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Superfudge

Judy Blume

Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.

Switch Bitch

Roald Dahl

“Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable.” —The Daily Telegraph In Switch Bitch, four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. Topping and tailing this collection are “The Visitor” and “Bitch,” stories featuring Dahl’s notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are “The Great Switcheroo” and “The Last Act,” two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure. In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Over 50 years after their original publication, Roald Dahl’s stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Ramona the Pest

Beverly Cleary

The hilarious adventures of Ramona as she enters kindergarten.

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton, Jim Fyfe, Jodi Picoult

Includes bonus material, a new foreword by the author, and a discussion guide.

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Stop Yelling, Start Coaching

Hockey Dad

Practical, sports parent, about communication, confidence, and calmer leadership from the parent row.

Elogio de la madrasta

Mario Vargas Llosa

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family. Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto's prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the shadows of perversion and the limitless boundaries of familial passion. "Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns. . . . Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." — Newsday "Startling . . . Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it, but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." — The New Yorker

Como agua para chocolate

Laura Esquivel

Novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros nunca lo había visto en el valle de lagrimas de la literatura mexicana, porque también los hombres son unos chilletas y, salvo Jorge Ibarguengoitia , todos se toman terriblemente en serio y sudan solemnidad a gotas.

Wild Swans

Jung Chang

Die 1952 in China geborene Autorin erzählt die Geschichte ihrer Familie vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, der Kaiserzeit, bis zum Juni 1989.

Corazón tan blanco

Javier Marías

Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past, beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact. (General Fiction)