NY Times - #News - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Novelist With Political Ambitions, Dies at 89…He combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America while also writing essays that made him one of the most influential political commentators in the Spanish-speaking world. He died on Sunday in Lima at 89. #obit #literature #LatinAmerica #Peru #books #Novels
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THE GREAT CHILEAN WRITER José Donoso’s shortest and most intensely erotic novel is also a brilliant social satire as well as a vivid portrait of early 20th-century Madrid high society. Newly translated, brimming with life. B PLUS
Barnes & NobleThe Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria|PaperbackSensual and semi-fantastic, this erotic novel by José Donoso—for the first time in English—is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity via sexual desireAll of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted...
So long, Mario Vargas Llosa. Loved and re-re-re-re-read so much of your work, but especially Conversación en la Catedral. Thank you!
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Sara Sheridan: Writing Historic Novels in the Age of Scott
A talk by author Sara Sheridan for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow
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CHILLING KOREAN HORROR novel keeps the pressure on in a tale of sudden and unimaginable disaster. Straightforward tale of one man’s quest to stay alive takes on levels of moral nuance as the devastation unfolds. B PLUS
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The Internet is the so-called information. superhighway, okay? Thousands and thousands of computer systems, all connected by a Telnet system. It is worldwide. On that highway are millions of turn-offs, places to go.
A young, supposedly techie character trying to explain websites in a 1999 novel by Michael Connelly.
I mean it is pretty obvious, since Jesus just like the big lion is entierly made up 
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My first published novella, about first contact and identity. A self-replicating starship with a cloned crew investigate a strange structure around a red dwarf.
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SmashwordsLux Aeterna 1: The WispA replicating starship, a cloned crew, and an ancient mystery wrapped around a star.
CHILLING, WITTY, VISUALLY striking work combines mythic fantasy, body horror, workplace satire and a touch of queer spiciness in its many-faceted mix. Distinctive and eerily entertaining! B PLUS
Barnes & NobleHot Singles in Your Area|Paperback'Hot Singles in Your Area is a long joke, an experimental novel, and a conversation starter' Locus Magazine 'Shiveley writes like a ghoul living in the haunted house that is the internet' Meg Elison, author of 'The Road to Nowhere' trilogy A biting,...
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The new #RayNayler novel is here! The new Ray Nayler #novel is here! (Bearing the somewhat ominous dedication, “For everyone who has lost a country.”) #books #sciencefiction #novels #BookSky
"Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly #podcast exploring key issues currently shaping #Israel and the #Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, speaking with author and scholar #DaraHorn.
Horn is the #author of #novels and non-fiction, including “People Love Dead Jews,” “Eternal Life,” “A Guide for the Perplexed,” and now her first book for young #readers, “One Little Goat.”
A #graphicnovel, “One Little Goat,” was dreamed up by a young Horn and written decades later alongside the uniquely grungy #illustrations of Theo Ellsworth."
“As it says in the film of #TristramShandy, it’s a #post-modern #novel “before there was any #modernism to be post about.” The #movie is amazing, by the way. It’s directed by #Michael Winterbottom” fivebooks.com/best-books/1... #books #novels #18thCenturyNovels
The Best 18th-Century Novels
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You have to lead up to a question like that slowly, over a period of 20-50 years 
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It's finally arrived. The Third in the Dingle Valley Series of illustrated Children's novels by Joseph Murphy-James, Enchanted Wood.
Buy the eBook. It's better for the environment.
AMBITIOUS VAMPIRE NOVEL combines a centuries-long vendetta, a Jewish family saga, and the humor and contemporary detail of a cozy romantasy. Well crafted and written, but not exactly my cup of tea; might be yours, though. SOLID B
books2read.comAvailable now at your favorite digital store!Immortal Gifts by Katherine Villyard
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OMG, preorders have piled up so fast that we need a second printing before the book is even published!
Our bookkeeper is annoyed. But other folks who want to explore "unsettling personal truths" can keep up the preorders here:
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