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Desolate Places (Callie Anson Mysteries #5)
by Kate Charles“For lovers of British mystery, you can't top KC to shine a humane yet revealing light on crime, faith, family, love and human frailty in her compelling mysteries. Highly recommended!”—Deborah Crombie, New York Times bestselling authorWith a wedding on the way, and her demanding job as a curate in an affluent London parish, Callie Anson has enough on her plate to keep her busy. But she soon finds herself called to minister to a segment of her parish that she barely knew existed: the virtually invisible people – most of them foreign, some of them illegal – working in difficult conditions, for inadequate pay, in downmarket tourist hotels. How can she square her ordination vows to be a servant to the most vulnerable with her desire to be honest with her fiancé, policeman Mark Lombardi?Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is torn between the needs of his pregnant wife and the demands of his job when he is made Senior Investigating Officer on the case of a woman found dead in one of the tourist hotels. The death itself is not surprising, but the victim is. What was well-to-do Felicity Chapman doing in the Regent Hotel? Before Neville can get to the bottom of it, another death shakes him to the core.
Desolation
by Tim LebbonA young man recently released from psychiatric care moves into a strange new home. His neighbors are a unique and possibly deadly cast of characters.
Desolation Angels
by James AxlerBETRAYED BY TOMORROW A hundred years after the nukecaust, the tortured landscape of postapocalyptic America offers a brutal fight for survival. Yet tech secrets lie hidden, useful to those brave and strong enough to believe that hope can carry them toward ever-elusive peace. BAD TO THE BONE Violent gangs, a corrupt mayor and a heavily armed police force are the hallmarks of former Detroit, a mutie-infested, rubble-strewn metropolis. When Ryan and the companions show up, the Desolation Angels are waging a war to rule the streets. After saving the companions from being chilled by gangsters, the mayor hires Ryan and his friends to stop the Angels cold. But each hard blow toward victory proves there's no good side to be fighting for. As Motor City erupts into bloody conflagration, the companions are caught in the crossfire. In Deathlands, hell is called home.
Desolation Angels: A Novel (Paladin Bks.)
by Jack KerouacDesolation Angels is the wild and soulful autobiographical story that covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the year of the legendary road trip that led up to the publication of On the Road in 1957. Told through the persona of Jack Duluoz, who is accompanied by Kerouac’s thinly disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William Burroughs, Desolation Angels chronicles their move from isolated mountains to travels across the world. From the bars and jazz clubs of San Francisco to Mexico City, New York, Paris, London, and the opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac tells of their poetry, parties, mountain vigils, and spiritual contemplation in classic Kerouac fashion: with unsurpassable energy and humanity.
Desolation Angels: A Novel (Paladin Bks.)
by Jack KerouacA young man searches for meaning, creates art, and grapples with fame as he traverses the stomping grounds of the Beat Generation--from Mexico City to Manhattan--in Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel <P><P> This urgently paced yet deeply introspective novel closely tracks On the Road author Jack Kerouac's own life. Jack Duluoz journeys from the Cascade Mountains to San Francisco, Mexico City, New York, and Tangier. While working as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the Cascades, Duluoz contemplates his inner void and the distressing isolation brought on by his youthful sense of adventure. In Tangier he suffers a similar feeling of desperation during an opium overdose, and in Mexico City he meets up with a morphine-addicted philosopher and seeks an antidote to his solitude in a whorehouse. As in Kerouac's other novels, Desolation Angels features a lively cast of pseudonymous versions of his fellow Beat poets, including William S. Burroughs (as Bull Hubbard), Neal Cassady (as Cody Pomeray), and Allen Ginsberg (as Irwin Garden). Duluoz draws readers into the trials and tribulations of these literary iconoclasts--from drug-fueled writing frenzies and alcoholic self-realizations to frenetic international road trips and tumultuous love affairs. Achieving literary success comes with its own consequences though, as Duluoz and his friends must face the scrutiny that comes with rising to the national stage.
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2)
by Arkady MartineA Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. <p><p>An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger…. <p><p>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2)
by Arkady MartineA Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. <P><P> An alien terror could spell our end. <P><P> An alien threat lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is supposed to win a war against it. <P><P> In a desperate attempt to find a diplomatic solution, the fleet captain has sent for an envoy to contact the mysterious invaders. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass – both still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire – face an impossible task: they must attempt to negotiate with a hostile entity, without inadvertently triggering the destruction of themselves and the Empire. <P><P> Whether they succeed or fail could change the face of Teixcalaan forever.
