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“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis BorgesFicciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aquí se reúnen hay algunos de corte policial como “La muerte y la brújula”, la historia de un detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, una extraordinaria reflexión sobre la literatura y su influencia en el mundo físico; y muchos pertenecientes al género fantástico como “El Sur”, acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor.Fascinante y sorprendente, Ficciones le brinda al lector un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad.

The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time On The Secrets To Wealth And Prosperity

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We proudly present this collection of classic self-help works on how to attract success and money in your life. CONTENTS: 1. Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich 2. Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth 3. Charles F. Haanel - The Master Key System 4. Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it 5. Wallace D. Wattles - How to Get What You Want 6. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich 7. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Well 8. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Great 9. P.T. Barnum - The Art of Money Getting 10. Dale Carnegie - The Art of Public Speaking 11. James Allen - As A Man Thinketh 12. James Allen - From Poverty to Power 13. James Allen - Eight Pillars of Prosperity 14. James Allen - Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success 15. James Allen - Men and Systems 16. James Allen - Above Life's Turmoil 17. James Allen - The Life Triumphant 18. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching 19. Khalil Gibran - The Prophet 20. Orison Swett Marden & Abner Bayley - An Iron Will 21. Orison Swett Marden - Ambition and Success 22. Orison Swett Marden - The Victorious Attitude 23. Orison Swett Marden - Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power 24. Orison Swett Marden - Pushing to the Front 25. Orison Swett Marden - How to Succeed 26. Orison Swett Marden - Cheerfulness As a Life Power 27. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations 28. Henry Thomas Hamblin - Within You is the Power 29. William Crosbie Hunter - Dollars and Sense 30. William Crosbie Hunter - Evening Round-Up 31. Joseph Murphy - The Power of Your Subconscious Mind 32. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance 33. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Compensation 34. Henry H. Brown - Concentration: The Road to Success 35. Henry H. Brown - Dollars Want Me 36. Russell H. Conwell - Acres of Diamonds 37. Russell H. Conwell - The Key to Success 38. Russell H. Conwell - What You Can Do With Your Will Power 39. Russell H. Conwell - Every Man is Own University 40. William Atkinson - The Art of Logical Thinking 41. William At

Hex on the Beach

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Girls Night Out has never been so much fun--but what are they going to do with all these bodies? New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors Kelley Armstrong, Jeaniene Frost, and Melissa Marr deliver a sexy summer read with this novel-length anthology containing three all-new stories from their Cursed Luck, Night Huntress, and Faery Bargains worlds. Kennedy, Cat, and Gen are just trying to enjoy their respective getaways, but when immortals, vampires, and witches come out to play, things are bound to go awry. Let the supernatural hijinks begin!

Baccara Collection Band 419

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HEISSE SEHNSUCHT NACH DIR von SHERI WHITEFEATHER Models und Affären - das ist die Welt von Playboy Brandon Talbot. Doch seit ihm die schöne Mary im Park buchstäblich in die Arme gelaufen ist, denkt er nur an sie. Ihr sprühender Charme weckt heiße Sehnsucht in ihm. Dann macht der Staranwalt eine fatale Entdeckung… EINE SCHARFE SOMMERFANTASIE von BRENDA JACKSONAls Ellie Weston in das Nachbarhaus am See einzieht, fühlt Uriel Lassiter sofort pures Verlangen. Sie nach all der Zeit wieder zu küssen, ist für den athletischen CEO mehr als nur ein Abenteuer. Aber was, wenn Ellie bloß eine flüchtige Sommeraffäre will?LIEBESTRAUM IN NEW YORK CITY von PAMELA YAYEFür Morrison Drake ist Beauty-Bloggerin Karma die schönste Frau New Yorks! Ihre schillernde Persönlichkeit fasziniert ihn, und ihr Sex-Appeal bringt den erfolgreichen Richter um den Verstand. Doch als er um ihre Hand anhält, kommt ein dunkles Geheimnis ans Licht…

