Lia's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:11:27 -0700 60 Lia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)]]> 35068705
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]> 545 R.F. Kuang 0062662597 Lia 0 currently-reading 4.16 2018 The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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]]> A Head Full of Ghosts 23019294
To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface--and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.]]> 287 Paul Tremblay 0062363239 Lia 4 3.78 2015 A Head Full of Ghosts
author: Paul Tremblay
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average rating: 3.78
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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Well, this one is really good and ambiguous. I loved it.
]]> <![CDATA[The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight]]> 25898691
The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Stephen Graham Jones, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the eighth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night.

Table of Contents:
Summation 2015 - Ellen Datlow
We Are All Monsters Here - Kelley Armstrong
Universal Horror - Stephen Graham Jones
Slaughtered Lamb - Tom Johnstone
In a Cavern, In a Canyon - Laird Barron
Between the Pilings - Steve Rasnic Tem
Snow - Dale Bailey
Indian Giver - Ray Cluley
My Boy Builds Coffins - Gary McMahon
The Woman in the Hill - Tamsyn Muir
Underground Economy - John Langan
The Rooms Are High - Reggie Oliver
All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck - Kate Jonez
Lord of the Sand - Stephen Bacon
Wilderness - Letitia Trent
Fabulous Beasts - Priya Sharma
Descent - Carmen Maria Machado
Hippocampus - Adam Nevill
Black Dog - Neil Gaiman
The 21st Century Shadow - Stephanie M. Wytovich
This Stagnant Breath of Change - Brian Hodge
Honorable Mentions
]]> 360 Ellen Datlow 1597808539 Lia 0 currently-reading 3.66 2016 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
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]]> The Woman in Black 37034
Alas, we cannot give you Austen, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as our era can provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and most dreadfully--and for Kipps most tragically--The Woman In Black.

The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler--proof positive that this neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all.]]> 138 Susan Hill 1567921892 Lia 5 3.76 1983 The Woman in Black
author: Susan Hill
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average rating: 3.76
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rating: 5
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Relectura. Sigue siendo de mis novelas de terror favoritas, llena de duelo, venganza y horror. Una verdadera historia de fantasmas.
]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason]]> 10776887 A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. The post-apocalyptic world of Panem's twelve districts is a divided society on the brink of war and struggling to survive, while the Capitol lives in the lap of luxury and pure contentment. At every turn in the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and their many allies wrestle with harrowing choices and ethical dilemmas that push them to the brink. Is it okay for Katniss to break the law to ensure her family's survival? Do ordinary moral rules apply in the Arena? Can the world of The Hunger Games shine a light into the dark corners of our world? Why do we often enjoy watching others suffer? How can we distinguish between what's Real and Not Real? This book draws on some of history's most engaging philosophical thinkers to take you deeper into the story and its themes, such as sacrifice, altruism, moral choice, and gender.

Gives you new insights into the Hunger Games series and its key characters, plot lines, and ideas Examines important themes such as the state of nature, war, celebrity, authenticity, and social class Applies the perspective of some of world's greatest minds, such as Charles Darwin, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, and Immanuel Kant to the Hunger Games trilogy Covers all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy An essential companion for Hunger Games fans, this book will take you deeper into the dystopic world of Panem and into the minds and motivations of those who occupy it.]]> 320 George A. Dunn 1118065077 Lia 0 to-read 4.42 2012 The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason
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]]> La educación física 143391264
Dueña de una obra literaria y artística centrada en lo corporal, Rosario Villajos traslada en esta magnífica novela aquella educación sentimental con la que Flaubert retrataba la vida y la época de un joven burgués en el siglo XIX al terreno de lo físico, y defiende que el cuerpo es el campo donde se libran todas las batallas, donde se dirime quiénes somos y también donde se reflejan los miedos, las tensiones y las violencias de cada época.]]> 304 Rosario Villajos 6073900368 Lia 0 to-read 3.98 La educación física
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]]> <![CDATA[Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, Vol. 23]]> 13795345 112 Vilém Flusser 0816678227 Lia 0 to-read 4.14 1993 Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, Vol. 23
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters� beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out� and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of�

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Lia 4 4.31 2022 The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
author: Freida McFadden
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Algo lento al inicio, pero lo disfruté muchísimo.
]]> Il libro di tutti i libri 48495777 555 Roberto Calasso 8845981967 Lia 0 to-read 3.79 Il libro di tutti i libri
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]]> <![CDATA[Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)]]> 761023
Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.

