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The Vengeful Husband (The Husband Hunters Club Series #2)
by Lynne GrahamAdvertising for a husband reunites a single mom with a former one-night stand in this classic marriage of convenience romance by a USA Today bestseller.Race to the altar—Maxie, Darcy, and Polly are the Husband Hunters.The terms of their godmother’s will: Maxie, Darcy and Polly have each been left a share of her estate—if they marry within a year and remain married for six months . . . The hunter:Darcy Fielding, a single mom, decides she must ADVERTISE for a husband! But the consequences of one night of unforgettable passion are about to return to haunt her . . . The husband? Gianluca Raffacani has finally traced the mysterious beauty who disappeared from his bed. She is advertising for a husband—his perfect opportunity for revenge . . . Only, Luca finds he’s married the mother of his secret child!Originally published in 1998.
A Vengeful Passion
by Lynne GrahamA demanding proposition just might lead to a second chance at love in this breathtaking romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.Vito di Cavalieri is the last man Ashley Forrester ever wanted to see again, but her brother’s fate lies in his hands. She must pay whatever price Cavalieri asks to save her brother and protect her secret—their baby . . . His demand: Vito wants her in his bed, as his wife! But the passion he awakens in Ashley surges beneath her shaking defenses and betrays her like never before. Just how will she be able to resist a desire so strong that it threatens to pierce her heart?
Vengo de urgencias
by Fernando Fabiani Laura SantolayaEl autor de Vengo sin cita Fernando Fabiani regresa con un nuevo compendio de anécdotas desternillantes vividas durante el servicio de urgencias. ¿Sabes que si alguna vez has dicho «vengo de urgencias» es muy probable que no lo fuera? ¿Qué pasa cuando rompes aguas pero no es cosa del fontanero? ¿Por qué odiamos tanto los mocos si luego nos encantan los caracoles? ¿Es posible que alguien vaya a urgencias de un hospital por un tirón de pelos? ¿Sabes por qué ahora que todo es light estamos más gordos que nunca? ¿Tiene tanto peligro una tensión descompensada? Y sobre todo... ¿Puede matarte la burbuja de aire del suero? Teodoro Jarcia, Teo para los amigos, es médico de familia. Para el doctor Teo no es fácil ser médico en la actualidad, pero lo sobrelleva como puede. Y como la mayoría de los médicos de nuestro país, está obligado a hacer guardias... Fernando Fabiani, @FernandoFabiani, médico de profesión, construye un relato sobre divertidas y sorprendentes anécdotas del mundo de la medicina, de las guardias y la consulta diaria. Tras el éxito de Vengo sin cita, vuelve para hablar sin pelos en la lengua y con mucho humor de la verdad que esconden las consultas y las urgencias, abordando grandes temas de salud de modo sencillo y divertido. Vengo de urgencias hará las delicias de los sanitarios pero sobretodo enseñará y divertirá a pacientes... vayan o no de urgencias.
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned BeaumanA dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident. The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it&’s all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we&’re never getting them back. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker&’s last-known habitat. Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s—a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state—Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper they&’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing? Virtuosic and profound, witty and despairing, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best.
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground
Venomous Lumpsucker: WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Venus Envy: Power Games, Teenage Vixens, and Million-Dollar Egos on the Women's Tennis Tour
by L. Jon WertheimA behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when attendance and TV ratings for women's tennis are at an all-time high, Sports Illustrated writer L.Jon Wertheim, draws on his investigative talents and knowledge of the game to infiltrate the heretofore closed locker rooms of the women's tour and chronicle this remarkable era in the sport's history. With a narrative sweep that rockets along like a Venus Williams serve, it takes the reader from the year's first Grand Slam tournament--where a top player ignited a firestorm of controversy when she decided to come out-- to Venus' epochal victory at Wimbledon to the U.S. Open where Serena Williams defends her title and all the whistle-stop tournaments in between where the Russian vixen Anna Kournikova sent hormonally challenged teenagers, not to mention male sportswriters, into a frenzy, Venus Envy offers the reader the equivalent of a center-court seat and an all-access locker room pass. The book will contain a wealth of previously unreported, inside-the-locker room anecdotes about the marquee names in women's tennis and should engender much off-the-book-page coverage. There are more identifiable stars than ever before and the rivalries are intense and often rancorous. The book will even appeal to those readers with only a passing interest in tennis since many of the players have transcended the sport, appearing on the covers of magazine like GQ, Rolling Stone and Vogue.
