Miguel
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It's Mardis Gras, but not for Anna. She's stuck working all night, serving drinks so that everyone else can have fun. And on top of that, all of her coworkers have disappeared at closing time. They've all met someone, except her. As she angrily cleans the bar, Anna remembers the night of Mardis Gras one year ago, when her ex (John) showed up unexpectedly, in costume, and made love to her. She hasn't heard from him since, and she hasn't been able to...
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Alcéan est un adolescent qui vit enfermé avec sa mère dans un immense manoir sinistre duquel il n'est jamais sorti. Le monde qu'il connait est totalement bouleversé le jour où son oncle Belial arrive par surprise et le pousse à transgresser toutes les limites qui sa mère lui a imposées. C'est comme cela qu'Alcéan découvrira tous les horribles secrets que sa famille a caché pendant des générations et la vérité sur sa propre vie de reclus....
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Alceán is a teenager who lives with his mother, shut away in an enormous and sinister mansion that he has never left. The only world he has ever known does a one hundred and eighty degree turn when his Uncle Belial makes an unexpected arrival, and pushes him to transgress every limitation his mother has ever imposed upon him. And this is how Alceán will come to discover the terrible secrets kept by his family for generations, including the truth...
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Natalia, a successful foreign correspondent, travels to Madrid to spend Christmas with her husband, determined to surprise him with her early arrival. However, the surprise is all for her when she gets there and finds him in bed with another woman. Horrified, Natalia runs out, with Miguel hot on her heels, and sets out on an epic Christmas Eve journey on which she comes across Jacob, a tramp and the only person who shows a little humanity and concern...
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Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one....