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El peso de vivir en la Tierra
by David Toscana«La vida es lo único infinito que tiene final.» Nicolás tiene el alma grande. Por ello decide cambiar su nombre a Nikolái Nikoláievich Pseldónimov y comenzar a vivir con todo el fervor de un personaje de Gogol, Dostoyevski, Tolstói, Chéjov o Bábel, replicando sus proezas y sus infamias. En esa literatura rusa en la que cada gran escritor fue censurado, perseguido, apresado, desterrado, excomulgado, gulagueado o ejecutado, Nikolái y sus aliados descubren la libertad esencial del ser humano: la de imaginar. Tal como don Quijote, ellos habrán de crear su propio mundo y buscarán que sus vidas se vuelvan arte al emular las novelas que emulan la vida. Corre el año de 1971 y el mundo está atento a la carrera espacial. Los soviéticos han puesto a tres cosmonautas en la estación Sályut al tiempo que impiden a Solzhenitsyn viajar a Estocolmo para recibir su Premio Nobel. Nikolái le propone a su mujer y al borracho Guerásim viajar al espacio, aventura que habrán de consumar tras degustar lo sublime y podrido de la condición humana. En El peso de vivir en la tierra, David Toscana hace un espléndido recorrido por la literatura rusa y celebra a esos valientes escritores que fueron libres en un mundo que no lo era. También nos propone que, a falta de libreto, la vida se deje poseer por el espíritu del arte. En palabras de la crítica… ≪Estamos ante una de las obras narrativas más cautivantes, divertidas e imaginativas de la historia reciente de nuestras letras.≫ -Luis Jorge Boone, El Universal ≪Tocado por la mano de los dioses.≫ -Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico ≪La lectura prontamente te sume en algo parecido a la ensonacion, algo dificil de experimentar, al alcance de muy pocos orfebres de la palabra, maestros como Toscana.≫- Francisco H. Gonzalez, Devaneos
El peso de una corona
by Aranzazu Sánchez Tavish KaedenMiles de hombres la anhelan y todavía más mueren por ella, pero una vez que la consigan… ¿cuántos podrán soportarla? El reino de Esmoria ha sido unificado bajo el estandarte de un único rey después de siglos de cruel conflicto. A primera vista, parece que el reino esté disfrutando de la paz por primera vez, pero el resentimiento está acechante y la muerte a deshora del nuevo gobernante amenaza con sumir a Esmoria en el caos político. Mientras tanto, en las orillas más lejanas del frío norte, un monarca destronado conspira para vengarse y, para ello, despierta a un demonio que había quedado en el olvido. Una joven fugitiva que ha escapado de un campo de trabajo, un soldado privado de derechos y un aprendiz de grabador epiléptico se verán inmersos en el corazón de todos los problemas mientras la oscuridad y la traición caen sobre el reino
The Peskie Spell (Fairy Realm #9)
by Emily RoddaReturning to the Realm, Jessie searches for the flower needed to combat a plague of mischief-causing Peskies.
Pesi
by L. P. MastersLa nave da guerra spaziale nella quale il quattordicenne Kaden Lowery è arruolato è sotto attacco da parte di un nemico invisibile: la gravità. Kaden deve fare i conti con il suo passato e sulla sua vera natura per salvare se stesso e l'equipaggio.
The Peshawar Lancers
by S. M. StirlingS.M. Stirling's acclaimed hardcover debut-and a top ten Locus bestseller for two months-The Peshawar Lancers takes readers to an alternate 21st century earth, where boats still run on steam, messages are exchanged by telegraph, and the British Empire controls much of the world from India. But the Czar of all Russias is preparing for global conquest...
The Peshawar Lancers
by S. M. StirlingIn the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world’s climate forever. And just as Earth’s temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together…. In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play…. .
