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Ulrike Rebel blickt im Alter von 85 Jahren zurück auf ihre Abenteuer, in denen sie als kleines Mädchen im 2. Weltkrieg russischen Gewehren gegenüberstand, unter der Erziehung eines STASI-Offiziers aufwuchs, Republikflucht im VW-Bus eines US-Soldaten beging, in West-Berlin Medizin studierte, in die USA auswanderte und nach einer halben Weltreise mit dem Segelboot auf der Insel Culebra Malerin wurde.
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Dr. Pam Chubbuck, a world-wide respected therapist, has written the most comprehensive book to date on how to deal with the experience of losing a father. The workbook/art therapy aspect in Goodbye, Dad. I'll Always Love You is genius! There is no better way to help youngsters through their trauma than the combined art, writing, and emotional movement processes that Dr. Chubbuck masterfully shows us. Part one is for Kids. Part two, is for all caregivers:...
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"When Heimdall and Hyrrokkin abandon their 'children' to go on holiday, Odin sends Baldur - Thor's half brother and god of making Loki look bad - to babysit. As Baldur and Thor bond, Loki's attempts to prove he's good start getting a bit desperate. After the drama teacher casts him as the villain in the school play, Loki starts to wonder whether there's any point in being good when everyone seems convinced of his villainy. That is until he discovers...
46) The tumbler
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When a bullying billionaire comes after Du Pré, the part-time investigator will stop at nothing to protect what's his A rumor circulates around academic circles that the long-lost journals of Lewis and Clark are in the possession of hard-bitten Montana fiddler Gabriel Du Pré. A few years ago, Du Pré led a documentary film crew down the Missouri River to commemorate the bicentennial of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, but he won't say whether...
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Surprenant et déconcertant.
Michel Zaccaro dans ce second ouvrage nous divertit. La finesse, la fluidité de sa plume nous embarque avec habileté dans une multitude de textes, essais et nouvelles. Il aiguise, finalise les extraits de poésie proposés dans son premier récit : Je suis, tel que vous m'avez défait.
L'auteur nous livre ses ressentis en nous faisant voyager au fil d'une série de textes simples, mais également très travaillés,...
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Una amplia selección de las cartas que forjaron una esperanza y, con el tiempo, un país nuevo. El retrato más íntimo de un hombre excepcional publicado en el centenario de su nacimiento.
Nelson Mandela fue condenado a cadena perpetua en 1962. Tenía 44 años y pasaría 27 entre rejas, 18 de ellos en el tristemente famoso penal de Robben Island, donde los presos eran sometidos a un trato inmisericorde. Nunca flaqueó, jamás perdió la dignidad:...
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A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
“Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief,...
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Ce livre compile des récits, nouvelles, contes et une pièce de théâtre exprimant la souffrance, la frustration, l'aspiration à la justice et à la liberté aux Comores. Il décrit la situation dans les trois îles indépendantes à différentes époques politiques, y compris les tyrannies issues de putschs et le mercenariat de Bob Denard, ainsi qu'à Mayotte, restée française, et en France, o vit une importante communauté comorienne.
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When genealogist Torie O'Shea gets an invitation from her favorite aunt, Sissy, to come and spend some time with her in Minnesota she jumps at the chance. She piles her husband and her father-in-law into the car, leaving her two daughters in the care of her mother back home in Missouri, and hits the road, looking forward to some relaxation and some family bonding. Once they arrive, Torie finds out that her aunt's invitation was not so innocent: Sissy...
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Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov.
55) Invasion
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Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhensky had never written documentary prose before, only fiction. They had never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fiction that Oldie is used to. Different language, different style, according to the circumstances. These notes were written in cities under fire, in basements and bomb shelters, on evacuation trains and buses, in rented apartments during short pauses of...
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Más conocida por su único y extraordinario libro de cuentos, Ana Basualdo es, ante todo, periodista, un oficio que ha ejercido con pareja maestría por casi cincuenta años. El presente recopila por primera vez una selección de sus crónicas, las primeras escritas para el semanario Panorama a principios de los 70 y la última, sobre un bar en Barcelona como dinámica social, firmada antes de ayer. Este libro es un recorrido por épocas, lugares...
57) Ode to Love
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"A drop of PURE LOVEcontains an ocean of transformative power -never underestimate the ripple effect…Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Quilled Ink Review. A pure labour of Love, we could think of no better way to begin than on that note - Ode to Love.Within these pages, you will find an eclectic mix of accomplished writers from across the world, some of whom we have the honour and privilege to publish for the very first time. And yet, the...
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In these pages, The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, the preeminent literary critic Edmund Wilson gives us perhaps the largest authentic document of the time, the dazzling observations of one of the principal actors in the American twenties.
Here is the raw side of the U.S.A., the mad side of Hollywood, the literary infighting in New York, the gossip and anecdotes of an astonishing cast of characters, the jokes, the profundities,...
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Illusions perdues est un roman d'Honoré de Balzac publié en trois parties entre 1837 et 1843 : Les deux poètes, Un grand homme de province à Paris et Les souffrances de l'inventeur. Dédié à Victor Hugo, ce texte fait partie du vaste ensemble des Études de mœurs de La Comédie humaine et, plus précisément, des Scènes de la vie de province. Attaché à ce qu'il qualifiait comme « une histoire pleine de vérité », Balzac considérait le...
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Les Liaisons dangereuses est un roman épistolaire écrit par Choderlos de Laclos en 1782. Il raconte l'histoire de deux aristocrates, le Vicomte de Valmont et la Marquise de Merteuil, qui se divertissent en manipulant les autres pour satisfaire leurs propres désirs. Le livre a été adapté à de nombreuses reprises au cinéma et à la télévision, et est considéré comme l'un des grands chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature française. Il est souvent...
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