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Aiding & Abetting
by Muriel Spark

ISBN 0385720904 (0-385-72090-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Aiding and Abetting
by Muriel Spark

ISBN 0385501536 (0-385-50153-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis

ISBN 8495501473 (84-95501-47-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar. [via]
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan

ISBN 3257232845 (3-257-23284-5)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlage

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The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0061146307 (0-06-114630-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Make no mistake. The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed," laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. But of course what follows is dreadful. The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they--and their family fortune--are in real trouble. Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. While it's true that the events that unfold in Lemony Snicket's novels are bleak, and things never turn out as you'd hope, these delightful, funny, linguistically playful books are reminiscent of Roald Dahl (remember James and the Giant Peach and his horrid spinster aunts), Charles Dickens (the orphaned Pip in Great Expectations without the mysterious benefactor), and Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Tinies). There is no question that young readers will want to read the continuing unlucky adventures of the Baudelaire children in The Reptile Room and The Wide Window. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Bad Beginning
by Daniel Handler, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0064407667 (0-06-440766-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Hardcover Publisher: Harper Collins (1999) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1" Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds [via]
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The Bad Beginning Private
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0060837462 (0-06-083746-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0385334206 (0-385-33420-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 038533348X (0-385-33348-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684833395 (0-684-83339-5)
Softcover, Scribner

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There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]
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Charlie Y El Gran Ascensor De Cristal/Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
by Roald Dahl

ISBN 8420448591 (84-204-4859-1)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc

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El señor Wonka ha cedido a Charlie su gigantesca y fabulosa fábrica de chocolate. Acompañado por su familia, Charlie se monta en un gran ascensor de cristal que sube y sube hasta entrar en órbita. Al llegar al espacio, se encuentran con personajes monstruosos y viven maravillosas aventuras. [via]
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Charlie y la Fabrica De Chocolate / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

ISBN 8420447714 (84-204-4771-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Un clásico de niños- [via]
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco

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For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

ISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Dead School
by Patrick McCabe

ISBN 038531423X (0-385-31423-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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From the award-winning author of The Butcher Boy comes a new novel of extraordinary power that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "confirm[s] McCabe's standing as one of the most brilliant writers to ever come out of Ireland."

In The Dead School, Patrick McCabe returns to the emotionally dense landscape of small-town Ireland to explore the inner lives of two men: a headmaster and a schoolteacher, each man the product of a soul-stifling culture, each battling his own demons of loss and betrayal. Tension coils--until tragedy strikes a young student in their charge, and the latent despair and rage that has festered in their hearts explodes onto the page. As in The Butcher Boy, McCabe demonstrates his remarkable command of the vernacular and an uncanny ability to pinpoint the exact moment when ordinary minds take flight into madness. Equally compelling, equally heartbreaking in its impact, The Dead School has established McCabe as one of the most celebrated writers of literary fiction today. [via]
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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791059251 (0-7910-5925-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers
by Nicholas Fearn

ISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky, Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Fearn discovers that the topics havent changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, Philosophy is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical thought.
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Marie and Bruce: A Play
by Wallace Shawn

ISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current clichés about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through breakfast, a friends party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn brilliantly orchestrates her savage attacks and his slyly passive defenses into a symphony of subversive propositions about the nature of the marital state.
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Master I Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Pavel Orinianskii

ISBN 5897090033 (5-89709-003-3)
Hardcover, Kulturno-prosvetitelskii fond imeni narodnogo artista Sergeia Stoliarova

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Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Pedro Barbadillo, Quentin Blake

ISBN 9681903269 (968-19-0326-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Matilda es una lectora empedernida con sólo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide desquitarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull. [via]
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Mientras Agonizo / As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner, Javier Coy, Mariano Antolin Rato

ISBN 8437608341 (84-376-0834-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0385334141 (0-385-33414-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of its themes. It is one of the blackest comedies ever. [via]
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Peter Greenaway : The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
by Peter Greenaway

ISBN 2906571113 (2-906571-11-3)
Softcover, Dis Voir Editions

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The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
Softcover, Spring Arbor Distributors

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This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
Softcover, Time-Life Books

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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guide
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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Slaughter House Five
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Slaughtermatic
by Steve Aylett

ISBN 1568581033 (1-56858-103-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr

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Steve Aylett's Slaughtermatic is enacted in a parodic, cyberpunk world in which crime has become an individualistic and self-evolutionary art. Dante, the protagonist, plans to rob a bank with the help of Download Jones, a human meat puppet whose personality is live on the Net, and Kid Entropy, whose Kafkacell weapon bonds with his psyche to produce a suicide-wannabe who can only kill others. With the vault scan code in his pocket, Dante is duplicated in a time shift that puts him virtually ahead of the actual event--and able to enter the vault undetected. His crime and the action-filled plot become complicated when his second self, Dante Two, refuses to sacrifice himself as planned, murderous Brute Parker is set on Dante's trail, and Rosa Control takes matters into her own razor-bladed hands. Into the melee steps Eddie Gamete, the presumed-dead postmodern prankster-philosopher, Dante's only hero and the author of The Impossible Plot of Biff Barbanel, a book no reader can survive. Expectations about what and who is real change like television channels in Dante's world, where fates much worse than death await. [via]
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Un Mal Principio
by Lemony Snicket