The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."]]> 210 Clive Barker 0425083896 Lia 0 to-read 4.06 1984 Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
-Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
-Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Lia 0 currently-reading 4.34 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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]]> The Silent Patient 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Lia 0 to-read 4.17 2019 The Silent Patient
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]]> <![CDATA[El invencible verano de Liliana]]> 57937068 El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavación en la vida de una mujer brillante y audaz que careció, como nosotros mismos, como todos los demás, del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y luchar contra la violencia sexista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcales. Este libro es para celebrar su paso por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar.]]> 304 Cristina Rivera Garza Lia 0 currently-reading 4.57 2021 El invencible verano de Liliana
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]]> The Mysteries of Udolpho 93134 The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine's inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, and providing a gripping plot that continues to thrill readers today, The Mysteries of Udolpho is the story of orphan Emily St. Aubert, who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the medieval castle of her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Inside the castle, she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors that threaten to overwhelm her.

This new edition includes an introduction that discusses the publication and early reception of the novel, the genre of Gothic romance, and Radcliffe's use of history, exotic settings, the supernatural, and poetry.]]> 654 Ann Radcliffe 0140437592 Lia 0 currently-reading 3.42 1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho
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]]> <![CDATA[Spy × Family, Vol. 13 (SPYxFAMILY, #13)]]> 213393113 Edición argentina, tomo 13. Tatsuya Endo 8410350858 Lia 0 to-read 4.41 2024 Spy × Family, Vol. 13 (SPYxFAMILY, #13)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America]]> 37486540
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.

Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.]]> 384 Beth Macy 0316523178 Lia 3 4.06 2018 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)]]> 236093 Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.

]]> 154 L. Frank Baum 0140621679 Lia 3 4.00 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)]]> 203578847 The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.

Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.

At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.]]> 1344 Brandon Sanderson 1250319188 Lia 5 4.36 2024 Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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4.5 Mi favorito sigue siendo Palabras Radiantes y de no ser por el final de Oathbringer este le seguiría. Genuinamente amé como cerró la primera parte de la saga
]]> <![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Lia 0 to-read 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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]]> The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly 17185496 With a harrowing poetic voice, this contemporary page-turner is perfect for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, Julie Berry's All The Truth That's in Me, and the works of Ellen Hopkins.

The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust.

And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too.

Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something—but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to a life behind bars and recounting the events that led up to her incarceration. But when an FBI detective approaches her about making a deal, Minnow sees she can have the freedom she always dreamed of—if she’s willing to part with the terrible secrets of her past.

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly is a hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in oneself.]]> 400 Stephanie Oakes Lia 0 to-read 3.96 2015 The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
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]]> óپ 58697792
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 352 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 6070778014 Lia 0 to-read 3.79 2020 óپ
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]]> ’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]> 483 Stephen King 0450031063 Lia 4 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
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Relectura. Lo recordaba un poco más rápido, pero me encantan los guiños a otras historias de vampiros y el final me gusta mucho. El audiolibro está bueno también.
]]> <![CDATA[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)]]> 16328
The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells� before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on ŷ.]]> 288 Agatha Christie 1579126278 Lia 0 to-read 4.26 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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]]> Mansfield Park 24979668 414 Jane Austen 8415089538 Lia 0 to-read 3.68 1814 Mansfield Park
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]]> <![CDATA[Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Adaptación gráfica)]]> 212372650 La adaptación gráfica de cuatro relatos de una de las obras narrativas de terror más originales y sorprendentes del siglo XXI.

Un coche se encuentra abandonado de noche en medio de la llanura pampeana con un bidón de gasolina al lado. De repente, el vehículo estalla en llamas y vemos que, en su interior, una mujer está sentada al volante, sin inmutarse. A su lado descansa un libro en cuya portada Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego. Con esta potente sucesión de imágenes empieza la maravillosa adaptación a cargo de Lucas Nine de la célebre recopilación de cuentos homónima de Mariana Enriquez, una de las voces más rompedoras y originales del panorama actual, que encuentra en esta escena el hilo visual que conecta los cuatro relatos El chico sucio, Pablito clavó un clavito, El patio del vecino y Bajo el agua negra.]]> 107 Mariana Enríquez 8419409618 Lia 0 to-read 4.04 Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Adaptación gráfica)
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]]> La danza de los cisnes 217425230 El Lago de los Cisnes.

En Vardalión, la magia agoniza.

Para salvar a su reino, la princesa Odelia es comprometida en matrimonio con Sam,
heredero del rico país vecino de Zesconia� pero cuando el corazón de Sam se fija en
Oliver, el hermano gemelo de Odelia, y una antigua profecía entra en juego, ¿será posible salir ilesos de esta danza?]]> 376 Raiza Revelles 6073850573 Lia 0 to-read 3.62 La danza de los cisnes
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)]]> 207200706 Featuring beautiful ruby sprayed edges!

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.

Nicholas “Coal� Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.

But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.

Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar Hex, the Prince of Halloween.

