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1) Cloud atlas
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An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
3) Eragon
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Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
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The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Cronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Tifón.
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"Based on a story by the legendary Philip K. Dick, [it is] an action thriller about a man who glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved"--Container.
7) Cloud atlas
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An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
8) 11:14
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Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The lives of many cross at this one point in time which shall have life-altering effects.
10) First snow
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After his car breaks down in a desolate town, a slick salesman, Jimmy Starks visits a fortune teller to kill some time. But the psychic's ominous reading sends Jimmy's life into a tailspin when he learns that his life will soon end, but he is safe at least, until the coming winter's first snow. Now, with his ultimate fate looming nearer, Jimmy becomes obsessed with revisiting his past in hopes of changing his destiny before it's too late.
11) Peaceful warrior
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Talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams are changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find his destiny.
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Perseus is the mortal son of Zeus, who sets out to fulfill his destiny by rescuing beloved Andromeda from the wrath the goddess Thetis. Perils await Perseus time and again. In order to fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles.
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Twenty-three-year-old Laura lives in the largest city in the world, and like most she feels alone. She knows exactly the date she will die: on April 30th. Laura does not know what she is going to do between and now and then. Fate unites her with Sebastian, an actor who apparently has lost everything. They learn together that sometimes, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and find that happiness exists only when shared.
15) Chaos theory
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Efficiency expert Frank Allen makes lists. And lists of lists. He has time scheduled, planned, parsed and pigeonholed. Then one day he's 10 minutes late (not due to any inefficiency on his own part, of course) and that sparks a comic chain reaction that puts Frank in bed with a hottie, in the maternity ward with a very expectant mother and in trouble with his wife, who doesn't buy his innocent explanations. His orderly life is out of control-- and...
16) The Ferryman
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Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek has been cheating death for countless years, trading broken bodies for new ones using a secret, deadly weapon. But now is his time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death is close and he wants the Greek. A payment...
17) Huracán
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"Esta novela da cuenta de la impactante historia de Aniceto Mora, el Regalado. Hijo de un padre sin escrupulos en el seno de una familia desolada por la miseria y el resentimiento, Aniceto es abandonado a su suerte: su infancia trascurre entre la pobreza y el desden de los adultos. A cada vuelta de pagina, asistimos al vertiginoso despenamiento de un personaje cuyo destino esta marcado por la fatalidad" -- Back cover.
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Life speaks us through signs, intuition and situations. It offers us winks and sparkles that we do not always know how to interpret, and we don't always know that they are announcing future facts, advising on attitudes to undertake or revealing circumstances on our own person.--
La vida nos habla a través de señales, intuiciones y situaciones. Nos ofrece guiños y destellos que no siempre sabemos interpretar y que están anunciando hechos venideros,...
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Por mi gran culpa quizá sea la primera y única novela narrada y protagonizada por Dios. Adán y Lidia --que en realidad se llama Eva-- son una pareja que de repente ve truncada su aparente felicidad después de recibir una inesperada llamada. Tras ese incidente, Eva, que durante el tiempo que ha compartido con Adán se ha hecho pasar por otra persona, ocultando su verdadera identidad, se ve obligada a huir precipitadamente para tratar de evitar...
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