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30741) American Bestiary
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Urban myths and legends from all over America are condensed in this collection. Through its pages various spectra pass, as the Chupacabra invokes and enumerates in one of the poems: "Creatures of the night and the sun. Covered Lady, Muqui, Yasy Yeteré, Alligator Man, Kharisiri, Whistler, Widow, Telesita, Curupira, Tata Elf, Cadejo, Just Judge of the Night, Witch Monkey, Holy Death, Demon of Dover, Wendigo, Girl with a scarf, The Crying Girl. Creatures...
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This books invites us to think for ourselves about what gives us meaning. As one of the book's two main characters, Emily Dickinson wrote for the ages but not for herself. She closed off her heart rather than tell what would ravage the hearts of others.
After a "visit" from Emily, the author decided to invent a journal for her drawn from her letters and poetry. She gives Emily a prose voice. This journal makes up half the book. The other half is counterpoint...
30743) The Dark Poet
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Some people are so broken they can only cut us.
With poetic dexterity, Aurealis Award finalist Kathryn Gossow interweaves eight short stories of longing and alienation featuring outcasts and the misunderstood. From a homeless storyteller to a gardening soothsayer, to a copy editor who owns a pair of stubborn chickens, readers will come face to face with the humanity of people easily judged by a rigid society.
At the heart of these stories is the Dark...
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Extrait : "Messieurs, mesdames, vous tous qui remplissez chaque soir nos loges de spectacle, je ne vous demande qu'un quart d'heure... Un quart d'heure, je vous en prie, pour le nouveau théâtre que j'élève devant vous, le pavé de Paris."
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Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF....
30745) Basil to Calvin
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
30746) Alicia en el país de las maravillas de Lewis Carroll (Guía de lectura): Resumen y análisis completo
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Alicia en el país de las maravillas, obra maestra del escritor inglés Lewis Carroll. Este exitoso relato, clásico de la literatura inglesa y mundial, ha fascinado tanto a adultos como a niños desde su publicación, con las aventuras de Alicia, la niña que sigue al Conejo Blanco bajo tierra y descubre el País de las Maravillas.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros...
30747) Lilac Mines: A Novel
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Felix Ketay, a twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she's ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood. Felix's old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age nineteen and ended up in Lilac Mines, a small town in California's Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch/femme community. When Felix joins her aunt in Lilac Mines hoping...
30748) The Camera Always Lies
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Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attention-even, reportedly, from Rose's own husband-her life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is an absorbing novel of Hollywood politics and one woman's struggle to survive them.
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A comically unorthodox "biography"Spanning from the birth of Ulysses S. Grant until his victory over the Confederacy, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant gives us an honest portrait of an American hero who struggled to balance love, soldiering, and the attainment of the American Dream-all relatable struggles for readers today, if not for the soldiering part…Taking the accessible, pop history of Coe's You Never Forget Your First and adding more of the...
30750) The People at Number 9
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Meet the new neighbours. Whose side are you on? Have you met the People at Number 9? Sara and Neil have new neighbours in their street. Glamorous and chaotic, Gav and Lou make Sara's life seem dull. As the two couples become friends, sharing suppers, red wine and childcare, it seems a perfect couples-match. But the more Sara sees of Gav and Lou, the more she longs to change her own life. But those changes will come at a price.
30751) La Bande Cadet
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Extrait: "Autour de Georges et de Clotilde, dans ce vaste salon o la lumière du lustre et celle des lampes s'absorbaient dans les tentures sombres, arrachant ça et là une étincelle à l'or terni des portraits de famille et aux émaux des vieux écussons, un silence profond régnait. Aucun bruit ne venait de cette autre salle o nous vîmes pour la première fois les intimes de la maison Jaffret réunis autour de la corbeille."
30752) Go Figure
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Go Figure is the hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twin girls. Mammy, the wife of Rémi Vavasseur, has gone away. Not because she no longer loves him but because she no longer loves herself. She is criss-crossing Europe and Africa in the company of the dangerous and blonde Raïa, Rémi's former mistress. Meanwhile, Rémi remodels a ramshackle house in rural Quebec, designed...
30753) Diario (1893-1937)
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Aristócrata, cosmopolita, con dominio completo del alemán, el inglés y el francés, admirador de las vanguardias, mecenas, crítico de arte, editor, político, Harry Kessler creía que la cultura era el verdadero lugar donde las personas pueden mejorar y entenderse, desarrollar una vida verdadera, sin atender a fronteras ni prejuicios de ningún tipo. Todo ello con una característica diferencial: conocía a todo el mundo y todo el mundo lo conocía....
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As anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity's usefulness in sexual education. She investigates...
30755) Christmas At Pemberley: And the Bride Wore Prada (Marrying Mr Darcy) / Love, Lies and Louboutins
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Planning a New Year's Eve Party might be the kind of event Clio Winters used to dream about organizing, but when everything is feeling a bit up in the air, she has to hope that this New Year's her wish really will come true.
30756) Journal impersonnel
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"Journal impersonnel" est un journal identitaire qui a usurpé entre ses lignes les émois de maints personnages. Dans cet ouvrage, des confidences vous sont prêtées, car il est bien connu que les états sentimentaux des uns attirent les curiosités d'autres gens. Ces pages ont été écrites dans l'idée que personne ne les lirait un jour. Mais l'auteure a perdu son carnet ; et vous pouvez, personnellement, vous en impartir.
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30757) Manuscrito hallado en una botella de Edgar Allan Poe (Guía de lectura): Resumen y análisis completo
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Manuscrito en una botella, del célebre escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe. En este relato fantástico, el autor narra el accidentado viaje por el océano Índico de un joven, que tras una tempestad acaba a bordo de un navío con una tripulación inusual que avanza a vertiginosa velocidad. Poe nos ofrece una trepidante narración en primera persona en la que cuesta distinguir la realidad...
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The year is 1893, and Pearl Ryan, a young woman with a checkered past, arrives in Ruby City, a silver mining town full of scoundrels-one to which no respectable woman would ever travel. Pearl sets up shop as the town laundress, but is clearly no ordinary charwoman: She is courted by many and the local doctor often solicits her assistance as his nurse. Pearl's dream is to attend medical school-not a small feat for a woman alone in the Wild West-and...
30759) Novelists
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Novelists: the soul of an age, certainly. Brilliant? Perhaps. Yet aren't they also doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecure-resentful, awkward, annoying-demanding, deluded, and vexingly indifferent to reality? New from short fiction devotée C. P. Boyko, Novelists is a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivalling Vanity Fair for its satirical wit… though not, mercifully, for its length.
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Extrait : "Depuis quelques temps, il est beaucoup parlé de questions qui, on doit le reconnaître, étaient de longue date reléguées parmi les pires fantaisies de l'esprit humain et don’t il n'était fait mention que pour les signaler à la défiance, sinon au mépris des honnêtes gens. La réaction qui a suivi l'usurpation ultra spiritualiste des religions à dogmes despotiques et à miracles inexpliqués, mais en même temps indiscutables,...
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