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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to...
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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
4) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
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June 1631 - Baltimore, Ireland
"Malcolm woke up just before dawn broke over the cove. He heard a loud crash and climbed out of bed. He sniffed the air and smelled smoke. He was barely six years old, but he knew something bad was happening. He heard a knock at the door and went to open it. Standing on the threshold was a fierce-looking Turkish janissary wearing a long red tunic and a traditional bork with a jewelled ornament affixed to the forehead,...
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A collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature
Reading, writing, translating, the avant-garde and tradition, the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino's remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp...
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The TV's on. The computer's on. The stereo's on. Sleep is a waste of time.
Welcome to the world of Bipolar Disorder, a journey to the outer edges of the mind.
A series of conversations told with humour, honesty and insight by Adam, Faye and Alastair, three survivors who have experienced the illness first hand. With contributions from Mental Health professional, Chris Kelly.
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It's 1994. Blur and Oasis are in the charts. New Labour are on the horizon. Ladbroke Grove is the place, a thriving hub of art, music and cultural diversity.
Emerging from the wreckage of another lost weekend, Indie Guitarist of the Year, Joe E Byron, hurries home on the Tube to face the consequences of his actions. Ten years on the road has taken its toll. He should be spending more time with Justine and the kids. Instead, he's restless, angry,...
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Duermevela es una historia inquietante y sobrecogedora, basada en hechos reales, en la que la autora nos lleva por parajes de la vida y del mundo de los sueños, donde nos podemos encontrar con personajes siniestros, como una mujer de cabello largo y andrajoso, en cuyo rostro se resguarda una incógnita. Ella se presentará en tus sueños, en el plano astral, onírico o, incluso, en el real. Es así como con maestría, Marcela De Albali nos lleva...
11) La vergüenza
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La vergüenza se presenta como la crónica en primera persona de un descenso al abismo de la adicción, el relato de un treintañero alcohólico que ve cómo todo se desmorona a su alrededor mientras vive dividido entre la búsqueda de la redención y la perdición definitiva.
Un peculiar viaje existencial por una Bucarest oscura y fantasmal a través del dolor, la toma de conciencia del fracaso vital, la profunda soledad de una vida sin proyecto,...
12) Forgery
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The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore's Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a...
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¿Te gustaría liberarte de los pensamientos que te limitan, te angustian o te hacen sufrir? ¿Quieres aprender a crear nuevos pensamientos que te inspiren, te motiven y te llenen de energía? ¿Te interesa conocer cómo la destrucción y la creación de tus pensamientos más profundos pueden transformar tu realidad?Si la respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En él, el autor te propone un método revolucionario para cambiar tu forma de pensar...
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La conmovedora historia de la amistad de dos niñas, una luchando por sobrevivir al comercio de personas y la otra intentando salvarla. Dos niñas cuyas vidas tomaron caminos distintos una devastadora noche de 1993.
India, 1986: Mukta, una niña de diez años, perteneciente a la casta Yellamma, ha llegado a la edad de tener que cumplir su destino convirtiéndose en prostituta del templo. En un intento de hacerla escapar de este legado, la llevan con...
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"No has venido a sufrir a este mundo, sino a transmutar tu dolor en gozo, y tus oscuridades propias en luz para ti y para los que te rodean", les
confía a quienes quieren escucharla, y cuál médica de almas, les provee a los desesperados píldoras filosóficas, recetas espirituales, diagnósticos esperanzadores, ejercicios de recuperación eficaces, medicinas de curación milagrosa, estimulantes de reconstitución mágica.
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Les plantes bougent, se déplacent, se transforment, même si leurs mouvements sont souvent imperceptibles à l'oeil humain. Alors, comment faire pour mieux les voir, les percevoir et les sentir ? Les concepts issus des sciences botaniques – phototropisme, géotropisme, hydrotropisme, chimiotropisme – ne permettent pas de décrire leur poéticité ou leur capacité à « faire monde » en nouant des relations avec d'autres organismes vivants et...
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Impregnada de onirismo, pero con una prolija atención a la vida cotidiana de la Francia finisecular, esta noveleta nos enfrenta al terror de todo forastero: en un país extraño, arribar a un hogar desconocido, cuyos habitantes no están. Mediante un monólogo –¿o una confesión?–, el protagonista narrador va registrando los acontecimientos, los personajes y la angustia ante su ajenidad al entorno y la misteriosa ausencia de sus anfitriones....
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Thomas Hall is an artist with astonishing talent-and a vainglorious sense of self. Since his days as a child prodigy he has reveled in recognition and believed in his inevitable destiny. Chosen. Entitled. He presumes his artistic brilliance deserves a lavish life of independence, fast cars and drop-dead gorgeous women. Thomas Hall wants it all and more.
Destiny has other plans. When "Cass," the woman from the Healing Place, walks into his life,...
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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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En un hotel abandonado, una niña observa absorta como su madre se dispone a contar un cuento. La mujer dibuja con sus manos un pueblo en la penumbra y empieza a narrar la historia de la pequeña Inés que fue raptada por los indios en un malón. Son finales de los setenta en Argentina y no están solas. A su alrededor, hombres y mujeres escuchan las penas de la «cautiva» en el salón destartalado en el que se refugian. Huyen de la policía o de...
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