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1) 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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Absorbido por el trabajo, por su teléfono celular y por los conflictos familiares, Mateo se entrega a un largo recorrido nocturno por la Avenida Colonial. En este viaje enfrenta situaciones extremas de la mano de dos seres de la noche, Maribel y Calderón, polos opuestos conectados por la violencia y por la necesidad de sobrevivir en una ciudad que no da tregua. Por otro lado, una mujer aparece en la vida de Mateo de manera singular y coincide con...
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A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. "Every gritty line of the story rings true" (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and moving portrait of the American West.
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En busca de lectores -y de sus bibliotecas personales-, Javier Vargas de Luna ha recorrido la ciudad hispánica en ambos lados del Atlántico. Ha visitado todos los acentos y todas las fronteras de la lectura en nuestra lengua, ha entrado y salido de bares bohemios en el lago Titicaca, ha frecuentado tiraderos de libros en La Habana y ha vagado por las desoladas plazas de San Pedro de Atacama. En Salta conoció a los bibliópatas de la ciudad antes...
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¿Te gustaría liberarte de los pensamientos que te limitan, te angustian o te hacen sufrir? ¿Quieres aprender a crear nuevos pensamientos que te inspiren, te motiven y te llenen de energía? ¿Te interesa conocer cómo la destrucción y la creación de tus pensamientos más profundos pueden transformar tu realidad?Si la respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En él, el autor te propone un método revolucionario para cambiar tu forma de pensar...
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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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Duermevela es una historia inquietante y sobrecogedora, basada en hechos reales, en la que la autora nos lleva por parajes de la vida y del mundo de los sueños, donde nos podemos encontrar con personajes siniestros, como una mujer de cabello largo y andrajoso, en cuyo rostro se resguarda una incógnita. Ella se presentará en tus sueños, en el plano astral, onírico o, incluso, en el real. Es así como con maestría, Marcela De Albali nos lleva...
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A novel of love, friendship, and self-reinvention: "I can't remember the last time I was so enchanted... zany, surprising, full of twists and turns" (Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Something Blue).
A translator of Icelandic, the unnamed young woman who narrates Butterflies in November is perhaps more at home in the world of language than the actual world. After a day of being dumped-twice-and accidentally killing a goose, she yearns...
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Anne de las Tejas Verdes es un libro escrito por la canadiense Lucy Maud Montgomery y publicado por primera vez en 1908. La obra narra la vida de Anne Shirley, una niña huérfana, que gracias a su carácter imaginativo y despierto logra encandilar a todos los habitantes de Avonlea, el pequeño pueblo pesquero ficticio en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo, donde se desarrolla la historia a finales del siglo XIX. Hay cosas que no cambian, como la...
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Laura is a content married mother of two-but when her first love resurfaces after twenty years, she begins to question her choices. She can't help but compare the passion of that relationship with the domesticity of her suburban life. What if she'd stayed with him? Would she be happier? And what is happiness, really? Right now, Laura feels a little alone. But in fact, many others in her gentrified corner of the English countryside-including a rector...
12) Minaret: A Novel
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Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman - once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London - gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined...
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An ant to the stars
or stars to the ant-which is
more irrelevant?
Weekend Jet Skiers-
rude to call them idiots,
yes, but facts are facts.
Clamor of seabirds
as the sun falls-I look up
and ten years have passed."
-from "Dawn Notebook"
Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose,...
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In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town's new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage-and is subsequently murdered-suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town's accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for...
15) The Praying Leaf
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The Praying Leaf is collection of 2 verse narratives, namely The Praying Leaf and The Town Doctor. Both the two verse narratives are in onegin stanza. The onegin stanza was invented by Alexander Pushkin, the Poet, Novelist and Playwright(1799-1837). Both the verse narratives are stories, with a spiritual essence. They are heartfelt stories, inspired by true incidents and true characters, with a blend of writer's own imagination and emotions.As said...
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"En este libro, Ezequiel López Peralta nos lleva a un viaje para descubrir qué es el erotismo, cómo se manifiesta, cómo y por qué lo inhibimos,
cómo desbloquearlo, cómo enriquecerlo, cómo seducirnos y seducir a otra persona para poner nuestras potencialidades eróticas en función del bienestar erótico, sexual y afectivo personal y mutuo. El autor desarrolla las relaciones que el erotismo tiene con la sexualidad y la sensualidad y explica...
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A novel of two sisters' lives, spanning from 1950s Ireland to modern-day America. Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland. Yet one day she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinkers. Back home, her family hadn't expressed much confidence in her abilities, but Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a living,...
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Merging two business cultures always brings many challenges to be settled.
The protagonist is thrown in with a bunch of former shipboard managers.
His peers and superiors showed limitations in their management abilities..
He survives relying on instinct and skills, delivers the goods, and results earns the
envy of his peers and superiors.
A secretary with Island blood becomes his backbone and within months also his
soulmate wife.
Again...
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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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