Desolation Creek (A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West #5)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneLegendary national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with the latest gun-blazing installment in their newest Smoke Jensen series.JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE DYING AIN&’T MUCH OF A LIVING. Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn&’t always an entrepreneur. He&’s more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk. Preacher&’s attackers have taken over the town of Desolation Creek deep in Montana Territory. Their scurrilous leader, Vernon &“Venom&” McFadden, has his men harrassing terrified homesteaders and townsfolk to get his hands on nearby property that&’s rumored to be rich with gold. Smoke and his helpmates drift into town one by one with a plan to root out Venom&’s gang of prairie rats and put the big blast on each and every one.
Desolation Crossing (Deathlands #87)
by James AxlerSurvival is a dangerous enterprise in the aftermath of a nuked America. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new frontier of the future, survivors by skill and legends by reputation. The legend of the trader returns in the simmering dust bowl of the Badlands, the past calling out to armorer J. B. Dix. Her name is Eula. Young, silent and lethal, she's part of a new trading convoy quick to invite Ryan Cawdor and his band on a journey across the hostile terrain. But high-tech hardware, fast wags, flowing jack and friendly words don't tell the real story behind a vendetta that is years in the making.
Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin Novels #5)
by Patrick O'Brian"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."—Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy—and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes...
Desolation Island
by Adolfo García OrtegaAs the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile's southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a photograph of his grandparents embracing a strange automaton that now lives in the Punta Arenas museum.This fearsome metal warrior is a sixteenth-century robot from a proposed mechanical army, commissioned to guard the straight against the English. It was discovered on the island by a grieving woman scouring the archipelago for the bodies of her shipwrecked husband and son, and is now the curious axis around which countless stories spin, surrounded by the terrible yet mesmerizing sea...
Desolation Mountain: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #17)
by William Kent KruegerA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger delivers another heart-pounding thriller filled with &“dynamic action scenes&” (The New York Times) as Cork O&’Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the death of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To Stephen O&’Connor, Hamlet&’s dour observation is more than just words. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen. The crash of a private plane on Desolation Mountain in a remote part of the Iron Lake Reservation, which kills a United States senator and most of her family, confirms Stephen&’s worst fears. Stephen joins his father, Cork O&’Connor and a few Ojibwe men from the nearby Iron Lake reservation to sift through the smoldering wreckage when the FBI arrives and quickly assumes control of the situation. As he initiates his own probe, Cork stumbles upon a familiar face in Bo Thorson, a private security consultant whose unnamed clients have hired him to look quietly into the cause of the crash. The men agree to join forces in their investigation, but soon Cork begins to wonder if Thorson&’s loyalties lie elsewhere. Roadblocked by lies from the highest levels of government, uncertain who to trust, and facing growing threats the deeper they dig for answers, Cork, Stephen, and Bo finally understand that to get to the truth, they will have to face the great menace, a beast of true evil lurking in the woods—a beast with a murderous intent of unimaginable scale. Krueger delivers yet another &“punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction&” (Booklist, starred review).
Desolation Road (Torpedo Ink #4)
by Christine FeehanTake the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Torpedo Ink is Aleksei &“Absinthe&” Solokov&’s whole life. They&’re his brothers, his family—his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That&’s why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed man whose eyes follow her every move. She senses he's dangerous. She wants him to get close enough to touch. She wishes she could let him know the real woman, not the one she pretends to be. But Scarlet has a plan to carry out, and she can&’t afford any distractions. Absinthe is well aware that Scarlet is hiding something. She&’s a puzzle he intends to solve, piece by intoxicating piece….
Desolation Road (Torpedo Ink #4)
by Christine FeehanTake the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family and his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush.For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed man whose eyes follow her every move. She senses he's dangerous. She wants him to get close enough to touch. She wishes she could let him know the real woman, not the one she pretends to be. But Scarlet has a plan to carry out, and she can't afford any distractions.Absinthe is well aware that Scarlet is hiding something. She's a puzzle he intends to solve, piece by intoxicating piece . . .Find out why readers are OBSESSED with Christine Feehan'The queen of paranormal romance' USA Today'After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon, Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper' Time'Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels' Publishers Weekly'The erotic, gripping series that's defined an entire genre! Must reading that always satisfies!' J.R. Ward
Desolation Road (Desolation Road #1)
by Ian McdonaldIt all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel), to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town's founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child - grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with - and married - the same woman.REVIEWS"Ian McDonald's Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It's an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics... Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrne's Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury's entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again." - Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing)"McDonald's first novel, it absolutely bowled me over when it came out, and while I have read everything he's published since, and admire all of it and like most of it, this remains my favourite... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable... If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint, because it isn't like anything else and yet it is coming from a knowledge of what the genre can do and can be and making something new out of it." - Jo Walton (Tor.com)"This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis... Extraordinary and more than that!" - Philip José Farmer
Desolation Road (Desolation Road Ser. #1)
by Ian McDonaldIt all started thirty years ago on Mars. By the time it was finished, the town of Desolation Road had been witness to every abnormality yet seen on the Red Planet. From Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza, to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar, nowhere else boasts such sights for the wandering lucky traveller.
