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Many years ago a very old woman that happened to be my loving Grand Mother asked me a simple question, 'Son, Is there really a Heaven?, Well, I began with telling myself many stories about her, myself, about the world and even about the mysteries of the universe to understand what heaven would be for a beautiful woman who was my grandmother and what would be that perfect world for all humans and all life on mother Earth. In this book I compile some...
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Get the Summary of Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Helen Macdonald's "Vesper Flights" is a collection of essays that weave together personal memories, reflections on nature, and observations of wildlife. Macdonald's childhood fascination with birds and their nests leads her to explore the concept of home and the interconnectedness of humans and nature. She delves into the history...
64) Changing Shadows
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Unfairly expelled from school by the nuns, Mwila's life is turned upside down after her induction to city life. However, she is eventually regarded as a heroine for challenging an old and primitive Bemba sexual cleansing practice. Mwila finds herself in the centre; between traditionalists, resenting Western-induced change and progressives, embracing Western values at any cost.
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'Gripping and absorbing, fast-paced and peppered with...
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Suzanne, Jasimine and Becky are at the House of Romance for an international competition. The most beautiful and talented women in the world have arrived and the competition is fierce. One of these three competitors has a big secret, and two of these women fall in love with one another and the secret will be very important to the future of the relationship.
"A wonderful read and what an imagination on the part of the author." JoAnn, Richmond, VA
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Casi cuatro décadas después de su muerte, aparece, en el sótano del Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Nueva York, una cinta que contiene una de las últimas entrevistas que Pasolini concedió, en 1969. Una larga conversación en la que, con un estilo afilado e implacable, el escritor, el crítico, el pensador se abren en canal y se desnudan, sin evitar las provocaciones, los temas escabrosos: Dios, el sexo, la religión, la adhesión al marxismo,...
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Tolkien's magnificent mythology that began in The Silmarillion and culminated in The Lord of the Rings had its origin in Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse myths that he loved, but also in accounts of the Bible, which he, as a practicing Christian, knew well. Tolkien's tales illustrate, and are illuminated by, themes such as creation, the fall, providence, sacrifice, redemption, and judgment that he drew from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Understanding...
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An illuminating collection of an author widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great unsung heroes of American literature.
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations' sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist.
Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwell's...
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It is 1967 and Charlene has just graduated from the University of Michigan – without her "Mrs." degree. Her mother recently passed away, and soon afterwards her father fled the silence, to a new home and job on the other side of the state. So Charlene is going "home" to what is now an empty house.Two things will make this long, hot summer bearable: Her father has hired Reeves Valenti – the high school sweetheart she left behind – to help her...
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Le territoire – parent, amant, esprit, mère, tante – a façonné le corps autochtone. Joshua Whitehead cartographie avec sensualité et joie
la relation entre corps et territoire, bouleversant les idées reçues sur l'identité autochtone, les traumatismes de l'histoire, la santé mentale et la guérison. Voyage intérieur, auto-enracinement, Joshua Whitehead creuse son corps et ses angoisses. Émerge une nouvelle narration o la perte et la souffrance...
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La littérature joue un rle important en tant que révélateur d'un rapport dynamique au végétal, basé sur une sensibilité écologique : c'est ce que cherche à montrer cet essai, qui offre une synthèse des réflexions collectives menées dans le cadre du groupe de recherche L'imaginaire botanique.
Entre les feuilles : explorations de l'imaginaire botanique contemporain adopte une approche botanique de la littérature développée à partir...
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This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution. Among the seventeen bold and inventive comic writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Valentin Katayev, and Yuri Kazakov.
74) Afterglow
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Afterglow is a poetry of love born, lost and then regained. With meticulous and lyric detail, Laura Jan Shore examines her relationship with her husband from a myriad of angles like a painter contemplating the lifelines of her subject, conveying deeply felt emotion but without the shorthand of sentimentality. This is about love that endures beyond the confines of mortal time. By the author of Water Over Stone.
75) Hotline
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Beyrouth, 1984. Muna embrasse Halim pour la dernière fois, avant qu'il ne s'évapore dans un brouillard de poussière soulevé par les combats de rue. Deux ans plus tard, elle et son fils Omar, âgé de huit ans, posent leurs valises à Montréal, au commencement de l'hiver, dans un appartement trop petit pour eux. Alors qu'elle connaît une réussite éclatante dans la vente par téléphone de boîtes-repas diététiques, la jeune mère monoparentale...
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An essential essay on John Champlain Gardner's Grendel.This scholarly piece examines John Champlain Gardner's attack on existential nihilism in his satiric work Grendel.This lengthy commentary has been referenced in numerous critical works on Gardner's classic about an existential monster who chooses to construct a world view based on chaos, violence, and absolute anarchy.
77) Flash Fiction
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This collection of Flash Fiction goes great with coffee during your day and goes great with a drink at the end of your day!
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In the world of complacency and status quo our thoughts often remain under a glass ceiling. Neologisms carries us above that ceilng in as way that lets us experience life beyond the crowd and the standards of what is considered normal to most but unacceptable to the few. Let the words of neologisms inspire and rekindle your thinking bringing you above the mediocrity of average and allowing a new victory of thought.
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¿Cuál es la historia de los primeros diccionarios en Hispanoamérica y, en particular en Chile? ¿Cómo se relaciona con la construcción de los Estados nacionales a lo largo del siglo XIX? Este libro busca desentrañar esta y otras preguntas leyendo entre definiciones variopintas los discursos ideológicos, históricos y políticos y reflexionando sobre la naturaleza lingüística y normativa de los diccionarios.
La profunda investigación y los...
80) Convent Mermaid
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Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
As Les Murray has written, Rod's poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro...
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