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81) Adam & Yves
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My current novel, Adam and Yves, is the story of two young professional men, an architect and a cellist, who meet over an abandoned piano in Greenwich Village and fall in love. When Adam introduces Yves, who grew up poor in French Canada, to his Park Avenue parents, his stock-broker dad makes an unconvincing show of accepting Yves; his mom, an editor at a trendy fashion magazine, refuses to show her hand. But the real family challenge for Adam is...
82) Averno verano
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Madrid se alza implacable en el mes de agosto como una ciudad en ruinas. No se derrumba, sino que fagocita todo aquello que encuentra a su paso para formar un solo cementerio de almas y escombros. Se ponen al descubierto todas las grietas, materiales y humanas, que cartografían sus calles. Una corriente subterránea une en esta novela a los personajes más diversos desde el nuevo al viejo mundo, que huyen del pasado, del presente, de un futuro no...
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El texto ofrece un análisis particularmente original y detallado de la dinámica tanto urbana como rural de las redes del narcotráfico. Las grandes mutaciones están claramente resaltadas: de la marihuana a la cocaína, de la importación de la materia prima proveniente de Perú y Bolivia al control de la producción nacional, de los laboratorios a la organización de circuitos de exportación, del manejo de los mercados exteriores, el mercado norteamericano...
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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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"To love and to lose is sad. To never love again, is a tragedy."In November of 1979, David Elliott, 32, learns the truth in his father's words. Likeable and quick-witted, David works at Wyndlan, his father's farm in southern England, and he struggles to keep it prosperous. His long hours there are a flashpoint in his stormy relationship with his French girlfriend.While at the local pub, David chats up the new barmaid in town, a feisty Canadian girl....
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This book provides a diverse range of insights for elevating one's mindset. It goes beyond simply addressing trauma recovery, emphasizing the importance of personal growth. Covering a wide array of subjects, the book guides readers toward self-restoration and offers fresh approaches to handling challenges. While it might appear to revolve around relationships, it's equally valuable for evaluating one's healing journey, mastering emotional expression,...
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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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A poetic reckoning with Turkish history, fuelled by mysticism
In 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Alevi Kurds. Inspired by those brutal events, and the survival of Kaygusuz's own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory as they reverberate...
90) Mientras pudimos
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Eve Friedman es una dramaturga de ochenta y tres años que vive sola en un caótico apartamento situado en el corazón de Manhattan. Los muslitos de pollo en oferta, los recuerdos de infancia que la asaltan en la piscina y las conversaciones nocturnas con el portero de su edificio son suficientes para que el día a día le siga resultando soportable. No obstante, cuando su camino se cruza por casualidad con el de Jorge, un joven extranjero que se...
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"""Alone, But Not Lonely. The Power of Solitude for Strong Women"" is a powerful ode to women who can do things alone but are never lonely. This book celebrates the independence and strength of women who model self-reliance and inspire others to do the same.
This remarkable book will inspire women to embrace their strength and
break free from the societal pressure to depend on others. The author
shares stories of women who are unapologetically...
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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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Escape into the dream world of Hollywood and watch as the noted gossip columnist, Bart Bremmer, lashes out at the elite of Tinsel Town in article after article filled with biting gossip meant to bring the stars back to Earth. Bart is a walking contradiction though. A tall, good-looking, former paratrooper, he is nothing like the stereotype of a gossip columnist most of us imagine. However, just like his physical looks clash with people's stereotypes,...
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This book is a full of poems and arts which are telling the different things. The words has a magic and powers. The words can work like as a medication and counselling to the anyone. The same words and creative ideas comes in the mind of a poet and tells poet to write and express the feelings. So sometimes poet see the things of the world as well as writes poems. Than again poet thinks about past, present and future as well as creates...
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Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion...
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A la mayor parte de nuestros personajes favoritos de ficción no los hemos elegido por sus virtudes, sino más bien por la fascinación y la inquietud que nos suscita su vileza. Como la manzana prohibida en el Edén, brilla también en el jardín de la literatura la representación de las bajezas y el desorden del espíritu humano, cuya belleza, a veces, ejerce sobre el lector una atracción irrenunciable.
Estas páginas proponen un recorrido a través...
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Rembrandt is famous for his paintings but not many people know about his personal life. After his wife Saskia died, his life became embroiled in a relationship that would shock the world even today. This short story is about the other side of Rembrandt - officially documented, but few people know of. He was a great artist, but at the same time - could he have been a murderer?On June 18 On June 18, 2003 Hans Benting received a call from Dr Giorgio...
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There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance.Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one.In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited...
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"The Heart-Wrenching August is not an unknown month in Afghanistan,
and even for the world. In August 2021, Najiba was trapped by the
cyberspace jihadists of the Taliban group and kidnapped from Karte
Parwan in Kabul city, Afghanistan. The Taliban took her to prison
because her brother was a national army soldier in the previous Afghan
government. The Taliban has committed many atrocities against Najiba
to surrender her brother to the Taliban...
100) 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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