It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, sexiest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 304 Sara Raasch 1250333202 Lia 0 to-read 3.96 2024 The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)
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]]> La guía paranormal 217704583 Un manual para cazafantasmas modernos. Vampiros, casas embrujadas, portales a otra dimensión� La sociedad de las pesadillas lo ha visto todo y ahora es tu turno de unirte a sus aventuras.

Conviértete en un cazafantasmas experto con toda la información y consejos que estos seis mejores amigos han recopilado en sus investigaciones alrededor del mundo. En esta guía no solo encontrarás una detallada explicación de todas las herramientas que necesitas para investigar fenómenos del más allá, también descubrirás detalles exclusivos de sus casos más famosos, como su estadía en la casa de El conjuro, su visita al tenebroso bosque de Arashiyama, en Japón, su investigación sobre las brujas de Salem y sus aventuras en el hotel embrujado más famoso de México.

¡Prepárate para un viaje escalofriante y lleno de sorpresas! En este manual tendrás un vistazo exclusivo a la colección de objetos malditos de Raiza; Claudia revelará detalles nunca antes contados de sus casos más intrigantes; Pato te enseñará los secretos ocultos del tarot y, quién sabe, quizá incluso descifres un escalofriante mensaje oculto de Gera. No importa si eres tan escéptico como Reny o si te asustas tan fácilmente como Andrea... este libro te atrapará de principio a fin.]]> 160 Raiza Revelles 607391699X Lia 0 to-read 3.83 La guía paranormal
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction]]> 12951 nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw� to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,� the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.

Includes “The Turn of the Screw� � Daisy Miller � Washington Square � “The Beast in the Jungle� � “The Jolly Corner”]]> 527 Henry James 0553210599 Lia 0 to-read 3.80 1937 The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TܰԱ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Lia 0 to-read 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)]]> 7664041 Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.

Not so very long ago, Eragon � Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider � was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.

Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.

The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?

This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini's worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.

]]> 849 Christopher Paolini 0375856110 Lia 0 currently-reading 4.14 2011 Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle #3)]]> 2248573
It's been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words � he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.

First is Eragon's oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength � as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices � choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.

Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?

]]> 748 Christopher Paolini 0375826726 Lia 3 4.10 2008 Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle #3)
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Better than Eragon, slower than Eldest.
]]> Horrorscope (Nightmares) 1458607 Aries: Avoid confrontations. A bad day for relationships.

Soon she would come.
It was written in the stars.

Finally Jenny Warren left the protective light of the streetlamp behind. She walked fast, her shoes tapping on the sidewalk.

In the shadow of the night, the watcher smiled. His hands tightened their grip on the scarf. "You should have paid attention, Jenny," he whispered to himself.
"Didn't you read your horoscope today?"


This is a novel by John Peel writing as Nicholas Adams.]]> 192 Nicholas Adams 0006746853 Lia 0 to-read 3.63 1992 Horrorscope (Nightmares)
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]]> The Only Good Indians 52180399 The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.]]> 305 Stephen Graham Jones 1982136456 Lia 3 3.68 2020 The Only Good Indians
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vampyre and Other Macabre Tales]]> 17206203
The Vampyre tells of a monstrous demon � mirthless, cold and ashen-skinned, and yet possessed of an eloquence and beauty that proves fatally alluring to those who fall under the gaze of his ‘dead grey eye�. The predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lord Ruthven embodies a seductive evil that inhabits our fantasies and fears no less today than it did two centuries ago.

This collection presents The Vampyre alongside 11 ghoulish stories, also written in the 19th century. Letitia E. Landon's ‘The Bride of Lindorf � is a suspenseful tale that follows the steps of its young hero through creaking forests, ominous storms and secret stairwells, towards an irresistible encounter that will unearth a terrible, life-changing secret. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess�, which he later extended to form the novel Uncle Silas, is a chilling murder story. In ‘The Lady with the Velvet Collar� by Washington Irving, a German student is intoxicated by a woman of ‘transcendent beauty�, discovering too late that she is not what she seems. Lucasta Miller describes the ineluctable draw of these macabre tales in her introduction, while Anne Yvonne Gilbert’s superb illustrations evoke the interplay of innocence and evil, romance and terror, vitality and death.]]> 224 John William Polidori Lia 0 to-read 3.75 1997 The Vampyre and Other Macabre Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media]]> 58724973
Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture (such as zombie walks and the television series The Santa Clarita Diet ) contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy, and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's Covehithe , Reza Negarestani's Cycolonopedia , Julio Ortega's novel Adiós, Ayacucho , Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michael James Rowland, Steve McQueen, and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in this universally recognized figure of the undead.]]> 230 Stephen Shapiro 1350271128 Lia 0 to-read 0.0 Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media
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]]> Deer Woman: An Anthology 38219794
Drawing from the inspiration of traditional Deer Woman stories, DEER WOMAN: AN ANTHOLOGY will be a powerful collection of stories by Native women to bring determination and healing to those in need and those willing to listen with their hearts.]]> 132 Elizabeth LaPensée 099069478X Lia 0 to-read 4.26 2017 Deer Woman: An Anthology
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]]> The Antelope Wife 106542 256 Louise Erdrich 0007136366 Lia 0 to-read 3.83 1998 The Antelope Wife
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]]> When We Were Magic 45701797
Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best friend is harder.