Enemy of the People

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Environmentalist, activist, and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse edition of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s renowned 1882 play. Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story and pressure Dr. Stockmann to retract his statements. At a public meeting, an attempt is made to keep Dr. Stockmann from speaking, but he launches into a tirade condemning the corruption of the town and the tyranny of the majority. Finding his speech offensive, he is shouted down by the masses and reviled as "an enemy of the people." In his foreword, Kennedy alerts readers to the undeniable fact that the persecution of those who tell uncomfortable truths, which Ibsen described over one hundred years ago, continues to this day and is as relevant now as ever. We face environmental deregulation and degradation, politicians in lobbyists’ pockets, attacks on facts that are agreed upon by reputable scientists, corporate funded and controlled research, and attempts to impede and suppress whistleblowers. The battle continues and Kennedy joins Ibsen on the front lines.

The Confidence-Man

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The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.

Nur du bist meine Welt

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Die extravagante Modedesignerin Joanna ist absolut nicht Marcus Barlows Typ. Doch aus rätselhaften Gründen fasziniert ausgerechnet sie den konservativen Geschäftsmann mehr als jede Frau zuvor. Bei ihrer Ausstellung in seiner Galerie kommt er ihr gegen jede Vernunft näher …

Brenda Novak Whiskey Creek Series Vol One

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Come to Whiskey Creek, the heart of Gold Country!Join the many readers who’ve fallen in love with Whiskey Creek, the Northern California town created by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak.WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES (the story that started it all)Gail DeMarco left Whiskey Creek to make a name for herself in Los Angeles. Her PR firm has a roster of A-list clients, including the sexy and unpredictable Simon O'Neal. But Simon, who's just been through a turbulent divorce, won't cooperate, so she drops him—and he retaliates by taking the rest of her clients with him. Desperate to save her company, Gail makes a deal with Simon. What he wants is custody of his son, but that's going to require a whole new image. He needs to marry some squeaky-clean girl like Gail, who'll drag him off to some small, obscure place like Whiskey Creek…WHEN SNOW FALLSAfter growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the mystery of her earliest memories, most of which feature a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother. She’s determined to find answers—but things get even more complicated when she lands right in the arms of Dylan Amos, oldest and baddest of the hell-raising Amos brothers. He's exactly the kind of guy she's sworn to avoid. But…maybe there's more to Dylan than she thought. Maybe letting him go would be a bigger mistake.WHEN SUMMER COMESOne day, Callie Vanetta receives devastating news. She needs a liver transplant. But her doctors warn that, in her case, the chances of finding a compatible donor aren't good. Determined to spend whatever time she has left on her own terms, she keeps the diagnosis to herself and moves out to her late grandparents' farm. One night, a stranger comes knocking at her door. He's an attractive and mysterious drifter by the name of Levi McCloud, and he offers to trade work for shelter. Callie figures she doesn't have anything to lose. He needs a temporary place to stay; she needs an extra pair of hands. Then she realizes she does have something to lose—her heart.And…you're invited to a wedding in Whiskey Creek in this special bonus novella, WHEN WE TOUCH!Whiskey Creek—a town you’ll love! Find out why…

Invisible Monsters

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Shannon McFarland, splendida top model, dalla vita ha avuto tutto quello che si può desiderare: l'amore, la carriera, un'amicizia sincera. La sua esistenza viene però sconvolta quando, mentre sta guidando la sua auto, una misteriosa fucilata la raggiunge al volto, lasciandola orrendamente sfigurata e incapace di parlare. E da affascinante centro di attrazione Shannon si ritrova a essere un mostro invisibile, evitato da tutti, tradita dal fidanzato Manus e dall'amica del cuore, Evie. Ma tutto cambia quando in ospedale Shannon fa conoscenza con la Principessa Brandy Alexander, cui manca ancora solo un intervento chirurgico per diventare una vera donna. Brandy non solo la trascinerà in un viaggio delirante con il proposito di aiutarla a vendicarsi di Evie e di Manus, ma soprattutto le spiegherà come reinventare se stessa. E le insegnerà che niente e nessuno è mai quello che sembra a prima vista...

Milo Talon

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Milo Talon knew the territory and the good men from the bad. He had ridden the Outlaw Trail and could find out things others couldn’t. That was why a rich man named Jefferson Henry hired Milo to hunt down a missing girl. But from the moment Milo began his search, he knew something wasn’t right. Three people had already died, an innocent woman was on the run, and a once sleepy town was getting crowded with hired guns. Suddenly, Milo Talon realized that there were still things he had to learn—about the woman he was trying to find, the man who had hired him, and the murderer who wanted him dead. But most of all, Milo had a few things to learn about himself. And he would have to work fast, because one mistake could cost him his life.

The Voyage of the Beagle

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I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. As I feel that the opportunities which I enjoyed of studying the Natural History of the different countries we visited, have been wholly due to Captain Fitz Roy, I hope I may here be permitted to repeat my expression of gratitude to him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady assistance. Both to Captain Fitz Roy and to all the Officers of the Beagle [note 1] I shall ever feel most thankful for the undeviating kindness with which I was treated during our long voyage.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #5

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The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up fifteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangent Online on Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Issue #1Includes:"The Geezer Squad" by Annie Reed"The Dog that Ate Homework" by J Steven York"Battery-operated Boyfriend" by Barbara G. Tarn"Offensive in Every Possible Way" by Robert Jeschonek"Gravity Well" by Kent Patterson"The Sport of Queens: A Lucifer Jones Story" by Mike Resnick"The New Crop" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"The Blind Lagoon Misadventure" O'Neil De Noux"Practice" by Ray Vukcevich"One-Night Stands for Love and Glory" by David H. Hendrickson"Maiden's Dance" by Rebecca Lyons"The True Story of Stanley and Stella" by Johanna Rothman"Death Be Nimble" by James Gotaas"Under The Blood-Red Maple" by Joslyn Chase"Head Case: A Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. Adventure" by Kevin J. Anderson"Minions at Work: Allen Wrenched" by J Steven York

The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers. Long taught as required reading in American schools, critics have consistently held it up alongside Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird as perhaps the quintessential Great American Novel.Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a sumptuous mansion: the home of the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby. Carraway spends time catching up with his distant cousin Daisy and her industry-baron husband Tom before being invited to one of Gatsby’s wildly lavish weekend parties. There he meets Jordan, a flapper and a golf star, and an intricate web of romances and betrayals begins to unfold.The novel is a colorful study of America’s Jazz Age—a term said to be coined by Fitzgerald himself—complete with wealthy socialites living in hedonistic abandon, libertine flappers, jazz bands, roaring roadsters, and greasy speakeasies populated with shady grifters. Contrasted against the glamorous lives of wealthy socialites is the entrenched lower class, who live in gray, dingy squalor among smoldering ash-heaps. Fitzgerald uses the setting to examine the American Dream: the idea that anyone in America can achieve success through hard work and dedication. Gatsby has spent his life reaching for his dream. Some say he’s already achieved it. But has he? Is the dream even real for the hard-working poor that Gatsby and Tom race past in their glittering cars on the way to the decadent city?Fitzgerald wrote much of his real life into the novel. Like Carraway, he was a Midwesterner educated at an Ivy-league school who went to live on Long Island. Despite his meager finances he hobnobbed with socialites, and spent his career struggling for money to maintain the grand style his romantic interests were accustomed to.The cover art, titled Celestial Eyes, was commissioned from Francis Cugat, who completed it before the novel was finished. The huge eyes gazing down on the blazing city so moved Fitzgerald that he wrote them into the story.Fitzgerald saw the novel as a purely artistic work, free of the pulp pandering required by his shorter commissions—but despite that, contemporary reviews were mixed, and it sold poorly. Fitzgerald thought it a failure, and died believing the novel to be fatally obscure. Only during World War II did it come back to the public consciousness, buoyed by the support of a ring of writers and critics and printed as an Armed Service Edition to be sent to soldiers on the front. Now it is an American classic.

