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It was in New York that he discovered Sarah. As Simon recovers from a professional disaster-and escapes Chicago for New York-he is drawn to the beautiful, exciting, and mysterious Sarah. Even though the forty-year-old Simon has a wife and child, he falls madly in love with Sarah. Devoting themselves with abandon to the pursuit of happiness, the lovers tour New York, Paris, Venice, and beyond. Their journey takes them deep within their emotions, and...
42) The Good Doctor
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A taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post-apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship, The Good Doctor is an extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit. The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world, with rights already sold in eleven countries, and assures Damon Galgut's place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital,...
43) Life After Dark
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"When you almost think of giving up, the world suddenly gives every inch of hope you need, as if telling you that no matter what, hope is not gone. That's the thing about hope. It never really leaves. It stays to give you another chance at something and makes you believe that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, that hope comes from within. You feel it deeply, from the heart, especially on times when you lose all your senses on everything and...
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"I am who You say I am is a short book written to give inspiration to the youth. It talks about how we subscribe to the set of standards imposed upon us by modern societies. This is a time when challenges are pressing, and the youth frequently find themselves trapped in microcosms of confusion. With all of these in consideration, this book seeks to provide answers to those who are searching, a map to those who are losing their path, a motivation to...
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Three Chimneys, Virginia resident Margaret Pricket, a single mother and specialty cheese maker, is in danger of losing all she holds dear. Her century-old family dairy farm is falling deeper into debt. Her thirteen-year-old daughter Polly, whom Margaret has tried to shelter from the modern world, is becoming perilously drawn towards her charismatic, subversive history teacher. Her loyal farmhand August, a Thomas Jefferson impersonator by night, is...
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Marik Youngblood left her Oklahoma hometown-;and the child she gave up for adoption-;intent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her father's death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find the child she left behind. But when the bones of an infant are unearthed on her family's ranch, Marik fears she's learned her daughter's fate.
Burt and Lena Gurdman own the property that neighbors Killdeer...
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Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway for such a long time that nobody is old enough to have seen what came before. She's dropped out of university and translates instruction manuals for an Italian washing machine manufacturer; her mother, Livia Mega, once a renowned flautist, spends her days inside taking photographs of holes she finds in the house. Camelia...
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Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue one of the classic novels by this acclaimed master of modern humor. About Harry Towns is the story of the eponymous screenwriter, a man reveling in the freewheeling atmosphere of the early 1970s, a bicoastal playboy with a broken marriage and a child he rarely...
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When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she had always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become...
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Winner of the Finlandia Award, Troll: A Love Story is an enchanting novel that has become an international sensation. Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll's presence influences...
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"Quest of a Lost Soul is a book of soulful poetry. Each poem has a story beneath it, which you will feel connected to. The book is nothing but a collection of feelings - Love, Joy, Sadness, Emptiness and Motivation.
All of us feel different but same instances happen in our life. We all think differently about it, we have a different view of the problems that come before us. This is Life!
Quest of a Lost Soul is a picture of words that let you...
53) Painting Shadows
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Painting Shadows is a story's story, a writer's story - a story so stripped down many lines sound like quotes.The book challenges the reader to go somewhere deeper, to be submerged in the narrator's think tank of a journey.Painting Shadows is a stark read about ignorance and awareness, and the many questions and observations that fall between them.
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"Piece of Mind: Journal of a Healed Heart (Volume 2) is a follow-up non-fiction book to the first volume that Christine Musa has released back in 2021, focusing on her healing journey after experiencing abandonment, betrayal, and a failed marriage.
This second volume contains a collection of all-original literary pieces, short articles, quotes, and anecdotes based on Christine's personal ups and downs, spanning from year 2018 up to 2021 --- the...
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In many parts of rural India, water is so scarce that people have to walk long distances and spend many hours collecting water for drinking, cooking, and washing. But in the remote village of Saja Pahad in Chhattisgarh, a teenage boy was determined to change this unhappy situation. The story of how he accomplished this is the stuff that legends are made of.
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Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed-race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the purpose of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save him from deportation. The two build a life together, but Danny continues to be plagued...
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There is a menace in the woods of Bullock County, Mississippi, and not only for the black man destined to be lynched when a white boy comes of age. The white men who work at the plant are in danger, too, but they refuse to heed Earl Thomas's urgent message that the factory is slowly killing them, turning a deaf ear to the black pastor. Thomas knows he should try to deliver the message again, but he hears the blood of his murdered friend calling to...
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"Minsan sa tula natin mahahanap ang paglilinaw sa mga bagay, mga kasagutan sa tanong kung paano tayo nagiging kabahagi nito habang binabasa. Ang tula ay nasa kahit saan, hinihintay lang niya ang makata na kumuha ng sangkap at magtimpla upang mabuo ito. Nabuo ang librong ito dahil sa karanasan at mga kuwentong pinaniniwalaan ng bayan na ayon sa kasaysayan ay tama.
Natagalan man sa pagluto ngayon ay buong pusong inihain ang bahagi ng kaisipan na inilapat...
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Entre una historia cultural llena de paradojas y cierta noción abstracta de humanidad que aún triunfa en la censura de los sentidos, surgen los ensayos de Juan Carlos Arteaga para remover aquello que parece inapelable. Hay en esta palabra un evidente deseo por enfrentar lo humano sin concesiones y llevarlo hacia un lugar de reflexión que no agota caminos ni banaliza contradicciones. En medio de ese deseo, que revela las inquietudes del autor, entre...
60) Ereyesterday
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"I wrote this book in love, in pain,
In joy-remembering each name,
Names of lovers lost,
Names of voices dead
Tales of loving at a cost,
Of romance, and of life in shred
It's my heart for you to read or leave
Or find solace when you grieve
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