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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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Fritz Molden, der 1964 den Buchverlag Molden gründete, war Zeit seines Lebens ein begnadeter Geschichtenerzähler – und ein prägender Verleger. In der Familie Molden hat der Elefant Jakob Tradition, für seine Kinder spinnt und erzählt Fritz Molden die Geschichten von Jakob weiter – meist beim Zubettgehen.
Die Geschichten von Jakob sind erhalten geblieben. Hanna Molden greift sie nun auf und erzählt uns das widerständige Leben von Fritz...
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'This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.' – Daisy Dunn, The Times
'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.' – Mark Amory, The Spectator
'At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.' – A.N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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Per the New World Encyclopedia, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba) from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. Shakespeare' Macbeth immortalized the Scottish king but as a dark, tormented character driven...
5) Bad Blood
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Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain-and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily-in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like Angela's Ashes and The Liar's Club as well as fans ofSage's own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by...
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Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already "a Classic in his lifetime," struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan. This passionately curious woman, an intrepid traveler who, like Eliot, was deeply involved in the affairs of the Church of England, served as the warden of the Student Movement House, mere yards from the poet and editor's office at Faber and Faber.
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When I Started Smoking Weed for Real is volume 5 of the series On Being, a self-referential, metaphysical case history where the author J. Guzmán, as the protagonist Ana, psychoanalyzes her own consciousness throughout Time, uses tools like astrology to facilitate the investigation, and documents the entire process. On Being is a life-long, narrative, archival data set of her life in the form of diaries, whose purpose is to assist astrologers and...
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En esta obra, Guillermo Solano nos sorprende yendo mucho más allá de la exposición de ingeniosas estrategias de pensamiento: en realidad, lo que Playliving propone es una verdadera ideología de vida. Con propuestas divertidas y muy audaces, Guillermo nos conduce a través de un prometedor camino de exploración personal, llevándonos a cambiar lo que pensamos de nosotros mismos y a relacionarnos mejor con nuestro entorno. En resumen, Playliving...
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"Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric Carle
Nearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and an enigma. Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining...
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Nadine Gordimer's Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gordimer's life, literature, and society, backed by academic research (doctoral...
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First published in 1857, The Life of Charlotte Bronte presents an intimate portrait of the celebrated author through the eyes of Elizabeth Gaskell, a personal friend of Bronte’s and fellow trailblazer of Victorian-era literature. Drawing from hundreds of Bronte’s letters, Gaskell illuminates what she described as a "wild, sad life and the beautiful character that grew out of it."
Beginning with Bronte’s lonely childhood as a student at the...
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Hay momentos en la vida en los que tenemos que tomar decisiones importantes, esos momentos marcarán el futuro de nuestra existencia y delimitarán el camino que seguiremos. Son puntos de inflexión a partir de los cuales no hay vuelta atrás, a partir de los cuales la opción solo es el cambio. Camelia ha estado allí muchas veces a lo largo de su vida, pero se las ha ingeniado para mantenerse estable en medio mismo de los cambios, suspendida sobre...
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.
Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. He has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and to...
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian journalist embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi—her disappearance from India, her persecution by the Nazis, and her pursuit of freedom at any cost.
On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at...
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When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn?
On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself racing to the hospital-his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father.
In the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi relied on the support of his Italian immigrant...
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Picking up where he left off in My Booky Wook, movie star and comedian Russell Brand details his rapid climb to fame and fortune in a shockingly candid, resolutely funny, and unbelievably electrifying tell-all: Booky Wook 2. Brand's performances in Arthur, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall have earned him a place in fans' hearts; now, with a drop of Chelsea Handler's Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, a dash of Tommy Lee's Dirt, and a spoonful...
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Dear reader,Anyone expecting a melancholic epitaph for a bygone era in my book "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" will be disappointed. I myself grew up in East Germany and spent half of my life there. There is nothing politically desirable about that time, and nothing of it should be repeated. The other half I spent in united Germany, and while some aspects could have been better, many were indeed better. One had the...
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For readers of Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and #Girlboss, a hilarious-yet heartfelt-guide to growing up and taking your place in the world by the popular comedian and author of the highly praised Agorafabulous!
While the practical aspects of new adulthood can be nerve-wracking-dating, job-hunting, money-managing-the most important task of all is figuring out who you are and where you fit in the world. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa, now in her...
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Après de multiples hospitalisations, Agathe décide de nous livrer son quotidien ainsi que celui d'autres personnes touchées par l'anorexie ou la boulimie. Ce recueil de témoignages qui relate le combat de ces personnes malades afin de retrouver une vie normale est également une invitation à accompagner ceux qui souffrent au lieu de les stigmatiser.
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Atteinte d'anorexie mentale depuis plusieurs années, Agathe Malo est...
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La vie est parfois une épreuve jalonnée de vides inattendus… ou de trous béants dans le cœur.
Ce livre, mon témoignage, est le récit d'un combat intime contre les fantmes du passé. J'y dévoile les abysses d'une expérience personnelle marquée par le viol et les drames familiaux : un séisme émotionnel qui a laissé derrière lui une vie criblée d'absences. Avec une plume trempée dans l'encre de ma douleur et guidée par l'espoir d'éclairer...
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