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What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It' s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that...
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There are nine chapters in the book, seven written in Spanish, one in English, one translated from Spanish. All of them previously published in very prestigious literary Review-Journnals of Latin America and Spain. This compilation represents the work of a scholar dedicated to the inquiry of feminism in the Modern and Contemporary Spanish poetry written by women and men in Modernism and Postmodernism. It is a scholarly book that traces how very recurrent...
63) Carrusel
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Una escritora que atraviesa un tiempo convulso a nivel personal, y también un bloqueo creativo, emprende un viaje de búsqueda por sus recuerdos familiares y, en especial, por aquellos que comparte con su tío Carlos, que padece la misma enfermedad mental que ella. Esta reconstrucción de su vida la ayudará a descifrarse a nivel íntimo y literario y a enfrentarse a su experiencia con la maternidad y con la pérdida de sus seres queridos.
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"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment."
Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer...
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A Roadmap To Life's Enduring Passages
Reckonings, regrets, longings. Life's turning points. Sometimes redemptive, sometimes heartbreaking, these crossroads are familiar to us all. The yearning for a different path, a better ending, is uniquely human.
You Can't Get There From Here explores these pivotal moments. In Repossession, we meet a young man looking for closure in his dead girlfriend's apartment; You Again, Always introduces us to a couple...
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Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in London with her father, who is morose over his wife's accidental death. In the spring of 1972, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a fashionable young woman employed by an aging rock star. With glam music on the rise, Chaz Bonapart is going out of style. His manager, Francis Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him...
67) Ischia
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Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something they don't know and seems unfathomable.
An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the first-person female narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers...
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Successful lawyer Melissa, stay-at-home-mom Jessica, and Chef Dominic have not visited home for Christmas since their father died two years ago. But when their elderly mother invites them home for the holidays and shares her plan to sell the house, the three siblings plan a surprise for her. Little do they know their mother has a surprise of her own.
Meet the White family for their unexpected Christmas reunion.
69) Negra y oscura
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Una de las mejores novelas de familias en la Guerra Civil española, de lo mejor que vas a leer por Rosa Sanmartín, una novela imprescindible.
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En una casa heredada de los abuelos, vive la familia Martí Llorens. Un padre carlista y una madre republicana. Su ideología, hasta ese momento casi imperceptible, los convierte en enemigos un verano de 1936.
Luis, el primogénito, siempre trabajó en el campo con el padre. En julio de 1936 se alistarse...
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Baltasar contra el olvido narra la historia de una voluntad contra aquello que se extingue. La novela acarrea, de manera implícita, una pregunta acerca del acto de narrar: ¿se puede contar la densidad de un acontecimiento sin una inflexión que verbalice la experiencia vivida? Así como el título anuncia una lucha contra el olvido, que todo lo arrasa, de ese modo la novela propone otro interrogante: ¿qué recordamos no solo de un hecho sino, sobre...
71) I (Athena)
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When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking...
72) La ocupación
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Fui yo quien dejó a W., tras una relación de seis años. Por cansancio pero también al no verme capaz de cambiar mi libertad, recuperada tras dieciocho años de matrimonio, por una vida en común que él deseaba fervientemente desde el principio. Unos meses después, W. me anunció que se iba a vivir con una mujer cuyo nombre no quiso decirme. A partir de ese momento caí presa de los celos. La imagen y la existencia de la otra mujer se convirtió...
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Tras sufrir un aborto, Ada, una joven profesora de danza que vive condicionada por los fantasmas de su pasado, se sumerge en una profunda crisis personal que desemboca en un punto de inflexión en su vida.
Con el apoyo incondicional de su padre y de su mejor amiga, decide iniciar una terapia psicológica en la que hará frente a las devastadoras secuelas que arrastra desde su infancia. En este proceso intentará superar las barreras que le impiden...
74) Humanas
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Los hombres comenzaron a morir.
Hace decenios, un súbito evento desencadenó una catástrofe demográfica en la que pereció la mitad de la población mundial: desaparecieron todas las personas con cromosoma Y.
A consecuencia de aquello, las supervivientes y sus descendientes han heredado la Tierra y la han transformado. Muy lejos y olvidados han quedado los efectos medioambientales del anterior sistema económico, así como las injusticias y las...
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After the passing of Tionna's mother she was left to figure out how to navigate through this world on her own without the advice of her dear beloved mother. After such loss and getting away from her dead-beat husband Tionna took the streets of Baltimore. Little did Tionna know! Her world was getting ready to be turned upside down. The next chapter of her life would soon send her down a road of heavy drinking and partying, meaningless love relationships,...
76) Sisterly Deceit
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It's 1920 and Phoebe is pregnant but being a single parent isn't an option. Meanwhile her elder sister, Evie, is desperate for the kind of independence that only a man can have. So the sisters pretend to live as husband and wife - giving Evie her much wanted independence and allowing Phoebe to become a mother. However Phoebe and Evie have never been particularly close. How long can such a sisterly deception last?
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Priscilla, una mujer que busca redimirse a través de la venganza, se vale de sus dones seductivos para condenar la brutalidad de la que ha sido víctima. Acompañada con las voces salvajes de su interior, se encuentra aprisionada en una relación que la sumerge en lo más hondo de su perversidad, decidida a reivindicar el derecho propio sobre su placer carnal y su rol social.
De rasgos violentos, donde la frontera entre lo real e imaginario cambia...
78) It Wasn't Enough
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What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, and do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?
Here and now, women's subordination is so systemic it's unremarkable (to all but serious feminists). In It Wasn't Enough, once women are gone and men have to take their places, fill their roles, the subordination becomes remarkable, that is, it becomes noticeable. And then,...
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Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in...
80) A Strange Woman
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The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey's most radical female authors tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country.
In English at last: the first novel by a Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel. A Strange Woman is the story of Nermin, a young woman and aspiring poet growing up in Istanbul. Nermin frequents coffeehouses and underground readings, determined to immerse herself in the creative, anarchist...
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