Venus on the Half-Shell
by Philip José FarmerDisaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life&’s big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master. When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions—a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot—and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure. He travels from planet to planet, seeking the definitive answer to the ultimate question: Why are we created if only to suffer and die? Of course, after he drinks an elixir granting him eternal life, the real question is what to do for the rest of eternity after he answers his first question . . . &“Lively and inventive and goes by faster than a holiday weekend.&” —The Washington Post &“A comedy of sexual mores, an investigative search for Love, a lampoon of people who require answers to imponderable questions.&” —Science Fiction Review&“Not only a science-fiction epic of the most incredible proportions, but it is also a satiric-fantasy, a clever parody of its own genre.&” —The Daily Eastern News
Venus's Vanishing Vase: An I.P.P.I. Mystery Story
by Kristin O'Donnell TubbIn this story, four friends who are members of the InterPlanetary Private Investigators solve a mystery that takes place on the planet Venus.
Vera (Domaine Etranger Ser. #2)
by Elizabeth Von ArnimA handsome stranger enters Lucy Entwhistle's life on the very day of her father's death. Everard Wemyss is mourning the recent loss of his wife, and he and Lucy are drawn together in their shared experience of grief. A remarkable bond forms between the despairing couple, the thought of separation proves intolerable, and they are quickly married and settled into Everard's isolated country home, The Willows. But everything about the mansion is shadowed with the specter of Vera, its previous mistress. As Everard gradually becomes increasingly overbearing and abusive, Lucy begins to wonder about the circumstances of Vera's "accidental" death. This darkly comic novel by the author of Enchanted April is believed to have inspired the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca. Elizabeth von Arnim based Vera on her own ill-starred marriage to a member of the British aristocracy. Her 1921 novel offers a witty and compelling look at a sinister possibility of a marriage in which a self-absorbed bully can exploit a naïve young woman, and romantic delusions can keep a wife in thrall to her husband's tyranny.
Vera y su mundo: LoveInApp 1 (LoveInApp #Volumen 1)
by Susana RubioSusana Rubio presenta Vera y su mundo, el primer libro de su nueva saga «LoveInApp». Un grupo de amigos inseparables. Una idea genial en una noche de fiesta. Una pareja que parece muy feliz. Otra que esconde su amor. Y Alejandro, el mellizo insolente que va a mover los cimientos de Vera y su mundo. ¿Quieres conocer su historia? Nueva saga de Susana Rubio después de dar el salto a las librerías con la saga Alexia; Tengo un whatsapp; la bilogía Todas mis amigas y Todos mis amigos; y las saga En Roma (Arrivederci, amor, Ciao, bonita y Buonasera, princesa).
Un verano en Nueva York (Los diarios de Carrie #Volumen 2)
by Candace BushnellDescubre cómo Carrie Bradshaw, la inolvidable protagonista de Sexo en Nueva York, dio sus primeros pasos en la gran manzana. En Nueva York el verano es mágico. Y aún más si tienes diecisiete años y te mueven unas ganas locas de comerte el mundo. Carrie Bradshaw tiene dos meses para exprimir al máximo la ciudad y cumplir sus sueños: convertirse en escritora de éxito y encontrar el amor verdadero. Por suerte, sesenta días (con sus noches) dan para mucho en la Gran Manzana# En las primeras veinticuatro horas ya le han robado el bolso, ha ido a una fiesta llena de personajes extravagantes, ha conocido a un escritor famoso (y atractivo) y ha despertado en el sofá de una chica que adora los zapatos. ¿Y si todos los días van a ser así? ¿Y si con tanta actividad social no consigue centrarse en su curso de escritura? ¿Y si no es lo bastante buena... y debe regresar a su antigua vida? Reseñas:«Fascinante y muy entretenido.»Helen Fielding, autora de El diario de Bridget Jones «De obligada lectura.»Marie Claire
Un verano que promete (Colección Judy Moody #Volumen 10)
by Megan McDonald¿Podrán Judy Moody y sus amigos convertir un aburrido verano en algo absolutamente diferente? Judy Moody tenía ganas de pasar el mejor verano de su vida. Pero, claro, eso era antes de enterarse de que sus padres se iban a California y su tía se iba a quedar a cargo de ella. Además, tendrá que quedarse con su hermano pequeño, Stink, y cuidar de él. Pero, cuando el verano empezaba a volverse demasiado aburrido, Judy Moody tiene una idea fabulosa: retar a sus amigos a una emocionante carrera en busca del verano más raro y divertido que hayan podido imaginar.
