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"Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past."--Amazon.com....
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"On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
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In the fall of 1989,18-year old Frankie Peterson meets aspiring rock musician Rex Thornton, and the encounter changes her life. Frankie is dreaming of college and leaving home. Her mother, however, does not support her dreams, and leans hard on her for help with the household and her little brother, Erick. Frankie feels stuck with no way out. When her best friend Ronnie drags her to see a band in Seattle, Frankie meets Rex, the band's singer. Soon,...
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En esta ocasión te comparto una historia en donde las miradas se daban con los ojos fulgurantes del alma que todo lo ve, aún lo que la vista no puede.Una novela que te trasladará a recrear infinidad de vivencias, recuerdos e historias, mismas que solo pudieron integrarse simultáneamente con el paso de una de las peores pandemias que han azotado a la humanidad, el COVID-19 dejó al desnudo la vida del autor y le permitió compartir lecciones inspiradoras,...
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Essai ludique au ton personnel, Fabrications raconte les huit années d'une passionnante enquête intellectuelle pendant lesquelles Louis Hamelin a écrit La constellation du Lynx. Ce roman a parfois été perçu comme un document politique ou un ouvrage historique ; à l'inverse, le présent essai sera peut-être pris pour une œuvre de fiction. Pourtant, à part Samuel Nihilo, l'alter ego fictif de l'auteur, les personnages qu'on y rencontre existent...
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International Bestseller
Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for American Literary Translators Association's Translation Prize in Prose
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood--his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is...
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A major novel by the award-winning author named by Granta as one of America's best young writers. Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World Away follows the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific theater. As we are soon aware, there is another battle raging at the same time, this one on the domestic front, as Anne and James Langer's marriage...
15) 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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Kicking the Bucket has two definitions. It's a vulgar euphemism for dropping dead, or a literal description of your life support system being involuntarily dispensed with on the gallows, i.e., by kicking away the bucket you may be standing on with the rope around your neck, or by voluntarily removing yourself from the felicitations and care of your family, the NHS, 'and Social Services. Charles Fenemore, faced with his inevitable decline into senility...
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Esta es la tercera obra del autor. La primera fue "Añoranza" y la segunda "Noventa y nueve sonetos del sentir". La trama de esta novela, centra la idea de la superación a través del trabajo, la técnica y la constancia. Se hace referencia a la no rendición, como clave fundamental para vencer las dificultades.Todos los personajes son ficticios, de modo que el autor nunca actuaría como ellos, sino que son de su invención.La novela es un homenaje...
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Cesare Annunziata podría definirse sin demasiados miramientos como un viejo y cínico tocapelotas. Con setenta y siete años, viudo desde hace cinco, y padre de dos hijos, Cesare ha decidido pasar de todo y de todos. Los pocos balances que hace de su vida están marcados por una feroz ironía, quizá por miedo a no poder seguir haciéndolos. Su existencia podría seguir su rumbo hasta su previsible y universal final entre vasos de vino con Marino,...
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Nikki Gemmell's columns in THE AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE have proved to be hugely popular, shrewdly observed and provocative. In PERSONALLY, she tackles a variety of subjects ranging from female bullying, tenderness, the urge to apologize and becoming an embarrassing parent, to celibacy and the tyranny of technology. Packed full of Nikki's trademark blistering honesty, insight and humor, this collection of columns and exclusive new essays will make...
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