Le fruit d'un contrat

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Alexandra posa la main sur son ventre encore plat et imagina qu’un petit être germait en elle. Bientôt, ce serait vrai. Elle allait faire un bébé. Dans quatre semaines. Comme le lui avait proposé Ethan Stone, son collègue et ami, qui lui aussi voulait un enfant mais ne trouvait pas la partenaire idéale. Ethan Stone… brillant, adorable et séduisant, si séduisant… Mais attention, entre eux, il n’était pas question d’une relation amoureuse ; seulement d’un accord, un partenariat pur et simple. Ils seraient en quelque sorte… sous contrat. Alors, enfant ou pas, Alexandra avait tout intérêt à se rappeler que l’amour ne faisait pas partie du programme…

Shadows Dreams Nightmares

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Shadow Dreams Nightmare features Jim LeMay's Shadow Jack, Richard Friesen's The Tower of Dreams, Wayne Faust and Charles Eugene Anderson's Europa Nightmare. Four Colorado writers produced this collection of three epic stories. They all had the great fortune to work closely with the late Nebula Award-winning author and Horror Grandmaster Edward Bryant. That felt much like serving under a compassionate Medieval Guild-master. They feel honored for the opportunity to learn as his apprentice writers and sorely miss their mentor and friend. All three stories are a fine mixture of storytelling that brings different types of speculative fiction together into one gigantic book. It will keep readers delighted for many hours of enjoyment.

CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS

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This Christmas, e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest masterpieces ever written, together with the selected Christmas classics: The Gift of the Magi Black Beauty The Little Match Girl The Holy Night A Letter from Santa Claus The Christmas Angel The Wonderful Life Where Love Is, God Is A Christmas Carol and many more World Classics: American: Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer The Call of the Wild White Fang Moby-Dick The Scarlet Letter Little Women My Antonia The Age of Innocence The Awakening The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove The Yellow Wallpaper Walden Leaves of Grass The Madman Uncle Tom's Cabin Ben-Hur The Last of the Mohicans The Raven The Beautiful and Damned The Rise of Silas Lapham The Sleepy Hollow The Wonderful Wizard of Oz British: Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Paradise Lost The Waste Land Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Vanity Fair Middlemarch The Mill on the Floss David Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Enchanted April Sons and Lovers Dracula Frankenstein A Study in Scarlet Heart of Darkness The Picture of Dorian Gray Diary of a Nobody The War of the Worlds Father Brown Howards End Alice in Wonderland The Secret Garden A Little Princess Irish: Ulysses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Pygmalion Arms and the Man The Second Coming Scottish: Ivanhoe Guy Mannering Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Treasure Island The Wind in the Willows Phantastes Peter and Wendy Canadian: Anne of Green Gables German: Faust Siddhartha Thus Spoke Zarathustra… French: Swann's Way Les Misérables Candide Germinal... Russian: Anna Karenina War and Peace Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov… Spanish: Don Quixote Dona Perfecta… Italian: The Divine Comedy The Prince… Norwegian: A Doll's House Ancient: Iliad & Odyssey Meditations… Middle East: Arabian Nights Indian: Gitanjali The Jungle Book… Chinese: Tao Te Ching Art of War… Japanese: Bushido…

ΔΙΕΦΘΑΡΜΕΝΟ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟ

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Όταν δεν μπορείς να νικήσεις τις πιθανότητες, άλλαξε το παιχνίδι. Ο Καζ Μπρέκερ και η συμμορία του μόλις έκαναν μια ληστεία τόσο τολμηρή, ώστε ούτε οι ίδιοι δεν πίστευαν ότι θα επιζούσαν. Αλλά αντί να μοιραστούν μια παχυλή ανταμοιβή, παλεύουν για άλλη μια φορά για τη ζωή τους. Προδομένη και εξαιρετικά αποδυναμωμένη, η συμμορία δεν έχει πόρους, συμμάχους και ελπίδα. Καθώς πανίσχυρες δυνάμεις από όλο τον κόσμο καταφθάνουν στο Κέτερνταμ για να ανακαλύψουν τα επικίνδυνα μυστικά που κρύβουν τα άνθη γιούρντα, παλιοί αντίπαλοι και νέοι εχθροί εμφανίζονται για να προκαλέσουν την ευφυΐα του Καζ και να δοκιμάσουν την εύθραυστη αφοσίωση των μελών της ομάδας. Θα διεξαχθεί ένας πόλεμος στους σκοτεινούς και δαιδαλώδεις δρόμους της πόλης – μια μάχη για εκδίκηση και λύτρωση που θα καθορίσει τη μοίρα του κόσμου των Γκρίσα.