Verbolario
by Rodrigo CortésRodrigo Cortés regresa a las librerías con Verbolario: diccionario satírico, humorístico y poético, que, con sus más de dos mil definiciones y siete años de trabajo a la espalda, se atreve a enmendarle la plana al diccionario. «Verbolario es un milagro sostenido».Manuel Jabois Toda palabra tiene su significado oculto —su significado verdadero— acechante entre sus pliegues con la astucia del salteador de caminos; se desvela sólo con el uso y sólo ante la perspicacia y el oído, que son el mismo sentido. Rodrigo Cortés reinventa el lenguaje y hace confesar a cada voz su auténtico propósito. Verbolario no define las palabras: las desnuda. La crítica ha dicho:«Selvático y misterioso antidiccionario en que las palabras vuelven a ser territorios a la espera de ser explorados».Laura Fernández «Verbolario es el saloncillo antes de la obra, los camerinos llenos de secretos del diccionario».José Luis Garci «Cortés desvela una realidad que nadie había visto en el lenguaje: las palabras también juegan con nosotros».Jesús García Calero, ABC Cultural «¿Puede un libro ser a la vez diccionario, manual de humor, tratado filosófico y poemario? En manos de Rodrigo Cortés puede».Juan Gómez-Jurado «Con talento y picardía, Rodrigo Cortés logra ponerle a cada palabra de este Verbolario la espina precisa para que el pinchazo nos resulte puñeteramente gozoso».Fernando Aramburu «Enciclopedia ilustrada que mira el mundo con la sabiduría del viejo y la inocencia del niño».Ana Iris Simón «Carcajadas, sonrisas y la leve incomodidad que produce la verdad cuando anda desnuda».Sergio del Molino
La Verdad (Mundodisco #Volumen 25)
by Terry PratchettLa verdad, vigesimoquinta novela de la serie de fantasía de culto «Mundodisco», es una exquisita parodia y reflexión sobre el mundo de la prensa y todo lo que le rodea: el poder de la pluma y el papel, la opinión pública, las presiones sobre el periodista, la prensa amarilla, la búsqueda de la imparcialidad... Todo en el más puro estilo pratchettiano. O pratchéttico. O pratchettense. Sea como sea, ya es hora de usarlo como adjetivo. Dicen que las mentiras pueden dar la vuelta al mundo antes de que la verdad tenga tiempor de calzarse las botas... A William de Worde, editor accidental del primer periódico del Mundodisco, siempre le ha preocupado la naturaleza de la verdad. Sabe que se esconde en lugares improbables y cuenta con sirvientes extraños. Pero, mientras la busca, no le queda más remedio que lidiar con los tradicionales problemas de la profesión periodística, como que... ... todos creen que quieren noticias, pero lo que realmente ansían es leer las cosas que ya saben... ... en cuanto abre el cuaderno y empuña el lápiz, muchos se le acercan sonrientes y formales, otros enmudecen y algunos preferirían directamente verlo muerto... ... y de alguna, de alguna forma, las hortalizas con formas graciosas siempre terminan colándose en cada edición. Competencia feroz. Titulares. Erratas. Cobrar cada semana. Y para colmo, la prensa nunca deja de tener hambre: hay que llenar espacio a toda costa. Aunque tal vez lo que se ha escrito solo sea cierto hasta la próxima edición. Porque si la verdad se calza las botas, correr tras las mentiras no es lo único que puede hacer. Reseña:«En otras palabras, léase esta recomendación como un grito a la cara: ¡Tiene que leer este libro!»The Washington Post
La verdadera historia de la Bella Durmiente
by Gabriela Fuenzalida Christopher BunnROSAMONDE Quizá les es familiar la historia de la Bella Durmiente, por mi parte, siempre la he creído aburrida, así como el resto de los cuentos; ha sido relatada de muy diferentes maneras: algunas malas, algunas pasables y otras simplemente horribles. Ustedes ya saben de qué se trata: al enterarse de que no la invitan al bautizo de la recién nacida hija de los reyes, la malvada bruja se enfada y la pone bajo un conjuro mil veces peor que el agravio. Luego de crecer y llegar a ser insoportablemente bella, un día se pincha el dedo con una rueca y cae dormida por miles de años... hasta que con un dulce beso un guapo príncipe la despierta y rompe el hechizo. Ellos viven felices por siempre, hasta que mueren de viejos. Aunque en esta historia no se habla ni de viejos ni de muerte, porque la gente no gusta mucho de leer acerca de gente vieja que muere. De todos modos, aquella historia es una sarta de mentiras, lo sé muy bien, porque la historia de la Bella Durmiente se basó en mi historia.