Alexis has always been able to rely on two her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable—even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love.

That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn't change on prom night.

When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong. Their first attempt fails—and their second attempt fails even harder. Left with the remains of their failed spells and more consequences than anyone could have predicted, each of them must find a way to live with their part of the story.]]> 352 Sarah Gailey 1534432876 Lia 0 to-read 3.57 2020 When We Were Magic
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]]> Niñas pirómanas 213460124
Medusas que atacan y agonizan, alpacas embalsamadas compañeras de baile, paradas de buses en las que se define el recorrido de nuestro destino, incendios que destruyen, pero que también purgan, espectros, caramelos de sabores imposibles de definir y que aun así no podremos olvidar, almuerzos familiares en los que se discute a gritos para silenciar el llanto por lo innombrable. Todo esto emana de los cuentos de Dana Lima, dueña de una voz literaria lúdica y a su vez melancólica que construye estos relatos de arquitectura perfecta, de personajes que queremos acompañar por siempre, y de una prosa que de tan luminosa se vuelve poética.

En un mundo que huye de la tristeza y que impone una falsa idea de felicidad para redes sociales, el universo literario de esta autora nos ofrece el tesoro de una melancolía dulce y cálida que revela la profundidad inadvertida de los hechos rutinarios y de las pequeñas cosas que le dan sentido al día-día. Un fulgor como el de un pequeño espejo plástico de juguete encendido por el reflejo de un sol de invierno.

Niñas pirómanas, esperado debut en la narrativa de Dana Lima es sin duda uno de los grandes acontecimientos literarios recientes. Sus páginas rellenan el vacío que deja el dolor del cotidiano y se convierten en las compañeras en el camino de los misterios de la tristeza.]]> 120 Dana Lima 9566240104 Lia 0 to-read 4.10 2024 Niñas pirómanas
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]]> Japanese Gothic Tales 765949
The four stories presented here are among Kyoka's best-known works. They are drawn from four stages of the author's development, from the "conceptual novels" of 1895 to the fragmented romanticism of his mature work. In the way of introduction, Inouye presents a clear analysis of Kyoka's problematic stature as a "great gothic writer" and emphasizes the importance of Kyoka's work to the present reevaluation of literary history in general and modern Japanese literature in particular. The extensive notes that follow the translation serve as an intelligent guide for the reader, supplying details about each of the stories and how they fit into the pattern of mythic development that allowed Kyoka to deal with his fears in a way that sustained his life and, as Mishima Yukio put it, pushed the Japanese language to its highest potential.]]> 212 Kyōka Izumi 0824817893 Lia 0 to-read 3.97 1996 Japanese Gothic Tales
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]]> The Ruins 21726 336 Scott Smith 1400043875 Lia 0 to-read 3.67 2006 The Ruins
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Lia 3 3.97 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)]]> 17334064
The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He's settled into New York society and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumort, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play...]]> 61 Cassandra Clare 144249560X Lia 0 to-read 3.79 The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)
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]]> 'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]> 594 Stephen King 0385516487 Lia 0 to-read 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
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]]> El Horla 2418639 59 Guy de Maupassant 8420646318 Lia 5 currently-reading 3.91 1886 El Horla
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]]> Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) 90202302 “The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.� —Xaden Riorson

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders� capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.]]> 623 Rebecca Yarros 1649374178 Lia 0 to-read 4.33 2023 Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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]]> Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]> 527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 Lia 0 to-read 4.17 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 387 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Lia 0 to-read 4.61 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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]]> Witchcraft for Wayward Girls 207611566 There’s power in a book�

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master� (NPR).]]> 482 Grady Hendrix 0593548981 Lia 0 to-read 4.00 2025 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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]]> Dark Matter 27833670 A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy.

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.

"Are you happy with your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."

In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that's the dream?

