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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
2) Final girls
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Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to -- a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now...
3) Life after
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Snow whirls around an elevated train platform in Chicago. A distracted woman boards the train, takes her seat, and moments later a fiery explosion rips through the frigid air, tearing the car apart in a horrific attack on the city's transit system. One life is spared. Twenty-two are lost. A year later, Autumn Manning can't remember the day of the bombing and she is tormented by grief--by guilt. Twelve months of the question constantly echoing. Why?...
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Edhasa
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Spanish edition
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"El señor de las moscas" es Premio Nobel de Literatura 1983, una fábula moral acerca de la condición humana.Urdida en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Señor de las Moscas es una magnífica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas. En efecto, si algunos pueden ver en esta indagación de William Golding en la condición humana la ilustración de que la agresividad criminal se halla...
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Negra Alfaguara
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Primera edición en castellano.
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"Quincy Carpenter, una estudiante universitaria, fue la única superviviente de la masacre que tuvo lugar en Pine Cottage, donde pasaba el fin de semana con cinco amigos. De inmediato, pasó a formar parte de un club al que nadie desea pertenecer: el que la prensa ha bautizado como <>. Ellas son Lisa, que perdió a nueve compañeras de su hermandad; Sam, que se enfrentó a su atacante en el motel en el que trabajaba, y Quincy, ...
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