Vergangene Nostalgien
by Mario Espinosa»Vergangene Nostalgien« ist eine Sammlung von Kindheitserinnerungen, in denen sich der Autor in seiner gewohnt ironischen Art an seine Kindheit und Jugend erinnert, aber diesmal umgeben von der Zärtlichkeit und Schönheit dieser fast schon mystifizierten Erinnerungen. Einige dieser »Nostalgien« wurden bereits im Jahr 2016 erfolgreich in verschiedenen literarischen sozialen Kanälen veröffentlicht. Die Leser erinnerten sich durch die Erfahrungen des Protagonisten an eigene Erlebnisse. Entweder, weil sie ähnliche Situationen durchlebt hatten oder weil es sie an etwas erinnerte, das bereits vergessen war. Dieses Wiedererkennen gab es nicht nur bei Lesern in Spanien, sondern man fand auch Gemeinsamkeiten in Argentinien oder Mexiko. Schließlich hören Kinder nicht auf, Kinder zu sein, weil sie sich auf der anderen Seite des Planeten befinden. Kehre zurück, um die Freude wieder zu erleben, wenn man dir einen Comic gekauft hat. Das pure Entsetzen, wenn es darum ging, den Zahnarzt aufzusuchen. Die Freude im Sommer am Strand. Die einfachen Geburtstage deiner Kindheit, wie sie im letzten Viertel des letzten Jahrhunderts üblich waren. Aber Vorsicht, vielleicht wirst du überrascht, wie ähnlich dieses Buch den Anfängen deiner eigenen Biografie ist....
Verhext und abgedreht: (Verhexte Westwick-Krimis #3) (Verhexte Westwick-Krimis #3)
by Colleen CrossLICHT, KAMERA, MORD! Ein Hollywood-Blockbuster soll in Westwick Corners gedreht werden und Reporterin Cendrine wittert ihre große Chance. Ihre Hexenfamilie will sich die Action keinesfalls entgehen lassen, doch das Geplänkel mit den Hollywoodgrößen führt schon bald zu einer handfesten Tragödie in der Traumfabrik. Ein Mord geschieht schneller, als dass die Kamera ihn einfangen kann, und alle Hinweise zeigen auf Cennys ruhmsüchtige Familie. Nichts und niemand kann die rivalisierenden Tanten auf ihrer Jagd nach übernatürlichem Starruhm aufhalten, nicht einmal eine Mordermittlung. Die Hexen fabrizieren ein filmreifes Chaos und lassen dadurch beinahe einen Mörder entkommen. Cenny muss auf ihre eigenen Kräfte zurückgreifen, um ihre Familie im Zaum zu halten. Wird sie jedoch den Mörder zur Strecke bringen können, bevor er erneut zuschlägt? Willkommen im Wilden WESTen! Wenn Sie unterhaltsame Krimis mit einem Schuss Humor und etwas Zauberkraft mögen, dann wird es Ihnen in Westwick Corners gefallen. ***** Westwick Corners ist keine typische Kleinstadt. Auch keine typische Geisterstadt. Hierher zieht es Menschen, die nicht gefunden werden wollen, und Hexen, die ihrer Arbeit nachgehen können, ohne viel Aufsehen zu erregen. Diese Mischung sorgt für spannende und zugleich humorvolle Kriminalgeschichten, in denen die Hexen im Mittelpunkt stehen! Rubys Kochkünste, Cendrines Aktivitäten als Hobbydetektivin und Tante Pearls Zauberschule – alle sind drauf ausgerichtet, endlich diesen einen Funken zu finden, um die Kleinstadt Westwick Corners wiederzubeleben und ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienen zu können. Ständig erarbeiten die Hexen neue Geschäftsideen, wie das Westwick Corners Inn (Bed & Breakfast), den Scheiterhaufen (Bar) und natürlich Pearls Schule der Zauberei. Schade nur, dass sie bei ihrem Bestreben ständig abgelenkt werden – von all den merkwürdigen Dingen, die in Westwick Corners so v
Verity and the Forbidden Suitor: A Novel (The DuBells #2)