And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.]]> 342 Blake Crouch 1101904224 Lia 0 to-read 4.13 2016 Dark Matter
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]]> La casa de la noche 199601677 304 Jo Nesbø 8419437700 Lia 0 to-read 3.07 2023 La casa de la noche
author: Jo Nesbø
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average rating: 3.07
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]]> Goth 3678413 222 Kenji Oiwa 142781094X Lia 0 to-read 3.86 2003 Goth
author: Kenji Oiwa
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Flores de la bufonería 123258877 Centrada en su internación tras un intento de suicidio; que en Indigno de ser humano apenas ocupa tres párrafos; esta novela no solo permite completar ese espacio en blanco; sino que nos muestra el germen de una de sus imágenes más potentes: las máscaras como una herramienta para adaptarnos a lo que la sociedad y los amigos esperan de nosotros. En Flores de la bufonería las máscaras se vuelven risa constante; que irrumpe en los momentos más inoportunos y trágicos.
Dazai aprovecha para deslizar reflexiones acerca de su visión de la literatura y del mundo. Y lo hace de un modo muy novedoso para la época; a partir de la voz de un narrador en primera persona. Este narrador (el propio Dazai; aunque la novela nunca lo diga expresamente) interrumpe el relato de la internación de Oba para quejarse de sus personajes y lamentarse de sus frustraciones como escritor. Al principio estas intervenciones son tímidas; de a poco van tomando un lugar cada vez más importante; al punto de que uno acaba preguntándose si es Y¿z¿ el personaje de esta historia; o si acaso lo es ese narrador anónimo que se hace llamar yo".]]> 176 Osamu Dazai 9874766395 Lia 0 to-read 4.08 1935 Flores de la bufonería
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]]> Panza de burro 53412888
«Puro y ágil como el fuego, una potencia arrolladora. Adoro este libro». —Elisa Victoria.

«Una de las voces más interesantes de la nueva ola». —Luna Miguel.

«Consigue convertir en belleza las partes más feas del mundo para crear valores nuevos». —Diario de avisos.]]> 172 Andrea Abreu López Lia 0 to-read 3.95 2020 Panza de burro
author: Andrea Abreu López
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Dantescas: Cuentos de mujeres que descendieron a los infiernos]]> 211212813
Doce mujeres. Doce cuentos. Distintas épocas y lugares del mundo occidental. Terror. Estas autoras tienen algo en común: ya sea en vida o en obra –o ambas� todas descendieron a los infiernos; para salvarse a sí mismas o para salvar a otras.

Emilia Pardo Bazán, Amparo Dávila, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Mónica Ojeda, Layla Martínez, Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector , Liliana Colanzi, Verena Cavalcante, Mariana Enriquez.



Ilustraciones por Jules Mamone.]]> 240 María Fernanda Ampuero 6316541074 Lia 0 to-read 4.44 Dantescas: Cuentos de mujeres que descendieron a los infiernos
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]]> What Big Teeth 48560025 Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement.

Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds.

Eleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together � in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her.]]> 394 Rose Szabo Lia 0 to-read 3.33 2021 What Big Teeth
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]]> Tidepool 53301647
In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappeared while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won’t rest until she finds out what happened to him. Defying her father’s orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry is known to have visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t quite meet Sorrow’s eyes when she asks about her brother.

When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve been torn apart by something not quite human, Sorrow is ready to return to Baltimore and let her father send in the professional detectives.

However, after meeting Ada Oliver, a widow whose black silk dresses and elegant manners set her apart from other Tidepool residents, Sorrow discovers Tidepool’s dark, deadly secret.

With this discovery, some denizens of Tidepool—human and otherwise—are hell-bent on making sure Sorrow never leaves their forsaken town.

Lovecraftian dark fantasy gets a modern treatment in this terrifying debut novel.]]> 300 Nicole Willson 1953539882 Lia 0 to-read 3.63 2021 Tidepool
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average rating: 3.63
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]]> <![CDATA[Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares]]> 54833235
In "The Arborist," a woman hears the mysterious call of the forest.

Five friends exploring an archipelago find themselves set upon by the island's hungry inhabitants in "The Monitors."

A young woman confronts the mystery of her infertility in "Kelly Watch the Stars."

These works are joined by the title novella, Her Infernal Name , about the cruel intersection of desire and desperation, and many other stories crafted in the hopes of keeping you up at night.]]> 322 Robert P. Ottone 1734044535 Lia 0 to-read 4.22 Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares
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]]> Basketful of Heads 50490087 184 Joe Hill 1779502974 Lia 0 to-read 4.06 2020 Basketful of Heads
author: Joe Hill
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]]> Night of the Mannequins 49246963 Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?]]> 136 Stephen Graham Jones 1250752078 Lia 0 to-read 3.31 2020 Night of the Mannequins
author: Stephen Graham Jones
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]]> <![CDATA[The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)]]> 178019710 The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature

It’s been four years since Jade Daniels last set foot in Proofrock, Idaho. Since then, her reputation, and everything around Indian Lake, has changed dramatically. There’s a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there’s one aspect of the savage history of Proofrock, Idaho, no one’s got the mettle to confront � no one except a final girl, making her last stand, this time for everything.