Desolation Road (Desolation Road #1)
by Ian McdonaldStyle and characterization as well as an intriguing plot are at the heart of this novel about the settlement of Mars
The Desolations of Devil's Acre: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #6)
by Ransom RiggsThe epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine&’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs!Jacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history&’s most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. The Desolations of Devil's Acre is the newest installment, and final adventure, in the beloved Miss Peregrine&’s Peculiar Children series. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began—his grandfather&’s house. Jacob doesn&’t know how they escaped from V&’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil&’s Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations—weather fronts of ash and blood and bone—a terrible portent of Caul&’s amassing army. Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains—deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret location.
El desorden de tu nombre
by Juan José MillásUn libro seductor y gozoso, un clásico de Juan José Millás. Cuando Julio Orgaz, ejecutivo de una empresa editorial, sale cada martes y viernes de la consulta del psicoanalista, encuentra en el parque a Laura, mujer casada que le atrae inexplicablemente y de la que en poco tiempo se enamora. Pero la mirada de Julio descubre a veces, en el rostro de Laura, los rasgos de otra mujer a la que amó. En El desorden de tu nombre, el autor juega hábilmente con las líneas invisibles entre realidad y ficción a la vez que hace gala de una escritura prodigiosamente original y de una penetración psicológica desvergonzada en sus reveladores aciertos. Reseña:«Juan José Millás entremezcla lo verdadero con lo hipotético, tejiendo una novela singular en la que el deseo de vivir y el deseo de amar se confunden.»Rolling Stone
Desorientación
by Elisa IglesiasQuién no ha pensado alguna vez en dejarlo todo e irse a un pueblo a plantar tomates o libros de poesía. Cambiar de vida, comprar los seis tomos de En busca del tiempo perdido o releer El hombre sin atributos de Robert Musil son fantasías con que la vida nos engaña mientras, cruelmente cotidiana, se ríe de nosotros. Aviso de lectura Claudia, la protagonista y narradora de esta novela, se ha comprado una casa en el campo y cultiva tomates, aunque su vida social y las raíces de sus deseos siguen siendo urbanas. En la narrativa española de hoy, la fragmentada, la astillada o la apuntalada con andamios decimonónicos, vivir en las contradicciones aparece como el colmo de la complejidad. De ahí que abunden los personajes que sin haber participado en ninguna batalla nos ofrecen el glamour de sus derrotas, o proliferen las historias, en clave novela negra o en clave novela cursi, con mucho desgarro afectivo pero bien avalado por una tarjeta de crédito familiar, profesional o personal. Claudia está hasta el pelo de divagaciones y paralíticas preguntas. Dice adiós al miedo y viaja en busca de una amiga que sin previo aviso ha roto con todo y se ha ido a la India. Se atreve, al menos, a escuchar una respuesta. Y descubre que si las preguntas nos reconfortan, las respuestas nos desorientan. Lo que en estos tiempos no es poco. Al menos nos sacan de esas autopistas vivenciales «que van a dar en la mar, que es el morir». Al parecer, tampoco en los hoteles de la India ni en las cumbres del Himalaya la verdad es una mercancía que se pueda comprar fácilmente.
