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Carol Champion is unsure she wants her late husband’s chair in a four-couple gourmet group to be filled by Mark Wilson. Mark is her best friend Megan's husband's new business partner. Megan dies hosting a dinner party weekend. No one in La Cena quite believes the death was accidental, and Megan’s passing affects all the group members. Carol inherits her executive job. Mark’s partnership with her husband is threatened. Trust fund money passes to Megan’s brother. Carol and Mark soon find strong mutual attraction competing with suspicions Megan’s death raises as La Cena members turn on ...

The books here show Charles Bukowski's skill as a great short story writer, one who is a harsh portraitist of the urban underworld. With a cocktail of syncopated, visceral writing, black humour, uninhibited sex, and lots of alcohol, he outlines a sort of map of Los Angeles by painting its urban myths.

An account of what life might be like for those left behind when millions vanish in the rapture of Christians.

«Quién es Ka?», se pregunta el inmenso pájaro Garuda, sumergido entre la fronda del árbol Rauhin a, al encontrarse este nombre al final de un himno de los Veda. Ka es el nombre secreto de Prayápati, el Progenitor, aquel que dio origen a los treinta y tres dioses y a los innumerables hombres. Ka significa «¿Quién?», y es la última pregunta, la que se formula cuando todas las otras preguntas ya han sido formuladas. Pero antes debieron transcurrir numerosos eones, surgir y desaparecer numerosos mundos, en una secuencia de vértices cuyo ojo es el mismo Ka. Así aparecen los Deva, los...