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    Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detective

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    The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »

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    Skinned alive

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    Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.

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    A sangre fría

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    Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.

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  • The South Bronx did not exist

    The South Bronx did not exist

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.

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