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones has crafted an epic horror trilogy of generational trauma and stolen hope. It’s the story of the American West written in blood. And it’s the story of one girl who doesn’t know how to give up.]]> 455 Stephen Graham Jones 1668011662 Lia 0 to-read 4.15 2024 The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)]]> 59366246 Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones.

Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.

Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday.

Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.]]> 457 Stephen Graham Jones 1982186593 Lia 0 to-read 4.04 2023 Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)]]> 55711617
That’s not the only thing that’s getting carved up, though � this, Jade knows, is the start of a slasher. But what kind? Who’s wearing the mask? Jade’s got an encyclopedic recall of every horror movie on the shelf, but� will that help her survive? Can she get a final girl trained enough to stop all this from happening? Does she even want to?

Isn’t a slasher exactly what her hometown deserves?

This new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, called “one of our most talented living writers� by Tommy Orange, explores the changing landscape of the West through his distinct voice of sharp humor and prophetic violence.

Go up the mountain to Proofrock. See if you’ve got what it takes � see if your heart, too, might be a chainsaw.]]> 405 Stephen Graham Jones 1982137630 Lia 0 to-read 3.52 2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
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]]> The Chrysalids 826845 A world paralysed by genetic mutation

John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.]]> 200 John Wyndham Lia 0 to-read 3.92 1955 The Chrysalids
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> Not in Love (Not in Love, #1) 198716261 A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through - and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.

Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business - one that plays for keeps.]]> 384 Ali Hazelwood 1408728915 Lia 0 to-read 3.59 2024 Not in Love (Not in Love, #1)
author: Ali Hazelwood
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average rating: 3.59
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]]> Naomi 34462
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.]]> 237 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 0375724745 Lia 0 to-read 3.70 1924 Naomi
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]]> In Praise of Shadows 34473 56 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Lia 0 to-read 4.06 1933 In Praise of Shadows
author: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Makioka Sisters 34449
Tsuruko, the eldest sister, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family’s exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances. Filled with vignettes of upper-class Japanese life and capturing both the decorum and the heartache of its protagonist, The Makioka Sisters is a classic of international literature.]]> 530 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 0679761640 Lia 0 to-read 4.03 1948 The Makioka Sisters
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre]]> 34892184 Dotado de una vasta formación humanística, además de idiomática, Nakajima tradujo obras como Pascal o El gusano de Spinoza, de Aldous Huxley. Viajero incansable y escritor polifacético de novelas, ensayos, cuentos y poemas, etc.]]> 138 Atsushi Nakajima 8494664735 Lia 0 currently-reading 4.03 1941 El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre
author: Atsushi Nakajima
name: Lia
average rating: 4.03
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Lia 4 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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El audiolibro hace un gran trabajo con las diferentes voces. Es una gran historia sobre amor, deseo y adicción. La disfruté mucho, aunque no sé si porque vi la adaptación primero hay cosas que no me impactaron tanto. Ambas versiones son muy buenas a su propia manera.
]]> Clermont 1718527 394 Regina Maria Roche 0976604841 Lia 0 to-read 3.67 1798 Clermont
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Lia 5 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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4.5. En mi primera leída le puse 5, pero en esta aunque me encantó hubo un par de detalles por ahi.
]]> The Color Out of Space 18330117 25 H.P. Lovecraft 1443427063 Lia 4 4.09 The Color Out of Space
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)]]> 4556058
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.]]> 381 Rick Riordan 1423101472 Lia 5 4.59 2009 The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Lia
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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Sigue siendo mi favorito y el mejor de la saga.
]]> <![CDATA[The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)]]> 8130423 In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.]]> 361 Rick Riordan Lia 5 4.44 2008 The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Lia
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> Ethan Brand 16435668 Nathaniel Hawthorne 5552044940 Lia 2 3.56 1850 Ethan Brand
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Lia
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1850
rating: 2
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]]> Tiempos canallas 60374758
Ese verano de 1987 todo cambió. Diego conoce a los que serán sus mejores amigos: Requena y Conde, e inician una investigación sobre una vecina desaparecida que los llevará a descubrir secretos cada vez más escalofriantes, tanto del edificio, como de su propio destino.

Fantasmas, humor, terror, amores trágicos, y tiempos traspuestos los esperan en Tiempos canallas.]]> 556 Jaime Alfonso Sandoval 6075574719 Lia 0 to-read 4.68 Tiempos canallas
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]]> Peter Pan (Spanish Edition) 35187039 311 J.M. Barrie 8832950324 Lia 0 to-read 3.94 1911 Peter Pan (Spanish Edition)
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name: Lia
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1911
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]]> <![CDATA[Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego]]> 28787166
Las autodenominadas «mujeres ardientes», que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uñas y las pestañas, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los años de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serán hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sólo tenía nueve años; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados... En estos doce cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de sí mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una policía o un guía turístico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando así en el peso de la culpa, la compasión, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosímil.