by J.J. McAvoy&“Bridgerton lovers have found their next read. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.&”—New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, on Aphrodite and the DukeAn heiress and an outcast—a match made for scandal . . .With her brother, the Duke of Everely, married off to the beautiful and charming Aphrodite Du Bell, Verity Eagleman feels more alone than ever within the cold halls of the family estate. So when she&’s invited to stay in the Du Bells&’ clamorous, boisterous home, she leaps at the chance.When Verity crosses paths with Theodore Darrington, the doctor who saved her brother&’s life, she can&’t help but notice how her heart flutters anytime he is near. But as the estranged bastard son of the Marquess of Whitmear, Theodore is forbidden to pursue anyone of the noble set. Despite being popular among the ton for both his heroic efforts and handsome charm, Theodore knows that no amount of social capital will allow him to be with the woman he secretly loves. Luckily for him, Verity has never cared much for the rules of society.A forbidden romance blossoms as Verity and Theodore give in to their all-consuming passion, with any thought of scandal flung to the side. But when the concerns of their friends and family begin to loom over their love, will they truly be able to break the rules?
Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel (Vernon Subutex #2)
by Virginie DespentesPart social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk’s celebrity fortunes and misfortunes. Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It’s a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench. He has tapes of Alex that will shake the world. The hunt is on, and the wolves are closing in.Meanwhile, the cast of lovers and killers in Vernon’s orbit is in violent disarray. Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, the porn star Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever Céleste thinks of her plan. Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex’s gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss’s assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him.Big-shot producer Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT."Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read . . . [It] has dupes and assholes and racists and the people they hate and a stunning diversity of internal monologues and trans true love. Like the last decade, it searches for a happy ending that isn’t merely personal and can’t find it . . . These novels with their depth and detail kick TV's sorry ass." —Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books Of The 2010s"
Vernon Subutex 3: A Novel (Vernon Subutex #3)
by Virginie DespentesOne of Vulture's most anticipated books of 2021Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! —The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock trilogy.As storm clouds gather, portending a final reckoning, ersatz rave-cult leader Vernon Subutex decides to return to Paris. Even if it means leaving behind his disciples. He has to. He’s got a dentist’s appointment.Back in the city, he learns that an old friend from his days homeless on the Paris streets has died and left him half of a lottery win. But when Vernon returns to his commune with news of this windfall, it’s not long before his disciples turn on each other. Such good fortune does not accord with the principles Vernon has handed down.Meanwhile, the monstrous film producer Laurent Dopalet is determined to make Aïcha and Céleste pay for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt. And, before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city and era will be forced to confront one another one last time. In the wake of all this chaos and hate, the question will rise again: After all he’s been through, who is Vernon Subutex? And the answer: He is the future.Virginie Despentes’s epochal trilogy ends with Vernon Subutex 3—in fire, blood, and even forgiveness. But not everyone will survive to see the dawning of the golden age of Subutex.
Vernon's Questions
by Dan CrawfordTwo brothers take a seat in the living room to watch cartoons on TV, but find something more interesting out the window.
Veronica #28 Facsimile Edition (Archie Facsimile Edition #2)
by Archie SuperstarsDive into this special replica of this beloved issue of VERONICA #28 faithfully reprinted in a full-facsimile edition!