Chuck Palahniuk
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English
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"Private detective Gates Foster is a father in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique...
22) Choke: a novel
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English
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Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in...
25) Diary: a novel
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English
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Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins...
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English
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"In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with...
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Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn't her husband--it's Tyler Durden, who's very invested in his heir, and the world he'll inherit. Marla, her first son, and her husband--the unnamed narrator in this novel, who now goes by Balthazar--live in a rundown motel with sketchy neighbors. In the Fight Club 2 graphic novel, Tyler transformed Project Mayhem into Rize or Die--now, as a road to paradise presents itself, a new...
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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Kesey's work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.
37) Eres hermosa
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Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
Español
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Invited by notorious playboy C. Linus Maxwell to a Paris hotel, Manhattan legal associate Penny Harrigan discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of sex toys for women that will render men obsolete and make Maxwell the most powerfulperson in the world.
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Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2022.
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Russian
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"Neveroi︠a︡tnai︠a︡, strashnai︠a︡ i smeshnai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡, kotoruiu kazhdyĭ rasskazyvaet po-svoemu. Semnadt︠s︡atʹ chelovek prinimai︠u︡t zamanchivoe predlozhenie otreshitʹsi︠a︡ na tri mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a ot mirskoĭ suety, chtoby sozdatʹ literaturnye shedevry.No tvorcheskiĭ konkurs prevrashchaet ikh zhiznʹ v nastoi︠a︡shchiĭ koshmar! Polurazrushennyĭ podzemnyĭ goticheskiĭ teatr, v kotorom net ni ėlektrichestva,...
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight tales, illustrated in detailed black and white"--Provided by publisher.