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"Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past."--Amazon.com....
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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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"A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for...
6) 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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Restless property developer, Peter Calliet meets a sullen young woman at a party and an obsession begins that links past and present in a deepening tragedy. Peter has everything in terms of material success and security. The obligatory fast car, lucrative contracts with his powerfully connected father's property empire and a plush renovated flat. Devoted fiancée, Claudia, expects to move in and marriage is imminent. But Peter has a dark past that...
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"Remedios Lucio is an author and a journalist, who owns The HodgePodge
Lifestyle blog and YouTube channel since 2010. She has written The
HodgePodge Lifestyle Chronicles book series 10 Years After, Season is
Changing, and Back to the Homeland. She loves to share her life experiences;
go on travel adventures; meet people from all walks of life; indulge in various
cuisines; immerse herself in different cultures, and learn a new language.
She currently...
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Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders...
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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,...
11) Reel Me In
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"Reel Me In is a compilation of pieces and works centering mostly on love and life
generally. It captures thoughts, dreams through the eyes of the author and is inspired
mostly by the hallowed feelings of love sought for by many. Like the fisherman's
hook, it posits how love baits and draws many.
"" Gabie writes with profound imagery..one that makes you feel as though you were part of the poems. Her delivery is breathtakingly beautiful...
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Get the Summary of Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey around the coastline of Britain. Theroux sets out to explore the country beyond London, where he has lived for eleven years, to understand the nation he resides in. He travels on foot, by train, and by bus, avoiding typical travel...
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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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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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¿Callaremos ahora para llorar después?
Esta novela narra las vicisitudes que llevaron a cuestas en la clandestinidad quienes nunca renunciaron a sus convicciones y terminaron siendo una cifra más en las estadísticas de desapariciones. Seguimos la historia de un grupo de jóvenes que llegan a Bogotá desde distintas regiones del país y sufren en carne propia la crudeza de la violencia en Colombia por pensar diferente al establecimiento. El trasegar...
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"His book is unique because of the stories that turn us back to the past and explain to children some other world that they do not remember and that is specific because of many things. Less things and more happiness. All other books today talk about technology, future or imaginable things and this has a powerful idea : To tell children that happiness is something that we make and that all sad and happy thoughts come from us and our head. This book...
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Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Creative Non-fiction
A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. Never before revealed in such depth, the story is the culmination of extensive research and adept craftsmanship as it probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves.
Beginning in 1806 with Australia's first serial killers, John Brown and Richard Lemon, A Compulsion to Kill...
18) Tourism in India
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This book is about India and the tourist attractions she has to offer that many people had no knowledge of. The beautiful country of India has many sights seeing and beautiful places to visits, lots of UNESCO sights, archeological and ancient monuments dating from the common era. Places like the Himalayan and Karakoram mountains, the sacred Ganges River, statue of unity, butterfly beach, Mumbai, festivals and many more. The country has lots of cultural,...
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Los relatos que conforman este libro son la expresión contemporánea de la corporalidad social. Mientras ésta se percibe como un cuerpo incorrupto, es precisamente, lo contrario. La corporalidad social, que es su microcosmos, es representada en la narrativa de Marina Herrera, en cuerpo de mujer, nos permite ahondar en cómo es percibido, vejado, exhibido el ser y estar de las mujeres, dentro de una sociedad cada vez más violenta y violentada.
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"Minsan sa tula natin mahahanap ang paglilinaw sa mga bagay, mga kasagutan sa tanong kung paano tayo nagiging kabahagi nito habang binabasa. Ang tula ay nasa kahit saan, hinihintay lang niya ang makata na kumuha ng sangkap at magtimpla upang mabuo ito. Nabuo ang librong ito dahil sa karanasan at mga kuwentong pinaniniwalaan ng bayan na ayon sa kasaysayan ay tama.
Natagalan man sa pagluto ngayon ay buong pusong inihain ang bahagi ng kaisipan na inilapat...
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