Christopher Moore
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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one...
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Christopher Moore is associate professor of philosophy and classics at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Socrates and Self-Knowledge.
An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"
Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece....
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La novela más divertida del autor más inclasificable.
Christopher Moore es el mejor exponente de la llamada "Ficción absurda", un movimiento literario que se caracteriza por cultivar el humor absurdo y los argumentos imposibles. Los títulos de Moore son auténticos fenómenos de ventas en los Estados Unidos y han convocado a una legión de fans muy activos e implicados.
En "Almas de segunda mano", Charlie Asher, uno de los personajes más emblemáticos...
4) The Griff
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The always outrageous Christopher Moore-New York Times bestselling author of Bite Me, Lamb, You Suck, The Stupidest Angel, and a host of other prime cuts of literary hilarity-joins forces with award-winning screenwriter and director Ian Corson to bring you The Griff. An absurdly entertaining graphic novel about alien invasion-in the grand tradition of Cowboys and Aliens, but considerably more ridiculous-The Griff is vintage Chris Moore...with pictures!...
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Christopher G. Moore's prize-winning series of crime novels set in Bangkok has been translated into eleven languages and critically acclaimed around the world. Featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the dangerous and steamy Thai capital, the books offer gripping plots, fascinating characters, and unparalleled insight into one of the world's most entrancing cities. In Paying Back Jack, Calvino agrees to follow the...
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Prepare to be enthralled by a breathtaking clash of worlds, as the epic
battle between Light and Shadow unfolds in "The Guardian Chronicles:
The Guardian of Light vs. Shadowspawn." This spellbinding installment
in the Guardian Chronicles series is a tour de force of fantasy fiction,
offering readers a thrilling and immersive experience like no other.
The Battle for Existence
In a world where the line between light and darkness is perilously...
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In the twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prize-winning novels have been translated into ten languages, and were first published in North America in 2007, with The Risk of Infidelity Index, the latest in the series. When Calvino's surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in...
8) Spirit House
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In the nearly twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the dark and steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prizewinning novels have been translated into ten languages. Now Spirit House, the first novel in the series, is finally available in North America. A farang is dead and the Bangkok police have a confession the next...
9) Asia Hand
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Christopher G. Moore's prize-winning series of Bangkok thrillers featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer turned PI, have been praised for their captivating plots, engaging characters, and insight into the steamy Thai capital. In Asia Hand, the second novel in the series, Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino's, has been fished out of the lake...
10) Normal
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A young couple are forced to adjust to a new normal when they find that their first child together will be born with Down Syndrome.