Desorientación
by Elisa IglesiasQuién no ha pensado alguna vez en dejarlo todo e irse a un pueblo a plantar tomates o libros de poesía. Cambiar de vida, que nos toque la lotería, comprar los seis tomos de En busca del tiempo perdido o releer El hombre sin atributos de Robert Musil son fantasías con que la vida nos engaña mientras, cruelmente cotidiana, se ríe de nosotros. Cuando conocemos a Claudia, la protagonista y narradora de esta novela, ella también se ha comprado una casa en el campo y cultiva tomates aunque su vida social y las raíces de sus deseos siguen siendo urbanas.En la narrativa española de hoy, la fragmentada, la astillada o la apuntalada con andamios decimonónicos, vivir en las contradicciones aparece como el colmo de la complejidad. De ahí que abunden los personajes que sin haber participado en ninguna batalla nos ofrecen el glamour de sus derrotas, o proliferen las historias, en clave de novela negra o en clave novela cursi, con mucho desgarro afectivo pero bien avalado por una tarjeta de crédito familiar, profesional o personal.Claudia está hasta el pelo de divagaciones y paralíticas preguntas. Dice adiós al miedo y viaja en busca de una amiga que sin previo aviso ha roto con todo y se ha ido a la India. Se atreve, al menos, a escuchar una respuesta. Y descubre que si las preguntas nos reconfortan, las respuestas nos desorientan. Lo que en estos tiempos no es poco. Al menos nos sacan de esas autopistas vivenciales #que van a dan en la mar, que es el morir. Al parecer, tampoco en los hoteles de la India ni en las cumbres del Himalaya la verdad es una mercancía que se pueda comprar.
Despachos del fin del mundo
by Alberto Fuguet«Ciertas trabas y traumas y lealtades y certezas no se esfuman hasta que arden». En este libro de carácter híbrido, Alberto Fuguet aborda personalmente, pero de muy diversas formas, un año histórico que se inaugura con un eclipse total, sigue con una primavera prometedora que de pronto da paso a un gran estallido social y que se extiende hasta un verano tenso y tórrido que desemboca en una pandemia de proporciones impensadas. Cuentos, entradas de diario, apuntes de lectura, diálogos, reflexiones, crónicas pop, citas y hasta recetas de cocina. “Esto no es periodismo ni crónica, aunque viene en parte de ahí, tampoco es ficción pura, no es una novela, aunque a veces creo que sí lo es, se puede ver como un trailer de lo que acaba de pasar”, se lee al comienzo. Los tiempos raros y agitados en lo íntimo, social y político no son fáciles de narrar. Aun así, Fuguet se arriesga y crea una épica del colapso. Su meta fue atrevida: registrar emociones, ambientes, temores, personajes, fiestas, angustias, risas y deseos que nacieron entre el 2019 y el 2020. También imaginar el futuro. Todo eso, y más, da forma a este álbum urgente que se hace cargo de lo que el poeta Frank O'Hara escribiera un día y que va de epígrafe en estos Despachos del fin del mundo: “En tiempos de crisis, todos debemos decidir una y otra vez a quien amamos”.
Despacio
by Remedios ZafraHistorias fantástico-realistas de gentes que viven AQUÍ y quieren irse a vivir ALLÍ. Este libro practica el irrealismo crítico y por eso se permite el lujo literario de contarnos esos hechos o deshechos que, de manera inesperada y extraordinaria, tienen lugar en el interior de la rutina nuestra de cada día dánosla hoy y no nos dejes caer en la tentación. Este libro, de estirpe kafkiana y carnavalesca, escrito con la retranca del Quieres que te cuente el cuento de la buena pipa, reúne historias de gentes diversas que siempre viven AQUÍ y siempre quieren irse a vivir ALLÍ. Gentes que sueñan con que es imposible que este mundo sea el único mundo al alcance de todos los españoles. Y no se resignan, ni se desesperan. Hacen su equipaje y se van a la estación de tren. Y esperan. Inútilmente, porque los trenes pasan por delante de sus vidas a más velocidad que las listas de libros más vendidos pasan por delante de las editoriales independientes. Pero eso sí, entre sus páginas habita un ser maravilloso: Laquestapeor, una especia de hada madrina que el capitalismo nos regala para que nos sintamos felices. Solo por conocerla merecería la pena abrir este libro. Si ustedes están aquí y quieren llegar allí, ya saben: lean despacio. Reseñas:«Un libro con mucho de experimento [...], y con mucho de poético, y hasta de ideológico, rondando el manifiesto que exige una vida más lenta y real. Por ofrecernos dudas y no certezas, este libro de relatos -¿libro de relato?- revelaa una narradora sagaz y sin parientes en nuestra literatura.»Elena Medel, Número Cero «Ante la parálisis de un tiempo [Despacio] llama a la acción, busca el movimiento más poderoso que albergamos, el más combativo y necesario: el pensamiento. Ante la parálisis de un tiempo, ¿qué tal si nos movemo»Cristina Consuegra, La opinión del Málaga
Despair
by Vladimir NabokovExtensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa: And Other Stories Of Ottawa
by Andre AlexisThese eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.With his darkly philosophical bent and sly humour, Alexis has fashioned an underworld and limned it with light. Despair quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.