Pesadillas y alucinaciones II
by Stephen KingUna extraña tempestad que solo se produce en un pueblo cada siete años; un juguete con preferencia por la carne humana y una organización de fumadores clandestinos enfrentados a un poder terrorífico y antinatural. «Cuando la gente ve fantasmas, siempre se ve primero a sí misma», afirma Stephen King, y pocas reflexiones servirían mejor que esta como moraleja de sus historias: el mundo de la fantasía está poblado por las sombras de la conciencia. Los relatos de Pesadillas y alucinaciones II son otros tantos retazos de esas sombras, las que enturbian los límites entre el sueño y la vigilia, la realidad y el horror que subyace en lo real.
Pervertie
by W. J. MayNe vous frottez pas aux Filles des Ténèbres, surtout Victoria. Seule la Mort Peut l'arrêter désormais Victoria était une chasseresse Vampire, à présent devenue la proie. L'ennemi mortel de Tori, Vlad Montour, vient tout juste de devenir le vampire le plus puissant au monde -- et son père. Il possède le réseau de complices le plus dangereux au monde, sans parler de sa forteresse quasiment impénétrable. Entraînée par lui en vue de devenir un Chasseur, elle a tué d'autres créatures surnaturelles, et en a fait son métier. Le monde de Tori bascule quand elle se retrouve dans le rôle de la proie. Par le passé, Tori a vécu selon cette règle : quand on n'aime personne, personne ne peut vous atteindre. Brusquement, cette règle ne peut plus être observée. Elle a un frère à protéger, un loup-garou qu'elle aime et dont elle porte l'enfant. Sa vie change en un clin d'œil. Elle se fait une promesse : éliminer tous ceux qui feront du mal aux personnes qu'elle aime. Le seul moyen d'arrêter Vlad est de le battre à son propre jeu. Cependant, comment réussir à vaincre quelqu'un qui ne perd jamais ? Comment arrêtez-vous un originel sans mourir dans le processus ? Jusqu'où iriez-vous en enfer, pour sauver ceux que vous aimez ?
The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (Electronic Mediations #52)
by Grant Wythoff Hugo GernsbackIn 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies.Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre.The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.
The Perversion Of Heaven (El Latido #1)
by Ghesia MorettBaronte is a demon that has perverted man for centuries. Adabel is an angel of love, empathy and piety. Nami is a Chinese girl, orphan and worker, who only has one Yucki, her Grandmother. Dassiel is the guardian angel of Nami and trusted brother of Adabel, who has not discover how much he is in love with his protege until it is too late. This character will cross their lives because of an impossible miracle: The heartbeat, the tremelus jump in the chest of the demon at stumble to Adabel in his fight for an innocent soul, being imprisoned by discovering his essence. The traps and games between heaven and hell, force these characters to live strange and dangerous situations, culminating in a deadly trap of hell, always using the hands of men. What is beyond all this? You will have to discover it by reading it. They will tell you in first person everything that it feel with their senses, everything that opens your feelings. A love that is above all human consideration, divine or diabolical
Perv: A Love Story
by Jerry StahlSet in 1970, in the last, dark days of hippiedom, Perv -- A Love Story is the saga of Bobby Stark, a sixteen-year-old batch of desire and angst struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo.As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. For his sins he's thrown out of school and dispatched to live with his mom, a festive electro shock aficionado, whose condo he flees to track down Michelle, the gorgeously damaged, lasped Hare Krishna-ette he's adored since kindergarten.Like the rest of their generation, the couple hit the road for California, only to be picked up in a hell-fueled Lincoln by a pair of Bad Hippies -- Meat and Varnish -- smacked-out spiritual cousins to Charles Manson. From here the trip gets vicious....Already an underground classic, Perv-A Love Story is relentlessly twisted, sexy, and savagely funny literary excursion, a novel of doomed youth in the era when Flower Power had begun to wilt.
Persuasion Enraptured
by Rebecca RoyceIt’s come down to this…Kendall sacrificed herself for everyone…but her journey isn’t over.Alive and alone in the Shadow Dimension, Kendall has surrendered hope. But those who love her have not. Rescue is not beyond possibility. Saving Kendall is only the first battle. Can she save the world or is it already too late?