Mariana Enríquez es una de las narradoras más valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sólo de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier país o lengua. Mariana Enríquez transforma géneros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crónica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las raíces, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia.

«El terror, en los cuentos de Mariana Enriquez, se desliza como un jadeo de agua negra sobre baldosas al sol. Como algo imposible que, sin embargo, podría suceder» (Leila Guerriero).

«Su escritura es tan auténtica y perspicaz que consigue evocar una realidad más vívida que la que nos rodea. Todo ello, resultado de su destreza y meticulosidad. La prueba de que nos hallamos ante una escritora de primera clase» (Daniel Gumbiner, McSweeney’s).

]]> 200 Mariana Enríquez 8433998064 Lia 4 4.10 2016 Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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"Unsettling" is all I can think of. Not scary as such, but disturbing.
]]> Iliada, #1 13490026 246 Homer Lia 0 to-read, not-finished 3.90 -800 Iliada, #1
author: Homer
name: Lia
average rating: 3.90
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]]> Pet Sematary 33124137 This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.]]> 580 Stephen King Lia 4 4.21 1983 Pet Sematary
author: Stephen King
name: Lia
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> Shrine 924848 534 James Herbert 0330376225 Lia 0 to-read 3.79 1983 Shrine
author: James Herbert
name: Lia
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Un lugar soleado para gente sombría]]> 206801768
En uno de los cuentos, una mujer mantiene a raya a los fantasmas que andan sueltos por un barrio periférico de Buenos Aires; entre ellos, los de su madre muerta de una dolorosa enfermedad, los de unas adolescentes asesinadas en la calle, el de un ladrón pillado en pleno robo y el de un chico que huía de un secuestro exprés. En otra historia, una pareja alquila una casa para unas vacaciones en un pueblo que ha ido perdiendo habitantes desde que el tren dejó de pasar; visitan en la estación abandonada la exposición de los perturbadores lienzos de un artista local, pero lo verdaderamente aterrador será conocer al autor de esas pinturas. En otra pieza, los voluntarios de una ONG que reparte comida por barrios marginales son perseguidos por unos niños de pavorosos ojos negros. En otra, una periodista que investiga la historia de una chica desaparecida en un hotel en Los Ángeles, cuyas espeluznantes imágenes recorrieron internet, acaba enfrentándose a otra leyenda de la ciudad�

Después de su monumental y aclamada novela Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enriquez vuelve al relato y demuestra que sigue en plena forma como gran continuadora y renovadora del género de terror, al que ha llevado a las más altas cotas literarias. Partiendo de la tradición -desde las novelas góticas hasta Stephen King y Thomas Ligotti-, la escritora explora nuevos caminos, nuevas dimensiones.]]> 232 Mariana Enríquez 8433922866 Lia 0 to-read 3.77 2024 Un lugar soleado para gente sombría
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]]> Bride (Bride, #1) 181344829 A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was�.

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.]]> 410 Ali Hazelwood Lia 0 to-read 3.98 2024 Bride (Bride, #1)
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name: Lia
average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[El albergue de las mujeres tristes / The Retreat forHeartbroken Women]]> 61667442
Si bien la incapacidad afectiva masculina parece ser, para ellas, la clave del desencuentro, la autora da voz -por primera vz- a un punto de vista masculino: el médico del lugar, un santiaguino autoexiliado en la isla, arrastra también sus propias cicatrices...

Ambivalentes, reprimidos en el sexo, vacilantes en el compromiso amoroso, los hombres sienten miedo frente a la autonomía que las mujeres han ganado. Mientras tanto, en ellas crece la insatisfacción, el «mal femenino» de este fin de siglo. Marcela Serrano habla por las mujeres y los hombres de hoy, en una búsqueda de relaciones más genuinas y felices.]]> 328 Marcela Serrano 8466360808 Lia 0 to-read 3.56 1997 El albergue de las mujeres tristes / The Retreat forHeartbroken Women
author: Marcela Serrano
name: Lia
average rating: 3.56
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]]> Prophet Song 158875813
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.

How far will she go to save her family? And what � or who � is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.]]> 259 Paul Lynch Lia 0 to-read 4.03 2023 Prophet Song
author: Paul Lynch
name: Lia
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[A Touch of Chaos (Hades x Persephone Saga, #4)]]> 56670031
Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever—but he did.

A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become—Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld.

Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will go to war for them.]]> 464 Scarlett St. Clair Lia 0 to-read 3.89 2024 A Touch of Chaos (Hades x Persephone Saga, #4)
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]]> Nocturne 61167445
“Culturefly� Grace has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peered through the windows of the Near North Ballet company. The elegance of the dance seemed transcendent to an immigrant child of the working poor, and so, when she is orphaned, it is to the ballet that she flees.

