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In Brooklyn, in the Age of Disco, Valentine Kessler -- a sweet Jewish girl who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Virgin Mary of Lourdes -- has an unerring gift for shattering the dreams and hopes of those who love her. Miriam, her long-suffering mother, betrayed and anguished by the husband she adores, seeks solace in daily games of mah-jongg with The Girls, a cross between a Greek Chorus and Brooklyn's rendition of the Three Wise Men, who dispense...
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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...
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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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Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration-flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved...
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This book is about domestic violence itself, the causes, effects and solutions. It features the different types of domestic violence and gives detailed explanation on the scenarios which has to do with rape cases, female genital cutting or excision, physical abuse, sex abuse, economic abuse, Psychological abuse, technological abuse, economic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, social abuse, emotional abuse. Domestic violence is a major public...
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Me llamo Julio Ejido y soy un alcohólico. Bebo y fumo desde que tenía doce años, ahora acabo de cumplir sesenta. Esta confesión no posee valor alguno ya que no se la hago a nadie, carece de destinatarios. Y aunque los tuviera, no por ello adquiriría la menor importancia, puesto que no contemplo el valor de la confesión como alivio, ni siquiera como ritual; tampoco valoro el perdón que se pide o se otorga, lo desprecio de igual modo. Solo creo...
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A struggling actor's last chance becomes an unforgettable Roman holiday World War II derailed John Andrus's acting career. Marred by a facial scar and burdened by a new family, Andrus works for NATO in Paris. A producer from his past shows up with an attractive acting job-involving two weeks in Rome and a hefty salary. How can he pass it up? In Rome, Andrus quickly realizes that the job is not at all what he expected. Bounced between movie sets,...
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Figures of Wood, the debut novel by Venezuelan writer María Pérez-Talavera, now translis a thought-provoking and gripping novel that delves into the mind of L, a young man questioning his own guilt and sanity in a sanatorium. Told in diary form, the story is set in an unnamed place and time, leaving the reader to question the reliability of L's entries as his perceptions seem to grow more distorted. The novel explores love and betrayal, shame and...
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"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
10) Nudo Azul
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Jorge Chávez es médico y escritor. Esta doble profesión le ha permitido tocar el alma propia y la de sus pacientes para transformar el dolor en palabras sanadoras que se nutren de esperanza, no de una vana e ilusoria esperanza, sino como dice el autor: "de una esperanza azul que se apoya en la realidad interna, en la conexión consciente con la fuente de la vida, la que sabe que sus capacidades y talentos no le son propios, son el resultado de...
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An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her bestselling...
12) The Coffeehouse
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A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate. On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory...
13) 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...
14) María
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María (1867) is a novel by Jorge Isaacs. Partly inspired by his own life, María is a moving story of romance, hope, and tragedy by a leading author of the Spanish Romantic movement. The novel was Isaacs' debut work of fiction and seemed to promise him a lengthy career in Colombian literature. As he dedicated himself to politics, however, he largely abandoned his youthful commitment to writing in favor of a more conventional career. Raised in the...
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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...
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Fueled by an insider's view of Indiana and the state's often surprising connections to the larger world, IN Writing is revelatory. It is Indiana in all its glory: sacred and profane, saints and sinners, war and peace, small towns and big cities, art, architecture, poetry and victuals. It's about Hoosier talent and Hoosier genius: the courageous farmer-soldiers who ardently try to win the hearts and minds of 21st century Afghan insurgents, the artisans...
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"Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of the dilapidated mansion where his bitter, hard-drinking grandfather, Thomas Mann, has exiled himself. Astonished and moved by the arrival of his unexpected progeny, Thomas sets out to raise the boy himself -- on...
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A collection of short stories guaranteed to entertain you on the bus, during lunch or on the beach.Read a moden ghost story and treasure hunt with three randy actors, the clash between the sexes and founding cultures, the rub of true versus the popular and finally, a story of two brothers always in crisis - all Canadian, all good.
19) The Unseen
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Your life has ended abruptly. The reason and cause unclear. There can be no eternal rest until you know how and why this happened. Where would you start? Who is to blame? Was it avoidable, inevitable, an accident or murder?Follow Scott as he tumbles uncontrollably through a confusing array of experiences, each fragment piecing together a revealing picture of himself and the key players in his world. The final realisation emerges like a knife...
20) arimasen
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"Is Arimasen a nation, then?"
"As to what Arimasen is and is not... oh, Ephraim, did you but know what a subject you... unwittingly, in all innocence... oh, children, how I love your bright, shining faces, your bright, shining eyes! Is Arimasen a nation? No. Arimasen is not a nation. Nor a planet. Nor a city."
"A state of mind, then!"
"Perhaps, Umeboshi, it is that. Perhaps. I said not a planet. And yet... yes, a planet. I said not a city....
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