Persuasion: Heirs of Watson Island (Heirs Of Watson Island Ser.)
by Martina BooneBeautiful Creatures meets Gone with the Wind in the spellbinding second novel in the Heirs of Watson Island trilogy that “skillfully blends rich magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure” (Publishers Weekly, on Compulsion).Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. Ghost-hunters hope to glimpse the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, and reporters chase rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. The chaos turns dangerous as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins. Because more than treasure is buried there.A stranger filled with magic arrives at Watson’s Landing claiming that the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts—and the Colesworth curse—also lies beneath the mansion. With a mix of threats and promises, the man convinces Barrie and Cassie to cast a spell at midnight. But what he conjures may have deadly consequences.While Barrie struggles to make sense of the escalating peril and her growing feelings for Eight Beaufort, it’s impossible to know whom to trust and what to fight for—Eight or herself. Millions of dollars and the fate of the founding families is at stake. Now Barrie must choose between what she feels deep in her heart and what will keep Watson’s Landing safe in this stunning addition to a series filled with “decadent settings, mysterious magic, and family histories rife with debauchery” (Kirkus Reviews, on Compulsion).
Persuading Annie
by Melissa NathanAfter years as a sweet, good-natured pushover, Annie Markham has had to face up to three hard truths:You've got to be tough to succeed in business and romance.Sometimes your meddling loved ones areright about your worthless, no-good boyfriend being worthless and no good.The only reliable thing about men is thatthey're totally unreliable.Okay, she's been persuaded. So now, seven years after wisely and abruptly dumping the "love of her life," Jake Mead, things should be going better for Annie Markham, right? Unfortunately, her life's going nowhere, her family's going mental, and the family business is heading straight down the tubes. Could it get worse? Of course! Jake's back, Annie's getting ready for bankruptcy, and no one's ready for Christmas ... let alone a happy New Year.And no amount of persuasion will ever convince Annie that magic does happenand dreams do come true, not even at the stroke of midnight on December 31 at New York's Plaza Hotel ... will it?
Personal Space Camp
by Julia CookLouis is crazy about space and keeps interrupting in class. His teacher then sends him to a Personal Space Camp.
Personal Protection
by A. R. MolerDr. Ryan Bergstrom has offended somebody, but he has no idea who is so upset with him. Ryan is a gifted medical researcher working on a drug that could slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Death threats and nasty pranks mean that the medical research firm has hired a bodyguard to make sure their golden boy is protected from his stalker.Brendan Marek is an ex-Ranger currently working as private security. Ryan’s attracted to his new bodyguard but sure that a military guy wouldn’t be interested. But Marek is not a stereotype. Can they figure each other out while under siege?
Personal Effects: Dark Art
by J. C. Hutchins Jordan WeismanWant to try it yourself? Call the phone number shown on book's cover: 212-629-1951 and listen to the voicemail message for main character Zach Taylor. Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach Taylor's investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims' deaths. Zach's investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds--and often very far from the reality that we know. The items among Grace's personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried. Call the phone numbers: you'll get a character's voicemail. Google the characters and institutions in the text: you'll find real websites. Examine the art and other printed artifacts included inside the cover: if you pay attention, you'll find more information than the characters themselves discover Personal Effects, the ultimate in voyeuristic storytelling, represents a revolutionary step forward in changing the way people interact with novels.
Personal Demons
by Stacia KaneMegan promises listeners to her new radio call-in show that she'll "slay their personal demons," and they believe her. So do the personal demons. . . although she doesn't know it, Megan is the only human without a demon on her shoulder! Megan and her allies - a demon lover who both protects and seduces her with devilish intensity, a witch with poor social skills, and three cockney guard demons - have to deal not only with the personal demons, but a soul-sucker, ghosts of Megan's past, and a reporter who threatens to destroy Megan's career!
Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, Book #8)
by Kelley ArmstrongGlobe and Mail and New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong follows No Humans Involved with a new, sexy, action-packed, Women of the Otherworld novel featuring a wickedly beautiful, supernaturally gifted heroine who may love danger a bit too much. Sending readers into a dazzlingly entertaining world of danger, vice and romance, Kelley Armstrong's phenomenal Women of the Otherworld novels mark her as a trailblazer of paranormal romantic suspense. Hope Adams, tabloid journalist and half-demon, looks like a Bollywood princess. Like full demons, she gets an almost sexual rush from danger and chaos--in fact, she thrives on it. But she is determined to use her gifts for good. When the head of the powerful Cortez Cabal calls in an old debt and asks her to infiltrate a Miami gang of bored, rich, troublemaking supernaturals, she can't resist the excitement. As she becomes dangerously entangled in the plot she has no choice but to turn to her crooked werewolf ex-boyfriend, and the heir to the Cortez Cabal, for help. In typical Kelley Armstrong fashion, Personal Demon takes the reader on an energetic ride through the supernatural world and the human one, bringing them together to create one huge devilish adventure.
Personal Demon: Book 8 in the Women of the Otherworld Series (Otherworld #8)
by Kelley Armstrong'A page-turning thriller. Fans of the paranormal will delight in the eighth Women of the Underworld yarn, with its ass-kicking, Bollywood beautiful, former-socialite heroine and full complement of sorcerers, witches, werewolves, and other paranormal beings.' - Booklist'Long before American author Stephenie Meyer came on the scene -- four years before, to be precise -- Canadian fantasy novelist Kelley Armstrong began paving the way with Women of the Otherworld.' - Winnipeg Free PressHope Adams, tabloid journalist and half-demon, inherited her Bollywood princess looks from her mother. From her demon father, she inherited a hunger for chaos, and a talent for finding it. Like full demons, she gets an almost sexual rush from danger - in fact, she thrives on it. But she is determined to use her gifts for good. When the head of the powerful Cortez Cabal asks her to infiltrate a gang of bored, rich, troublemaking supernaturals in Miami, Hope can't resist the excitement. But trouble for Hope is intoxicating, and soon she's in way too deep. With a killer stalking the supernatural hot spots of Miami, Hope finds herself dangerously entangled, and has no choice but to turn to her crooked werewolf ex-boyfriend for help. What started as a simple investigation has spiralled into chaos. And Hope finds chaos irresistible . . .The latest book in Kelley Armstrong's fast-paced and wildly entertaining supernatural series.Books by Kelley Armstrong: Women of the Otherworld series Bitten Stolen Dime Store Magic Industrial Magic Haunted Broken No Humans Involved Personal Demon Living with the Dead Frost Bitten Walking the Witch Spellbound Thirteen Nadia Stafford Exit Strategy Made to be Broken Wild JusticeRocktonCity of the LostA Darkness AbsoluteThis Fallen PreyWatcher in the WoodsAlone in the Wild Darkest Powers The Summoning The Awakening The Reckoning Otherworld Tales Men of the Otherworld Tales of the Otherworld Otherworld Nights Otherworld Secrets Otherworld Chills Darkness Rising The Gathering The Calling The Rising Cainsville Omens Visions Deceptions Betrayals Rituals
Personal Demon: Book 8 in the Women of the Otherworld Series (Otherworld #8)
by Kelley Armstrong'A page-turning thriller. Fans of the paranormal will delight in the eighth Women of the Underworld yarn, with its ass-kicking, Bollywood beautiful, former-socialite heroine and full complement of sorcerers, witches, werewolves, and other paranormal beings.' - Booklist'Long before American author Stephenie Meyer came on the scene -- four years before, to be precise -- Canadian fantasy novelist Kelley Armstrong began paving the way with Women of the Otherworld.' - Winnipeg Free PressHope Adams, tabloid journalist and half-demon, inherited her Bollywood princess looks from her mother. From her demon father, she inherited a hunger for chaos, and a talent for finding it. Like full demons, she gets an almost sexual rush from danger - in fact, she thrives on it. But she is determined to use her gifts for good. When the head of the powerful Cortez Cabal asks her to infiltrate a gang of bored, rich, troublemaking supernaturals in Miami, Hope can't resist the excitement. But trouble for Hope is intoxicating, and soon she's in way too deep. With a killer stalking the supernatural hot spots of Miami, Hope finds herself dangerously entangled, and