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Get the Summary of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christina Sharpe's "Ordinary Notes" delves into the complexities of Black life, memory, and resistance. She draws parallels between historical and contemporary forms of racism, from the forced labor and rape in a Georgia prison labor camp in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" to the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg, where memorials...
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José María de Pereda es uno de los grandes novelistas españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Manuel Marañón fue no solo su amigo «más querido», sino también su alter ego según nos dice en una carta del 5 de febrero de 1895. Este intenso epistolario, que se daba por perdido, se compone de más de 260 cartas que Pereda escribió a Marañón y que fueron conservadas por la familia del destinatario en el archivo de la Fundación Cigarral...
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"In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe." -New York Times Book Review
"His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality." - San Francisco Chronicle
"There's a stainless steel sheen to Cooper's sentences that is...
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El protagonista de la novela, Werther, es un joven de carácter sensible y pasional que se enamora locamente de Charlotte, una mujer que se halla comprometida a otro hombre. Werther es un hombre apuesto que suscita el interés de muchas otras mujeres, pero él está enamorado de Charlotte, quien no lo ama, y a pesar del intenso dolor que le causa el amor no correspondido, Werther desarrolla una amistad íntima con ella e incluso posteriormente, con...
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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The Nobel Prize—winning author of Thérèse Desqueyroux shares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and others.
Best known as France's great Catholic novelist, François Mauriac was also a playwright, poet, critic, journalist, and member of the Académie Française. He was an influential public intellectual who criticized the Catholic church for supporting Francisco Franco and opposed French rule in Vietnam....
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Two young writers who grew up in the shadow of the huge chimneys of a copper refinery in Rouyn-Noranda speak out. They refuse to be lulled by the songs of gold that have silenced the people who built the city and enriched the foundry owners for decades. They subtly and poetically illustrate the love-hate relationship they maintain with the arsenic and "piles of slag and copper." This passionate dialogue in French hit Quebec bookstores like a tornado...
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Federico García Lorca, un joven estudiante de la Universidad de Granada, recorre con su maestro y compañeros diversos rincones de la geografía española. Sus impresiones y experiencias de aquel viaje dieron pie a un libro mágico y primerizo en el que podemos encontrar las claves de lo que sería su obra posterior.
"Impresiones y paisajes" regresa a las librerías en el centenario de su publicación con ilustraciones de Alfonso Zapico y la documentación...
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Nuestra mente y nuestro cuerpo son los dos elementos principales utilizados por las fuerzas del mal que dominan nuestro mundo para controlar a la humanidad.La mente y el cuerpo son nuestros dos refugios más importantes a los que acudimos para escondernos y protegernos contra los desafíos que enfrentamos todos los días en este mundo oscuro.Pero en lugar de encontrar paz mental y salud para nuestros cuerpos en este mundo, nuestras mentes están siendo...
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The book of Ephesians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to the church in Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It is believed to have been written during Paul's imprisonment in Rome around AD 60-62.The letter is addressed to both Jewish and Gentile believers in Ephesus and emphasizes the unity of the Church, which is the body of Christ. Paul also emphasizes the spiritual blessings that believers have in Christ, such as redemption,...
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This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel provides a comprehensive look at Paul in light of recent scholarship and theological understandings of Paul. This new edition includes four brand-new sections on the following: the chronology of Paul's letters; Paul's ...
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How did the Apostle Paul view the Church? And where does Israel fit in? How are the promises to Israel fulfilled? In Heirs of Promise, P. Chase Sears discusses this relationship between the Church and Israel, and he explains how that affects our understanding of the Old Testament. Using a biblical-theological approach to the book of Romans, Sears argues that Paul understood the church not as a replacement of Israel, but as the new Israel--the continuation...
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A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence
In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.
To his...
16) The Earthly Tent
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Our mind and our body are the two main elements used by the evil forces that dominate our world to control humankind.Mind and body are our two most important shelters we go to hide and protect ourselves against the challenges we face everyday in this dark world.But instead of finding peace of mind and health for our bodies in this world, our minds are contaminated on a daily basis by an aggressive and relentless promotion of false and evil immoral...
17) The Times Sir
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From running commentary on growing cress in lunar soil, to fond collective memories about your mother's ancient Hoover, letter writers to The Times leave no stone unturned. This is a roundup of the wittiest letters printed on the letters page in 2023: pithy, funny and sometimes startling observations about the world in which we live. This collection invites you into the decidedly absurd, and always entertaining world of one of Britain's longest-running...
18) Dear Intern
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Everyone makes mistakes-especially in their first job. Cringe and commiserate with the everyday missteps and epic workplace screwups in this collection of self-confessed blunders from disaster‑prone‑yet‑good‑intentioned interns finding their footing in professional settings.
All tenured professionals know that detours and mishaps are an essential rite of passage en route to a successful career-but that doesn't make them any less funny. This...
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This collection of personal correspondence provides a rare window into the private life of the toweringnineteenth-century philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche was the most iconoclastic philosopher of modern history. He is known to the world as the scathingly brilliant provocateur behind such foundational works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Twilight of the Idols. This was Nietzsche as he addressed himself to the public. But in this...
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The companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa-a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, celebrating their artistry and showcasing their contributions to modern literature and international culture.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Yrsa Daley Ward
• Edwidge Danticat • Phillippa Yrsa De Villiers • Esi Edugyan • Eve Ewing • Nikki...
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