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THE THORN BIRDS
Colleen McCullough
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ILLUSIONS
Richard Bach
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DELTA OF VENUS
Anais Nin
DELTA OF VENUS
by Anais Nin · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Escritos a principios de la década de 1940 por encargo de un excéntrico coleccionista de libros que insistía en pedir «menos poesía» y descripciones más explícitas en las escenas sexuales, los relatos de Delta de Venus no vieron la luz hasta los años 1970. Ambientados en torno al París de la época e hilados por la aparición recurrente de personajes comunes de distinta importancia según cada cuento, ofrecen una visión libre de las relaciones humanas, en la que el erotismo y el ansia de placer no excluyen ni la belleza ni el sentimiento, ni la amistad ni la búsqueda de la autenticidad.
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COMA
Robin Cook
COMA
by Robin Cook · Little, Brown
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Robin Cook is the author -- and Coma is the book -- for which the term "medical thriller" was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light. The surgery was routine -- the kind performed many times a day at Boston's most prestigious hospital. The teams that worked in OR;t make up for what was happening around them. Several patients, admitted to the hospital for minor surgery, never awoke. For some inexplicable reason, their brains had been destroyed
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CONDOMINIUM
John D. MacDonald
CONDOMINIUM
by John D. MacDonald · J.B. Lippincott Company
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Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin Liss, a greedy, indifferent developer who victimizes the residents with continuing price increases.
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THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT
Susan Howatch
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THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT
Robert Ludlum
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TRINITY
Leon Uris
TRINITY
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Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.
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THE DARK LADY
Louis Auchincloss
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HOW TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE
Erica Jong
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