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1) Lucky
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"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
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"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding....
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, Tristram Shandy caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing Postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon, Rabelais, and Jonathan Swift,...
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Thrush Green series volume 9
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Two favorite villagers make a life-changing decision. The School at Thrush Green returns readers to the heart of the Cotswolds just as beloved primary school teachers Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty announce their retirement and make plans to leave Thrush Green and buy a new home at Barton-on-Sea. The village people are aflutter with the news, musing about the teachers' replacements, the fate of the schoolhouse, and an appropriate farewell gift....
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From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage.
In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law-and there they marry.
But Carl and Annie's first year together...
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In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit
When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront into a tasteful commercial development for tourists and yuppies, the town of Lakeland quickly gets on board. At first glance, Jack
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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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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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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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Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration-flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved...
12) Figures of Wood
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Figures of Wood, the debut novel by Venezuelan writer María Pérez-Talavera, now translis a thought-provoking and gripping novel that delves into the mind of L, a young man questioning his own guilt and sanity in a sanatorium. Told in diary form, the story is set in an unnamed place and time, leaving the reader to question the reliability of L's entries as his perceptions seem to grow more distorted. The novel explores love and betrayal, shame and...
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Me llamo Julio Ejido y soy un alcohólico. Bebo y fumo desde que tenía doce años, ahora acabo de cumplir sesenta. Esta confesión no posee valor alguno ya que no se la hago a nadie, carece de destinatarios. Y aunque los tuviera, no por ello adquiriría la menor importancia, puesto que no contemplo el valor de la confesión como alivio, ni siquiera como ritual; tampoco valoro el perdón que se pide o se otorga, lo desprecio de igual modo. Solo creo...
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In Brooklyn, in the Age of Disco, Valentine Kessler -- a sweet Jewish girl who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Virgin Mary of Lourdes -- has an unerring gift for shattering the dreams and hopes of those who love her. Miriam, her long-suffering mother, betrayed and anguished by the husband she adores, seeks solace in daily games of mah-jongg with The Girls, a cross between a Greek Chorus and Brooklyn's rendition of the Three Wise Men, who dispense...
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The Black Book is a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirms Orhan Pamuk's reputation as a writer of international stature, comparable to Borges and Calvino.
Galip is an Istanbul lawyer, and his wife, Ruya, has vanished. Could she be hiding out with her half brother, Jelal, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies? And if so, why isn't anyone in Jelal's flat?
As Galip plays the part of private investigator, he...
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"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
17) Nudo Azul
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Jorge Chávez es médico y escritor. Esta doble profesión le ha permitido tocar el alma propia y la de sus pacientes para transformar el dolor en palabras sanadoras que se nutren de esperanza, no de una vana e ilusoria esperanza, sino como dice el autor: "de una esperanza azul que se apoya en la realidad interna, en la conexión consciente con la fuente de la vida, la que sabe que sus capacidades y talentos no le son propios, son el resultado de...
18) Simply Faulkner
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"As Philip Weinstein suggests, there is no better way to begin than by plunging into the work of William Faulkner. But it's immensely useful to have at one's elbow a knowledgeable guide, and there is none better than Weinstein. He himself is a brilliant.
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her bestselling...
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