Years later, Grace is on the verge of becoming the company's new prima ballerina - though she is beginning to realise that achieving her long-held dream may not be the triumph she once envisioned. Then Grace attracts the attention of the enigmatic Master La Rosa, and realises that the world may not be as small or constricted as she had come to fear.

But who is her mysterious patron, and what does he want from her? As Grace begins to unlock the Master's secrets, she discovers that there may be another way entirely to achieve the transcendence she has always sought.]]> 240 Alyssa Wees 0593357477 Lia 0 to-read 3.22 2023 Nocturne
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name: Lia
average rating: 3.22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)]]> 561456
But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...]]> 352 Rick Riordan Lia 3 4.37 2007 The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Lia
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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Cuando era pequeña me regalaron este libro en navidad. Mi papá bromeando dijo que debería de durarme hasta mi cumpleaños (abril). Por supuesto ese mismo día casi lo termino, me faltaron sólo 4 capítulos. (Esa navidad también leí la cámara de los secretos para que "me durara" un dia más el otro). Desde que acabé la maldición del titán no lo había revisitado y creo que es el que menos me gusta de los héroes del olimpo, pero eso no quita que sea una lectura rápida y entretenida. Eso si, disfruté el enfrentamiento final muchísimo.
]]> <![CDATA[The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story]]> 93195
One of the seven "horrid novels" named in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey," "The Castle of Wolfenbach" is perhaps the most important of the early Gothic novels, predating both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Monk."

This edition reprints the complete text of the 1793 edition and includes a new introduction and notes by Diane Long Hoeveler, one of the foremost modern scholars of Gothic literature and feminism.]]> 224 Eliza Parsons 0977784169 Lia 0 currently-reading 3.47 1793 The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story
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average rating: 3.47
book published: 1793
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]]> The Voice in the Night 10256532 William Hope Hodgson Lia 5 3.89 1907 The Voice in the Night
author: William Hope Hodgson
name: Lia
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1907
rating: 5
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I didn't have words after reading it. It is a horrifying short story that caused me a lot of anguish. I love it.
]]> Children of Dune (Dune #3) 44492286
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies....

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 609 Frank Herbert 0593098242 Lia 0 to-read 3.96 1976 Children of Dune (Dune #3)
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]]> Dune Messiah (Dune #2) 44492285
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 336 Frank Herbert 0593098234 Lia 0 to-read 3.89 1969 Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)]]> 49021976 The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.]]> 1232 Brandon Sanderson 0765326388 Lia 4 4.58 2020 Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)]]> 54511226
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.

Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.]]> 171 Brandon Sanderson 193857026X Lia 4 4.39 2020 Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)
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average rating: 4.39
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> Love and Leashes 60448133
Chapters 1 - 146]]> 1460 Winter Lia 5 3.96 Love and Leashes
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]]> <![CDATA[베이� 폭군 [Baby Poggun] (Baby Tyrant)]]> 58455179 가족의 사랑� 바랐지� 결국 받지 못한 �.
� 이상 가� 같은 � 필요 없다� 여겼�.
비참� 결말 끝에 눈을 � �.
�? 내가 제국� 공주라고? 그런�, 황제라는 아빠가 이상하다?!
“메이블. 네게 폰세 성을 하사하마.�
“가� 비옥� 영지� 너의 것이�.�
태어나자마자 시작� 하사 러쉬� � 나이 � �, 겨우 끝이 났다.
“안 되겠�. � 나라� 네게 주마.�
……나라를 주고 나서�.]]> Hoen Lee Lia 0 4.24 2020 베이비 폭군 [Baby Poggun] (Baby Tyrant)
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2020
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]]> The Hellbound Heart 52635 164 Clive Barker 0061002828 Lia 3 4.08 1986 The Hellbound Heart
author: Clive Barker
name: Lia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1986
rating: 3
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Not my favourite from Barker but still a solid read. Me gusta más la película, lo cual no me esperaba.
]]> <![CDATA[재혼 황후 1 [Jaehon Hwanghu 1] (The Remarried Empress [Novel], #1)]]> 52778373 2019 네이버웹소설 최고� 화제�!

완벽� 황후였�. 그러� 황제� 도움� � 황후가 필요없다� 한다. 그가 원하� � 배우자이지 동료가 아니� 한다. 황제� 나비에를 버리� 노예 출신� 여자� 옆에 두었�. 그래� 괜찮았다. 황제가 그녀에게 다음 황후 자리� 약속하는 � 듣기 전까�. 나비에는 고민 끝에 결심했다. 그렇다면 � � 나라� 황제와 재혼하겠다고!]]> 500 Alphatart 1164790285 Lia 5 4.35 재혼 황후 1 [Jaehon Hwanghu 1] (The Remarried Empress [Novel], #1)
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name: Lia
average rating: 4.35
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