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41) The Longcut
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The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how she'll know it when she sees it.
Her mental peregrinations take her through the elements that make up her life: her dull office job where she spends the...
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Accomplished New York book editor Rebecca Winters, on the threshold of forty and recently yet amiably divorced, looks into herself one day as never before and finds-nothing. Her contented life has gone empty.
Bewildered and fraught, she vacantly buries herself in work, trying to hide her distress from others. A few weeks later, as a favor to a colleague, she grudgingly meets an author with a book to propose. Although author Alex Rodgers unsettles...
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As He gazed upon the Mississippi's gentle flow, he reflected on his turbulent journey. Life had been a crucible where loss and betrayal forged him anew, teaching hard-earned lessons of resilience and empathy. His path to redemption was woven with threads of spiritual awakening, each step away from his past revealing deeper insights into the human condition. Now, standing at the crossroads of his future, he envisioned a life defined not by his past...
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Un lugar donde esconderse, indaga de manera oportuna y trágica en el comportamiento del ser humano. El escondite del que habla Borel, es un espacio íntimo, confuso, lleno de laberintos, del que se nos obliga a salir cuando nos encontramos frente a la realidad, a veces cruda y otras veces menos ofensiva, pero siempre amenazante.
Borel consigue crear en cada uno de los relatos ambientes complejos, con personajes que se enfrentan a una especie de...
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El libro muestra una lectura personal, vertida como narración y comentario de las voces de Santiago hechas eco en la poesía. Experiencia urbana vivida para recordar o conocer.
Los cambios de la ciudad, hoy segmentada, se van siguiendo aquí como huellas en el campo que ofrecen los textos. En esa tarea, aparecen como guías los testimonios de los expertos.
Creemos que la tesis central del ensayo se caracteriza también en su concepto de desarraigo,...
46) Miss Kittenses
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He's a 180K a year techie hoping to get laid. She's a hospice nurse coming off a very hard day. When they meet over dinner, the question may come down to her pink cat-face watch, Miss Kittenses.
47) Motel Stories
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Will Torphy's elegant narration creates a gauzy veil of tears through which we view a poignant, if haphazard, community of immigrants, down-and-outers, weirdos, and dreamers who use the Sunset Inn, a dilapidated Hollywood motel, as staging ground for their personal crises and epiphanies. Torphy loves his characters, but it's a tough love that finds the poetry of real life in their desperate words and actions." -MARC JAMPOLE, Author of The Brothers...
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In the tranquil landscapes of Mississippi, a young boy's life is woven with tales of tight-knit communities, family traditions, and the allure of the great outdoors. But as he nears his twenties, the bright lights of New York City beckon, promising a world of possibilities far from his Southern roots.Relocating to Manhattan, he quickly ascends the social ladder. From a coveted job at a prestigious firm to mingling with the city's elite at lavish parties,...
50) On The Carousel
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ON THE CAROUSEL is the story of a young man's journey through the London of the 1980s, against the background of Thatcherism and Madonna and Cabbage Patch Dolls, as he enjoys the benefits of success, but then starts to re-assess his values and priorities.
In the early hours of New Year's Day 1980, Adam Gough, a recent graduate, whose career was put on hold following a traumatic event the previous year, is walking home through the deserted City of...
51) The Art of Zen
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Fresh off another sold-out gallery show, New York City artist Tia Zen is on top of the world. Her work catches the eye of successful restaurateur Spencer Chadwick and his socialite girlfriend Ainsley Davenport. He wants her to paint a mural for his newest hot spot and she reluctantly accepts even though she feels they are polar opposites. Worlds collide immediately as the work progresses and tensions begin to mount. Tia and Spencer begin to feel that...
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After the politics of his prestigious law firm send Ben out on the street, he finds himself playing piano at a waterfront brothel. In his new life, Ben explores the underbelly of peoples' desires, fears, compulsions, and dreams. As Ben moves throughout this new life, he realizes that the women around him are trying to survive and thrive in a world that hasn't handed them anything. A story of failure, redemption, and human understanding, and featuring...
53) Behind the Bid
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Behind the Bid opens a door to the secretive world, where class identity determines the rules. Outsider protagonist Enid is desperate to gain a foothold in this world of glitz and glamour as a graduate intern in an international auction house. Influenced by social media and suffering from It girl envy, Enid believes she will do anything it takes, from dating clients to using friendships. Along the way, she learns about the kind of person she really...
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The Italian Tycoon And The Nanny
Rebecca Winters
A new dad to his orphaned nephew, Massimo needs help. Bringing the baby's beautiful aunt Julie Marchant to Italy as a nanny seems the perfect solution.
Plucked form her quiet, suburban existence, Julie is a fish out of water in Massimo's glamorous, wealthy world. But she is thrilled to be part of her nephew's life, even if it means being the hired help. More of a challenge is spending every day with...
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El hombre que nos habla en este libro trata de ordenar sus recuerdos. Sin embargo, lejos de ser el suyo un acto de complacencia, intenta derribar las inercias de sus ideas, de sus juicios y de sus costumbres. La literatura le sirve de espejo en el que mirarse, y el reflejo que ésta le devuelve es unas veces alentador, y otras, deformante, pero siempre un fértil motor de pensamiento y de transformación.
Así pues, el protagonista vagabundea por...
56) Mickey Collins
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Mickey Collins, son of a drug-dealer, relates his amazing tale from childhood to something approaching being an adult. The streets of Cork, Ireland, is where Mickey learns fine skills such as pre-teen drinking, shoplifting and breaking & entering. However, after Mickey disobeys his mother once too often, a lifetime of pain (or 'adventure' as Mickey would see it) descends upon him, as he bounces from one State service to another.
A kaleidoscopic tour...
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Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter. Adapted countless times for theater and film, Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohème (1896) and for the hit musical Rent (1996). "The Bohemians know everything...
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1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry's been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he heads to the beach to chat with the gulls. Or he wanders through the streets in search of food, clothes, Jules. When the girl on the bus sees him, lonely and cold in the bus shelter that he calls home, she thinks about how she can help. She decides to write a symphony for him. So begins a poignant and gritty...
59) The Ride to Work
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An entire life compressed into a single hour.
For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time.
The ride forward to his destination coincides with a journey back through his past, as the people and places he crosses paths with draw him into recollections of the great traumas of his...
60) A Bach Concert
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One of the first successful novels written by a female author in Romania, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's A Bach Concert remains a classic work of Romanian literature. Originally published in 1927 in Romanian, the novel follows the life of the Hallipa family. The main plot revolves around a Bach concert organized by Elena Hallipa-Draganescu for the elite society of Bucharest. It's a story of high society intrigue, family tragedy, East European urban...
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