully captured the idea well-until THE TWICE-DROWNED SAINT, at least. A sumptuous, saw-toothed read, it is a jewel box of a novel, glittering with a thousand details and a bright longing we're all familiar with, this want for a place better than we're in now." --Cassandra Khaw, Bram Stoker and World Fantasy award-nominated author of NOTHING BUT BLACKENED...
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