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In May Sarton's debut novel, a mysterious and beloved Belgian poet finds new life when a young Englishman ventures to meet her Published under the pseudonym Jeanne Latour, Doro's poetry inspired a generation. Her teaching of great literature and philosophy also fired up the imaginations of her young pupils. Throughout her adult life, Doro's most important relationships have been those with Claire and Annette, fellow teachers who have nicknamed themselves...
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Gabriel Tucker is a globe-trotting, trust fund–endowed twenty-nine-year-old who suddenly finds himself penniless and alone in the world, except for an old Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms, the last thing of value left to him by his now-vanished family. Lacking skills or resources, he heads to Miami Beach to reconstruct his life, finding himself neighbors with an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a...
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A mysterious Fairacre villager receives an unexpected Christmas gift in this heartwarming holiday novel from the popular author of the Thrush Green series. Nobody in Fairacre knows much about Miss Quinn, which is a rare state of affairs and much regretted by the villagers. Apart from the fact that she lives in the annex to Mrs. Benson's house and that she works in Caxley, her past history and the amount of her salary remains a tantalizing mystery....
84) The Coast
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A city, three lives, four decades, poems, drugs, booze, hippies, love, lust, loss- just keep moving. Some relationships linger across decades and continents, no mater how much individuals change. The links between Patrick, Joanna, Daisy, and San Francisco, though stretched, never snap. San Francisco and the Bay Area are at the heart of this story about three lives evolving over 40 years. When Patrick discovers San Francisco in the summer before...
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La obra poética de Jacobo Rauskin, que abarca hoy unos cuarenta libros, ofrece a sus lectores un ejemplo de poesía contemporánea en su más noble variedad formal. Desde los poemas líricos hasta los de inclusión social y desde los breves destellos verbales a las obras de cierta extensión. Además, en nuestro autor conviven, gracias a un estilo generoso y refinado, las formas tradicionales y las actuales. Referente habitual de la poesía paraguaya...
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Juan Miguel González nos pregunta en el dintel de esta antología poética: "Eliminada la belleza, la reflexión moral, la metafísica del poema, ¿qué queda de poesía en los libros de este género?" El instante no atendido viene a sumar al ciclo metafísico comenzado en los anteriores poemarios de Gónzalez: Visión de la piedad y La lluvia prometida. Tanto su temática como el tono constatan la necesidad fervorosa de celebración y de alabanza...
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James, an American expatriate living in Scotland, goes for a run around the Isle of Bute and recalls an image of Simone sitting outside a cafe amidst the shimmering lights of Paris saying that she holds onto too many memories.A bohemian tale of attraction that plays with the concepts of memory, What a Day for a Night recounts a romantic encounter of two people, meeting for the second time, saying what could be goodbye on the streets of Paris.
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Es un drama musical sobre el asesinato del revolucionario ruso León Trotsky en México en agosto de 1940 y su relación con los artistas e intelectuales mexicanos de los años treinta, particularmente con los pintores Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo y David Alfaro Siqueiros. A partir de este suceso, el libreto aborda los nexos entre política, arte y delito que tuvieron lugar durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, cuando numerosos artistas tomaron las...
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The best-kept secret in modern British literature. Andrew Marr A haunting story of violence and love.
Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper.
Set during the Second World War, Robin Jenkins greatest novel is an immensely powerful examination of good and evil, and mankind’s propensity for...
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Liv ne sait plus habiter son corps. Dans sa chambre, elle accueille des amants sans nom qu'elle ne garde jamais jusqu'au matin. Sous les néons d'une salle d'examen, elle attend l'inexorable, hantée par les diagnostics imaginaires. Sa mère a été emportée par le cancer il y a longtemps, lui laissant une peur obsessive de la maladie pour seul héritage. Maintenant, la vie de Liv et de son père est pleine de fantmes. Alors que Liv traque sa mère...
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Have you ever wished you could start over? That you could leave everything and everyone behind and find a new life? Our narrator takes that risk. He leaves a weary, dull, anesthetized existence, abandons his family and sets out to live as an explorer in the jungle that is called New York City, in the long-shot hope of finding contentment. He changes his appearance and takes a new identity, but he is not prepared for the obstacles he encounters and...
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A beautiful, rich and sensuous historical novel, John Saturnall's Feast tells the story of a young orphan who becomes a kitchen boy at a manor house, and rises through the ranks to become the greatest Cook of his generation. It is a story of food, star-crossed lovers, ancient myths and one boy's rise from outcast to hero. Orphaned when his mother dies of starvation, having been cast out of her village as a witch, John is taken in at the kitchens at...
94) Elizabeth Alone
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At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizabeth Aidallbery as something of a nonevent. But from her bed at Cheltenham Women's Hospital, the divorced mother of three comes to realize that she is at a crossroads. She meets two other women admitted for the same operation: Young Sylvie Clapper, who is preoccupied with her dishonest boyfriend; and poor Miss Samson, with her disfiguring birthmark, who runs a Christian boarding...
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"[My life] is so rich with blessings-an immense capacity of enjoyment, books, and beloved friends. . . . Most earnestly I pray the dear Heavenly Father that I may sometime make myself far more worthy of the love shown to me than I am now."
-April 22, 1900 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz, AFB
When Helen Keller died in 1968, at the age of eighty-eight years old, she was one of the most widely known women in the world. The overnight success of...
96) Reel Me In
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"Reel Me In is a compilation of pieces and works centering mostly on love and life
generally. It captures thoughts, dreams through the eyes of the author and is inspired
mostly by the hallowed feelings of love sought for by many. Like the fisherman's
hook, it posits how love baits and draws many.
"" Gabie writes with profound imagery..one that makes you feel as though you were part of the poems. Her delivery is breathtakingly beautiful...
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Poems on the Path is a collection written during a time of deep grief and spiritual opening after the death of Ruey's daughter Mindy. It also consists of poetry included in lectures from the curriculum of Sacred Path Healing School. Kauakea's photography illustrates and intensifies the poetry.
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"Slowly his eyes open. He struggles to separate his eyelids which have been sealed shut by the crust that has formed overnight."
With these words begins our journey through a day in the life of a nameless protagonist. On a dreary Monday in January, he faces the soul-draining monotony of his 9-to-5 job, all the while becoming more entangled in the seductive grip of technology. His battle with melancholy, apathy, and disconnection leads him...
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El trabajo editorial compromete el cuerpo, se aproxima al manuscrito, deja los ojos en la lectura e imagina su materialidad. Es un diálogo intenso de un equipo –el cual incluye al autor– sobre las posibilidades físicas y conceptuales de cada obra. Esta serie de dedicadas y nobles tareas corporales no está ausente de emoción, frustración, esperanza. Una editora piensa e imagina la manera como adaptará la publicación al cuerpo lector....
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In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker, who goes by Alif, shields his clients-dissidents, outlaws, revolutionaries, and other watched groups-from surveillance, and tries to stay out of trouble.
The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the state's electronic security force, putting his clients and himself on the line. Then it turns...
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