ISBN 9685958300 (968-5958-30-0)
Softcover, Montena

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The Vaudevilles
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann Dunnigan

ISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." [via]
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Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
by D. B. C. Pierre

ISBN 1841954608 (1-84195-460-8)
Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd

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If there's any justice, it is only a matter of time before the work of the curiously-named D B C Pierre becomes essential for anyone interested in cutting-edge writing today. Vernon God Little is a book that has a totally individual (and very quirky) identity, from a writer with a finger on the pulse of contemporary society (particularly its less comfortable aspects). Pierre is also a satirical writer in the vein of such talents as Terry Southern, and there is a manic quality to his work that makes the experience of reading him both disorienting and exhilarating. As a first novel, this is a remarkable achievement.
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing (rather than the real culprit, a friend of Vernon's). Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio. After a truly surrealistic set of events, Vernon finds himself heading for a fateful assignation in Mexico with the delectable Taylor Figueros (everyone in the book has names as odd as the author's).
By setting his novel in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Pierre ensures that his narrative is going to be some distance from naturalistic writing. And as a scalpel-like satirical incision into the mores of contemporary America, reality TV and media hysteria, Vernon God Little often reads like a fractured modern-day take on such novels as John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell
by Peter Whiteford, Ursula Bethell

ISBN 0864735049 (0-86473-504-9)
Softcover, Victoria Univ Pr

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Ursula Bethell was a modernist poet who helped shape New Zealand's literary scene between the two world wars. This collection of letters tells the story of her early life of travel and social work in Europe and opens a window on her subsequent writerly life as she describes the origins of many of her poems.
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Within Heaven's Gates
by Rebecca Springer

ISBN 0883681250 (0-88368-125-0)
Softcover, Whitaker House

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Rebecca Springer shares the wonders and joys of her glorious vision of heaven as she offers hope for the future of mankind. Through this uplifting book, get a glimpse of the eternal home that awaits believers as well as inspiration to continue in your spiritual walk. Come venture Within Heaven's Gates! [via]
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Cartas Del Diablo a Su Sobrino
by C. S. Lewis, Miguel Marias

ISBN 006114004X (0-06-114004-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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El eterno clásico sobre "las últimas novedades del Infierno y las irrebatibles respuestas del Cielo"
Esta clásica obra maestra de sátira ha entretenido e iluminado a lectores alrededor del mundo con su irónica y astuta representación de la vida y las debilidades humanas desde el punto de vista de Escrutopo, el asistente de alto rango de "Nuestro Padre de Abajo." En este divertidísimo, muy serio y excepcionalmente original libro, C. S. Lewis comparte con nosotros la correspondencia entre el viejo diablo y su sobrino Orugario, un novato demonio encargado de asegurarse de la condenación de un joven hombre.
Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino es la historia más atractiva acerca de la tentación -- y el triunfo sobre ella -- jamás escrita.
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La Conjura De Los Necios
by T.j. Kennedy

ISBN 8433920421 (84-339-2042-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes mas memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly, quien a los treinta anos vive con una estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teologia y geometria" como de "decencia y buen gusto". Un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve "catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporanea", fiebre a la que Igantius anadira unos cuantos grados mas. En Francia, esta novela fue galardonada como la mejor del ano en lengua extranjera. [via]
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La Conjura De Los Necios/a Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

ISBN 8496333604 (84-96333-60-4)
Softcover, Quinteto

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El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes mas memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly, quien a los treinta anos vive con una estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teologiÂa y geometriÂa" como de "decencia y buen gusto". Un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve "catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporanea", fiebre a la que Igantius anadira unos cuantos grados mas. En Francia, esta novela fue galardonada como la mejor del ano en lengua extranjera. [via]
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, Enrique Tejedor

ISBN 8433920383 (84-339-2038-3)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.

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Esta es la historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceañera Lolita. Es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion "perversa" por las ninfulas y el incesto. Narrada con autoironia y lirismo desenfrenado, es tambien un retrato acido y visionario de los Estados Unidos, de los horrores suburbanos y de la cultura del plastico y del motel. [via]
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Matilda
by Not Available

ISBN 8420464546 (84-204-6454-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Matilda es una lectora empedernida con sólo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide desquitarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull. [via]
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Transpoitting
by I. Welsh

ISBN 843396643X (84-339-6643-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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Un Mal Principio
by Nestor Busquets, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0307209342 (0-307-20934-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Bad Beginning is actually a great beginning. It's the first book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of unfortunate Events, a wonderfully different and disastrous children's story starring three highly unlucky siblings. [via]
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