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"The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and arrows of familial discord. Johnny MacKinnon might be on the verge of losing it all. The ice factory he married into, which he's run for decades, is facing devastating OSHA fines following a mysterious accident and may have to close. The only hope for Johnny's livelihood is that someone in the...
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"This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these pages...
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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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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
6) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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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....
9) Passing on
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When Dorothy Glover dies, ending her reign of terror, siblings Helen and Edward Daimler, both middle-aged and unmarried, are left ill equipped to move forward and lead their own healthy, independent lives. But as time passes, the two slowly learn to accept what has been lost in their own lives and begin to embrace what can still be retrieved. Writing with both wit and compassion, Lively conjures up Edward and Helen's dilemmas with uncommon sympathy,...
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The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how-at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution-Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how...
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In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of forty-year-old Anne Linton, who comes to her father's aid when he is moved into a nursing home in a distant town. As she shares his last weeks, she unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must examine the realities of her own life-of her childhood, her marriage-and ask, what secrets has she...
13) In & Oz: A Novel
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Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasulas style, IN & OZ is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of novel and moves it forward.
IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters - an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor,...
14) The Shade Place
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After an early retirement, Evans buys acreage in rural Pennsylvania and, against the advice of others, restores the dilapidated farmhouse. As he digs into the history of this old farm he encounters some colorful characters and uncovers some surprising relationships. Along the way he helps re-unite two old friends as the three of them work together to solve an old mystery.
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Los relatos que conforman este libro son la expresión contemporánea de la corporalidad social. Mientras ésta se percibe como un cuerpo incorrupto, es precisamente, lo contrario. La corporalidad social, que es su microcosmos, es representada en la narrativa de Marina Herrera, en cuerpo de mujer, nos permite ahondar en cómo es percibido, vejado, exhibido el ser y estar de las mujeres, dentro de una sociedad cada vez más violenta y violentada.
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El aire que se respira en Cuba está prácticamente libre de contaminación corrupta, aunque desde luego cada paso que se dé y cada previsión que se tenga, no podrá estar libre de desconfianza, incluyendo las acciones subrepticias de la CIA norteamericana, que financia cualquier injerencia a cualquier país como en el caso de casi todos los latinoamericanos y caribeños, razón por la cual Cuba se previene siempre con sus departamentos migratorios...
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Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of liberal principle, not married but partnered. All seems fine at first-healthy baby, happy couple but when they have to decide who'll look after little Kitty,...
18) Telling Tales
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Five friends meet at university, and fall into the habit of telling each other stories. And what begins as something to pass the time becomes something more, a way of expressing themselves, and of making sense of their lives and their growing feelings for one another, even as their own stories become ever more entwined.Telling Tales is a story about love and loss, dreams and fears; but most of all it is a story about friendship.Warm and witty, thoughtful...
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"Remedios Lucio is an author and a journalist, who owns The HodgePodge
Lifestyle blog and YouTube channel since 2010. She has written The
HodgePodge Lifestyle Chronicles book series 10 Years After, Season is
Changing, and Back to the Homeland. She loves to share her life experiences;
go on travel adventures; meet people from all walks of life; indulge in various
cuisines; immerse herself in different cultures, and learn a new language.
She currently...
20) Avenida colonial
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Absorbido por el trabajo, por su teléfono celular y por los conflictos familiares, Mateo se entrega a un largo recorrido nocturno por la Avenida Colonial. En este viaje enfrenta situaciones extremas de la mano de dos seres de la noche, Maribel y Calderón, polos opuestos conectados por la violencia y por la necesidad de sobrevivir en una ciudad que no da tregua. Por otro lado, una mujer aparece en la vida de Mateo de manera singular y coincide con...
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