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"In Globetrotting, Duncan Minshull, the UK's "laureate of walking," brings together the work of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world's seven continents by foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling their experiences and asking themselves a compelling question--why travel this way in the first place?"--Amazon.com....
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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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"In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the rump of a once flourishing community of over 150,000, dating back 2,600 years, has dwindled to single figures. For many, this tells the story of the timeless clash of the Arab and Jewish civilisations, the heroic mission of Zionism to rescue Eastern Jews from their backwards nations, and unceasing persecution...
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"In fantastic worlds like Gondor, Westeros, Ankh-Morpork, Waterdeep, and Hogsmeade, the societies that inhabit them play important roles in capturing the feel of their settings. Societies create characters and plots, provide space for action, and reflecthistory. Building vibrant and interesting societies is a core element of worldbuilding in the fantasy genres. This guide walks the reader through different aspects of societies to help construct fictional...
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"Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), and she had the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it springs. In her hands, arts criticism was a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "Hers is a vision that allows art...
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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...
7) 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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Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.
Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.
Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the...
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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...
12) The Wanderers
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A teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.
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En un lugar sin nombre y en una época indeterminada, en medio de una naturaleza que parece mutante, un pueblo aislado vive sometido a una rígida y cruel serie de normas. Sus habitantes están bajo la permanente amenaza de los caramenos, unos seres que habitan al otro lado de las montañas y a los que jamás ha visto nadie, y las embestidas del río que socava sus casas. Un joven de catorce años, después de asistir a una profanación, empieza a...
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In the fall of 1989,18-year old Frankie Peterson meets aspiring rock musician Rex Thornton, and the encounter changes her life. Frankie is dreaming of college and leaving home. Her mother, however, does not support her dreams, and leans hard on her for help with the household and her little brother, Erick. Frankie feels stuck with no way out. When her best friend Ronnie drags her to see a band in Seattle, Frankie meets Rex, the band's singer. Soon,...
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A naïve young woman faces a decision so important it will change her life forever. At the height of the Second World War, Caitlin Van Fleet moves to Washington, D.C., to become a "government girl" in the office of pro-German Congressman Stowe. Young and impressionable, she enters into a passionate love affair with the congressman's aide, Betty Sinclair. But their relationship, while intense, is short-lived: When Caitlin befriends Joe Rose, an undercover...
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"William E. Jefferson's '2102: Pretense, The Play' masterfully weaves a captivating narrative that explores the intricate dance between advancing technology and the very essence of human existence, leaving readers spellbound by its thought-provoking brilliance."
A work of fictional realism, not fantasy, 2102 offers an undeniable probe of modern-day reality, of technology and media effects. The author draws upon empirical findings, from a range of...
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En esta ocasión te comparto una historia en donde las miradas se daban con los ojos fulgurantes del alma que todo lo ve, aún lo que la vista no puede.Una novela que te trasladará a recrear infinidad de vivencias, recuerdos e historias, mismas que solo pudieron integrarse simultáneamente con el paso de una de las peores pandemias que han azotado a la humanidad, el COVID-19 dejó al desnudo la vida del autor y le permitió compartir lecciones inspiradoras,...
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Essai ludique au ton personnel, Fabrications raconte les huit années d'une passionnante enquête intellectuelle pendant lesquelles Louis Hamelin a écrit La constellation du Lynx. Ce roman a parfois été perçu comme un document politique ou un ouvrage historique ; à l'inverse, le présent essai sera peut-être pris pour une œuvre de fiction. Pourtant, à part Samuel Nihilo, l'alter ego fictif de l'auteur, les personnages qu'on y rencontre existent...
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