has no choice but to turn to her crooked werewolf ex-boyfriend for help. What started as a simple investigation has spiralled into chaos. And Hope finds chaos irresistible . . .The latest book in Kelley Armstrong's fast-paced and wildly entertaining supernatural series.Books by Kelley Armstrong:Women of the Otherworld seriesBittenStolenDime Store MagicIndustrial MagicHauntedBrokenNo Humans InvolvedPersonal DemonLiving with the DeadFrost BittenWalking the WitchSpellboundThirteenNadia StaffordExit StrategyMade to be BrokenWild JusticeRocktonCity of the LostA Darkness AbsoluteThis Fallen PreyWatcher in the WoodsAlone in the WildDarkest PowersThe SummoningThe AwakeningThe ReckoningOtherworld TalesMen of the OtherworldTales of the OtherworldOtherworld NightsOtherworld SecretsOtherworld ChillsDarkness RisingThe GatheringThe CallingThe RisingCainsvilleOmensVisionsDeceptionsBetrayalsRituals
Personal Demon
by Susan SizemoreIn a community kept hidden, the Enforcers are an elite group of vampires sworn to serve and protect their kind--and follow the Laws of the Blood... As one of Chicago's vampire hunters, Ivy Bailey is responsible for keeping the city's human residents safe--a job that becomes infinitely harder when someone starts committing gruesome acts of magical murder. But what Ivy doesn't realize is that she is a hunter being hunted... Vampire Enforcer Christopher Bell is in Chicago to investigate rumors of a revolution, but when he comes across Ivy being followed through dark streets, what he finds is a ghost from his past. Over a century ago, Christopher fought the vicious London serial killer Jack the Ripper--and won. But now, the Ripper's tainted soul is back--on the hunt once more. Ivy insists she doesn't need protection--especially from a vampire Enforcer. But soon, Christopher finds himself in the middle of a fight between demons and mortals, watching over the frustrating woman who has managed to stir his undead heart....
Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Tanith LeeEmerging from the burned remains of their old home, the ancient, elegant Scarabae ready themselves for a new life of seduction and feasting, until little Ruth ignites a blaze of chaos through the streets of London that threatens them all.This is book two in the Blood Opera series.
Persona (The Persona Sequence)
by Genevieve ValentineIn a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller from the acclaimed author of Mechanique and The Girls at Kingfisher Club.When Suyana, Face of the United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, is secretly meeting Ethan of the United States for a date that can solidify a relationship for the struggling UARC, the last thing she expected was an assassination attempt. Daniel, a teen runaway turned paparazzi out for his big break, witnesses the first shot hit Suyana, and before he can think about it, he jumps into the fray, telling himself it's not altruism, it's the scoop. Now Suyana and Daniel are on the run--and if they don't keep one step ahead, they'll lose it all.
The Persistence of Vision
by John Varley<br>The Persistence of Vision <br>With an Introduction by Algis Budrys <P>These nine stories show the best work of the decade's most exciting new writer of science fiction. His Quantum novel The Ophiuchi Hotline established the "Eight Worlds" setting of many of these tales--a bizarre future in which genetic engineering, sex changes, and arcane pleasures and trades are commonplace. <P>The title story, nominated this year for a Nebula award by the Science Fiction Writers of America, is a haunting treatment of communication beyond our normal senses, an unusually enriching and absorbing work. <P>The last tale in the volume, the one the book is named after, is particularly memorable. It features a man who becomes part of a colony of deaf-mute-blind people, who have developed a highly spiritual means of communicating. <P>Take, for instance, the plight of the hero of "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." All he wanted was a relaxed weekend as a lion; but a meddlesome kid switched a circuit, and his psyche was trapped inside a computer. . . . And what creative spirit wouldn't envy the artist in "The Phantom of Kansas" who composes storms? <P>Most of us feel pretty negatively about skyjackers, but "Air Raid" shows an unexpected rationale for it; "Retrograde Summer," "The Black Hole Passes," and "In the Bowl" are (among other strange things) unique and confusing love stories; "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" is a new and enthralling twist on the planetary castaways theme; and "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" shows what a Tin Pan Alley of the centuries to come might be like.