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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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Cesare Annunziata podría definirse sin demasiados miramientos como un viejo y cínico tocapelotas. Con setenta y siete años, viudo desde hace cinco, y padre de dos hijos, Cesare ha decidido pasar de todo y de todos. Los pocos balances que hace de su vida están marcados por una feroz ironía, quizá por miedo a no poder seguir haciéndolos. Su existencia podría seguir su rumbo hasta su previsible y universal final entre vasos de vino con Marino,...
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Si pierdes todo lo que amas, ¿cómo sobrevivir y empezar de nuevo?
La historia de una familia de refugiados que escapa del conflicto y la guerra en Afganistán en la década de 1990, e inicia un largo viaje en busca de libertad y seguridad.
La emotiva novela de Laura McVeigh nos cuenta la historia de Afganistán después de la invasión soviética a través de las experiencias de una familia y de los ojos de una chica joven. McVeigh hace un tributo...
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Get the Summary of Barbara Kingsolver's Essays in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Barbara Kingsolver's essays delve into a myriad of topics, reflecting on personal experiences, societal issues, and the natural world. She begins with a miraculous story of a child protected by a bear in Iran, contrasting it with the violence in Afghanistan, prompting her to explore the nature of enemies and the power of stories to...
6) Vignettes
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Josip Novakovich's Vignettes offers a wide-ranging look at his life, including his youth in hometown Daruvar, Croatia, where he attended school in a castle on a hill with barrels of whites and reds stored in the basement, "my peers and I learned the basics of math, grammar, history, and literature, somewhat dizzy and fumigated in wine vapors that seeped upward through the oiled oak floors."
Over the course of seventeen short stories, Novakovich...
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Estamos ante uno de los grandes acontecimientos literarios de los últimos tiempos: la publicación de la primera novela de Harper Lee, la admirada autora del bestseller ganador del Premio Pulitzer Matar a un ruiseñor.
El libro fue escrito a mediados de los años 50, y fue el primer manuscrito que Harper Lee presentó a sus editores antes de Matar a un ruiseñor. Este manuscrito se dio por perdido hasta que fue descubierto a finales de 2014.
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Get the Summary of Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Small Wonder" by Barbara Kingsolver is a collection of essays that delve into the author's reflections on humanity, nature, and the political landscape of the early 2000s. Kingsolver shares a miraculous story of a child saved by a bear, contrasting human violence with an act of cross-species compassion. She explores themes of...
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Los habitantes de Almoneda son de lo más curioso e inclasificable: inventores de hamacas voladoras, maquis que cultivan jamones, brujas, boxeadores caídos en desgracia, emperadores alineados y fantasmas que juegan al ajedrez. Esta diversidad de personajes se funde con la propia tierra para revelarnos desiguales aspectos del alma humana, deshacer futuros y subyugar sueños.
En una suerte de pacto de sangre, Cayute y sus amigos se comprometen a no...
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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,...
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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...
12) 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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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...
14) 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,...
15) Unburied Wrath
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"Unburied wrath is a brief compilation of anthologies about family love grief loss abuse and rage A suicide notes that led to a final suicide letter from someone's point of view. Unburied wrath takes readers to see the vile side of every family, and how heavy a wrath could do in the our hearts and how rage and darkness could not be taken with us under our grave.
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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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This unprecedented textbook provides a comprehensive awareness of Higher Education. The book highligthat can push students into the higher education, theorigin of universities, functions of universities, skills and knowledge needed or found in universitat universities and the type of learning that is expected of students for the higher education. This textbook is very appropriate as a text for self-awareness and motivation. The book is intended for...
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"I am who You say I am is a short book written to give inspiration to the youth. It talks about how we subscribe to the set of standards imposed upon us by modern societies. This is a time when challenges are pressing, and the youth frequently find themselves trapped in microcosms of confusion. With all of these in consideration, this book seeks to provide answers to those who are searching, a map to those who are losing their path, a motivation to...
20) Songs of Hills
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"Stop,
Open your eyes to the pouring of this poet's heart, Before starfish nibble her words, add to your cart
- Nisha Lamichaney"
"Stop,
Open your eyes to the pouring of this poet's heart, Before starfish nibble her words, add to your cart
- Nisha Lamichaney"
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