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Tes nas mans a obra de teatro que Domingo Villar deixou rematada e que entregou a Editorial Galaxia para a súa publicaci6n. Tratase dunha peza protagonizada por un escritor que se atopa nun bloqueo creativo dende hai anos. Sobre todo é unha obra moi divertida, como era o seu autor. Así, co fino sentido do humor que Domingo destilaba, desfilan pola escena as filias e as fobias de moitas escritoras e escritores ao Iongo da súa carreira literaria, que teñen que ver cos medos, as inseguridades e as paranoias de quen se dedican a escribir.

The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for…restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever suspect as murder. The ‘natural deaths’ he plans have always gone well: a medicine replaced here, a mechanism jammed there. His performance reviews are excellent. And it’s not as though he knows these people. Until his next ‘customer’ turns out to be someone he not only knows but cares about, and for the first time, he begins to question the role he plays in the vast, anonymous Company.

In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life. So it’s no catastrophe when Sue, the younger of the two, feels the need to take a month to travel on her own, leaving Jan alone to run their stall at the Inland Waterways Rally Craft Fair.

Zach Post is an editor for It magazine with an impressive history: his father is a famous architect, his mother a socialite, and he has attended Colgate, Berkley, and Liverpool University. Or, at least that's what everyone thinks. When obnoxious new editor Mark Larkin is quickly promoted, Zach's secrets are threatened, and his future no longer seems bright. But he knows what to do-Mark Larkin must be eliminated.

A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the individuals in these stories discover how difficult it can be to let go of what’s gone in order to live with what’s left.

Bigboobenstein is the dark and humorous tale of Adelaide De Carlo and her sordid quest for self-acceptance and utopia that involves a botched breast implantation surgery, death and resurrection.

It’s winter break at Treemeadow College, and theater professors and spouses Nicky Abbondanza and Noah Oliver, their best friends Martin and Ruben, and their sons, Taavi and Ty, are starring in a television pilot for the Nicky and Noah Mysteries series based on their first caper, Drama Queen. More is shot than footage as cast members drop like giant, flat-screen TVs mounted by an intoxicated carpenter. Once again, our favorite thespians will need to use their drama skills to catch the killer before they get cancelled.

Oh, what fun it is to die! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary killer because Candy Cain is slashing through the snow with a very long naughty list.

In this rollicking, dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and silliest) medical cases of his career and struggles to manage a hostile coterie of MDs with a host of defects, the least of which is their ubiquitous lack of Medical Board certifications, while doing his best to stay professional in the face of converging forces that seem hell-bent on undoing his easy solutions.

Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There’s just one problem—he’s dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend – and by extension, for them all – is only a mere eight days away. What could go wrong?

The character of Peter Pan first appeared in The Little White Bird in 1902. This most famous and enduring of his works, Peter Pan; or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, had its first stage performance on December 27, 1904. Peter Pan would overshadow all his other works, but his short stories cannot be overlooked. Indeed, from today’s vantage point, they are excellent gems of social manners, of class, and of the way characters, sometimes in the most mundane of circumstances, react in the most surprising of ways.

Dave is one of Irwell Cars' best drivers, although his life doesn't always reflect that. A run-down office with an uncertain future, Irwell Cars isn't offering Dave much—except the chance to pine after Lind, the long-suffering radio operator and his secret crush, and panic over what will become of him if the firm closes. Add in a crucial darts match, a 'Brief Encounter' themed date night, some former school bullies and a rather difficult omelette, and Dave is beginning to feel like even his pick ups are bringing him down...

Chi ha strangolato la compagna d’ufficio di Francesca Zanardelli? Era pigra e non sapeva neanche usare il mouse. Francesca Zanardelli è appena tornata dalla pausa pranzo, dopo una qualsiasi mattinata in ufficio. Ma quando va in bagno a lavarsi i denti, trova una sorpresa: la sua odiosa compagna di scrivania è morta, strangolata di fresco, con la testa appoggiata sulle maioliche del gabinetto e il cappio ancora intorno al collo.

Marble Springs is a town with a hundred missing persons cases, a lake harboring a blood-thirsty monster, and a second-generation serial killer on the loose. When undervalued city employee Abe Barret begins to see the dead, he discovers the loss of his family is linked to these unsolved disappearances, and he only has days to solve it, before his time is up.

Ein fieser Weihnachtsroman. Fernand hat die Nase voll von seinem daueralkoholisierten Chef. Dumm nur, dass er der Weihnachtsoberelf ist und sein Chef - richtig, der Weihnachtsmann. Einziger Lichtblick ist Fernands Assistent Perus, der ihm immer zur Seite steht und hilft, den Zustand des Weihnachtsmannes vor den anderen Elfen zu verheimlichen. Als der Weihnachtsmann bei einem Probeflug Fernands Haus zerstört, reicht es. Der Weihnachtsmann muss weg! Fernand und Perus beauftragen zwielichtige "Problemlöser". Aber ist Auftragsmord wirklich das richtige Mittel?

Quand Samantha accepte l’invitation à une soirée organisée par quatre filles un peu sinistres, elle plonge sans le savoir dans un monde inquiétant, entre le conte de fées et l’histoire d’horreur.

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . . Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he is observed, tested and 'interfered with' (physically) by a team of scientific experts led by Dr Barbara Nullman, determined to probe and 'nullify' his escaping imagination . . .

Una historia sobre el amor y la amistad. Pero, sobre todo, de los límites que estamos dispuestos a cruzar y de aquellos que sería conveniente no cruzar jamás. Sobre la mesa de la cocina hay un manuscrito. Cuando Martín llegue a casa tras salir del trabajo y lo vea allí, deberá decidir si hace caso al epígrafe que aparece en la primera de esas páginas a modo de indicación: LÉEME. Él todavía no lo sabe, pero si lo hace, encontrará en esas líneas las respuestas a un montón de preguntas que se ha hecho o que se está haciendo, a las que se hará y las que hubiese preferido no hacerse.

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed, behind on his student loan payments and a self-declared failure, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a government loan forgiveness programme offers Abernathy a job he can literally do in his sleep, he thinks he’s found his big break. He finds himself auditing the dreams of white-collar workers, flagging their anxieties for removal so they'll be more productive. If Abernathy can appear to be competent at this new job, might he have a chance at a new life?

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson.