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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
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Imagina un mundo en el que una organizaci̤n avisa a las personas de la inminencia de su muerte. Imagina que ha empezado la cuenta atr̀s. Imagina c̤mo vivir̕as tu vida. en solo un d̕a. ¿Estar̕as preparado para decir adi̤s? Al final mueren los dos es un canto a la fuerza arrolladora de la vida, que transformar̀ para siempre tu forma de comprender el tiempo, la amistad y el amor.