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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...
2) 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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From Madame Bovary to Macbeth, this collection by Mary McCarthy offers surprising revelations about some of the world's most beloved works Shakespeare, Nabokov, Orwell, and Burroughs are just a few of the literary immortals featured in this engaging and thought-provoking volume. In one remarkable essay, McCarthy provides a lively discourse on the true nature of evil in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on the character of Macbeth, she reveals why Lady...
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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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One of Irwin Shaw's most unforgettable heroes battles to resurrect his declining career against a tough cast of women, whiskey, and old memories Jesse Crain was made for Cannes. A middle-aged filmmaker who dazzled audiences during Hollywood's Golden Age, Crain is talented, worldly, ambitious, and he knows how to play the game. As the Riviera sparkles in the spring of 1970, Crain juggles industry players while charming a persistent young journalist...
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An honest, detailed look at the blows both life and war can and often do deliver, and how people are forced to respond, one way or another, to the damages inflicted. Former All-State football star Curt Jordan returns home from his final tour in Afghanistan with a glass eye, a scarred face, and a badly damaged psyche, only to find that nothing in Burnsville is the same. Afghan Love Potion follows Curt as he deals with the scars on his body and soul,...
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Impregnada de onirismo, pero con una prolija atención a la vida cotidiana de la Francia finisecular, esta noveleta nos enfrenta al terror de todo forastero: en un país extraño, arribar a un hogar desconocido, cuyos habitantes no están. Mediante un monólogo –¿o una confesión?–, el protagonista narrador va registrando los acontecimientos, los personajes y la angustia ante su ajenidad al entorno y la misteriosa ausencia de sus anfitriones....
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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...
11) Prelude: A Novel
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Seventeen-year-old Kim is a student at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College-crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career-until the day he hears his new piano teacher, India, a beautiful but pained young woman, playing a prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
Kim's life will never be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops...
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In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and, as the greatest tiger trainer in history, fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.
It's 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to...
13) Carta a Orestes
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CARTA A ORESTES reúne cinco obras de lákovos Kambanelis. Carta a Orestes, La cena, El camino pasa por dentro, Stella con guantes rojos y El epicedio constituyen una selección que ofrece buena parte de las preocupaciones estéticas del patriarca del teatro griego contemporáneo.
En estas obras se trasluce la tragedia en los personajes femeninos enfrentados a la imposibilidad del amor, al enorme trecho que vislumbran al frente para conquistar espacios...
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Una novela tan inclasificable como portentosa, un auténtico regalo literario.
Bunny Munro vende cosméticos puerta a puerta y aprovecha su actividad para seducir y desplumar a todas las mujeres solitarias que se le ponen a tiro. Cada una de sus jornadas por la costa meridional inglesa es una expedición delirante movida por su lascivia y lastrada por la presencia de su hijo de nueve años, al que no puede dejar con nadie desde que su madre se suicidara....
15) 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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¿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...
18) The Coast
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A city, three lives, four decades, poems, drugs, booze, hippies, love, lust, loss- just keep moving. Some relationships linger across decades and continents, no mater how much individuals change. The links between Patrick, Joanna, Daisy, and San Francisco, though stretched, never snap. San Francisco and the Bay Area are at the heart of this story about three lives evolving over 40 years. When Patrick discovers San Francisco in the summer before...
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Introducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters.
Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, The Brothers is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother. But it is Omar who is the object of Zana's Jocasta-like passion, while her husband, Halim, feels her slipping away from him, as their beautiful daughter, RGnia, makes a tragic claim on her brothers'...
20) Over the Gate
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Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved country village, often through neighborly conversation over the gate. Fairacre has garnered its share of odd incidents, entertaining episodes, and village folklore, from an unusual recipe for weight loss found in an old notebook-and used with alarming consequences-to the tragic story of the village ghost. With characteristic...
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