The Winter Lodge

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsSusan Wiggs’s Lakeshore Chronicles series has captivated thousands of readers with its relatable characters, warm humor and engaging stories. Return to the tranquil shores of Willow Lake with The Winter Lodge. On the longest night of the year, Jenny Majesky loses everything in a devastating house fire. But as she finds comfort in the predictability of running the family bakery, she’s surprised by the ongoing support of the Avalon community, especially local police chief Rourke McKnight. When she finds an unusual treasure among her grandfather’s belongings, she embarks on a search for the truth, and on a path she never imagined.The Winter Lodge, a remote cabin owned by her half-sister on the shores of Willow Lake, becomes a refuge for Jenny as she seeks the truth. In the peaceful quiet, she can focus on rebuilding her life — and pursue her dream of becoming a writer. But when a blizzard traps her there with Rourke, Jenny suddenly doesn’t feel so secure. Unlocking the secrets of the past might just mean walking away from her one chance at love.Previously published.Read the Lakeshore Chronicles Series by Susan Wiggs:Book One: Summer at Willow LakeBook Two: The Winter LodgeBook Three: DocksideBook Four: Snowfall at Willow LakeBook Five: FiresideBook Six: Lakeshore ChristmasBook Seven: The Summer HideawayBook Eight: Marrying Daisy BellamyBook Nine: Return to Willow LakeBook Ten: Candlelight ChristmasBook Eleven: Starlight on Willow Lake

CORA Collection Band 33

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Hunde - die besten Freunde der Menschen. Manchmal müssen sie Herrchen oder Frauchen auch in Sachen Liebe auf die richtige Fährte führen!VERBOTEN SEXY, DIESER MANN! von CATHERINE MANNSeit Megan ihrem Hund das Skateboardfahren beigebracht hat, ist sie engagierte Tierschützerin. Dumm nur, dass Whit Daltry ausgerechnet dort bauen will, wo sie mit ihrer Tochter sowie zahlreichen Hunden und Katzen lebt. Obendrein ist der Tycoon empörend sexy. Wird Megan ihm seine Pläne ausreden können, ohne seiner starken Anziehungskraft zu erliegen?HOT NEWS - SÜNDIGE SCHLAGZEILEN von CANDACE HAVENSIm strömenden Regen versucht die Schöne, den Riesenhund in ihr Auto zu bugsieren - und Blake Michaels verliebt sich auf den ersten Blick in sie. Doch dann merkt er, dass Journalistin Macy etwas vor ihm verheimlicht …LIEBE IST KEIN BEINBRUCH von MARION LENNOXStürmischer hätten Dr. Harry McKay und seine Vertretungsärztin Lizzie Darling nicht zusammenstoßen können: Als sie sich zu ihrer Hündin im Auto hinunterbeugt, fährt sie ihn an! Doch während Lizzie sein gebrochenes Bein verarztet, spürt er zärtliche Gefühle - wunderbarer als je zuvor …

Le hibou dans tous ses états

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Quels sont les avantages du système de santé français ? Les méthodes éducatives d'antan sont-elles plus efficaces que celles de maintenant ? La viande à hamburger est-elle une nourriture appropriée pour des tortues de mer ? Faut-il se faire enlever un kyste bénin ? Comment présenter sa petite amie à sa grand-mère grecque, quand on a 11 ans et que la petite amie en question est noire et pèse plus de cent kilos ? Et surtout, comment faire pour trouver un hibou empaillé à offrir pour la Saint-Valentin ? Autant de questions, sérieuses ou légères, que David Sedaris explore avec l'humour qu'on lui connaît : qu'il livre des souvenirs d'enfance, qu'il évoque des scènes de la vie quotidienne, ou qu'il invente tout simplement des histoires, son ton incomparable n'a jamais été si précis : cocasserie, absurde et ironie se mélangent, pour notre plus grand plaisir.

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